Professor Andrew Henley

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Development
BA (Nottingham), MA, PhD (Warwick) Photograph of Professor Andrew Henley.

Contact

Email: a.g.henley@aber.ac.uk
Office: F4, Cledwyn Building
Phone: 44 (0) 1970 622511

Biography

Professor Henley is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Development. He rejoined the faculty of the School in 2012, after eight years at Swansea University, where he was Professor and Head of the School of Business and Economics, and Director of the LEAD Wales programme supporting entrepreneurs in leadership development. His research interests cover small business growth and business optimism, self-employment choice and entrepreneurial intentions, informal entrepreneurial activity, as well as regional labour markets and the economic impact of housing market activity. His research focuses extensively on the analysis of individual longitudinal data. He also writes on economics and business ethics.


Professor Henley is a Research Fellow of the IZA Institute for Labor, Berlin (www.iza.org/profile?key=3168). He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of Understanding Society, the UK household longitudinal survey, and was previously a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the British Household Panel Survey. In 2012 he was appointed to the Methods and Infrastructure Committee of the UK Economic and Social Research Council. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Between 2002 and 2012 he served as an appointed member of the Welsh Government’s Economic Research Advisory Panel, advising the First Minister of Wales on economic research. He is also a member of the Welsh Government’s Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Action Plan Panel. Between 2006 and 2009 he was a council member/director of the Wales Management Council.

He was previously professor of economics at Aberystwyth University between 1996 and 2004, and lecturer/senior lecturer in economics at the University of Kent between 1986 and 1995.

 

Staff Publications

Refereed journal articles

  • “Gender, risk and venture creation intentions”, Journal of Small Business Management (forthcoming) (with Chris Dawson).
  • Over-optimism and entry and exit from self-employment, International Small Business Journal (forthcoming) (with Chris Dawson) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266242612445462]
  • Individual motives for choosing self-employment in the UK: does region matter? Regional Studies (forthcoming) (with Chris Dawson and Paul Latreille) [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2012.697140]
  • Something will turn up? Financial over-optimism and mortgage arrears, Economic Letters (November 2012) (with Chris Dawson) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.04.063]
  • “Push” versus “pull” entrepreneurship: an ambiguous distinction?, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research 18(6) (2012) (with Chris Dawson) [http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1355-2554&volume=18&issue=6&articleid=17047949&show=abstract]
  • An initial assessment of an intervention to raise leadership effectiveness amongst SME owner-managers in Wales International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 12(4): 221-233  (November 2011) (with Heather Norbury) DOI: [http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/ijei.2011.0048]
  • House price shocks, negative equity and household consumption in the UK, Journal of the European Economic Association 8(6):1179-1207 (December 2010). (with Richard Disney and John Gathergood)http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1542-4774.2010.tb00552.x/abstract
  • On defining and measuring the informal sector: evidence from Brazil, World Development 37(5):992-1003 (May 2009) (with G.R. Arabsheibani and F.G. Carneiro) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.09.011]
  • Entrepreneurial aspiration and transition into self-employment: evidence from British longitudinal data, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 19(3): 253-280 (May 2007) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08985620701223080]
  • Entrepreneurship and rural economic development: a scenario analysis approach, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research 12(5): 289-305 (October 2006) (with N. Fuller-Love, P. Midmore and D. Thomas) [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13552550610687655]
  • Changes in human capital and earnings inequality: recent evidence from Brazil, Journal of Development Studies 42(5): 837-867 (July 2006) (with G.R. Arabsheibani and F.G. Carneiro[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220380600742084]
  • Scenario analysis and regional economic development: the case of mid Wales, European Urban and Regional Studies 13(2): 143-150 (April 2006) (with N. Fuller-Love P. Midmore and D. Thomas). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776406062523]
  • On regional growth convergence in Great Britain, Regional Studies, 39(9): 1245-60 (December 2005) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343400500390123]
  • Job creation by the self-employed: the roles of entrepreneurial and financial capital, Small Business Economics 25(2): 175-196 (2005). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11187-004-6480-1]
  • Earnings and Linguistic Proficiency in a Bilingual Economy, The Manchester School 73(3): 300-320, (June 2005) (with Rhian Eleri Jones) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9957.2005.00448.x]
  • House price shocks, windfall gains and hours of work: British evidence for the 1990s, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 66(4): 439-456 (September 2004). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.14680084.2004.00088.x]
  • Self-employment status: The role of state dependence and initial conditions, Small Business Economics 22(1): 67-82 (February 2004). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:SBEJ.0000011573.84746.04
  • Industry-wide versus firm-specific uncertainty and investment: British company panel data evidence, Economics Letters 78: 87-92 (January 2003) (with Alan Carruth and Andy Dickerson). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00169-6]
  • Pot of gold or winner’s curse? An event study of the auctions of 3G mobile telephone licences in the UK, Fiscal Studies, 23(4): 447-462 (December 2002) (with John Cable and Kevin Holland).
  • Housing costs, house price shocks and savings behaviour among older households in Britain, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 32(5): 607-625 (September 2002) (with Richard Disney and Gary Stears). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-0462(01)00086-2]
  • Public service employment and the public-private wage differential in British regions, Regional Studies 35(3): 229-240 (May 2001) (with Dennis Thomas).[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343400120039632]