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David E.
Weinstein
Curriculum Vitae
(September,
2009)
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ADDRESS: |
Dept. of Economics Columbia University 420 W. 118th Street, MC 3308 New York, NY 10027 |
E-MAIL: dew35@columbia.edu
TELEPHONE/FAX: (212) 854-6880 / (212) 854-8059
CITIZENSHIP: United States of America
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CURRENT
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Carl Sumner Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University (1999- ) Director, Program
for Economic Research, Department of Economics, Columbia University Associate Director for Research, Center for Japanese Economy and Business, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University (2001- ) Co-Director of the Japan Project and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (2000- , Faculty Research Fellow 1997-1999) Member, Council on Foreign Relations (2002- |
EDUCATION: Ph.D.,
Economics, The University of Michigan, 1991
M.A.,
Economics, The University of Michigan, 1988
B.A., Economics, Yale University, 1985
SPECIALIZATION:
Research
Interests: Japanese Economy, International Trade, Corporate Finance,
Industrial Policy
Teaching
Interests: International Economics, Japanese Economy
FELLOWSHIPS,
AWARDS, AND
EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
Editorial Advisory Council of the Pacific Economic Review 2008-
“Geography, Trade, and Prices,” National Science Foundation Grant SES-0820536, with Christian Broda (2008-2011)
Editorial Board: Spatial Economic Analysis 2006-
“The Impact of New Varieties on Domestic and International Prices,” National Science Foundation Grant, with Christian Broda (2005-2008)
Keynote Speaker, Regional Science Association Meetings, 2003
“A New Approach to Bilateral Trade Patterns and Balances,” National Science Foundation Grant SES-0214378, with Donald Davis (2002-2005)
Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics (1999-2005)
American Advisory Committee, The Japan Foundation (1998-2002)
“Why Do Countries Trade? Analytical and Empirical Inquiries,” National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9810180, with Donald Davis (1998-2001)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship 2000
Nominated for Best Teaching at BBA level, 1999
NTT Fellowship, 1997-1998
Editor, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 1997-2005 (Associate Editor 1996-1997)
Editorial Council, Review of International Economics, 1997-
Nomura Kikin (Nomura Fund Fellowship), 1996
Nihon Shoken Kenkyu Shorai Zaidan (Japan Securities Research Promotion Foundation Fellowship), 1996
Social Science Research Council Japan Advanced Research Grant, 1995/6
Zengin Foundation for Finance and Economics Fellowship, 1993
Abe Fellowship, 1992-1993
Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1990
The
University of Michigan:
John E. Parker Memorial Prize in Labor Economics, 1991
Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1990-91
Committee for Japanese Economic Studies Fellowship, 1988-89
University Fellowship, Winter Term, 1989
Regents
Fellowship, 1986-1988
FELLOWSHIPS,
AWARDS, AND
EDITORIAL POSITIONS (Continued):
Yale
University:
Distinction in Economics
Cum
Laude
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
Vice-Chairman,
Department of Economics, Columbia (2003-7)
Consultant,
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2006)
Consultant, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1999-2000, 2003-5)
Visiting Scholar, European Institute for Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, Summer 2003
Senior
Economist, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2002-2003)
Consultant,
Federal Reserve Bank Board of Governors (2000, 2004)
Sanford R.
Robertson Associate Professor of Business Administration (1998-1999)
Associate
Professor of International Business (1996-9) Research Professor in Japanese
Business (1996-9), The University of Michigan Business School
Associate
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University
(1995-7, Assistant since 1991)
Visiting
Scholar, Institute for Fiscal and Monetary Studies. The Ministry of
Finance, Japan. (Summer 1995)
Visiting
Scholar, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo (1992-1993).
Research Fellow,
Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Research Institute of
International Trade and Industry (MITI/RI), Japan. Summer 1987, Summer 1988, March-September 1990.
Junior Economist, Council of Economic Advisors. 1989-1990.
Sales Coordinator, Sony Corporation (Japan). June 1985-June 1986.
BOOKS AND
MONOGRAPHS:
Ito, Takatoshi, Hugh T. Patrick, and David E. Weinstein, eds. Reviving Japan’s Economy: Problems and Prescriptions, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. Translated into Japanese as Posuto Heisei Fukyo no Nihon Keizai: Seisaku Shiko Apurochi ni Yoru Bunseki, Nihon Keizai Shippunsha, 2005.
Prices, Poverty, and Inequality, with Christian Broda. Washington: AEI Press 2008.
PUBLICATIONS:
“The Role of Prices in Measuring the Poor’s Living Standards,” with Christian Broda and Ephraim Leibtag, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 23, No. 2, Spring 2009, pp. 77-97.
