Anthony Venables

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Venables (May 2010)

Anthony James Venables , CBE , (born April 25, 1953 ) is a British economist .

Career, research and teaching

An economics study at between 1971 and 1974 graduated Venables Clare College of the University of Cambridge that he with the degree of Bachelor of Arts finished. He then moved to the University of Oxford . There he graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Philosophy and 1984 as a Doctor of Philosophy in economics.

From 1978 Venables was first a lecturer at the University of Oxford, from 1979 at the University of Sussex . In 1988 he followed a call from the University of Southampton , where he was appointed full professor . In 1992 he moved to the London School of Economics and Political Science , where he became Professor of International Economics and, at the same time, Director of the Globalization Program at the Center for Economic Performance there. In 2007 he returned to the University of Oxford. He also visited the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of British Columbia, among others .

Venables has appeared as a scientific advisor to various institutions and bodies, including the World Bank , the WTO , the International Monetary Fund , the African Development Bank , the Asian Development Bank , the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the OECD . He has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 2003 and a Fellow of the British Academy since 2005 . Between 1991 and 1995 he was editor of the European Economic Review , at that time the official organ of the European Economic Association .

Venable's main focus is on economics , where he was one of the pioneers of the so-called “ New Economic Geography ” alongside Paul Krugman and Masahisa Fujita . The work The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade , first published by the three authors in 1999 and later translated into various languages, explains the background to large-scale economic agglomerations on different spatial levels and is therefore considered the main work of the theory. It is one of the most cited works by Venable. He also deals in particular with the economic effects of urbanization in developing countries .

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SURNAME Venables, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Venables, Anthony James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1953