Alan Stewart Duncan (born 13 January 1965) is a British

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and econometrician. He is currently the Bankwest Professor of Economic Policy and Director of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre at

Curtin University Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ...

, Australia. Duncan was awarded the

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of the

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in 2000 for the article ''Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms'' (with

Richard Blundell Sir Richard William Blundell CBE FBA (born 1 May 1952, Shoreham-by-Sea) is a British economist and econometrician. Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics of University College London and t ...

and

Costas Meghir Konstantinos "Costas" Meghir ( el, Κωνσταντίνος (Κώστας) Εκτώρ Δημήτριος Μεγήρ, transcr. ''Konstantinos Ektor Dimitrios Meghir'', born February 13, 1959) is a Greek-British economist. He studied at the Universi ...

in ''

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''). He was head of the Nottingham School of Economics (

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) from 2008 to 2010 and director of the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling at the University of Canberra from March 2010 to January 2013. Duncan graduated with a

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in economics and econometrics from the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

in 1986 and obtained a

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in economics from the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

in 1990. He held positions as lecturer and then reader in economics at the University of York from 1990 to 1999. Duncan was appointed

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of economics at the University of Nottingham in 2000. He held visiting positions at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and the

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, where he was the 2002 RI Downing Research Fellow. Currently, he is an International Fellow at the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

and Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London.

Research

Duncan has worked on subjects ranging from labour economics,

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, and

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microeconomics Microeconomics is a branch of mainstream economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms. Microeconomics fo ...

External links

* at Curtin Business School * at the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
RePEC profile

Alan Duncan appointed Director of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre
Perth Now, 23 April 2013. {{DEFAULTSORT:Duncan, Alan S. 1965 births Living people British economists Curtin University faculty People from Gateshead Alumni of the University of York