International Economics/Trade

Politics and Economics of Development

Quantitative Methods of Analysis/Evaluation

B.S. honors Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations M.A. and PhD. Economics, Princeton University

A) JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Do Markets Pay Women More than Planners?” Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005 (with D. Munich and K. Terrell)

“Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy,” Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2005 (with D. Munich and K. Terrell). SSRN Working Paper

“FDI Spillovers and Distance of Firms to the Frontier,” Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2005 (with K. Sabirianova and K. Terrell). SSRN Working Paper

“Employment Determination in Enterprises under Communism and in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2005, (with S. Basu and S. Estrin). SSRN Working Paper

“Can We Turn Europe's Differences to Business Advantage? Europe poised to move up a gear,” Part of the EBF Debate. European Business Forum, Issue 17, Spring 2004, pp. 7-10. SSRN Working Paper

“Objectives and Constraints of Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Small and Medium Size Enterprises in Russia and Bulgaria, Journal of Comparative Economics, September 2003, Vol. 31, pp. 503-531, (with M. Singer and F. Pissarides). SSRN Working Paper

“Investment, Credit Rationing and the Soft Budget Constraint: Evidence from Czech Panel Data, The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2002, Vol. 84, No. 2 pp. 353-370, (with L. Lizal). SSRN Working Paper

“Transition Economies: Performance and Challenges,” Journal of Economic Perspectives Winter 2002, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 3-28. SSRN Working Paper

“Enterprise Break-ups and Performance During the Transition From Plan to Market,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2001, Vol. 83, No. 1 pp. 92-99, (with L. Lizal and M. Singer). SSRN Working Paper

“Enterprises in the Post-Privatization Period,” Eastern European Economies, September-October 2000, pp. 60-92 (with P. Domadenik and J. Prasnikar). SSRN Working Paper

“Economics Ph.D. Education in Central and Eastern Europe,” Comparative Economic Studies. Vol. XLII No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 37-50. SSRN Working Paper

“Firms and Competitiveness in Central Europe: Accomplishments and Challenges,” Economic and Business Review. Vol. 2, No. 1, 2000, pp. 5-28. SSRN Working Paper

“Women’s Unemployment During the Transition: Evidence from Czech and Slovak Micro Data,” Economics of Transition, Vol.7, No. 1, 1999, pp. 47-78 (with J. Ham and K. Terrell). SSRN Working Paper

“Unemployment and the Social Safety Net During Transitions to a Market Economy: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics, American Economic Review, December 1998, Vol. 88, No. 5, pp. 1117-1142 (with J. Ham and K. Terrell). SSRN Working Paper

“Employment and Wage Behavior of Industrial Firms During the Transition,” Economics of Transition, Vol. 5. No. 2, November 1997, pp. 271-287 (with S. Basu and S. Estrin). SSRN Working Paper

“Enterprises and Workers in the Transition: Econometric Evidence,” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 86, No. 2, May 1996, pp. 123-127. SSRN Working Paper

“Behavior of Participatory Firms in Yugoslavia: Lessons for Transforming Economics,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXXVI, No. 4, November 1994, pp. 728-741 (with J. Prasnikar, D. Milhajek and V. Prasnikar). SSRN Working Paper

“Rapid and Multifaceted Privatization: Experience of the Czech and Slovak Republics,” MOST 4 1994, pp. 147-185 (with J. Kotrba). SSRN Working Paper

“Using Vouchers to Privatize an Economy: The Czech and Slovak Case,” Economics of Transition, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1994, pp. 43-69 (with M. Singer). SSRN Working Paper

“The Emergence of Unemployment in the Czech and Slovak Republics,” Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1993, pp. 121-134 (with J. Ham and K. Terrell). SSRN Working Paper

“A Comment on Unemployment, labor markets and structural change in Eastern Europe.” Economic Policy, Vol. 16, 1993, pp. 130-131. SSRN Working Paper

“Wage Determination in Labor-Manager Firms under Market-Oriented Reforms: Estimates of Static and Dynamic Models,” Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 17, August 1993, pp. 687-700 (with S. Estrin). SSRN Working Paper

“Exceso de Empleo en el Sector Transporte: El Caso de Chile,” Estudios de Economía, June 1993, Vol. 20, No. 1, 103-151 (with K. Terrell).

