报告题目

Multinational Firms and Global Innovation

报告人（单位）

Prof. Kalina Manova (University College London)

主持人（单位）

邱斌 教授（东南大学）

点评人（单位）

王子 教授（上海财经大学）

时间地点

4-6 p.m. (China standard time)

Dec. 1, 2023

Zoom：825 156 1438

Passcode：191022

专家简介：

Kalina Manova is Professor of Economics at UCL, where she specializes in international trade and investment and served as Deputy Department Head in 2020-2023. She received her AB, AM and PhD from Harvard, and was previously Assistant Professor at Stanford, Visiting Assistant Professor at Princeton, and Professor at Oxford. She serves on the Investment Committee of the European Economic Association and previously on its Council and Executive Committee. She also serves on the editorial boards of Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and previously Journal of International Economics. She is Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Associate at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance, Research Affiliate at the International Growth Centre, and Affiliate at CESifo Institute. She has been External Consultant at Bank of England and Inter-American Development Bank.

Professor Manova has received the EEA Yrj? Jahnsson Award, the Philip LeverhulmePrize in Economics, a 5-year €1.5M Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council, a 3-year ?750K ESRC Governance After Brexit Grant, and the Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for World Economy. Her work has been recognized with a Kenen Fellowship in International Economics at Princeton and a National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.

Professor Manova's research explores three themes in international economics: (i) global value chains and firm production networks; (ii) financial frictions in international trade and investment; and (iii) firm productivity, quality, and management practices. Her research has been published in leading academic journals and policy forums such as Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Annual Review of Economics, Journal of International Economics, and VoxEU. She has expertise on Europe, China and the Americas. She frequently speaks at academic conferences, as well as policy events at the World Bank, IMF, OECD, WTO, ECB, US Federal Reserve System, and Bank of England among others. She also delivers mini-courses at universities in Europe and Asia and training workshops at government institutions.