Professor Ciaran Driver
BE (NUI) MA (Lums) MSc (London) PhD (CNAA)
Overview
Department of Financial & Management Studies (DeFiMS)
Professor in Financial Economics
- Name:
- Professor Ciaran Driver
- Email address:
- cd12@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 0207 898 4993
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 540
- Office Hours:
- Thursday 2-3pm
Teaching
Courses Taught
Research
Theories of corporate governance; testing real-options theory; capital investment studies; policy.
Publications
Authored Books
Driver, Ciaran and Temple, Paul (2012) The Unbalanced Economy: a policy appraisal. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Chapters
Driver, Ciaran (2012) 'Governance, Innovation and Finance.' In: The SAGE Handbook of Corporate Governance. Sage Publications, pp. 496-519.
Driver, Ciaran and Thompson, Grahame (2008) 'Stakeholder Champions: How to Internationalize the Corporate Social Responsibility Agenda.' In: Stoll, Mary Lyn and Palmer, Daniel E. and Zakhem, Abe J., (eds.), Stakeholder Theory: Essential Readings in Ethical Leadership and Management. Amhurst, New York: Prometheus Books.
Driver, Ciaran and Tidd, Joe (2000) 'Measuring Innovation by Market and Financial Indicators.' In: Tidd, Joe, (ed.), From Knowledge Management to Strategic Competence: measures of technological, market and organisational innovation. London: Imperial College Press. (Series on technology management, vol. 3)
Articles
Driver, Ciaran and Guedes, Maria João Coelho Guedes (2012) 'Research and Development, Cash Flow, Agency and Governance: UK large companies.' Research Policy, 41 (9). pp. 1565-1577.
Driver, Ciaran and Muñoz-Bugarin, Jair (2010) 'Capital Investment and Unemployment in Europe: Neutrality or Not?' Journal of Macroeconomics, 32 (1). pp. 492-496.
Driver, Ciaran and Temple, Paul (2010) 'Why do Hurdle Rates Differ from the Cost of Capital?' Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34 (3). pp. 501-523.
Driver, Ciaran (2008) 'Varieties of Governance.' Louvain Economic Review, 74 . pp. 425-453.
Driver, Ciaran and Temple, Paul and Urga, Giovanni (2008) 'Real Options - Delay vs. Pre-Emption: Do Industrial Characteristics Matter?' International Journal of Industrial Organization, 26 . pp. 532-545.
Driver, Ciaran and Oughton, Christine (2008) 'Dynamic Models of Regional Innovation: Explorations with British Time-Series Data.' Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 1 (2). pp. 205-217.
Driver, Ciaran and Hall, Stephen G. (2008) 'Production Constraints and the NAIRU.' Economics: the open-access, open-assessment e-journal, 2 .
Driver, Ciaran (2007) 'Business optimism for Small, Medium and Large Firms: Does It Explain Investment.' Fiscal Studies, 8 (2). pp. 205-255.
Driver, Ciaran and Temple, Paul and Urga, Giovanni (2006) 'Contrasts Between Types of Assets in Fixed Investment Equations as a Way of Testing Real Options Theory.' Journal of Business Economics & Statistics, 24 (4). pp. 432-443.
Driver, Ciaran and Temple, Paul and Urga, Giovanni (2005) 'Profitability, Capacity and Uncertainty: A Model of UK Manufacturing Investment.' Oxford Economic Papers, 57 (1). pp. 120-141.
Driver, Ciaran and Urga, Giovanni (2004) 'Transforming Qualitative Survey Data: Performance Comparisons for the UK.' Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 66 (1). pp. 71-90.
Driver, Ciaran and Shepherd, David (2003) 'Inflation and Capacity Constraints in Australian Manufacturing Industry.' The Economic Record, 79 (245). pp. 182-195.
Driver, Ciaran and Thompson, Grahaeme (2002) 'Corporate Governance and Democracy: The Stakeholder Debate Revisited.' Journal of Management and Governance, 6 . pp. 111-130.
Driver, Ciaran and Valletti, Tommaso (2001) 'Additive and Multiplicative Uncertainty Revisited: What Explains the Contrasting Biases?' Journal of Economics, 79 (2). pp. 187-198.
Driver, Ciaran and Whelan, Brendan (2001) 'The Effect of Business Risk on Manufacturing Investment: Sector Survey Evidence From Ireland.' Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 44 (4). pp. 403-412.
Driver, Ciaran and Meade, Nigel (2001) 'Persistence of Capacity Shortage and the Role of Adjustment Costs.' Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 48 (1). pp. 27-48.
Driver, Ciaran and Temple, Paul and Urga, Giovanni (2001) 'The Influence of Uncertainty on Fixed Investment in the UK: A Macro or a Micro Phenomenon.' Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 48 (4). pp. 361-382.
Driver, Ciaran (2000) 'Capacity Utilisation and Excess Capacity: Theory, Evidence and Policy.' Review of Industrial Organization, 16 (1). pp. 69-87.
Driver, Ciaran and Kilpatrick , Andrew and Naisbitt, Barry (1986) 'The Employment Effects of UK Manufacturing Trade Expansion with the EEC and the Newly Industrialising Countries.' European Economic Review, 30 (2). pp. 427-438.
