CURRICULUM VITAE

THEO S. EICHER

Contact Information

Professor and Robert R. Richards Distinguished Scholar

Department of Economics

M235 Savery Hall Box 353330

University of Washington

Seattle WA 98195 USA

Tel: 206.685.8082

Fax: 206 685 8082

Web: http://faculty.washington.edu/te/

Email: te@u.washington.edu

Academic Positions

2006-	Professor, Department of Economics, University of Washington
2004-	Robert R. Richards Distinguished Scholar, University of Washington
2003-	Director, Economic Policy Research Center, University of Washington
2003-	Research Professor, Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2000-	Research Fellow, CESifo, Center for Economic Studies, Munich
2004-	Research Fellow, IZA Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn

Previous Positions

2003-4	Mercator Research Professor, German Science Foundation (DFG), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2000-06	Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Washington
1994-00	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Washington
1992-4	Preceptor, Dept. of Economics Columbia University
1992	Instructor, Dept. of Economics Barnard College, Columbia University

Visiting Positions

2008	Visiting Professor, University of Leipzig, (April)
2007	Visiting Scholar, IMF Research Department, (April)
2006	Visiting Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna, (September)
2004	Visiting Scholar, IZA Institute, Bonn University, (September)
2004	Visiting Professor, Barcelona University, (April)
2004	Visiting Professor, Technical University Zurich (ETH), (January)
2002	Visiting Professor, GREQAM, University Aix-Marseille (June)
2000, 1	Visiting Professor, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen (February)
2000-07	Visiting Scholar, Center for Economic Studies (CES) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (June/July)
1999	Visiting Scholar, Nuffield College, Oxford University (Winter)

Education

1994	PhD, Economics, Columbia University, New York, NY
1993	MPhil, Economics, Columbia University, New York, NY
1991	MA, Economics, Columbia University, New York, NY
1989	Diplom Studiengang, Economics (VWL), Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany
1988	BA, Chinese Studies, Economics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
1987	Language Certificate, Chinese, Nanjing University, Peoples Republic of China
1985	Abitur, Gymnasium Dormagen, Germany
1983	Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

Dissertation

1994	Endogenous Human Capital and Technological Change in Closed and Open Economies.
	Dissertation Committee: Robert Mundell (Chair), Ronald Findlay, Duncan Foley, Richard Clarida, Andre Burgstaller

Honors/Awards / Grants

2006	German Science Foundation Research Grant "Determinants of German Productivity"
2006	Center for Statistics and the Social Science Grant "Bayesian Model Averaging, Priors and Growth"
2004	German Science Foundation (DFG) Mercator Research Professorship
2003	Royalty Research Fund Grant “Financial Crises”
2003	Outstanding Teaching Award, Golden Key International Honor Society
2003	Honorary Member, Golden Key International Honor Society
2002	University of Washington, Gowan Faculty Grant
2002	European-Union-Center Research Award "Institutions and Growth”
2001	European-Union-Center Conference Grant "Inequality and Growth"
1999	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
1998	University of Washington Buechel Undergraduate Teaching Award
1997	University of Washington Mentoring Award
1997	Royalty Research Fund Grant “Trade and Wages”
1994	Ph.D. awarded with Distinction, Columbia University
1991-2	Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellow, Columbia University
1989-92	Presidents Fellow, Columbia University
1985-88	ISO Fellowship, Grinnell College

Research Interests

Trade, Development and Growth, Macroeconomics

Editorial Activities

2007- Editorial Board, Journal of Macroeconomics

2007- Associate Editor, European Economic Review

2007 Guest Editor, German Economic Review (May)

Publications

Books

Inequality and Growth: Theory and Policy Implications,

Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003

(with Stephen Turnovsky)

Institutions, Development and Growth,

Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006

(with Cecilia García-Peñalosa)

Growth and Productivity in Germany: A Comparative Analysis

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.

(with Thomas Strobel)

Journals

"Education, Technological Change and Economic Growth,"

Inter-American Review of Educational Development, No 119, III (1994): 461-81

(with Thomas Bailey)

"Interaction between Endogenous Human Capital and Technological Change,"

Review of Economic Studies vol. 63 (1) no 214, (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).

“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).

"Transition Dynamics in Non Scale Models,"

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol 25, (2001):85-113.

(with Steve Turnovsky).

"Financial Liberalization and Capital Flow Reversal,”

Economic Review Vol.52, No.4, (October 2001).

(with Steve Turnovsky and Uwe Walz)

"Inequality and Growth: The Dual Role of Human Capital in Development,"

Journal of Development Economics, Vol 66, (2001): 173-97.

(with Cecilia García-Peñalosa )

"Protection for Sale: An Empirical Investigation: A Comment,"

American Economic Review, Vol 92, No 5 (2002): 1702-11.

(with Thomas Osang)

“The Impact of Tax Policy on Inequality and Growth: An Empirical and Theoretical Investigation,”

in Inequality and Growth: Theory and Policy Implications, T.S. Eicher & S.J. Turnovsky eds., Cambridge: MIT Press. 2003.

