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Mary  O'Mahony

Professor Mary O'Mahony

Professor of Applied Economics

  • Research Director, Productivity Institute

Research interests

  • Economics

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Biography

Mary O’Mahony is Professor of Applied Economics at King's Business School. Her research interests include measuring and explaining international differences in productivity, technology and growth; human capital formation and its impacts on productivity and measuring performance in public services, including health and education.

She joined King’s in May 2013 and was previously Professor at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. She is currently a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London. 

Her research has in recent years been primarily funded by the European Commission and she recently coordinated two EC FP7 projects SERVICEGAP and INDICSER as well as being academic coordinator on the FP6 EU KLEMS project.

Mary's Research Excellence Framework 2021 impact case study was called Better Economic Data: Developing New Techniques to Measure the Economy More Accurately. Read the impact feature on this case study here. 

    Research

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    Data Analytics for Finance and Macro

    Forecasting trends is more important now than it has ever been. Our quantitative financial and macroeconomic research helps central banks and statistical agencies better understand their markets.

    News

    Labour Force Skills in the Digital Age

    Professor Mary O’Mahony explains current thinking on the skills required in the digital age and why better measurement is needed to underpin more investment...

    Labour Force Skills in the Digital Age

    Spotlight

    Providing a better basis for policy making

    King’s Business School economists help statistics bodies in UK and Ireland

    london street

      Research

      dafm event series - thumbnail image
      Data Analytics for Finance and Macro

      Forecasting trends is more important now than it has ever been. Our quantitative financial and macroeconomic research helps central banks and statistical agencies better understand their markets.

      News

      Labour Force Skills in the Digital Age

      Professor Mary O’Mahony explains current thinking on the skills required in the digital age and why better measurement is needed to underpin more investment...

      Labour Force Skills in the Digital Age

      Spotlight

      Providing a better basis for policy making

      King’s Business School economists help statistics bodies in UK and Ireland

      london street