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词条 Kevin Dowd
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. Brexit

  4. Published work

  5. Published works

     Books authored  Books edited  Other significant works 

  6. References

  7. External links

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Kevin Dowd is an Irish/British economist, having research interests in private money and free banking, monetary systems and macroeconomics, financial risk measurement and management, risk disclosure, political economy and policy analysis, and pensions and mortality modelling. As of this date, he is a partner in Cobden Partners based in London, and Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University Business School.

Early life and education

Dowd was born in Middlesbrough in 1958, attended St Mary's College, Middlesbrough and went to the University of Sheffield in 1977 to study economics. He holds a BA (first class honours) in economics from the University of Sheffield, an MA in economics from the University of Western Ontario, and a PhD in macroeconomics from the University of Sheffield.

Career

Dowd is affiliated with the Cato Institute; is a Senior Fellow at The Cobden Centre, an "independent educational charity founded… to undertake research into economic[s] and political science";[1][2] is affiliated with the Institute of Economic Affairs; the Istituto Bruno Leoni; the Independent Institute; and the Pensions Institute.

He has held previous positions with the Ontario Economic Council in Toronto, Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Nottingham.

Brexit

Kevin Dowd is a member of the think tank, Economists for Free Trade, and a supporter of Brexit. He is a regular contributor for the pro-Brexit lobby group Brexit Central.

Published work

Dowd's main subject of research is private money and free banking—monetary and financial systems that operate without any government intervention and in the absence of any central bank. A related focus of his work is on central banking and other forms of state intervention into economies, most particularly, on deposit insurance, the lender of last resort and bank capital adequacy regulation. He has repeatedly called for the abolition of central banks and an end to state intervention in the financial system.

He advocates competitive monetary systems. His work, New Private Monies—a Bit-Part Player?, is supportive of private gold money systems such as the Liberty Dollar and e-gold, and expresses measured support for Bitcoin. Dowd is a supporter of commodity-based monetary systems such as the gold standard and is a critic of fiat-based money issued by a central bank.

Dowd takes a largely Austrian approach to economics, but one that is heavily influenced by the Quantity Theory of Money and the work of monetarists such as Milton Friedman and David Laidler. He supports laissez-faire, and is critical of Keynesian and other interventionist schools of economics.

He has proposed a free-market approach to the resolution of the ongoing financial crisis,[3] based on extended personal liability for senior bankers, the exit of the state from the financial system and the restoration of a sound monetary standard. To this end, he has also advised Steve Baker, the Conservative MP for Wycombe, on his two Private Member's Bills to resolve the crisis: the Financial Services (Regulation of Derivatives) Bill,[4] which sought to restore sound accounting standards, and the Financial Institutions (Reform) Bill,[5] which called for radical reforms to the banking system and an end to state involvement in banking.

Dowd has repeatedly argued that the Global Financial Crisis has never been resolved and that the policies adopted since 2007 have been ineffective, illegal and counter-productive. He believes that a renewed outbreak of the crisis is therefore likely, with the prospects of financial collapse, high inflation and government insolvency around much of the developed world.

Dowd has also written extensively on financial risk measurement and management. He has argued that most financial modelling is conceptually invalid because it is based on a naïve 'scientistic' belief that economic systems can be modelled using quantitative methods inappropriately imported from natural sciences such as physics. He is particularly critical of the widely used Value-at-Risk or VaR risk measure,[6] the assumptions inherent to, and so the use of the "normal" or Gaussian distribution in risk management,[7] and the use of financial risk models for regulatory purposes.[8]

Dowd is the co-inventor of the PensionMetrics Defined-Contribution (DC) stochastic pension model,[9] and the Stochastic Lifestyling asset allocation strategy.[10] He and David Blake have proposed a set of good principles in the modelling of DC pension plans,[11] and with Debbie Harrison, Blake and Dowd have recently published two reports into the state of the DC pensions market in the UK: Caveat Venditor,[12] which advocated that pensions should be governed by the principle of seller not buyer beware, and VfM,[13] which examined value for money in the UK pensions market. These reports were critical of the high charges, over-complexity and lack of transparency in the UK pensions industry.