(with Stephen Turnovsky and Carme Riera Prunera)

"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 Vol 13 (2005):4 443–459.

(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, Vol 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)

“Institutional Determinants of Economic Performance in OECD Countries – An Institutions Climate Index”

Journal for Institutional Comparisons Vol 5, 1, (2007), pp. 39-49

(with Oliver Roehn)

"Gross Output vs. Value Added German Productivity Growth,"

in G. Cette, M. Fouquin and H.-W. Sinn eds, Divergences in Productivity Between Europe and the United States, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007.

(with Thomas Fuchs and Hans-Guenther Vieweg)

"Unraveling the Fortunes of the Fortunate: An Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) Approach,"

Journal of Macroeconomics, 29, 3, September 2007, Pages 494-514

(with Chris Papageorgiou and Oliver Roehn)

"Endogenous Strength of Intellectual Property Rights: Implications for Economic Development and Growth,"
European Economic Review, Vol 52, 2, (February 2008), pp. 237-58

(with Cecilia García-Peñalosa)

"Dynamic Effects of Terms of Trade Shocks: The Impact on Debt and Growth,"

Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming,

(with Stefan Schubert and Steve Turnovsky)

"Institutions and Economic Performance: Endogeneity and Parameter Heterogeneity,"

Journal of Money Credit and Banking, forthcoming

(with Andreas Leukert)

"In Search of a Sulphur Dioxide Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach,"

Environment and Development Economics, forthcoming

(with Jeff Begun)

"The Rise and Fall of German Productivity: Software Investment as the Decisive Driver,"

Cesifo Economic Studies, forthcoming.

(with Thomas Strobel)

Contributions to Books (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).

"Comments On The Management of Financial Crisis,"

in The World’s New Financial Landscape: Challenges for Economic Policy, H. Siebert ed.,

Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2001.

"Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Productivity Growth"

German Economic Review, 8, (May 2007): 123-4

Book Reviews

"Review of D. Jorgenson, `Productivity’"

Review of International Economics, (May 1998)

Current Research/Working Papers (link to my WP Web Page)

Invited Presentations

Keynote/Plenary Lectures

Keynote Speaker, Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics Conference, University of Zurich (2006)

Keynote Speaker, Economic Growth and Institutions Conference, University of Copenhagen (2005)

Keynote Speaker, Structural Change and Labor Markets Conference, IZA University of Bonn (2005)

Plenary Lecture, Pisa University (October 2001). Old and New Growth Theories (2001)

Lectures Series

Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna, (September 2006). Innovation and Growth

Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München (May 2006). Advanced Topics in Economics Growth: Model Selection

Universitat de Barcelona, (April 2004) Institutions and Growth

Technical University Zurich (ETH), (January 2004). Endogenous Institution

CESifo Institute, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München (January 2000). Endogenous Growth Theory

Graduiertenkolleg, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen (February 2000). Non-Scale Growth

Graduiertenkolleg, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen (May 2001). Empirics of Commercial Policy

CESifo Institute, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München (December 2001). Endogenous Tariff Protection

Conferences Organized

Determinants of Productivity Growth (Vienna, September 2006)

Education and the 21st Century Workforce (Seattle, July 2005, co-organizer)

Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation (Seattle, February 2005, co-organizer)

Institutions and Growth (Venice July 2004, co-organizer)

Growth and Inequality (Munich, May 2001, co-organizer)

Old and New Growth Theories (Pisa, October 2001, scientific committee)

Growth and Inequality Policy Implications (Elmau, January 2002, co-organizer)

WTO and World Trade III (Duisburg, June 2002, program committee)

WTO and World Trade IV (Seattle, September 2002, program committee)

Society for Computational Economics Annual Meeting (Seattle, July 2003, program co-chair)

Institutions and Growth, (Venice, Cesifo Summer Institute July 2004, program co-chair)

Conference Sessions Organized

EDSIG Sessions on Trade and Growth at the Conference of the Society for Computational Economics, (Cambridge, UK, July 1998)

AEA Session on Technology, Infrastructure and Credit in Development, (New York, 1999)

EDSIG Sessions on Trade and Growth at the Conference of the Society for Computational Economics, (Boston University, July 1999)

Sessions on Trade and Convergence at the Conference of the Society for Computational Economics, (Aix En Province, June 2002)

Referee Activity

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.

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate: International Trade; Introduction, Intermediate, International Macroeconomics; Topics in Economic Growth;

Graduate: Trade Theory; Commercial Policy; Advanced Growth Theory.

Testimonies / Editorials

“State of the Washington Economy”

Testimony to the Washington State Legislature, January 2005

“Washington’s Agricultural Employment”

Brief to the Washington Legislature, January 2005

"Intellectual Import"

Editorial, Seattle Times August 11, 2005

"State Employment: An Examination of the Data with Focus on Higher Education"

Editorial August 2005