Professor Peter J Simmons
Professor

Profile

Biography

• BA(Exeter)
• MSc(LSE)
• PhD(Soton)

Member, Editorial Board of Rech Ec de Louvain 
Recent past member editorial board REStud 
ESRC Training Board

Departmental roles

Research

Overview

My research covers theoretical and empirical work in the areas of:

• Household behaviour: consumption, financial decisions, housing, labour supply
• Financial contracting with asymmetric information
• Externalities and general equilibrium
• Finance and Resource Markets

Publications

Selected publications

Full details of publications can be found at RePEc

Simmons, P. J. and Tantisantiwong, N., Equilibrium Moment Restrictions on Asset Returns: Normal and Crisis Periods, European Journal of Finance, 2013, p. 1-26

Simmons, P. J. and Xie, Y., Where is the Grass Greener? A micro-founded model of migration with application to Guangdong, Iza journal of migration, 2013, 2, 7

Menichini, A. and Simmons, P. J., Sorting the Good Guys from Bad: On the Optimality of Deterministic Audit with Ex-Ante Information Acquisition, 2012, CSEF Working Papers

Simmons, P. J., Static decisions may be optimal in a life cycle setting, 2011, The University of York, (Department of Economics Discussion Papers)

Angelini, V. and Simmons, P. J., Housing Debt & Consumption, 2011, The University of York, (Department of Economics Discussion Papers)

Randon, E. and Simmons, P. J., Strategic Consumption Complementarities: Can Price Flexibility Eliminate Inefficiencies and Instability?, 2010, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 12, 2, p. 249-279

Simmons, P. J., Effects of Structural Constraints & Costs on Choices, 2010,Labour, 24, SUPPL. 1, p. 25-45

Randon, E. and Simmons, P. J., Base Consumption Levels & Fixed Costs, 2010,Economics Letters, 108, 2, p. 222-224

Teaching

Postgraduate