In the life actuarial field, Dowd and collaborators have written on the financial implications of mortality and longevity risk. They invented survivor swaps,[14] survivor swaptions,[11] the CBD mortality model,[15] and the gravity two-population mortality model.[16]

Dowd also works with Cobden Partners, a sovereign advisory service based in London, and is a founding member of the Sofia Business School,[17] based in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Published works

Books authored

  • Laissez-Faire Banking (1993). London: Routledge.
  • The State and the Monetary System (1989). New York: St. Martin's.
  • Competition and Finance: A New Interpretation of Financial and Monetary Economics (1996). New York: St. Martin's.
  • Beyond Value at Risk: The New Science of Risk Management (1998). Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley.
  • Money and the Market: Essays on Free Banking (2001). London: Routledge.
  • An Introduction to Market Risk Measurement (2002). Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley.
  • {{cite book | author= | date = 2005 | orig-year = 2002 | title = Measuring Market Risk | edition = 2nd | location = Hoboken, N.J. | publisher = John Wiley | url= | access-date= }}
  • {{cite book | author= | date = 2009 | title = Abolire le Banche Centrali | location = Milan, ITA | publisher = Istituto Bruno Leoni | url=http://www.ibs.it/code/9788864400105/dowd-kevin/abolire-banche-centrali.html | access-date=27 November 2016}}
  • [with Martin Hutchinson] (2010). Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System, Chichester, ENG: John Wiley.

Books edited

  • The Experience of Free Banking (1992). London: Routledge.
  • [with Richard H. Timberlake] Money and the Nation State: The Financial Revolution, Government, and the World Monetary System. (1998). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, {{ISBN|9781560003021}}.
  • [co-ed with Mervyn K. Lewis] Current Issues in Financial and Monetary Economics" (1992). London: Macmillan.

Other significant works

  • {{cite journal | author = | date = 1988 | title = Private Money—The Path to Monetary Stability | journal = Cobden Centre Hobart Paper | volume = 112 | issue = June | location = London | publisher = Institute of Economic Affairs | url = | access-date = }}
  • {{cite journal | author = | date = 2014 | title = New Private Monies—A Bit-Part Player? | journal = Cobden Centre Hobart Paper | volume = 174 | issue = June | location = London | publisher = Institute of Economic Affairs | url = | access-date = }}

