José Sánchez-Fung's paper, "Assessing Mccallum and Taylor Rules in a Cross-Section of Emerging Market Economies", has been listed on the SSRN Top Ten download list for Econometric Modeling in Macroeconomics.

Rob Watkins contributes a short article syurveying the literature on 'assessment of group work' to a briefing document produced by the Centre for BioScience at the Higher Education Academy. This follows Rob's earlier chapter on 'group work' for the Economics teachers' handbook published by the Academy.

Willem Spanjers presents a paper to a workshop on “Liquidity and Trust in Incomplete Markets” at the University of Freiburg.

Dr. José R. Sanchez-Fung and João R. Faria (U. Texas, El Paso) have co-authored ‘The economy and the environment in the Dominican Republic and Haiti: what explains the differences?’ as Economics Discussion Paper 2009/3. This paper demonstrates how extending standard neoclassical growth models to recognise the use and maintenance of natural resources can explain the contrast between Haiti and the DR with regards to their economic and environmental development .

Prof. Subrata Ghatak and Monica Pop Silaghi (Babes Bolyai, Romania) have co-authored ‘Inter-regional migration in Romania’ as Economics Discussion Paper 2009/4. This paper assesses the extent to which relative wage rates and relative unemployment levels have influenced inter-regional migration, finding evidence only for the former.