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 Faculty associates
Robert Axelrod David Lam Jan Svejnar Rebecca Thornton  Anusha Chari Anusha Chari is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan. Professor Chari's research focuses on international finance with an emphasis on the study of emerging financial markets. Her academic and professional pursuits reflect an interest in synthesizing theory and data to find answers to real world problems. Her recent work on stock market liberalization uncovers new stylized facts about the interaction of real and financial markets using firm-level data. These facts complement a growing body of literature that documents the importance of financial development for economic growth. Her current research includes a study of cross border mergers and acquisitions in Latin America and East Asia. Her earlier work examined the effects of central bank interventions using tick-by-tick data in the foreign exchange market. Anusha Chari's homepage.  Alan DeardorffAlan V. Deardorff is John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University in 1971 and has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan since 1970. He served as Chair of the Department of Economics from 1991 to 1995. He has also served as a consultant to many government and international agencies, including the Departments of State, Treasury, and Labor of the United States Government as well as the World Bank, UNCTAD, and the OECD. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Economic Law, the North American Journal of Economics and Finance, and The World Economy. He is co-author, with Robert M. Stern, of The Michigan Model of World Production and Trade and Measurement of Nontariff Barriers. He has published numerous articles on various aspects of international trade theory and trade policy. His work on international trade theory has dealt primarily with the theory of comparative advantage and the Heckscher-Ohlin and other models that explain the patterns and effects of international trade. His work on trade policy has included analyses of anti-dumping laws, the safeguards clause of the GATT/WTO, arguments for and against extending intellectual property protection to developing countries, and most recently the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations in the World Trade Organization. In his work with Professor Stern, he has developed a computable general equilibrium model of production, trade, and employment in 34 major countries of the world. They have used this model for a variety of purposes, including analysis of the Tokyo Round of multilateral trade negotiations and the outcome of the Uruguay Round. He, Professor Stern, and Drusilla K. Brown have also developed a series of models that they have used to evaluate the sectoral employment implications of various regional trading arrangements in North America, the Western Hemisphere, Asia, and Europe. The three authors have also written on the interaction between trade policies and labor standards. Alan Deardorff's homepage.  Kathryn DominguezKathryn M. Dominguez is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include topics in international financial markets and macroeconomics. She has written numerous articles on foreign exchange rate behavior and is author of Exchange Rate Efficiency and the Behavior of International Asset Markets and Does Foreign Exchange Intervention Work? (with Jeff Frankel). Prior to coming to Michigan, Kathryn taught at the Kennedy School of Government and the Woodrow Wilson School. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She has also worked as a research consultant for US AID, the Federal Reserve System, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. Kathryn teaches macroeconomics, finance and international economics at the Ford School. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Kathryn Dominguez's homepage. Scott Greer Scott L. Greer is Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Professor Greer, a political scientist, does research on the consequences for health policy and the welfare state of federalism, decentralization, and European integration. His work focuses especially on the United Kingdom and the development of health policy in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He has also done research on health politics and federalism in the United States, Canada, and Spain. Before coming to Michigan, he taught at the University of London. He currently directs a two-year project on the consequences for health services and citizenship rights of trends towards both decentralization and the development of European Union powers in health.  Juan Carlos HallakJuan Carlos Hallak is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2002. His prior experience in Argentina includes work in banking, macroeconomic consulting, research, and in the public sector. At Michigan, he teaches courses in International Trade at the undergraduate and Ph.D. levels. His main research interests are in the fields of international trade and industrial development. He has studied the role of product quality as a determinant of the global patterns of trade, the empirical relationship between accumulation of factors of production, development, and international specialization, and the impact of trade openness on economic growth. His current research focuses on the development of country-sector measures of product quality and on the relationship between quality upgrading and export development Juan Carlos Hallak's homepage.
