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D-Index
34
Citations
6171
World Ranking
3075
National Ranking
6

Ronald B. Davies publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ronald B. Davies sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 122 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Ronald B. Davies D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ronald B. Davies sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ronald B. Davies is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with significant contributions also in Business, Management and Accounting. The subfields of study covering their work include Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, Strategy and Management, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Political Science and International Relations.

Their major research topics encompass Corporate Taxation and Avoidance, Economic Policies and Impacts, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Taxation and Compliance Studies, Global Trade and Economics, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and Regional Resilience and Development.

Among recent publications, notable works include:

  • The impact of taxes on the extensive and intensive margins of FDI, 2021, International Tax and Public Finance
  • What do multinationals do? The structure of multinational firms' international activities, 2021, World Economy
  • The glass border: Gender and exporting in developing countries, 2020, World Economy
  • Regional knowledge spaces: the interplay of entry-relatedness and entry-potential for technological change and growth, 2022, The Journal of Technology Transfer
  • Manipulations of sensory experiences during development reveal mechanisms underlying vocal learning biases in zebra finches, 2020, Developmental Neurobiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ronald B. Davies include:

  • David R. Agrawal
  • Nadine Riedel
  • Annette Alstadsæter
  • James R. Markusen
  • Zuzanna Studnicka

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, with the following as the most common:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Tax and Public Finance
  • Review of International Economics
  • World Economy
  • The Journal of Technology Transfer

This collection of research outputs and collaborations reflects a comprehensive engagement with topics related to taxation, economic growth, international trade, and firm behavior. The diversity in publication venues and co-authorship networks further indicates active involvement in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary academic communities.

Best Publications

  • FDI IN SPACE: SPATIAL AUTOREGRESSIVE RELATIONSHIPS IN FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

    Bruce A. Blonigen;Ronald B. Davies;Glen R. Waddell;Helen T. Naughton

  • Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise: Comment

    Bruce A. Blonigen;Ronald B. Davies;Keith Head

  • A race to the bottom in labor standards? An empirical investigation

    Ronald B. Davies;Ronald B. Davies;Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

  • Knocking on Tax Haven's Door: Multinational Firms and Transfer Pricing

    Ronald B. Davies;Julien Martin;Mathieu Parenti;Farid Toubal

  • The Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties on U.S. FDI Activity

    Bruce A. Blonigen;Ronald B. Davies

  • The heterogeneous impact of Brexit: Early indications from the FTSE

    Ronald B. Davies;Zuzanna Studnicka

  • Tax Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment: Potential versus Performance

    Ronald B. Davies

  • Tax Competition in an Expanding European Union

    Ronald B. Davies;Johannes Voget

  • Is there an environmental benefit to being an exporter? Evidence from firm-level data

    Svetlana Batrakova;Ronald B. Davies

  • Asymmetric FDI and Tax-Treaty Bargaining: Theory and Evidence

    Richard Chisik;Ronald B Davies

  • Tax Competition for Heterogeneous Firms with Endogenous Entry

    Ronald B. Davies;Carsten Eckel

  • The Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties on U.S. FDI Activity

    Bruce A. Blonigen;Bruce A. Blonigen;Ronald B. Davies

  • The Effect of Tax Treaties on Multinational Firms: New Evidence from Microdata

    Ronald B. Davies;Pehr-Johan Norbäck;Ayça Tekin-Koru

  • Hunting High and Low for Vertical FDI

    Ronald B. Davies

  • Greenfield versus Merger & Acquisition FDI: Same Wine, Different Bottles?

    Ronald B. Davies;Rodolphe Desbordes;Anna Ray

  • State Tax Competition for Foreign Direct Investment: A Winnable War?

    Ronald B. Davies

  • The effect of FDI on child labor

    Ronald B. Davies;Annie Voy

  • Tax Treaties, Renegotiations, and Foreign Direct Investment

    Ronald B. Davies

  • Fixed Costs, Foreign Direct Investment, and Gravity with Zeros

    Ronald B. Davies;Helga Kristjánsdóttir

  • The Oecd Model Tax Treaty: Tax Competition And Two-Way Capital Flows*

    Ronald B. Davies

  • The Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties on U.S. FDI Activity

    Bruce A. Blonigen;Ronald B. Davies

  • A race to the bottom in labour standards? An empirical investigation

    Ronald B. Davies;Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce A. Blonigen
Bruce A. Blonigen University of Oregon
James R. Markusen
James R. Markusen University of Colorado Boulder
Stephan Klasen
Stephan Klasen University of Göttingen
Joseph Francois
Joseph Francois University of Bern
Peter Egger
Peter Egger ETH Zurich
Keith Head
Keith Head University of British Columbia

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