Staff Profile:

Name:

Professor Geoff Meen

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

• Applied econometrics
• Economic analysis of housing markets at different spatial levels from the national to the local
• The economics of segregation and deprivation.

Research groups / Centres:

• Centre for Spatial and Real Estate Economics (CSpREE)
• International Centre for Housing and Urban Economics (ICHUE)

Publications:

Journal Articles

• Andrew M, Meen G. (2006), "Population Structure and Location Choice: A Study of London and South East England", Papers in Regional Science, 85(3): 401-419.
• Meen G, (2005), "On the Economics of the Barker Review of Housing Supply", Housing Studies 20(6): 949-971.
• Meen G, Andrew M (2004), "On the Use of Policy to Reduce Housing Market Segmentation", Regional Science and Urban Economics 34: 727-751.
• Andrew M, Meen G (2003), "House Price Appreciation, Transactions and Structural Change in the British Housing Market: A Macroeconomic Perspective" (2003). Real Estate Economics 31(1): 99-116.
• Andrew M, Meen G (2003) "Housing Transactions and the Changing Decisions of Young Households in Britain: The Microeconomic Evidence" (2003). Real Estate Economics 31(1): 117-137.
• Meen D, Meen G (2003), "Social Behaviour as a Basis for Modelling the Urban Housing Market: A Review" Urban Studies 40(5-6): 917-935.
• Meen G (2002), "On the Long-Run Relationship Between Industrial Construction and Housing" Journal of Property Research. 19(3): 191-211.
• Meen G (2002), "The Time-Series Properties of House Prices: A Transatlantic Divide?" Journal of Housing Economics. 11: 1-23.
• Meen G (2000) "Housing Cycles and Efficiency"?, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 47(2): 114-140.
• Meen G (1999) "Regional House Prices and the Ripple Effect: A New Interpretation", Housing Studies 14(6): 733-753.
• Meen G, Andrew M (1998) "On the Aggregate Housing Market Implications of Labour Market Change", Scottish Journal of Political Economy .45(4): 393-419.
• Meen G (1998) "Modelling Sustainable Home-Ownership: Demographics or Economics", Urban Studies, 35(11): 1919-34.
• Crampton G, Evans A, Meen G (1996) "Determinants of Journeys to Work in Central London", 1954-93, Papers in Regional Science, 75(4): 1-22.
• Meen G (1996) "Spatial Aggregation, Spatial Dependence and Predictability in the UK Housing Market", Housing Studies, 11(3): 345-372.
• Meen G (1996) "Ten Propositions in UK Housing Macroeconomics: An Overview of the Eighties and Early Nineties", Urban Studies, 33(3): 425-444.
• Meen G (1995) "Is Housing Good for the Economy?", Housing Studies, 10(3): 405-424.
• Meen G (1990) "The Removal of Mortgage Market Constraints and the Implications for Econometric Modelling of UK House Prices". Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 52(1): 1-24.
• Meen G (1990) "The Measurement of Rationing and the Treatment of Structural Change in the UK Mortgage Market", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 5(2): 167-188.
• Meen G (1989) "The Ending of Mortgage Rationing and its Effects on the Housing Market: A Simulation Study", Urban Studies, 26: 240-52.

Research Books

• Meen G (2001), Modelling Spatial Housing Markets: Theory, Analysis and Policy. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-7307-3.

Research Reports

• Meen G, Gibb K, Goody J, McGrath T, Mackinnon J (2005), Economic Segregation in Britain: Causes, Consequences and Policy. The Policy Press. Bristol. ISBN 1 86134 813 4.
• Meen G (and others) (2005). Affordability: Implications for Housing Supply (plus Technical Appendix). ODPM. London. ISBN: 1851127992.
• Andrew M, Evans A, Koundouri P, Meen G (2003), Residential Stamp Duty: Time for a Change. CML. London. ISBN 187242399X.
• Meen G, Andrew M (1998) Modelling Regional House Prices: A Review of the Literature, prepared for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, ISBN 0 7049 1305 4.
• Maclennan D, Gibb K, Meen G, Stephens M (1997) Fixed Commitments, Uncertain Incomes: Sustainable Owner-Occupation and the Economy, Joseph Rowntree Foundation ISBN 1 85935 039 9.

Chapters in Books

• Meen G, Andrew M (2004), "The Role of Housing in City Economic Performance" in M Boddy and M Parkinson (eds) City Matters. The Policy Press. Bristol. Pages 199-216.
• Meen G (2003), "UK Housing Markets and Monetary Union" in Submissions on EMU From Leading Academics. HM Treasury. London. Pages 165-170.
• Meen G (2002), "Housing, Random Walks, Complexity and the Macroeconomy". In T. O'Sullivan and K Gibb (eds.) Housing Economics and Public Policy Blackwell Publishing. Pages 90-109.

Qualifications:

BA (Economics), University of Reading 1973, MSc (Economics), University of London 1978, PhD (Economics), University of London 1986.

Affiliations:

• UK Director of the International Centre for Housing and Urban Economics
• Awarded an OBE in the 2007 New Years Honours List for Services to Social Housing
• Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2007.