“Product Creation and Destruction: Evidence and Price Implications,” with Christian Broda, NBER Working Paper #13041, April 2007. The American Economic Review forthcoming.
“Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices,” with Christian Broda, NBER Working Paper #13942, April 2008. In Feenstra, Robert C. and Shang-Jin Wei eds. China's Growing Role in World Trade, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.
“Optimal Tariffs and Market Power: The Evidence,” with Christian Broda and Nuno Limao. The American Economic Review, 98(5) December 2008: 2032–65..
“Do
Factor Endowments Matter for North-North Trade?,” with Donald R. Davis (2008).
In Marjit, Sugata and Eden Yu eds. Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Trade Theory
and Policy Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
"Defining Price Stability in Japan: A View from America," Monetary and Economic Studies, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan, vol. 25(S1), pages 29-56, December 2007, with Christian Broda.
“A Search for Multiple Equilibria in Urban Industrial Structure,” with Donald Davis, Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 48, 1, 2008, pp. 29–65. [Featured in Wall Street Journal article “One Year After the Attacks, New York is Bouncing Back,” September 9, 2002.]
“How Bad is Deflation in Japan” with Christian Broda, Vox, 2007
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/624.
“Globalization and the Gains from Variety,” with Christian Broda, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 121, Issue 2 - May 2006, pp. 541-585. [Featured in The New York Times article “Economic Scene” by Virginia Postrel, June 17, 2004, The Atlantic Monthly.
“Are We Underestimating the Gains from Globalization for the United States?,” with Christian Broda, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Vol. 11, 4, April 2005.
“Happy News from the Dismal Science: Reassessing Japanese
Fiscal Policy and Sustainability,” with Christian Broda, NBER Working Paper
#10988, 2004. in Ito, Takatoshi, Hugh T. Patrick, and David E. Weinstein, eds. Reviving Japan’s
Economy: Problems and Prescriptions, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.
[Featured in “A Price Worth Paying?” Economics Focus section, The Economist,
June 26, 2004; “Maybe Japan's Bond Market Does Make Sense,” Bloomberg News, July 1, 2004 by
William Pesek Jr.; Nihon
Keizai Shimbun, “Hikanron no Naka no Akarui Shosu Iken” August 24, 2004; Nihon Keizai Shimbun, “‘Mirai’ ni Sikumu Nihon”, by Kiyohiko Nishimura (Deputy Governor of the BOJ), March 27, 2005.]
“Nihon no Zaisei Jotai wa Honto ni Shinkoku na no ka?” [Is Japan’s Fiscal Situation Really in Crisis?”, with Christian Broda, Shukan Ekonomisuto [Weekly Economist], January 4, 2005, p. 35.
“Variety Growth and World Welfare,” with Christian Broda, American Economic Review, May, (2004) 94(2), pp. 139-145.
“Why Countries Trade: Insights from Firm-Level Data,” with Donald R. Davis, The Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 17 (2003), pp. 432-447.
“Does Tokyo Matter? Increasing Returns and Regional Productivity,” with Donald Davis, NBER Working Paper 8518, October 2001, forthcoming in Kanbur, Ravi and Anthony Venables eds. Spatial Inequality and Development, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“The Factor Content of Trade,” with Donald R. Davis, in Choi, E. Kwan and James R. Harrigan ed. Handbook of International Trade, Basil Blackwell, (2003), pp. 119-146.
“Market Access, Economic Geography, and Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Assessment,” with Donald Davis, Journal of International Economics [Lead Article], January 59 (1), (2003) pp. 1-23.
“Bones, Bombs, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity,” with Donald Davis, American Economic Review [Lead Article], December 2002, pp. 1269-1289. [Also featured in Paul Krugman’s column, “An Injured City,” New York Times, October 3, 2001, and Business Week, “The Center Must Hold,” October 22, 2001]
PUBLICATIONS (Continued):
“What Role for Empirics in International Trade?” with Donald R. Davis, in Findlay, Ronald, Lars Jonung, and Mats Lundahl eds., Bertil Ohlin: A Centennial Celebration (1899-1999), MIT Press, 2002, pp. 363-387. Reprinted in Aussenwirtschaft, 57, Heft IV, (2002) pp. 1-27.
“The Mystery of the Excess Trade (Balances),” with Donald R. Davis, American Economic Review, May 2002.
“Do Endowments Determine the Location of Production? Evidence from National and International Data,” with Jeffrey Bernstein, Journal of International Economics, 56(1), February 2002, pp. 55-76.
“Trade and Growth: Import-Led or Export-Led: Evidence from Japan and Korea,” with “Evaluating Administrative Guidance and Cartels in Japan,” in Milhaupt, Curtis J., J. Mark Ramseyer, and Michael K. Young eds. Japanese Law in Context: Readings in Society, the Economy, and Politics, Harvard University Asia Center, 2001.
