Research media briefings

November 2011

• Integrating Global Society
  IGS study warns that excessive government interference will impede rural poverty relief in China

 

October 2011

• New patterns in firm performance and international trade [pdf]
  By Zhihong Yu and Zheng Wang
  Trading Partners, Traded Products and Firm Performance: Evidence from China’s Exporter-Importers

 

• The truth about Chinese innovation [pdf]
  By Markus Eberhardt, Christian Helmers and Zhihong Yu
  Is the Dragon Learning to Fly? An Analysis of the Chinese Patent Explosion

 

• China still to make the most of FDI benefits [pdf]
  By Natasha Agarwal, Chris Milner and Alejandro Riaño
  Credit Constraints and FDI Spillovers in China

 

• Political Affiliation and Trade Credit Extension by Chinese Firms [pdf]
  by Simona Mateut and Alessandra Guariglia
  A study published by GEP has shed new light on how political affiliations help shape the behaviour of private firms in China’s state-dominated business arena.

 

• Government policies and microfinance growth [pdf]
  By Alex Newman, Daniel Borgia and Wu Wei
  Institutional Influences on the Development of Microfinance in Emerging Economies: Insights from China

 

March 2011

• GEP research helps highlight FTA benefits [pdf]
  by Chris Milner
  Pioneering research in the field of the modelling of trade policy has been used to support the setting up of a major Free Trade Agreement between the EU and South Korea.

June 2010

• Chinese firms forced to wine and dine to survive [pdf]
  by Jun Du, Alessandra Guariglia and Alex Newman
  Does Social Capital affect the financing decisions of Chinese SMEs?

November 2009

• Trade costs differences there to be exploited [pdf]
  by Chris Milner, David Greenaway and Danny McGowan
  Economists have shed new light on how trade costs shapea country’s export patterns, highlighting opportunities forgovernments to help boost exports.
• Investing abroad doesn't mean fewer jobs at home [pdf]
  by Alexander Hijzen, Sebastien Jean and Thierry Mayer
  Firms that set up production facilities in foreign countries arelikely to boost employment back home rather than damage it,new research has revealed.
• Don't bank on a falling pound to boost exports [pdf]
  by Richard Kneller and David Greenaway
  The pound’s record lows will not necessarily help Britain’seconomic recovery by boosting exports, according to newresearch
• British workers and the effects of global crisis [pdf]
  by Peter Wright and Richard Upward
  The average Briton who loses his job because his firm closesdown is still feeling the impact even after five years, newresearch has uncovered.

March 2009

• Partnerships crucial to sustaining China's boom [pdf]
  by Zhihong Yu, Alessandria Guariglia and David Greenaway
  Foreign and domestic firms in China need to work in partnership if the country's economic boom is to continue in the face of the worldwide financial crisis, new research has shown.
• Head of CWE programme visits China [pdf]
  by Professor Shujie Yao
  The Economist who suggested the credit crunch has given China a 'once-in-a-century chance' to cement superpower status, is delivering a series of major lectures in the country.
• Global meltdown gives China once-in-a-century chance to complete rise [pdf]
  by Professor Shujie Yao
  China could now boast the world’s second-largest economy – a decade ahead of most predictions – thanks to the credit crunch, a leading Chinese economist has claimed.

February 2008

• Foreign Direct Investment, Pollution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Malaysia [pdf]
  by Chew Ging Lee
  South East Asia's tiger economies should prize the long-term health of their environment above the ongoing short-term gains provided by foreign firms that pollute.

November 2007

• Trading on Commonwealth ties [pdf]
  by Chris Milner
  Review of the structure of Commonwealth trade and the scope for developing linkages and trade in the Commonwealth
• The role of ethnicity in migration from Eastern Europe  [pdf]
  by Tom Ivlevs
  The failure of some of the EU's newest member states to respect their own ethnic minorities is fuelling migration, new research has revealed.

October 2007

• Ageing, births and attitudes towards immigration Evidence from two transition economies  [pdf]
  by Tom Ivlevs
  Labour immigration is often proposed as a tool to ensure pension system sustainability in ageing societies but immigration often provokes controversy and tension in the host country. Ivlevs shows how attitudes towards immigrants are mellowing in parts of two European countries as older residents become more aware of pension financing problems - and see the new immigrants as key to their economic security in retirement.

July 2007

• The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on New Firm Survival in the UK: Evidence for Static v. Dynamic Industries  [pdf]
  by Andrew Burke, Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley
  Multinationals are killing some of Britain’s most promising start-ups. This research shows that the presence of multinationals in the UK increases significantly the chances of an enterprising new business going bust in its first year.

April 2007

• Exchange rates and Exporting Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in the UK [pdf]
  by David Greenaway, Richard Kneller and Xufei Zhang
  This is most comprehensive research of its kind into the relationship between exchange rates and exporting in the UK showing that fluctuations in exchange rates have had only a modest impact on total UK manufacturing exports and are not one of the main reasons firms enter or leave the export market.

March 2007

• Foreign Direct Investment Tax Competition and Social Expenditure  [pdf]
  by Holger Görg, Hassan Molana and Catia Montagna
  New research which challenges the widespread assumption that countries need to cut corporate taxes to attract investment from multinational companies. The paper suggests that the countries which that attract the highest levels of foreign direct investment often have higher tax rates.
• Reducing import tariffs: Revenue-enhancing Trade Liberalisation in Developing Countries  [pdf]
  by Dr. Arijit Mukherjee and M. Emranul Haque
  Developing countries may be hit much less by tariff reductions than previously thought.

February 2007

• Job Creation, Job Destruction and the Role of Small Firms: Firm-Level Evidence for the UK  [pdf]
  by Alex Hijzen, Richard Upward and Peter Wright
  The first comprehensive research into the scale of job creation and job destruction across UK private sector firms, showing such facts as one in seven private sector jobs is destroyed in the UK each year.
• Exporting and Productivity: Firm heterogeneity, exporting and Foreign direct investment  [pdf]
  by David Greenaway and Richard Kneller
  A wide-ranging analysis of recent international research into the relationship between exporting and productivity showing that when companies export — as long as no subsidies are involved — they become more productive, which indirectly raises the productivity of the whole industry in the exporting country.