“Labor Market Adjustment in Transitional Economies,” World Bank Economic Review, Proceedings 1993, pp. 157-168. SSRN Working Paper

“Structural Adjustment Policies and Productive Efficiency of Socialist Enterprises,” European Economic Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, Jan. 1992, pp. 179-199 (with J. Prasnikar and M. Klinedinst). SSRN Working Paper

“Workers Participation in Management vs. Social Ownership and Government Policies: Yugoslav Lessons for Transforming Socialist Economies,” Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter 1991, pp. 27-46 (with J. Prasnikar). SSRN Working Paper

“Microeconomic Issues in the Transition to Markets,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 5, No. 4, Fall 1991, pp. 123-138. SSRN Working Paper

“Czechoslovakia: Recent Economic Developments and Prospects,” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 81, No. 2, May 1991, pp. 185-190 (with K. Dyba). SSRN Working Paper

“Optimal Membership, Employment and Income Distribution in Unionized and Labor Manager Firms,” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 8, No. 3, July 1990, pp. 317-340 (with F. Spinnewyn). SSRN Working Paper

“A Framework for the Economic Transformation of Czechoslovakia,” Planecon Report, Vol. 5, No. 52, December 1989, pp. 1-18, reprinted in East European Economies, Czech version in Lidove Noviny-Archy, Oct. 1990. SSRN Working Paper

“Models of Modern-Sector Labor Market Institutions in Developing Countries,” World Development, Vol. 17, No. 9, September 1989, pp. 1409-1415. SSRN Working Paper

“Market Imperfection, Labor-Management and Earnings Differentials in a Developing Economy: Theory and Econometric Evidence from Yugoslavia,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. CIII, No. 3, August 1988, pp. 465-478 (with S. Estrin and R. Moore). SSRN Working Paper

“Productivity Effects of Worker Participation in Management, Profitsharing, Worker Ownership of Assets, and Unionization in U.S. Firms,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1988, pp. 139-152 (with M. Conte). SSRN Working Paper

“Economic Behavior of Yugoslav Enterprises,” Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, Vol. 3, 1988, pp. 237-312 (with J. Prasnikar). SSRN Working Paper

“The Productivity Effects of Worker Participation: Producer Cooperatives in Western Economies,” Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 11, No. l, March 1987, pp. 40-61 (with S. Estrin and D.C. Jones). SSRN Working Paper

“Bargaining Power, Fear of Disagreement and Wage Settlements: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Industry,” Econometrica, Vol. 54, No. 5, September 1986, pp. 1055-1078. SSRN Working Paper

“Participation, Profit Sharing, Worker Ownership and Efficiency in Italian Producer Cooperatives,” Economica, Vol. 52, November 1985, pp. 449-465 (with D. Jones). SSRN Working Paper

“Explanation of Earnings in Yugoslavia: The Capital and Labor Schools Compared,” Economic Analysis and Worker’s Management, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1985, pp. 1-12 (with S. Estrin). SSRN Working Paper

“The Determinants of Industrial-Sector Earnings in Senegal,” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 15, No. 2, November 1984, pp. 289-311. SSRN Working Paper

“The Economics of Joint Ventures in Less Developed Countries,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. VXCIV, No. 1, February 1984, pp. 149-168 (with S.C. Smith). SSRN Working Paper

“The Choice of Technology and Economic Development,” Perfiles Economicos, Spring 1983. SSRN Working Paper

“On the Theory of a Participatory Firm,” Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 27, No. 2, August 1982, pp. 313-330. SSRN Working Paper

“Employee Participation in Management, Bargaining Power and Wages,” European Economic Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 1982, pp. 291-303. SSRN Working Paper

“The Economics of Joint Ventures in Centrally Planned and Labor-Manager Economies,” Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 1982, pp. 148-171 (with S.C. Smith). SSRN Working Paper

