Professor Catia Montagna

Deputy Dean of the School of Business

Contact:
c.montagna@dundee.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0)1382 384845
Fax:+44 (0)1382 384691
Postal Address:
Economic Studies
University of Dundee
Perth Rd
Dundee
DD1 4HN

Catia is Professor of Economics. She joined Dundee in 1991, having previously been a Research Officer at the University of Glasgow. She has a Laurea in Economics (summa cum laude Parma, Italy, 1987), an M.Phil in Economics (Glasgow, 1989) and a Ph.D. in Economics (Dundee, 1995).

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
Member of the Royal Economic Society
Member of the Scottish Economic Society
Member of the International Economics and Finance Society
Ph.D. Supervisor of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics

Research

Catia's research interests include:

Firms in the Global Economy
Foreign Direct Investment and Outsourcing
Labour Markets, Trade and FDI
Globalisation and the Welfare State
Globalisation, Economic Insecurity and Health

Teaching

Economics of Globalisation
International Trade and Investment (MSc International Business)
International Trade (Scottish Graduate Programme, MSc Economics)

Recent publications

"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 (In Press: published on line, 8 March, 2012: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2012.01.001).
"Strategic Investment and International Outsourcing in Unionised Oligopoly", with D. Leahy, Labour Economics, 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, 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.
“Expansionary Effects of Welfare State Policies in a Small Open Economy”, with Hassan Molana, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 18, 231-246, 2007.
Foreign Direct Investment, Tax Competition and Social Expenditure, with H. Görg and H. Molana, forthcoming, International Review of Economics and Finance, 2007
Welfare State, Market Imperfections and International Trade; with H.Molana, Open Economies Review, 2007, 18, 95-118
Aggregate Scale Economies, Market Integration, and Optimal Welfare State Policy with H. Molana, Journal of International Economics, 2006, 69, 321-340
"Union Legislation and Export-Platform FDI", with D. Leahy, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2005, Vol. 14, No. 4, p.437 - 452, December
"Multiproduct Firms and Market Structure: An Explorative Application to the Product Life Cycle", with Paul Allanson, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2005, Vol 23, p. 587- 597
Efficiency Gaps, Love of Variety and International Trade, Economica, 2001, Vol. 68, p. 27 - 44
"Strategic Trade Policy with heterogenous costs" with D. Leahy, Bulletin of Economic Research, 2001, vol.53, p.177- 182
Unionisation, Rent Extraction and FDI: Challenging Conventional Wisdom?", with D. Leahy, Economic Journal, 2000, Vol. 100, p80-p92
Temporary Social Dumping, Union Legalisation and FDI: A note on the strategic use of Standards, with Dermot Leahy, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2000, Vol. 9, No. 3, p243-p259
Fiscal Policy Effectiveness, Market Structure and Cost Asymmetries, with H. Molana, Economics Letters, 2000, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp101-107

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