Publications

 

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., 2011,  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., 2008The 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., 2006The 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 Regulatory control of Stochastic

                    Environmental Wastes by Probabilistic Constraints, chapter in C. S. Russell (ed), 

                    The Economics of Environmental Monitoring and Enforcement

                    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 EconomicsFirms, 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 A.R. Appleyard,  1997,  Value under Active and Passive Debt Management Policy,
                    Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting,
24(3/4)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 Performance 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.  Working Paper

Dobbs I.M., 1992, The Effect of Distinguishing Hours and Workers in Production on Labour
                    Market Equilibrium,
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 39, 14-21. 

Dobbs I.M., 1992, UK Car Prices: Taken for a Ride? An Alternative View, Consumer Policy Review, Volume 2, 100-103.

Dobbs I.M., 1991, A Bayesian Analysis of Choice under Risk and Uncertainty, Economica,
                    Volume 58, 417-440. 

Dobbs I.M. and Beavis B., 1990, Pollution Abatement with Stochastic Penalties and Adjustment costs,
                    Southern Economic Journal
, Volume 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 Environmental Catastrophe,  Argument, Volume 1, 16-25.

Dobbs I.M., 1990, Litter and Waste Management: Disposal Taxes versus User Charges,
                    Canadian Journal of Economics
, Volume 24,30-37. 

Dobbs I.M. and Keasey K., 1990, A model of Information System Choice,
                    Accounting and Business Review
, Volume 20, 97-110.

Dobbs I.M., 1988,  Risk Aversion, Gambling and the Labour-Leisure Choice,
                    Scottish Journal of Political Economy
, Volume 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
, Volume 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,  Volume 39, 552-567. 

Dobbs I.M. and Beavis B., 1986, The Dynamics of Optimal Environmental Regulation,
                    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,
Volume 10, 415-423. 

Dobbs I.M., 1985, Shadow Prices, Consistency and the Value of Life,
                    Journal of Public Economics,
Volume 27, 177-193. 

Dobbs I.M., 1985, A Cost Benefit Analysis of Combined Heat and Power,
                    Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies,
Volume 51,  241-262. 

Dobbs I.M. and Hill M.B., 1984, Technical Innovation and the Demand for Goods,
                    Scottish Journal of Political Economy
, Volume 31, 147-156. 

Dobbs I.M., 1982, Combined Heat and Power Economics,
                    Journal of Energy Economics,
Volume 4, 276-285. 

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

Dobbs I.M., 1981, Externality, Efficiency and the Pareto Principle,
                    International Review of Law and Economics
, Volume 1, 167-181. 

 

  

 


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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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