Rachel Griffith

Dame Rachel Susan Griffith, DBE, FBA, FAcSS (born 16 May 1963[1]) is a British-American academic and educator. She is professor of economics at the University of Manchester[2] and a research director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.[3]

Not to be confused with the Australian actress Rachel Griffiths.

Dame Rachel Griffith
DBE FBA FAcSS
Born (1963-05-16) 16 May 1963
NationalityBritish–American
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Royal Economic Society
FieldEconomics
Alma materUniversity of Keele
AwardsBrigit Grodal Award 2014
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Notes

Griffith was president of the European Economic Association for 2015,[4][5] making her the first woman to hold the position.[6] She was also joint managing editor of The Economic Journal between 2011 and 2017.[7]

Griffith holds both UK and US citizenship.[1]

Biography

Griffith earned her BA degree magna cum laude in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 1985,[1] her MSc degree in econometrics and forecasting from the City of London Polytechnic in 1991,[1] and her PhD from Keele University in 1999.[8] Griffith is currently the Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). She was elected President of the Royal Economic Society in 2018.[9] She will be President from 2019-2020. She served as Deputy Chair of the Economics sub-Panel of the Research Excellence Framework. Griffith's main area of focus is now related to empirical industrial organization regarding the retail food sector and nutrition. Currently, she has her second ERC Advanced Grant to study behavior of consumers and firms to see how government policy will impact food markets. [10]

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",[11][12] reflected her recent research into the relationship between changes in relative food prices and the nutritional quality of households’ shopping baskets.[13]

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that corporate tax should be charged like VAT.[14] Griffith stated that the current system of corporate taxation is outdated and taxing corporate profits in the location where value is created is not very meaningful.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.[15][16] Griffith cited two papers, one by Auerbach and Devereux (2012),[17] the other by Devereux and Vella (2014),[18] 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.[19]

Honours and Fellowships

Griffith was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to economic policy[26] and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to economic policy and education.[27]

Bibliography

Thesis
  • Griffith, Rachel (1999). Taxes, the location of multinationals and productivity: an empirical analysis using panel data (PhD thesis). University of Keele. OCLC 556724027.

Books

Chapters in books
  • Griffith, Rachel; Blundell, Richard; Windmeijer, Frank (1995), "Dynamics and correlated Responses in longitudinal count data models", in Seeber, Gilg U.H.; Francis, Brian J.; Hatzinger, Reinhold; Steckel-Berger, Gabriele (eds.), Statistical modelling: proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Innsbruck, Austria, 10–14 July, 1995, Lecture Notes in Statistics Series: Volume 104, New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 35–42, ISBN 9780387945651CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) VIEW ONLINE
  • Griffith, Rachel; Bloom, Nicholas; Chennells, Lucy; Van Reenen, John (2002), "How has tax affected the changing cost of R&D? Evidence from eight countries", in Lawton Smith, Helen (ed.), The regulation of science and technology, Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 136–160, ISBN 9780230554528CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) AVAILABLE ONLINE
  • Griffith, Rachel; Simpson, Helen (2004), "Characteristics of foreign-owned firms on UK manufacturing productivity", in Card, David; Blundell, Richard; Freeman, Richard B. (eds.), Seeking a premier economy the economic effects of British economic reforms, 1980–2000, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the NBER, pp. 147–80, ISBN 9780226092843CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) IFS WP01/10 PDF
  • Griffith, Rachel; Geroski, Paul (2004), "Identifying antitrust markets", in Neumann, Manfred; Weigand, Jürgen (eds.), The international handbook of competition, Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, pp. 290–305, ISBN 9781845423520CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) IFS WP03/01 PDF
  • Griffith, Rachel; Hines, James; Sørensen, Peter Birch (2010), "International capital taxation", in Mirrlees, James (ed.), The Mirrlees Review: volume 1: dimensions of tax design (reforming the tax system for the 21st century), Oxford, UK/New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 914–1027, ISBN 9780199553754CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) IFS PDF
See also: The Mirrlees Review.

