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Economics and Finance
Denmark
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
44
Citations
18822
World Ranking
1791
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Ari Kokko is affiliated with Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance as well as Business, Management and Accounting. Within these broader areas, they have contributed particularly to General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Strategy and Management, alongside studies in Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in Kokko's research include global trade and economics, international business and foreign direct investment (FDI), economic zones and regional development, global trade and competitiveness, migration and labor dynamics, taxation and compliance studies, and World Trade Organization law.

They have published research in various academic venues, with frequent contributions to the World Trade Review and the International Journal of Technological Learning Innovation and Development. Other publication venues include the International Journal of Emerging Markets, Agribusiness, and Southeast Asian Economies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ari Kokko include:

  • SEZs and poverty reduction: evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India (2021), published in International Journal of Emerging Markets
  • Who Uses the EU's Free Trade Agreements? A Transaction-Level Analysis of the EU-South Korea FTA (2021), in World Trade Review
  • Learning to Use Trade Preferences: A Firm and Transaction Level Analysis of the EU-South Korea FTA (2024), in World Trade Review
  • Technology upgrading in Chinese manufacturing - a cross-industry perspective (2022), International Journal of Technological Learning Innovation and Development
  • Technology upgrading in Chinese manufacturing - a cross-industry perspective (2022), International Journal of Technological Learning Innovation and Development

Frequent co-authors working with Ari Kokko include Jonas Kasteng, Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall, Le Hai Van, Guowei Dong, and Aradhna Aggarwal.

Best Publications

  • Multinational Corporations and Spillovers

    Magnus Blomström;Ari Kokko

  • Technology, market characteristics, and spillovers

    Ari Kokko

  • The Economics of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives

    Magnus Blomstrom;Ari Kokko

  • Local Technological Capability and Productivity Spillovers from FDI in the Uruguayan Manufacturing Sector

    Magnus Blomström;Ari Kokko;Mario Zejan

  • Regional Integration and Foreign Direct Investment

    Magnus Blomström;Ari Kokko

  • Regional integration and foreign direct investment: a conceptual framework and three cases

    Magnus Blomstrom;Ari Kokko

  • Productivity Spillovers from Competition between Local Firms and Foreign Affiliates

    Ari Kokko

  • The determinants of host country spillovers from foreign direct investment: a review and synthesis of the literature

    Magnus Blomström;Ari Kokko;Steven Globerman

  • Host Country Competition, Labor Skills, and Technology Transfer by Multinationals

    Magnus Blomström;Ari Kokko;Mario Zejan

  • Foreign Direct Investment : Firm and Host Country Strategies

    Magnus Blomström;Ari Kokko;Mario Carlos Zejan

  • Trade regimes and spillover effects of FDI: Evidence from Uruguay

    Ari Kokko;Mario Zejan;Ruben Tansini

  • Local technological capability and productivity spillovers from FDI in the Uruguayan manufacturing sector

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  • Foreign direct investment, host country characteristics and spillovers

    Ari Kokko

  • How Foreign Investment Affects Host Countries

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  • How foreign investment affects host countries

    Magnus Blomstrom;Ari Kokko

  • The determinants of host country spillovers from foreign direct investment: a review and synthesis of the literature

    Magnus Blomström;Ari Kokko;Steven Globerman

  • The Economics of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives

    Magnus Blomstrom;Magnus Blomstrom;Magnus Blomstrom;Ari Kokko;Ari Kokko

  • Policies to Encourage Inflows of Technology through Foreign Multinationals

    Ari Kokko;Magnus Blomström;Magnus Blomström;Magnus Blomström

  • Foreign direct investment and spillovers of technology

    Magnus Blomstrom;Ari Kokko

  • Wind power in China: Policy and development challenges

    Yingqi Liu;Ari Kokko;Ari Kokko

  • Host Country Competition and Technology Transfer by Multinationals

    Magnus Blomstrom;Ari Kokko;Mario Zejan

  • THE HOME COUNTRY EFFECTS OF FDI IN DEVELOPED ECONOMIES

    Ari Kokko

  • Human Capital and Inward FDI

    Magnus Blomström;Ari Kokko

  • Multinational Corporations and Productivity Convergence in Mexico

    Magnus Blomström;Magnus Blomström;Magnus Blomström;Ari Kokko;Ari Kokko;Ari Kokko;Mario Zejan

  • Regional Integration and Foreign Direct Investment

    Magnus Blomstrom;Magnus Blomstrom;Magnus Blomstrom;Ari Kokko;Ari Kokko

Frequent Co-Authors

Magnus Blomstrom
Magnus Blomstrom Stockholm School of Economics
Fredrik Sjöholm
Fredrik Sjöholm Research Institute of Industrial Economics

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