I was raised in Minneapolis and earned my BA and PhD degrees in Economics from Boston College. My first position after graduate school was in Canada at the University of Western Ontario. In 1990, I moved to the University of Colorado, Boulder and did my duty as head of department from 1991 until 1995. I suffered through a co-editorship of the Journal of International Economics during 1999-2001, have been an NBER research associate since 1990 and a CEPR fellow since 1996. Normal life has been interspersed with visiting appointments in Ghana, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Spain, and Denmark. You can also find me hanging out in London, Stockholm, and Copenhagen on numerous shorter visits.

My principal interests are in the field of international trade. My research for the last 20 years has concentrated on the location, production, and welfare effects of large-scale firms and multinational corporations. I have worked both on theoretical models and numerical, computer simulation models. Many years of work researching multinational firms culminated in a book on the role of multinationals in the international economy, and was published by the MIT press in the summer of 2002. I am sure that you will want several copies at least.

Outside of academia, I served as a researcher and advisor during the mid 1980's for the McDonald Royal Commission in Canada, which laid the foundation for the US-Canada free trade agreement. In the early 1990's, I worked with Mexican economists on the North American auto industry, attempting to estimate the effects of the (then) proposed North American free trade area (NAFTA) on the location of production and employment within North America. Currently, I serve as an advisor to the Danish Ministry of Trade and Industry on a variety of projects. The World Bank, the Intra-American Development Bank and the EU Commission are some of the other institutions that call occasionally.

I often attempt to present the pro-globalization case in anti-globalization conferences, after which I enjoy a hard bike ride in the mountains followed by research into local micro brews. I am married to economist Ann Carlos, a native of Ireland. We have two sons who have left home to pursue activities such as ice hockey, and they have recently been replaced by a Porsche Boxter to keep us company.