Education
Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, 1995
Diploma, Economics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 1990
Regional and Thematic Interests
East Asia
Business and Economics
Profile
Dr. Wolfgang, PhD, Yale University, 1995, is a 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.