THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
School of Public Policy/Department of Economics
Graduates
The following have earned their Ph.D.s in economics from the University
of Michigan, specializing in international economics and participating in
RSIE. Click here to see names only. "Michigan publications" include things published after the degree if based on work done before it.
2022
Choi, Jaedo
Dissertation:Essays on International Economics and Economic Growth
"Technology Adoption and Late Industrialization"
"The Long-Term Effects of Industrial Policy""
"Lobbying, Trade, and Misallocation"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko, Chair, Dominick Bartelme, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Sebastian Sotelo
Dissertation:Essays in International Trade and Development
"Entry and Spatial Competition of Intermediaries: Evidence from Thailand�s Rice Market"
"The Impact of Trade on Development: Evidence from Pastoralist Practices on the Ancient Silk Road"
"Dynamics of Export Entry and Exit Under Uncertainty"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko (Co-Chair), Sebastian Sotelo (Co-Chair), Lauren Bergquist, Jagadeesh Sivadasan
"Knowledge Diffusion Across Cities: Evidence from High-speed Railways in China"
"Does Comparative Advantage Predict Future Growth?"
Doctoral Committee: Dominick Bartelme, Co-Chair, Andrei Levchenko, Co-Chair, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Sebastian Sotelo
Location: Amazon
Wang, Jiafu
Dissertation:Essays in International Economics
"The Role of Infrastructure in Economic Development: An Input-Output Perspective"
"Network Effects of Foreign Ownership: Evidence from Chinese Exporters"
"The Dynamic Impact of Quota Removals on China�s Textile and Apparel Industry"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko, Chair, Dominick Bartelme, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Sebastian Sotelo
Dissertation:Three Essays on International Trade and Development Economics
"How Infrastructure Shapes Comparative Advantage"
"The Geography of Commodity Booms"
"Dynamics of Importers after Trade Liberalization"
Doctoral Committee: Hoyt Bleakley, Co-Chair, Andrei Levchenko, Co-Chair, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Sebastian Sotelo
"The Coagglomeration of Innovation and Production"
"Price Stickiness Along the Income Distribution and the Effects of Monetary Policy"
"Specialization, Market Access and Real Income"
Doctoral Committee: Dominick Bartelme, Co-Chair, Andrei Levchenko, Co-Chair, Javier Cravino, and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Location: IMF
2019
Haltenhof, Sam
Dissertation:Three Essays in International Economics
"Hartz in the Right Place: Trade Shocks and Labor Mobility in Germany"
"Real exchange rates, income per capita, and sectoral input shares"
"Services Trade and Internet Connectivity"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko, Co-Chair, Javier Cravino, Co-Chair, Kathryn Mary Dominguez, Alan V. Deardorff, and Sebastian Sotelo
Location: Cornerstone Research, New York, NY
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Morales, Nicolas
Dissertation:Understanding the flows of goods and workers: General equilibrium implications of migration policy
"High skill migration, multinational companies and the location of economic activity"
"The IT boom and other unintended consequences of chasing the American dream"
"Understanding the economic impact of the H-1B program on the US"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko, Co-Chair, John Bound, Co-Chair, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, and Sebastian Sotelo
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, VA
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Nie, Owen
Dissertation:Essays in macroeconomic policies after the global financial crisis
"The Information Content of Capital Controls"
"Expansionary Fiscal Austerity: new International Evidence"
"Capital Controls and Time-varying Margin Requirements"
Doctoral Committee: Kathryn Dominguez, Co-Chair, Linda Tesar, Co-Chair, Chris House, John Leahy, and Pablo Ottonello
"Gains from Product Variety and the Local Business Cycle"
"New Exporter Growth and Sequential Entry"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Co-Chair, Andrei Levchenko, Co-Chair, Javier Cravino, Kyle Handley, and Dominick Bartelme
Location: Cornerstone Research, San Francisco, CA
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Ruzic, Dimitrije
Dissertation:Essays on Firm Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics
"Returns to Scale, Productivity Measurement, and Trends in U.S. Manufacturing Misallocation"
"Globalization and Top Income Shares"
"Firms and Collective Reputation: the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal as a Case Study"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko (co-chair), Matthew Shapiro (co-chair), Stefan Nagel, and Joshua Hausman
Location: INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
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2017
Ho, Sui-Jade
Dissertation:Essays in International Economics and Macroeconomics
"The Employment Effects of Periodic Policy Lapses and Renewals: Firm Level Evidence From The Generalized Systems of Preferences"
"Returns to Scale and US Manufacturing Misallocation"
"The Employment Effects of Multinational Corporations"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, Kyle Handley, and Sebastian Sotelo
Dissertation:Examined Assumptions: Three Essays on International Economics
"Radiating Trade: Creating Gravity through Spatial Geometry"
"Trade in Elasticity: Does Goods-Specific Wealth Elasticity Explain Trade Collapse during Recessions?"
"Asymmetric Inflation: Consumer Credit Frictions and Stable Differences in Sector- Specific Inflation"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Javier Cravino, Kyle Handley, and Sebastian Sotelo
Dissertation:Essays on the Local Impact of International Trade
"Local Welfare Impact of Trade Policy: Trans-Pacific Partnership and U.S. States"
"Occupational Implications of International Trade"
"International Trade and Political Independence: Evidence from Catalonia"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Javier Cravino, Ugo Troiano, and Iain Osgood
Dissertation:When Finance Meets Trade: Three Essays in International Economics
"Sectoral Productivity Matters: A New Angle on Equity Home Bias"
"Optimal Trade Costs after Sovereign Defaults"
"Does Debt Structure Matter? Financial Constraints and Trade Revisited"
Doctoral Committee: Kathryn Dominguez, Chair, Javier Cravino, Alan V. Deardorff, and Stefan Nagel
Location: University of California, Santa Cruz
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Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya
Dissertation:Essays on Multinationals and International Spillovers
"Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing"
"Input Linkages and the Transmission of Shocks: Firm-Level Evidence from the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake"
"TFP, News, and "Sentiments:" The International Transmission of Business Cycles"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei A. Levchenko, Chair, Alan Deardorff, Kyle Handley, and Linda L. Tesar
Location: University of Texas (after 1-year Princeton Postdoc)
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Proebsting, Christian
Dissertation:Essays in International Economics
"Are Devaluations Expansionary? Firm-Level Evidence from Estonia"
"Austerity in the Aftermath of the Great Recession"
"Survival of the Fittest: Corporate Control and the Cleansing Eect of Financial
Crises"
Doctoral Committee: Linda L. Tesar, Chair, Javier Cravino, Kathryn M. Dominguez, and Christopher L. House
Location: Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne
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Sharma, Rishi R.
Dissertation:Tax Policies in Open Economies
"Incentives to Tax Foreign Investors"
"Taxing and Subsidizing Foreign Investors"
"Optimal Tariffs with Inframarginal Exporters"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Co-Chair, James R. Hines, Jr., Co-Chair, Kyle Handley, and Joel B. Slemrod
Dissertation:Essays on Multinational Production and International Trade
"Multinational Production and Comparative Advantage"
"Multinational Production and Intra-firm Trade"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, Linda L. Tesar, and Kyle Handley
Location: University of British Columbia
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Lin, Jenny
Dissertation:Essays in International Trade and Financial Development
"Trade of Differentiated Products Under Intellectual Property Imitation"
"U.S. Firm Exports and Intellectual Property Rights"
"Financial Inclusion and Stability in Africa's Middle-Income Countries"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Andrei Levchenko, Dmitriy Stolyarov, and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Dissertation:Three Essays on International Economics and Macroeconomics
"Globalization and Income Inequality"
"Lumpy Investment, Lumpy Inventories"
"Non-Linearities in Aggregate Import Dynamics"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, Rudiger Bachman, and Kyle Handley
Location: National University of Singapore
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Monarch, Ryan P.
Dissertation:Three Essays on Relationships in International Trade
"'It's Not You, It's Me': Breakups in U.S.-China Trade Relationships"
"Gains from Offshoring? Evidence from U.S. Microdata"
"Learning and the Value of Relationships in International Trade"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko, Co-Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, Jeremy T. Fox, and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Dissertation:Three Essays on International Trade and Institutions
"Trade and Technology Adoption"
"Contracting Institutions and Patterns of Trade: The Political Economy of Institutions in the Global Economy"
"Multinational Production and Intra-firm Trade"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko, Co-Chair, Robert J. Franzese Jr., Co-Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, and Kyle Handley
Location: Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
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2013
McCallum, Andrew H.
