Dr Jen-Chung Mei
Jen is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Westminster, Westminster Business School, an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, and a member of the Productivity Institute (University of Manchester). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sheffield and an MSc in Economics from the University of Manchester. He joined the team in August 2023.
Previously, he was a Postdoc Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, where he conducted the UK productivity project to investigate issues surrounding the slowdown of productivity in the UK, encompassing both macro and micro-level (involving the firm-level security survey data) analyses. During his time at Cambridge, Jen also provided supervision for undergraduate students in Land Economy.
Jen's research interests encompass the measurement of firm-level and sectoral-level productivity, with a specific focus on productivity trends in the UK and cross-country productivity comparisons. Additionally, he studies international economics, exploring topics such as foreign direct investment, multinational firms, productivity spillovers, multi-product firms (in terms of product scope and quality), and policies for recruiting star scientists.
Jen has published several works in economic journals, including Economica (2023) and Journal of Economic Geography (2022), among others. For more details regarding his publications, please see Jen's CV (click to access).
Foreign Direct Investment; Productivity; Growth Accounting; Star Scientist; Firm; Data Analysis; Applied Econometrics
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[My latest research on UK Firms' Productivity (wp)]:
1. The Role of Relative Prices in the UK's Aggregate Labour Productivity (click to download; paper )
2. Recent Trends in Firm-Level Total Factor Productivity in the United Kingdom: New Measures, New Puzzles (slides here: slides)
3. Recent Trends in Firm-Level Markups in the United Kingdom 2008-2019
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[My latest research on FDI, Firms' Productivity, and matching approach (wp)]:
1. Reassessing the Effects of Foreign Acquisitions: An Estimation Framework in Event Study Settings (click to download; working on)
2. Recent Trends in Firm-Level Markups in the United Kingdom 2008-2019 (slides here: slides)
3. Unveiling Productivity and Markup Bias: The Role of Price Heterogeneity (click to download; slides here; working on)
4. Heterogeneous Foreign Acquisition Effects on Firm Productivity (slides here: slides)
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[My latest research on Cross-countries Growth study (wp)]:
1. Accounting for the Technological Efficiency of the Emerging and G7 Countries
