Texas A&M University, Department of Economics, Associate Professor, 2004-present
Texas A&M University, Department of Economics, Interim Head, 2006-2007
Texas A&M University, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor, 2001-2004
Ohio State University, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor, 1993-2001
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Visiting Foreign Scholar, 1995
Bryn Mawr College, Department of Economics, Instructor, 1992-1993
University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., Economics, May 1993, Awarded William Polk Carey Prize for the Outstanding Economics Dissertation
Williams College, B.A., Economics and English, June 1988, Awarded with Highest Honors in Economics
Economics 202, Principles of Microeconomics (honors)
Economics 452, International Trade Theory and Policy
Economics 652, International Trade Theory
Product Cycles and Market Penetration, International Economic Review 38 (November 1997): 865-891.
International Technology Transfer and the Technology Gap (with Kamal Saggi), Journal of Development Economics 55 (April 1998): 371-400.
International Rivalry in Advancing Products, Review of International Economics 6 (May 1998): 252-265.
Foreign Direct Investment and the Nature of R&D (with Kamal Saggi), Canadian Journal of Economics 32 (February 1999): 92-117.
FDI Policies under Shared Factor Markets (with Kamal Saggi), Journal of International Economics 49 (December 1999): 309-332.
Costly R&D and Intellectual Property Rights Protection, International Journal of Technology Management 19 (Winter 2000): 179-193.
Innovation and Wage Effects of International Outsourcing (with Kamal Saggi), European Economic Review 45 (January 2001): 67-86.
Price Discrimination and Quality Improvement, Canadian Journal of Economics 34 (May 2001): 549-569.
Linkages, Multinationals, and Industrial Development (with Vasilios D. Kosteas and Kamal Saggi), in R. Lipsey and J.-L. Mucchielli, eds. Multinational Firms and Impacts on Employment, Trade and Technology, Routledge (December 2001).
Licensing versus Direct Investment: Implications for Economic Growth (with Kamal Saggi), Journal of International Economics 56 (January 2002): 131-153.
Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investment (with Kamal Saggi), Journal of International Economics 56 (March 2002): 387-410.
Multinational Firms and Technology Transfer (with Kamal Saggi), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 104 (December 2002): 495-513. [Lead Article]
Substitution in R&D Across Countries, Japan and the World Economy 15 (December 2003): 373-390. [Lead Article]
Innovation in a Shrinking World, in M. Boldrin, B.-L. Chen and P. Wang, eds., Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies: From Theory to Empirics, Edward Elgar (2004).
Outsourcing Under Imperfect Protection of Intellectual Property, Review of International Economics 12 (November 2004): 867-884.
Crowding Out and Distributional Effects of FDI Policies (with Kamal Saggi), in A. Panagariya and D. Mitra, eds., The Political Economy of Trade, Aid and Foreign Investment Policies, Elsevier (2004).
Exporting Versus Direct Investment Under Local Sourcing (with Kamal Saggi), Review of World Economics/ Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 141 (December 2005): 627-647.
Intellectual Property Rights and Quality Improvement (with Xiaodong Wu), Journal of Development Economics 82 (March 2007): 393-415.
The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in International Technology Transfer (with Kamal Saggi), in A. Dutt and J. Ros, eds., International Handbook of Development Economics, Edward Elgar (2008).
FDI & Innovation, Imitation (with Kamal Saggi), in Ramkishen S. Rajan and Kenneth A. Reinert, eds., Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press (2008).
Infrastructure & FDI and Vertical versus Horizontal FDI, in Ramkishen S. Rajan and Kenneth A. Reinert, eds., Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press (2008).
Imitation as a Stepping Stone to Innovation (Slides, Handout)
Intellectual Property Protection and International Technology Diffusion
Coordinating FDI Policies Among Host Countries (with Kamal Saggi)
International Economics and Finance Society