Raymond G. Riezman


Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Economics
Department of Economics 
Henry B. Tippie College of Business
W360 PBB 
University of Iowa 
Iowa City, IA 52242-1000 
raymond-riezman@uiowa.edu

External Research Fellow- Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), University of Nottingham, England

Research Fellow- Center for Economic Studies - Institute for Economic Research (CES-ifo), Munich

Current Vita

 

 

 

 

Education

PhD, University of Minnesota, 1977 
BA, Economics, Washington University-St. Louis, 1969 
 

Teaching and Research Interests

International Trade 
Political Economy
International Trade Agreements

Current Projects

“Globalization, Gender and Growth” (with Ray Rees)

"The Likelihood of Regional and Multilateral Free Trade Agreements" (with Lisandro Abrego and John Whalley)
"The Sources of Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Developing Countries" (with Ayhan Kose)
“Optimal Education Policy and Comparative Advantage” (with Spiros Bougheas and Richard Kneller)

 

Working Papers

“Pareto-Improving Customs Unions without Income Transfers” (with Kazumichi Iwasa and Koji Shimomura)

 

“Distance Measures Between Free Trade and Autarky for the World Economy” (with John Whalley and Shunming Zhang)

 

"Minorities and Storable Votes " (with Alessandra Casella and Tom Palfrey)

“Metrics Capturing The Degree to Which Individual Economies Are Globalized” (with John Whalley and Shunming Zhang)

”Fixed Transport Costs and International Trade” (with Didier Laussel)

“Free Trade: What are the Terms-of-Trade Effects?” (with Carsten Kowalczyk)

“Organizational Capital and the Evolution of the Firm” (with Atsushi Oshima and B. Ravikumar)”

“Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market: A Steady-State Analysis” (with Ping Wang)

 

Publications

"Outsourcing of Innovation" (with Edwin Lai and Ping Wang) forthcoming in Economic Theory

“Is Partial Tax Harmonization Desirable?” (with Paola Conconi and Carlo Perroni), Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008) 254-267.

“Trade, and the Distribution of Human Capital” (with Spiros Bougheas), Journal of International Economics 73 (2007) 421-433.

"Trade, Wage Gaps and Specific Human Capital Accumulation" (with Ngo Van Long and Antoine Soubeyran), Review of International Economics, February, 2007, 15(1), pp 75-92.

"Production, Trade, Prices, Exchange Rates and Equilibration in Large Experimental Economies" (with Charles Noussair and Charles Plott), European Economic Review, January, 2007, 51, pp 49-76.

“Transport Costs and North-South Trade” (with Didier Laussel), Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, (13) December, 2006, pp 111-122.

"How Reasonable are Assumptions Used in Theoretical Models?: Computational Evidence on the Likelihood of Trade Pattern Changes (with Lisandro Abrego and John Whalley), Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, August, 2006, 39 (3), 781-789.

"How Often are Propositions on the Effects of Regional Trade Agreements Theoretical Curiosa? (with Lisandro Abrego and John Whalley), Journal of International Economics, Vol. 68, No. 1, January, 2006, pp 59-78.

"The Sources of Protectionist Drift in Representative Democracies" (with Didier Laussel), European Economic Review, Vol 49/7, October, 2005, pp 1855-1876.

"Fragmentation and Services" (with Ngo van Long and Antoine Soubeyran), The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 16, Issue 1, March, 2005, pp. 137-152.

"Computation and Customs Unions" (with Lisandro Abrego and John Whalley), CES-ifo Economic Studies, Vol. 51, No. 1/2005, pp. 117-132.

"A Strategic and Welfare Theoretic Analysis of Free Trade Areas" (with Eric Bond and Costas Syropoulos), Journal of International Economics, October, 2004, Vol. 64, Issue 1, pp. 1-27.

Review of The Economics of the World Trading System by Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XLII, 517-518, June, 2004.

"Small Countries and Preferential Trade Agreements: How Severe is the Innocent Bystander Problem? (joint with Ayhan Kose) The Pacific Economic Review, June 2002, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 279-304.

"Trade Shocks and Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Africa" (joint with Ayhan Kose),  Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 65 (2001), 55-80.

"Understanding the Welfare Implications of Preferential Trade Agreements" (joint with Ayhan Kose), Review of International Economics, November, 2000, Vol. 8, No. 4, 619-633.

"Oligopoly and Customs Unions," in Trade, Theory and Econometrics: Essays in honor of John S. Chipman, (James R. Melvin, James C. Moore and Raymond Riezman, eds.), Routledge, London, 1999, 134-148.

Trade, Theory and Econometrics: Essays in honor of John S. Chipman, (co-edited with James R. Melvin and James C. Moore), Routledge, London, 1999.

"Can Bilateral Trade Agreements Help to Induce Free Trade?", Canadian Journal of Economics, Volume 32, No. 3, May, 1999, 751-766.

"Small Countries and Regionalism" (joint with Ayhan Kose) forthcoming in The Effects of Economic Globalization and Regional Integration on Small Countries, Nicosia, Cyprus.

