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Professor Frank Barry
Chair-Intl. Business & Development, Trinity Business School

Biography

Frank Barry is Professor of International Business & Economic Development at the Trinity Business School and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has held positions at the Universities of Stockholm, California and New South Wales, and with the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has acted as a consultant for the World Bank, the European Commission, the African Economic Research Consortium, and various Irish and UK government agencies. His current research interests are in the fields of foreign direct investment and economic and business history.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Research capacity building in Africa:perceived strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats impacting on the doctoral training for development programme in Africa. in, editor(s)Louis Brennan , Enacting Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on International Integration, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp43 - 53, [Uduma O, Glavey S, Doyle S, Hennessy M, Barry F, Jones M, MacLachlan M] Book Chapter, 2014 URL

Peter Crooks, Archives in Crisis, History Ireland, 18, (3 May/June), 2010, p10 - 11 Journal Article, 2010 URL

Frank Barry, Michael King, Alan Matthews, Policy Coherence for Development: The State of Play in Ireland, Dublin, Institute for International Integration Studies, 2009, 1-215pp Book, 2009

RUANE, F, INDUSTRY AND ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT - THE CHALLENGE FOR THE LATECOMER - OMALLEY,E, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW, 21, 1990, 241 - 244 Miscellaneous, 1990

Brian M Lucey, Efficiency In The Foreign Exchange Market - An Application Of Cointegration, Economic and Social Review, 20, (1), 1988, p25 - 36 Journal Article, 1988

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Hutzler S, Research Seminar, University of Ulm, Germany, July, 2003 Invited Talk, 2003

Research Expertise

Description

International Trade, Economic Geography and Foreign Direct Investment; Macroeconomics; Economic Development; the Irish Economy; Economic and Business History.

Projects

  • Title
    • Turning Globalization to National Advantage: Economic Policy Lessons from Ireland's Experience
  • Funding Agency
    • IRCHSS
  • Date From
    • 2008
  • Date To
    • 2011
  • Title
    • Policy Coherence for Development
  • Funding Agency
    • Advisory Board for Irish Aid
  • Date From
    • 2007
  • Date To
    • 2011
  • Title
    • European Union TMR Award
  • Summary
    • A pan-European research project on "Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Corporation", with F. Barry as UCD team leader. This is an EU-funded programme for the training and mobility of researchers, based on a network comprising UCD, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), London School of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Athens Institute of Economic Policy Studies and Bocconi University (Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano). Details of the project are available at: http://www.cepr.org/research/networks/fdimc/default.htm [UCD allocation: euro 234,645, to fund the employment of 1 to 2 post-doctoral researchers per year at UCD over the period 1998-2002]
  • Funding Agency
    • European Union
  • Date From
    • 1998
  • Date To
    • 2002
  • Title
    • European Union RTD Award
  • Summary
    • A pan-European research project on "Labour-Market Effects of Foreign Direct Investment", with F. Barry as UCD team leader. This is an EU-funded research and technological development project based on a network comprising UCD, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Research Institute of Industrial Economics (Stockholm), Stockholm School of Economics, the Centre for Research on Globalisation and Labour Markets at the University of Nottingham, Bocconi University (Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano) and Universidad Carlos III (Madrid). [UCD allocation: euro 139,588, to fund the employment of several pre- and post-doctoral researchers at UCD over the period 2000-2002]
  • Funding Agency
    • European Union
  • Date From
    • 2000
  • Date To
    • 2002
  • Title
    • Marie Curie Training Site status awarded to UCD International Economics group
  • Summary
    • On foot of a proposal submitted by project coordinator Frank Barry. The purpose of a Marie Curie Training Site is to allow young European doctoral students access to research groups with a strong international reputation in their field. [UCD allocation: euro 158,432, to fund 72 person-months of doctoral research and training at UCD over the period 2000-2004]
  • Funding Agency
    • European Union
  • Date From
    • 2000
  • Date To
    • 2004
  • Title
    • President's Research Fellowship
  • Funding Agency
    • UCD
  • Date From
    • 2005
  • Date To
    • 2006

Keywords

Business history; Developing Countries; Economic Development; Economic History; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Direct Investment & Corporation Tax Matters; International Trade and Economic Geography; Irish Economy (Long-term issues); Macroeconomics; The Irish Economy

Recognition

Representations

Member of Royal Irish Academy advisory committee on research project on the Great Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin in 1853. 2021

Member of advisory committee to Department of Finance research project 2021

Capital Flight from Africa: Causes, Effects and Policy Issues 2015

Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland (Implications for Northern Ireland of adopting the Irish Rate of Corporation Tax) 2006

Policy Coherence for Development 2011

Enterprise Ireland (Implications of Outward Direct Investment) 2006

Turning Globalization to National Advantage 2011

Consultant to World Bank on Regional Development Strategy for Kazakhstan 2006

Consultant to World Bank on Governance and Policy Consistency: Lessons for East Asia from Best-Practice Countries 2005

Consultant to World Bank and UK Department for International Development on European Union Regional Aid and Irish Economic Development 2005

Lead Consultant, FIAS/World Bank project on the development of MNC linkages in the Philippines 2004-05

Guest Editor, World Economy, special issue on "Enlargement and the EU Periphery" 2004

Guest Editor, Journal of Common Market Studies, special issue on "EMU and Cohesion", December 2003

Member of the Competitiveness Advisory Group and occasional member of the Foreign Investment Advisory Group reporting to the Enterprise Strategy Group (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment) Autumn 2003

Member, ad hoc group organised by the Department of the Taoiseach to advise on promotion of the Lisbon Agenda during Ireland's EU Presidency Autumn 2003

Editor, Economic and Social Review 1997-2001

Consultant, European Commission Technical Assistance Mission to Laos, (Euro-TAL ASEAN Support Project), Vientiane, Lao PDR Jan-Feb 2001

Team participant on Forfás-funded project: A Review of the Economic Appraisal System for Projects Seeking Support from the Industrial Development Agencies 2000

Lead Consultant to the National Competitiveness Council, tasked with establishing the economic consequences for Ireland of the May 2004 enlargement of the EU 2002

Irish Coordinator of EU-funded RTD Project on Labour Market Effects of Foreign Investment in Europe 2000-2002

Team Leader on EU-funded TMR Programme on Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Corporation: New Theories and Evidence 1998-2002

Main Contractor [with teams from ESRI (Dublin), Czech Republic, Romania and Slovenia] on report to the EU Commission on Transition and Cohesion Spring 1999

Consultant to Northern Ireland Economic Council on Regional Implications of EMU 1998

Evaluator for the EU Commission on the Phare ACE funding programme for Central and Eastern Europe, Brussels 1995-1997

Main Contractor [with teams from ESRI (Dublin), Portugal and Spain] on report to the EU Commission on The Impact of the Single European Market on the EU Periphery Autumn 1995

Consultant to Uruguayan Chamber of Commerce on Trade Policy and Industrialisation Strategy August 1994

Joint Coordinator of Economics Workshop for Permanent Secretaries of the Zambian Civil Service, on contract with the Institute of Public Administration, Dublin. May 1990

Consultant to National Economic and Social Council (Dublin) on Irish Unemployment 1989-1990

Member of Research and Advisory Committee for TRÓCAIRE (International Development NGO) 1988-2003

Awards and Honours

Elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy 2021

TBS teaching awards various years

President's Research Fellowship (UCD) 2005-06

Ireland Canada University Foundation Scholarship 2001

Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences June 2001

Memberships

Member of the Royal Irish Academy 2021