Department of Economics
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
England, UK.
Office: S2.116
Email: d.leech(at)warwick.ac.uk
Tel. +44-(0)2476-523047
Fax +44-(0)2476-523032
Office hours Spring Term 2012
Mondays 12-1; Thursdays 11-12.
I am also available via email and will respond to students promptly.
I am available at other times. If you would like a meeting please email me for an appointment.
Teaching 2011/12
Research
Affiliations
Recent activities:
- Signatory of letter in the Telegraph: Universities should not be run for profit; see also related article
- Letter in the Financial Times (November 8th 2011): Actuaries should reconsider how they value pension funds
- Signatory of letter in the Guardian: In defence of public higher education
- Letter in the Guardian: Why are the government introducing a form of AV for electing city mayors and police chiefs?
- Signatory of letter in the Observer from economists: George Osborne's spending plans simply don't add up
- Signatory of letter in the Guardian: economists supporting the "Robin Hood" tax
- Signatory of Guardian letter (February 26 2011): we need wholesale reform of the banks
- Article: Power indices in large voting bodies, Warwick Economic Research Papers, 942 (revised). forthcoming in Public Choice.
- Article: "Testing for spatial heterogeneity in functional MRI using the multivariate general linear model", published in IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging, 30(6), June 2011, 1292-1302 (with Robert Leech)
- Podcast AV debate
- New Scientist webpage article: Mathematicians weigh in on UK voting debate
- Webpage article: Two Cheers for AV
- Article: “Computer algorithms for power indices”, pp 129-33 in Keith Dowding, ed., Encyclopedia of Power. London, SAGE Publications, 2011.
- Article: “Shareholder voting power”, pp 606-7 in Keith Dowding, ed., Encyclopedia of Power. London, SAGE Publications, 2011.
- Conference co-organised: Voting Power in Social/Political Institutions:Typology, Measurement, Applications, Voting Power and Procedures, CPNSS, LSE, March 20-22nd 2011.
- Conference co-organised: Assessing Alternative Voting Procedures, VPP, CPNSS, LSE, Chateaux du Baffy, July 2010.
- Article: The Double Majority Voting Rule of the EU Reform Treaty as a Democratic Ideal for an Enlarging Union: an Appraisal Using Voting Power Analysis (with Haris Aziz) in Marek Cichocki and Karol Zyczkowski (eds.) Distribution of power and voting procedures in the European Union, Ashgate, 2011, ISBN:9780754694960.
- Letter in the Guardian (January 5th 2010): The myth of parental choice of school
- Paper: Reforming IMF and World Bank governance : in search of simplicity, transparency and democratic legitimacy in the voting rules (with Robert Leech) Paper presented at the universities of Augsbourg, June 2009, and Moscow, September 2009.
- Article:A Behavioural Power Index (with Serguei Kaniovski), published in Public Choice, vol. 141(1), pages 17-29, October 2009.
- Public Lecture "Reforming the Voting Systems of the IMF/World Bank" November 20th 2008 London School of Economics Powerpoint
- Open Letter on Qualified Majority Voting in the EU Council of Ministers: Scientists for a Democratic Europe
- Letter to The Guardian: How mathematicians lost the plot in the City Thursday 12 June 2008
