CURRICULUM VITAE
THEO S. EICHER
Contact Information
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Theo S.
Eicher |
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Castor Professor in Economics |
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Department
of Economics, 305 Savery Hall Box 353330 |
University of |
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Tel: 206.685.8082 |
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Web:
http://faculty.washington.edu/te/ |
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Email:
te@u.washington.edu |
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Current
Positions
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2012- |
Castor Professor in Economics, University of |
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2006- |
Professor, Department of Economics, |
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2003- |
Director, Economic |
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2003- |
Research Fellow, Cesifo Research Network, at the |
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2004- |
Research Fellow, IZA Institute for the Study of Labor, |
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2007- |
Editorial Board, Journal of Macroeconomics |
2011- |
Editor, European Economic Review |
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Former
Positions
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2000-06 |
Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, |
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1994-00 |
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, |
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1992-94 |
Preceptor, Dept. of |
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1992 |
Instructor, Dept. of |
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Visiting
Positions
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2012 |
Visiting Scholar, IMF, (November) |
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2011-12 |
Research Fellow, IICE, Universidad de Costa Rica |
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2008-11 |
Affiliate Professor,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
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2003-11 |
Research Professor, Ifo Institute for Economic
Research at the |
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2008 |
Visiting
Professor, |
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2007 |
Visiting
Scholar, IMF, (April) |
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2006 |
Visiting
Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies, |
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2004 |
Visiting Professor, IZA Institute, |
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2004 |
Visiting Professor, |
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2004 |
Visiting Professor, |
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2003-4 |
Mercator Research Professor, German
Research Foundation (DFG), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
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2002 |
Visiting Professor, GREQAM, University
Aix-Marseille (June) |
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2000, 1 |
Visiting
Professor, Eberhard-Karls-Universität,
Tübingen (February) |
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2000-07 |
Visiting Professor, Center for Economic
Studies (CES) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (June/July) |
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1999 |
Visiting Scholar, |
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Education
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1994 |
Ph.D., Economics, |
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1993 |
M.Phil., Economics, |
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1991 |
M.A., Economics, |
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1989 |
Diplom Studiengang, Economics (VWL),
Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany |
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1988 |
B.A., Chinese Studies,
Economics, |
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1987 |
Language Certificate, Chinese, |
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1985 |
Abitur, Gymnasium |
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1983 |
Phillips |
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Dissertation
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1994 |
Endogenous Human Capital and Technological Change in Closed
and Open Economies. |
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Dissertation Committee: Robert Mundell (Chair), Ronald Findlay,
Duncan Foley, Richard Clarida, Andre Burgstaller |
