Professor David Greenaway

B.Sc., M.Com., D.Litt.

Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Economics

Vice-Chancellor's Office
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0)115 951 3001
Fax: +44 (0)115 951 3005
e-mail: david.greenaway@nottingham.ac.uk

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Profile

David Greenaway is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham and Professor of Economics. He was the founding Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy. From 2004 to 2008 he was a University Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Vice President), having previously held this position between 1994 and 2001. He was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences between 1991 and 1994. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of exporting and productivity; cross-border investment and international trade and economic development. Current projects include work on exports and productivity and spillovers from FDI.

He has been Chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body since 2004 and a Member since 1998. This Body advises the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Defence annually on the pay and conditions of the UK Armed Forces. He is also a Member of the Senior Salaries Review Body (which advises the Prime Minister on the remuneration of the Senior Civil Service, Judiciary and senior Military), a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and recently completed a Report on Uninsured Driving in the UK for the Secretary of State for Transport. He has also held appointments as a Non-Executive Director of the Nottingham Health Authority and a Non-Executive Director of Queens Medical Centre Hospital Trust. He has completed terms as an elected member of the Council and Executive of the Royal Economic Society, Chair of the UK's Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics and as an appointed Member of Council of the Economic and Social Research Council. He was Vice-Chair of the Research Assessment Panel for Economics and Econometrics in the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise and Chair of the RAE Panel for the 2001 Exercise. He was Chair of the Panel in Economics and Econometrics for part of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. He is Chair of the Sceintific Advisory Council at the Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Universitat Kiel, and a Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Trade Study Group.

At various times he has been a consultant to the World Bank, UNIDO, UNCTAD, European Commission, GATT, UNECE and H.M. Treasury. These assignments have resulted in work on, inter alia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Burundi, Tanzania and the Caribbean.

He has published widely in academic journals including the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Inquiry, Oxford Economic Papers, Economics Letters, European Journal of Political Economy, Review of International Economics, Review of World Economics, Economic Record, The Manchester School and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Review of World Economics, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development and The Manchester School. He has been an Associate Editor of the Economic Journal and is Managing Editor of The World Economy.


Recent Journal publications

  1. 'Anti-Dumping and Excess Injury Margins in the European Union: A Counterfactual Analysis', European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 22, pp. 653-674 (2006) (with B. Kerstens and P.K.M. Tharakan).

  2. 'Firm Heterogeneity, Exporting and Foreign Direct Investment', Economic Journal, Vol. 117, pp.F134-F161 (2007) (with Richard Kneller).

  3. 'Intra-Industry Trade with Multinational Firms', European Economic Review, Vol. 51, pp. 1959-1984 (2007) (with Hartmut Egger and Peter Egger).

  4. 'Relative Backwardness, Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Spillovers', Economics Letters, Vol. 97, pp. 230-234 (2007) (with R. E. Falvey and N. Foster)

  5. 'Industry Differences in the Effect of Export Market Entry: Learning by Exporting?', Review of World Economics, Vol. 143, pp. 416-432 (2007) (with Richard Kneller)

  6. 'Financial Factors and Exporting', Journal of International Economics Vol. 73, pp. 377-395 (2007) (with Alessandra Guariglia and Richard Kneller).

  7. 'Exporting, Agglomeration and Productivity', European Economic Review, Vol. 52, pp. 919-939 (2007) (with Richard Kneller).

  8. 'Surviving Globalisation', Journal of International Economics, Vol. 74, pp. 264-277 (2008) (with Joakim Gullstrand and Richard Kneller). Appendix tables available here

  9. 'The Trade Structure Effects of Endogenous Regional Trade Agreements', Journal of International Economics, Vol. 74, pp. 278-298 (2008) (with Hartmut Egger and Peter Egger).

  10. 'Has China Displaced other Asian Countries' Exports?', China Economic Review, Vol. 19, pp. 152-169 (2008) (with P. Mahabir and C.R. Milner).

Recent Books:

Globalisation and Productivity, Volumes 1 and 2 (co-editor with Holger Görg and Richard Kneller), Edward Elgar 2008, pp. 1,072.

Adjusting to Globalisation (Editor), Blackwell 2005

Globalisation and Labour Market Adjustment (co-editor with Richard Upward and Peter Wright), Palgrave Macmillan 2008.

