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Anthony Venables
Academic profile

Professor Tony Venables CBE

Professor of Economics at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester

Committees: Executive Committee, Executive Team, Productivity Commission
Research Theme: Geography & place

Career

Tony Venables has published extensively in the areas of international and spatial economics, including work on trade and competition, economic integration, multinational firms, economic geography, and regional economics. A fellow of the British Academy and the Econometric Society, he has also worked for the UK government and the World Bank.

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