Dr John Moffat's Outputs (2)

The geographical dimension of productivity in Great Britain, 2011–18: the sources of the London productivity advantage (2021)
Journal Article
Harris, R., & Moffat, J. (2022). The geographical dimension of productivity in Great Britain, 2011–18: the sources of the London productivity advantage. Regional Studies, 56(10), 1713-1728. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.2004308

The UK government has committed to ‘levelling up’ regional economic performance. Through deriving geographically disaggregated estimates of total factor productivity from plant-level data, we show that the productivity advantage of London is far grea... Read More about The geographical dimension of productivity in Great Britain, 2011–18: the sources of the London productivity advantage.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level and distribution of intangibles investment in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Harris, R., & Moffat, J. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level and distribution of intangibles investment in the UK. Applied Economics Letters, 29(13), 1238-1242. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1954591

This paper investigates trends in intangibles investment since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Responses from an online survey show that investment in R&D has dropped substantially for many firms but that over 40% of firms i... Read More about The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level and distribution of intangibles investment in the UK.