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David
E. Weinstein
Curriculum Vitae
(August, 2011)
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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)
854-6880 / (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- ) Executive
Director, Program for
Economic Research, Department of Economics, Columbia University (2009- 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:
Google Research Award, “Internet Prices and Price Indexes” (2011)
Institute for New Economic Thinking Grant, “In Search of the Financial Accelerator” 2010
Editorial Board Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 2010
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
Yale
University:
Distinction in Economics
Cum Laude
PREVIOUS
POSITIONS:
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)
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.,
Japan’s Bubble, Deflation, and Long-Term
Stagnation, MIT Press 2010.
Prices,
Poverty, and Inequality,
with Christian Broda. Washington: AEI Press 2008.
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.
ARTICLES:
“Exports
and Financial Shocks,” 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.
“Trade Finance and the Great Trade
Collapse,” with JaeBin Ahn
and Mary Amiti, The
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 101, iss. 3, May 2011, pp. 298-302.
“Product
Creation and Destruction: Evidence and Price Implications,” with Christian Broda, The American
Economic Review, Vol. 100, June 2010, [Lead Article] pp. 691-723.
“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.
“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, 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]
“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 Robert
Lawrence in Stiglitz, Joseph E. and Shahid Yusuf eds., Rethinking
the East Asia Miracle, Oxford University Press, 2001.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“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:
“Is
New Economic Geography Right? Evidence from Price Data,” with Jessie Handbury
“Globalization,
Markups, and the US Price Level,” with Robert C. Feenstra,
NBER Working Paper #15749, February 2010.
“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.]