Professor Christopher Heady

Christopher Heady is Emeritus Professor of Economics. He was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge and obtained his PhD at Yale University. His main academic appointments have been as Assistant Professor at Yale (1976-79), Lecturer and then Reader at University College London (1979-90), and Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Bath (1990-2000). He has also held visiting appointments at the Universities of Aarhus (Denmark), Queens (Canada) and Warwick. In June 2000 he joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and was Head of its Tax Policy and Statistics division until March 2009. 

He is currently a member of the Tax Administration Research Centre, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and Her Majesty’s Treasury. He has undertaken consultancies for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the National Radiological Protection Board, the Asian Development Bank, the Department for International Development and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has obtained research grants from the (US) National Science Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, the World Bank, the Leverhulme Trust, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Overseas Development Administration and the European Commission.

Christopher's research interests are all related to the microeconomic analysis of public policy issues in both developed and developing countries, using both theoretical and empirical analysis. The topics he has researched include taxation, trade policy, public investment and pricing, social security, poverty and deprivation, labour supply, child labour, sustainable livelihoods, natural resources and environmental policy. 

Christopher's RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/phe260.htm 

Current projects

Most of Christopher's current research is focused on three areas: 

• The taxation of multi-national enterprises, see paper at: http://www.etpf.org/papers/51AlloProf.pdf 
• The taxation of high income earners
• Taxation in developing countries, as part of the International Centre for Tax and Development, see: http://www2.ids.ac.uk/futurestate/general/taxation.html

Past students

Dr Thomas Middleton, registered 2015
Dr Santiago Diaz, registered 2015
Dr Olisaemeka Achime, registered 2014
Dr Hamna Ahmed, registered 2014
Dr Zarak Mirza, registered 2013
Dr Denise Lovett, registered 2013
Dr Olanrewaju Malik Kassim, registered 2011
Dr Iftikhar Ahmad, completed 2013