John Jackson John Jackson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Professor Jackson's major interest is the creation, evolution, and growth of market economies, with a concentration on the dynamics of firm creation, growth, and death. He is modeling these processes to understand how a wide variety of economic, political, and sociological factors affect these dynamics. The research integrates concepts from industrial organization, organizational ecology, dynamic systems, and econometrics. The subject matter ranges from an intensive study of Michigan's economy between 1978 and the present, to studies comparing U.S. states in the 1970's and 1980's, to data collections and analysis in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia. A second interest is the development and statistical estimation of models of the dynamics of two-party electoral competition in a situation where voters' preferences are endogenous and where political parties have multi-valued objective functions. Early results indicate that these extensions lead to quite different electoral processes and outcomes. Professor Jackson's methodological interests focus on evolutionary models with path dependent properties and the implication of those models for empirical analysis. John Jackson 's homepage.  Vikramaditya KhannaVikramaditya Khanna is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the Law School faculty in fall 2004, Professor Vikramaditya S. Khanna served on the Boston University School of Law faculty. He earned his S.J.D. at Harvard Law School. Professor Khanna has been visiting faculty at Harvard Law School, a senior research fellow at Columbia Law School, and a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School. He is a recipient of the John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship for 2002–2003, and his areas of research and teaching interest include corporate law, securities fraud & regulation, corporate crime, corporate and managerial liability, corporate governance in emerging markets, and law and economics. Professor Khanna’s papers have been accepted for publication in the Harvard Law Review, Boston University Law Review, and the Georgetown Law Journal amongst others. He has also presented papers at Harvard Law School, Columbia University School of Law, American Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting, University of Michigan Law School, University of Southern California Law School, University of California at Berkeley Law School, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Wharton Business School, and Stanford Law School amongst others. E. Han Kim David Lam  Margaret Kruk
Dr. Margaret Kruk is Lecturer in Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health with a joint appointment in the School of Medicine. She also consults to the Averting Maternal Death and Disability Project at Columbia University and the United Nations. Dr. Kruk holds an MD from McMaster University and an MPH (Health Policy and Management) from Harvard University. On completing her family medicine residency, she practiced family and emergency medicine in remote northern Ontario, Canada. Her research interests are health systems scale-up and financing in developing countries, reduction of maternal mortality through systems reforms, human resources for health, and measuring the effectiveness, equity, and efficiency of health systems.  James LevinsohnJames A. Levinsohn is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on econometric analysis in international trade and industrial organizations. He has also developed trade models for the U.S. automobile industry. Jim has published articles on trade policy and on the international impact of competition on firms. Prior to coming to Michigan, he worked for the World Bank and the Botswana Ministry of Finance. At the Ford School, he teaches microeconomics, international economics, and industrial organization. Jim's M.P.A. and Ph.D. are from Princeton University. James Levinsohn's homepage.  Melvyn LevitskyAmbassador (Ret.) Melvyn Levitsky teaches international relations at the Gerald R. Ford School and is Senior Fellow of the International Policy Center. Ambassador Levitsky is also a member of the Substance Abuse Research Center (UMSARC). Prior to joining the University of Michigan in the fall of 2006, Ambassador Levitsky was Professor of Practice in Public Administration and International Relations at Syracuse University's Maxwell School. In May 2006 Ambassador Levitsky was reelected by a vote of the UN Economic and Social Council to a seat on the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), an independent UN body of experts headquartered in Vienna and responsible for monitoring and promoting standards of drug control established by international treaties. During his 35-year career as a U.S. diplomat, Ambassador Levitsky was Ambassador to Brazil from 1994-98 and before that held such senior positions as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, Executive Secretary of the State Department, Ambassador to Bulgaria, Deputy Director of the Voice of America, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights. Ambassador Levitsky is the recipient of Department of State Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards and Presidential Meritorious Service Awards. On his retirement he received the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Iowa. Ann Lin Ann Chih Lin is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Reform in the Making: The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison (Princeton University Press 2000) and the co-editor, with Sheldon Danziger, of Coping with Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community (University of Michigan Press 2000). She is currently finishing a book manuscript, Inclusion, Exclusion, and Opportunity: The Political Socialization of Arab Immigrants in Detroit, a project supported by the Russell Sage Foundation. Dr. Lin is also a co-principal investigator on the Detroit Arab American Study, a landmark public opinion survey of Arab Americans in Detroit. Dr. Lin received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1994 and was the 1992-93 Robert W. Hartley Fellow in Governmental Studies at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Prior to receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Lin was a social worker at Covenant House in New York City, and a member of the Covenant House Faith Community. At Michigan, Dr. Lin teaches courses on public policy implementation, gender and politics, qualitative research methods, and immigration. Sharon Maccini is Lecturer at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy where she teaches courses in public health and applied microeconomics for MPP students. As a health economist, her overarching research interest is in the econometric evaluation of public health policies in developing countries. Current research focuses on the impact of decentralization on health outcomes and public health, and the role of environmental conditions at birth on health and socioeconomic status in adulthood. She holds a BA in political science from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University.