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Honors/Awards
/ Grants
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2009 |
European-Union-Center
of Excellence Research Award “European Productivity Determinants” |
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2006 |
German
Research Foundation Research Grant “Determinants of German Productivity” |
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2006 |
Center for
Statistics and the Social Science Grant “Bayesian Model Averaging, Priors
and Growth” |
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2004 |
German Research Foundation (DFG) Mercator
Research Professorship |
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2003 |
Royalty Research Fund Grant “Financial
Crises” |
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2003 |
Golden Key International Honor Society “Outstanding
Teaching Award” |
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2003 |
Golden Key International Honor Society Honorary
Member |
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2002 |
University of Washington, Gowan
Faculty Grant |
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2002 |
European-Union-Center Research Award “Institutions
and Growth” |
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2001 |
European-Union-Center Conference Grant “Inequality
and Growth” |
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1999 |
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research
Fellowship |
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1998 |
University of |
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1997 |
University of |
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1997 |
Royalty Research Fund Grant Trade and
Wages” |
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1994 |
Columbia |
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1991-2 |
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship |
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1989-92 |
Columbia |
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1985-88 |
Grinnell |
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Research
Interests
Trade, Development and Growth,
Macroeconomics
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Publications
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Books
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Inequality and Growth: Theory and Policy Implications, Institutions,
Development and Growth, International Economics, Information Technology and Productivity Growth: German
Trends and OECD Comparisons, Journals (refereed) Education, Technological Change and Economic Growth,
Inter-American Review of Educational Development, 119, 3 (1994): 461-81, (with Thomas Bailey) Interaction between Endogenous Human Capital and
Technological Change, Review of Economic Studies, 63, 1, (January 1996):127-44. The Human Capital Dimension to Direct Foreign
Investment, in Trade, Dynamics
and Growth, B. Jensen and K.Y. Wong eds, Michigan University Press, 1997, (with
Pantelis Kalaitzidakis). Transitional Dynamics in Non-Scale Growth Models,
in
Computing
in Economics and Finance, 1997, (with
Stephen Turnovsky) Risk and Financial Development, in Managing Capital Flows and Exchange Rates Reuven Glick (ed),
Cambridge University Press, 1998, (with Steve
Turnovsky). Training, Adverse Selection and Appropriate Technology,
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 23, (April
1999):727-746. International Capital Markets and Non Scale Growth,
Review of International Economics, 7, (May 1999):1-27, (with Steve Turnovsky) Trade, Development and Converging Growth Rates: Dynamic
Gains from Trade Reconsidered, Journal
of International Economics, 48,
(June 1999): 179-198. A Generalized Model of Economic Growth, Economic
Journal, 109, (July 1999):394-415,
(with
Steve Turnovsky). Convergence in a Two Sector Non-Scale Growth Model,
Journal of Economic Growth, 4, (December 1999):413-429, (with Steve Turnovsky). Optimal Policies for Financial Liberalizations,
German Economic Review, 1, (February 2000):19-42, (with Steve Turnovsky and Uwe Walz) Scale, Congestion and Growth, Economica, 67, (August 2000):325-47, (with Steve Turnovsky). Transitional Dynamics in a Two-Sector Non-Scale Growth
Model, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 25, (January 2001):85-113, (with Steve Turnovsky). Financial Liberalization and Capital Flow Reversal,
Economic Review, 52, 4,
(October 2001), (with Steve Turnovsky
and
Uwe Walz) Inequality and Growth: The Dual Role of Human Capital in
Development, Journal of Development Economics, 66, (October 2001): 173-97, (with Cecilia García-Peñalosa ) Protection for Sale: An Empirical Investigation: A
