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David
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Curriculum
Vitae
(November
2015)
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Dept. of
Economics Columbia
University 420 W. 118th
Street, MC 3308 New York, NY
10027 |
E-MAIL: dew35@columbia.edu
TELEPHONE/FAX: (212)
854-5524 / (212) 854-8059
CITIZENSHIP: United
States of America
CURRENT POSITION(s): |
Carl Sumner Shoup
Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University (1999- ) 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, Federal Economic Statistics Advisory
Committee (2015- 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:
Bank of International Settlements Research Fellowship 2014
ÒPrices in Space and TimeÓ National Science Foundation, (Grant SES-1127493, 2011-14)
Google Research Award, ÒInternet Prices and Price IndexesÓ (2011)
Institute for New Economic Thinking Grant, ÒIn Search of the Financial AcceleratorÓ 2010
Editorial Board Journal of Economic Structures 2011-
Editorial Board Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 2010-
Editorial
Advisory Council of the Pacific Economic
Review 2008-
ÒGeography, Trade, and Prices,Ó National
Science Foundation Grant SES-0820536, with Christian Broda
(2008-2011)
Editorial Board: Spatial Economic Analysis 2006-
ÒThe Impact of New Varieties on Domestic
and International Prices,Ó National Science Foundation Grant, with Christian Broda (2005-2008)
Keynote Speaker, Regional Science
Association Meetings, 2003
ÒA New Approach to Bilateral Trade
Patterns and Balances,Ó 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)
ÒWhy Do Countries Trade? Analytical and
Empirical Inquiries,Ó 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
Yale
University:
Distinction in Economics
Cum Laude
PREVIOUS
POSITIONS:
Chair, Department of Economics, Columbia University
(2012-2015)
Executive
Director, Program for
Economic Research, Department of Economics, Columbia University (2009-2012)
Vice-Chair, 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, 2008)
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:
Hamada,
Koichi, Anil K. Kashyap, and David E. Weinstein eds., JapanÕs Bubble,
Deflation, and Long-Term Stagnation, MIT Press 2010. Research Supported by
the Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
Prices,
Poverty, and Inequality,
with Christian Broda. Washington: AEI Press 2008. Research
supported by the American Enterprise Institute.
Ito, Takatoshi,
Hugh T. Patrick, and David E. Weinstein, eds. Reviving JapanÕs 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.
ARTICLES:
ÒQuantifying
the Sources of Firm Heterogeneity,Ó with Colin Hottman
and Stephen Redding, The Quarterly
Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
ÒGlobalization, Markups, and U.S.
Welfare,Ó with Robert C. Feenstra, The Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
ÒGoods Prices and
Availability in Cities,Ó with Jessie Handbury, The Review of Economic Studies, 82(1), 2015, 258-296.
ÒExports
and Financial Shocks,Ó with Mary Amiti, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, (November
2011) 126, 1841–1877.
Review
of Product Variety and the Gains from
International Trade, Journal of
Economic Literature, Vol XLIX, September 2011,
pp. 25-28.
ÒTrade Finance and the Great Trade
Collapse,Ó with JaeBin Ahn
and Mary Amiti, The
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 101, iss. 3, May 2011, pp. 298-302.
ÒProduct Creation and Destruction:
Evidence and Price Implications,Ó with Christian Broda,
The American Economic Review, Vol.
100, June 2010, pp. 691-723.
ÒThe
Role of Prices in Measuring the PoorÕs Living Standards,Ó with Christian Broda and Ephraim Leibtag, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol.
23, No. 2, Spring 2009, pp. 77-97.
ÒExporting Deflation? Chinese
Exports and Japanese Prices,Ó with Christian Broda.
In Feenstra, Robert C. and Shang-Jin Wei eds. China's Growing Role in
World Trade, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
ÒOptimal Tariffs and Market Power: The
Evidence,Ó with Christian Broda and Nuno Limao. The American Economic Review, 98(5)
December 2008: 2032–65.
ÒDo Factor Endowments Matter for
North-North Trade?,Ó 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. Research supported by Bank of Japan.
ÒA Search for Multiple Equilibria in Urban Industrial Structure,Ó with Donald
Davis, Journal of Regional Science,
Vol. 48, 1, 2008, pp. 29–65. [Featured in Wall Street Journal article ÒOne Year After the Attacks, New York
is Bouncing Back,Ó September 9, 2002.]
