Rachel Griffith

Rachel Griffith FBA CBE
Born	16 May 1963
Nationality	British–American
Institutions	University of Manchester Institute for Fiscal Studies European Economic Association
Field	Economics
Alma mater	University of Keele
Awards	Brigit Grodal Award 2014
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Notes
Thesis Taxes, the location of multinationals and productivity: an empirical analysis using panel data. (1999)

Rachel Griffith (born 16 May 1963)^[1] FBA CBE is a British-American academic and educator. She is professor of economics at the University of Manchester,^[2] a research director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies,^[3] and joint managing editor of The Economic Journal.^[4]

Griffith was president of the European Economic Association for 2015,^[5][6] making her the first woman to hold the position.^[7]

Citizenship

Griffith holds both UK and US citizenship.^[1]

Education

Griffith earned her degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Boston (1985),^[1] her M.Sc. in econometrics and forecasting from City of London Polytechnic (1991),^[1] and her PhD from the University of Keele (1999).^[8]

Research

Obesity

Griffith's presidential address to the European Economic Association at the University of Mannheim, Germany entitled "Gluttony and Sloth? Labour Market Nonseparabilities and the Rise in Obesity",^[9][10] reflected her recent research into the relationship between changes in relative food prices and the nutritional quality of households’ shopping baskets.^[11]

Corporation tax

In her Royal Economic Society Public Lecture 2015, "Does Starbucks Pay Enough Tax", Griffith argued that corporate tax should be charged like VAT.^[12] Griffith stated that the current system of corporate taxation is outdated and taxing corporate profits in the location where value is created is not very meaningful. She suggested taxing profits at the destination of sales rather than at the source of profits would be an improvement.^[13][14] Griffith cited two papers, one by Auberbach and Devereux (2012),^[15] the other by Devereux and Vella (2014),^[16] in support of her case. Griffith's previous research in this area considers how influential corporate income taxes are in determining where firms choose to legally own intellectual property, i.e. the way in which intellectual property accounts for firms' assets and if they can be used by firms to shift income offshore to reduce their corporate income tax liability.^[17]

Honours and fellowships

• 2009 Elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA).^[18]
• 2014 Brigit Grodal Award.^[19]
• 2015 awarded an CBE in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to economic policy.^[20]
• 2016 Elected as Fellow of the Econometric Society.^[21]

Bibliography

Thesis

• Griffith, Rachel (1999). Taxes, the location of multinationals and productivity: an empirical analysis using panel data (PhD thesis). University of Keele. OCLC 556724027.

Books

• Griffith, Rachel; Aghion, Philippe (2005). Competition and growth: reconciling theory and evidence. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262012188. PREVIEW

Chapters in books

• Griffith, Rachel; Blundell, Richard; Windmeijer, Frank (1995), "Dynamics and correlated Responses in longitudinal count data models", in Seeber, Gilg U.H.; Francis, Brian J.; Hatzinger, Reinhold; Steckel-Berger, Gabriele, Statistical modelling: proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Innsbruck, Austria, 10–14 July, 1995, Lecture Notes in Statistics Series: Volume 104, New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 35–42, ISBN 9780387945651 VIEW ONLINE
• Griffith, Rachel; Bloom, Nicholas; Chennells, Lucy; Van Reenen, John (2002), "How has tax affected the changing cost of R&D? Evidence from eight countries", in Lawton Smith, Helen, The regulation of science and technology, Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 136–160, ISBN 9780230554528 AVAILABLE ONLINE
• Griffith, Rachel; Simpson, Helen (2004), "Characteristics of foreign-owned firms on UK manufacturing productivity", in Card, David; Blundell, Richard; Freeman, Richard B., Seeking a premier economy the economic effects of British economic reforms, 1980–2000, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the NBER, pp. 147–80, ISBN 9780226092843 IFS WP01/10 PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Geroski, Paul (2004), "Identifying anti-trust markets", in Neumann, Manfred; Weigand, Jürgen, The international handbook of competition, Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, pp. 290–305, ISBN 9781845423520 IFS WP03/01 PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Hines, James; Sørensen, Peter Birch (2010), "International capital taxation", in Mirrlees, James, The Mirrlees Review: volume 1: dimensions of tax design (reforming the tax system for the 21st century), Oxford, UK/New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 914–1027, ISBN 9780199553754 IFS PDF

See also: The Mirrlees Review.

