Dr Céline Azémar, BA, MA, PhD
Lecturer
C.Azemar@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Room S208
Tel: +44(0)141 330 3332
Office hour: Dr Azémar is currently on maternity leave
Teaching 2008-09
Undergraduate: Economics 2; Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Firms
Postgraduate: Aid and Development; Basic Econometrics
Background
Céline Azémar joined the department in September 2007. She holds degrees from the University of Marne la Vallée and the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Céline was previously a visiting researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain and has also held research and teaching posts at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the French Ministry of Research.
Recent selected publications
Azémar C. (forthcoming). 'International corporate taxation and US multinationals' behaviour: an integrated approach', Canadian Journal of Economics.
Available as Discussion Paper 2009-03, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow.
Azémar C. and Corcos, G. (2009). 'Heterogeneity of foreign firms and asymmetry
in tax responsiveness: the role of transfer pricing', The World Economy, vol. 32(9), (September), pp. 1291-1318.
Available as Discussion Paper 2008-04, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow.
Azémar, C. and Desbordes R. (2009). 'Public governance, health and Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa', Journal of African Economies, vol. 18(4), (August), pp. 667-709.
Available as Discussion Paper 2009-04, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow.
Angeles, L., Azémar, C. and Noorbakhsh, F. (2008), 'Selectivity and foreign aid allocation: is there an improvement?', consultancy paper for the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations.
Azémar C. and Delios, A. (2008). 'Tax competition and FDI: the special case of developing countries', Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol. 22(1), (March), pp. 85-108.
Azémar C., Desbordes, R. and Mucchielli, J. L. (2007). 'Do tax sparing agreements contribute to the attraction of FDI in developing countries?', International Tax and Public Finance, vol. 14(5), pp. 543-562.
Azémar C., Desbordes, R. and Mucchielli, J. L. (2005). 'Public institutions and relationships with multinationals corporations’ location decisions', in (A. Giroud, A. Mohr and D. Yang, eds.), Multinationals and Asia: Organizational and Institutional Relationships, Routledge.
Azémar C., Desbordes, R. and Mucchielli, J. L. (2004). 'Public governance as a key determinant of FDI: a comparative analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia Host Countries', in (S. Perrin and F. Sachwald, eds.), Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: Leveraging the Role of Multinationals, Agence Française de Développement.
Conferences and seminars
2009: Workshop of the European Tax Policy Forum, Brussels; European Tax Policy Forum/Institute for Fiscal Studies Public Conference on the Impact and Design of Business Taxation in a Globalised World, London.
2008: SIRE Young Researcher Forum, University of Stirling; Development Policy Research Unit Conference, Muldersdrift, South Africa; Seminar of the University of Strathclyde; Centre For Business Taxation Summer Symposium, Oxford University; Royal Economic Society Conference, Warwick; United Nations’ Workshop on 'Debt, Finance and Emerging Issues in Financial Integration', New York.
2006: ADRES Doctoral Meetings, Marseille; Seminar of Waseda University Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo; Seminar of Waseda University Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Tokyo; XIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Seville; 21st Meeting of the European Economic Association, Vienna; XXIIIrd meetings in Applied Microeconomics, Nantes.
2005: Seminar of Waseda University Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo; CNRS Conference 'Journées Scientifiques Francophones', Tokyo.
2004: Vth Doctoral Meetings in International Trade and International Finance, Paris; The annual congress of the Western Economic Association, Vancouver.
2003: Workshop on FDI and Attractiveness, Agence Française des Investissements Internationaux, Paris; The Applied Econometrics Association annual conference, Toledo (Spain).
Work in progress
Angeles, L., Azémar C. and Noorbakhsh, F. 'Selectivity and foreign aid allocation: is there an improvement?'
Azémar C. and Delios, A. 'The tax sparing provision influence: a credit versus exempt investors analysis', Discussion Paper 2007-31, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow.
Azémar, C. and Desbordes R. 'Global strategies of Foreign Direct Investment attractiveness'.
Available as Discussion Paper 2009-24, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow.
Azémar, C. and Desbordes R. 'The incidence of labour and capital income taxation on wages'.
Grants
Aguirre Basualdo grant 2005 (Economic Sciences and Management): Chancellery of the Universities of Paris. Prize for the best project in Economics.
Lavoisier scholarship of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005-2006).
Other academic activities
Referee reports: Public Choice, International Tax and Public Finance, The World Economy and Fiscal Studies
Editor, Economie Internationale, by Jean-Louis Mucchielli and Thierry Mayer.