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Dermot Hodson

Senior Lecturer in Political Economy

Contacts

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 6641
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7631 6787
Email: d.hodson@bbk.ac.uk

Biography

I studied at Trinity College, Dublin, the College of Europe, Bruges and the London School of Economics. My PhD thesis, which looked at the relationship between euro area governance and domestic institutions, was awarded the University Association for Contemporary European Studies prize in 2005. I worked as an economist at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs before joining Birkbeck in 2007.

Research Interests

My recent research has focused on the following topics:

  • The euro crisis and its implications for euro area governance;
  • New modes of EU policy-making;
  • EU and US economic diplomacy towards China;
  • The ratification of EU treaties in the UK, Ireland and elsewhere;
  • UK economic policy and the global financial crisis

Selected Publications

2012

‘Managing the Euro: The European Central Bank’ in J. Peterson and M. Shackleton (eds.), The Institutions of the European Union (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

‘EU Macroeconomic Policy: Between Centralization and Decentralization’ in J. Richardson (eds.), Policy Dynamics of the European Union (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

'Why it looks like game over for the G20' Europe’s World, Vol. 20 (2012): 20-4.

‘Unhappy in their own way: comparing UK and Irish Experiences of the Global Financial Crisis’ British Politics Review, Vol. 7, 1 (2012): 12-3.

2011

Governing the Euro Area in Good Times and Bad (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). For a sample chapter, click here.

‘The EU Economy: The Eurozone in 2010’ Annual Review of the European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies Vol. 49s1 (2011): 231-250.

‘EU Regional and Cohesion Policy’ in E. Jones, A. Menon and S. Weatherill (eds.), Handbook of the European Union (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

2010

'Economic and Monetary Union’ in H. Wallace, M. Pollack and A. Young (eds.), Policy-Making in the European Union, 6th edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 157-180.

‘The Euro Area in 2009’ The Annual Review of the European Union in 2009', Journal of Common Market Studies 48, s1 (2010): 225–42, single authored article.

2009

‘European Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis (co-edited with Lucia Quaglia), Journal of Common Market Studies 47, 5 (2009).

'UK Economic Policy and the Global Financial Crisis: Paradigm Lost?’ (with Deborah Mabbett), Journal of Common Market Studies 47, 5 (2009): 1041-61.

‘The principal-agent approach to EU studies’ (co-edited with Imelda Maher and Stijn Billiet), Comparative European Politics 7, 4 (2009): 409-75.

'Reforming EU Economic Governance: A view from (and on) the principal-agent approach’, Comparative European Politics 7, 4 (2009): 455-75.

'EMU and Political Union: What, if anything, have we learned from 10 years of the euro?’, Journal of European Public Policy 16, 4 (2009): 508-26.

2008

The Broad Economic Policy Guidelines: Before and After the Re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy’ (with Servaas Deroose and Joost Kuhlmann), Journal of Common Market Studies 46, 4 (2008): 827-4.

2007

‘The Legitimation of EMU: Lessons from the early years of the euro’ (with Servaas Deroose and Joost Kuhlmann), Review of International Political Economy 14, 5 (2007): 800–19.

2006

Adjusting to EMU (with Brian Ardy, Iain Begg, Imelda Maher and David Mayes), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

2005

Euro Area Governance and the Dual Outcome in Euro Area Fiscal Policy, 1999-2002’ PhD Thesis, London School of Economics.

2004

'Soft Sanctions and the Reform of the Stability and Growth Pact’ (with Imelda Maher), Journal of European Public Policy 11, 5 (2004): 798-813.

'Macroeconomic Coordination under EMU: The Scope and Limits of the Open Method’, Journal of European Public Policy 11, 2 (2004): 231-48.

2003

'The Exchange Rate as an Adjustment Mechanism: A Structural VAR Approach to the Case of Ireland’, The Economic and Social Review 34, 2 (2003): 151-72.

'Economic Policy Coordination in the European Union’ (with Iain Begg and Imelda Maher), National Institute Economic Review 183, January (2003): 66-77.

2002

'EMU: Balancing Credibility and Legitimacy in an Asymmetric Policy Mix’ (with Imelda Maher), Journal of European Public Policy 9, 3 (2002): 391–407.

2001

'Social Inclusion through Social Partnership: The Case of Ireland’ in D. Mayes, J. Berghman and R. Salais (eds.), Social Exclusion and European Policy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001), 170-87.

'The Open Method of Coordination as a New Mode of Governance: The Case of Soft Economic Policy Coordination’ (with Imelda Maher), Journal of Common Market Studies 39 4 (2001): 719-46.

Teaching

I currently teach the following modules at Birkbeck:

  • Public Policy: Interests, Ideas and Institutions
  • The European Union: Integration, Politics and Policy
  • The Politics of Globalisation and Global Governance
  • The Politics of Global Europe

I have previously contributed to the following modules at Birkbeck and elsewhere:

  • European Management and Political Economy (Birkbeck)
  • Comparative European Public Policy (Birkbeck)
  • EU Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Governance (College of Europe)
  • The Economics of European Integration (London South Bank)
  • International Economics (London Metropolitan University)
  • Economic Analysis of the European Union (LSE)

PhD Supervision

I am currently supervising PhD students working on:

  • The role of markets, user participation, and the state in the resolution of collective action problems involving irrigation water.
  • The Governance of EU Migration Policy

I am always keen to hear from suitably qualified applicants who are interested in doing PhD research on topics that overlap with my research interests.

If you are interested in pursuing research in any of these areas, you should first read our advice on how to apply for MPhil/PhD research before submitting an application.

 
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