Curriculum  Vitae                                                                                                                               [Download PDF Version 


Education

Work Experience

Honors and Awards

Research and Publications

Teaching

Personal


EDUCATION

1990-1995Columbia University, Department of Economics, New York

M.A., 1993, M.Phil., 1993, Ph.D,1995

   

1986-1990Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Bachelor of Technology

                                                                             


  WORK EXPERIENCE
 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 
 

2004 - PresentChung Ju Yung Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced International Studies

  

Professor of Economics

Department of Economics

1995 - 2004Professor of Economics, Brown University

Department of Economics (Assistant Professor, 1995-2000, Associate Professor, 2000-2002)

2002 - 2003Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

International Economics Section, Economics Department

2001Visiting Associate Professor, INSEAD, France
Division of Economics and Political Sciences

  

2000 - 2001John Olin Visiting Associate Professor,  University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Graduate School of Business

1997 - 1998Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

OTHER APPOINTMENTS and AFFILIATIONS

2002- PresentConsultant, World Bank, Research Department

  

2001 - 2004

Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research

 

2002Visiting Research Fellow, World Bank, Washington DC 

 

1998 - 2001Research Associate, Stern School of Business, New York University 

  

1998Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund 

 

1993 -1995 Consultant, International Monetary Fund 

 

1988

Intern, Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), India   


 

 

                             


 HONORS AND AWARDS

World Bank Research Grant, The Determinants of Trade Policy in Developing Countries, 2004

World Bank Research Grant, Trade Policy, Income Risk and Welfare, 2004

Fellowship, International Economics Section, Princeton University, 2002-2003

Visiting Research Fellowship, World Bank, Washington, DC, Summer 2002

National Science Foundation, "Foreign Lobbies and US Trade Policy," 2001-2002

Faculty Research Initiative Award, Watson Institute, Brown University, 2000-2001 & 2002-2003

Solomon Faculty Research Award, Brown University, 1996 & 2000

Seventh Sanwa Bank Award, Japan-US Center, Stern School of Business, New York University, 1998

Fellowship, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Stanford University, 1997-98

University Small Grants Program, Research Award, Brown University, 1997 & 1998

Presidential Fellowship for the Salzburg Seminar on World Trade, 1997

Center for Comparative Study of Development Award, Brown University, 1996 & 97

President's Fellow, Columbia University, 1991-1993

Graduate School Fellow, Columbia University, 1990-1991


RESEARCH and PUBLICATIONS

Books

Trade Blocs: Alternate Analyses of Preferential Trade Arrangements, With Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, MIT Press, 1999

Trade Blocs: Economics and Politics, Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming, 2005
  

Research Papers

“Lobbying Competition Over Trade Policy, With Kishore Gawande and Marcelo Olarreaga, Submitted, 2005

Trade Policy, Income Risk and Welfare,” With Tom Krebs and William Maloney, Submitted, 2005

"Foreign Lobbies and US Trade Policy", With Kishore Gawande and Michael Robbins, Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006

“Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Policy: A Median Voter Approach,” With Devashish Mitra, Forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics, 2006

"The Factor Content of Bilateral Trade: An Empirical Test," with Yong-Seok Choi, Journal of Political Economy, 2004

"Reciprocated Unilateralism: A Political Economy Approach" (With Devashish Mitra), Journal of International Economics, 2004

“The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements,” Handbook of International Trade: Economic and Legal Analysis of Laws and Institutions, James Hartigan ed., Basil Blackwell, 2004

“Are Regional Trading Partners Natural?,” Journal of Political Economy, 2003

“The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Empirical Approaches,” With Kishore Gawande, Handbook of International Trade, James Harrigan, ed., Basil Blackwell, 2003

“On the Existence of Necessarily Welfare Improving Free Trade Areas,” With Arvind Panagariya, Journal of International Economics, 2002

“Market Structure, Demand and Endogenous firm Efficiency,” Economic Theory, 2001

“Trade Liberalization and Factor Demand Elasticities: Evidence from Turkey,” with Sajjid Chinoy and Devashish Mitra, Journal of International Economics, 2001