Journal articles

1990–1999

• Griffith, Rachel; Freeman, Harold (November 1993). "Surplus ACT – a solution in sight?". Fiscal Studies. Wiley. 14 (4): 58–73. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.1993.tb00438.x. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Van Reenen, John (January–February 1995). "Promoting R&D through tax incentives: an assessment of the arguments". Science in Parliament. UK Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. 52 (1).
• Griffith, Rachel; Blundell, Richard; Van Reenen, John (March 1995). "Dynamic Count Data Models of Technological Innovation". The Economic Journal. Wiley. 105 (429): 333–44. doi:10.2307/2235494. JSTOR 2235494. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Sandler, Daniel; Van Reenen, John (May 1995). "Tax incentives for R&D". Fiscal Studies. Wiley. 16 (2): 21–44. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.1995.tb00220.x. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel (August 1996). "A Note on the Taxation of Capital Income in the Czech Republic and Poland". Fiscal Studies. Wiley. 17 (3): 91–103. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.1996.tb00495.x. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Devereux, Michael P. (June 1998). "Taxes and the location of production: evidence from a panel of US multinationals". Journal of Public Economics. Elsevier. 68 (3): 335–67. doi:10.1016/S0047-2727(98)00014-0. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel (June 1999). "Using the ARD Establishment Level Data to Look at Foreign Ownership and Productivity in the United Kingdom". The Economic Journal, special issue: Features. Wiley. 109 (456): F416–F442. doi:10.1111/1468-0297.00443. JSTOR 2566013. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Blundell, Richard; Van Reenen, John (July 1999). "Market Share, Market Value and Innovation in a Panel of British Manufacturing Firms". The Review of Economic Studies. Oxford Journals. 66 (3): 529–54. doi:10.1111/1467-937X.00097. JSTOR 2567013. PDF

2000–2004

• Griffith, Rachel; Devereux, Michael P. (2000). "The impact of corporate taxation on the location of capital". Swedish Economic Policy Review. Government Offices of Sweden. 9 (1): 79–102. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Bloom, Nicholas (September 2001). "The Internationalisation of UK R&D". Fiscal Studies. Wiley. 22 (3): 337–55. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.2001.tb00045.x. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John (September 2001). "Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK". Fiscal Studies. Wiley. 22 (3): 375–99. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.2001.tb00047.x. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Devereux, Michael P.; Klemm, Alexander (October 2002). "Corporate Income Tax Reforms and International Tax Competition". Economic Policy. Wiley. 17 (35): 449–95. JSTOR 1344772. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Blundell, Richard; Windmeijer, Frank (May 2002). "Individual effects and dynamics in count data models". Journal of Econometrics. Elsevier. 108 (1): 113–31. doi:10.1016/S0304-4076(01)00108-7. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John (July 2002). "Do R&D tax credits work? Evidence from a panel of countries 1979–1997". Journal of Public Economics. Elsevier. 85 (1): 1–31. doi:10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00086-X. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Devereux, Michael P. (March 2003). "Evaluating Tax Policy for Location Decisions". International Tax and Public Finance. Springer. 10 (2): 107–26. doi:10.1023/A:1023364421914. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John (March 2003). "R&D and Absorptive Capacity: Theory and Empirical Evidence". The Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Wiley. 105 (1): 99–118. doi:10.1111/1467-9442.00007. JSTOR 3440923. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Aghion, Philippe; Blundell, Richard; Howitt, Peter; Prantl, Susanne (April–May 2004). "Entry and productivity growth: evidence from micro-level data". Journal of the European Economic Association, special issue: Papers and Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Congress of the European Economic Association. Wiley. 2 (2–3): 265–76. doi:10.1162/154247604323067970. JSTOR 40004902. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Simpson, Helen (September 2004). "Foreign ownership and productivity: new evidence from the service sector and the R&D lab". Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Oxford Journals. 20 (3): 440–56. doi:10.1093/oxrep/grh026. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Devereux, Michael P.; Simpson, Helen (September 2004). "The geographic distribution of production activity in the UK". Regional Science and Urban Economics. Elsevier. 34 (5): 533–64. doi:10.1016/S0166-0462(03)00073-5. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John (November 2004). "Mapping the two faces of R&D: productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries". The Review of Economics and Statistics. MIT Press. 86 (4): 883–95. doi:10.1162/0034653043125194. JSTOR 40042976. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Devereux, Michael P.; Klemm, Alexander (December 2004). "Why has the UK corporation tax raised so much revenue?". Fiscal Studies. Wiley. 25 (4): 367–88. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.2004.tb00543.x. PDF

