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Career Background

 

       I am a Professor in the Department of Finance (formerly, Finance and Business Economics) in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.  I have been studying International Economics, both trade and finance, since earning my Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1981.  My research interests and publications span both theoretical and empirical models of international trade, open-economy macroeconomics, and international finance.  I have published articles in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics and several chapters and comments in books on determinants of international trade flows, intra-industry trade, free trade agreements, and the gravity equation.  I have published articles in the American Economic Review, Journal of International Money and Finance and several chapters and comments in books on determinants of equilibrium real exchange rates and relative national price levels.  I have been Associate Editor of the Review of International Economics and am also a Faculty Fellow in Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies.


      My current research spans the areas of international trade flows, economic integration agreements, foreign direct investment, and multinational firms.  Along with Scott Baier of Clemson University, I have a National Science Foundation grant to explore the "Causes and Consequences of the Growth of Regionalism."  This work is investigating nonlinearities in the gravity equation to better understand the impact of economic integration agreements on trade flows and investigating economic and political determinants of economic integration agreements to better understand the growth in the breadth, depth, and scope of regional economic integration.  Along with Peter Egger of University of Munich, I am exploring the theoretical and empirical determinants of foreign direct investment flows in a manner consistent with recent developments in the theory of international trade flows and of multinational firms. 


       Along with Antoni Estevadeordal of the Inter-American Development Bank and Simon Evenett of the University of St. Gallen and the Brookings Institution, I have co-organized an international conference at Notre Dame for September 9-10, 2005 on The Sequencing of Regional Economic Integration:  Issues in the Breadth and Depth of Economic Integration in the Americas.  The conference will bring together numerous prominent economists and political scientists who will present original papers or discussions on this topic, along with several policy makers from such institutions as the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.  The conference is co-sponsored by Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Mendoza College of Business, the Coca-Cola Company, and the Inter-American Development Bank.  Details are available at the link below.


       I have been teaching in the undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA programs at the University of Notre Dame since 1986.  My teaching interests have been in the areas of open-economy macroeconomics and international finance.  In recent years, I have been teaching primarily in the graduate program, in particular Global Macroeconomic Environment and Applied Global Money Management (see links below).


        Prior to arriving at Notre Dame, I was a research economist at the Boston Fed.  My responsibilities included conducting independent research projects for publication in the Bank's bimonthly economic review, New England Economic Review, preparing frequent briefings for the Board of Directors on current and prospective international and domestic economic conditions, and preparing speeches on national and international economic issues for presentation outside the Bank.


Education


Dissertation title: "The Gravity Equation in International Trade"
Dissertation committee: J. David Richardson, Robert Baldwin, Rachel McCulloch, Andre Sapir


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