Katiuscia Lavoratori
Research Fellow
Katiuscia Lavoratori is a Research Fellow in Strategy & International Business at Warwick Business School. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Perugia (Italy) and a postdoc at Henley Business School (UK). A paper from her dissertation received the best paper award at European International Business Academy. Her research lies at the intersection of International Business and Economic Geography, with special reference to the economic analysis of location choices, the relation between agglomeration and productivity, FDI spillovers, Industry 4.0 and the new geography of global value chains. She has taught International business and development economics at Henley Business School and Politecnico di Milano (Italy). She can be contacted at: [email protected]
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Biography
Katiuscia Lavoratori is a Research Fellow in Strategy & International Business at Warwick Business School. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Perugia (Italy) and a postdoc at Henley Business School (UK). A paper from her dissertation received the best paper award at European International Business Academy. Her research lies at the intersection of International Business and Economic Geography, with special reference to the economic analysis of location choices, the relation between agglomeration and productivity, FDI spillovers, Industry 4.0 and the new geography of global value chains. She has taught International business and development economics at Henley Business School and Politecnico di Milano (Italy). She can be contacted at: [email protected]
Spillovers from inward investment – a comparison of Northern Ireland with the rest of the UK.
Published: 14 July 2020
The purpose of this exercise is to explore the variation in spillovers from inward investment in different parts of the UK. We seek therefore to quantify (and briefly discuss) the average effect for the UK, and subsequently explore differences in this apparent value across locations.
In order to put our analysis in context it is necessary to understand what we mean by spillovers, and how they have come to be interpreted.
Section 1 provides a framework by which one can quantify and subsequently explore the nature of apparent spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) between regions. The purpose of this analysis is to report some results concerning the variation in the productivity effects of FDI across UK regions, but also to offer some thoughts as to why this is the case.
FDI and local productivity . SOTA Review No 31
Published: 18 June 2019
The debate concerning the impact that attracting inward investment can have on local productivity has raged for some 30 years. The essential reason for this is that is that there was a juxtaposition between “cost per job” estimates regarding the benefits of seeking to attract inward investment through subsidy, and the firm-based academic literature that analysed firm internationalisation in terms of the new technology or knowledge that often accompanies foreign direct investment. Cynically, one may argue that the emphasis that was placed on determining the productivity growth effects of inward investment was an attempt to justify such subsidies, even when cost per job calculations were unfavourable, but both the policy-based and academic literature represents increasingly detailed attempts to determine the nature of the wider economic benefits of attracting inward investment.
Associated Themes
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Productivity and performance