“Czechoslovakia, Economic Growth and System Change in the Sixties,” Association of Comparative Economic Systems Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 1982, pp. 37-47 (with G. Staller). SSRN Working Paper

“The Relative Wage Effects of Unions, Dictatorship and Codetermination: Econometric Evidence from Germany,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 63, No. 2, May 1981, pp. 188-197. SSRN Working Paper

“The Closed and Union Shop in Western Europe, An American Perspective: A Comment,” Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 1980, pp. 340-342. SSRN Working Paper

“On the Empirical Testing of the Nash-Zeuthen Bargaining Solution,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 33, No. 4, July 1980, pp. 536-542. SSRN Working Paper

“Workers Participation in Management in Czechoslovakia,” Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Vol. 49, No. 2, September 1978, pp. 177-202. SSRN Working Paper

“Czechoslovak Labor Relations: The Postwar Experience: Part I,” Industrial and Labor Relations Forum, Vol. X, No. 1, March 1974, pp. 35-52. SSRN Working Paper

“Czechoslovak Labor Relations: The Postwar Experience: Part II,” Industrial and Labor Relations Forum, Vol. X, No. 2, May 1974, pp. 121-146. SSRN Working Paper



B) BOOKS and MONOGRAPHS

The William Davidson Institute Policy Brief No 1: A Strategy for the Economic Reconstruction and Development of Iraq, May 2003.

Human Development Report: Czech Republic 1996, United Nations Development Programme, 1996, 229 pp. (co-authored with A. Andrle, M. Hampl, et.al.).

Economic Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe: The Tasks Still Ahead, The Per Jacobsson Lecture, Per Jacobsson Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1995.

The Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe, Academic Press, San Diego, 434 pp. 1995. (Editor and co-author)

The Past and the Present of Czechoslovak Privatization, The Thirteenth CERGE Lecture on Practical Aspects of Privatization, 26 pp., January 1993.

The Industrial Labor Market and Economic Performance in Senegal: A Study of Enterprise Ownership, Export Orientation and Government Regulation, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1989, 129 pp. (co-authored with K. Terrell).

Macroeconomic Policies and Economic Performance in Sri Lanka, OECD, Paris 1987, 120 pp. (co-authored with E. Thorbecke).

Macroeconomic Policies and Economic Performance in Nepal, OECD, Paris, 1986, 167 pp. (co-authored with E. Thorbecke).

Participatory and Self-Managed Firms: Evaluating Economic Performance, Lexington Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982, 350 pp. (co-edited with D. Jones).

Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, JAI Press, (co-edited with D. Jones).



C) CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“Labor Market Flexibility in Central and Eastern Europe,” Marek Dabrowski and Ben Slay (eds.), Beyond Transition, M. E. Sharpe, 2003.

“Structural Reforms and Competitiveness: Can Europe Overtake the United States?”, Brigitte Alizadeh-Gruber (ed.) Structural Challenges for Europe, Elsevier, 2003.

“Enterprise Investment During the Transition: Evidence from Czech Panel Data,” with L. Lizal in Anna Meyendorff and Anjan Thakor (eds.) Designing Financial Systems in Transition Economies: Strategies for Reform in Central and Eastern Europe, MIT Press, 2002.

“Economics of Transition,” in Orley Ashenfelter ed., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier, 2001.

“Assessing Economic Performance Before and After the Break-Up of Czechoslovakia,” Chapter 9, Michael Kraus and Allison Stanger eds., Irreconcilable Differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia’s Dissolution, Westview Press, 2000

Comments on “The Institutional Foundations of China’s Market Transition,” by Yingyi Qian and “Why Has Russia’s Economic Transition Been So Arduous?” by Andres Aslund, The World Bank Annual (2000) Conference, Boris Pleskovic and Joseph Stiglitz (eds.).

