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Books and Research Monographs
 

  Dobbs I.M. and Miller A.D., 2008The Impact of Financial Incentives on Decision Making: Further Evidence.  
                            Edinburgh: ICAS.


  Dobbs I.M. and Miller A.D., 2006The Impact of Financial Incentives on Decision Making.
                            Edinburgh: ICAS.

  Dobbs I.M., 2000,   Managerial Economics:  Firms, markets and  Business decisions
                            Oxford University Press.


  Dobbs I.M. and Beavis B., 1990, Optimisation and Stability theory for  Economic Analysis
                             Cambridge University Press.

 

Publications

 Dobbs I.M., 2015 forthcoming, Ladder pricing - A new form of wholesale price discrimination, 
                    International Journal of the Economics of Business.  Working Paper
                    Note on the Quantity Discounting Solution

 Dobbs I.M. and Miller A.D., 2014, Inducing risk preferences in multi-stage multi-agent laboratory experiments,
                    Applied Economics, forthcoming.  Working Paper

 Dobbs I.M. and Miller A.D., 2012, Inducing risk preferences in experiments,
                    Applied Economics Letters 2012, 19(7), 657-660.  Working Paper


 Dobbs I.M., 2012,  Modelling welfare loss asymmetries that arise from uncertainty in 
                    the regulatory cost of finance, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 39(1) 1-29.  Working Paper.

 Dobbs I.M. and Miller A.D., 2009Experimental Evidence on Financial Incentives, Information and Decision Making,
                    British Accounting Review.  41(2) 71-89.  Working Paper    

 Dobbs I.M., 2009, How bad can short termism be? A study of the consequences of high hurdle discount 
                    rates and short payback thresholds,  Management Accounting Review .  20(2) 117-128 .
                    Working Paper (includes 'step by step' proofs for all results)

 Dobbs I.M., 2008, Setting the regulatory allowed rate of return using simulation and loss functions - The case for
                    standardising procedures,  Competition and Regulation of Network Industries, 9(3), 229-246.  
                    
Working Paper   

 Dobbs I.M. and Miller A.D., 2008, The impact of financial incentives on decision making: Further Evidence.  
                    Edinburgh: ICAS. Research Monograph

 Dobbs I.M. and Atmeh M., 2006,  Technical Analysis and the Stochastic Properties of  the Jordanian Stock Market
                    Index Return, Studies in Economics and Finance,  23(2), 119-140.  Working Paper

 Dobbs I.M. and Miller A.D., 2006,  The impact of financial incentives on decision making,
                    Edinburgh: ICAS.  Research Monograph

 Dobbs I.M., 2006,  Defining markets for ex ante regulation using the hypothetical monopoly test,
                    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 13(1), 83-109. Working Paper

 Dobbs I.M., and Richards P., 2005, On output restriction measures of market power,
                    European Competition Law Review, 26, 572-580. 

 Dobbs I.M. and Richards P., 2004,   Biases and Errors in Regulatory Market Assessments, with an
                    application to Internet Services, Journal of Network Industries,  5,  193-217.  Working Paper

 Dobbs I.M. and Richards P., 2004, Innovation and the New Regulatory Framework for Electronic
                    Communications in the EU,  European Competition Law review25,  716-730. Working Paper

 Dobbs I.M., 2004, Intertemporal price cap regulation under uncertainty,  Economic Journal.  114, 421-440.
                    Preprint   Notes and Proofs  Access Pricing with Demand and Technological Uncertainty

 Dobbs I.M., 2004,  Replacement Investment:  Optimal Economic Life under uncertainty,
                    Journal of Business Finance and Accounting,  31, 729-757. Working Paper

Dobbs I.M. and Beavis B., 2003, Firm Behaviour under the Regualtory Control of Stochastic Environmental
                    Wastes by Probabilistic Constraints, Chapter in C.S. Russell (ed.), The Economics of
                    Environmental Monitoring and Enfgorecement, Ashgate Publishing, London.

