Staff Profile

Introduction

Jonathan Jones is a lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University Business School. His research interests are in empirical microeconomics that are applied specifically to foreign direct investment where he has developed an international reputation within the cross-disciplinary area of economics, regional science, geography and international business. This is from publication in a number of economics and regional science journals and being the co-author of books on Foreign Direct Investment and the Regional Economy and Understanding the Location of Foreign Direct Investment. He has also been involved as an affiliate of the ESRC/UK government funded Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC) and his work has attracted media interest that includes national and regional television, newspapers, radio appearances and BBC web-based coverage.

Qualifications

PhD, Economics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne:

'The Nature and Performance of Inward Investment in North-East England: 1985-98' 

MA(Economics), University of Liverpool

BA(Hons), Economics/Accounting & Finance, University of Manchester

Bibliographic links

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3619-0777

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=HCIAdbsAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Interests

Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Geography, Regional Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Postgraduate Supervision

Alex Li: E-commerce and International Trade

Neha Tengur: Partisan Budget Cycles and Electoral Accountability in the European Union

Putu Sudiana: Foreign Direct Investment Location and Tax Incentive Policy in Indonesia

Qianyi Zhou: Location of BRICS FDI within the European Union.

Ilona Serwicka: FDI Location across EU Regions and Enlargement.

Abdulaziz Almahmood: Inward FDI and Saudi Arabia.

Affiliations

Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre

Spatial Economics Research Centre.

SERC Discussion Papers:

On the Relative Importance of Agglomeration Economies in the Location of FDI Across British Regions

The Dynamics of FDI Location: A Markov Analysis for British Regions

FDI Location Across British Regions and Inward Investment Policy

Foreign Direct Investment and Prospects for the Northern Region

Re-Investment and the Survival of Foreign-Owned Plants 

Module Leader

ECO3026 Industrial Economics and Policy

ECO2009 Econometric Analysis

ECO3098 Placement Related Project

Previous Teaching

ECO2003 Economic Modelling

ECO2004 Microeconomic Analysis

ECO106 Statistics for Economists

ECO110 Mathematics for Economics

ECO312 Public Economics

BSM824 Applied Time Series Modelling and Forecasting

• Serwicka IE, Jones J, Wren C. European Integration and FDI Location: Is there a Border Effect within the Enlarged EU?. The Annals of Regional Science 2022, (ePub ahead of Print).
• Jones J, Fazio G. The Nature of Foreign Direct Investment in the Creative Industries. Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, 2022. Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre Discussion Paper 2022/08.
• Jones J, Serwicka I, Wren C. The Motives for FDI Location in Europe and EU Enlargement. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 2020, 52(8), 1681-1699.
• Jones J, Serwicka I, Wren C. Economic integration, border costs and FDI location: Evidence from the fifth European enlargement. International Review of Economics and Finance 2018, 54, 193-205.
• Jones J. Agglomeration Economies and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Regional Science 2017, 57(5), 731-757.
• Wren C, Jones J. Understanding the Location of Foreign Direct Investment. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016.
• Jones J, Wren C. The Dynamics of Service FDI Location: A Disaggregated Industry Analysis for Great Britain. In: Beerepoot,N; Lambregts,B; Kleibert,J, ed. Globalisation and Services-driven Economic Growth : Perspectives from the Global North and South. London: Routledge, 2016, pp.90-104.
• Jones J, Wren C. Does Service FDI Locate Differently to Manufacturing FDI? A Regional Analysis for Great Britain. Regional Studies 2016, 50(12), 1980-1994.
• Serwicka I, Jones J, Wren C. The Motives for the FDI Location Choice in the ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Europe. In: 54th Congress of European Regional Science Association. 2014, St Petersburg, Russia: ERSA.
• 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. Quantitative Evaluation of the LEAD Programme, 2004-11. Lancaster: Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, Lancaster University, 2012.
• Wren C, Jones J. Assessing the Regional Impact of Grants on FDI Location: Evidence from U.K. Regional Policy, 1985-2005. Journal of Regional Science 2011, 51(3), 497-517.
• Jones J, Wren C. On the Relative Importance of Agglomeration Economies in the Location of FDI Across British Regions. London: Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE, 2011. SERC Discussion Paper 89.
• 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.