Michael Kitson

Director of the Management Studies Tripos
University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics
Fellow of St Catharine's College

BA (Univ. of Cambridge)

Professional experience

Michael Kitson is a Research Associate of the Centre for Business Research (CBR), Cambridge and is a co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics. He has been an expert witness for the House of Lords enquiry into globalisation.

Previous appointments

Michael Kitson has been a Research Officer at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge and a College Teaching Officer at St Catharine's College Cambridge.

Research interests

Macroeconomic policy and performance; international trade; industrial economics; regional economics; corporate performance.

Michael Kitson is a member of the Business & Management Economics subject group.

Selected publications

Kitson, M., Martin, R. and Tyler, P. (2004) "Regional competitiveness: an elusive yet key concept?" Regional Studies, 38(9): 991-999

Kitson, M. (2004) "Failure followed by success or success followed by failure? A re-examination of British economic growth since 1949." In Floud, R. and Johnson, D. (eds.): The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain: vol.3: Structural change and growth, 1939-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.27-56

Kitson, M. (2005) "Economics for the future." Cambridge Journal of Economics, 29(6): 827-835

Kitson, M. (2005) "The American economic model and European economic policy." Regional Studies, 39(7): 987-1001

Iyer, S., Kitson, M. and Toh, B. (2005) "Social capital, economic growth and regional development." Regional Studies, 39(8): 1015-1040

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