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]
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