Albert Park Albert Park is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Professor Park's research interests are in development, transition, labor, and applied microeconomics. Much of his research focuses on the Chinese economy, including current survey projects on urban labor markets, and rural education, health, and labor outcomes. During 2002-2003, Professor Park is the Associate Chair for Recruiting as well as the Associate Director of the University of Michigan’s Center for Chinese Studies. He is a faculty affiliate of the Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, and a research fellow of the William Davidson Institute. Albert Park's homepage. Shobita Parthasarathy Shobita Parthasarathy is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. She does research on the politics of science and technology, both in the United States and abroad. Current areas of interest include: comparative and international politics of genetics and biotechnology; the patentability of human biotechnology such as genes and stem cells; regulation of genetic medicine; the roles of patient advocacy groups; and the relationship between science and democracy. She is completing a book (to be published by MIT Press), provisionally titled Building Genetic Medicine: Disease, Technology, and the National Politics of Health Care, which compares the development of genetic testing for breast cancer in the United States and Britain. At Michigan, Professor Parthasarathy is helping to start a university-wide program in science, technology, and public policy, and will be teaching courses in genetics and biotechnology policy, health policy, and science and technology policy. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from Cornell University and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Northwestern University, University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Cambridge.  Paolo PasquarielloPaolo Pasquariello is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. His research interests are in the areas of international finance, theoretical and empirical asset pricing, and market microstructure. His research focuses on models of rational financial contagion, the theoretical and empirical impact of central bank intervention on the process of price formation in the currency markets, and the propagation of financial crises in emerging markets. Currently, Professor Pasquariello is working on measuring and explaining excess comovement within and across domestic and international financial markets, on modeling and estimating strategic trading activity in bond markets, on relating capital structure decisions of firms to microstructure measures of information asymmetry, and on the dissemination of information in the market for ADRs. Professor Pasquariello received a B.A. in macroeconomics and monetary economics from Bocconi University, and his M.B.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Finance from the Stern School of Business, New York University. Paolo Pasquariello's homepage.  Jagadeesh Sivadasan Jagadeesh Sivadasan is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Professor Sivadasan obtained a PhD in Economics (and an MBA) from the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago in 2004. He also holds a BTech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Prior to moving to the University of Chicago for his PhD, he worked as a financial consultant for Arthur Andersen in India. Professor Sivadasan's primary research focus is on the causes and consequences of differences in firm level productivity. He has examined the efficiency consequences of tariff liberalization, FDI deregulation and partial privatization in India, and the welfare consequences of increasing severance payments in Chile. His current research interests include exploring the role of capital and labor markets in re-allocating resources from less to more efficient firms and examining the effect of trade liberalization on wage inequality. Rachel Snow Rachel Snow is Associate Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education and Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. Trained as a reproductive biologist, she has a Sc.D. in Population Sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health. She was Assistant Professor of Reproductive Health at Harvard, then Unit Head for Reproductive Health at the University of Heidelberg (Medical School) in Germany for 6 years before coming to Michigan. Rachel has served on numerous expert committees at the World Health Organization dealing with issues such as gender, human rights, sexually transmitted infections, and contraceptive technology development. She has conducted clinical and epidemiologic research on contraception, reproductive morbidity, and gender in a wide range of countries, including China, India, Nepal, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and South Africa. She was a founding editor of the African Journal of Reproductive Health, serving as co-editor until 2002, and is co-editor of the forthcoming WHO volume on Gender and Health. She is currently conducting research on the operational and policy challenges of integrating HIV/AIDS into reproductive health programs in Burkina Faso and South Africa, and the social impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.  Howard Stein Howard Stein is a Professor in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) and also teaches in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. He is a development economist educated in Canada, the US and the UK who has taught in both Asia and Africa. His research has focused on foreign aid, finance and development, structural adjustment, health and development and industrial policy. His latest recently completed volume is entitled "Beyond the World Bank Agenda: An Institutional Approach to Development". The book examines the evolution of the World Bank agenda aimed at explaining the failure of their policies in regions like sub-Saharan Africa. The volume also attempts to generate an alternative approach based on institutional economic theory. He teaches a variety of courses in CAAS and Epidemiology including the history of African economic development, Africa and post-war development theory and policy and health and socio-economic development. He also co-teaches the introductory and capstone courses for the Globalization and Health Interdepartmental Concentration in the School of Public Health. He has been involved in organizing the African Development and Human Security Project which is a CAAS based initiative aimed a building a campus-wide network of graduate students and faculty interested in human security issues on the continent.  Robert M. SternRobert M. Stern is Professor of Economics and Public Policy (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan. Professor Stern received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1958. He was a Fulbright scholar in the Netherlands in 1958-59, taught at Columbia University for two years, and joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1961. He has been an active contributor to international economic research and policy for more than four decades. He has published numerous papers and books on a wide variety of topics, including international commodity problems, the determinants of comparative advantage, price behavior in international trade, balance-of-payments policies, the computer modeling of international trade and trade policies, trade and labor standards, and services liberalization. He has been a consultant to and done research under the auspices of several U.S. Government agencies, international organizations, and foreign government agencies. He has collaborated with Alan Deardorff (University of Michigan) since the early 1970s in developing the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade. This is a computer-based model that has been used to study a variety of important policy issues such as the effects of the GATT/WTO multilateral trade negotiations, changes in the structure of protection, trade and employment, changes in military expenditures, and the effects of regional trading arrangements. He is currently working on the computational modeling and analysis of regional trading blocs, issues in U.S.