Dr Helen Simpson
Reader in Economics
Contact Details
Room 1.7, 2 Priory Road
Telephone: 0117 33 10805
E-mail: helen.simpson@bristol.ac.uk
Office hours: Monday 11-12, Thursday 10.30-11.30
CV
CMPO Working Papers
Teaching
Applied Microeconomics EFIM20002
Industrial Economics ECON30076
Research Interests
Empirical analysis of firm location decisions, productivity, innovation and the effects of foreign direct investment.
Affiliations
Recent Publications
Journal articles
- Investment abroad and labour adjustment at home: evidence from UK multinational firms, Canadian Journal of Economics, (2012), 45(2), 698-731.
- How do firms’ outward FDI strategies relate to their activity at home? Empirical evidence for the UK, The World Economy, (2012), 35(3), 243-272.
- Geographic proximity and firm-university innovation linkages: evidence from Great Britain (with Laura Abramovsky), Journal of Economic Geography, (2011), 11(6), 949-977.
- Providing employers with incentives to train low-skilled workers: evidence from the UK Employer Training Pilots (with Laura Abramovsky, Erich Battistin, Emla Fitzsimons and Alissa Goodman), Journal of Labor Economics, (2011), 29(1), 153-193.
- Product market competition, innovation and productivity growth (with Rachel Griffith and Rupert Harrison), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, (2010), 112(2), 389-415.
- Technological catch-up and geographic proximity (with Rachel Griffith and Stephen Redding), (2009), Journal of Regional Science, 49(4), 689-720.
- Understanding co-operative R&D activity: evidence from four European countries (with Laura Abramovsky, Elisabeth Kremp, Alberto López and Tobias Schmidt), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, (2009), 18(3), 243-265.
- Productivity in public services, Journal of Economic Surveys, (2009), 23(2), 250-276.
- Relative wage variation and industry location (with Andrew B. Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter K. Schott), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, (2008), 70(4), 431-459.
Book Chapters
- Taxing corporate income (with Alan J. Auerbach and Michael P. Devereux), chapter 9 in J. Mirrlees et al. (eds.) Dimensions of tax design. The Mirrlees review, (2010), Oxford University Press.
- Employer-provided vocational training: what are the returns to NVQ level 2 and the potential effects of 'Train to Gain'? (with Lorraine Dearden, Alissa Goodman and Barbara Sianesi), chapter 6 in D. Kehoe (ed.), Practice makes perfect: the importance of practical learning, (2007), The Social Market Foundation.
- Characteristics of foreign-owned firms in British manufacturing (with Rachel Griffith), chapter 4 in D. Card, R. Blundell and R. Freeman (eds.), Seeking a premier economy: the economic effects of British economic reforms 1980-2000, (2004), The University of Chicago Press.
Reports
- Comparing practices in R&D tax incentives evaluation (with Jacques Mairesse, Pierre Mohnen and Jacek Warda), Expert Group Report to DG Research, European Commission, October 2008.
- An analysis of industrial clustering in Great Britain, Report to DTI, April 2007.
- Analysing business-university innovation linkages (with Laura Abramovsky and Rupert Harrison), Report to DTI, August 2006.
- The impact of the Employer Training Pilots on the take-up of training among employers and employees (with Laura Abramovsky, Erich Battistin, Emla Fitzsimons and Alissa Goodman), Report to DfES, December 2005.
- The link between product market reform, innovation and EU macroeconomic performance (with Rachel Griffith and Rupert Harrison), Report to European Commission, November 2005. European Commission Economic Papers, no.243.
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