People
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Marco Battaglini Marco Battaglini |
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Quintin Beazer, PhD, The Ohio State University, 2011, is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Yale's Leitner Program for International and Comparative Political Economy. His research focuses on post-Soviet politics, weak political institutions, bureaucracy, and the regulation of economic activity. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript on bureaucratic discretion and its economic effects across the regions of the Russian Federation. His has an article related to this project forthcoming in the Journal of Politics. Quintin Beazer |
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Avinash Dixit is Leitner Program’s 2011 Visiting Professor Emeritus and the John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University. He is also a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and 2011-12 Leitner Program Visiting Professor Emeritus. His research interests have included microeconomic theory, game theory, international trade, industrial organization, growth and development theories, public economics, political economy, and the new institutional economics. His book publications include Theory of International Trade (with Victor Norman), The Art of Strategy (with Barry Nalebuff), Investment Under Uncertainty (with Robert Pindyck), Games of Strategy (with Susan Skeath), Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance, and The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction Cost Politics Perspective. He has also published numerous articles in professional journals and collective volumes. He was President of the Econometric Society in 2001, and of the American Economic Association in 2008. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992, the National Academy of Sciences in 2005, and the American Philosophical Society in 2010, and was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2006. Avinash Dixit |
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Douglas Irwin is the Robert E. Maxwell Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is author of "Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s," (MIT Press, 2012); "Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression," (Princeton University Press, 2011); "Free Trade Under Fire," (Princeton University Press, third edition 2009); "The Genesis of the GATT," (Cambridge University Press, 2008, co-authored with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes); "Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade," (Princeton University Press, 1996); and many articles on trade policy in books and professional journals. He is also working on a history of U.S. trade policy from colonial days to the present. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has also served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. |
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James Hollyer, PhD New York University (expected, September 2011), is the Leitner Program's Post-Doctoral Fellow in International and Comparative Political Economy. His research interests include corruption and patronage, transparency, and the effects of international institutions on domestic politics. His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and the Review of International Organizations. He will join the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota in 2012. James Hollyer Personal website: http://www.jameshollyer.com/ |
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Andrew Eggers, PhD Harvard University 2010, is the Leitner Program's Post-Doctoral Fellow in International and Comparative Political Economy. His research interests include money and politics, British political history, and causal inference. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review and Journal of Macroeconomics. In 2011 he will join the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. Personal website: http://andy.egge.rs |
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Massimiliano Onorato has a Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University, Milan, and is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Yale’s Leitner Program. He was a visiting student to the Department of Economics at Yale University in 2006-07, and of M.I.T. in 2007-08. In the summer 2007 he worked at the Research Department of the I.M.F. In 2011 he will join the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy. His research interests are: institutional change and persistence, economics of organized crime, democratic transition and consolidation, and economic growth. Campus address: 115 Prospect Street, Room 436 E-mail: massimiliano.onorato@yale.edu |
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Moses Shayo, Ph.D., Princeton University, 2005, is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His primary research interests are in political economy and behavioral economics. His work integrates economic theory and econometric analysis with insights from social psychology and political science. His main research has centered on social identity. At the micro level, he studied the effects and determinants of social identification in voting and judicial decisions. At the aggregate level he studied the interaction between redistributive policies and patterns of national and class identification. Other lines of research include non-consequentialist motives in voting behavior and non-budget-constraint effects of prices on consumer behavior. Recent publications include “Social Identity and Preferences over Redistribution” (w/ Esteban Klor) Journal of Public Economics 2010; “A Model of Social Identity with an Application to Political Economy: Nation, Class and Redistribution” American Political Science Review 2009; and “How Large Are Non-Budget-Constraint Effects of Prices on Demand?” (w/ Ori Heffetz) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2009. Campus address: Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect St., Room 439 |
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Kyle Bagwell, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1986, is the Donald L. Lucas Endowed Professor in Economics at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Center for International Development, a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Reporter for the American Law Institute in its study of Principles of Trade Law: The World Trade Organization, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. His research interests include the law and economics of GATT/WTO, the theory of industrial organization, and game theory. His research has been published in numerous professional journals, including The American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Review of Economic Studies. He is the author, with Robert W. Staiger, of a book entitled The Economics of the World Trading System (The MIT Press, 2002). |
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Mostafa Beshkar, PhD, Vanderbilt University, 2008, is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of New Hampshire. He received his B.S. from Amir Kabir University and his MS from Sharif University in Tehran. His research interests include International Trade and Law and Economics. His current research is focused on the study of optimal design and implementation of international trade agreements and institutions. In particular he studies the Dispute Settlement Process of the World Trade Organization and the system of remedies for breach of trade agreements. |
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Nuno Limão, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, received his BSc from the London School of Economics and his PhD from Columbia University. He joined the Maryland faculty in 2001. His primary research and teaching interests are in international trade, trade policy, and political economy. His research integrates theoretical and empirical work to examine a variety of issues, such as how governments choose among redistribution policies, the determinants of trade policy and trade agreements, the interaction between preferential and multilateral trade liberalization, and the effects of trade costs and geographic location. |