"External Shocks and Economic Dynamics: The Case of African Countries" (joint with Ayhan Kose),  Journal of African Finance and Economic Development, Volume 3, Number 1, Fall, 1998, 1-42.

"The Principles of Exchange Rate Determination in an International Finance Experiment" (with Charles Noussair and Charles Plott), Journal of Political Economy, Volume 105, Number 4, August, 1997, 822-861. 

"Political Reform and Trade Policy" (with John D. Wilson), Journal of International Economics, Volume 42, Nos. 1/2, February, 1997, 67-90. 

"The Engine of Growth or its Handmaiden? A Time Series Assessment of Export-Led Growth" (with Peter Summers and Charles Whiteman), Empirical Economics, (1996) 21: 77-110. 

"An Experimental Investigation of the Patterns of International Trade" (with Charles Noussair and Charles Plott), The American Economic Review, June, 1995, 462-491. 

"The Engines of Growth in the APEC Economies, 1950-1990," (with Peter Summers and Charles Whiteman) in Proceedings of the 1995 Econometrics Conference at Monash edited by Catherine Forbes, Paul Kofman and Tim Frey, 121-142. 

"Politics and Trade Policy" (with John D. Wilson) in Modern Political Economy edited by Jeffrey Banks and Eric Hanushek, Cambridge University Press, 1995, 108-144. 

"The Case for Convergence" (with Robert Tamura and Charles Whiteman), Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business and Economic Statistics Section, 1993, 59-67. 

"Dynamic Tariff Games with Imperfect Observability," (with Andreas Blume) in Problems of Coordination in Economic Activity, edited by James Friedman, Kluwer, 1993, 185-205. 

"Initial Versus Continuing Proposal Power in Legislative Seniority Systems" (with Richard D. McKelvey) in Political Economy: Institutions, Competition, and Representation, edited by William Barnett, Norman Schofield, and Mel Hinich, Cambridge University Press, 1993. 

"Seniority in Legislatures" (with Richard D. McKelvey), American Political Science Review, December, 1992. 

Economic Theory and International Trade: Essays in Memoriam J. Trout Rader (co-edited with Wilhelm Neuefeind), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992. 

"Dynamic Tariffs with Asymmetric Information", Journal of International Economics, Vol. 30, No. 3/4, May, 1991, pp. 267-283. 

"Voter Preferences for Trade Policy Instruments" (with Wolfgang Mayer), Economics and Politics, Vol. 2, No. 3, November, 1990, pp 259-273. 

"Optimal Tariff Equilibria with Customs Unions" (with John Kennan), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, February, 1990, pp 70-83. 

"Tariff Formation in a Mutidimensional Voting Model" (with Wolfgang Mayer), Economics and Politics, Vol.1, No. 1, Spring, 1989, pp 61-79. 

"Uncertainty and the Choice of Trade Policy in Oligopolistic Industries" (with Russell Cooper), Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 56, No. 1, January, 1989, pp. 129-140. 

"Do Big Countries Win Tariff Wars?" (with John Kennan), International Economic Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, February, 1988, pp. 81-85. 

"Comment on Levinsohn's 'Empirics of Taxes on Differentiated Products: The Case of Tariffs in the U.S. Automobile Industry'" in Robert E. Baldwin, ed., Trade Policy Issues and Empirical Analysis, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1988, pp. 40-41. 

"Endogenous Choice of Trade Policy Instruments", (with Wolfgang Mayer), Journal of International Economics Vol. 23, No 3/4, November, 1987, pp. 377-381. 

"Tariffs and Collection Costs" (with Joel Slemrod), Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Vol. 123, No. 3, 1987, pp. 545-549. 

"Customs Unions and the Core", Journal of International Economics, Vol. 19, No. 3/4, November, 1985, pp. 355-366. 

"Comparing Draws for Single Elimination Tournaments," (with Jeff Horen), Operations Research, Volume 33, Number 2, March-April 1985, pp. 249-262. 

"Analysis of Embargoes and Supply Shocks in a Market with a Dominant Seller," (with S. Rao Aiyagari) in Energy, Foresight, and Strategy, Thomas J. Sargent, editor, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, 1985, pp. 14-40. 

"The Effectiveness of a Devaluation with Money as a Producers Good," (with S.Alexander), Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Vol. 118, No. 4, 1982, pp. 611-621. 

"Tariff Retaliation from a Strategic Viewpoint," Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 48, No. 3, January, 1982, pp. 583-593. 

"A Theory of Customs Unions: The Three Country-Two Good Case," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Vol. 115, No. 4, 1979, pp. 701-715. 

"A 3 x 3 Model of Customs Unions," Journal of International Economics, Vol. 9, No. 3, August 1979, pp. 341-354. 
 
 

Professional Activities

Director, Midwest International Economics Group 

Co-Editor The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2002- 

Associate Editor for the Economics Bulletin, 2000- 

Associate Editor for the Journal of International Economics,1998- 2002. 

Associate Editor for the Journal of International and Comparative Economics,1993-1996. 
 
 


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