Professor Catia Montagna

Catia is Professor of Economics. She joined Dundee in 1991, having previously been a Research Officer at the University of Glasgow. She held Fellowships from the British Council and the Fodazione Einaudi and visiting grants from a number of foreign institutions.

External Affiliations

• External Research Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham
• Associated Researcher, Globalisation and Industry Dynamics, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)
• SIRE/Scottish Government Policy Fora coordinator
• "Memberships: European Economic Association, Canadian Economic Association, Royal Economic Society, Scottish Economic Society, International Economics and Finance Society
• Ph.D. Supervisor of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics

Research Interests

• Firms in the Global Economy
• Foreign Direct Investment and Outsourcing
• Labour Markets, Trade and FDI
• Globalisation and the Welfare State
• Globalisation, Economic Insecurity and Wellbeing
• Industrialisation, internationalisation and environmental sustainability

Research Grants (Major)

• 2011-14:
  "Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe", PI. With H. Molana and Y-F Chen (€ 8.5 million): EU Cooperation Programme / Theme 8 / Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (Call ID "FP7-SSH-2011-1"). Dundee is part of the consortium that covers 32 partners from 12 EU countries.
• 2010:
  ESRC 1+3 Studentship Competition - student Daniel Kopasker, "The Effects of Economic Insecurity on Health and Wellbeing".
• 2010:
  NHS Tayside, Substance Misuse Information - Tayside: "SUMIT", £ 300,000 (with D. Petrie, B. Kidd, et al.)
• 2010:
  Scoping study of the economic impact on the alcohol industry of pricing and non-price policies to regulate the affordability and availability of alcohol in Scotland, NHS (£ 19,926). PI: Dennis Petrie, Co-applicants: Anne Ludbrook University of Aberdeen, John Dewhurst University of Dundee, Hassan Molana University of Dundee
• 2008-10:
  Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP KTP00681), Funding body: TSB and Scottish Government, Role: Lead Academic and principal investigator, with Sushil Mohan (£ 127,383)
• 2008-10:
  Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP UODSH0704), Funding body: TSB and Scottish Government, Role: Lead Academic and principal investigator, with Carlo Morelli (£ 124,170)
• 2007:
  Scottish Funding Council funding for the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE), £ 952,272 (with Martin Chalkley)
• 2001:
  British Academy Research Grant (£ 4195, Joint with Hassan Molana)

• Economics of Globalisation (4th year Undergraduate)
• International Trade and Investment (MSc International Business)
• International Finance and Trade (MSc International Business)
• International Trade (MSc in Economics, Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics)

Publications since 2008

Refereed papers

• “Employment Protection and Foreign Direct Investment in Dynamic Oligopoly”, with G. Dewit and D. Leahy, Economica (In Press).

• "Subsidies as Optimal Policy Stimuli", with H. Molana and C.Y. Kwan, Bulletin of Economic Research (In Press).
  
  
• "Unionisation, International Integration and Selection", with A. Nocco, Canadian Journal of Economics (In Press).
  
  
• "Wage determination, Globalisation and the Social Value of Leisure", with J. Drud Hansen, H Molana and J. Ulff-Moller Nielsen, Journal of Socio-Economics 2012, 41, 317-326.
  
  
• "Strategic Investment and International Outsourcing in Unionised Oligopoly", with D. Leahy, Labour Economics, 2012, 19, 260-269.
  
  
• "On the causal relationship between trade openness and government size: evidence from OECD countries", with H. Molana and M. Violato, International Journal of Public Policy, 2011, Vol. 7, Nos. 4/5/6.
• "Outsourcing versus FDI in Oligopolistic Equilibrium", with Dermot Leahy, Spatial Economic Analysis, 2009, vol 4, 2, 149-166.
• "Should I stay or should I go? A note on employment protection, domestic anchorage and FDI", with G. Dewit, and H. Görg, Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 2009, vol. 145(1), 93-110, April.
• "Foreign Direct Investment, Tax Competition and Social Expenditure”, with H. Görg and H. Molana, International Review of Economics and Finance, 2009, 18, 31-37.
• “Foreign Direct Investment, Training and Absorptive Capacity”, with M. Chatterji, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 17, No2, 323-332, 2008.

Contributions to edited volumes

"Cumulative Causation", International Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences, 2nd edition, 2008, 207-208, Macmillan Reference, USA.

Further contributions - Working papers under review

• "Economizing and Strategizing and the Decision to Outsource", with D. Leahy
• "Environmental Degradation and the limits to LOV", with Y-F. Chen and H. Molana, Dundee Discussion Paper 234

Current Work in Progress

• "Unionisation, Effective Market Size, and the Margins of Export", with A. Nocco.
• "Negative Shocks, Job Creation, Trade and Selection", with H. Molana
• "Trade liberalisation, Selection and Inequality" with A. Nocco.
• "Employment Protection and Firm Performance", with Y.F. Chen and H. Molana
• "Unemployment and Wellbeing", with A. Kwiatkowski and H. Molana
• "Outsourcing and Asset Specificity", with D. Leahy.

Selected Publications Prior to 2008

• "Aggregate Scale Economies, Market Integration and Optimal Welfare State Policy", with H. Molana, Journal of International Economics, 2006, 69, 321-340.
• "Multiproduct Firms, Market Structure and the Product Life Cycle: An Exploratory Analysis", with P.F. Allanson, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, 2005, 23, 587- 597.
• "Efficiency Gaps Love of Variety and International Trade", Economica, 68, 27-44.
• "Unionisation, Rent Extraction and FDI: Challenging Conventional Wisdom?" with D. Leahy, Economic Journal, 2000, 110, 80-92.
• "Market Structure, Cost Asymmetries and Fiscal Policy Effectiveness", with H. Molana, Economics Letters, 2000, 68/1, 101-107.
• "Horizontal Product Differentiation with Firm Specific Costs", Oxford Economic Papers, 1995, Vol. 97, pp.318-328.
• "Modelling Aggregate Manufactured Exports for Some Asian NIES", with A. Muscatelli and A. Stevenson, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1995, Vol. LXXVII, pp. 147-155.
• "Intra-NIE Competition in Exports of Manufactures", with A. Muscatelli and A. Stevenson, Journal of International Economics, 1994, Vol. 37, pp.29-47.