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Overview

David Parker is affiliated with Cranfield University in the United Kingdom and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of finance, geography, planning and development, and economics and econometrics.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to property, real estate, and social support systems. Notable works include:

  • The future of property education in Australia, 2020, Journal of Property Investment and Finance
  • Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises, 2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management
  • Real Estate Insights: Compensation for compulsory acquisition - value vs worth, 2024, Journal of Property Investment and Finance
  • Real Estate Insights: Valuations for indigenous cultural loss compensation following compulsory acquisition, 2025, Journal of Property Investment and Finance
  • The Role of Nursing in Reducing Health Inequalities for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs: Towards Sustainable, Safe, and Needs-Based Support, 2025, Open Journal of Nursing

The research topics most frequently addressed in their work include:

  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Housing Market and Economics

David Parker has published multiple articles in the following venues:

  • Journal of Property Investment and Finance
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management
  • Open Journal of Nursing

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as George Taylor and Crispin Hoult.

Best Publications

  • The regional distribution of foreign direct investment in China

    Yingqi Wei;Xiaming Liu;David Parker;Kirit Vaidya

  • Productivity and Price Performance in the Privatized Water and Sewerage Companies of England and Wales

    David S. Saal;David Parker

  • The Impact of Regulation on Economic Growth in Developing Countries: A Cross-Country Analysis

    Hossein Jalilian;Colin Kirkpatrick;David Parker;David Parker

  • Electricity sector reform in developing countries: an econometric assessment of the effects of privatisation, competition and regulation

    Yin Fang Zhang;David Parker;Colin Kirkpatrick

  • Determining the contribution of technical change, efficiency change and scale change to productivity growth in the privatized English and Welsh water and sewerage industry: 1985–2000

    David S. Saal;David Parker;Thomas Weyman-Jones

  • Transaction costs, relational contracting and public private partnerships: a case study of UK defence

    David Parker;Keith Hartley

  • Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers in the Chinese manufacturing sector

    Xiaoying Li;Xiaming Liu;David Parker

  • The impact of privatization and regulation on the water and sewerage industry in England and Wales: a translog cost function model

    David S Saal;David Parker

  • Privatisation in Developing Countries: A Review of the Evidence and the Policy Lessons

    David Parker;Colin Kirkpatrick

  • An Empirical Analysis of State and Private-Sector Provision of Water Services in Africa.

    Colin Kirkpatrick;David Parker;Yin Fang Zhang

  • The impact of foreign direct investment on labour productivity in the Chinese electronics industry

    Xiaming Liu;David Parker;Kirit G. Vaidya;Yingqi Wei

  • The economics of partnership sourcing versus adversarial competition: a critique

    David Parker;Keith Hartley

  • Foreign Direct Investment in Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Does Regulation Make a Difference?

    Colin Kirkpatrick;David Parker;Yin-Fang Zhang

  • Strategic groups, competitive groups and performance within the U.K. pharmaceutical industry: Improving our understanding of the competitive process

    Graham Leask;David Parker

  • Competition, regulation and privatisation of electricity generation in developing countries: does the sequencing of the reforms matter?

    Yinfang Zhang;David Parker;David Parker;Colin Kirkpatrick

  • The UK's Privatisation Experiment: The Passage of Time Permits a Sober Assessment

    David Parker

  • Regulatory impact assessment and regulatory governance in developing countries

    Colin Kirkpatrick;David Parker

  • Regulatory Impact Assessment

    Colin Kirkpatrick;David Parker

  • Leading Issues in Competition, Regulation and Development

    Paul Cook;Colin Kirkpatrick;Martin Minogue;David Parker

  • International Valuation Standards: A Guide to the Valuation of Real Property Assets

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  • ORGANIZATIONAL STATUS AND PERFORMANCE: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR TESTING PUBLIC CHOICE THEORIES

    Andrew Dunsire;Keith Hartley;David Parker;Basil Dimitriou

  • Can democracy survive global capitalism?

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Frequent Co-Authors

Colin Kirkpatrick
Colin Kirkpatrick University of Manchester
Graeme Newell
Graeme Newell Western Sydney University
Anne B. Young
Anne B. Young Harvard University
Shantayanan Devarajan
Shantayanan Devarajan Georgetown University
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Elisabeth Sadoulet University of California, Berkeley
David E. Sahn
David E. Sahn Cornell University
Peter F. Orazem
Peter F. Orazem Iowa State University
Hans Gersbach
Hans Gersbach ETH Zurich
Theresa M. Marteau
Theresa M. Marteau University of Cambridge
Alain de Janvry
Alain de Janvry University of California, Berkeley

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