Dermot Hodson is Lecturer in Political Economy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He previously worked as an economist at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, where he worked on issues relating to Economic and Monetary Union and the governance of the euro area. He has taught at the London School of Economics, London South Bank University and London Metropolitan University.
Member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Committee; Forum Editor for the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Political Economy Interest Section.
PhD in European Political Economy, London School of Economics and Political Science; Received UACES prize for the best PhD thesis, 2005;
Masters in European Economic Studies, College of Europe, Bruges (promotion Leonardo da Vinci); B.A. in Economics and Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin.
Research interests include: Economic and Monetary Union; the Stability and Growth Pact; economic policy coordination; and the political economy of new modes of EU economic governance.
Publications include:
‘The Broad Economic Policy Guidelines: Before and After the Re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy’ (with Servaas Deroose and Joost Kuhlmann), Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 46(4): 827–848.
‘The legitimation of EMU: Lessons from the early years of the euro’, (with Servaas Deroose and Joost Kuhlmann), Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 14(5): 800 – 819, 2007.
Adjusting to EMU, (with Brian Ardy, Iain Begg, Imelda Maher and David Mayes), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 2006.
‘Soft Sanctions and the Reform of the Stability and Growth Pact’, (with Imelda Maher), Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 11(5): 798-813, 2004.
‘Macroeconomic Coordination under EMU: The Scope and Limits of the Open Method’, Journal of European Public Policy, Volume 11(2): 231-248, 2004.
‘The Exchange Rate as an Adjustment Mechanism: A Structural VAR Approach to the Case of Ireland’, The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 34(2): 151-172, 2003.
‘EMU: Balancing Credibility and Legitimacy in an Asymmetric Policy Mix’, (with Imelda Maher), Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 9(3): 391-407, 2002.
‘The Open Method of Coordination as a New Mode of Governance: The Case of Soft Economic Policy Coordination’, (with Imelda Maher), Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 39(4): 719-46, 2001.