Derek Bond is a member of the academic staff at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. He is a former Principal Economist in the Northern Ireland Treasury and Director of the ESRC's Northern Ireland Regional Research Laboratory. He has acted as an advisor to many national and international organisations and held honorary office in various international learned societies including: President of the International Statistical Institute's Standing Committee on Regional and Urban Statistics (SCORUS) and Committee member of the International Association for Official Statistics. He is currently: - a member of the Irish National Organising Committee for the 2011 ISI World Congress in Dublin; - Principal investigator on five INTERREG IVB projects: MicrE, SMALLEST, TransTourism, NEES and SECRE .
Articles
Nonlinearity and structural breaks in Irish PPP relationships: an application of random field regression (with Michael J. Harrison and Edward J. O'Brien), Applied Economics (2011)
Using nominal and real exchange rates for Ireland relative to Germany and the UK from...
The role of information and communication technologies in using projective techniques as survey tools to meet the challenges of bounded rationality (with Elaine Ramsey), Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal (2010)
Exploring nonlinearity with random field regression (with Michael J. Harrison and Edward J. O'Brien), Applied Economic Letters (2010)
Random field regression models provide an extremely flexible way to investigate nonlinearity in economic data....
Nonlinearity as an explanation of the forward exchange rate anomaly (with Edward O'Brien and Michael Harrison), Applied Economic Letters (2009)
This article shows that nonlinearity can provide an explanation for the forward exchange rate anomaly...
Nonlinearity and Structural Breaks in Irish PPP Relationships: an application of random field regression (with Michael J. Harrison and Edward J. O'Brien), Applied Economics (2009)
Using nominal and real exchange rates for Ireland relative to Germany and the UK from...
Contributions to Books
An Explanation for Persistence in Share Prices and their Assocaited Returns (with Ken Dyson), Nonlinear Financial Econometrics: Markov Switching Models, Persistence and Nonlinear Cointegration (2011)
Econometric Working Papers
Exploring Long Memory and Nonlinearity in Irish Real Exchange Rates using Tests based on Semiparametric Estimation, UCD CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH WP 09/01 (2009)
Deciding whether a time series that appears nonstationary is in fact fractionally integrated or subject...
Nonlinearity as an Explanation of the Forward Exchange Rate Anomaly (with Michael J. Harrison and Edward J. O'Brien), UCD CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH WORKING PAPER SERIES (2008)
This paper shows that nonlinearity can provide an explanation for the forward exchange rate anomaly...
Exploring nonlinearity with random field regression (with Michael Harrison and Edward Obrien), UCD CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH WORKING PAPER SERIES (2007)
Random field regression models provide an extremely flexible way to investigate nonlinearity in economic data....
Economic Base Multipliers Revisited (with Michael J. Harrison and Edward J. O'Brien), Trinity Economic Working Papers (2007)
This paper takes a fresh look at the estimation of economic base multipliers. It uses...
Purchasing Power Parity: The Irish Experience Revisited (with Michael J. Harrison and Edward J. O'Brien), Trinity Economic Working Papers (2006)
This paper looks at issues surrounding the testing of purchasing power parity using Irish data....
Presentations
Exploring persistence in the forward rate series, Financial Services Research Group (2009)
This presentation reviews the use of tests for non-linearity based on semi-parametric estimates of the...
Modelling Ireland’s exchange rates: from EMS to EMU, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (2007)
‘Going beyond the fence’: Using projective techniques as survey tools to meet the challenges of bounded rationality (with Elaine Ramsey), Association of Survey Computing (2007)
If the concept of bounded rationality is accepted then there is a clear need to...
The neglect of Süßmilch in the English Speaking World, 25 SCORUS Conference on Urban and Regional Research (2006)
GIS and Spatial Statistics: Recent UK experiences and developments., INvited paper ISI Congress (1999)
The uptake and use of GIS in the public sector in the United Kingdom was...
Other Working Papers
Projective Techniques: Are they a Victim of Clashing Paradigms? (with Elaine Ramsey and Clive R. Boddy) (2011)
This paper reviews the concept and historical development of projective techniques. It considers why, given...
Exploring nonlinearity with random field regression (with Michael J. Harrison and O'Brien J. Edward) (2007)
Random field regression models provide an extremely flexible way to investigate nonlinearity in economic data....
Modelling Ireland’s exchange rates: from EMS to EMU (with Michael J. Harrison and Edward J O'Brien) (2007)
This paper attempts to model the nominal and real exchange rate for Ireland, relative to...
Long memory and non-linearity in Stock Markets (with Ken A. Dyson) (2006)
n this paper the long memory and non-linear properties of share prices in the UK’s...
Cross-Regional Equity in Health Care Funding (with Denis Conniffe) (2002)
In Ireland, as in many other countries, much health care provision is State funded and...