Professor John Cullis
PhD supervision
Interested in supervising:
- Health economics
- Public sector economics
- Economic psychology
Profile
John Cullis spent three years as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Economic Research in the University of York after completing a master's degree at the University of Leeds in 1971. At York he mainly worked with Professor Tony Culyer and the late Professor Jack Wiseman picking up his long standing interest in Public Sector and Human Resource Economics.
Since 1974 he has worked at the University of Bath and over the years has taught an extremely wide variety of economics courses. His particular interest is microeconomics and this he has taught at every level over the years.
His main publications have been in the area of Health Economics and Public Sector Economics, in collaboration with Professor Philip Jones.
Research interests
- Health economics, especially the economic interpretation of waiting lists and the use of cost benefit analysis.
- Public sector economics, especially the 'public choice' approach and its limitations.
- Economic psychology, especially the treatment of topics such as altruism and conformity to social norms and differences between an economic and psychological approach.
Teaching
- ES30033: International Trade (Moodle course - University of Bath users only)
- ES30037: Experimental, Behavioural & Neuro Economics (Moodle course - University of Bath users only)
- ES50054: International Monetary Economics
Publications
Book/s
Cullis, J. G. and Jones, P. R., 2009. Microeconomics: A Journey Through Life's Decisions. Harlow: Pearson.
Cullis, J. G. and Jones, P. R., 2009. Public Finance and Public Choice: Analytical Perspectives. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book Sections
Cullis, J., Jones, P. and Lewis, A., 2010. Tax compliance: social norms, culture and endogeneity. In: Alm, J., Martinez-Vazquez, J. and Torgler, B., eds. Developing Alternative Frameworks for Explaining Tax Compliance. New York: Routledge. (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking)
Cullis, J. G. and Jones, P. R., 2008. How Big should Government be? In: Lewis, A., ed. The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cullis, J., Jones, P. and Lewis, A., 2006. Ethical Investing: Where Are We Now? In: Altman, M., ed. Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Developments. Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe, pp. 602-625.
Cullis, J. G., 2006. Purchasing Power Parity. In: Clark, D. A., ed. The Elgar Companion to Development Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Cullis, J., Jones, P. and Lewis, A., 2006. The Artful and the Artless Dodger: Alternative Perspectives on Ability to Evade Tax. In: Slemrod, J. and McCaffery, E., eds. Behavioral Finance: Towards a New Agenda. University of Michigan: Russell Sage Foundation.
Cullis, J. G., Jones, P. R. and Lewis, A., 2002. A Challenge for Economics. In: Lewis, A., ed. Morals, Markets and Money – the Case of Ethical Investing. Prentice-Hall.
Articles
Soliman, A., Jones, P. and Cullis, J., 2013. Forthcoming. Learning in experiments: Dynamic interaction of policy variables designed to deter tax evasion. Journal of Economic Psychology
Cullis, J., Jones, P. and Soliman, A., 2012. ‘Spite effects’ in tax evasion experiments. Journal of Socio-Economics, 41 (4), pp. 418-423.
Cullis, J., Jones, P. and Savoia, A., 2012. Social norms and tax compliance: framing the decision to pay tax. Journal of Socio-Economics, 41 (2), pp. 159-168.
Cullis, J., Hudson, J. and Jones, P., 2011. A different rationale for redistribution: pursuit of happiness in the European Union. Journal of Happiness Studies, 12 (2), pp. 323-341.
Cullis, J., Hudson, J. and Jones, P., 2011. A Different Rationale for Redistribution: A Reply to Bjornskov. Journal of Happiness Studies, 12 (2), pp. 349-351.
Lewis, A., Carrera, S., Cullis, J. and Jones, P., 2009. Individual, cognitive and cultural differences in tax compliance: UK and Italy compared. Journal of Economic Psychology, 30 (3), pp. 431-445.
Cullis, J. and Jones, P., 2007. 'Politically (In)correct' Targeting: A Public Choice Analysis. Economic Issues, 12 (1), pp. 15-29.
Cullis, J. and Jones, P., 2007. The Welfare Economics of Public Sector Targets: Towards an 'Expenditure Constitution'. Economic Issues, 12 (1), pp. 1-14.
Brown, L. and Cullis, J., 2006. 'Team Production' and Policy for the Care of Older People: Problems with Theory and Evidence. Policy Studies, 27 (1), pp. 55-69.
Cullis, J., Jones, P. and Lewis, A., 2006. Tax framing, instrumentality and individual differences: Are there two different cultures? Journal of Economic Psychology, 27 (2), pp. 304-320.
Cullis, J., 2005. The Ethical Economy and Competitive Markets: Reconciling, Altruistic, Moralistic and Ethical Behaviour with the Rational Economic Agent and Competitive Markets: A Commentary. Journal of Economic Psychology, 26 (5), pp. 762-66.
Jones, P. and Cullis, J., 2003. Key parameters in policy design: The case of intrinsic motivation. Journal of Social Policy, 32, pp. 527-547.
Jones, P. and Cullis, J., 2002. Merit Want Status and Motivation: The Knight Meets the Self-Loving Butcher, Brewer, and Baker. Public Finance Review, 30 (2), pp. 83-101.
Jones, P. and Cullis, J., 1997. In-Kind versus Cash Transfers: Assessing Disbursement. Public Finance Review, 25 (1), pp. 25-43.
Cullis, J. G. and Young, T., 1995. Detecting 'the Unseen Hand in Government': Evidence from UK Budget Shares 1961-81. Applied Economics, 27 (2), pp. 251-258.
Reports/Papers
Cullis, J., Hudson, J. and Jones, P., 2009. A Different Rationale for Redistribution: Pursuit of Happiness in the European Union. Working Paper. Bath, UK: Department of Economics, University of Bath. (Bath Economics Research Working Papers; 10/09)
Cullis, J., Jones, P. and Lewis, A., 2007. Tax Compliance: Social Norms, Culture and Endogeneity. Working Paper. International Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University.
Conference or Workshop Items
Lewis, A., Cullis, J., Jones, P. and Savoia, A., 2006. Taxing cultures. In: Internation Association of Researchers in Economic Psychology (IAREP) Conference, 2008-01-01, Rome.
Cullis, J., Jones, P. and Lewis, A., 2006. The artful and the artless dodger: Responses to the challenge of Instrumental Tax Evasion. In: International Conference on Behavioural Public Finance, 2004-01-01, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
