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]
Peter Crooks, Archives in Crisis, History Ireland, 18, (3 May/June), 2010, p10 - 11
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
RUANE, F, INDUSTRY AND ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT - THE CHALLENGE FOR THE LATECOMER - OMALLEY,E, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW, 21, 1990, 241 - 244
Brian M Lucey, Efficiency In The Foreign Exchange Market - An Application Of Cointegration, Economic and Social Review, 20, (1), 1988, p25 - 36
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Hutzler S, Research Seminar, University of Ulm, Germany, July, 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
Recognition
Representations
Member of Royal Irish Academy advisory committee on research project on the Great Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin in 1853.
Member of advisory committee to Department of Finance research project
Capital Flight from Africa: Causes, Effects and Policy Issues
Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland (Implications for Northern Ireland of adopting the Irish Rate of Corporation Tax)
Policy Coherence for Development
Enterprise Ireland (Implications of Outward Direct Investment)
Turning Globalization to National Advantage
Consultant to World Bank on Regional Development Strategy for Kazakhstan
Consultant to World Bank on Governance and Policy Consistency: Lessons for East Asia from Best-Practice Countries
Consultant to World Bank and UK Department for International Development on European Union Regional Aid and Irish Economic Development
Lead Consultant, FIAS/World Bank project on the development of MNC linkages in the Philippines
Guest Editor, World Economy, special issue on "Enlargement and the EU Periphery"
Guest Editor, Journal of Common Market Studies, special issue on "EMU and Cohesion", December
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)
Member, ad hoc group organised by the Department of the Taoiseach to advise on promotion of the Lisbon Agenda during Ireland's EU Presidency
Editor, Economic and Social Review
Consultant, European Commission Technical Assistance Mission to Laos, (Euro-TAL ASEAN Support Project), Vientiane, Lao PDR
Team participant on Forfás-funded project: A Review of the Economic Appraisal System for Projects Seeking Support from the Industrial Development Agencies
Lead Consultant to the National Competitiveness Council, tasked with establishing the economic consequences for Ireland of the May 2004 enlargement of the EU
Irish Coordinator of EU-funded RTD Project on Labour Market Effects of Foreign Investment in Europe
Team Leader on EU-funded TMR Programme on Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Corporation: New Theories and Evidence
Main Contractor [with teams from ESRI (Dublin), Czech Republic, Romania and Slovenia] on report to the EU Commission on Transition and Cohesion
Consultant to Northern Ireland Economic Council on Regional Implications of EMU
Evaluator for the EU Commission on the Phare ACE funding programme for Central and Eastern Europe, Brussels
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
Consultant to Uruguayan Chamber of Commerce on Trade Policy and Industrialisation Strategy
Joint Coordinator of Economics Workshop for Permanent Secretaries of the Zambian Civil Service, on contract with the Institute of Public Administration, Dublin.
Consultant to National Economic and Social Council (Dublin) on Irish Unemployment
Member of Research and Advisory Committee for TRÓCAIRE (International Development NGO)
Awards and Honours
Elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy
TBS teaching awards
President's Research Fellowship (UCD)
Ireland Canada University Foundation Scholarship
Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Memberships
Member of the Royal Irish Academy