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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
- Review of International Economics
- The Global Trade Negotiations Home Page at the Center for International Development,
- 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
a centralized information resource at Harvard University on global trade negotiations and the multilateral trade system.