ÒHow Bad is Deflation in JapanÓ with
Christian Broda, Vox, 2007
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/624.
ÒGlobalization
and the Gains from Variety,Ó with Christian Broda, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 121,
Issue 2 - May 2006, pp. 541-585. [Featured in The New York Times article ÒEconomic SceneÓ by Virginia Postrel, June 17, 2004, The
Atlantic Monthly.
ÒAre
We Underestimating the Gains from Globalization for the United States?,Ó with Christian Broda, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Current
Issues in Economics and Finance, Vol. 11, 4, April 2005.
ÒHappy
News from the Dismal Science: Reassessing Japanese Fiscal Policy and
Sustainability,Ó with Christian Broda, in Ito, Takatoshi, Hugh T. Patrick, and David E. Weinstein, eds. Reviving JapanÕs
Economy: Problems and Prescriptions, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. [Featured
in ÒA Price Worth Paying?Ó Economics Focus section, The Economist, June 26, 2004; ÒMaybe Japan's Bond Market Does Make
Sense,Ó Bloomberg News, July 1, 2004
by William Pesek Jr.; Nihon Keizai Shimbun,
ÒHikanron no Naka no Akarui
Shosu IkenÓ August 24,
2004; Nihon Keizai
Shimbun, ÒÔMiraiÕ ni Sikumu NihonÓ, by Kiyohiko Nishimura (Deputy Governor of the BOJ), March 27,
2005.]
ÒNihon no Zaisei
Jotai wa
Honto ni Shinkoku na no ka?Ó [Is JapanÕs Fiscal Situation Really in Crisis?Ó, with Christian Broda, Shukan Ekonomisuto
[Weekly Economist], January 4, 2005, p. 35.
ÒVariety Growth and World Welfare,Ó with
Christian Broda, American
Economic Review, May, (2004) 94(2), pp. 139-145.
ÒWhy Countries Trade: Insights from
Firm-Level Data,Ó with Donald R. Davis, The
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 17 (2003), pp.
432-447.
ÒDoes Tokyo Matter? Increasing Returns
and Regional Productivity,Ó 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.
ÒThe Factor Content of Trade,Ó with
Donald R. Davis, in Choi, E. Kwan and James R. Harrigan
ed. Handbook of International Trade,
Basil Blackwell, (2003), pp. 119-146.
ÒMarket Access, Economic Geography, and
Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Assessment,Ó with Donald Davis, Journal of International Economics [Lead
Article], January 59 (1), (2003) pp. 1-23.
ÒBones, Bombs, and Break Points: The
Geography of Economic Activity,Ó with Donald Davis, American Economic Review [Lead Article], December 2002, pp.
1269-1289. [Also featured in Paul KrugmanÕs column,
ÒAn Injured City,Ó New York Times,
October 3, 2001, and Business Week,
ÒThe Center Must Hold,Ó October 22, 2001]
ÒWhat Role for Empirics in International
Trade?Ó 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.
ÒThe Mystery of the Excess Trade
(Balances),Ó with Donald R. Davis, American
Economic Review, May 2002.
ÒDo
Endowments Determine the Location of Production? Evidence from National and
International Data,Ó with Jeffrey Bernstein, Journal of International Economics, 56(1), February 2002, pp.
55-76.
ÒTrade
and Growth: Import-Led or Export-Led: Evidence from Japan and Korea,Ó with
Robert Lawrence in Stiglitz, Joseph E. and Shahid Yusuf eds., Rethinking the East Asia Miracle, Oxford
University Press, 2001.
ÒEvaluating Administrative Guidance and
Cartels in Japan,Ó 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.
ÒAn
Account of Global Factor Trade,Ó with Donald Davis, American Economic Review, 91, 5, pp. 1423-54, December 2001.
ÒHistorical, Structural, and
Macroeconomic Perspectives on the Japanese Economic Crisis,Ó 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.
ÒInternational Trade as an ÔIntegrated Equilibrium:Õ New Perspectives,Ó with Donald
Davis, American Economic Review, May
2000.
ÒMain Banks, Creditor Concentration and
the Resolution of Financial Distress in Japan,Ó 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.
ÒEconomic Geography and Regional
Production Structure: An Empirical InvestigationÓ 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.