“Labor Markets in the Transitional Central and East European Economies,” Chapter 42 in Orley Ashenfelter, and D. Card (ed.) Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3B, Elsevier Science B.V., pp. 2810-2857, 1999

“Prestrukturiranje slovenskih podjetij v poprivatizacijskem obdobju, Poprivatizacijsko obnasanje slovenskih podjetij,” Poprivatizacijsko Obnasanje Slovenskih Podjetij, Janez Prasnikar (ed.) Gospodarski Vestnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, pp. 251-269, 1999

“American-Style Ph.D. Program in Economics in Central and Eastern Europe,: Chapter 4 in Karel Kansky ed. Influential Czech Economists and Entrepreneurs in the World, Prague: Charles University Press 1999

“The Transition Is not Over: But Note the Merits of the Central European Model,” Chapter 6, Annette Brown ed., When Is Transition Over? W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1999

“The Effects of Output, Ownership, and Legal Form on Employment and Wages in Central European Firms,” Chapter 2, Simon Commander ed., Enterprise Restructuring and Unemployment in Models of Transition, The World Bank, pp. 31-56, 1998 (with S. Estrin).

“Pensions in the Former Soviet Bloc: Problems and Solutions,” in The Coming Global Pension Crisis, Council on Foreign Relations, New York 1997

Comments on Commander, Tolstopiatenko, Ellman, Jackman, Pauna, Gora and Newberry “Unemployment and the Reform of Social Policies,” in S. Zecchini ed., Lessons from the Economic Transition: Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990’s, Dordrecht-Kluwer Publishers, 1997, pp. 450-451

“Wage and Non-Wage Labor Cost in the Czech Republic–The Impact of Fringe Benefits,” A. Woergoeter ed., Social Benefits in Transitional Economics, Cambridge University Press, 1997 (with R. Filer and O. Schneider).

“Introduction and Overview,” J. Svejnar ed., The Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe, Academic Press, 1995

“A Comparative View of Economic Developments in the Czech Republic,” J. Svejnar ed., The Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe, Academic Press, 1995 (with K. Dyba).

“Manager Interests, Breakups and Performance of State Enterprises in Transition,” J. Svejnar ed., The Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe, Academic Press, 1995 (with L. Lizal and M. Singer).

“Explaining Unemployment Dynamics in the Czech and Slovak Republics,” J. Svejnar ed., The Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe, Academic Press 1995 (with D. Munich and K. Terrell).

“Regional and Skill Mismatch in the Czech and Slovak Republics,” S. Scarpetta ed., Regional Dimension of Unemployment in Transition Countries, OECD, Paris 1995, pp. 98-125 (with D. Munich and K. Terrell).

Comments on Tito Boeri and Stefano Scarpeta, “Labor Market Adjustments in Central and Eastern Europe and the Challenges for Labor Market Policies,” R. Dobrynski and M. Landesman eds., Transforming Economies and European Integration, London” Elgar Edgar Co., 1995

“Czech Republic and Slovakia,” S. Commander and F. Coricelli eds., Unemployment, Restructuring and the Labor Market in Eastern Europe and Russia, Washington, D.C., The World Bank 1995, pp. 91-146 (with J. Ham and K. Terrell).

“Stabilization and Transition in Czechoslovakia,” O. Blanchard, K. Froot and J. Sachs eds., The Transition in Eastern Europe, University of Chicago Press 1994 (with K. Dyba).

“A Comment on Labour Market Flows and the Persistence of Unemployment,” OECD ed., Unemployment in Transition Countries: Transient or Persistent? OECD, Paris 1994

“Czech and Slovak Federal Republic: A Solid Foundation,” R. Portes ed., Economic Transformation in Central Europe: A Progress Report, Office for Official Publications of the European Community, 1994

“A Strategy for the Economic Transformation of Cuba Based on the East European Experience,” C. Mesa-Lago ed., Cuba in the Post Cold War Era, University of Pittsburgh Press 1993 (with J. Perez-Lopez).

“Optimal Export Oriented Economic Policies in Poland,” D. Kemme ed., New Dimensions of the Polish Economy, JAI Press 1991 (with R. Chaykowski).

“The Effects of Worker Participation in Management, Profits and Ownership of Assets on Enterprise Performance,” K. Abraham and R. McKersie eds., New Developments in the Labor Market, MIT Press 1990 (with M. Conte).