Dissertation:The Structure and Evolution of Entry Costs in Trade
"The Structure of Export Entry Costs"
"Entry Costs and Increasing Trade"
"Searching for Imports"
Doctoral Committee: Andrei Levchenko, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, Jeremy T. Fox, and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Dissertation:Modeling Demand in International and Macro Economics
"Why are Goods and Services More Expensive in Rich Countries? Demand Complementarities and Cross-Country Price Differences"
"Does a Rising Tide Lift all Boats? Welfare Consequences of Asymmetric Growth"
"The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in the Global Market for Crude Oil"
Doctoral Committee: Lutz Kilian, Co-Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, Co-Chair, Andrei Levchenko, Linda Tesar, and John Bound
Location: Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
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2012
Bircan, Cagatay
Dissertation:Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and International Business Cycles
"Optimal Degree of Foreign Ownership Under Uncertainty"
"Foreign Direct Investment and Wages: Does the Level of Ownership Matter?"
"Emerging Market Business Cycles and Home Bias in Capital"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Co-Chair, Andrei Levchenko, Co-Chair, Linda Tesar, and Jan Svejnar
Location: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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Lincoln, William
Dissertation:Essays on Globalization and Firm Performance
"The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention"
(with William R. Kerr)
"Entry Costs and Increasing Trade"
(with Andrew H. McCallum)
"The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying"
(with William R. Kerr and Prachi Mishra)
Doctoral Committee: James A. Levinsohn, Co-Chair, Andrei A. Levchenko, Co-Chair, Daniel A. Ackerberg, Alan V. Deardorff, and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Dissertation:Essays on the Macroeconomics of Trade Flows
"Exports versus Multinational Production under Nominal Uncertainty"
"Trade Flows, Menu Costs, and Exchange Rate Volatility"
"The Collapse of International Trade During the 2008-2009 Crisis: In Search of the Smoking Gun"
Doctoral Committee: Linda L. Tesar, Co-Chair, Jing Zhang, Co-Chair, Andrei Levchenko, and Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Location: Federal Reserve Board of Governors
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2010
D'Costa, Sabine
Dissertation:Essays on the Effects of Trade Liberalization
"Input Linkages, Productivity and Trade Liberalization"
"Trade Liberalization and the Geographical Concentration of Industries"
"Trade Liberalization and the Size Distribution of Plants in Colombia"
Doctoral Committee: Katherine Terrell, Chair, Alan Deardorff, John DiNardo, and Andrei Levchenko
"Regional Labor Market Effects of Trade Policy: Evidence from Brazilian Liberalization"
"Overestimating the Effect of Complementarity on Skill Demand"
"Offshoring and Price Measurement in the Semiconductor Industry"
Doctoral Committee: John E. DiNardo, Co-Chair, David Lam, Co-Chair, Alan Deardorff, Juan Carlos Hallak, and Rebecca M. Blank
Dissertation:Essays on Agency in International Finance
"Country Portfolios with Imperfect Corporate Governance"
"Fire-Sale FDI or Business as Usual?"
"The Aggregate Consequences of Imperfect Institutions"
Doctoral Committee: Linda Tesar, Chair, Uday Rajan, Andrei Levchenko, and Jing Zhang
Location: The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
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2009
Chen, Wenjie
Dissertation:Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, Capital Flows and Exchange Rates
"Does the Country of Origin of the Acquiring Firm Impact Performance?"
"Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance: Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States"
"Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Foreign Direct Investment into the United States"
Doctoral Committee: Kathryn Dominguez, Chair, Jeffrey Smith, Linda Tesar, and Paolo Pasquariello
Location: George Washington University
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Kolinski Morris, Emily
Dissertation:Convergence in Global Manufacturing Compensation Costs: An International Trade Perspective
"Evaluating Convergence in Global Manufacturing Compensation Costs"
"Convergence in a Multi-Cone Heckscher-Ohlin Framework"
"Explaining Weak Growth in Mexican Manufacturing Compensation"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Yoonseok Lee, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Martin B. Zimmerman
Dissertation:Three Essays on Offshore Outsourcing and Labor Markets
"Cleansing Effect of Offshore Outsourcing in an Analysis of Employment"
"Offshore Outsourcing and Employment in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector"
"Does Occupational Training by the Trade Adjustment Program Really Help Reemployment? Success Measured as Matching"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Jeffrey A. Smith, Linda L. Tesar, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Margaret C. Levenstein
Dissertation:Essays on International Fragmentation and Intermediate Goods Trade
"The Choice of a Firm in Quality Competition: National Firm or Multinational Firm"
"Capital Movement and the Proportion of Trade in Intermediate Goods"
"International Fragmentation and Work Effort: Networks, Loyalty and Wages"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, John P. Laitner, Robert M. Stern, and Katherine Terrell
Location: Lecturing at Korea University and Kangnam University
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2008
Alquist, Ron
Dissertation:Modeling International Asset Markets
"What Do We Learn from the Price of Crude Oil Futures?"
"Did Adhering to the Gold Standard Reduce the Cost of Capital?"
"How Important is Liquidity Risk for Sovereign Risk Premia?"
Doctoral Committee: Lutz Kilian, Co-Chair, Linda Tesar, Co-Chair, Ben Chabot, and Kathy Yuan
Dissertation:Essays on Patterns of International Trade
"Comparative Advantage, Firm Heterogeneity, and Selection of Exporters"
"Explaining Export Varieties: The Unexplored Role of Comparative Advantage"
"Revisiting the Revisited: An Alternative Test of the Monopolistic Competition Model of International Trade"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Robert M. Stern, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, and Juan Carlos Hallak
Dissertation:Exchange Rate Regime and Financing Policies of the Corporate Sector in Small Open Economies
"Exchange Rates, Optimal Debt Composition and Hedging in Small Open Economies"
"The Financial Effects of Real Hedging"
"Corporate Hedging Strategies in Brazil: Are They Effective?"
Doctoral Committee: Linda Tesar, Chair, Kathryn Dominguez, Jing Zhang, and U. Rajan
Location: Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Financial Studies Section
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May, Justin Bradley
Dissertation:Essays in International Trade and Policy
"Trade and Migration in an Enlarged European Union: A Spatial Analysis"
"International Financial Volatility and Commodity Exports: Evidence from the Thai Agricultural Sector"
"Jump Down, Turn Around, Pick a Bale of...Poverty? U.S. Cotton Policy and Household Income in Côte d'Ivoire"
Doctoral Committee: James A. Levinsohn, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, Kenneth W. Kollman, and Juan Carlos Hallak
"Country Size, Demand, and Hysteresis in Bilateral Trade Agreements"
"East Is East and West Is West: A Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin Model of Comparative Advantage"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, James A. Levinsohn, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, and Juan Carlos Hallak
Dissertation:Three Essays in Open Economy Macroeconomics and Economic Development
"Sovereign Risk and Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Emerging Market Economies"
"Financial Integration and Consumption Risk Sharing"
"The Effects of Interprovincial Migration on Human Capital Formation in China"
Doctoral Committee: Linda Tesar, Chair, Kathryn Dominguez, Jing Zhang, and Jan Svejnar
Dissertation: Essays in International Finance and Macroeconomics
"Distribution Costs, Producer Currency Pricing and Real Exchange Rate Volatility"
"Government Purchases and Their Effect on Economic Activity: Implications of Predetermined Nominal Spending"
"Learning about Wars: Implications for the Transmission of Fiscal Shocks"
Doctoral Committee: Bob Barsky, Chair, Linda L. Tesar, Chris House, Kathy Yuan
Location: International Monetary Fund
2005
Coulibaly, Brahima
Dissertation: Essays in Macroeconomics and International Economics
"Changes in Job Quality, Trends in Labor Hours, and Long Run Growth"
"Do Homeowners Increase Consumption after the Last Mortgage Payment? An Alternative Test of the Permanent Income Hypothesis"
"Real Effects Financial Autarky Lessons from the South African Embargo"
Doctoral Committee: Matthew Shapiro, Chair, Linda L. Tesar, Charles Brown, Miles Kimball, Kerwin Charles
Dissertation: How International Trade Affects Wages and Employment
"Do Exporters Pay More? Plant-level Evidence from an Export Refund Policy in Chile"
"How Import Competition Affects Displaced U.S. Workers"
"Exporter's Labor Demand"
Doctoral Committee: Chalres C. Brown, Co-Chair, James A. Levinsohn, Co-Chair, John E. Dinardo, Daniel Selim Hamermesh
Location: North Carolina State University
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Kurz, Christopher J.
