Dr. Eoin Reeves is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Director of the Privatisation and PPP Research Group.  His research interests lie primarily on market-based reforms of the public sector and the regulation of infrastructure.  This includes issues such as privatisation, liberalisation, and different forms of private sector participation in the delivery of public services.  Eoin has published a number of economic studies of such reforms in edited books and international peer-reviewed journals.  These include analysis of the privatisation of state owned enterprises (Annals of Public and Co-operative Economics, Telecommunications Policy), employee share ownership in the context of privatisation (Economic and Industrial Democracy, Employee Relations), contracting out public services (Economic and Social Review), PPP in Schools (Public Administration, Public Money and Management) and PPP in Water Services (Economic and Social Review).  He recently co-authored a book titled Privatisation in Ireland – Lessons from a European Economy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011). 

Eoin has secured a number of grants (IRCHSS, Erasmus Mundus and UL Seed Funding) to fund different research projects and he has advised a number of local authorities, trade unions, and other public agencies (e.g. Forfas, Dail Committee on Environment) on issues relevant to his research expertise.  Eoin served as Assistant Dean, Research in the Kemmy Business School (1999-2003) and is now Course Director of the M.Sc. in Economic Analysis.

Selected publications:
Palcic, D. and E. Reeves (2011) Privatisation in Ireland: Lessons from a European Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9780230248922.
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Reeves, E. (2011) "The Only Game in Town: Public Private Partnerships in the Irish Water Services Sector", The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 95-111.
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McCarthy, D., E. Reeves and T. Turner (2010) "The impact of Privatisation and Employee Share-Ownership on Employee Commitment and Citizen Behaviour",Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 307-326.
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Reeves, E. (2008) "The Practice of Contracting in Public Private Partnerships: Transaction Costs and Relational Contracting in the Irish Schools Sector", Public Administration, Vol. 86, No. 3, pp. 969-986.
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