Journal articles

1990–1999

2000–2004

2005–2009

2010–2014

2015 onwards

  • Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate (Spring 2015). "Relative prices, consumer preferences, and the demand for food". Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 31 (1): 116–30. doi:10.1093/oxrep/grv004.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) PDF
  • Griffith, Rachel; Lührmann, Melanie; Lluberas, Rodrigo (June 2016). "Gluttony and sloth? Calories, labour market activity and the rise of obesity", forthcoming in Journal of the European Economic Association
  • Griffith, Rachel, et al. “Tax Design in the Alcohol Market.” Journal of Public Economics, 2017, doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2017.w1728.[28]
  • Dubois, Pierre & Griffith, Rachel & O'Connell, Martin, 2017. "How well targeted are soda taxes?," CEPR Discussion Papers 12484, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.[29]
  • Dubois, Pierre & Griffith, Rachel & O'Connell, Martin, 2016. "The effects of banning advertising in junk food markets," CEPR Discussion Papers 11316, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.[30]

References
  1. 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. "Former presidents: 1986 onwards". eeassoc.org. European Economic Association (EEA). Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  5. Griffith, Rachel. "European Economic Association Newsletter". eeassoc.org. European Economic Association (EEA). Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  6. Staff (8 April 2014). "Accolade for top female economist". manchester.ac.uk. University of Manchester. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  7. "The Economic Journal: editorial information". res.org.uk. Royal Economic Society. 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. "Rachel Griffith to be the new President-elect of the Royal Economic Society". www.ifs.org.uk. Institute for Fiscal Studies. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  10. personalpages.manchester.ac.uk https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/rachel.griffith/biography.html. Retrieved 4 March 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. 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.
  12. Griffith, Rachel (August 2015). Gluttony and Sloth? August 2015, presentation notes (pdf). University of Manchester. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  13. Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate (Spring 2015). "Relative prices, consumer preferences, and the demand for food". Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 31 (1): 116–30. doi:10.1093/oxrep/grv004.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) via PDF
  14. Staff (23 November 2015). "Tax 'should be paid where products sold'". BBC business news. BBC. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  15. Griffith, Rachel (24 November 2015). Royal Economic Society Public Lecture 2015, presentation notes (PDF). University of Manchester. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  16. Griffith, Rachel (24 November 2015). "Royal Economic Society Public Lecture 2015". Royal Economic Society via WaveCast. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  17. Auerbach, Alan J.; Devereux, Michael P. (October 2013). "Consumption and cash-flow taxes in an international setting". NBER Working Paper No. 19579. doi:10.3386/w19579. SSRN 2345073.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation WP 13/11 PDF
  18. Devereux, Michael P.; Vella, John (December 2014). "Are we heading towards a corporate tax system fit for the 21st century?". Fiscal Studies. 35 (4): 449–75. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.2014.12038.x. S2CID 152673546. SSRN 2532933.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) PDF
  19. Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen; O'Connell, Martin (April 2014). "Ownership of intellectual property and corporate taxation". Journal of Public Economics. 112: 12–23. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.01.009.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  20. "Professor Rachel Griffith profile". britac.ac.uk. British Academy. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  21. Staff (21 April 2014). "Rachel Griffith wins 2014 Birgit Grodal Award". cepr.org. Centre for Economic Policy Research. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  22. "2016 Election of Fellows | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  23. "Sixty-nine leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences |". www.acss.org.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  24. "Rachel Griffith to be the new President-elect of the Royal Economic Society -". www.ifs.org.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  25. personalpages.manchester.ac.uk https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/rachel.griffith/biography.html. Retrieved 4 March 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  26. "No. 61255". The London Gazette. 13 June 2015. p. 10978.
  27. "No. 63218". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2020. p. N7.
  28. Smith, Kate; O'Connell, Martin; Griffith, Rachel (28 January 2019). "Tax design in the alcohol market". www.ifs.org.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  29. "Rachel Griffith | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  30. "Rachel Griffith | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
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