Comment, American Economic Review, 92, 5 (December
2002): 1702-11, (with Thomas Osang) The Impact of Tax Policy on Inequality and Growth: An
Empirical and Theoretical Investigation, Inequality and Growth:
Theory and Policy Implications, T.S.
Eicher & S.J. Turnovsky eds., On the Mechanics of Technical Change: New and Old Ideas
in Economic Growth, in Old and
New Growth Theories. An Assessment, Neri
Salvadori ed., NY, Edward Elgar Publishing,
2003 Market Structure and Innovation Revisited: Endogenous
Productivity, Training and Market Shares, in Human Capital, Trade And Public Policy In Rapidly Growing
Economies, M. Boldrin, B.L. Chen and P. Wang (eds) NY, Edward Elgar, 2004, (with Sang Choon Kim) Political Support or Contributions: An Empirical
Investigation of US Trade Policy, in WTO and World Trade: Challenges in a New Era, G. Heiduk and K.Y. Wong
eds. Berlin, Springer Verlag 2004, (with Thomas Osang) Financial
Liberalization, Openness and Convergence, Journal of
International Trade and Economic Development, 13, 4, (December 2004): 443–459, (with Leslie Hull) How Do Institutions Lead Some Countries To Produce So
Much More Output Per Worker Than Others? In Institutions for Development and Growth, T.S. Eicher and C. García-Peñalosa (eds) MIT Press 2006, (with Cecilia
García-Peñalosa and Utku Teksoz) FDI, Exports or Acquisition: Optimal Entry Modes for Multinational
Corporations, Journal of Development Economics, 77,
1, (June 2005):207-228, Reprinted in Multinational Enterprise Theory,
Volume II, J. A. Krug, J. D. Daniels eds, Sage Press (2008), (with Jong Woo Kang) Sources of the
German Productivity Demise, German Economic Review,
8, (May 2007): 211–236, (with Oliver Roehn) Unraveling the Fortunes of the Fortunate: An Iterative
Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) Approach, Journal of
Macroeconomics, 29, 3
(September 2007): 494-514, (with Chris
Papageorgiou and Oliver Roehn) Endogenous Strength of Intellectual Property Rights:
Implications for Economic Development and Growth, European
Economic Review, 52, 2, (February 2008): 237-58, (with Cecilia García-Peñalosa) The Rise and Fall of German Productivity: Software
Investment as the Decisive Driver, Cesifo Economic Studies, 54, 3,
(September 2008): 386-414, (with Thomas Strobel) Dynamic Effects of Terms of Trade Shocks: The Impact on
Debt and Growth, Journal of International Money and Finance, 27, 6,
(September 2008): 876-896, (with Stefan Schubert and Steve Turnovsky) In Search of a Sulphur Dioxide Environmental Kuznets
Curve: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach, Environment and
Development Economics, 13, 6 (December 2008): 1-28, (with Jeff Begun) Institutions and Economic Performance: Endogeneity and
Parameter Heterogeneity, Journal of Money Credit and
Banking, 41, (February 2009):
197-219, (with
Andreas Leukert) Corruption, Education and The Distribution of Income,
Journal of Economic Growth, 14 (August 2009):205-31, (with Cecilia García-Peñalosa and Tanguy van Ypersele) Structural Policies and Growth: Time Series Evidence
from a Natural Experiment, Journal of Development Economics, 91 (2010) 169–179, (with Till Schreiber) Modeling Uncertainty In Macroeconomic
Growth Determinants Using Gaussian Graphical Models, Statistical
Methodology, 7, (May 2010): 292-306, (with Adrian Dobra and Alex Lenkoski) In Search of WTO Trade Effects: Preferential Trade
Agreements Promote Trade Strongly, But Unevenly, Journal of
International Economics, 83, 2, (March 2011): 137-154, (with Christian Henn) Default Priors and Predictive Performance in Bayesian
Model Averaging, with Application to Growth Determinants, Journal
of Applied Econometrics, 26, 1, (February 2011): 30-55, (with Chris Papageorgiou and Adrian Raftery) One Money, One
Market: A Revised Benchmark For the Effects of Currency Unions on Trade Flows,
Review of International Economics, 19,
(August 2011): 419-435, (with Christian Henn) ( Trade Creation and Diversion Revisited: Accounting for
Model Uncertainty and Natural Trading Partner Effects, Journal
of Applied Econometrics, 27, (March 2012): 296-321, (with Christian Henn and Chris Papageorgiou) Robust FDI Determinants: Bayesian Model Averaging in the
Presence of Selection Bias, Journal of
Macroeconomics, 34 (September 2012)
637–651, (with Lindy Helfman and Alex
Lenkoski) Intellectual Property Rights as Development Determinants,
Canadian
Journal of Economics, 46
(February 2013), with (with Monique Newiak) Bayesian Model Averaging and Endogeneity Under Model
Uncertainty: An Application to Development Determinants, Econometric Reviews, forthcoming, (with Alex Lenkoski and Adrian Raftery) Contributions to
Books / Journals (not refereed) The North American Free Trade Agreement and the U.S.
