*Assistant Professor in Digital Economy
*Queen Mary University of London
*Affiliated Researcher
*University of Cambridge, Bennett Institute
*Research Member
*University of Manchester, Productivity Institute
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ABOUT ME
I am an Assistant Professor in Digital Economy at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, and an affiliated researcher at the Bennett School for Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
My research interests lie in applied economics, with a focus on foreign direct investment, economic growth, productivity, and the mobility of international scientists. In particular, I study firm-level total factor productivity (TFP) and markup measurement.
Before joining Queen Mary, I worked at the Westminster Business School (2023-2025), the University of Cambridge (2021–2023), and the National University of Ireland Galway (2019–2021). I completed my PhD in Economics at the University of Sheffield in 2019 and an MSc in Economics at the University of Manchester in 2015.
REVISE & RESUBMIT
Unveiling Productivity and Markup Bias: The Role of Price Heterogeneity, Oxford Economic Papers, R1
The Role of Relative Prices in the UK's Aggregate Labour Productivity, Macroeconomic Dynamics, R1
WORKING PAPER
Heterogeneous Capital and the Productivity of UK Manufacturing Firms (Working Paper No. 067, The Productivity Institute.)
SELECTED WORKS
Converging to Mediocrity: Trends in Firm-Level Markups in the United Kingdom 2008-2019, 2026, Economics Letters (read the paper here)
Estimating Star Arrival Effects When Intensity of Treatment Varies with Relatedness to the Star, 2026, Journal of Human Capital, (early online version; Forthcoming)
Recent Trends in Firm-Level Total Factor Productivity in the United Kingdom: New Measures, New Puzzles. 2024, Economica https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12541 (slides here)
Diagnosing the UK Productivity Slowdown: Which Sectors Matter and Why? 2023, Economica 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, 2023, Journal of Economic Geography academic.oup.com/joeg/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jeg/lbac016/6606125?searchresult=1
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Refining vertical productivity spillovers from FDI: Evidence from 32 economies. 2021, International Review of Economics & Finance papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4076275
Embodied and Disembodied FDI Spillovers and Distance from the Educational Frontier. 2023, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10842-023-00397-z
Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Capacity: Theory and Evidence. 2023, Economics of Transition https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12369
Core Product Competence and Productivity Gains: The Role of Foreign Ownership. 2023, International Review of Applied Economics 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
WORKING PAPERS/UNDER REVIEW
Heterogeneous Capital and the Productivity of UK Manufacturing Firms (Working Paper No. 067, The Productivity Institute.)
Unveiling Productivity and Markup Bias: The Role of Price Heterogeneity (click to download; slides here; Oxford Economics Papers, R1)
The Role of Relative Prices in the UK's Aggregate Labour Productivity (click to download; paper; Macroeconomic Dynamics, R1 )
(click to download; working on)
Heterogeneous Foreign Acquisition Effects on Firm Productivity (slides here: slides)
The Sustainably Technological Efficiency of the Emerging and G7 Countries (click to download; working on)
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]
REFERENCES
Professor Diane Coyle (University of Cambridge)
Professor John McHale (University of Galway)
Dr Ioannis BOURNAKIS (SKEMA)
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