“On the Dynamics of a Participatory Firm: A Model of Employer-Worker Bargaining,” R. Quandt and D. Triska eds., Microeconomic Models in Planned and Market Economies, Westview Press 1990 (with F. Spinnewyn).

“Development Patterns in Four Chinese Counties,” Chapter 4 W.A. Byrd and L. Qingsong eds., China’s Rural Industry: Structure, Development, and Reform, Oxford University Press 1990 (with J. Woo).

“Productive Efficiency and Employment in Chinese Township, Village and Private Enterprises,” Chapter 10, W.A. Byrd and L. Qingsong eds., China’s Rural Industry: Structure, Development, and Reform, Oxford University Press, 1990

“Chinese Rural Enterprises in a Comparative Perspective,: Chapter 18, W.A. Byrd and L. Qingsong eds., China’s Rural Industry: Structure, Development, and Reform, Oxford University Press, 1990 (with A. Gelb).

“The Performance Effects of Employee Ownership Plans,” in A. Blinder ed., Paying for Productivity, Brookings 1990, pp. 143-182 (with M. Conte).

“The Determinants and Effects of Technological Choice,” B. Lucas and S. Freedman eds., Technology Choice and Change in Developing Countries: Internal and External Constraints, Tycooly International and Publishing Company, Dublin 1983 (with E. Thorbecke).

“The Economic Performance of Participatory and Self-Managed Firms: A Historical Perspective and Review,” Chapter 1, D. Jones and J. Svejnar eds., Participatory and Self-Managed Firms: Evaluating Economic Performance, Lexington Books, 1982 (with D. Jones).

“Codetermination and Productivity: Empirical Evidence from the Federal Republic of Germany,” Chapter 10, D. Jones and J. Svejnar eds., Participatory and Self-Managed Firms: Evaluating Economic Performance, Lexington Books, 1982

“Economics of Codetermination: Institutions, Theory and Empirical Evidence with Respect to Wages,” F. Stephen, eds., The Performance of the Labour-Managed Firms, Macmillan Publishing Company, London 1982



D) BOOK REVIEWS

Transition Economics: Politics, Markets and Firms, By Gerard Roland, Reviewed in Business Economics, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1, January 2001

Self-Management and Efficiency: Large Corporations in Yugoslavia, by Stephen R. Sacks, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1983. Reviewed in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, 1985.

The Economic Analysis of Producers’ Cooperatives, by Frank H. Stephen, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984. Reviewed in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, 1985.

The Economics of Trade Unions: New Directions, by Jean-Jacques Rosa, Klumer-Nijoff Publishing, 1984. Reviewed in the Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 23, No. 2, June 1985

The Political Economy of Co-operation and Participation: A Third Sector, edited by Alasdair Clayre, Oxford University Press, 1980. Reviewed in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, January 1982

Can Europe catch up with America?
“Europe poised to move up a gear,”
“Structural Reforms and Competitiveness: Can Europe Overtake the United States?”

Is foreign investment good for developing countries?
Is Russia's industry moving ahead? “Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?”
“FDI Spillovers and Distance of Firms to the Frontier.”

Washington Consensus and performance of firms “Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?”

Does privatization improve corporate performance? “Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?”
“Ownership, Control and Firm Performance after Large-Scale Privatization.”

Are workers better off in capitalism that communism? “Do Markets Pay Women More than Planners?”
“Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy.”
What constrains entrepreneurship in emerging markets? “Objectives and Constraints of Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Small and Medium Size Enterprises in Russia and Bulgaria,

How flexible are labor markets in transition economies? “Employment Determination in Enterprises under Communism and in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe,”
“Labor Market Flexibility in Central and Eastern Europe.”

How to reconstruct Iraq? The William Davidson Institute Policy Brief No 1: A Strategy for the Economic Reconstruction and Development of Iraq.

His areas of interest are economic development and transition, labor economics, and behavior of the firm. Jan Svejnar's research focuses on the determinants and effects of (a) government policies on firms and labor and capital markets, (b) corporate and national governance and performance, and (c) entrepreneurship.

