Ioannis Papadakis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Welcome! I am a research fellow at the University of Sussex's Economics Department and a researcher at the CITP. In 2023, I received a PhD in economics from Queen Mary University of London. Before coming to London, I received an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Warwick. My research revolves around macro and labour economics. I study technical change and globalization, with an emphasis on wage inequality and economic performance. Among other positions, I have been fortunate to be a research assistant at the CEP's Growth Programme and a guest teacher at the LSE.
Latest news – since November 15th 2022:
presenting at the Economics Department of the University of Athens, 2023
presented at a research seminar of the Bank of Greece, 2023
presentation at the European Trade Study Group (ETSG), University of Surrey, 2023 - cancelled
gave an interview to Discover Economics, 2023
presented at the EEA-ESEM conference at Barcelona School of Economics, 2023
presented at the Workshop on Macroeconomic Implications of Migration at San Francisco FED (CA), 2023
presentation at the Migration & Organizations Conference at Columbia University (NY), 2023 - cancelled
presentation at the EALE Conference in Prague, 2023 - cancelled
presented at the Royal Economic Society and Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference, 2023
presented at the CITP Inaugural Academic Conference, 2023
presented at the Economics PhD & Early Career Researchers Conference at University of Essex, 2023
awarded a £3K Research Culture Seed Fund by the University of Sussex, 2023
prepared a referee report for the academic journal Research Policy, 2023
passed my PhD viva with no revisions. Title: Technology, Work and Welfare.
Examiners: Guy Michaels (LSE) and Xavier Mateos-Planas (QMUL)presented at the 15th FIW (Research Centre International Economics) Research Conference, 2023
founded and began organizing the CITP - Reading Group, 2023
presented at a research seminar at the CITP, 2023
teaching Labour Economics and World Economy at the QMUL, 2022-2023
presented at a research seminar at the QMUL, 2022
presented at the European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2022
presented at a PhD Research Day organized by KCL & Collège de France, 2022
Research Spotlight
Technical Change from the Top: The Role of Director Nationality in Importing Robots
ABSTRACT: How do directors impact robot adoption? Despite growing recognition of leadership in decision-making, we lack evidence on how corporate leaders shape technology. In this paper, I advance and corroborate empirically a hitherto undocumented mechanism: the role of nationality. The analysis benefits from corporate balance-sheet data with firm-director links and administrative trade data, where I can trace directors' nationality and identify robots. Leveraging plausibly exogenous spatial variation in the supply of directors, I provide evidence of this mechanism for UK-based firms for the period 2009-2019. I show that firms with US-JP directors (top-2 non-EU robot exporting countries) have a significantly higher probability of importing non-EU robots. To probe this mechanism further, I turn to a battery of alternative specifications and an industry-level analysis that show consistent evidence. Further, the effect is concentrated in the manufacturing sector and confined mostly to machines. To guide the analysis and rationalise the evidence, I present a simple model with tasks-based production and heterogeneous in productivity firms that face a trade-off: to import robots and increase their productivity, they need to pay a premium to appoint foreign directors. Taken together, the findings highlight the role of directors' nationality in the diffusion of technologies produced abroad. Robots are a prime example as I document that their production is concentrated in a few countries making their sourcing and deployment more costly.
Browse Through My Work
Here you can find a brief overview of my RESEARCH and TEACHING pages:
Publications
Robots, Offshoring, and Welfare, [Paper]
with G. Gancia, A. Bonfiglioli, R. Crino
“Robots and AI: a New Economic Era”, 2022
(eds. Lili Yan Ing and Gene M. Grossman), Oxon and New York: Routledge
Working Papers
Available upon request
Technical Change from the Top: The Role of Director Nationality in Importing Robots, 2022
The Labour Lock-in Effect of Automation: Evidence from Patents in Local US Labour Markets
The Geography of Routine-Biased Technical Change: Wages and Labor demand Shifts
Work in Progress
Automation and Service Trade: Evidence from UK Firms
with Gino Gancia, UK Statistics Authority DEA Accredited Project. . .
Prior to the PhD
Deciphering the Corporate Saving Glut, 2017 - M.Sc. theses
Τα υγειονομικά cluster ως τρόπος επέκτασης των Σ.Δ.Ι.Τ., 2015
with N. Prodromidis
- 2nd prize award in the 21st contest of Economia Group
Contribution Acknowledgements
Importing Inequality: Migration, Mobility, and the Top 1 percent, 2020
Authors: A. Advani, F. Koenig, L. Pessina and A. SummersLessons from the implementation and evaluation
of the Greater London Authority “Grow with AI” programme, 2021
Authors: A. Valero, C. Riom and J. Oliveira-CunhaCovid Furloughs and Employment in the UK
Authors: T. Lee, P. Cesana
Lectures
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Labour Economics - UG level, 2022
Mathematics and Statistics – Pre-sessional, PG level, 2019
Tutorials
Queen Mary University of London
Macro for Policy – PG level, 2021-2022
World Economy – UG level, 2020-2022
Labour Economics – UG level, 2020 and 2022 Principal Tutor, 2020-2023
Intermediate Macroeconomics – UG level, 2019 Principal Tutor, 2018-2019
London School of Economics and Political Science
Microeconomic Principles 1 – UG level, Lecturer: Prof. Tim Besley, 2021
References
Gino Gancia
Professor in Economics,
Queen Mary University of London
Phone: +44 207 882 8051
Email: g.gancia@qmul.ac.uk
Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee
Reader in Economics
Queen Mary University of London
Phone: +44 20 7882 3997
Email: sylee.tim@qmul.ac.uk
Anna Raute
Senior Lecturer
Queen Mary University of London
Phone: +44 207 882 8051
Email: a.raute@qmul.ac.uk
Anna Valero
Senior Policy Fellow and
Deputy Director of the POID
Centre for Economic Performance –
London School of Economics
Phone: +44 20 7955 6975
Email: a.a.sivropoulos-valero@lse.ac.uk