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 poverty
- Business analytics, innovation and networks
Since 2008, scholarly outputs, many underpinned by research grants, include 102 peer-reviewed journal articles, four books, nine book chapters and 105 papers in the CGR Working Paper Series.
The Centre hosts the Research Circle for the Study of Inequality and Poverty (RCSIP) as a research cluster.
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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
Dr. Caterina Gennaioli
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Professor Brigitte Granville
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Professor Pedro Martins
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Dr. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
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Website and Blog Editor
Ms. Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal
Political economy and macroeconomics
Members
Dr. Deven BathiaPolitical economy and macroeconomics
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Dr. Yasser BhattiBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Dr. Guven DemirelBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Dr. Georg von GraevenitzBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Dr. Roxana Gutiérrez-RomeroDevelopment, inequality and poverty
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Dr. Georgios KavetsosPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
Dr. Thomas KemenyPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
Dr. Eun-Seok KimBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Dr. Maria KoumentaPolitical economy and macroeconomics
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Dr. Stella LadiPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
Dr. Elena LioliouBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Dr. Giuliano MaielliBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Professor Sushanta MallickPolitical economy and macroeconomics
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Professor Roman MatousekPolitical economy and macroeconomics
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Dr. Ravshonbek OtojanovPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
Dr. Pietro PanzarasaBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Dr. Ni PengPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
Dr. Martha PrevezerPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
Dr. Thomas ZhangBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
External Members
Professor Mark Casson |
Dr. Lucia Corno |
Dr. Sabine D'Costa |
Professor Teresa da Silva Lopes |
Professor Janet Dine |
Professor Almudena Sevilla |
Visiting Fellows
Doctoral Researchers
Mr. Anish AugustinePolitical economy and macroeconomics
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Mr. Xian ChengBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Ms. Ying CuiPolitical economy and macroeconomics
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Mr. Li DaiPolitical economy and macroeconomics
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Mr. Danula GamageDevelopment, inequality and poverty |
Ms. Jianjian GaoPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
Ms. Anushri GuptaBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Mr. Praveen GuptaPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
Mr. Abdullah IjazPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
Mr. Ilias IoannouBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Ms. Ioana Jipa-MusatPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
Mrs. Soo Jung OhBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Mr. Xianmin LiuBusiness analytics, innovation and networks
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Ms. Amrita ManoharPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
Mr. Xin PanBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Mr. Yik Oscar PoonBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Mr. Yifan QianBusiness analytics, innovation and networks |
Mr. Duncan Reynolds |
Ms. Beatriz Rodriguez-SatizabalPolitical economy and macroeconomics
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Mrs. Fathima SulaimanPolitical economy and macroeconomics |
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
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.
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
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Remembering Inflation
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The Processes and Practices of Fair Trade: Trust, Ethics and Governance
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Trademarks, Brands, and Competitiveness
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Global Brands: The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages
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| Date | Time | Event | Venue |
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| 22 Jun | 12:30-13:30 |
Brown Bag Seminar Higher Education Expansion, the Hukou System, and Returns to Education in China Prof. Yu Zhu (Dundee University) Abstract China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment in the decade starting in 1999. Using the China Household Finance Survey, we show that the expansion has exacerbated the large pre-existing urban-rural gap in educational attainment underpinned by the hukou (household registration) system. We then instrument years of schooling using the interaction of childhood urban hukou status and the timing of the expansion, which is analogous to a Difference-in-Differences estimator using rural students to control for any common time trend. The 2SLS estimates of 17% and 12% for men and women respectively are substantially larger than their OLS counterparts of 5% and 6%, both allowing for county fixed-effects. Our 2SLS results can be interpreted as a Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE), i.e. the average treatment effect of HE attendance on earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE as a result of the higher education expansion. Moreover, for respondents with parental education information, we find that the 2SLS returns for students from more disadvantaged backgrounds in terms of fathers’ education are at least as high as their more advantaged counterparts for both genders. While our finding of substantial private returns to higher education for urban students are consistent with existing studies, the fact that the rural hukou holders as a whole fail to benefit from this massive expansion, at least in the short-run, was a serious cause for concern. |
MSTeams Contact: b.rodriguez@qmul.ac.uk |
CGR Globalisation Seminar
The Globalisation Seminar Series is a prestigious annual series offering a platform to prominent academics, policy-makers and business people to discuss the latest debate in economics and economic policy.
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
Date: Wednesday, 4th December 2019
Venue: Collette Bow Room
Theory and Empirics of Poverty, Inequality and Mobility (annual since 2014)
Organised by: Dr. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Date: Friday, 18th October 2019
Venue: Dean Rees House
CGR-SEF Quantitative Analysis of Social and Economic Issues (annual since 2018)
Organised by: Dr. Caterina Gennaioli (CGR) and Dr. Sebastian Axbard (SEF)
Date: TBC
Venue: TBC
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.
Recent posts
Making the case for LMIC to be partners in the global solution for COVID-19
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The growing success of efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, may present yet another hurdle – How to end lockdown without causing a second wave? There is no modern analog for the shutdown of economic activity. Ending the lockdown needs unparalleled capabilities in testing, tracing and most importantly it needs researchers to deliver a new vaccine!
This paper makes the case for low and middle-income countries (LMIC) to be part of the clinical evaluation of the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 future vaccine, the ramping up of regional manufacturing capabilities for local immunization and underscores the critical importance of reaching an advanced purchase agreement with manufacturers and suppliers as well as building up multilateral financial partnerships with key institutions before even a vaccine is made available in either North America, Asia and/or Europe.
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