“A Unification of Second Best Results in International Trade,” With Arvind Panagariya, Journal of International Economics, 2000

“Trade Liberalization, Market discipline and Productivity Growth: New Evidence from India,” With Devashish Mitra, Journal of Development Economics,  August 1998

“Regionalism vs Multilateralism: A Political Economy Approach,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, February, 1998

“Necessarily Welfare Improving Customs Unions with Industrialization Constraints: The Cooper-Massell-Johnson-Bhagwati Proposition,” with Jagdish Bhagwati, Japan and the World Economy, December 1997

“The Impact of Trade Policy Reforms on Labor Markets: Evidence from India,” With Uma Kambhampati and Devashish Mitra, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, July 1997

 “A Political Economy Analysis of Preferential Trading and Multilateralism,” Papers and Proceedings of the Eastern Economic Association, Eastern Economic Journal, Vol 22, Number 4, Fall 1996 
 

Working Papers and Research In Progress

Human Capital, Income Risk and Trade Policy, With William Maloney and Tom Krebs

“Trade Liberalization and Endogenous Firm Efficiency”

Book Reviews and Comments

Review of Free TradeToday  by Jagdish Bhagwati, Economic and Political Weekly of India, 2002

Review of Globalization and History by  Jeffrey Williamson and Kevin O'Rourke, Journal of International Economics, 1999

Review of Regionalism, Multilateralism and Deeper Integration by Robert Lawrence, World Economy, 1997

Review of Modeling North American Integration edited by Patrick Kehoe and Timothy Kehoe, World Economy, 1997

Comments on "The Economic Consequences of VIEs" by Sagao Nadaoka, Japan and the World Economy, Volume 9, #4, pp 567-568, December 1997

Comments on "Regionalism and Development" by Anthony Venables,  presented at Conference on Regional Integration and Trade in the Development Agenda, Inter American Development Bank - Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 2001.
 

Others

The World Trade Organization,” in Social Sciences Encyclopedia, ed., Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper, Routeledge, Forthcoming

"Emerging Market Crisis: Causes and Consequences", Brown Journal of World Affairs, 1998

"Targets, Performance Criteria, Adjustors and Waivers in Fund Supported Adjustment Programs",  International Monetary Fund, Policy Review Division, September 1993

 "Infrastructure Provision in Developing Countries - A Comparative Study", Background Paper, World Bank, Infrastructure and Urban Development Division, September 1992 
 

Papers Presented

Papers presented one or more times at the American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Boston College, Brandeis University, Brown University, Universities of California at Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Santa Cruz  &  Riverside, University of Chicago, Columbia University, University of Connecticut at Storrs, Dartmouth College, Emory University,  Federal Reserve Bank (Board of Governors in Washington DC), Florida International University, Georgetown University, Harvard - MIT International Economics Workshop, INSEAD, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), University of Maryland at College Park, University of Michigan, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), New York University, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, Syracuse University, University of Texas at Austin, World Bank & Yale University among others.


 TEACHING  

PhD: International Trade (Fall 1995, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2001), Topics in International Economics (Fall 1999, Spring 2002)

Undergraduate: International Trade (Fall 1995, Fall 1996, Spring 1997, Spring 1999, Spring 2000),  Economic Analysis for Development Policy (Spring 1997, Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Spring 2002), Introduction to Econometrics (Fall 1998)

MBA: Trade Policy and Industrial Policy at  INSEAD, France (Spring 2001)

 Independent Research Courses (Undergraduate):  The World Trading System, Regional Integration and World Trade, The Economics of East Asian Growth
 
 

REFEREE

American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Journal of Political Science, International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Economics and Politics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Bank Economic Review, Review of Development Economics, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Japan and the World Economy, Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of Economic Integration, and others


PERSONAL

Date of Birth:            July 26, 1969

Citizenship:              Indian  (US Permanent Resident)