Dobbs I.M., 2003, Demand, Cost elasticities and Pricing Benchmarks in the Hypothetical Monopoly Test: 
                    The consequences of a simple SSNIP,  Applied Economics Letters.10, 545-548.
                    Working Paper

Dobbs I,M, and Miller A.D., 2002, Capital budgeting, valuation and personal taxes,
                    Accounting and Business Research, 32, 227-243. 
Working Paper

Dobbs I.M., 2000, Managerial Economics: Firms, Markets and Business Decisions, Oxford University Press. OUP

Dobbs I.M. and I. Molho,  1999,  Systematic errors and the theory of Natural Selection: 
                    Is the second best good enough?,
Journal of Evolutionary Economics,  9,  187-209.  Working Paper

Dobbs I.M.,  1999, Compensating wage differentials and willingness to pay measures of the value
                    of a statistical life,
Economics Letters, 63, 103-109.  Working Paper

Dobbs I.M., 1999,  The Anomaly of Size:Does it really matter?
                    International Journal of Finance and Economics, 4, 179-192.  
Working Paper

Dobbs I.M. and Appleyard A.R., 1997, Value under active and passive debt management policy,
                    Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, 24,  481-496. 
Working Paper

Dobbs I.M. and Cuthbertson K., 1996, A robust methodology for Ramsey pricing with an 
                    application to UK postal services, Journal of Industrial Economics, 44, 229-247.

Dobbs I.M., 1995,  On the use of payback thresholds in devolved budgeting, Project Appraisal, 11,  51-59.

Dobbs I.M., 1995,  Hiring and Leasing with non-linear prices, Management Science, 41,  1793-1807.

Dobbs I.M. and Beavis B., 1994,  On the relative profitability of alternative regulatory instruments
                     for constraining a firm's profitability, Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie, 60, 125-140.

Dobbs I.M. and Richards P., 1994, Entry and component pricing in regulated markets,
                    The International Journal of the Economics of Business, 1, 355-376.

Dobbs I.M., 1993,  On adjusting for sample selection bias in the individual travel cost method, 
                    Journal of Agricultural Economics, 44, 335-343.

Dobbs I.M., 1993,  Individual travel cost method:  Estimation and benefit assessment with a
                     discrete and possibly grouped dependent variable,  The American Journal of
                     Agricultural Economics, 75, 84-94.

Dobbs I.M. and Hill M.B., 1993,  Pricing solutions to the bilateral monopoly problem under uncertainty,
                     The Southern Economic Journal, 60, 479-489.

Dobbs I.M., 1992,  The effect of distinguishing hours and workers in production on labour market
                     equilibrium,  Scottish Journal of Political Economy,  39,  14-21.

Dobbs I.M., 1992, UK Car Prices:  Taken for a ride?  An alternative view,  Consumer Policy Review, 2, 100-103. 

Dobbs I.M., 1991,  A Bayesian analysis of choice under risk and uncertainty,  Economica, 58, 417-440.

Dobbs I.M. and Beavis B., 1990,  Pollution abatement with stochastic penalties and adjustment costs,
                    Southern Economic Journal,  57,  540-550.

Dobbs I.M. and Beavis B., 1990, Optimisation and stability theory for economic analysis,
                    Cambridge University Press.
CUP

Dobbs I.M., 1990,  Economics and environemntal catastrophe,  Argument, 1, 16-25.

Dobbs I.M., 1990,  Litter and waste managment: Disposal taxes versus user charges,
                    Canadian Journal of Economics, 24, 30-37.

Dobbs I.M. and Keasey K., 1990,  A model of information system choice,
                    Accounting and Business Review, 20, 97-110.

Dobbs I.M., 1988,  Risk Aversion, Gambline and the Labour-Leisure Choice,
                    Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 35, 171-175.

Dobbs I.M. and Beavis B., 1987,  Firm behaviour under the regulatory control of
                    stochastic environmental wastes by probabilistic constraints,
                    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 14, 112-127.

Dobbs I.M., Hill M.B. and Waterson M., 1987,  Industrial structure and the employment consequences
                   of technical change, Oxford Economic Papers,  39,  552-567.

Dobbs I.M. and Beavis B., 1987,  The dynamics of optimal environmental regulation,
                   Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 10,  415-423.

Dobbs I.M., 1985, Shadow prices, consistency and the value of life,
                   Journal of Public Economics, 27,  177-103.          

Dobbs I.M., 1985,  A cost benefit analysis of combined heat and power,
                   Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, 51, 241-262.

Dobbs I.M. and Hill M.B., 1984,  Technical innovation and the demand for goods,
                    Scottish Journal of Political Economy,  31,  147-156.

Dobbs I.M., 1982, Combined heat and power economics,  Journal of Energy
                    Economics,  4,  276-285.

Dobbs I.M., 1982,  Discounting and inter-generational equity,
                    Futures, The Journal of Long Range Forecasting,  14,  307-312.

Dobbs I.M., 1981,  Externality, efficiency and the Pareto principle,
                   International Review of Law and Economics, 1,  167-181.