Apparel Industry, in U.S.-Mexico Trade: Pulling Together or Pulling Apart?, US Congress, Office of Technological Assessment,
ITE-545 (Washington DC, GPO: October 1992), (with Thomas Bailey). Review of D. Jorgenson,
`Productivity', Review of
International Economics, (May 1998) Comments On The Management of
Financial Crisis,” in The Worlds
New Financial Landscape: Challenges for Economic Policy, H. Siebert ed., Springer Verlag, Institutional Determinants of Economic Performance in
OECD Countries –An Institutions Climate Index, Journal for
Institutional Comparisons, 5, 1, (Spring 2007): 39-49, (with Oliver Roehn) Guest Editorial: Special
Issue on Productivity Growth, German Economic Review, 8, (May 2007): 123-4 Outsourcing and Productivity Growth: Sectoral
Evidence from Germany, in G. Cette, M. Fouquin and H.-W. Sinn eds, Divergences in Productivity Between Europe and the
United States, Edward Elgar, Institutions and Growth in OECD Countries, Journal
for Institutional Comparisons, 7, 2, (Summer 2009): 24-29, (with Wolfgang Ochel, Oliver
Roehn, and
Anja Rohwer) |
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Invited
Presentations
Keynote/Plenary Lectures
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Keynote Speaker, Sustainable Resource
Use and Economic Dynamics Conference, |
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Keynote Speaker, Economic Growth and
Institutions Conference, |
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Keynote Speaker, Structural Change and Labor
Markets Conference, |
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Plenary Lecture, |
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Lectures
Series
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Ludwig Maximilians
Universität, München (March 2009). Advanced Topics in
Economics Growth: Model Uncertainty |
University of |
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Institute of Advanced Studies, |
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität,
München (May 2006). Advanced Topics in Economics Growth:
Model Selection |
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Universidad de Barcelona, (April 2004) Institutions
and Growth |
Technical |
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CESifo Institute, Ludwig Maximilians
Universität, München (January 2000). Endogenous Growth
Theory |
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Graduiertenkolleg,
Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen (February 2000). Non-Scale Growth |
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Graduiertenkolleg,
Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen (May 2001). Empirics of Commercial Policy |
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CESifo Institute, Ludwig Maximilians
Universität, München (December 2001). Endogenous
Tariff Protection |
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Conferences
Organized
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European Workshop in Macroeconomics, ( |
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Determinants of Productivity Growth ( |
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Education and the 21st Century Workforce ( |
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Intellectual Property Rights and
Innovation ( |
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Institutions and Growth ( |
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Growth and Inequality ( |
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Old and New Growth Theories ( |
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Growth and Inequality Policy Implications (Elmau, January 2002, co-organizer) |
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WTO and World Trade III ( |
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WTO and World Trade IV (Seattle,
September 2002, program committee) |
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Society for Computational Economics Annual Meeting ( |
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Institutions and Growth, (Venice,
CESifo Summer Institute July 2004, program co-chair) |
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Conference
Sessions Organized
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EDSIG Sessions on Trade and Growth at the
Conference of the Society for Computational Economics, (Cambridge, UK,
July 1998) |
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AEA Session on Technology, Infrastructure and Credit in
Development, (New York, 1999) |
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EDSIG Sessions on Trade and Growth at the Conference of the
Society for Computational Economics, (Boston University, July 1999) |
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Sessions on Trade and Convergence at the Conference of the Society
for Computational Economics, (Aix En Province, June 2002) |
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Referee
Activity
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American Economic Review, Canadian
Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, Econometrica, Economica, Economic
Journal, European Economic Review, German Economic Review, International
Economic Review, International Review of Economics/Metroeconomica, Japanese
Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal
of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Integration, Journal of Economics,
Journal of Empirical Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal
of International Money and Finance, Journal of International Trade and
Economic Development, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Macroeconomic Dynamics,
Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Louvain Economic
Review, National Science Foundation, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of
Economic Studies, Review of International Economics, Royalty Research Fund,
Southern Economic Journal, Verein Für Sozialpolitik. |
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Teaching
Experience
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Undergraduate: International Trade; Macroeconomics (Introduction,
Intermediate, Advanced), International Macroeconomics; Topics in Economic
Growth, Urban Economics; Graduate: Trade Theory; Commercial Policy; Advanced Growth Theory,
Advanced Macro Theory and Empirics. |