Dr Edmund Cannon
Reader in Economics
Contact Details
Tele: +44 (0)117 928 8401Email: Edmund.Cannon@bristol.ac.uk
Office Hours: Monday 2.30 & Friday 2.00
Room: 0B9
Personal Web Page
Teaching Units
ECON20020: Econometrics (QM3)ECON30065: Current Economic Problems
Research Interests
Edmund Cannon's research interests lie broadly in the area of macroeconomics, especially in long-run economic development and pensions. He has done research on productivity, regional growth rates, the role of financial markets, agricultural history and the effect of demographic change. He is a leading economist on the topic of annuities on which topic he has written a book with Ian Tonks (University of Exeter) and is currently working on pensions and the consequences of actuarial projection for annuity pricing.
Recent Publications
For a full list of Edmund Cannon's recent publications please go to his personal web page.
- "The Value and Risk of Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: International Evidence" (with Ian Tonks), Journal of Risk and Insurance forthcoming
- "Comment on Chen and Lin "Does Downloading Power-Point Slides Before the Lecture Lead to Better Student Achievement?", International Review of Economics Education (2011)
- “Compulsory and Voluntary Annuity Markets in the UK” (with Ian Tonks), in Securing Lifelong Retirement Income: Global Annuity Markets and Policy, edited by Olivia S. Mitchell, John Piggott and Noriyuki Takayama (Oxford University Press, 2011), Chapter 10, pp. 171-196.
- "Annuity Markets" (with I Tonks) Oxford University Press (2008)
Current Working Papers
- “Estimation and pricing with the Cairns-Blake-Dowd model of mortality”
- “Stochastic money’s worth of annuities” (with Ian Tonks)