Dissertation: Three Essays on International Economics
"Outstanding Outsourcers: A Firm and Plant-Level Analysis of Production Sharing"
"Trade, Production Sharing, and the International Transmission of Business Cycles"
"That's Where the Money Was: Foreign Bias and English Investments Abroad, 1866-1885"
Doctoral Committee: James A. Levinsohn, Co-Chair, Linda L. Tesar, Co-Chair, Benjamin Chabot, Kenneth Scheve
Location: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
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Lee, Siwook
Dissertation: Three Essays on International Trade and Productivity
"Trade in Capital Goods and Foreign R&D Spillovers: Reconsidering the Evidence"
"Appropriate Technology and Technological Spillovers: A Production-Frontier Approach"
"Income, Trade and Technology in Vertically-differentiated Markets: An Illustrative Model"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Juan Carlos Hallak, John P. Laitner, Fritz C. Foley
Dissertation:Essays on the International Location of Production and Trade in Factor Services
"Back to Basics: Improved Performance in Simple Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek Specifications"
"The Usual Suspects: An Empirical Roundup of Sources of Missing Trade and Their Magnitudes"
"Forward and Backward Linkages and the Location of International Production"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, James A. Levinsohn, Juan Carlos Hallak, Valerie Y. Suslow
Location: United States International Trade Commission
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Senses, Mine Zeynep
Dissertation:Three Essays in International Economics
"The effects of outsourcing on the elasticity of labor demand"
"The decision to outsource: how important are labor costs?"
"Financing choices and investment behavior of turkish firms during financial turmoil: a comparative analysis of the 1994 and 2001 crises"
Doctoral Committee: James A. Levinsohn, Chair, John DiNardo, Juan Carlos Hallak, Kathryn Dominguez
Location: School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
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2003
Chai-Anant, Chayawadee
Dissertation: Capital Flows, Investor Behavior, and Macroeconomic Policy in Thailand and Other Developing Countries
"Friends or Foes? Foreign Investors in the Thai Stock Market during 1994-1998"
"Effect of Policies on Capital Flows to Emerging Markets: Evidence of a Detailed Data Set"
"New Rules and Old Practices? Thai Monetary Policy and Inflation Targeting"
Doctoral Committee: Linda Tesar, Chair, Robert Barsky, Lutz Kilian, Kathryn Dominguez
Location: Monetary Policy Group, Bank of Thailand
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Tulayasathien, Soraphol (Daeng) (joint in Economics and Public Policy)
Dissertation: Essays on International Taxation
"Tax Effects on Investment Location" (with Claudio Agostini)
"Tax Incentives for Intrafirm Borrowing"
"Do Foreign Tax Credits Matter?"
Doctoral Committee: James R. Hines, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, James A. Levinsohn, Joel B. Slemrod
Location: Ministry of Finance Thailand
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2002
Chang, Pao-Li
Dissertation: Essays on International Trade and Econometrics
"The Evolution and Utilization of the GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism"
"Endogenous Tariff Formation with Intra-Industry Trade"
"A Robust Impulse Response Estimator"
Doctoral Committee: Alan Deardorff, Chair, James Levinsohn, Shinichi Sakata, David Weinstein
Location: Singapore Management University
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Chung, Chul
Dissertation:Nonhomothetic Preferences as a Cause of Missing Trade and the Home Market Effect
"Factor Content of Trade: Nonhomothetic Preferences and 'Missing Trade'"
"Nonhomothetic Preferences as a Cause of Missing Trade: Empirical Investigation"
"Nonhomothetic Preferences and the Home Market Effect: Does Relative Market Size Matter?"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Stephen W. Salant, Gordon H. hanson, David E. Weinstein
Location: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)
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Xiang, Chong
Dissertation:Three Essays on New Goods, Skill Premium and the Home Market Effect
"New Goods and Rising Skill Premium: A Theoretical Investigation"
"New Goods and Rising Skill Premium: An Empirical Investigation"
"The Home Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns"
Doctoral Committee: Alan Deardorff, Co-Chair, Gordon Hanson, Co-Chair, John Bound, Katherine Terrell
Michigan Publications:
Xiang, Chong, "The Sufficiency of the 'Lens Condition' for Factor Price Equalization in the Case of Two Factors," Journal of International Economics, 2001, pp. 463-474.
Deardorff, Alan V., Saul H. Hymans, Robert M. Stern, and Chong Xiang, "Forecasting U.S. Trade in Services," in Robert M. Stern, ed., Services in the International Economy, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
Xiang, Chong, "Comment on Taiji Furusawa, 'Preferential Trade Arrangements vs. Open Regionalism: A Theoretical Analysis of APEC'," in Robert M. Stern, ed., Issues and Options for U.S.-Japan Trade Policies, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
"New Economic Geography versus Henderson's Theory of Cities: Evidence from US County Data"
"The Rise and Fall of Regional Income Inequality -- An Alternative Story"
Doctoral Committee: Gordon Hanson, Chair, Michelle White, James Levinsohn, Shinichi Sakata, Margaret Dewar
Michigan Publications:
Fan, Wei, "An Evolutionary New Economic Geography Model," Journal of Regional Science, November 2000.
Dissertation:Some Challenges in the East-West Integration of Europe
"Lingering Effects of Central Planning on Trade? Evidence from Current CIS Trade Patterns"
"Intra-Industry Trade, Adjustment of Labor, and Welfare Gains in Asymmetric Liberalization Policies: The Case of the Europe Agreements"
"Technological Progress and Trade Liberalization: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe"
"Political Economy of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Budgetary Costs and Reforms in Voting Rules"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Robert M. Stern, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell
Michigan Publications:
Kandogan, Yener, "Lingering Effects of Central Planning on Current Trade of CIS Countries," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Kiel Institute of World Economics, September 1999, 135(3).
"A Political Economy Analysis of the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Budgetary Costs and Implications on Voting Rules"
European Journal of Political Economy, November 2000, 16(4).
Location: University of Michigan, Flint
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Zamouline, Oleg Alick (Zamulin)
Dissertation:Essays on Sticky-Price Models of the International Business Cycle
"Sticky Export Prices or Sticky Import Prices: a Theoretical and Empirical
Investigation"
"A Sticky Price Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of a Small Open Economy"
Doctoral Committee: Linda Tesar, Chair, Miles Kimball, Matthew Shapiro, Kathryn Dominguez
Location: New Economic School and Center for Economic and Financial Research, Moscow
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2000
Chen, Qi
Dissertation:Essays on Foreign Direct Investments, Imperfectly Competitive Market, and Political Assets
"Why Free Trade Zones?"
"Why Aren't Foreign Direct Investments (FDI's) Always Welcome? - A Political Economy Analysis"
"The Value of Political Connections - An Event Study Analysis"
Doctoral Committee: Jan Svejnar, Co-Chair, David Li, Co-Chair, Yan Chen, Bernard Yeung
Dissertation:Three Essays on International Trade Policy
"Evaluating the Success of a CGE Model of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement"
"Returns to Scale in a CGE Framework"
"The Political Economy of Child Labor and Trade Legislation"
Doctoral Committee: Robert M. Stern, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, Gary R. Saxonhouse, Katherine Terrell
Michigan Publications:
Fox, Alan K. and Robert M. Stern, "Effects of Reductions in NATO Military Expenditures on U.S. Employment by Sector/Occupation/Region," The World Economy 16, March 1993, pp. 193-211.
Fox, Alan K. and Robert M. Stern, "A Computational Analysis of the Effects of Reductions in US Military Expenditures," in Chatterji, Jager, and Rima, eds.The economics of international security: Essays in honour of Jan Tinbergen New York: St. Martins Press, 1994, pp. 62-77.
Brown, Drusilla, Alan V. Deardorff, Alan K. Fox, and Robert M. Stern, "Computational Analysis of Goods and Services Liberalization in the Uruguay Round," in Will Martin and L. Alan Winters, eds., The Uruguay Round and the Developing Economies Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Location: International Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.
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Melitz, Marc J.
Dissertation:International Trade and Industry Productivity Dynamics with Heterogeneous Producers
"The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Realocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity"
"Estimating Firm-Level Productivity in Differentiated Product Industries"
"When and How Should Infant Industries Be Protected?"
