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Michael Pollitt

Assistant Director of the ESRC Electricity Policy Research Group
Reader in Business Economics
Director of Studies in Management and Economics and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College

MA (Univ. of Cambridge), MPhil, DPhil (Univ. of Oxford)

Professional Experience

Dr Pollitt is a member of the editorial board of the Review of Industrial Organization. He is also a Research Associate of the Centre for Business Research (CBR) and a member of the Faculty of Economics. He was a board member and trustee of Viva Network, Oxford, from 1999-2004. Since 2000 he has been convenor of the Association of Christian Economists, UK.

Dr Pollitt has advised the ESRC, the Norwegian Research Council, the DTI, the World Bank and the European Commission. In 2007 Michael was appointed as an external economic advisor to Ofgem. He has also consulted for National Grid, AWG, Eneco, Nuon, Roche and TenneT.

Previous Appointments

Before coming to Judge Business School, Michael was a lecturer in applied industrial organisation at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, from 1994-1999. In the first half of 2003 Michael was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at MIT. From 2001-2005 Michael was co-leader of the Cambridge-MIT Electricity Project. In 2005 and 2006 Michael served as Acting Executive Director of the ESRC Electricity Policy Research Group.

Research Interests

Industrial economics, privatisation and regulation of utilities especially in electricity, the measurement of productive efficiency and the relationship between Christian ethics and best practice business behaviour.

Michael Pollitt is a member of the Energy & Environment research group, the Business & Management Economics research group and the Business & Management Economics teaching group.

Selected Publications

Jones, I.W., Pollitt, M. and Bek, D. (2007) Multinationals in their communities: a social capital approach to corporate citizenship projects. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Nillesen, P.H.L. and Pollitt, M.G. (2007) "The 2001-2003 electricity distribution price control review in the Netherlands: regulatory process and consumer welfare." Journal of Regulatory Economics, 31(3): 261-287 (DOI: 10.1007/s11149-006-9014-8)

Pollitt, M. (2008) "Electricity reform in Argentina: lessons for developing countries." Energy Economics, 30(4): 1536-1567 (DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2007.12.012)

Pollitt, M.G. (2008) "The future of electricity (and gas) regulation in a low-carbon policy world." The Energy Journal, 29(S2): 63-94

Jamasb, T. and Pollitt, M. (2008) "Liberalisation and R&D in network industries: the case of the electricity industry." Research Policy, 37(6-7): 995-1008 (DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2008.04.010)

Grubb, M., Jamasb, T. and Pollitt, M. (eds.) (2008) Delivering the low-carbon electricity system: technologies, economics and policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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