Dennis Leech

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 Summer 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

Professor of Economics, University Warwick
Co-director, Voting Power and Procedures Programme
Research Associate, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, LSE
Research Associate, Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, Warwick

Recent activities:

Letter in Financial Times (March 13 2012) arguing that the effect of QE and low interest rates in inflating pension liabilities is a product of the way pension funds are regulated and the National Association of Pension Funds should call for better regulation not higher interest rates (low interest rates actually help pension funds by boosting the performance of the companies they invest in): Regulation should be NAPF’s target
Letter in the Financial Times (February 22nd 2012): Fiscal stimulus ruled out too soon
Article: Fiscal Stimulus Improves Solvency in a Depressed Economy forthcoming, Royal Economic Society Newsletter, April 2012.
Letter about pensions in the Financial Times (November 8th 2011): Actuaries should reconsider how they value pension funds
Signatory of letters in the Daily Telegraph: Universities should not be run for profit (see also related article); and also 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 letters from economists: in the Observer: George Osborne's spending plans simply don't add up; the Guardian: Economists supporting the "Robin Hood" tax; the Guardian (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)
AV debate at Warwick University: Podcast
Webpage article: Two Cheers for AV (cited in New Scientist webpage article: Mathematicians weigh in on UK voting debate)
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
Signatory of open letter on Qualified Majority Voting in the EU Council of Ministers: Scientists for a Democratic Europe
Letter to The Guardian (June 12th 2008): How mathematicians lost the plot in the City