References

1. ^{{cite web | author = Cobden Centre Staff | date = 2016-11-27 | url=http://www.cobdencentre.org/about/|title= About [the Cobden Centre] | work = CobdenCentre.org | access-date=27 November 2016}}
2. ^{{cite web | author = Dowd, K. & Cobden Centre Staff | date = 2016-11-27 | url=http://www.cobdencentre.org/about/our-team/| title = Our Team | work = CobdenCentre.org | access-date=27 November 2016}}
3. ^{{cite journal | url=http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/econn/econn111.pdf | author = Dowd, K. | date = 2009 | title = Lessons from the Financial Crisis: A Libertarian Perspective [expanded version of Second Chris R. Tame Memorial Lecture, March 17th, 2009] | series = Economic Notes No. 111 | journal = Libertarian Alliance | location = London | publisher = Libertarian.co.uk | access-date=2016-11-27}}
4. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.stevebaker.info/campaigns/the-financial-system/financial-services-regulation-of-derivatives-bill/ | title=Financial Services (Regulation of Derivatives) Bill | author= Baker, Steve & House of Commons Staff | date= 2016-11-27 | work=SteveBaker.info|accessdate=27 November 2016}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cityam.com/article/parliamentary-blueprint-end-banking-hazards|title=A Parliamentary blueprint to end banking hazards| author = Dowd, K. | date= 2012-03-09 | work=cityam.com|accessdate=27 November 2016}}
6. ^See, e.g., {{cite journal | authors = Dowd, K. & Blake, D. | date = 2006 | title = After VaR: The Theory, Estimation, and Insurance Applications of Quantile-based Risk Measures | journal = J. Risk Insur. | volume = 73 | issue = 2, June | pages = 193–228 | url = http://www.pensions-institute.org/workingpapers/wp0603.pdf | access-date = 27 November 2016 | doi = 10.1111/j.1539-6975.2006.00171.x | citeseerx = 10.1.1.318.403 }}
7. ^{{cite journal | authors = Dowd, K. Cotter, J.; Humphrey, C. G. & Woods, M. | date = 2008 | title = How Unlucky is 25-Sigma? | journal = J. Portfolio Manage. | volume = 34 | issue = 4 | pages = 76–80 | arxiv = 1103.5672 | doi = 10.3905/jpm.2008.709984 }}
8. ^{{cite journal | authors = Dowd, K.: Hutchinson, M.; Ashby, S. & Hinchliffe, J. | date = 2011 | title = Capital Inadequacies: The Dismal Failure of the Basel System of Bank Capital Regulation | journal = Policy Anal. | location = Washington, D.C. | publisher = Cato Institute | volume = 681 | issue = 29 July | pages = 1–38 | url = http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa681.pdf | access-date = 27 November 2016 }}
9. ^{{cite journal | authors = Blake, D.; Cairns, A. J. G. & Dowd, K. | date = 2001 | title = Pensionmetrics: Stochastic Pension Plan Design and Value-at-Risk during the Accumulation Phase | journal = Insur. Math. Econ. | location = | publisher = | volume = 29 | issue = 2, October | pages = 187–215 | url = http://www.pensions-institute.org/workingpapers/wp0102.pdf | access-date = 27 November 2016 | doi = 10.1016/S0167-6687(01)00082-8 }}
10. ^{{cite journal | authors = Cairns, A. J. G.; Blake, D. & Dowd, K. | date = 2006 | title = Stochastic Lifestyling: Optimal Dynamic Asset Allocation for Defined-Contribution Pension Plans | journal = J. Econ. Dyn. Control | location = | publisher = | volume = 30 | issue = 5| pages = 843–877 | url = http://www.pensions-institute.org/workingpapers/wp0003.pdf | access-date = 27 November 2016 | doi = 10.1016/j.jedc.2005.03.009 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.200.8277 }}
11. ^{{cite journal | authors = Dawson, P.; Dowd, K.; Cairns, A.J.G. & Blake, D. | date = 2009 | title = Options on Normal Underlyings with an Application to the Pricing of Survivor Swaptions | journal = J. Futures Markets| volume = 29 | issue = 2 | pages = 757–774 | url = http://www.pensions-institute.org/workingpapers/wp0713.pdf | doi = 10.1002/fut.20378 | access-date = 27 November 2016 }}
12. ^{{cite web | authors = Harrison, D.; Blake, D. & Dowd, K. | date = 2012 | url=http://www.pensions-institute.org/reports/CaveatVenditor.pdf |title=Caveat Venditor: The Brave New World of Auto-Enrolment Should be Governed by the Principle of Seller Not Buyer Beware |website=Pensions-institute.org | issue = October | access-date=2016-11-27}}
13. ^{{cite web | authors = Harrison, D.; Blake, D. & Dowd, K. | date = 2014 | url=http://www.pensions-institute.org/reports/ValueForMoney.pdf |title=VfM |website=Pensions-institute.org | issue = January | access-date=2016-11-27}}
14. ^{{cite journal | authors = Dowd, K. | date = 2003 | title = Survivor Bonds: A Comment on Blake and Burrows | journal = J. Risk Insur. | location = | publisher = | volume = 70 | issue = 2 | pages = 339–348 | url = http://www.pensions-institute.org/workingpapers/wp199910comment.pdf | access-date = 27 November 2016 | doi = 10.1111/1539-6975.00063 }}
15. ^{{cite journal | authors = Cairns, A. J. G.; Blake, D. & Dowd, K. | date = 2006 | title = A Two-Factor Model for Stochastic Mortality with Parameter Uncertainty: Theory and Calibration | journal = J. Risk Insur. | location = | publisher = | volume = 73 | issue = 4, December | pages = 687–718 | url = http://www.pensions-institute.org/workingpapers/wp0611.pdf | access-date = 27 November 2016 | doi = 10.1111/j.1539-6975.2006.00195.x }}
16. ^{{cite journal | authors = Dowd, K.; Cairns, A. J. G.; Blake, D.; Coughlan, G. D. ; Epstein, D. & Khalaf-Allah, M. | date = 2011 | title = A Gravity Model of Mortality Rates for Two Related Populations | journal = N. Am. Actuar. J. | location = | publisher = | volume = 15 | issue = 2, December | pages = 334–356 | url = http://www.pensions-institute.org/workingpapers/wp1110.pdf | access-date = 27 November 2016 | doi = 10.1080/10920277.2011.10597624 }}
17. ^{{cite web|url=http://sbs-bg.org/|title=Sofia Business School | author = SBS Staff | date= 2016-11-27 | work = SBS-bg.org | access-date=27 November 2016}}

External links

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