Simon Commander

Simon Commander
BA (Oxford), PhD (Cambridge)
Director, Centre for New and Emerging Markets
Email: scommander@london.edu

Recent Publications and Working Papers:

ICT adoption and productivity in developing countries: new firm level evidence from Brazil and India, with Rakesh Basant, Rupert Harrison and Naercio Menezes-Filho, IZA Discussion Paper No.2294, September 2006.  Download paper (PDF - 1059 KB).

The performance of firms in transition, with Jan Svejnar, in Transition Report 2005, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London.

The origins and dynamics of the software industry in emerging markets, Simon Commander et al (eds). Published in the UK and USA by Edward Elgar, 2005.

Migrating workers and jobs: a challenge to the European social model? with Axel Heitmueller and Laura Tyson, October 2005. Download paper (PDF - 204 KB)

A model of the informal economy with an application to Ukraine, with Yulia Rodionova. Paper presented at IZA-EBRD conference on labour market dynamics, University of Bologna, May 2005. Download paper (PDF - 250 KB)

Explaining unemployment and its persistence in the transition countries with Janos Kollo, Institute of Economics, Budapest and Andrei Tolstopiatenko, World Bank, September 2004. Download paper (PDF - 270 KB)

'The Brain Drain' with Mari Kangasniemi and Alan Winters, Brussels Economic Review, 2004(1), Spring.

'The changing demand for skills: evidence from the Transition' with Janos Kollo, Institute of Economics, Budapest, December 2003. Download paper (PDF - 240 KB)

'Who gains from skilled migration: evidence from the software industry' with Mari Kangasniemi, Rupa Chanda and  L.A. Winters. Download paper (PDF - 616 KB)

'Is medical brain drain beneficial? Evidence from overseas doctors in the UK' with Mari Kangasniemi and L.A. Winters, Centre for Economic Performance Working Paper, London School of Economics, January 2004, submitted to Journal of Population Economics. Download paper (PDF - 331 KB)

'The Brain Drain: curse or boon' with Mari Kangasniemi and L.A. Winters, in R. Baldwin and L.A. Winters (editors).

'International Trade & Challenges to Globalisation', NBER and Chicago University Press, 2004.
'Regional unemployment and its persistence in transition countries' with Fabian Bornhorst, IZA DP Paper No 1074, March 2004. Download paper (PDF - 382 KB)

'Determinants of barter in Russia: An Empirical Analysis' with Irina Dolinskaya and Christian Mumssen, Journal of Development Economics, 67, 2002, 275-307.

'Russia: the Labour Market' with Andrei Tolstopiatenko, in B. Granville and P. Oppenheimer, Russia's Post-Communist Economy, Oxford University Press, 2002.

'How to go forward in transition' in G. Tumpel-Gugerell (editor), 'Completing Transition: The Main Challenges. Proceedings of East West Conference, Berlin and New York, Springer Verlag, 2002.

'Compensation, the Allocation of Labour and the Informal Sector in Russia' in Russia in Transition, B Granville and P Oppenheimer (eds), OUP, 2001.

Recent lectures:

Sussex Development Lecture: 4 March 2004
Brains; what they can do for development? Download lecture (PDF - 490 KB)

Research interests:

labour economics, comparative economic systems, economic policy, economic stabilisation