The International Who's Who 2005

Name and Address

Surname NEARY

First Names J. Peter

Title Professor

Office Address Department of Economics

University College Dublin

Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Home Address 56 St. Alban's Park

Sandymount, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Address Department of Economics

University College Dublin

Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Office telephone (+353) 1-706 8334

Home telephone (+353) 1‑283 7198

Office fax (+353) 1-283 0068

Office e-mail peter.neary@ucd.ie

Office web-site http://www.ucd.ie/economic/staff/pneary/neary.htm

Personal and Family Details

Name at birth James Peter Neary

Date of birth 11 February 1950

Place of birth Drogheda, Ireland

Nationality Irish

Parentage Peter Neary and Anne Loughran

Immediate family m. 1st Frances Ruane 1972 (separated 1990); two s.; m. 2nd Mairéad Hanrahan 1997; two d.

Education:

Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare, Ireland; University College Dublin; Oxford University

Qualifications

M.A., B.Phil., D. Phil.

Career

Profession Economist

Present Position Professor of Political Economy, University College Dublin

Year Appointed 1980

Career History

Junior Lecturer 1972-74, Lecturer 1978-80, Trinity College Dublin;

Heyworth Research Fellow, Nuffield College Oxford, 1976-78;

Visiting Scholar: MIT 1978, IIES, Stockholm 1979, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, 1981;

Visiting Professor: Princeton 1980, Berkeley 1982, Queen's (Ontario) 1986‑88, University of Ulster at Jordanstown 1992‑93;

Directeur de Recherche, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, 1999-2000;

Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 1983-;

Council Member: Royal Economic Society 1984-89, 1992-97, European Economic Association 1985‑92, Econometric Society 1994-99;

European Commission: Vice-Chairman 1995, Chairman 1996-97, Economic, Social and Human Sciences Networks Panel, Training and Mobility of Researchers Program;

Co‑Editor, Journal of International Economics 1980‑83; Associate Editor, Economic Journal 1981‑85, Econometrica 1984‑87, Review of Economic Studies 1984‑93, Economica 1996-2000;

Editor, European Economic Review 1986‑90;

Honours

Who's Who in Economics, 1986, 1999, 2003;

Fellow, Econometric Society, 1987;

Member, Academia Europaea 1989, Royal Irish Academy 1997;

President, Irish Economic Association 1990-92, International Trade and Finance Society 1999-2000, European Economic Association 2002, Economics Section British Association for the Advancement of Science 2005-6;

Publications

Measuring the Restrictiveness of International Policy (MIT Press, 2005, with J.E. Anderson), plus three edited books and over ninety scholarly publications, of which more than half in international refereed journals, mostly on international economics, including:

“Short‑run capital specificity and the pure theory of international trade” Economic Journal 1978

“The theory of household behaviour under rationing” (with K.W.S. Roberts) European Economic Review 1980

“Towards a reconstruction of Keynesian economics: Expectations and constrained equilibria” (with J.E. Stiglitz) Quarterly Journal of Economics 1983

“Public policy towards R&D in oligopolistic industries” (with D. Leahy) American Economic Review 1997

“Rationalising the Penn World Table: True multilateral indices for international comparisons of real income” American Economic Review 2005

Leisure Interests

Family, travel, reading, music