Key details
Dr Edna M Solomon
Academic Portfolio Lead (Economics), School of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Dr Edna Solomon joined University of Greenwich Business School in 2011. Dr Solomon obtained a PhD in economics from the University of Essex in 2010, where she also worked as a research officer and a part-time lecturer in the Department of Economics.
Dr Solomon's principal area of research is foreign direct investment and the multinational firm, firm productivity, economic growth, R&D and panel data econometrics. She is a member of the Royal Economic Society.
Responsibilities within the university
- Academic Portfolio Lead (Economics)
- Quality Assurance Lead (School of Accounting, Finance and Economics)
- Module leader (Introductory Econometrics, Applied Econometrics)
Awards
- 2021: Faculty of Business Staff Award for Outstanding Educator of the Year.
- 2019: Faculty of Business staff Award (co)winner for best programme team
- 2017: Vice Chancellor PhD Scholarship scheme on “The spatial dimensions of knowledge spillovers in the UK”
- 2011: Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Economia: Award of the fifth prize of Economic Research of Ensayos Revista de Economia. The paper, "An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth" was given the award for being among the best eight papers.
Research / Scholarly interests
Edna's research examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the multinational firm on economic growth and firm level productivity. She is interested in growth economics which, in her view, is the first step to improving the wellbeing of societies. Edna is also interested in the determinants of firm productivity, being an important contributor to economic growth. Her empirical research involves the use of panel datasets – hence, she is interested in applied panel data econometric methods.
Key funded projects
ESRC project, Evaluation of R&D expenditures, firm survival, firm growth and employment: UK evidence in OECD context, with Prof Mehmet Ugur (lead researcher), Dr Eshref Trushin (Durham university) and Dr Francesco Guidi. June 2013 to December 2014.
Recent publications
Article
Ugur, Mehmet , Solomon, Edna M., Zeynalov, Ayaz (2021), Leverage, competition and financial distress hazard: implications for capital structure in the presence of agency costs. Elsevier. In: , , , . Elsevier, Economic Modelling, 108: 105740 ISSN: 0264-9993 (Print), (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105740).
Solomon, Edna M. and , (2020), Types of R&D investment and firm productivity: UK evidence on heterogeneity and complementarity in rates of return. Taylor & Francis. In: , , , . Taylor & Francis, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 30 (5) . pp. 536-563 ISSN: 1043-8599 (Print), 1476-8364 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2020.1846249).
Solomon, Edna Maeyen and , van Klyton, Aaron (2020), The impact of digital technology usage on economic growth in Africa. Elsevier. In: , , , . Elsevier, Utilities Policy, 67: 101104 ISSN: 0957-1787 (Print), (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2020.101104).
Ugur, Mehmet , Churchill, Sefa Awaworyi, Solomon, Edna (2017), Technological innovation and employment in derived labour demand models: a hierarchical meta-regression analysis. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.. In: , , , . John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Journal of Economic Surveys, 32 (1) . pp. 50-82 ISSN: 0950-0804 (Print), 1467-6419 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12187).
Working paper
Ugur, Mehmet , Solomon, Edna, Zeynalov, Ayaz (2020), Leverage, Competition, and Financial Distress Hazard: Non-Monotonic Effects in the Presence of Agency Costs. EconPapers. In: , , , . EconPapers, (doi: https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/gpewpaper/28304.htm) NB Item availability restricted.