Rachel Griffith is Deputy Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Professor in the Economics Department, University College London. She is a Director of the Review of Economic Studies, on the Council of the Royal Economic Society and the European Economic Association, a Fellow of the Centre of Economic Policy Research and an academic consultant to HM Treasury.

Her research interests include the empirical investigation of service sector productivity, the impact of foreign investment on economic performance and productivity, the relationship between product market competition, innovation and productivity, the factors influencing firms' location choices, the design and implementation of technology policy.

AIM Projects

• Targeted Initiative on Innovation Project

• Globalisation, innovation and productivity: international evidence and implications for policy

• Evaluating the Balanced Scorecard

• International Product and Labour Market Regulations: Impact on Performance

• Outsourcing, Technology and Performance

• Performance of the UK Retail Sector

• Productivity Growth of Business Service Sectors

• Public Policy and Innovation

• Technology Sourcing

• UK Productivity Performance

For further information or to download the outcomes of the research conducted then please visit the ESRC website.

AIM Publications

• WP No. 007- Competition and Innovation: An Inverted U Relationship

• WP No. 017- Retail Productivity

• WP No. 022- Measuring Competition

• WP No. 029- Outsourcing and Offshoring of Business Services: How Important is ICT?

• WP No. 038- Firm Location Decisions, Regional Grants and Agglomeration Externalities

• WP No. 049-  Why is Productivity so Dispersed?

• The UK Productivity Gap & The Importance Of The Service Sectors

• Offshoring of Business Services and its Impact on the UK Economy

• Offshoring: Myth and Reality

• How does UK retail productivity measure up?

• Is the UK’s science base performing?

Related Links

• Institute for Fiscal Studies

• Institute for Fiscal Studies Profile Page

Affiliations

• Centre of Economic Policy Research

• University College London, Economics Department

Editorial Positions

• Review of Economic Studies

For additional information relating to Professor Rachel Griffith please contact Rachel directly at - rgriffith@ifs.org.uk

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