Doctoral Committee: James A. Levinsohn, Chair, Susanto Basu, Alan V. Deardorff, Keith J. Crocker
Dissertation:The Role of Regulatory Capital and Bank Credit in the Economy of Japan
"Regulatory Capital and Bank Lending in Japan"
"The Japanese Financial System in Crisis"
"Macroeconomic Effects of Bank Credit in Japan"
Doctoral Committee: Gary Saxonhouse, Co-Chair, Matthew
Shapiro, Co-Chair, Kathryn Dominguez, Richard Frankel
Dissertation:Three Essays on Trade and Competition Policies
"VIE as a Facilitating Device: The Indirect Effects of VIE Revisited"
"An Effect of a Third Policy on the Link Between Trade and Merger Policies"
"Entry Regulation and Trade Policy: A General Equilibrium Analysis"
Doctoral Committee: Gary R. Saxonhouse, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, , Stephen W. Salant, David E. Weinstein
Placement: Price, Waterhouse, Cooper
1999
McAusland, Carol A.
Dissertation:Three Essays on Trade and the Environment
"Learning By Doing in the Presence of an Open Access Renewable Resource: Is Growth Sustainable?"
"Pollution Policy and Trade when Domestic Income Distribution Matters"
"Cross-Hauling of Polluting Factors"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Yan Chen, Stephen Salant, David Weinstein
Location: University of British Columbia
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Demiroglu, Ufuk
Dissertation:Essays on Growth, International Trade, and Factor Price Equalization
"Large Foreign Markets and Export-Led Growth"
"International Saving, Investment and Trade" (with Peter Debaere)
"The Lens Condition for Factor Price Equalization" (with Kwan Koo Yun)
"On the Similarity of Country Endowments and Factor Price Equalization" (with Peter Debaere)
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Co-Chair, Matthew Shapiro, Co-Chair, Lutz Kilian, David Weinstein
Michigan Publications:
Demiroglu, Ufuk and Kwan Koo Yun, "The Lens Condition for Factor Price Equalization," Journal of International Economics, April 1999.
Kilian, Lutz and Ufuk Demiroglu "Residual-Based Tests for Normality
in Autoregressions: Asymptotic Theory and Simulation Evidence"
forthcoming: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 18(1),
January 2000.
Location: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
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Djankov, Simeon Denchev
Dissertation:Three Essays on the Economics of Transition
"When Does Privatization Deliver: Evidence from Eastern Europe"
"Ownership Concentration and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Czech Republic"
"Market Disciplines and Corporate Efficiency"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Co-Chair, Michelle White, Co-Chair, Albert Park, Katherine Terrell
Michigan Publications:
Hoekman, Bernard and Simeon Djankov, "The European Union's Mediterranean Free Trade Initiative," World Economy, July 1996.
Hoekman, Bernard and Simeon Djankov, "Effective Protection and Investment Incentives in Egypt and Jordan during the Transition to Free Trade with Europe," World Development, February 1997.
Djankov, Simeon, "The Restructuring of Large Firms in the Slovak Republic," Economics of Transition, May 1998.
Djankov, Simeon, "Conditions of Competition and Multilateral Surveillance," World Economy, November 1998.
Aturupane,-Chonira, Simeon Djankov and Bernard Hoekman, "Horizontal and Vertical Intra-industry Trade between Eastern Europe and the European Union," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 1999.
Djankov, Simeon, "Ownership Structure and Enterprise Restructuring in Six Newly Independent States," Comparative Economic Studies, Spring 1999.
Dissertation:Using Micro Data Sets to Measure Productivity, Stolper-Samuelson Effects, and Household Behavior
"Firm-Level Productivity and Firm Aggregation in the Firm Level Data for Japanese Manufacturing"
"Does the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem Explain the Movement in Wages? The Linkage between Trade and Wages in Latin American Countries"
"How Do Social Security and Income Affect the Living Arrangements of Elderly People? Facts in Latin American Countries"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Co-Chair, John Laitner, Co-Chair, Susanto Basu, Katherine Terrell
Dissertation:Essays on Asset Markets in International Economics: Human Capital and Foreign Exchange
"Trade and Wages: The Dynamic Effect of Terms of Trade Shocks on Relative Wages"
"Economic Growth and the Social Nature of Human Capital"
"An Explanation of the Forward Premium Puzzle Consistent with Uncovered Interest Parity"
Doctoral Committee: Jim Levinsohn, Co-Chair, Ennio Stacchetti, Co-Chair, Alan Deardorff, Lutz Kilian, Martin Young
1998
Chakrabarti, Avik
Dissertation:Foreign Direct Investment & Host Country Interaction: A Strategic Approach
"The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: A Sensitivity Analysis of Cross-Country Regressions"
"The Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence"
"Toward a More General Theory of the Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, John Laitner, James Levinsohn, Scott Masten
Location: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Debaere, Peter
Dissertation:The Factor Proportions Theory of International Trade and Finance
"International Saving, Investment and Trade" (with Ufuk Demiroglu)
"On the Similarity of Country Endowments and Factor Price Equalization" (with Ufuk Demiroglu)
"Endowments Do Matter: Relative Factor Price Equalization"
"Factor Abundance and Comparative Advantage in the Long-Run: Belgium Versus the UK"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Matthew Shapiro, Robert Stern, David Weinstein
Dissertation:Three Essays in International Trade and Investment
"Economic Geography and the Development of Vertical Multinational Production"
"Exchange Rate Movements and the Profitability of U.S. Multinationals"
"The Impact of Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms on the Geographic Distribution of Industry: The Case of China"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, James Levinsohn, Robert Stern, Bernard Yeung
Michigan Publications:
Gao, Ting. "Economic Geography and the Development of Vertical Multinational Production," Journal of International Economics, August 1999.
Gao, Ting. "Exchange Rate Movements and the Profitability of U.S. Multinationals," Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming.
Location: UBS Chief Investment Office WM in Hong Kong
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Naito, Hisahiro
Dissertation:Essays on Income Redistribution and Government Policy
"Tariffs and Production Subsidies for Income Redistribution"
"Re-Examination of Uniform Commodity Taxes under a Non-Linear Income Tax System and Its Implication for Production Efficiency"
"Do Decentralized Tax Policies in a Global Economy Lead to a Pareto-Efficient Tax System from the World's Point of View?"
"Non-Linear Income Tax System and Production Distortion: Welfare Evaluation and Simulation"
Doctoral Committee: Roger H. Gordon, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, Joel Slemrod, David Weinstein
Michigan Publications:
Naito, Hisahiro. "Re-Examination of Uniform Commodity Taxes under a Non-Linear Income Tax System and Its Implication for Production Efficiency," Journal of Public Economics 71:2, 1999, pp. 165-188.
Placement: Syracuse University Location: Tsukuba University
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Yun, Seong-Hun
Dissertation:Pricing to Market Behavior of Korean Exporting Firms
"Pricing to Market Behavior of Korean Exporting Firms: Empirical Findings"
"Pricing to Market Behavior of Korean Exporting Firms: Theoretical Explanations"
"An Essay on Invoicing Practices of Korean Exports"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Gary Saxonhouse, Robert Stern, Bernard Yeung
Location: Research Institute for International Economics, Seoul, Korea
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Zhao, Xiaozheng
Dissertation:Measuring Trade Openness and Factor-Specific Production Inefficiency with the Stochastic Frontier Model
"The Stochastic Frontier Heckscher-Ohlin Model and the Measure of Trade Barriers"
"Estimation of Factor-Specific Technical Inefficiency of China's Rural Industrial Firms"
Doctoral Committee: Gary Saxonhouse, Chair, David D. Li, Albert F. Park, Bernard Y. Yeung
Location: Goldman, Sachs in Beijing
1996
Ahn, Dukgeun
Dissertation:Three Essays on International Competition and
Trade
"Competition Policy in International Trade"
"Regulatory Competition as a Strategic Trade Policy"
"The Location of Foreign Direct Investment in Manufacturing
Industries in the United States: Econometric Models of State
Characteristics"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, William James
Adams, Robert M. Stern, Bernard Y. Yeung
Location: Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University
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De Arcangelis, Giuseppe
Dissertation:Essays in Mananged Exchange Rates
"The Influence of Real and Nominal Shocks in the Short Run"
"Collapses of Exchange-Rate Regimes as Breakdown in Cooperation"
"Monetary Policies and Fixed Exchange Rates"
Doctoral Committee: Matthew D. Shapiro, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, E.
