Andreas P. KYRIACOU web page

Andreas P. Kyriacou

Personal Details

Associate Professor of Economics (Professor Agregat)

Departament d'Economia, Universitat de Girona

Campus de Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Spain

Office: 323 Telf: 972 418716 Fax: 972 418032 E-mail: andreas.kyriacou@udg.edu

Academic Qualifications

Bachelor in Economics and Commerce (Honours), The University of Melbourne, 1990.

MA in International and European Relations, Amsterdam School of International Relations, 1992

Doctor in Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1999.

Current Teaching

Applied Economics (Economic Policy)

European Economy: History, Institutions and the Budget, Competencies Assigned, Economic Integration Theory, Integration and Growth (reading: R&D), CAP (reading: Queens CAP, Food), Regional Policy, Trade Policy, Single Currency Theory (reading: Two Countries), EMU, Labour Markets (reading: Social models).

Publications

· “Rational Irrationality and Group Size: The Effect of Biased Beliefs on Individual Contributions towards Collective Goods” accepted for publication, American Journal of Economics and Sociology.

· Review of George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton (2010). Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-being. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Forthcoming, Public Choice.

· “Intrinsic Motivation and the Logic of Collective Action: The Impact of Selective Incentives”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology 69(2): 823-839 (2010).

· “Property Rights and the Cyprus Problem: Insights from Economics and Social Psychology”, The Cyprus Review 21(1): 193-198 (2009).

· “Fiscal Decentralization and the Quality of Government: Evidence from Panel Data” (with Oriol Roca), Hacienda Pública Española/Revista de Economía Pública 189(2): 131-156 (2009).

· “Decision Rules, Membership and Political Centralization in the European Union”, European Journal of Law and Economics 27(2): 143-158 (2009).

· Integració Europea, (with Jordi Bacaria and Alex Ruiz) Barcelona: Editorial UOC (2008).

· “Functional, Overlapping and Competing Jurisdictions and Ethnic Conflict Management”, Kyklos 59(1): 63-83 (2006). (PDF)

· “Rationality, Ethnicity and Institutions: A Survey of Issues and Results”, Journal of Economic Surveys 19(1): 23-42 (2005). (PDF)

· “Economic Integration, Legitimacy and European Union Enlargement”, Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 23(3): 183-195 (2004). (PDF)

· “A Theory of Menu Federalism: Decentralisation by Political Agreement”, (with Roger Congleton and Jordi Bacaria), Constitutional Political Economy 14(3): 167-190 (2003). (lead article). (PDF)

· A Viable Solution to the Cyprus Problem: Lessons from Political Economy, Nicosia: Intercollege Press (2003). Reviewed by Van Koufoudakis in The Cyprus Review 15(1): 173-73, 2003. (PDF)

· “Enlargement and the European Central Bank” (with Jordi Bacaria and Georgios Chortareas), in Steunenberg, Bernard (ed.) Widening the European Union: The Politics of Institutional Change and Reform, London: Routledge (2002). (PDF)

· “On the Viability of Potentially Divided Multi-Ethnic States”, Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 19(1): 39-53 (2001). (PDF)

· “A ‘Just and Viable’ Solution to the Cyprus Problem: In Search of Institutional Viability”, Mediterranean Politics 5(3): 54-75 (2000). (PDF)

· “An Ethnically Based Federal and Bicameral System: The Case of Cyprus”, International Review of Law and Economics 20(2): 251-268 (2000). (PDF)

· “A Viable Solution to the Cyprus Problem in the Context of European Union Accession”, The Cyprus Review 12(1): 35-59 (2000). (PDF)

· “New Exporters of Catalonia Programme (NEX)” (with Oriol Roca), Barcelona Management Review 15: 88-95 (2000).

· Elements de l’Economia de la Unió Europea (with Tatiana Fernandez), Barcelona: Edicions Vicens Vives (1999).

· “Mancur Olson: El Teòric de l’Acció Col·lectiva” (with Jordi Bacaria), Revista Econòmica de Catalunya 35: 155-157 (1998).

· “A Comment on Müller’s ‘Unveiling of the Veil of Uncertainty’”, Constitutional Political Economy 9(4): 335-338 (1998). (PDF)

· L’Agenda 2000: Una Proposta de la Comissió Europea per una Europa Més Forta i Ampliada” (with Jordi Bacaria), Nota d’Economia 61: 23-32 (1998).

· Avaluació Ex-Post de l'Objectiu 2 dels Fons Estructurals Europeus a Catalunya” (with Oriol Roca), Nota d'Economia 60: 35-42 (1998).

· “EMU: The Chance for a New Swedish Model”, Stockholm: Swedish Institute of Public Accounting, (1993).

Papers submitted or in revision

· “Fiscal and Political Decentralization and Government Quality”. Submitted.

· “Fiscal Decentralization and Government Quality in the OECD”. Submitted.

Work-in-Progress


· “Political Centralization and the Quality of Government”.
· “Decentralization, Regional Inequality and the Quality of Government”.



	Others

· “Developing a Ratings Methodology in the Field of HIV/AIDS” (with Rodrigo Garay), Background paper for Aids Accountability International, Stockholm, January 2006.

· “Defining Accountability”, Background paper prepared for Aids Accountability International Workshop on May 12-13, Stockholm, 2008.