ÒOn the Costs of a Bank Centered
Financial System: Evidence from the Changing Main Bank Relations in Japan,Ó
with Yishay Yafeh. Journal of Finance, pp. 635-672, April, 1998.
ÒBank
Versus Market Based Financial Systems: Evidence from Financial Distress in
Japan and the US,Ó with Brian Hall, in Bank
Structure and Competition, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 1997.
ÒUsing International and Japanese
Regional Data to Determine when the Factor Abundance of Theory of Trade Works,Ó
with Donald Davis, Scott Bradford and Kazushige Shimpo. American
Economic Review, June 1997.
ÒFDI and Keiretsu: Rethinking US and Japanese Policy,Ó in Feenstra, R. ed., Effects
of U.S. Trade Protection and Promotion Policies, Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1997.
ÒGrowth,
Economies of Scale, and Targeting in Japan (1955-1990),Ó with Richard Beason. Review of
Economics and Statistics, 78, pp. 286-5, May 1996.
ÒStructural Impediments to Foreign Direct
Investment in Japan: What Have We Learned over the Last 450 Years?Ó in Foreign Direct Investment in Japan, edited
by E. Graham and M. Yoshitomi, Brookfield: Edward Elgar, 1996.
ÒEmpirical
Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory: What do They Tell Us?Ó with Donald Davis,
Eastern Economic Journal, 22 (4), Summer 1996.
ÒJapan and the Asian Economies: A
ÔMiracleÕ in Transition,Ó Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, 2, 1996, pp.261-7.
ÒAPECÕs Liberalization Agenda and the WTO
System: JapanÕs Role and PrioritiesÓ in Rich, Robert G. Ed. The Emerging WTO System and Perspectives
from East Asia, Korea Economic Institute of America, pp. 208-211, 1996.
ÒRetaliatory Mechanisms for Eliminating
Trade Barriers: Aggressive Unilateralism vs. GATT Cooperation,Ó with Kathryn E.
Spier, in Chang W. and S. Katayama eds., Imperfect
Competition in International Trade, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1995.
ÒJapanÕs Corporate Groups: Collusive or
Competitive? An Empirical
Investigation of Keiretsu BehaviorÓ
with Yishay Yafeh, Journal of Industrial Economics, 43,
December 1995.
ÒEvaluating
Administrative Guidance and Cartels in Japan, 1957-1988Ó Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 9, pp. 200-23,
1995.
ÒRegionalism
and Rivalry: Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia,Ó Journal of Economic Literature, 33, pp. 846-8, 1995.
ÒThe MITI Myth: Central Planning Fails in
Japan,Ó The American Enterprise, 6: 4
July/August 1995 pp. 84-86, with Richard Beason.
ÒUnited We Stand: Enterprise Unions and
Firms in Japan,Ó Journal of the Japanese
and International Economies, 8, pp. 53-71, 1994.
ÒInternational Adjustment
and the Japanese Firm,Ó The Journal of
the Japanese and International Economies, 8, pp. 353-7, 1994.
ÒCompetition and Unilateral Dumping,Ó Journal of International Economics, 32,
pp. 379-87, 1992. )
WORKING PAPERS:
ÒHow Much do Official Price Indexes Tell
Us about Inflation?Ó with Jessie Handbury and Tsutomu
Watanabe, NBER Working Paper 19504, October 2013.
ÒHow
Much do Bank Shocks Affect Investment? Evidence from
Matched Bank-Firm Data,Ó with Mary Amiti, NBER
Working Paper 18890, March 2013.
ÒEvaluating
the Economic Response to JapanÕs Earthquake,Ó with Molly Schnell, RIETI Policy
Discussion Paper Series 12-P-003 2012.
Research supported by Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry
ÒUnderstanding
International Price Differences Using Barcode Data,Ó with Christian Broda, NBER Working Paper #14017, May 2008.
ÒFrom Groundnuts to Globalization: A
Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth,Ó with Christian Broda,
NBER Working Paper 12512, September 2006.
ÒTechnological
Superiority and the Losses from Migration,Ó with Donald Davis, NBER
Working
Paper 8971, June 2002. [Featured in ÒA Price Worth Paying?Ó Economics Focus
section, The Economist, May 30,
2002.]
OUTSIDE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Honoraria Received
Research
Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry
Cabinet
Office, the Government of Japan
Bank
of Japan