“An Account of Global Factor Trade,” with Donald Davis, American Economic Review, 91, 5, pp. 1423-54, December 2001.
Robert Lawrence in Stiglitz, Joseph E. and Shahid Yusuf eds., Rethinking the East Asia Miracle, Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Historical, Structural, and Macroeconomic Perspectives on the Japanese Economic Crisis,” in Blomstrom, M., Gangnes, B., and S. La Croix ed. Japan's New Economy: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century, Oxford University Press, 2001.
“International Trade as an ‘Integrated Equilibrium:’ New Perspectives,” with Donald Davis, American Economic Review, May 2000.
“Main Banks, Creditor Concentration and the Resolution of Financial Distress in Japan,” with Brian Hall in Aoki, M. and G. Saxonhouse eds. Finance, Development and Competition in Japan: Essays in honor of Hugh Patrick Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
“Economic Geography and Regional Production Structure: An Empirical Investigation” with Donald Davis, European Economic Review, 43, 2, pp. 379-407, 1999. Reprinted in Cheshire, Paul C. and Dr Gilles Duranton eds., The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: Recent Developments in Urban and Regional Economics, Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar, 2004.
“On the Costs of a Bank Centered Financial System: Evidence from the Changing Main Bank Relations in Japan,” with Yishay Yafeh. Journal of Finance, pp. 635-672, April, 1998.
PUBLICATIONS (Continued):
“Bank Versus Market Based Financial Systems: Evidence from Financial Distress in Japan and the US,” with Brian Hall, in Bank Structure and Competition, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 1997.
“Using International and Japanese Regional Data to Determine when the Factor Abundance of Theory of Trade Works,” with Donald Davis, Scott Bradford and Kazushige Shimpo. American Economic Review, June 1997.
“FDI and Keiretsu: Rethinking US and Japanese Policy,” in Feenstra, R. ed., Effects of U.S. Trade Protection and Promotion Policies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
“Growth, Economies of Scale, and Targeting in Japan (1955-1990),” with Richard Beason. Review of Economics and Statistics, 78, pp. 286-5, May 1996.
“Structural Impediments to Foreign Direct Investment in Japan: What Have We Learned over the Last 450 Years?” in Foreign Direct Investment in Japan, edited by E. Graham and M. Yoshitomi, Brookfield: Edward Elgar, 1996.
“Empirical Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory: What do They Tell Us?” with Donald Davis, Eastern Economic Journal, 22 (4), Summer 1996.
“Japan and the Asian Economies: A ‘Miracle’ in Transition,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2, 1996, pp.261-7.
“APEC’s Liberalization Agenda and the WTO System: Japan’s Role and Priorities” in Rich, Robert G. Ed. The Emerging WTO System and Perspectives from East Asia, Korea Economic Institute of America, pp. 208-211, 1996.
“Retaliatory Mechanisms for Eliminating Trade Barriers: Aggressive Unilateralism vs. GATT Cooperation,” with Kathryn E. Spier, in Chang W. and S. Katayama eds., Imperfect Competition in International Trade, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
“Japan’s Corporate Groups: Collusive or Competitive? An Empirical Investigation of Keiretsu Behavior” with Yishay Yafeh, Journal of Industrial Economics, 43, December 1995.
“Evaluating Administrative Guidance and Cartels in Japan, 1957-1988” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 9, pp. 200-23, 1995.
“Regionalism and Rivalry: Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia,” Journal of Economic Literature, 33, pp. 846-8, 1995.
PUBLICATIONS (Continued):
“The MITI Myth: Central Planning Fails in Japan,” The American Enterprise, 6: 4 July/August 1995 pp. 84-86, with Richard Beason.
“United We Stand: Enterprise Unions and Firms in Japan,” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 8, pp. 53-71, 1994.
“International Adjustment and the Japanese Firm,” The Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 8, pp. 353-7, 1994.
“Competition and Unilateral Dumping,” Journal of International Economics, 32, pp. 379-87, 1992. )
WORKING PAPERS:
“Exports and Financial Shocks,” with Mary Amiti, Columbia University mimeo.
“Import Competition and the US Price Level,” with Robert C. Feenstra, Columbia University, mimeo, 2009.
“Understanding International Price Differences Using Barcode Data,” with Christian Broda, NBER Working Paper #14017, May 2008.
“From Groundnuts to Globalization: A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth,” with Christian Broda, NBER Working Paper 12512, September 2006.
“Technological Superiority and the Losses from Migration,” with Donald Davis, NBER Working Paper 8971, June 2002. [Featured in “A Price Worth Paying?” Economics Focus section, The Economist, May 30, 2002.]