Patrick A. McNutt. Ba mphil dphil

Patrick A. McNutt. BA MPhil DPhil

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Personal
Irish Citizen. Date of Birth: August 12^th 1957..

Contact Email: [e-mail] and Web Page: www.patrickmcnutt.com.
Qualifications
BA University College Dublin: 1975-1978.

MPhil, Oxford University: 1980-1982. DPhil, University of Ulster: 1990-1992.

Current Positions

(Since October 2003): Consultant: Competition Policy & Antitrust and Executive Training & Strategy Adviser, and t/a Patrick McNutt & Associates, Dublin, Ireland.

(Since October 2004): Visiting Fellow, Manchester Business School, UK. www.mbs-worldwide.ac.uk.

Private Client Consultancy

Client confidentiality prevents the naming of clients but please visit my web page for a complete list of specific consultancy work. The consultancy covers the areas of litigation support, antitrust inquiry and merger analysis, strategic advice to national competition agencies and executive training.

Career Track Appointments

1978-1980: Research Assistant, Economic & Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland.

1982-1983: Temporary Lecturer, Department of Economics, University College Galway, Ireland.
1983-1990: Junior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University College Galway, Ireland.
1990-1994: Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University College Galway, Ireland.
1994-1996: Full Professor of Political Economy, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1996-2000: Full-time Executive Chairman, Competition Authority, Dublin, Ireland.
2000-2003: Director & Partner, Indecon London Economics Consultancy Group, Dublin and London.
2001-2004: Consultant Part-Time Executive Chairman, Jersey Competition & Regulatory Authority, Channel Islands, UK.

Visiting Appointments

1985-1992: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Business Studies, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

1987: Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Commerce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
1988-1989: Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Georgetown University, Washington DC. US.
1998-2000: Research Associate, Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Since 2001: Visiting Professor, School of Accountancy, Banking & Economics, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales.

Other Affiliations & Honours

1992-1994: Chairman of Social Sciences Research Centre, University College Galway, Ireland.

1992: European Expert, World Bank/ECLAC Study Team: Privatisation of Utilities in the Economy of Uruguay.
1991-1994: Founding Director, Centre for Research in Economics and Law, University College Galway, Ireland, 1991-1994 & University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1994-1996.
1995: Annual Inaugural Professorial Lecture, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1994-1996: Elected Member of the Senate of the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.
1997: Inaugural Address as the newly appointed Chairman of Competition Authority, Dublin, Ireland.
1995-1998: Appointed Member, National Committee for Economics & Social Sciences, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland.
1995-1998: Elected Member, Committee of the European Public Choice Society.
1997-1999: Nominated Rapporteur of the Competition Directorate’s Advisory Committee on Merger Cases, European Commission, Brussels.

Other Affiliations & Honours (con’t)

1999: Delivered Plenary Lecture to Symposium on Modernisation and Decentralisation of EC Competition Law, University College, London, Faculty of Law.

2000: Delivered Plenary Lecture to International Conference on Competition Law and Policy, Rosebank, Johannesburg, RSA.
2001: Delivered Inaugural Memorial Playfair Lecture, Jamaican Fair Trade Commission & Jamaican Judiciary, Kingston, Jamaica.
2002: Inaugural Address as the newly appointed Chairman of the Jersey Competition & Regulatory Authority, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK.

Books

1986: (With Michael Keane): Understanding Economic Issues Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, Ireland. ISBN 0 906980 58 6.

1992: (With Maeve Doherty): Competition Policy & the 1991 Irish Competition Act

Social Sciences Research Centre, University College Galway, Ireland. ISBN 0 903299054.

1994: Perspectives on Competition Policy Issues: Ireland & the EU Centre for Research in Economics & Law/University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland. ISBN 0 9523833 0 6.
1996: The Economics of Public Choice Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 1 85278 514 4. [Reprinted 1997, 1999]
2002: The Economics of Public Choice II Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 1 84376 066 5
2005: Law, Economics & Antitrust Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 1 85898 785 7.
2007: (forthcoming): Handbook on Law, Economics & Antitrust Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.

Editorial Advisory Boards

International Journal of Social Economics

World Competition

Guest Editor of Special Issues in Journals
Journal: European Business Review.

