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SUMMARY
Current Positions
University of Colorado,
Boulder
Associate Professor of Economics, Fall 2005-present.
Princeton University
Visiting Associate
Professor of Economics, 2010-2011.
Research Economist, National
Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), International Trade and
Investment (ITI), July 2005-present.
Research Affiliate, Centre for
Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Economic History (EH)/
International Trade (IT), May 2006-present.
Past Employment and
Professional Activities
University of Texas, Austin,
Assistant Professor of Economics, 1999-2005.
Visiting Researcher, CESIfo, Munich, Summer 2009.
Visiting Researcher, The World
Bank, Development Research Group, Washington,
D.C., 2003.
Visiting Scholar, The Russell
Sage Foundation, New York City, 2002-2003.
Gerschenkron
Prize finalist, Economic History Association, best international
dissertation, 1999.
Associate, Export-Import Bank of
the United States, Country Risk Division,1989.
Education
Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut Ph.D. (1999), Economics.
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. B.S. (1990), Economics.
Research
Grants
National Science Foundation,
2011-2014, “Trading, Institutions, Product Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,”
Co-Principal Investigator, with Wolfgang Keller.
National Institutes of
Health, 2002-2004, extended to 2005. “Intergenerational and Interfamily
Economic Links,” Principal Investigator.
National Science Foundation,
2005-2008, extended. “What Explains Modern Economic Growth? New Evidence from
a Comparison of China
and Europe in the 18th Century,”
Co-Principal Investigator, with Wolfgang Keller.
Metanexus Institute, 2005-2007. “Project on Religion and
Economic Change,” Co-Principal Investigator, with Robert D. Woodberry, Mark
D. Regnerus, Joseph E. Potter, Virginia
Garrard-Burnett, and Daniel Powers.
Teaching-Related
Grant
National Science Foundation,
2008, Dissertation Improvement Grant 0752696. “Savings
in the United States,
1835-1853,” Principal Investigator, with Jessica Vechbanyongratana.
Publications
“China’s Foreign Trade,
Perspectives from the Last 150 Years” (with Wolfgang Keller and Ben Li). The World Economy, 2011, 34(6), pp.
853-892.
“Markets in China
and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution,” (with Wolfgang Keller). The American
Economic Review, September 2007, 97(4), pp. 1189-1216.
“Transport Costs and the
Geography of Arbitrage in Eighteenth Century China,” The American Economic Review,
December 2002, 92(5),
pp. 1406-1419.
“The Origins of Spatial
Interaction: Evidence from Chinese Rice Markets, 1742-1795,” (with
Wolfgang Keller), Journal
of Econometrics, September 2007, 140(1), pp.
304-332.
“Market Integration and
Economic Development: A Long-run Comparison,” (with Wolfgang Keller), Review of Development Economics, February 2007, 11(1), pp. 107-123.
“From Political Fragmentation
towards a Custom Union: Border Effects of
the German Zollverein, 1815-1855,”
European Review of Economic History, August 2005, 9(2), pp 129-162.
“The Political Economy of
Famine Relief in China,
1740-1820,” Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, Summer 2005, 36(1), pp. 33-55.
“Local Granaries and Central
Government Disaster Relief: Moral Hazard and Intergovernmental Finance in
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century China,” The Journal of Economic History,
March 2004, 64(1),
pp. 101-125.
“Comparing the Correlation
Length of Grain Markets in China
and France,”
International Journal of
Modern Physics C, October 2000, 11(7), pp. 1383-1410 (with Bertrand M. Roehner, LPTHE, Université
Paris 7).
“Grain Trade and Storage in
Late Imperial China,” The
Journal of Economic History, June 2000, 60(2), pp. 511-515
(Dissertation Summary, selected for the Alexander Gerschenkron
Prize Panel).
“Comments on Abramitzky, Chaudhary, Musacchio,” The Journal of
Economic History, June 2007,
67(2), pp. 511-515. (Alexander Gerschenkron Prize
Panel, Convener’s comments.)
“Review of
Madeleine Zelin, The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern
China,” New York: Columbia
University Press, 2006. Economic History Services book review, September
2006. Also published as a book review in The
Journal of Economic History, December 2006, 66(4), pp.
1086-1088.
“Review of Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, Robert
Gardella (eds.), Contract
and Property in Early Modern China,”
Stanford University Press, 2004. Economic
History Services book review, September 2004.
“Review of Sui-Cheung, The Price of Rice: Market Integration in
Eighteenth-Century China”, Western
Washington University Press, 2008. Journal
of Economic History, May 2010, 70(2), pp. 523-525.
Other
Reviews and Publications
“China’ Soaring Foreign Trade:
Made in Britain, c. 1840? Online VoxEU.org column (with Wolfgang Keller
and Ben Li), December 19, 2010.
Comments on Greif and Tabellini, “Cultural and institutional bifurcation: China
and Europe compared”, presented at the ASSA,American Economic Association sessions, January
2010.
Comments on Yoo and Steckel, “Institutions,
Property Rights, and Economic Growth in Asia”, presented at the ASSA
Economic History Association sessions, January 2010.
Working
Papers and Work in Progress
“Shanghai’s Trade, China’s
Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change since the Opium War,” (with Wolfgang
Keller and Ben Li), January 2012.
“Institutions, Technology,
and Trade,” (with Wolfgang Keller), December 2008.