Phil Howrey, James Bodurtha
Michigan Publications:
De Arcangelis, Giuseppe. 1993 "The Influence of Real and Nominal
Shocks on the Exchange Rates," Journal of International and
Comparative Economics 2: 247-277.
Location: University of Rome "La Sapienza"
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Mazumdar, Joy
Dissertation:The Effects of Trade Related Policy on Growth and
Welfare
"Do Static Gains from Trade Lead to Medium Run Growth?"
"The Role of Imported Machinery in Growth in LDCs"
"Intellectual Property Rights, Endogenous Growth and Welfare"
Doctoral Committee: Alan Deardorff, Co-chair, James Levinsohn,
Co-chair, Susanto Basu, Marina v.N. Whitman
Michigan Publications:
Mazumdar, Joy 1996 "Do Static Gains from Trade Lead to Medium-Run
Growth?" Journal of Political Economy 104, December, pp.
1328-1337.
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Moes, Alowin Meinard Theodorus Lodewijk
Dissertation:Essays on International Trade and the Economics of
Transition
"Testing the Generalized Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem"
"Voucher Privatization: Should Vouchers Be Tradeable?"
Doctoral Committee: Roger H. Gordon, Co-chair, Alan V. Deardorff,
Co-chair, David D.K. Li, Edward A. Snyder
Location: New Zealand Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand
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Dissertation:On the Economies of Developing Countries
"Implications of Terms-of-Trade Uncertainty on Economic Growth and
Business Cycles"
"Use of Industrial Policy and Inter-Industry Knowledge Spillover
in Developing Countries"
"Concessionary Activities in National Parks"
Doctoral Committee: John Laitner, Co-chair, Carl Simon,
Co-chair, Alan Deardorff, Bernard Yeung
Location: University of Hong Kong
1995
Baru, Sundari
Dissertation:Essays on Trade, Job Market Skills, and
Employment Changes
"Imported Inputs and Within-Industry Employment Changes in U.S.
Manufacturing"
"Industry Sector Studies on the Employment Effects of the U.S.
Special Tariff Treatment of Outsourcing"
"The Changing Value of a Nursing Education"
Doctoral Committee: Robert M. Stern, Chair, John Bound,
William Moller, Frank P. Stafford
Michigan Publications:
Baru, Sundari, Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M. Stern. 1994.
"Selected Annotated Bibliography on the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem," in
Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern (eds.) with the assistance of
Sundari R. Baru, The Stolper-Samuelson
Theorem: A Golden Jubilee, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan
Press, pp. 353-380.
Location: Center on Policy Iniatives, San Diego, CA
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Cronovich, Ronald Michael
Dissertation:Economic Growth and the Human Capital Intensity of
Government Spending
"Theoretical Analysis of the Factor Content of Government Spending
and Economic Growth"
"Empirical Measures of the Factor Content of Government Spending in
a Cross Section of Countries"
Doctoral Committee: John P. Laitner, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff,
Miles S. Kimball, Scott Masten
Dissertation:Three Essays on the Effects of International Trade
"The Effects of European Economic Integration on the Profitability
of Industries"
"A Test of the General Validity of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem for
Trade in the European Community"
"The Impact of International Trade on Employment and Wages in the
United States"
Doctoral Committee: Alan Deardorff, Chair, Susanto Basu, Charles C.
Brown, James Levinsohn, Bernard Yeung
Michigan Publications:
Deardorff, Alan V. and Dalia Hakura. 1994. "Trade and Wages--What
Are the Questions?" in Jagdish Bhagwati and Marvin H. Kosters, eds.,
Trade and Wages: Leveling Wages Down? Washington, D.C.: The AEI
Press (1994), 76-107.
Dissertation:Essays on Spacial International Economics
"Monopolistic Competition and International Trade: Reconsidering
the Evidence"
"Global Income Patterns: Does Geography Play a Role?"
"A Spatial Theory of Trade in Intermediate Goods"
Doctoral Committee: James Levinsohn, Chair, Paul Courant, Alan
Deardorff, John Jackson
Michigan Publications:
Hummels, David and James A. Levinsohn 1995 "Monopolistic
Competition and International
Trade: Reconsidering the Evidence," Quarterly Journal of Economics
110:799-836, August.
Dissertation:Domestic Competition, Industrial Efficiency, and Trade Liberalization in Korean Industries
Doctoral Committee: James Levinsohn, Chair, E. Philip Howrey, Hal Varian, Bernard Yeung
Location: Industrial Innovation Division, Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy, Korea
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1994
Greaney, Theresa Marie
Dissertation:Essays on Trade Policy, Foreign Direct Investment and
Industrial Policy in Japan and the United States
"Import Now! An Analysis of Voluntary Import Expansions (VIEs) to
Increase U.S. Market Shares in Japan"
"Competition and Investment Strategies in Product Development
Activities of Japanese and American Multinationals"
"Collusion or Protection? Comparing Japanese and American Policies
to Assist Distressed Industries"
Doctoral Committee: Gary R. Saxonhouse, Chair, Alan Deardorff, Greg
Shaffer, Bernard Yeung
Dissertation:Three Essays on the Possibility of Welfare-Reducing
Trade
"On the Possibility of Welfare-Reducing Trade with Monopoly and a
Captive Sub-Market"
"On the Possibility of Welfare-Reducing Trade with Oligopoly and
Multiple Captive Sub-Markets"
"On the Possibility of a Tariff War Increasing World Welfare"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Gregory Shaffer,
Robert Stern, Bernard Yeung
Location: International Trade Administration, United States Commerce
Department
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Zhang, Zhong John
Dissertation:Trade Policy and Industrial Competitiveness
"Labor Standards, Trade and Industrial Competitiveness"
"Trade Protection and Industrial Competitiveness"
"Trade Policy Reforms and National Welfare"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Co-chair, Hal R. Varian,
Co-chair, Greg Shaffer, Bernard Yeung
Michigan Publications:
Shaffer, Greg and Z. John Zhang 1995 ""Competitive Coupon
Targeting," Marketing Science , 14 (Winter), 395-416.
Placement: Washington University, St. Louis Location: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (as of
6/02, at Columia Business School until then)
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Zhu, Zhen
Dissertation:Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Target Zones
"An Econometric Analysis of the DM-Dollar Exchange Rate after the
Louvre Accord"
"Monetary Accommodation and Exchange-Rate Targeting in the Presence
of Persistent Exchange-Rate Misalignment"
"Dynamic Inconsistency and Exchange Rate Target Zones"
Doctoral Committee: Matthew D. Shapiro, Chair, E. Philip
Howrey, Barbara Mace, Stefan Oppers
Dissertation:Processing and Exporting Raw Materials: An Analysis
of the Indonesian Log anad Plywood Industries
"Economic Rationales for Resource-Based Processing"
"A Trade Model"
"The Estimation of the Elasticity of Input Substitution"
"An Open Economy Computable General Equilibrium Model for Indonesia"
Doctoral Committee: Richard C. Porter, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff,
Gunter Dufey, Mark Gersovitz
Placement: University of Missouri
Location: Ford Motor Company
1992
De Ploey, Wouter Hendrik Frans
Dissertation:Essays on Europe 1992: Economic Integration,
Multinationals and the Pharmaceutical Industry
"Multinationals anda Economic Integration"
"The Pharmaceutical Industry and 1992"
"Explaining Drug Price Differentials in the EC"
"An Event Study of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term
Restoration Act of 1984"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, William James Adams,
James Levinsohn, Bernard Yeung
Dissertation:On the Consequences of Recent Changes in the Global
Trading Environment
"Econometric Analysis of the Influence of Changing Trade Patterns
on Displacements of Labor"
"The Effect of Trade Induced Displacement on Unemployment and Wages"
"Some Welfare Effects of Dynamic Customs Union Formation"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Sheldon H. Danziger,
James A. Levinsohn, Robert M. Stern
Michigan Publications:
Danziger, Sheldon, Jon Haveman, and Robert D. Plotnick. 1991.
"State Poverty Rates for Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics in the Late
1980s," Focus 3, Spring.
Deardorff, Alan V., Jon D. Haveman, and Robert M. Stern. 1992.
"Computational Analysis of the Sectoral Effects on U.S. Trade and
Employment of Unilateral and Multilateral Reductions in Military
Expenditures," in F. Gerard Adams (ed.), Macroeconomic Dimensions of
Arms Reduction, Boulder, Co: Westview Press, pp. 51-72.
Deardorff, Alan V., Jon D. Haveman, and Robert M. Stern. 1992.