Special Issue vol 96 no 5 1996

Issue Entitled: A Political Economy Perspective on European Integration

Guest Editor (con’t)
Journal: International Journal of Social Economics
Special Issue vol 23 no 12 1996.
Issue Entitled: Aspects of the Socio-Economy of Northern Ireland: Government & Governance in Northern Ireland.

Publications: Referred Articles

1987: ‘Ethical, Political and Economic Dimensions of an Ideal Society’ International Journal of Social Economics vol 14 no 2 pp53-60.

1987: ‘Anthropology, Economics and the Socio-Economy’ The Arab Journal of the Social Sciences vol 2 no 1 pp155-161
1988: ‘A Note on Altruism’ International Journal of Social Economics vol 15 no 9 pp62-64.
1991: ‘A Note on Club Theory As Applied to Community and Rural Development’ Community Development Journal vol 27 1 pp75-80. Reprinted as ‘Club Theory and Rural Development’ in Journal of Rural Development, vol 10 no 2 pp 231-237 1991.
1992: ‘Mapping-Fairness: The Adaptation of the Schroeder-Bernstein Theorem to Economic Theory’ Pure Mathematics & Applications vol 3 pp 175-185
1992: ‘Political Economy or Political economy: An Illustrative Guide to the Meaning of Political Economy Using Venn Diagrams’ Methodus/Journal of Economic Methodology vol 4 1 pp26-29
1993: ‘The 1991 Irish Competition Act: Lessons from US Antitrust’ Irish Business and Administrative Review vol 14 no 2 June, pp84-91.
1993: ‘Rent-Seeking & X-Inefficiency’ Public Choice vol 74 no 4 pp371-378
1993: ‘A Note on Calculating the Condorcet Probabilities’ Public Choice vol 74 no 4 pp357-361.
1993: ‘The Samaritan's Dilemma’ International Journal of Social Economics Vol 20

no 1 pp51-63

Publications: Referred Articles (con’t)
1995: ‘Economic Cooperation: Conduit or Catalyst’ International Journal of Social Economics vol 22 pp5 5-68 [with Michael Smyth]
1996: ‘Aspects of Government & Governance in Northern Ireland’ International Journal of Social Economics vol 23 no 12 pp7-14,
1996: ‘The Anarchy of Legitimacy’ International Journal of Social Economics vol 23 no 12 pp75-81.
1996: ‘The Essence of Global Political Economy' European Business Review vol 96 no 5 pp4-13
1997: ‘Rent-Seeking and Political Tenure: First Estimates’ Public Choice vol 92 no 3-4 pp369-385
1998: ‘Economic Power in Developing Economies’ International Journal of Development Planning Literature, vol 13, no 3, pp 275-283 [with Patrick Kenny].
2000: ‘The Landscape of Efficient Competition Law’ Irish Journal of European Law, vol 2000, Summer, pp35-49.

2001: ‘The Relevant Firm in European Merger Law: Spillover Effects & Control’, World Competition, vol 24 no 2 March, pp199-210.

2001: ‘Internet & The Competitiveness Challenge’ Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, vol 13 October, pp107-117

2002: ‘Irish Retail Banks and the Competitiveness Challenge’ Irish Banking Review, Summer Vol 2002, pp2-13
2003: ‘Taxonomy of Non-Market Economics for European Competition Policy’ World Competition vol 26, no 2 July, pp303-332.
2004: ‘Code of Ethics and Employee Governance’ International Journal of Social Economics vol 32 no 8 pp656-666 [with Charlie Batho].

Publications: Chapters in Books

1992: ‘Economic Issues in Competition Policy’ in Doherty & McNutt [ed]: Competition Policy and the 1991 Irish Competition Act Social Sciences Research Centre, University College Galway, Ireland.

