Location
Venue:Institute of Economic Affairs, 2 Lord North Street, SW1P 3LB
Address:
Food for Thought with Dr Ricardo Reis
Time:
- 13/03/2025
12:30 - 14:00
Firm Migration in the Path to Scaling
About the discussion
Firms, especially in the technology sector, sometimes move from Europe to the US, but rarely the other way around. This talk will discuss when and why they do so, using recent empirical findings on the topic. As firms grow, the path to scaling can involve changing headquarters to benefit fomr the comparative advantages of some regions, and this talk will discuss their sources and their relative sizes.
About the speaker
Ricardo Reis is the A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academia de Ciências de Lisboa, and the Econometric Society. Recent honors include the 2022 Carl Menger prize, the 2021 Yrjo Jahnsson medal, the 2017 BdF/TSE junior prize, and the 2016 Bernacer prize. Professor Reis is an academic consultant at the Bank of England, the Riksbank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and the European Stability Mechanism, he directs the Centre for Macroeconomics at the LSE, and he serves on the council or as an advisor of multiple organisations. He has published widely on macroeconomics, including both monetary and fiscal policy, inflation and business cycles. Professor Reis received his PhD from Harvard University, and was previously on the faculties at Columbia University and Princeton University.
About the series
This will be the next instalment in our monthly Food for Thought series, hosted in partnership with the Vinson Centre at the University of Buckingham. The purpose of this series is to foster high-level academic discussion on themes within the classical liberal tradition, touching on economics, philosophy, history, law, and related disciplines. In turn, we hope to form a community of academics, policymakers, professionals, and students united by the exchange of ideas and life-long learning.
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