"Some Economic Effects of Unilateral and Multilateral Reductions in
Military Expenditures in the Major Industrialized
and Developing Countries," Journal of Conflict Management and
Peace Science 12:47-78.
Deardorff, Alan V., Jon D. Haveman, and Robert M. Stern. 1993.
"Sectoral Effects of Reductions in NATO Military Expenditures in the
Major Industrialized and Developing Countries," Open Economies
Review 4:247-268.
Deardorff, Alan V. and Jon D. Haveman. 1995. "The Effects of U.S.
Trade Laws on Poverty in America," Journal of Human Resources
30:807-825, Fall.
Placement: Purdue University
Location: National Economic Education Delegation
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Netz, Janet S.
Dissertation:Risk and Futures Markets and Their Impact on
Spot Price, Storage, and Exports
"The Effect of Futures Markets for Storable Commodities on the
Variability of Spot Price"
"The Effect of Basis Risk on Storage Behavior"
"Basis and Exchange Rate Risks and Their Impact on Storage and Exports"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Severin
Borenstein, James A. Levinsohn, Craig Pirrong
Placement: University of Delaware Location: University of Michigan
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Robinson, Malcolm B.
Dissertation:Rational Non-Cooperation in International
Monetary Policy Games
"Can Nations Cooperate on Monetary Policy? A Literature Review"
"Monetary Policy in Deterministic Games with 'Rational' Wage Setters"
"Parameter Uncertainty in an International Monetary Policy Game"
Doctoral Committee: Carl Simon, Chair, Edward Gramlich, Robin
Welles, Douglas Dion
Location: Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Kentucky
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1991
Thompson, Aileen Jo
Dissertation:The Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement
and Stock Prices: An Event Study Analysis
"The Anticipated Sectoral Effects of the Canada-United States Free
Trade Agreement"
"Trade Liberalization, Comparative Advantage and Stock Prices:
Evidence from the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, James A.
Levinsohn, Joel Slemrod, Valerie Y. Suslow
Placement: University of Toronto Location: Federal Trade Commission
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Weinstein, David Eli
Dissertation:Essays on Japan's Trade and Industrial
Structure
"Competition and Unilateral Dumping"
"United We Stand: Firms and Enterprise Unions in Japan"
"Do Integers Count? Strategic Entry Promotion under Free Entry"
Doctoral Committee: Gary Saxonhouse, Chair, Alan V.
Deardorff, George Johnson, Stephen Salant, Edward Snyder
Placement: Harvard University Location: Columbia University
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1990
Chae, Wook
Dissertation:Unemployment and the Balance of Trade with
Quantity Rationing
"Analytical Framework: Stylized Facts and Key Assumptions"
"Resource Price Shocks and Optimal Policy Responses"
"The Impact of Technological Change"
"Quotas and Tariffs in a Two-Country Model"
Doctoral Committee: Alan Deardorff, Co-chair, John Laitner,
Co-chair, Gunter Dufey, Edward Gramlich
Location: Korea Institute of Economic Policy
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Holden, Sarah Asenath
Dissertation:Expropriation of Foreign-Owned Assets:
Theoretical and Empirical Considerations
"Theoretical Analysis of the Problem of Expropriation of
Foreign-Owned Assets by the Host Government"
"The Data"
"Empirical Analysis of Expropriation"
"Measuring the Impact of the Expropriation of a Foreign Affiliate
Using Stock Market Data"
Doctoral Committee: Edward Gramlich, Chair, Aquiles Almansi,
Gunter Dufey, Roger Gordon
Placement: Federal Reserve Board
Ikeda, Satoshi
Dissertation:Essays in International Trade with
Heterogeneous Preferences and Non-Traded Goods
"International Trade and Comparative Advantage with Heterogeneous
Preferences and Non-Identical Factor Ownership"
"The Efects of a Foreign Capital Inflow on the Welfare of Other
Factors of Production"
"The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem in the Presence of Non-Traded Goods"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, James
Levinsohn, Robert Stern, Bernard Yeung
Location: Department of Sociology, University of Alberta
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Ries, John Charles
Dissertation:Vertical Differentiation, Quotas, and Profits:
Voluntary Export Restraints on Japanese Automobiles
"Vertical Differentiation, Output Restraints, and the Profitability
of Constrained Firms"
"Quantity Restraints and Profits: An Event Study on Voluntary
Export Restraints on Japanese Automakers"
"The Divergent Effects of Voluntary Export Restraints on the
Profits of Firms in the Japanese Auto Industry"
Doctoral Committee: Gary R. Saxonhouse, Chair, James A.
Levinsohn, Stephen W. Salant, Edward A. Snyder
Dissertation:Essays on Overlending and Capital Flight
"A Framework for the Analysis of Overlending"
"An Empirical Investigation of the Overlending Hypothesis"
"Policies and Proposals for the Debt Crisis"
"A Theoretical Discussion of Capital Flight, Domestic Investment,
and External Borrowing"
Doctoral Committee: Hal R. Varian, Co-chair, Aquiles Almansi,
Co-chair, Gunter Dufey, John Laitner
Location: International Monetary Fund
Grobar, Lisa Morris
Dissertation:Determinants of the Level of Manufactured
Exports of Developing Countries
"Breaking into Foreign Markets: The Difficulties Facing Exporting
Firms in Developing Countries"
"An Argument for the Use of Infant-Export-Industry Subsidies by
Developing Countries"
"The Effect of Real Exchange Rate Uncertainty on the Manufactured
Exports of Less Developed Countries"
"Empirical Evidence of the Relationship Between Real Exchange Rate
Uncertainty and Trade"
Doctoral Committee: Aquiles A. Almansi, Chair, William G.
Moller, Richard C. Porter, Robert M. Stern,
Michigan Publications:
Grobar, Lisa M. and Robert M. Stern. 1989. "A Data Set on
International Trade in Armaments for the Major Western Industrialized and
Developing Countries for 1980: Sources and Methodological Issues,"
Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv.
Grobar, Lisa M., Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M. Stern. 1989.
"The Economic Effects of International Trade in Armaments in the Major
Western Industrialized and Developing Countries," Defense
Economics 1:97-120.
Location: California State University, Long Beach
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Hungerford, Thomas L.
Dissertation:Essays on International Trade and the Labor
Market
"GATT: A Cooperative Equilibrium in a Noncooperative Trading Regime"
"Trade, Human Capital and the Incidence of Layoff Unemployment Spells"
Doctoral Committee: Frank Stafford, Chair, John Chamberlin,
Alan Deardorff, James Levinsohn
Michigan Publications:
Hungerford, Thomas and Gary Solon. 1987. "Sheepskin Effects in
the Returns to Education," Review of Economics and Statistics 69.
Placement: Wayne State University
Location: United States General Accounting Office
Jung, Chul-Ho
Dissertation:Essays on Inventory Model, International
Reserves, Forecasting, and Loglinear Regressions Model
"Optimal Cash Management Policy by Firms and Its Application: A
Continuous Time Stochastic Framework"
"Forecasting by Normal Mixture Model: An Application to Foreign
Exchange Rates"
"On Devising Unbiased Predictors in a Loglinear Regression Model"
Doctoral Committee: Hal Varian, Chair, Alan Deardorff, Gunter
Dufey, Jan Kmenta, John Laitner
Dissertation:Taxes, Trade, and the Pattern of World
Production
"The Effects of International Trade and Factor Mobility on the
Incidence of Capital Income Taxes"
"Optimal Trade Taxes, Factor Mobility, and the Pattern of World
Production"
Doctoral Committee: Roger H. Gordon, Chair, Theodore
Bergstrom, Gunter Dufey, Joel Slemrod
Dissertation:Trade Reform and Efficiency of Resource Use in
China
"Trade Efficiency and Three Waves of Reform, 1979-1988"
"Chinese Trade Theory, Planning, and Measures of Efficiency"
"Patterns of Interindustry Resource Use, Imported Inputs, and
Shadow Costs"
"Tests of Trade Efficiency, and Conclusions"
Doctoral Committee: Robert F. Dernberger, Chair, Richard C.
Porter, Robert M. Stern, Vern Terpstra
1988
Lee, Honggue
Dissertation:Essays on International R&D Rivalry, Strategic
Licensing, and the Multinational Firm
"On the Feasibility of Strategic Licensing"
"A Theory of the Multinational Firm"
"International R&D Rivalry with Spillovers"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Lawrence E.
Blume, Robert M. Stern, Vern Terpstra
Placement: Korea Development Institute Location: Kungook University, Korea
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Hoekman, Bernard M.
