Peter Midmore

Professor of Economics and Director of Research
Photograph of Peter Midmore.

Contact

Email: pxm@aber.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1970 62 2251

Biography

Peter Midmore graduated in Economics and Agricultural Economics from Aberystwyth in 1982, and gained his PhD in Agricultural Economics six years later. He was appointed as Research Associate and then Lecturer in Agricultural Economics, and was appointed to a chair in 1998, initially in Rural Studies, and since 2001 as Professor of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society or Arts and the Higher Education Academy, and a Member of the Institute of Welsh Affairs. He teaches microeconomics and regional economics.

His research interests are in spatial economics, especially relating to natural resources and rural development, and also policy evaluation. As a member of the School’s Centre for Local and Regional Enterprise, he has received funding from a number of sources, including the EU’s Fifth and Sixth Framework programmes. Recently he led a study funded by the Federation of Small Businesses to determine the regional economic impact of the Severn Crossings toll, and on that basis gave evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee on Welsh Affairs. He has carried out advisory and consultancy work for the OECD, Defra, and the Welsh Assembly Government, works with the Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari in Italy, and has a long-standing collaborative relationship with a local economic development initiative (PLANED) in Pembrokeshire. He is currently director of research for the School of Management and Business.

Staff Publications

Recent Publications

 

  • “Public sector size and peripherality”, Spatial Economic Analysis, forthcoming (with Rhydian James and Dennis Thomas).
  • “Agriculture’s inter-industry linkages, aggregation bias and rural policy reforms”, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 63, No. 3, 2012, pp. 552-575 (with Gunnar  Lindberg and Yves Surry).
  •  “The demand for organic and conventional produce in London, UK: a system approach”, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 63, No. 3, 2012, pp.  667-693 (with Vasiliki Fourmouzi and Margarita Genius)
  • “The impact of CAP reform on regional employment: a multi-country, multi-modelling cross-country approach”, Ch 14 in OECD, Disaggregated Impacts of CAP Reforms: Proceedings of an OECD Workshop, Paris, OECD Publishing, pp. 251-264, 2011 (with Konstadinos Mattas, Filippo Arfini, Michael Schmitz and Yves Surry)
  • “Trans-European comparison of motivations and attitudes of occasional consumers of organic products”, NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, Vol. 58, No. 3-4, 2011, pp. 73-78 (with Martine Francois and Mitchell Ness)
  •  “The evaluation of rural development policy: macro and micro perspectives”, EuroChoices, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2010, pp. 24-29, (with Mark Partridge, Rose Olfert and Kamar Ali)
  • “Models of rural development and approaches to analysis evaluation and decision-making”, Économie Rurale, Vol. 307, 2008, pp. 21-38, (with Ian Hodge)

 

Recent Conference Papers and Presentations

 

  • “Formal and Informal Finance in Post-Communist Economies: Empirical Evidence from SME Financing in Uzbekistan”, Eurasia Business and Economics Society, Istanbul, May 2012 (with Kobil Ruziev)
  • “Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches to rural development analysis: the case of agricultural intensification in Lebanon”, Agricultural Economics Society, Warwick, April 2011 (with Kanj Hamade and Giulio Malorgio)
  •  “Evaluating Pillar 2 employment impacts: case study methodology and results for East Wales”, European Association of Agricultural Economists, Ghent, August 2008 (with Lesley Langstaff, Stephen Lowman and Alison Vaughan)
  • “Qualitative evaluation of European rural development policy: evidence from comparative case studies”, European Association of Agricultural Economists, Ghent, August 2008 (with Lesley Langstaff, Stephen Lowman and Alison Vaughan)
  • “Understanding the organic consumer through narratives: an international comparison”, International Society of Organic Agriculture Research, Modena, June 2008 (with Natasha Ayres, Thomas Bøker Lund, Simona Naspetti, Raffaele Zanoli and Katherine O'Doherty Jensen)
  • “Institutions and policy development for organic agriculture in Western Balkan countries: a cross-country analysis”, International Society of Organic Agriculture Research, Modena, Italy, June 2008 (with Kanj Hamade and Patrizia Pugliese)
  • “Landscape conservation and economic interdependence: a case-study of Welsh National Parks and the regional economy”, Agricultural Economics Society, Cirencester, March-April 2008