Ioannis Papadakis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Welcome! I am a research fellow at the University of Sussex's Economics Department, a researcher at the CITP, and a PhD candidate in economics at QMUL's School of Economics and Finance. 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 European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Conference in Prague, 2023
presenting at the Royal Economic Society and Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference, 2023
presenting at the CITP Inaugural Academic Conference, 2023
presenting at the Economics PhD & Early Career Researchers Conference at the University of Essex, 2023
awarded a £3K Research Culture Seed Fund by the University of Sussex, 2023
preparing 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