Regular biography
Rachel Griffith is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Her research focuses on public economics, with specific interests in the relationship between government policy and economic performance, including the supermarket industry, nutrition competition, innovation, and productivity. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy and a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Research Fellow of CEPR. She is also an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Economic Association.
Scholar-generated biography
Rachel Griffith is a Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, specializing in economics with a focus on innovation, productivity, and tax policy. Her research explores the relationship between competition, innovation, and productivity growth across industries and countries. She examines how R&D investment influences firm performance and how tax policies affect corporate behavior and location decisions. Griffith's work also investigates the impact of multinational activities, intellectual property ownership, and regional economic factors on productivity and innovation. Her studies often use panel data and dynamic models to analyze economic outcomes. Her research has significant implications for understanding the drivers of economic growth and the effectiveness of public policy interventions.