2005–2009

• Griffith, Rachel; Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nick; Blundell, Richard; Howitt, Peter (May 2005). "Competition and innovation: an inverted–U relationship". Quarterly Journal of Economics. Oxford Journals. 120 (2): 701–28. doi:10.1093/qje/120.2.701. JSTOR 25098750. PDF
  The data used in this paper is available here.
• Griffith, Rachel; Harmgart, Heike (July 2005). "Retail productivity". The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, special issue: Assessing Retail Productivity. Taylor and Francis. 15 (3): 281–90. doi:10.1080/09593960500119481. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Abramovsky, Laura (April–May 2006). "Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: how important is ICT?". Journal of the European Economic Association, special issue: Papers and Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Congress of the European Economic Association. Wiley. 4 (2–3): 594–601. doi:10.1162/jeea.2006.4.2-3.594. JSTOR 40005125. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter (May 2006). "Vertical integration and competition". The American Economic Review. American Economic Association. 96 (2): 97–102. doi:10.1257/000282806777211595. JSTOR 30034622. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter (September–December 2006). "U-shaped relationship between vertical integration and competition: theory and evidence". International Journal of Economic Theory. Wiley. 2 (3–4): 351–63. doi:10.1111/j.1742-7363.2006.0040.x. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Van Reenen, John (December 2006). "How special is the special relationship? Using the impact of US R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing". The American Economic Review. American Economic Association. 96 (5): 1859–75. doi:10.1257/aer.96.5.1859. JSTOR 30035000. PDF
  The data used in this paper is available here
• Griffith, Rachel; Huergo, Elena; Mairesse, Jacques; Peters, Bettina (Winter 2006). "Innovation and productivity across four European countries". Oxford Review of Economic Policy, special issue: Productivity. Oxford Journals. 22 (4): 483–98. doi:10.1093/oxrep/grj028. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Haskel, Jonathan; Neely, Andy (Winter 2006). "Why is productivity so dispersed?". Oxford Review of Economic Policy, special issue: Productivity. Oxford Journals. 22 (4): 513–25. doi:10.1093/oxrep/grj030. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Macartney, Gareth (March 2007). "Product market reforms, labour market institutions and unemployment". The Economic Journal, special issue: Conference Papers. Wiley. 117 (519): C142–66. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02039.x. JSTOR 4625503. PDF
  The data used in this paper is available here, the do file that recreates the main tables is here
• Griffith, Rachel; Devereux, Michael P.; Simpson, Helen (April 2007). "Firm location decisions, regional grants and agglomeration externalities". Journal of Public Economics. Elsevier. 91 (3–4): 413–35. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2006.12.002. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel (September 2007). "Technology, productivity and public policy". Fiscal Studies. Wiley. 28 (3): 273–91. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.2007.00057.x. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Neely, Andrew (January 2009). "Performance pay and managerial experience in multi-task teams: evidence from within a firm". Journal of Labor Economics. Chicago Journals. 27 (1): 49–82. doi:10.1086/596324. JSTOR 10.1086/596324. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Aghion, Philippe; Blundell, Richard; Howitt, Peter; Prantl, Susanne (February 2009). "The effects of entry on incumbent innovation and productivity". The Review of Economics and Statistics. MIT Press. 91 (1): 20–32. doi:10.1162/rest.91.1.20. JSTOR 25651315. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Leibtag, Ephraim; Leicester, Andrew; Nevo, Aviv (Spring 2009). "Consumer shopping behavior: how much do consumers save?". Journal of Economic Perspectives. American Economic Association. 23 (2): 99–120. doi:10.1257/jep.23.2.99. JSTOR 27740526. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Simpson, Helen (October 2009). "Technological catch-up and geographic proximity". Journal of Regional Science. Wiley. 49 (4): 689–720. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9787.2009.00630.x. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin (December 2009). "The use of scanner data for research into nutrition". Fiscal Studies, special issue: Measuring Consumption and Saving. Wiley. 30 (3–4): 339–65. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.2009.00099.x. PDF