1994: ‘Economic Law and Competition Policy in Ireland’ in Norton [ed]: Economics for an Open Economy Oaktree Press, Dublin, Ireland.
1994: ‘Economic Reasoning Behind US Antitrust’ [with Mark Moran] in McNutt [ed]: Perspectives on Competition Policy Issues: Ireland and the EU, Centre for Research in Economics & Law/University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Publications: Chapters in Books (con’t)

1994: ‘Pan-European Dimension to Competition Policy’ in McNutt [ed]: Perspectives on Competition Policy Issues: Ireland and the EU,, Centre for Research in Economics & Law/University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1995: ‘Legal Factors Affecting Enterprise: Ownership and the s-firm’ in Burke [ed]: Enterprise and the Irish Economy Oaktree Press, Dublin
1996: ‘Economic Strategies for Sustainable Tourism: The Case of Tenerife’ [with Juan Rodriguez] in Briguglio [ed]: Sustainable Tourism in Islands & Small States. Cassell Pinter, UK
1998: 'Legal Barriers to Entry & Compensation’ in McGee [ed] Commentaries on Law and Economics. Dumont Institute for Public Policy Research & Legal Scholarship Network, Seton Hall, US.
1999: 'Public Goods & Club Goods’ in Bouckaert & deGeest [ed] Encyclopedia of Law and Economics Edward Elgar Publishers, UK & University of Ghent, Belgium.
2000: ‘The Appraisal of Vertical Agreements’ in Rivas and Horspool [ed] Modernisation and Decentralisation of EC Competition Law Kluwer Law International European Business Law & Practice Series vol 16.
Publications: Monographs & Working Papers
1994: The Private Equilibrium of an Intoxicated Tortfeasor

Working Paper WP 01/94 Centre for Research in Economics & Law, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1995: Median Voter Theorem and Multi-Issue Political Agenda: A New Theory of Inter-Party Competition [with Vani.K. Borooah]

Working Paper WP 05/95 Centre for Research in Economics & Law, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1996: Contracts, Agency Costs & Procurement

Working Paper WP 05/96 Centre for Research in Economics & Law, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland

1998: The Market for Taxis in Dublin [with Patrick Kenny]

Discussion Paper No 5 1998, Competition Authority, Dublin, Ireland.

1999: Parallel Trade in the EU [with Patrick Kenny]

Discussion Paper No 8 1999, Competition Authority, Dublin, Ireland.

2001: Competition in Regulated Markets

Discussion Paper No 1 2001, Jersey Competition & Regulatory Authority, UK.

Publications: E-Books & Commentaries

For update on the electronic publication of e-books please visit my web page at www.patrickmcnutt.com under ‘New Book Ventures’ and ‘Lectures On Line’.

1998: Reply to the paper ‘Standards of Competition in the Irish Economy’ by Fingleton, J, Journal of the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, vol XXVII, Part IV, pp125-127.
1999: ‘The Essence of Competition Policy’ Economic Review vol 16 no 3 pp2-4 [with Patrick Kenny].
2000: ‘Where’s the Beef? An Oligopsony Problem in Competition Law’ Competition Press, vol 9 Edition 3.
2001: ‘Judgement Day for Barristers on Competition Advocacy’ The Barrister Issue No 8 April.
2002: ‘Judgement Day as Businesses Become Suspects’ Public Affairs Ireland, Inaugural Issue no 1 October.
2005: ‘Emperor’s New Clothes: A Single National Prices Commission?’ Public Affairs Ireland, December 2005.
Lecture Courses & Executive Training Courses:
Since 1982, I have developed courses in a range of subject areas. The format has included lecture theatres and small in-house corporate high-level training. The range of topics include the following:
Graduate Courses:
Microeconomics, Industrial Organisation, Competition Policy (European and global), US Antitrust Law & Economics, Managerial Economics, Economics of Welfare, Public Choice, Bureaucracy, Theory of Voting & Democracy.
Management Courses:
Game Theory for Business, Strategic Pricing, Competitive Impact Analysis, Competition Compliance, Governance & Ethics, Law and Economics of Competition Policy & Antitrust and Business Applications in Third World Economies.

Referee for the following Peer Journals

European Journal of Political Economy, Public Choice, European Journal of Law and Economics, American Economic Review, European Business Review, International Journal of Social Economics, World Competition

Teaching & Research Interests
Law & Economics of Antitrust & Competition Policy.
Strategic Analysis & Firm Behaviour.
Law & Economics of Contracting & Torts.
Political Economy of Government, Economy & Elections.

Professional Affiliations & Membership

Antitrust Institute, European Association of Law & Economics, International Bar Association, European Public Choice Society, American Association of Law & Economics, Irish Economics Association, American Economics Association, National Geographic Society, The Literati Club.