 

Current Working Papers:

Live or Let Die? Alternative Routes to Industry Exit with Joakim Gullstrand and Richard Kneller

Exchange Rates and Exports: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in the UK with Richard Kneller and Xufei Zhang

International Competition, Returns to Skill and Labor Market Adjustment with Rod Falvey and Joana Silva

Trade Liberalisation, Economic Crises and Growth with Rod Falvey and Neil Foster

 

Recent Policy Work:

Uninsured Driving in the United Kingdom. Report to the Secretary of State for Transport, July 2004.

Participation in Export Markets and Productivity in UK Manufacturing - Published Report to UK Trade and Investment, July 2004 (with Richard Kneller).

Armed Forces Pay Review Body: Report to the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Defence, February 2008.

Armed Forces Pay Review Body: Service Medical and Dental Officers. Report to the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Defence, May 2008.


Teaching

L12415 Globalisation and Economic Policy (Spring Semester, Year 2)

A complete list of modules can be found here.


Current PhD Students

Olivier Godart working on 'FDI and Labour Demand'. Co-supervisor: Holger Görg.

Danny McGowan working on 'Entry, Exit and Productivity Growth' Co-supervisor: Richard Kneller.

Priit Vahter working on 'The Microeffects of Trade on Productivity'. Co-supervisor: Daniel Bernhofen


Recently completed PhD Students

Neil Foster: thesis title 'North-South Trade, Openness and Growth'. Doctorate awarded in 2001. Co-supervisor: Rod Falvey. External Examiner: Professor Dermot McAleese, Trinity College Dublin. Neil is currently Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Vienna.

Nuno Sousa: thesis title 'Essays on the Effects of Inward Foreign Direct Investment'. Doctorate awarded in 2002. Co-supervisor: Katharine Wakelin. External Examiner: Professor Sajal Lahiri, University of Essex. Nuno is currently Economic Adviser, European Commission.

Niven Winchester: thesis title 'A Computable General Equilibrium Assessment of UK Wage Inequality'. Doctorate awarded in 2002. Co-supervisor: Geoff Reed. External Examiner: Professor John Whalley, University of Western Ontario. Niven is currently Lecturer in Economics, Otago University.

Reshma Mahabir thesis title 'Essays on Global and Regional Integration in the Caribbean': Doctorate awarded in 2004. Co-supervisor: Chris Milner. External Examiner: Dr Michael Gasiorek, University of Sussex. Reshma is currently Economist, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago.

Kittipong Jangkamolkulchai: thesis title 'FDI and Labour Markets'. Doctorate awarded in 2005. Co-supervisor: Spiros Bougheas. External Examiner: Professor V. N. Balasubramanyam, University of Lancaster.

Baboo Nowbutsing: thesis title 'Experiments in International Trade'.. Doctorate awarded in 2005. Co-supervisor: Chris Starmer. External Examiner: Professor Raymond Riezman, University of Iowa. Baboo is currently Lecturer in Economics, University of Mauritius.

Sarut Wittayarungruangsri: working on 'Antidumping Regulation: A Theoretical Approach'. Doctorate awarded in 2005. Co-supervisor: Rod Falvey. External Examiner: Professor D. Collie, Cardiff University. Sarut is currently an Economist at the Fiscal Policy Research Institute in Thailand.

Zhihong Yu: thesis on 'Exporting and Firm Productivity'. Doctorate awarded in 2006. Co-supervisor: Rod Falvey. External Examiner: Professor Peter Egger, University of Munich. Zhihong is currently RCUK Research Fellow in the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham.

Mauro Pisu: thesis on 'Microeconometric Analysis of Firm Level Adjustment to Globalisation'. Doctorate awarded in 2006. Co-supervisor: Alan Duncan. External Examiner: Professor Sebastien Jean, CEPII, Paris. Mauro is currently an Economist, OECD, Paris.

Joana Silva: thesis on 'Trade and Labour Market Adjustment'. Doctorate awarded in 2007. Co-supervisor: Rod Falvey. External Examiner: Professor Carl Davidson, Michigan State University. Joana is currently an ESRC Post Doctoral Research Fellow in GEP and from September 2007 will be on the Young Professionals Programme at the World Bank.

Xufei Zhang: Doctorate awarded in 2008. Co-supervisor: Richard Kneller. Florence is currently a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in GEP, University of Nottingham.


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