Paris Trade Seminar with Catherine THOMAS (LSE)

Catherine Thomas is Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is the Director of the International Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and of CESifo. She sits on the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) and, since 2024, she is a Council Member of the European Economic Association (EEA). Among her editorial duties, she is Co-Editor of Economica and Associate Editor of Management Science. Prior to joining the LSE she taught at Columbia Business School.

Her research focuses on aspects of international economic integration, including how firms structure global value chains and the performance consequences of firms' organisational and ownership decisions. Published in the top-tier peer-reviewed journals, she was LSE's Principal Investigator of the Horizon 2020 project Framework methodology for SME innovation policy support within R&D tax credits and incentives schemes in the EU (WATSON). 

Catherine Watson's website

She will present a paper, joint with Swati Dhingra, Ningyuan Jia, Gianmarco Ottaviano, and Thomas Sampson,  at the next Paris Trade Seminar on the topic:

Global Supply Chain Flexibility: The Role of Contracts in LNG (read abstract, PDF 43.65 KB)

The next Paris Trade Seminar will host Anca CRISTEA (University of Oregon) on May 13th.