“Human Capital and Fertility
in China, 1350-1800,” July 2008.
“Economic Status and
Intergenerational Mobility: A Survey of Chinese Genealogical Evidence From
1300-1900,” April 2007.
“The Rise of Markets in the
Western World: A Global Comparison,” Russell
Sage Foundation Working Paper #211, May 2003.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate: Principles of Microeconomics,
Intermediate Microeconomics, Development Economics, European Economic
History, World Economic History, Economic Growth.
Graduate: Economic Development,
Macroeconomics/International Prospectus Seminar, Economic History of
Development, Research Methods Workshop.
Seminar
Presentations
Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, May 2010
University of Hong Kong, May 2010
University of British Columbia, April 2009
Northwestern University, October 2008
University of California-Davis, October 2008
The Graduate Institute Geneva, June 2008
University of Tuebingen,
June 2008
McGill University, March 2008
University
of Western
Ontario, November 2007
Washington Area Economic
History Seminar, March 2007
Columbia University, April 2005 (joint
paper presented by co-author)
Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, March 2005
North Carolina State University, January 2005
University of Houston, November 2004 (joint paper presented by co-author)
Northwestern University, December 2004
University of California-Davis, November 2004
University of Colorado-Boulder, November 2004
Harvard University, October 2004
Yale University, October 2004
Michigan State University, October 2004
Texas A & M University, April 2004 (joint paper presented by co-author)
Ohio State University, April 2004 (joint paper presented by co-author)
University of Texas-Austin, April 2004
Stanford University, October 2003
University of California-Berkeley, October 2003
International Monetary Fund, October 2003 (joint paper presented by co-author)
The World Bank, May 2003
Columbia University, May 2003
University College London, May 2003 (joint paper presented by co-author)
London School of Economics, May 2003 (joint paper presented by co-author)
Brown University, April 2003 (joint paper presented by co-author)
University of California-Los Angeles, April 2003
The Russell Sage Foundation, March 2003
Harvard University, November 2002
Brown University, April 2002
University of Michigan, March 1998
University of Texas-Austin, January 1998
University of Toronto, October 1997
Yale University, November 1997
Invited
Speaker at International Conferences
World Congress of
the International Economic Association, Invited Session on “Institutions and
the History of Economic Development”. Beijing, China. July 4-8, 2011.
Asian Historical
Economics Conference, Beijing, China. May 19-21, 2010.
European Research
Workshop in International Trade (ERWIT), St. Gallen,
Switzerland, June 2008.
NSF/NBER/CEPR
workshops on The Evolution of the Global Economy, Lund, Sweden, October 2006
(presented by co-author).
Global Economic History Network Conference on Factor
Markets, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2005.
Conference on “Market Performance and the Welfare Gains”,
European University Institute,
Florence, Italy, July 2004; funded by the
European Science Foundation.
Conference on “Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from
the Past and Present”, Fondation des Treilles, Tourtour, France,
May 2003; funded by the Fondation des Treilles and the
European Science Foundation.
European Research Conference (EURESCO) on “Commercial
Networks, Transaction Costs, and Market Integration, 1250-2000”, Venice, Italy,
December 1999; funded by the European
Science Foundation.
Speaker
at other International Conferences
Fourth European Historical Economics Society Conference, Oxford, England,
September 2001;(presented by co-author).
Econometric Society European Meetings, Berlin, Germany,
August 1998.
European Economic Association Congress, Berlin, Germany, August 1998.
Speaker
at National Conferences and Meetings
Stanford SITE Conference: Theory and History, Palo Alto,
California, August 2008.
NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, July 2008.
NBER Development of the American Economy, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, July 2008.
Cliometrics Conference, Tucson, Arizona, May 2007.
Institutions
versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets.”Economic
History Association meetings, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, September 2006.
Convener of the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize
dissertation session and discussant.
National Bureau of Economic Research, Conference on China in
Economic Transition,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2004.
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute,
Income Distribution and
Macroeconomics, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, July 2004.
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute,
Development of the American
Economy, Massachusetts,
July 2004.
“Institutions and Economic Growth” session of the Economic
History Association, Allied Social Science Association meetings, San Diego,
California, January 2004.
National Bureau of Economic Research Winter meetings,
International Trade and Investment, Stanford, California, December 2003.
Economic History Association meetings, St. Louis, Missouri,
October 2002.
Econometric Society Winter meetings, Boston, Massachusetts,
January 2000.
Economic History Association meetings, Baltimore, Maryland,
October 1999.
Tenth Annual Lonestars Conference,
Texas A & M University,
College Station, Texas, October 1999.
Econometric Society Winter meetings, New York City, January 1999.
Cliometric Society session at the
Allied Social Science Association meetings, New York City,
January 1999.
Ninth Annual Lonestars Conference,
University of Texas, Austin, Texas, October 1998.
Other
Professional Activities
Referee for The American Economic Review,
China Economic Review,
European Review of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History,
Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, Journal of Economic History, Journal of International Economics,
International Regional
Science Review, Modern
China, Quarterly Journal of
Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and other
journals.
Reviewer for the National Science
Foundation.
Editorial
Board, Explorations in Economic History;
Editorial Board, Journal of
Economic History, 2007-2011.
Program Committee for the 2011 Cliometrics
Society Annual Conference.
Hughes Prize Committee for the Economic History Association,
2009-2011.
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