Andrew Charlton

Position: Research Economist, Centre for Economic Performance

Research Interests: International Finance, Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, Multinational Firms

Contact details:

• Tel:  +44 (0) 78 7058 3173
• AUS: +61 (0) 420 902 502
• Fax: +44 (0) 20 7900 3935
• Email: a.charlton@lse.ac.uk
• Room number: R 434

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Current Working Papers

• International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship (with Laura Alfaro), NBER Working Paper No. 13118 Issued in May 2007

• Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment (with Laura Alfaro), NBER Working Paper No. 13447

   

• Multinational Ownership and Subsidiary Investment (with Wendy Carlin and Colin Mayer)

   

• Foreign Direct Investment in a Multi-Country World

   

• Does Investment Promotion Work? (with Nicholas Davis) The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 42.

   

• Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is all FDI Equal? (with Laura Alfaro)

Books

• Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development (with Joseph E. Stiglitz, Oxford University Press, 2005).

• Ozonomics, (Random House, July 2007).

Policy Working Papers & Publications

• A Development-Friendly Prioritization of Doha Round Proposals" (with Joseph E. Stiglitz), World Economy, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 293-312, March 2005.

   

• A Modalities Proposal for the Doha Round, paper presented to Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, Tokyo, May 29-30, 2006.

   

• "Aid for Trade," with Joseph Stiglitz, Aussenwirtschaft, Vol. 61, No. 2, June 2006.

   

• Common Values for the Development Round (with Joseph E. Stiglitz), World Trade Review (2004), 3: 3, 1–12.

   

• "Incentive Bidding for Mobile Investment"; OECD Development Centre Technical Paper, No. 203, January 2003.

   

• The Doha Round of Trade Negotiations: An Agenda to Promote Development and Facilitate Adjustment (with Joseph E. Stiglitz), Paper presented to the Commonwealth Finance Ministers’ Meeting, St Kitts, 28 September 2004.

   

• A Development Round of Trade Negotiations (with Joseph Stiglitz), paper presented to Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics-Europe, Brussels, 11 May 2004. Forthcoming in Annual World Bank Conference on Economic Development - Europe, B. Pleskovic (ed), Washington: World Bank, 2004

   

• Policy Based Competition for FDI - The Case of Brazil" (with Hans Christiansen and Charles Oman); International Conference on Regional Development and Foreign Investment in Fortaleza, Brazil 12-13 December 2002

Other Publications

• The Doha Round is Missing the Point on Helping Poor Countries, with Joseph Stliglitz, The Financial Times, December 13, 2005

• The Economic Myths of Peter Costello, The Monthly, October 2007, No. 28

• The Way to Help Ourselves by Helping Others, with Joseph Stliglitz, The Daily Telegraph, December 12, 2005

Other Information

Dr Andrew Charlton is a Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is also an Honorary Fellow of St Paul's College at Sydney University. He has a Masters and Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded the Edgeworth Prize for the best Doctoral Thesis in Economics at Oxford University in 2005. He also has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney. He has previously worked for the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Reserve Bank of Australia, and the Boston Consulting Group.