Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR)

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

• Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
• Innovation and Networks
• Labour Economics
• Political Economy and Development
• Public Policy and Behavioural Economics
• International Business

Since 2008, scholarly outputs, many underpinned by research grants, include 102 peer-reviewed journal articles, four books, nine book chapters and 96 papers in the CGR Working Paper Series.

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 four research themes.

Board of Directors

Website and Blog Editor

Members

External Members

Visiting Fellows

Doctoral Researchers

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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CGR Working Paper Series 

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

92. Factor prices and induced technical change in the Industrial Revolution by Ravshonbek Otojanov and Roger Fouquet

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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

CGR Globalisation Seminar

The Globalisation Seminar Series is a prestigious series offering a platform to prominent academics, policy-makers and business people to discuss the latest debate in economics and economic policy.

Previous seminars

2018 | 'Marginalisation amidst Globalisation; Why are Some Countries still Diverging?', Sir Professor Paul Collier (Oxford University).  Agenda Annual Globalisation Seminar and Workshop 2018 [PDF 284KB]

2017 | 'Social Mobility and Redistribution', Professor Alberto Alesina (Harvard University). Co-organised with the Royal Economic Society. Agenda Annual Globalisation Seminar and Workshop 2017 [PDF 169KB] 

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: Friday, 9th November 2018
Venue: GC 601, Graduate Centre, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS

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

Organised by: Dr. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Date: Friday, 19th October 2018
Venue: Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry Charterhouse Square London EC1M 6BQ

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CGR-SEF Quantitative Analysis of Social and Economic Issues (annual since 2018)

Organised by: Dr. Caterina Gennaioli (CGR) and Dr. Sebastian Axbard (SEF)
Date: Wednesday, 21st November 2018
Venue: GC 305

Development (2018)

Organised by: Prof. Almudena Sevilla
Date: Friday, 8th June 2018

Agenda CGR Workshop on Development 2018 [PDF 493KB]

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 post

Brexit Britain – Will the Industrial Strategy Deliver?

By Dr. Georg von Graevenitz

At the heart of the government’s industrial strategy is a commitment to increase overall UK investment in R&D to 2.4% of GDP in 2027. Currently investment stands at 1.67% of GDP. So this has got to be a good thing? Actually this target is not very ambitious when measured against comparable countries and this lack of ambition is likely to affect the future prosperity of people living in the UK.

A comparison between the UK, France and Germany using OECD data shows that the UK has invested less in R&D than France as a share of GDP since 1986 and less than Germany since 1980. These differences are large and have persisted over a long time. It is perhaps worth noting that the share of R&D spending in GDP for the United states has always been above 2.4% and recently has been at around 2.7%.

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