Richard Kneller joined the School of Economics in 2001 as a Research Fellow in the Centre for Globalisation and Economic Policy and became an Associate Professor in 2007. Before coming to Nottingham, he worked as a Senior Research Officer at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He completed his Ph.D from the University of Nottingham in 1998 on fiscal policy and economic growth. His research interests include cross-country comparisons of productivity and economic growth as well as firm level adjustments to globalisation. His current work at the Centre includes the causes and consequences of exporting and FDI decisions at the firm level.

1. ‘Growth, Public Policy and the Government Budget Constraint: Evidence from OECD countries'. (with Mike Bleaney & Norman Gemmell) Journal of Public Economics , Vol. 74, No. 2. (1999)

2. ‘Testing the Endogenous Growth Model: Public Expenditure, Taxation and Growth over the Long-Run'. (with Mike Bleaney & Norman Gemmell) Canadian Journal of Economics , Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 36-57. (2001)

3. ‘Does Exporting Lead to Better Performance: A Microeconometric Analysis of Matched Firms'. (with Sourafel Girma & David Greenaway) Review of International Economics , Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 855-866. (2004)

4. ‘Exports versus FDI: An empirical test' (with Sourafel Girma and Mauro Pisu), Review of World Economics/Weltwirstschaftliches Archiv , Vol. 141, No 2, pp. 193-218. (2005)

5. 'Frontier technology, absorptive capacity and distance', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 67, No 1, pp. 1-23. (2005)

6. ‘Firm heterogeneity, exporting and foreign direct investment' (with David Greenaway), The Economic Journal . Vol. 117, Issue 517, pp. F134-161. (2007)

7. ‘Do exporters have anything to learn from foreign multinationals?' (with Sourafel Girma and Mauro Pisu), European Economic Review , Vol. 51, No. 4. pp. 993-1010 (2007)

8. ‘Do financial factors affect exporting decisions?' (with Alessandra Guariglia and David Greenaway), Journal of International Economics (forthcoming)

9. ‘Industry differences in the effect of export market entry: learning by exporting?' (with David Greenaway), Review of World Economics/Weltwirstschaftliches Archiv (forthcoming)

10. ‘Exporting, Productivity and Agglomeration' (with David Greenaway), European Economic Review. (forthcoming)

11. ‘Surviving Globalisation' (with David Greenaway and Joakim Gullstrand). Journal of International Economics (forthcoming)

12. ‘Overseas Trading Costs and Firm Export Performance' (with Mauro Pisu and Zhihong Yu) Canadian Journal of Economics (forthcoming)

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L12403 Economic Growth in Historical Perspective
L11106 Quantitative Economics I
L14005 Economic Policy Analysis

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