Dr Peter Smith

Peter Smith

School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Associate Dean (Education)
Telephone: (023) 8059 3266
Email: peters@soton.ac.uk

Research interests

Economics of less-developed countries; poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa,Regional economic integration in ASEAN,  structural change in LDC's. Editor of Economic Review.

Teaching activities

Development Economics

Selected publications

Books
 John Sloman, Peter Smith 2010 Economics Student Workbook, 7th edition. Prentice Hall.1-288, (ISBN: 9780273729167)
 Peter Smith 2009 OCR A2 Economics. Philip Allan Updates.1-383, (ISBN: 9780340948088), (ISSN: 9780340948088)
 Peter Smith 2009 Edexcel A2 Economics. Philip Allan Updates.1-296, (ISBN: 9780340929269)
 Smith, P November 1997 Poverty Alleviation Strategies for Uganda : A Report for the Bank of Uganda Poverty Alleviation Strategies for Uganda : A Report for the Bank of Uganda. Bank of Uganda.
Chapters in books
 Smith, P. 2001 Should Africa Try to Learn from Asia? Lessons for and from Uganda. In Peter Lawrence, Colin Thirtle (eds), Africa and Asia in comparative economic perspective (9814pp. 49-64). Basingstoke: Palgrave.  On-line abstract, (ISBN: 0-333-79029-4), published
 Smith, P 1996 On the use and limitations of economic and social indicators in analysing the quality of life in Singapore. In Quah and Lee (eds), Household Economics and the Asian Family. Times Academic Press.
Articles in journals
 Muzafar Shah Habibullah, Peter Smith 2009 Has financial liberalisation reduced liquidity constraints in Malaysia: some empirical results. Icfai Journal of Monetary Economics, VII (1), 68-77.
 Normaz Wana Ismail, Peter Smith, Maurice Kugler 2009 The effect of ASEAN economic integration on foreign direct investment. Journal of Economic Integration, 24(3), 385-407., (ISSN: 1225651X)
 Muzafar Shah Habibullah, Tan Siow Hooi, Peter Smith 2008 The asymmetric effects of monetary policy in four Asian economies. International Applied Economics and Management Letters, 1(1)
 Muzafar Shah Habibullah, Peter Smith, Wan Azman-Saini 2006 Testing liquidity constraints in ten selected Asian countries: an error-correction approach. Applied Economics, 38, 2535-2543.
 Peter Smith, Muzafar Shah Habibullah 2002 Divisia monetary aggregates as information variables for Singapore and Taiwan. Asian Economic Review, 44(2), 244-258.
 Muzafar Shah Habibullah, Peter Smith 2001 Financial liberalisation and liquidity constraints in Myanmar and Nepal: some empirical evidence. Savings and Development, XXV(2), 123-139., (ISSN: 0393-4551), published
 Habibullah, M S and Smith, P September 1997 On Time Series Properties of Income Velocity of Money in Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Asian Economics, Vol 26(3)
 Smith, P 1997 Automobile ownership and government policy. The economics of Singapore's vehicle quota system. Transportation Research, Series A, Vol 31A(2),
 Ismail, A G and Smith, P March 1995 Monetary Policy under Financial Deregulation. Asian Economies, Vol 24(1), 5-26.
 Ismail, A G and Smith, P 1994 Financial deregulation in Malysian banking. Savings and Development, Vol XVIII(4), 457-472.
 Smith, P March 1993 Measuring Human Development. Asian Economic Journal, Vol VII(1), 89-106.
 Ismail, A G and Smith, P 1993 The Evoloving Role of Monetary Policy in the Malaysian Banking System. Savings and Development, Vol XVII(4), 405-421.
 Ismail, A G and Smith, P 1993 Monetary Policy and the Commercial Banks. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 27 (September), 29-55.
 Smith, P 1992 Controlling Traffic Congestion by Regulating Car Ownership. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Vol XXVI(1), 89-95.
Working papers
 Musinguzi, P. and Smith, P. 2000 Saving and Borrowing in Rural Uganda. University of Southampton, Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics, 0016. Southampton: University of Southampton.  On-line abstract
 Musinguzi, P. and Smith, P. 1998 Structural Adjustment and Poverty: A Study of Rural Uganda. University of Southampton, Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics, 9813. Southampton: University of Southampton.  On-line abstract
 Chin, A. and Smith, P. 1995 Car Ownership and Government Policy: Analysis and Evaluation of Singapore's Vehicle Quota Scheme. University of Southampton, Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics, 9505. Southampton: University of Southampton.
 Smith, P. 1992 Women in the Labour Force: Some Aspects of Gender Inequality in Human Development. University of Southampton, Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics, 9227. Southampton: University of Southampton.
Web based
 Peter Smith 2009 Undergraduate dissertations in economics The Handbook for Economics Lecturers. Higher Education Academy Economics Network.  On-line article, published