Dissertation:The Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade
Negotiations: Investigating the Scope for Agreement on Safeguards,
Services, and Agriculture
"Negotiations and Trade Policy Coordination"
"Analyzing Multilateral Trade Negotiations"
"Safeguards in the Tokyo and Uruguay Rounds"
"Negotiations on Services"
"Agriculture"
"Possible Linkages in the Uruguay Round"
Doctoral Committee: Robert M. Stern, Chair, Paul N. Courant,
Alan V. Deardorff, John H. Jackson
Michigan Publications:
Hoekman, Bernard M. and Robert M. Stern. 1987. "Issues and Data
Needs for GATT Negotiations on Services," The World Economy, March.
Hoekman, Bernard M. and Robert M. Stern. 1987. "Codes of
Conduct," in J. Michael Finger and Andrzej Olechowski (eds.), Handbook
on Multilateral Trade Negotiations, The World Bank.
Hoekman, Bernard M. and Robert M. Stern. 1988. "Conceptual Issues
Relating to Services in the International Economy," in Chung H. Lee and
Sejii Naya (eds.), Trade anad Investment in Services in the
Asia-Pacific Region: An Emerging Issue, Westview Press.
Hoekman, Bernard M. and Robert M. Stern. 1988. "The Service
Sector in Economic Structure and in International Transactions," in
Leslie V. Castle and Christopher Findlay (eds.), Pacific Trade in
Services, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
Hoekman, Bernard M. and Robert M. Stern. 1991. "Evolving Patterns
of International Trade and Investment in Services," in Peter Hooper and
J. David Richardson (eds.), International Economic Transactions:
Issues in Measurement and Empirical Research, University of Chicago
Press.
Placement: The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Location: European University Institute
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1987
Abraham, Filip
Dissertation:Bargaining Structures and European
Macroeconomic Performance
"Bargaining Structures and Macroeconomic Performance in a Small
Open Economy with Perfectly Competitive World Markets"
"Bargaining Structures in an Imperfectly Competitive World"
"Government Policies in a Unionized Economy"
"An Empirical Approach to Bargaining Structures in Belgium and Some
Other European Countries"
Doctoral Committee: Frank P. Stafford,
Chair, Robert B. Barsky, William N. Cooke, Robert M. Stern
Michigan Publications:
Deardorff, Alan V., Robert M. Stern, and Filip Abraham. 1987 "The
Economic Consequences of an Import Surcharge: Theory and Empirical
Evidence for the U.S. Economy," Journal of Policy Modeling, Summer.
Abraham, Filip, Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M. Stern. 1988.
"The Impact of Tariffs on profits in the United States and Other Major
Trading Countries," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 124:623-634.
Location: University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Ho, Chih-Chin
Dissertation:Determinants of U.S. Interregional Trade
Patterns: An Empirical Assessment
"Review of the Literature"
"Theretical Framework"
"Econometric Methodology"
"Empirical Findings"
"Theoretical Implications"
Doctoral Committee: Robert M. Stern, Chair, Alan V.
Deardorff, Adrian E. Tschoegl, Michelle J. White
Location: National Taiwan University (Appointed Minister of Finance, Taiwan, as of June 29, 2006)
Leidy, Michael Patrick
Dissertation:Symbolic Foreign Policy Export Controls and
World Trade in Forward Commodity Markets
"Foreign Policy Export Interventions: A Source of Country-Specific
Supply Risk"
"Consumer Choice in a Forward Commodity Market with Foreign Policy
Supply Risk"
"Hedging and the Competitive Firm under Price Uncertainty and
Foreign Policy Contract Risk"
"Equilibrium Characteristics of Country-Specific Forward Markets
under Foreign Policy Contract Risk"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Lawrence E.
Blume, Gunter Dufey, Robert M. Stern
Michigan Publications:
Leidy, Michael and Robert W. Staiger. 1985. "Economic Issues and
Methodology in Arms-Race Analysis," Journal of Conflict
Resolution, September.
Placement University of Arizona Location: International Monetary Fund
Vijayraghavan, Vasumati
Dissertation:Comparing and Testing Alternative Formulations of Exchange Rate Determination Doctoral Committee: Robert Stern, Chair, Alan Deardorff,
Jeffrey Miron, Adrian Tschoegl
Location: Dicksinson College
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1986
Corbett, Jennifer M.
Dissertation:Monetary Policy and Portfolio Behaviour in
Japan: A Disequilibrium Analysis
"Japanese Monetary Policy: Facts, Theory and Issues"
"A Model of 'Japanese Style' Monetary Policy"
"Microfoundations of the Model: Linear Spillovers in a
Disequilibrium Model"
"Data"
"Specification and Estimation"
"Further Tests"
Doctoral Committee: Gary Saxonhouse, Chair, Alan Deardorff,
Gunter Dufey, Robert Holbrook
Location: Australian National University, University of Tokyo
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Liefert, William Mark
Dissertation:The Economic Gain to the USSR from Trade with
the OECD in 1972 and 1976
"The Concept and Importance of the Soviet Resource Gain from Trade"
"The Value of Soviet Exports to the OECD and Potential
Import-Substitutes in Producers' Prices"
"The Value of Soviet Exports to the OECD and Potential
Import-Substitutes in Adjusted-Factor-Cost"
"Empirical Results"
Doctoral Committee: Morris Bornstein, Chair, Alfred G. Meyer,
Robert M. Stern, Steven B. Webb
Location: U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Mahdavi, Mahnaz
Dissertation:Poltical Risk and the Role of 'News' in
International Financial Markets: A Study of the Freeze of Iranian
Assets
"Chronology of the Event"
"The Theoretical Foundation and Hypotheses"
"The Effects of Political Risk on the Deviations from Interest
Parity and the Role of 'News' in the Foreign Exchange Market:
Empirical Evidence"
"Political Risk and the Relationship between the U.S. and
Eurodollar Deposit Rates: Empirical Evidence"
"Optimal Currency Reserve Holdings of Central Banks and Political Risk"
Doctoral Committee: Robert Stern, Chair, David Aschauer,
Gunter Dufey, Steven Webb
Dissertation:Structural Change in Japanese-American
Interdependence: A Total Factor Productivity Analysis in an
International Input-Output Framework
"Theoretical Background"
"Empirical Models"
"Empirical Results"
Doctoral Committee: Gary R. Saxonhouse, Co-chair, Robert M.
Stern, Co-chair, Gunter Dufey, Frank P. Stafford
Location: Waseda University, Japan
Pliskin, Jeffrey Lawrence
Dissertation:Two Essays on International Capital Flows
"A Comparison of the Ordinary Least Squares Predictor and Selected
Ridge Regression Predictors"
"The Effect of the Voluntary Foreign Credit Restraint Program on
U.S. Bank' Short-Term Claims on Foreigners"
Doctoral Committee: E. Philip Howrey, Chair, Alan V.
Deardorff, Jan Kmenta, Roger L. Wright
Dissertation:A Disaggregated Empirical Analysis of US Import
Demand, 1962-1981
"Theory of Import Demand"
"Substitution between DC Imports, NIC Imports, and Domestic
Substitutes"
"Measurement Errors in Unit Values"
Doctoral Committee: Robert M. Stern, Chair, Alan V.
Deardorff, Jan Kmenta, William J. Wrobleski
Michigan Publications:
Shiells, Clinton, Robert M. Stern, and Alan V. Deardorff. 1986.
"Estimates of the Elasticities of Substitution Between Imports and Home
Goods for the United States," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv
122:497-519, August.
Location: International Monetary Fund
Staiger, Robert William
Dissertation:Essays in International Trade
"Testing the Predictions of the Heckscher-Ohlin Model"
"Heckscher-Ohlin Theory in the Presence of Market Power"
"Upstram Monopoly in a Ricardian Continuum-of-Goods Trade Model"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Philip Howrey,
Robert Stern, Adrian Tschoegl
Michigan Publications:
Leidy, Michael and Robert W. Staiger. 1985. "Economic Issues and
Methodology in Arms-Race Analysis," Journal of Conflict
Resolution, September.
Staiger, Robert W., Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M. Stern. 1986.
"The Employment Effects of Japanese and American Protection," in Dominick
Salvatore (ed.), The New Protectionist Threat to World Welfare,
Amsterdam: North-Holland.
Staiger, Robert W., Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M. Stern. 1987.
"An Evaluation of Factor Endowments and Protection as Determinants of
Japanese and American Foreign Trade," Canadian Journal of
Economics, August.
