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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).
- Federal Reserve Bank of
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.
- Ph.D in Economics,
Dissertation title: "The Gravity Equation
in International Trade"
Dissertation committee: J. David Richardson,
Robert Baldwin, Rachel McCulloch, Andre Sapir
- M.A. in Economics,
- B.A. in Economics and Poltical Science, Northwestern University, 1974.
- American Economic Association
- The Global Trade Negotiations Home Page at the Center for International Development,
a centralized information resource at Harvard University on global trade negotiations and the multilateral trade system.
- University of Notre Dame Homepage
- University of Notre Dame College of Business Administration
- University of Notre Dame Department of Finance and Business Economics
- Kellogg Institute-Notre Dame-IADB Conference, "The Sequencing of Regional Economic Integration"
- Database on Economic Integration Agreements