-Japan international economic relations, the political economy of U.S. trade policy, and issues in the design of the WTO and the conduct of multilateral trade negotiations. Robert Stern's homepage.  Katherine TerrellKatherine Terrell is Professor Business Economics at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. She has published widely in the areas of economic development and labor economics. Her research evaluates the impact of government policies and the effect of globalization on workers (wages, employment, income inequality) and firm performance in emerging market economies. She is concerned with the competitiveness of emerging market countries (businesses and labor) in the new global economy; for example, she has recently co-authored a paper on "Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership and Development: Are firms in emerging markets catching up to the world standard?" Support for her research has been provided by the National Science Foundation and the National Council of Eurasian and East European Research, among other institutions. Professor Terrell is the faculty advisor for the International Business Ph.D. program in addition to teaching in the masters' programs of both schools. She teaches an MBA course on "Business Strategies in Latin America," and MPPA courses on "Labor Markets and Public Policy" and "Development Economics." Her Ph.D. seminars focus on "Foreign Direct Investment" and "Labor Markets in a Global Economy." She has been a research fellow at IZA and CEPR since 1998 and has served as a consultant to various international organizations such as the World Bank, the OECD and the EBRD. Katherine Terrell's homepage. Linda Tesar Linda Tesar is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1990 and spent seven years on the faculty at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She joined the faculty at Michigan in 1997. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been a visitor in the Research Departments of the International Monetary Fund, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis. She has also served on the Academic Advisory Council to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Her research focuses on issues in international finance, with particular interests in the international transmission of business cycles and fiscal policy, the benefits of global risksharing, capital flows to emerging markets, international tax competition and the impact of exchange rate exposure. Results of her research have been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Journal of Monetary Economics. Linda Tesar's homepage. Rebecca Thornton Susan Waltz Susan Waltz is Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Pubic Policy, University of Michigan. Professor Waltz is a specialist in human rights and international affairs. She is author of Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics (1995), and she has recently published a series of articles on the historical origins of international human rights instruments and the political processes that produced them. This work calls attention to the contribution of small states to the development of human rights law. Alongside academic work, Professor Waltz has been active in human rights advocacy and non-profit governance. From 1993-1999 she served on Amnesty International's International Executive Committee and since 2000 has served on the national board of the American Friends Service Committee. She convenes a working group on military transfers for Amnesty International-USA and she has been involved with international efforts to promote an Arms Trade Treaty regulating the small arms trade. Professor Waltz received her PhD in International Studies from the University of Denver.  Marina WhitmanMarina v.N. Whitman is Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy in the Ross School of Business and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. From 1979 until 1992 she was an officer of the General Motors Corporation, first as Vice President and Chief Economist and later as Vice President and Group Executive for Public Affairs. She served as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in 1972-73, while on leave from the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Whitman received a B.A. in government from Radcliffe College and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, honors and awards, and holds honorary degrees from over twenty colleges and universities. She has served on the boards of several major U.S. corporations, as well as numerous governmental and non-governmental advisory boards, which currently include the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Institute for International Economics, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Dr. Whitman’s research interests focus on international trade and investment, trade policy and labor-market adjustments, the changing role of U.S. multinational corporations, and the question of global convergence toward a common model of capitalism. She has published numerous books and monographs, as well as articles in professional journals. She teaches courses on managing international trade and investment and globalization and public policy.  Dean YangDean Yang is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. His research is deals with the economic problems of developing countries. Current areas of interest include international migration, human capital, disasters, international trade, and crime and corruption. At the Ford School, Professor Yang teaches courses in development economics and in microeconomics. He has worked as a consultant on development issues for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University. Dean Yang's homepage. Kathy Yuan Kathy Yuan is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business ,University of Michigan. Dr. Yuan's research focuses on asset pricing, information economics, market microstructure, behavioral finance, and international finance.
 Minyuan Zhao Minyuan Zhao is Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. She earned her Ph.D. from Stern School of Business, New York University in May 2004. Before joining Michigan, Minyuan was Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, where she taught Strategy and International Environment classes to MBA and EMBA students. Minyuan's research interests are in the interaction between firm strategies and external environments in a global context. Her dissertation on multinational R&D and intellectual property rights protection received first place in the 2003 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition and the BPS Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management Conference in 2004. Her recent studies examine how internal linkages among firms' geographically dispersed units allow them to alleviate policy uncertainties at the local level. She currently serves on the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of International Business Studies as well as the Research Committee of BPS. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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