Staff Profile:
- Responsibilities:
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor and Director of MSc in Economics of International Business and Finance and MSc in Business Analysis.
- Areas of Interest:
My research has primarily focussed upon game-theoretic modelling of the effect of taxation systems on the location decisions of multinational firms, taking into account asymmetries both between firms and between national tax-setters. Another current research interest is the role of the geographical diversification of firms in determining corporate social performance (CSP). More specifically, recent empirical work has sought to investigate the effect on CSP, and its various components, on the extent and character of the dispersion of a firm's operations across the globe. Of particular interest is the potential role of a firm's presence in controversial countries.
- Research groups / Centres:
- Publications:
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- "Race-to-the-bottom or -top at home or abroad: Health and Safety standards and the multinational firm." Economic and Social Review, in press, (with S. Pavelin).
- "Asymmetric oligopoly and foreign direct investment: Implications for host-country tax-setting." International Economic Journal, in press.
- "Corporate charitable giving, multinational companies and countries of concern." Journal of Management Studies, 2009, 46, 575-96 (with S.J. Brammer and S. Pavelin).
- "The corporate social performance content of innovation in the UK." Journal of Business Ethics, 2008, 80, 711-25 (with S. Pavelin).
- "Corporate social performance and geographical diversification." Journal of Business Research, 2006, 59, 1025-34 (with S.J. Brammer and S. Pavelin).
Awards/scholarships:
- 1998-1999: Open postgraduate award from University College Dublin, Ireland.
- 2000-2003: Scholarship from the Higher Education, Ireland.
- 2003-2004: Marie Curie fellowship at the University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy.
