Dr John Peirson

John Peirson (PhD Southampton) is an Emeritus Reader in Economics. He began his career as an economist in 1976 working for the Department of Energy before shortly moving on to a post as research assistant at the University of Southampton. After one year, he was awarded a PhD scholarship in the School of Economics at Southampton. From 1980, he worked for three years as a research fellow at the University of Sheffield. His first teaching job was at the University of York from 1983-86. In 1986, he moved to the University of Kent and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1997, and to Reader in 2012.

John's research interests are in the economics of uncertainty, transport, gambling markets and energy. He is currently interested in the efficiency of markets with uncertain outcomes. He is also interested in the externalities of road transport and, in particular, congestion, hypercongestion and accidents. He has advised the UK government and the European Union on the economic analysis of road accidents and congestion. He is also investigating the efficiency, equity and operation of gambling markets and issues concerning problem gambling.

John's main future research areas are:

• the economics of uncertainty and, in particular, the efficiency of markets under uncertainty;
• the economics of the operation of gambling markets;
• the economics of road congestion and accidents.

John's RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/ppe341.htm

Past PhD students

• Dr Olisaemeka Achime
• Dr Thomas Middleton
• Dr Prapakorn Winaisathaporn 'The Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the Economics of Congestion and Hypercongestion', completed 2015
• Dr Sylvain Barde 'A comparative economic analysis of agglomeration theory', completed 2007.