John Driffill is a professor of economics at Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...

, specialising in international macroeconomics and labour economics

Labour economics

Labor economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the market for labor. Labor markets function through the interaction of workers and employers...

. He is the creator of the Calmfors-Driffill hypothesis

Calmfors-Driffill hypothesis

The Calmfors–Driffill hypothesis is a macroeconomic theory in labour economics that states that there is a non-linear relationship between the degree of collective bargaining in an economy and the level of unemployment...

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Driffill received his MA from Cambridge University and his PhD from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

. From 1976 to 1989 he lectured at Southampton University. Appointed professor at Queen Mary and Westfield College

Queen Mary, University of London

Queen Mary, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

in 1990, he returned to Southampton University as Professor in 1992, and became Professor at Birkbeck in 1999.

He is ranked top 5% author on the website IDEAS on several definitions of citations, and the Wu index.

Works

• Costs of inflation, 1988
• The term structure of interest rates : structural stability and macroeconomic policy changes in the UK, 1990
• Real interest rates, nominal shocks, and real shocks, 1997
• No credit for transition : the Maastricht treaty and German unemployment, 1998
• Product market integration and wages : evidence from a cross-section of manufacturing establishments in the United Kingdom, 1998
• Delegation of monetary policy : more than a relocation of the time-inconsistency problem, 2003
• Monetary policy and lexicographic preference ordering, 2004