2010–2014

• Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Simpson, Helen (June 2010). "Product Market Reform and Innovation in the EU". The Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Wiley. 112 (2): 389–415. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2010.01602.x. JSTOR 40783348. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Acemoğlu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (September 2010). "Vertical integration and technology: theory and evidence". Journal of the European Economic Association. Wiley. 8 (5): 989–1033. doi:10.1111/j.1542-4774.2010.tb00546.x. JSTOR 25700913. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin (December 2010). "Public policy towards food consumption". Fiscal Studies. Wiley. 31 (4): 481–507. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.2010.00122.x. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae; Van Reenen, John (July 2011). "Is distance dying at last? Falling home bias in fixed effects models of patent citations". Quantitative Economics. Wiley. 2 (2): 211–49. doi:10.3982/QE59. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Nesheim, Lars (August 2013). "Hedonic methods for baskets of goods". Economics Letters. Elsevier. 120 (2): 284–87. doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.040. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Macartney, Gareth (March 2014). "Employment protection legislation, multinational firms, and innovation". The Review of Economics and Statistics. MIT Press. 96 (1): 135–50. doi:10.1162/REST_a_00348. PDF
  The data and Stata do files used in this paper are available here
• Griffith, Rachel; Dubois, Pierre; Nevo, Aviv (March 2014). "Do prices and attributes explain international differences in food purchases?". The American Economic Review. American Economic Association. 104 (3): 832–67. doi:10.1257/aer.104.3.832. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen; O'Connell, Martin (April 2014). "Ownership of intellectual property and corporate taxation". Journal of Public Economics. Elsevier. 112: 12–23. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.01.009. PDF

2015 onwards

• Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate (Spring 2015). "Relative prices, consumer preferences, and the demand for food". Oxford Review of Economic Policy, special issue: Food. Oxford Journals. 31 (1): 116–30. doi:10.1093/oxrep/grv004. PDF
• Griffith, Rachel; Lührmann, Melanie; Lluberas, Rodrigo (June 2016). "Gluttony and sloth? Calories, labour market activity and the rise of obesity", forthcoming in Journal of the European Economic Association

References

1. Griffith, Rachel. Curriculum vitae: Rachel Griffith, CBE, FBA (PDF). University of Manchester. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
2. "Griffith's profile". manchester.ac.uk. University of Manchester. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
3. Staff (6 January 2016). "Orazio Attanasio and Rachel Griffith appointed as IFS Research Directors". ifs.org.uk. Institute for Fiscal Studies. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
4. "The Economic Journal: editorial information". res.org.uk. Royal Economic Society. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
5. "Former presidents: 1986 onwards". eeassoc.org. European Economic Association (EEA). Retrieved 15 January 2016.
6. Griffith, Rachel. "European Economic Association Newsletter". eeassoc.org. European Economic Association (EEA). Retrieved 15 January 2016.
7. Staff (8 April 2014). "Accolade for top female economist". manchester.ac.uk. University of Manchester. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
8. Griffith, Rachel (1999). Taxes, the location of multinationals and productivity: an empirical analysis using panel data (PhD thesis). University of Keele. OCLC 556724027.
9. Staff. "30th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, University of Mannheim, 24–27 August 2015: plenary sessions". eeassoc.org. European Economic Association (EEA). Retrieved 15 January 2016.
10. Griffith, Rachel (August 2015). Gluttony and Sloth? August 2015, presentation notes (pdf). University of Manchester. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
11. Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate (Spring 2015). "Relative prices, consumer preferences, and the demand for food". Oxford Review of Economic Policy, special issue: Food. Oxford Journals. 31 (1): 116–30. doi:10.1093/oxrep/grv004. via PDF
12. Staff (23 November 2015). "Tax 'should be paid where products sold'". BBC business news. BBC. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
13. Griffith, Rachel (24 November 2015). Royal Economic Society Public Lecture 2015, presentation notes (PDF). University of Manchester. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
14. Griffith, Rachel (24 November 2015). "Royal Economic Society Public Lecture 2015". Royal Economic Society via WaveCast. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
15. Auerbach, Alan J.; Devereux, Michael P. (October 2013). "Consumption and cash-flow taxes in an international setting". NBER Working Papers. National Bureau of Economic Research. SSRN 2345073. 19579. Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation WP 13/11 PDF
16. Devereux, Michael P.; Vella, John (December 2014). "Are we heading towards a corporate tax system fit for the 21st century?". Fiscal Studies, special issue: Corporate Tax. Wiley. 35 (4): 449–75. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.2014.12038.x. SSRN 2532933. PDF
17. Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen; O'Connell, Martin (April 2014). "Ownership of intellectual property and corporate taxation". Journal of Public Economics. Elsevier. 112: 12–23. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.01.009. Pdf.
18. "Professor Rachel Griffith profile". britac.ac.uk. British Academy. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
19. Staff (21 April 2014). "Rachel Griffith wins 2014 Birgit Grodal Award". cepr.org. Centre for Economic Policy Research. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
20. The London Gazette: no. 61255. p. 10978. 13 June 2015.
21. "2016 Election of Fellows | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-11-09.

External links

• Profile page: Rachel Griffith University of Manchester
• Profile page: Rachel Griffith Institute for Fiscal Studies