The McGuire Center for International Studies

Faculty

Martin Boileau, Ph.D., Queen's University, 1994, is an assistant professor whose research interests are in macroeconomics. His research in open-economy macroeconomics focuses on the international transmission of business cycles, on the extent of international risk-sharing, and on the volatility of net exports and the terms of trade. He also researches aggregate employment fluctuations and investment irreversibilities.

Ann M. Carlos, Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 1980, is a professor whose research interests focus on the Canadian fur trade and on the growth and development of comparative business organizations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In particular, she examines the strategies used by early chartered companies to control opportunistic behavior by managers. She is currently involved in two district projects. The first deals with the evolution of early capital markets and the disturbances caused by the South Sea Bubble. The second examines consumption patterns of Native Americans in the 18th century. She has a book on the North American fur trade and publishes regularly in economic history and business history journals. Her research has been funded by the Social Science Research and Humanities Council of Canada, and the National Science Foundation.

Frank S. T. Hsiao, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1967, is a professor of economics. He has been teaching and working in fields of economics growth theory and mathematical economics at CU-Boulder since 1966. Recently, he has worked in areas of economic growth and development of East Asia, especially related to Taiwan and Korea. He has also developed a course on Microcomputer Applications in Economics, which emphasizes applications in mathematical economics and econometrics. He was a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Fellow at the National Taiwan Univ. and Hitotsubashi Univ., and a visiting scholar at the Korea Development Institute, the Hoover Institute, the Fairbank Center and Institute of Harvard University, and Kansai and Nagoya Universities. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Asian Economics and the International Journal of Development Planning Literature. His publications have appeared in American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Southern Economic Journal, Energy Economics, Journal of Economic Development, and Journal of Asian Economics.

Murat F. Iyigun, Ph.D., Brown University, 1995, is an assistant professor specializing in macroeconomics. Prior to joining the faculty in 2000, he spent five years as an international economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Iyigun's research interests are both theoretical and empirical. His theory work focuses primarily on human capital- and R&D-based models of economic growth, and his empirical interests are in exploring the underlying causes of macroeconomic volatility with panel data. Some of his recent work has appeared in the International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics and the American Economic Review (P&P).

William H. Kaempfer, Ph.D., Duke University, 1979, is a professor and international economist conducting research in international political economy and policy. He has examined the political effects of international political economic sanctions policies, particularly as applied to investment and trade sanctions against South Africa. He has also conducted a public choice analysis of the motivations behind uses of alternate protective devices, such as tariffs and quotas, and time series analysis of the endogencity of protection. In a different direction, he has undertaken studies of the impacts of the use of salary arbitration by major league baseball. He is currently serving the university as Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs for Budget and Planning.

Wolfgang Keller,, Ph.D., Yale University, 1995, is an associate professor with interests in international trade & investment and economic development. He is one of the leading experts on the international diffusion of technological knowledge. He also has recent work, funded by the National Science Foundation, on comparative development in China and Europe. He has been a resident scholar at the IMF's Research Department, as well as an advisor at the World Bank, where currently he is working on a project that focuses on the micro structure of foreign direct investment. He is member of both NBER and CEPR, and his research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, as well as other journals.

James R. Markusen, Ph.D., Boston College, 1973, is a professor of economics specializing in the theory of international trade, and direct foreign investment. His primary contributions to the theory of international trade involve analysis of imperfect competition and its effects on international trade and trade policy. Other interests consider characteristics of multi-national corporations and the role of consumer demand in explaining international trade. He is associate editor of the Journal of International Economics. Professor Markusen is widely published in the top economic journals.

Keith E. Maskus, Ph. D., University of Michigan, 1981, is a professor and specialist in international trade policy and empirical verification of comparative advantage models. His recent research has analyzed the welfare economics of different international levels of protection for intellectual property rights and restrictions on direct foreign investment. He has served as visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, as visiting senior trade economist at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., as a research fellow at the Institute for International Economics, and as consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Commission of the European Communities, and the World Bank.

Robert F. McNown, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1971, is a professor with specialties in econometrics, time series analysis, and forecasting. He has published research involving applications of econometric methods to policy-related issues in the fields of labor economics, macroeconomics, and international finance. His interest in the evaluation and comparison of forecasts has led to his involvement in a demographic forecasting project with the Institute of Behavioral Science. He has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Nepal (1979 to 1981), has taught econometrics in Beijing, China (spring 1989), and has been a faculty member on Semester at Sea (spring 1995 and 1998).

Barry W. Poulson, Ph.D., Ohio State, 1965, is a professor of economics specializing in development economics and economic history. His recent research focuses on convergence of economic growth in frontier economies. He is also completing a project on the impact of constitutional constraints on fiscal policy. Dr. Poulson is a Past President of the North American Economics and Finance Association. He is currently an adjunct scholar of the Heritage Foundation and senior fellow of the Independence Institute. He also serves on the Colorado Commission on Taxation.