Dr Karen Jackson

Research interests

International trade, finance and development

Education

Dr Jackson studied at the University of Sussex (DPhil), University of Nottingham (MSc) and University of Kent (BA). She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Employment

Dr Jackson has previously held positions at the University of Bradford (Head of Economics, China and East Asia Development Director and Senior Lecturer in Economics), UK Department for International Development (Economist) and the University of Sussex (Research Officer).

Consultancy and advisory assignments

Dr Jackson has worked as a consultant for the UK Department for International Development and Commonwealth Secretariat.

She currently holds two external examiner appointments as well as previously undertaking external expert roles in a number of UK universities.  

Moreover, she has been invited to act as a panel member by the Economic Social Research Council.

Academic Partnerships

Dr Jackson has previously worked as China and East Asia Development Director (University of Bradford) while living in China, establishing a foreign enterprise and leading partnership developments across East Asia.

She is currently the China Regional Coordinator for Westminster Business School.

PhD Supervision

Dr Jackson has supervised three PhD students to completion (2012, 2014 and 2018), with all three of these candidates now holding permanent academic positions at UK Universities. She is also currently supervising a futher student.

Membership of professional organisations

Dr Jackson is a member of the Royal Economic Society and American Economic Association. Furthermore, she is a member of the Contemporary China Centre (University of Westminster), Westminster Development Policy Research Network and The Carlton House Network - The Limits of EUrope: Challenging the Crisis of European Integration.

More details: karen-jackson.com

Working papers

“Belt and Road: The China Dream?”, SSRN (with O. Shepotylo)

"Trade Wars: Are Good and Easy to Win?", SSRN (with O. Shepotylo)

"The collapse of EU trade relations: A worst case scenario?" ​​SSRN (with O. Shepotylo)

Publications

"Trade (Dis)integration: The sudden death of NAFTA", (forthcoming), Open Economies Review (with D. Bakas and G Magkonis)

“An Inquiry into Exchanges Rate Misalignments as a Cause of the Major Global Trade Imbalances”, (2019), Journal of Economic Studies, 46(4), pp. 902-924 (with M.A. Nasir)

“Identifying networks in social media: The case of #Grexit”, (2019), Networks and Spatial Economics, 19(1), pp. 3019-330 (with G. Magkonis)

“Regional trade institutions in West Africa: Historical reflections”, (2018), Journal of International Development, 30(8), pp. 1255-1272 (with E. Bah and D. J. Potts)

“Post-Brexit trade survival: Looking beyond the European Union”, (2018), Economic Modelling, 73, pp. 317-328 (with O. Shepotylo)

The segmentation of Europe: Convergence or divergence between core and periphery, (2017) Palgrave Macmillan (with M. Baimbridge, U. R. Lee and I. Litsios) [Reviews available]

“Evaluating methodological issues in the tourism literature: UK outgoing tourism and trade links”, (2015), Economic Issues, 28(1), pp. 1-42 (with W. Zang)

“Great achievements and great challenges: The EU Common Fisheries Policy” in Re-examining the EU policies in a global perspective edited by M. R. Szeles, (2013), Palgrave Macmillan

“Reconsidering the silk road: Tourism in the context of regionalism and trade patterns“ in Handbook on the Economics of Leisure edited by S. Cameron, (2011) Edward Elgar.

"A Framework for evaluating regional trade agreements involving developing countries", (2005), Report for the UK Department for International Development (with D. Evans, M. Gasiorek, P. Holmes, L. Iacovone, S. Robinson and J. Rollo)

 "Investment incentives in Commonwealth developed countries and the WTO investment negotiations.", (2003), Commonwealth Secretariat Economic Paper Series (with J. Lafortune, J.C.R. Rowley, S.R. Vemuri, and R. Scollay)

Research impact

NAFTA 2.0 is a welcome deal for the US, Canada and Mexico in a time of trade uncertainty, (2019), LSE US Centre, 13 Nov (with D. Bakas and G. Magkonis)

"Winners and losers in the US-China trade war", (2019), The Conversation, 25 Jun (with O. Shepotylo)

"Brexit: breaking up is hard to do", (2019), The Money - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 21 March

"Why a no-deal Brexit would be less costly for the EU than the UK", (2019), The Conversation, 24 Jan (with A. Delis and O. Shepotylo)

"Brexit: four things you need to know", (2019), The UK in a Changing Europe, 11 Jan (with O. Shepotylo)

JVC - BBC Three Counties Radio interview, (2018), 14 Dec

"No deal? Seven reasons why a WTO-only Brexit would be bad for Britain", (2018), The Conversation, 23 Aug (with O. Shepotylo) [More than 67,000 reads]

"Post-Brexit trade with the US Donald Trump was right when he said a deal would be tricky", (2018), The Conversation, 20 July (with O. Shepotylo)

"A customs union would free the UK to strike trade deals but it doesnt solve every Brexit problem", (2018), The Conversation, 26 April (with O. Shepotylo)

"The five alternatives to EU single market and customs union would all make UK poorer", (2018), The Conversation, 26 Feb (with O. Shepotylo)

"West Africa: Empirehood and colonialism offer lessons in integration", (2017), The Conversation, 12 December (with E. Bah and D. J. Potts) [More than 75,000 reads]

Funded research projects (ongoing)

China in Uzbekistan: an investigation into the effects of BRI on trade, migration, and Chinese language education, Nov 2019 - Nov 2020, WUIT Collaborative Research Fund, 9,710 pounds [Co-Investigator]

Attracting FDI in support of development and the role of legal frameworks in Uzbekistan, 1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2020 (date to be confirmed), WUIT Collaborative Research Fund, 7,000 USD [Co-Investigator] 

For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.