Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR)

The Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR) conducts research, dissemination and user engagement activities around three research themes:

• Political economy and macroeconomics
• Development, inequality and environmental economics
• Business analytics, innovation and networks

CGR’s collective contribution to theoretical and empirical research is evidenced by publications in high quality journals in economics and management, including the American Economic Review, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Management Science and Academy of Management. CGR’s interdisciplinary research on innovation and social networks has been published in the world’s top medical journals (Lancet, BMJ, Annals of Surgery) and other leading journals, including Nature.

As part of its international reach, the Centre also hosts the Research Circle for the Study of Inequality and Poverty (RCSIP).

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CGR is composed by academics based at Queen Mary University of London. Members also comprise researchers based at other universities in UK and overseas. Along with visiting scholars, who make a significant contribution to the Centre’s academic life, we host PhD students with an interest in our three research themes.

Board of Directors

Website and Blog Editor

Mr Saad Aftab

Political economy and macroeconomics

Members 

External Members

Visiting Fellows

Doctoral Researchers

CGR Working Paper Series

105. COVID-19 response needs to broaden financial inclusion to curb the rise in poverty by Mostak Ahamed and Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero. CGR Working Paper 105 [PDF 785KB]

104. Conflict in Africa during COVID-19: social distancing, food vulnerability and welfare response by Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero. CGR Working Paper 104 [PDF 977KB]

103. Inequality, persistence of the informal economy, and club convergence by Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero. CGR Working Paper 103 [PDF 1,362KB]

102. Inequality affects long-run growth: Cross-industry, cross-country evidence by Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero. CGR Working Paper 102 [PDF 1,090KB]

101. The contrasting effects of ethnic, cultural and immigrant diversity on entrepreneurship and job creation by Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero.CGR Working Paper 101 [PDF 484KB]

100. Does vocational education pay off in China? Instrumental-variable quantile-regression evidence by Li Dai and Pedro Martins. CGR Working Paper 100 [PDF 873KB]

99. The Problem of Earlier Rights: Evidence from the European Trademark System by Georg von Graevenitz, Stuart J.H. Graham and Amanda Myers. CGR Working Paper 99 [PDF 1,975KB]

98.  Distance (Still) Hampers Diffusion of Innovations by Georg von Graevenitz, Stuart J.H. Graham and Amanda Myers. CGR Working Paper 98 [PDF 1,847KB]

97. Searching for Carbon Leaks in Multinational Companies by Antoine Dechezleprêtre & Caterina Gennaioli & Ralf Martin & Mirabelle Muûls & Thomas Stoerk

96. Rent sharing in China: Magnitude, heterogeneity and drivers by Wenjing Duan & Pedro S. Martins

95. Making their own weather? Estimating employer labour-market power and its wage effects by Pedro S. Martins

94. The European Patent System: A Descriptive Analysis by Georg von Graevenitz & Antanina Garanasvili

93. The Microeconomic Impacts of Employee Representatives: Evidence from Membership Thresholds by Pedro S. Martins

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Peer Reviewed Publications

2018

• Alesina A., Gennaioli C. and Lovo S. (2018 forthcoming). Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia.  Economica.
• De Neve JE., Ward G., Van Landeghem B., De Keulenaer F., Kavetsos G. & Nor- ton M. (2018). The asymmetric experience of positive and negative economic growth: Global evidence using subjective well-being data. Review of Economics & Statistics, Volumen 100, Issue 2, pp. 362-375.
• Kemeny, T., and Osman, T. (2018). The wider impacts of high-technology employment: Evidence from US cities. Research Policy, Volume 47, Issue 9, pp. 1729-1740.
• Ladi, S., Lazarou, E. and Hauck, J. (2018). Brazilian Think-Tanks and the Rise of Austerity Discourse. Policy & Society, Volume 37, Issue 2, pp. 222-242.

2017

• Adler M., Dolan P., and Kavetsos G. (2017). Would you choose to be happy? Trade- offs between happiness and the other dimensions of life in a large population survey. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 139, 60-73.
• Bagnai, A., Granville, B. & Mongeau, C. (2017). Withdrawal of Italy from the euro area: stochastic simulations of a structural macroeconometric model. Economic Modelling, 64, pp. 524-538.
• Bjorkman-Nyqvist, M., Corno, L., de Walque, D. & Svensson, J. (2017). Incentivizing safer sexual behaviour: Evidence from a randomized control trial on HIV prevention. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
• Borra, C., González, L. & Sevilla, A. (2017). The Impact of Scheduling Birth Early on Infant Health. Journal of the European Economic Association.
• Granville, B. & Hussain, S. (2017). Eurozone cycles: an analysis of phase synchronization. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 22, pp. 83-114.
• Granville, B. (2017). Lessons from the collapse of the Ruble Zone and the transferable Ruble system. CESifo Forum, 17(4), pp. 19-26.
• Gutiérrez-Romero, R. & Oviedo M. (2017). The good the bad and the ugly: The socio-economic impact of drug cartels and their violence in Mexico. Journal of Economic Geography.
• Gutiérrez-Romero, R. and Méndez, L. (2017). Does inequality foster or hinder the growth of entrepreneurship in the long run? Research on Economic Inequality, 25.
• Ladi, S. & Tsarouhas, D. (2017). The International Diffusion of Regulatory Governance: EU Actorness in Public Procurement. Regulation and Governance, Volumen 11, Issue 4, pp.388-403. 

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Grants

• Roxana Gútierrez-Romero. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (reference ECO2013-46516-C4-1-R). Equality and Poverty: Methods and Implications 2014-2017 (Xavier Ramos, Project head).
• Roxana Gútierrez-Romero.Catalan Government (reference 2014 SGR 1279) Equity and Development Research Group (EDReG) 2014-2019 (Xavier Ramos, Project head). 
• Stella Ladi. Research team of the project “Democracy in Times of Crisis: Power and Discourse in a Three-Level Game”, Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (Project ref: PTDC/IVC-CPO/2247/2014).

Books

The CGR engages with the international academic community by organising annual conferences, workshops and seminars. We also host CGR Brown Bag seminars, an opportunity for CGR members to present their works in progress. You can find a comprehensive list of events below.

Upcoming Events

CGR Globalisation Lectures

The Globalisation Lecture Series is a prestigious annual series offering a platform to prominent academics and policy-makers to discuss the latest debate in economics and economic policy. The Series has attracted world leading scholars such as Scott Barrett (Columbia), Esther Duflo (MIT), Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia), Alberto Alesina (Harvard), Paul Collier (Oxford) and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics and EHESS).

Past seminars details here

CGR Workshops

The Centre organises various workshops on topics at the intersection of political economy, development and economic policy. The workshops have attracted eminent speakers such as Michael Kremer (Harvard University), Kaivan Munshi (University of Cambridge), Gerard Padro i Miguel (LSE), Sandra Sequeira (LSE), Sabina Alkire (Oxford), Pramila Krishnan (Cambridge), Natalie Quinn (Oxford) and Gaston Yalonetzky (Leeds).

Political Economy and Economic Development (annual since 2016)

Organised by: Dr. Caterina Gennaioli

Theory and Empirics of Poverty, Inequality and Mobility (annual since 2014)

Organised by: Dr. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

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Past CGR workshops details here

Brown-Bag Seminar Series

The aim of the seminars is to present early-stage papers and receive timely feedbacks from peers to improve papers before submission.

Diversity in Economics Seminar Series

This seminar series discusses research on the obstacles to career progression and discrimination faced by female, ethnic minority and LGBTQA+ members of the academic economics profession.

Seminar details:

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