Rachel Griffith

Not to be confused with the Australian actress Rachel Griffiths.
Rachel Griffith
FBA CBE
Born (1963-05-16) 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

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that corporate tax should be charged like VAT.[12] Griffith stated that the current system of corporate taxation is outdated and taxing corporate profits in the location where value is created is not very meaningful.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

Bibliography

Thesis

Books

Chapters in books

See also: The Mirrlees Review.

Journal articles

1990–1999

2000–2004

2005–2009

2010–2014

2015 onwards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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.

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