Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Degree Programme Director - Economics and Business Management (LN12)

Research Interests

Foreign Direct Investment, Regional Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Current Work

Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Economic Development

Affiliate of the ESRC Spatial Economics Research Centre:
http://www.spatialeconomics.ac.uk/

Discussion Papers:
Re-Investment and the Survival of Foreign-Owned Plants
Foreign Direct Investment and Prospects for the Northern Region

Current Papers under Submission

“The Location of FDI across British Regions: A Markov Analysis” (with Colin Wren).                 

“Industrial Location, Agglomeration Economies and the Relative Effect of Intermediate and Non-Intermediate Goods” (with Colin Wren).

Postgraduate Supervision

Addulaziz Almahmood: Inward FDI and Saudi Arabia.

Ilona Serwicka: FDI Location across EU Regiosn and Enlargement. 

Lecturer:
ECO3026 Industrial Economics
ECO2009 Empirical Economic Analysis

Previous Teaching:
BSM824 Applied Time Series Modelling and Forecasting (Lecturer)
ECO312 Public Economics (Lecturer)
ECO106 Statistics for Economists
ECO110 Mathematics for Economics
ECO209 Empirical Economic Analysis 

• Wren C, Jones J. FDI Location across British Regions and Agglomerative Forces: A Markov Analysis. Spatial Economic Analysis 2012, 7(2), 265-286.
• Wren C, Jones J. Assessing the Regional Impact of Grants on FDI Location: Evidence from UK Regional Policy, 1985-05. Journal of Regional Science 2011, 51(3), 497-517.
• Wren CM, Jones J. Re-investment and the survival of foreign-owned plants. Regional Science and Urban Economics 2009, 39(2), 214-223.
• Wren C, Jones J. Grants and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from the UK Regions. In: Farschi M; Janne O; McCann P, ed. Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions: Firms, Knowledge, and Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009, pp.299-320.
• Jones J, Wren C. Foreign Inward Investment and Regional Prospects. Northern Economic Review 2008, 38, 61-79.
• Jones J, Wren C. Foreign Direct Investment and the Regional Economy. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
• Jones J, Wren C. Do inward investors achieve their job targets. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 2004, 66(4), 483-513.
• Jones J, Wren C. Inward foreign direct investment and employment: A project-based analysis in north-east England. Journal of Economic Geography 2004, 4(5), 517-543.
• Jones J, Tomaney J, Pike A, Wren C. Memorandum to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into Trade and Manufacturing Policy Impact on Wales. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 2004.
• Jones J, Wren C. An Analysis of Sub-Regional Trends in British Inward FDI. 2012. In Preparation.