Lecturer in Economics
University of Westminster, London
Affiliated Researcher
University of Cambridge, Bennett Institute
I am a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Westminster. My research interests lie in Applied Economics, with topics including foreign direct investment, economic growth/productivity, and the mobility of scientists. Before joining the University of Westminster, I worked at the University of Cambridge. I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2019.
My research has focused on foreign acquisition, knowledge spillovers, firm-level productivity (including productivity measurement/TFP/Markups, and estimation frameworks), and the mobility of international scientists.
New! My latest working papers
Heterogeneous Foreign Acquisition Effects on Firm Productivity (slides here: slides)
Recent Trends in Firm-Level Total Factor Productivity in the United Kingdom: New Measures, New Puzzles (slides here: slides)
Recent Trends in Firm-Level Markups in the United Kingdom 2008-2019 (slides here: slides)
ACADEMIC POSITION
Lecturer in Economics, University of Westminster, Westminster Business School (UK)
Affiliated Researcher, Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge (UK)
Research Member of Productivity Institute, University of Manchester (UK)
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE SINCE PhD
Research Associate, Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge (UK)
[2021 - 2023 Aug]
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Galway (Ireland)
[2019 - 2021 Aug]
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Recent Trends in Firm-Level Total Factor Productivity in the United Kingdom: New Measures, New Puzzles. 2024, Economica (ABS3) https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12541 TPI WP Bennett WP series
Diagnosing the UK Productivity Slowdown: Which Sectors Matter and Why? 2023 Economica (ABS3) https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12459
Stars as Catalysts: An Event-Study Analysis of the Impact of Star-Scientist Recruitment on Local Research Performance in a Small Open Economy, 2022 Journal of Economic Geography (ABS4) academic.oup.com/joeg/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jeg/lbac016/6606125?searchresult=1
Embodied and Disembodied FDI Spillovers and Distance from the Educational Frontier. 2023 Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade (ABS2) link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10842-023-00397-z
Refining vertical productivity spillovers from FDI: Evidence from 32 economies. 2021 International Review of Economics & Finance (ABS2) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4076275
Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Capacity: Theory and Evidence. 2023 Economics of Transition (ABS2) https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12369
Core Product Competence and Productivity Gains: The Role of Foreign Ownership. 2023 International Review of Applied Economics (ABS1) doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2023.2210513
Gender, Firm Performance, and FDI supply-purchase Spillovers in Emerging Markets. 2023 International Economics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inteco.2023.06.002
REVISE & RESUBMIT
Recent Trends in Firm-Level Total Factor Productivity in the United Kingdom: New Measures, New Puzzles Economica [Forthcoming]
WORKING PAPERS/UNDER REVIEW
Relative Price effects and UK Labour Productivity Growth - under review Bennett WP series
Heterogeneous Foreign Acquisition Effects on Firm Productivity - under review working paper
Estimating Star Arrival Effects When Intensity of Treatment Varies with Relatedness to the Star - under review SSRN
Recent Trends in Firm-Level Markups in the United Kingdom 2008-2019.
Disentangling TFP and Markups: The Impact of Price Variations on Firm Efficiency
The Intensity of Foreign Acquisition
The productivity potential framework for the MENA economies.
LEADING RESEARCH PROJECT
UK Sectoral Labour Productivity Growth, funded by Office of National Statistics (G116679/ONS2014988) and Gatsby Foundation
POLICY BRIEF COLUMNS
Gender, firm performance, and FDI supply-purchase spillovers in emerging markets
Diagnosing the UK productivity slowdown: Which sectors matter and why?
[click here; 2021] [click here; 2023]
Recent trends in Total Factor Productivity in the UK: new measures, new puzzles
The Growth Effects of Foreign Direct Investment
WORKING PAPER SLIDES
Recent Trends in Firm-Level Total Factor Productivity in the United Kingdom: New measures, New Puzzles
[click here for the latest version 2023, presented at the SOES, Westminster, 2023]
[click here for Manchester Productivity Institute Brown Bag Seminar 2022]