School staff
Ben Ferrett BA (Cambridge), MSc (Warwick), PhD (Warwick)
Senior Lecturer
- Coordinator, Microeconomics, Industrial Organisation and Trade Research Group
- Personal Research Site
- +44 (0)1509 222712
- BE.2.12 (Sir Richard Morris Building)
- B.E.Ferrett@lboro.ac.uk
Module Organiser:
ECB005 : International Economic Relations (Semester 2)
ECC031 : International Trade (Semester 1)
Research Interests:
Applied theory in IO, trade and public economics
Key Publications:
“Competing for a Duopoly: International Trade and Tax Competition” with Ian Wooton, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2010, 43(3), pp. 776–794.
“Tax Competition and the International Distribution of Firm Ownership: An Invariance Result” with Ian Wooton, International Tax and Public Finance, 2010, 17(5), pp. 518-531.
“Foreign Direct Investment under Oligopoly” in Ramkishen S. Rajan and Kenneth A. Reinert, eds., Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press, 2008.
“Mergers in Multidimensional Competition” with Carl Davidson, Economica, 2007, 74, pp. 695–712.
“The Market Disciplining Effects of FDI: Does the Mode of Entry Matter?” with Sara Maioli, Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg, GEP Research Paper 06/16, 2006.
“Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity Growth: Theory” in Holger Görg, David Greenaway and Richard Kneller, eds., Globalisation and Productivity Growth: Theory and Evidence, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