Jan Svejnar is Director of the International Policy Institute at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Economics and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is also a founder and Chairman of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI in Prague (an American-style Ph.D. program in economics that educates the new generation of economists for Central-East Europe and the Newly Independent States). He serves as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CSOB Bank, Governing Board member of the European Economic Association, Co-Editor of the Economics of Transition. He is also a Fellow of the European Economic Association and Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (London) and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn).

From 1996 to 2004, Professor Svejnar was the Executive Director of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School where he established a leading research and outreach program on business and economic policy issues relating to the transition and emerging market economies. From 1992 to 1997 he served as the Founding Director of the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, establishing a leading western economic think tank in post communist countries. He also served as Co-Director of the Transition Programme at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London, President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, President of the International Association for the Economics of Labor-Management, Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and advisor to numerous policy makers, institutions and firms, including President Vaclav Havel and Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla of the Czech Republic, OECD, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, GE Capital, Expandia Bank, and SPT Telecom. In the 1990s, he was one of the chief architects of the Czech Republic’s economic reforms.

Professor Svejnar’s academic interests are in the areas of economic development and transition, labor economics and behavior of the firm. His research focuses on the determinants and effects of (a) government policies on firms and labor and capital markets, (b) corporate and national governance and performance, and (c) entrepreneurship. He is the author and editor of a number of books and has published widely in leading academic, policy and practitioner-oriented journals in advanced and emerging market economies, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economica, Economics of Transition, European Business Forum, European Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, Jan Svejnar was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Cornell University. He received his B.S. with honors from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and his MA and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Department of Economics, LS&A

Consultant to the World Bank, Washington, D.C. (1984 – Present)

Economic Advisor to the Czech Government, (President Vaclav Havel,1994 – 2003, Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla, 2002 – 04, Deputy Prime Minister Martin Jahn, 2004 – present, Minister of Finance Bohuslav Sobotka, 2002 – present, Minister of the Economy Karel Dyba, 1990 – 96), (1990 – Present)

Chairman of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI, Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE) of Charles University, Prague and The Economics Institute (EI) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (1991 – Present)

Research Fellow, CEPR, London (1995 – Present)

Member of the Advisory Board, Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw (1995 – Present)

Faculty Member of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, Center for European Studies and European Union Center, University of Michigan (1996 – Present)

Member of the Governing Council of the European Economic Association (2000 – Present)

Member of the Initiative for Policy Dialog Task Force, Columbia University (2001 – Present)

Member of the Executive Committee, Russian-American Economics and Business Education Center (RAMEC), Urals State University, Yekaterinburg (2001 – Present)

Member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania (2001 – Present)

Board Member of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets, London Business School, London, United Kingdom (2002 – Present)

Chairman of the Supervisory Board, CSOB Bank, Czech & Slovak Republics (2003 – Present)

Member of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Policy Studies Programme Advisory Committee, London (2003 – Present)

Research Fellow, IZA, Bonn (2003 – Present)

Member of the Board of Advisors, American Friends of the Czech Republic (2004 – Present)

Executive Director, The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School (1996 – 2004)

Member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2001 – 2004)

Member of the Board of Directors, American Friends of the Czech Republic (2001 – 2004)

Member of the Supervisory Board of GE Capital, Czech Republic (1999 – 2003)

Co-Director of the Transition Programme, Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom (1995 – 2001)

Founding Director, the Economics Institute (EI) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague (1992 – 1999)

Co-Founder and Faculty Member, Russian Economics Education Research Consortium (EERC), Moscow (1995 – 1999)

Faculty Member, China Economics Education and Research Program, Ford Foundation, Beijing (1995 – 1999)

President-elect, President and Past President of The Association for Comparative Economic Studies (1997 – 1999 )

Member of the Board of Trustees, The National Council for Soviet and East European Research, (NCEER) Washington, D.C. (1995 – 1998)

Consultant to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, United Kingdom (1994 – 1996)

Director of the Program on Comparative Economic Development, Cornell University (1985 – 1986)

Consultant to the OECD Development Centre, Paris, France (1983 – 1984)

Consultant to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome (1982)

Consultant to the German Marshall Fund, Washington, D.C. (1980 – 1981)