John Treble is Professor of Economics in the School of Business and Economics at Swansea University. He also holds visiting positions at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), and the University of Arizona. His work has been funded from time to time by the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Council, the British Academy, various government departments in France and Britain, private firms and public sector organisations. His publications are mostly in the field of Labour Economics. He attempts to undertake empirical work which is clearly linked to theoretical models. His work has appeared in British Journal of Industrial Relations, Econometrica, Economic History Review, Economic Journal, Economica, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Economic History, Labour Economics and many other journals.

Current projects include empirical studies of dynamic incentives (using both natural and experimental data) and a model of sports leagues.

He enjoys flying radio-controlled sailplanes, and playing the piano or a self-built harpsichord. (But not at the same time.)

PhD Areas and Topics in Economics

• 'Pay, Technology and the Cost of Worker Absence' Economic Inquiry, v45(2), April 2007 ( with Melvyn Coles, Joseph Lanfranchi and Ali Skalli)
• ‘Luck, effort and reward in an organisational hierarchy’ (with Rick Audas and Tim Barmby) Journal of Labor Economics v22,2,April 2004,379-396.
• ‘Intertemporal Substitution of Effort: Some Empirical Evidence’ Economica 70 (November 2003), 579-595.
• ‘Sickness Absence: An International Comparison’ (with Tim.Barmby and Marco Ercolani) The Economic Journal 112, June 2002, p F1-F17.
• ‘Productivity and Effort: The Labor-supply Decisions of Late Victorian Coalminers’ Journal of Economic History Vol 61, No 2 (June 2001) pp414-438
• ‘The Internal Economics of the Firm: Further Evidence from Personnel Data’ (with Tim Barmby, Sarah Bridges and Edwin van Gameren) Labour Economics 8(2001) 531-552.
• Coles, Lanfranchi, Skalli and Treble: 'Pay, Technology and the Cost of Worker Absence' Economic Inquiry, v45(2), April 2007.