Bio

Paul Schure is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria. Before joining UVic in 2000, Paul spent one year as a postdoc student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and 4 months as a consultant at the European Investment Bank (1998). He has held visiting positions at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute (2002 and 2005), the University of Bonn (2003), Utrecht University (2008), and the University of Amsterdam (2009). Paul works on financial intermediation, industrial organisation, and European integration. His work has appeared in various international economics and finance journals.

Paul is currently the Secretary/Treasurer of the European Community Studies Association-Canada (ECSA-C) and co-organised the ECSA-C biennial conferences of 2008 and 2010. He was guest co-editor of the 2008 special issue of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics and organiser of the Financial Institutions Summer School, held at the University of Victoria in June 2010.

Publications

Articles Published in Refereed Journals:

• Wagenvoort, Rien and Paul Schure, 1999. Who are Europe's Efficient Bankers? EIB Papers, 4(1), 105-126.
• Schure, Paul, Rien Wagenvoort and Dermot O'Brien, 2004. The Efficiency and the Conduct of European Banks: Developments after 1992, Review of Financial Economics 13 (4), 371-396.
• Schure, Paul, David Scoones, and Qinghua Gu, 2005. A Theory of Loan Syndication, Finance Research Letters, 2(3), 165-172.
• Wagenvoort, Rien and Paul Schure, 2006, A Recursive Thick Frontier Approach to Estimating Production Efficiency, Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics 68(2), 183-201.
• Schure, Paul and Amy Verdun, 2007. States and the Exercise of Power in the New European Union, Current Politics and Economics of Europe, 18-2, 181-202.
• Schmitz, Andrew and Paul Schure, 2008, Agricultural Policies in Transition: Canada, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 56-4, 365-369. (editors’ introduction, non-refereed)
• Schmitz, Andrew, Troy Schmitz, and Paul Schure, 2008, High Commodity Prices and the EU's Single Payment Scheme: Some Consequences of Double-Dipping, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 56-4, 523-531.
• Schure, Paul and Amy Verdun, 2008, Legislative Bargaining in the European Union: The Divide between Large and Small Member States, European Union Politics, 9-4, 459-486. (Lead Article) (The JCR impact factor of EUP is 2.064 in 2008 - 5th of the 99 Polisci journals that Thomson ISI ranked.)

Book chapters:

• Schure, Paul, 2005. Syndicated lending and Competition Policy: A Theoretical Perspective, in A. Bongardt (ed.), Competition Policy in the European Union: Experiences and the Challenges Ahead, Instituto Nacional de Administracao (INA), Oeiras, Portugal, Chapter 9, 103-108.
• Schure, Paul and Amy Verdun, 2007. States and the Exercise of Power in the New European Union, in A. Verdun (ed.), Political and Economic Consequences of Economic and Monetary Union: Taking Stock of the First Eight Years, New York: Nova Publishing, ISBN: 1-60021-908-x, Chapter 3, 57-78. (reprint: originally published as States and the Exercise of Power in the New European Union, Current Politics and Economics of Europe, 18-2, 181-202.)

Courses

ECON 203, Intermediate Microeconomics I

ECON 422, Issues in European Economic Integration

ECON 435, Financial Economics

ECON 454, Theory of Corporate Finance

ECON 529, Economics of Finance

Research Projects

Links

European Community Studies Association-Canada (ECSA-C)

Financial Institutions Summer School