Staiger, Robert W., Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M. Stern. 1988.
"The Effects of Protection on the Factor Content of Japanese and American
Foreign Trade," Review of Economics and Statistics 70:475-483, August.
Placement: Stanford University Location: Dartmouth College
E-mailHomepage
Stockhausen, Gerard L., S.J.
Dissertation:The Effects of a Quota Threat on the Exporting
Country
"A Selective History and Poltical Economy of Quota Threats"
"The Effects of Threats of Protection on a Country with Perfect
Competition in the Export Industry"
"The Effects of a Quota Threat on a Country with Monopoly in the
Export Industry"
"The Effects of a Quota Threat on a Country with Oligopoly in the
Export Industry"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Theodore
Bergstrom, Robert M. Stern, Adrian E. Tschoegl
Placement: Creighton University Location: University of Detroit Mercy (President, 2004-2010) Deceased: 2016
Vestal, James Edward
Dissertation:An Analysis of the Determinants and Commodity Trade Effects of Japanese Technology Trade
"An Overview of Japanese Technology Trade"
"The Determinants of Technology Trade"
"An Empirical Analysis of Japanese Technology Trade"
"Technology Trade and Commodity Trade"
Doctoral Committee: Gary Saxonhouse, Chair, Alan Deardorff, Robert Stern, Adrian Tschoegl
1984
Brown, Drusilla Kae
Dissertation:A Simulation Model of World Production and Trade with Bilateral Trade and Commercial Policies and Application to the Tokyo Round
"Review of the Literature"
"The Model and Its Theoretical Framework"
"Model Comparison"
"The Economic Effects of the Tokyo Round"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Theodore C. Bergstrom, Robert M. Stern, Adrian E. Tschoegl
Dissertation:A Theory of the Royalty Payment and International Technology Transactions
"Review of the Literature"
"Risk Sharing"
"Unobservability and Risk Sharing"
"Ownership Restriction"
"Asymmetric Information"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Co-Chair, Davind Sappington, Co-Chair, Robert M. Stern, Adrian Tschoegl
1982
Elfner, Douglas Walter
Dissertation:An Evaluation of the Buffer-Stock Arrangements in the International Natural Rubber Market
"Model Specification, Estimation, and Results"
"Dynamic Properties of the Model and Ex-Post Forecast Results"
"The International Natural Rubber Agreement"
"Ex-Ante Forecasts and Forecasts with the INRA"
"Ex-Ante Forecasts with Alternative Buffer-Stock Schemes"
Doctoral Committee: Robert M. Stern, Chair, E. Phillip Howrey, Richard C. Porter
Kähkönen, Juha Sakari
Dissertation:Credit Rationing, Unemployment, and Economic Policies: Disequilibrium Models of Industrialized Economies with Underdeveloped Financial Markets
"Behavior of Economic Agents in the Closed Economy Model"
"Analysis of the Closed Economy Model"
"The Basic Open Economy Model"
"The Open Economy Model with a Nontraded Good and an Imported Input"
Doctoral Committee: Ronald L. Teigen, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, John P. Laitner, Walter Torous, Hal R. Varian
1981
Dompierre, Michael Bernard
Dissertation:The Sector-Specific Factors Model with Three Factors and Two Goods
"Review of the Literature"
"Importance of Factor Substitutability"
"Short-Run General Equilibrium"
"Long-Run General Equilibrium"
"Adjustment of Long-Run Equilibrium"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, George E. Johnson, Robert M. Stern, Vernon Terpstra
Fukao, Mitsuhiro
Dissertation:The Risk Premium in the Foreign Exchange Market
"Review of the Theoretical Literature"
"Demand and Supply in the Foreign Exchange Market"
"The Multicurrency Model"
"Implications of the Model"
"Review of the Empirical Literature"
"Empirical Tests of the Model"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Gunter Dufey, John P. Laitner, Robert M. Stern
Dissertation:The Natural Rubber Economy of Thailand
Doctoral Committee: Robert M. Stern, Chair, Susan Ranney, Paul DeGrauwe, K. Shapiro
Location: International Rubber Study Group, London
E-mail
Maskus, Keith Eugene
Dissertation:Evidence on Shifts in the Determinants of the Structure of United States Manufacturing Foreign Trade, 1958-1976
"Specification of Models and Literature Review"
"Econometric Methodology"
"Results of Estimation and Testing for Structural Change"
"Interpretation of Results and Implications for Future Research"
Doctoral Committee: Robert M. Stern, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, E. Phillip Howrey, William J. Wrobleski
Dissertation:Foreign Exchange Risk and Direct International Investment
"Exchange Risk"
"Theoretical Model"
"Currency Denomination of Funds"
"Exchange Risk and International Trade"
Doctoral Committee: Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Gunter Dufey, John P. Laitner, Robert M. Stern
Tempalski, Jerry
Dissertation:An Analysis of Structural Change in the Demand for Imports and Exports in the Major Industrial Countries
Doctoral Committee:Robert M. Stern, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, E. Phillip Howrey, Wrobleski
Location: Office of Tax Analysis, US Dept. of Treasury
E-mail
Van't Dack, Jozef
Dissertation:Short-Run Implications of Exchange Rate Unification for Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Doctoral Committee:Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Robert Holbrook, Robert M. Stern, Nincic
Location: Bank for International Settlements
E-mail
1980
1979
Chaib, Andr� Emile
Dissertation:The Export Performance of a Small Open Developing Economy: The Lebanese Experience
"The Setting"
"Theoretical Background"
"Empirical Analysis"
Doctoral Committee: Richard C. Porter, Chair, Robin Barlow, Robert M. Stern, Vern Terpstra
Connors, Thomas
Dissertation:Balance of Payments Adjustment in the West African Monetary Union
Doctoral Committee:Richard Porter, Chair, Alan Deardorff, Robert M. Stern, K. Shapiro
1978
Coe, David
Dissertation:Impact Effects of Policy in a Two-Country Portfolio Balance Model
Doctoral Committee:Alan V. Deardorff, Chair, Robert M. Stern, Robert Holbrook, Gunter Dufey
Location: International Monetary Fund
Lim, Linda
Dissertation:Multinational Firms and Manufacturing for Export in Less-Developed Countries: The Case of the Electronics Industry in Malaysia and Singapore
"Offshore sourcing in the electronics industry: Home country origins"
"Economic development in Malaysia and Singapore: Host country origins of manufacturing for export"
"Objectives, methodology and data"
"Growth and stability"
"Balance of payments"
"Employment"
"Technology, learning and linkages"
"Social, cultural and welfare effects"
"Summary of results"
"Manufacturing for export and economic development"
Doctoral Committee: Thomas E Wiesskopf, Chair, William James Adams, Norman Owen (History), Richard C. Porter
Dissertation:The Proliferation of U.S. Firm Third World Offshore Sourcing in the Mid-To-Late 1960's: An Historical and Empirical Study of Factors Which Occasioned the Location of Production for the U.S. Market Abroad
Doctoral Committee:Tom Weisskopf, Chair, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern, Vern Terpstra
Location: Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of New Mexico
E-mail
Wares, William
Dissertation:An Evaluation of the Provisions and Recent Administrative History of the United States Antidumping Act of 1921
Doctoral Committee:Robert M. Stern, Chair, Wolfgang Stolper, Alan V. Deardorff, Eric Stein
1975
Francis, Jonathan
Dissertation:Some General Equilibrium Effects of Tariff Changes on Wages and Incomes in Canada
Doctoral Committee:Robert M. Stern, Chair, Jan Kmenta, Alan V. Deardorff, William James Adams
Hooper, Peter
Dissertation:An Analysis of Aggregation Error in U.S. Merchandise Trade Equations, 1954-I - 1972-IV
Doctoral Committee:Robert M. Stern, Chair, Harold Shapiro, Saul Hymans, Gunter Dufey
Location: Deutsche Bank
Olopoenia, Razaq
Dissertation:The Domestic Resource Cost of Foreign Exchange in the Manufacturing Sectors of the Ivory Coast: 1960--1970
Doctoral Committee:Richard Porter, Chair, Robert M. Stern, Alan V. Deardorff, K. Shapiro
Reynolds, Bruce
Dissertation:The Impact of Trade and Foreign Investment on Industrialization: Chinese Textiles, 1875-1931
Doctoral Committee:Alexander Eckstein, Chair, Robert Dernberger, Peter Heller, Albert Feuerwerker