KEVIN DOWD

I am interested in financial economics, monetary economics, macroeconomics and political economy. More specifically, I am interested in free banking and private money, central banking and financial regulation, financial risk management, pensions/PensionMetrics, mortality and longevity risk, and the War on Cash. In recent years, I have also become interested in equity release, option pric ing, central bank digital currencies and the policy response to Covid 19... My work is heavily influenced by Austrian and Public Choice economics. Austrian economics teaches us the importance of first principles, spontaneous order, unintended consequences and the pitfalls of interventionist policies. Public Choice economics teaches us to see policy issues in terms of underlying vested interests, including those of public agencies such as central banks and regulatory agencies. An underlying theme of my work is the importance of institutional arrangements, respect for individual rights and the rule of..

Primary location: Durham United Kingdom