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CURRENT POSITIONS
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University of Colorado-Boulde
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Professor of Economics,
2008 – present
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National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge,
MA
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Research Associate, 2003 –
present
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Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
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Research Fellow, 2003 –
present
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CESIfo Network, Munich
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Research Affiliate, 2010 –
present
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Special Sworn Employee, Bureau of Economic
Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, 2008 – present
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OTHER POSITIONS
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Stanford University
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Visiting Professor, 2013 –
2014
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Princeton University
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Visiting Professor, 2010 –
2011
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University of Colorado-Boulder
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Stanford Calderwood Chair,
2011 – 2014
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Associate Professor, 2005
– 2008
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University of Texas-Austin
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Associate Professor, 2003
– 2005
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Assistant Professor, 1998
– 2003
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Assistant Professor, 1995
– 1998
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University of Munich
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Visiting Professor, Fall
2014
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Brown University
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Visiting Professor, 2002 -
2003
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International Monetary Fund, Research Department
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Visiting Scholar, Fall
2003
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Consultant, The World Bank, 2001, 2005 –2008
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HONORS & AWARDS
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Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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National Fellow, 2013 –
2014
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International Economic Section, Princeton University
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Peter B. Kenen Fellow, 2010 – 2011
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Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany
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Humboldt Research Prize
Winner, 2014
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RESEARCH IMPACT
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Top 0.8% of authors in terms of citations, RePEc,
February 2015
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EDUCATION
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Yale University, Ph.D. in Economics, 1995
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University of Freiburg, Diploma in Economics, 1990
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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The Gravity
of Knowledge,
American Economic Review, June
2013, (with Stephen R. Yeaple)
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Markets in
China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution, American Economic Review, September
2007 (with Carol H. Shiue)
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Geographic
Localization of International Technology Diffusion, American Economic Review, March
2002
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International
Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers, Handbook of the Economics of
Innovation, edited by B. Hall and N. Rosenberg, Elsevier
North-Holland, 2010
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On Theories
Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation, Journal of Political Economy, 2002
(with Simon J. Evenett)
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Endogenous
Formation of Free Trade Agreements: Evidence from the Zollverein’s Impact
on Market Integration, Journal
of Economic History, 2014 (with Carol H. Shiue)
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Trade and the
Transmission of Technology, Journal
of Economic Growth, 2002 (lead article)
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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade,
and Productivity Growth: Firm-level Evidence from the United States, Review
of Economics and Statistics,
2009 (with Stephen R. Yeaple)
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Supplier Responses to Wal-Mart’s Invasion of
Mexico, Journal of International Economics, 2015 (lead article; with
Leo Iacovone, Beata Javorcik, and Jim Tybout)
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International Business Travel: An Engine of
Innovation?, Journal of Economic Growth, 2015
(with Nune Hovhannisyan)
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International Technology Diffusion, Journal
of Economic Literature, 2004
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The Origins of Spatial Interaction, Journal
of Econometrics, 2007 (with Carol H. Shiue)
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Pollution Abatement Costs and Foreign Direct
Investment Inflows to the U.S. States, Review
of Economics and Statistics,
2002 (with Arik M. Levinson)
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Are International R&D Spillovers
Trade-Related? Analyzing Spillovers among Randomly Matched Trade Partners, European
Economic Review 1998
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Absorptive Capacity: On the Creation and
Acquisition of Technology in Development, Journal
of Development Economics, 1996
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Shanghai’s Trade, China’s Growth: Continuity,
Recovery, and Change Since the Opium War, IMF Economic Review 2013 (with Ben Li and Carol H. Shiue)
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Technology Transfer Through Imports, Canadian
Journal of Economics, 2009
(with Ram Acharya)
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China’s Foreign Trade: Perspectives From the
Past 150 Years, The World Economy, 2011 (with Ben
Li and Carol H. Shiue)
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Openness and Industrial Responses in a Wal-Mart
World: A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents and Surfactant
Producers, The World Economy,
2008 (with Beata Javorcik-Smarzynska
and James Tybout)
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Transfer of Technology, The New
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by
L. Blume and S. Durlauf,
Macmillan, 2008
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Do Trade Patterns and Technology Flows Affect
Productivity Growth?, World Bank Economic Review, 2000
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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno?
Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany’s Post-World
War II Performance, Journal of Development Economics,
2000
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Market Integration and Economic Development: A
Long-Run Comparison, Review of Development Economics,
2007 (with Carol H. Shiue)
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WORKING PAPERS
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Market
Integration as a Mechanism of Growth, March 2015 (with Carol H.
Shiue)
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International
Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level, March 2015
(with Hâle
Utar)
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Capital
Markets and Colonial Institutions in China, March 2014
(with Carol H. Shiue)
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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge
Economy, NBER Working Paper #
14626 (with Stephen Yeaple)
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Estimating the Productivity Selection and
Technology Spillover Effects of Imports, NBER Working Paper # 14079 (with Ram Acharya)
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Technology Diffusion and the World Distribution
of Income, manuscript, 2002
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Knowledge Spillovers at the World’s Technology
Frontier, CEPR Discussions
Paper # 2815
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Bilateral Trade in a Multilateral World with Imperfect
Specialization, manuscript,
1998
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WORK IN PROGRESS
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Capital Markets in China and England in the 18th
and 19th Century: Evidence from Grain Prices (with Carol H. Shiue and Xin Wang)
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Innovation Responses to Import Competition (with Leo Iacovone
and Ferdinand Rauch)
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The Private and Social Returns to R&D in the
Age of Offshoring (with Stephen
R. Yeaple)
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MAJOR GRANTS
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Innovation in the Age of Offshoring (with Stephen R. Yeaple), U.S. National Science
Foundation, 2014 – 2017
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Trading, Institutions, Product Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, (with Carol
H. Shiue), U.S. National Science Foundation, 2011 – 2014
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What Explains Modern Economic Growth? New
Evidence from a Comparison of China
and Europe in the 18th
Century (with Carol H.
Shiue), U.S. National Science
Foundation, 2005 –2011
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Multinational Entry, Firm Productivity, and
Technology Spillovers (with Beata Smarzynska-Javorcik
and James Tybout), The World Bank, 2005 – 2008
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How Does Economic Integration Affect Technology
Diffusion and the Spatial Distribution of Productivity Growth?, U.S. National Science Foundation, 1999 – 2002
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RECENT PRESENTATIONS
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2015 (incl. scheduled): Hitotsubashi Trade Summer
Institute, CESifo Global Economy, Munich
2014: Mannheim, Kiel, Munich, UC Davis, UCSD, NBER
China Conference, All UC Econ History Conference, Hong Kong Science and
Technology Trade Conference, Stanford, Hong Kong Monetary Authority,
Stanford-SIEPR, CEPR/CAGE Venice Conference, ETSG Munich, CEPR Econ
History Symposium, Vienna
2013: Oregon, CEPR Economic History Symposium, UCLA,
CURE Regional & Urban Conference, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz
2012: World Trade Organization, Shanghai Macro
Conference, Oxford (2x), University of Zurich, Asian Economic History
Meetings, Tokyo, Shanghai Academy of Sciences, Asia Pacific Trade Seminar,
Singapore
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Graduate Courses: International Trade and Investment, Economic
Development, Macroeconomics
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Undergraduate Courses: International Economics, Microeconomics,
Macroeconomics, Econometrics
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics, 2002 to
2008
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