John McLaren

Department of Economics
University of Virginia
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Hi, there. I'm an economist with interests in international trade, economic development, political economy, and industrial organization. Lately I've been doing work on the implications of worker mobility costs for trade and trade policy; globalization and risk; media bias and media mergers;and the economics of civil war in the Third World.

Here is my cv (updated August 2004).

TEACHING.

RESEARCH.

Here's my paper for the 2004 Southern Economics Association meetings in New Orleans. The title is Free Trade Agreements, Customs Unions, and the Dynamics of Political Influence . Preliminary draft, so comments are very welcome.

Here are some recent working papers.

'MobilityCosts and the Dynamics of Labor Market Adjustments to External Shocks: Theory’ is coathored with Shubham Chaudhuri and Stephen Cameron ofColumbia.

'TheSimple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility I: Homogeneous Workers,' coathored with Shubham Chaudhuri of Columbia. (Revised June 2003.)

'TheSimple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility II: Two Types of Worker,' coathored with Shubham Chaudhuri of Columbia.

"Delay and Dynamics in Labor-Market Adjustment: Some Simulation Results," coathored with Shubham Chaudhuri and ErhanArtuc. This is the simplest and easiest way to get a sense of thebig project covered in the previous three papers.

'Globalization and Insecurity' is coauthored with Andrew Newman, of University College London.

Here's an invited paper for the European Economic Association annualconference, held in Venice in August, 2002: "Tradeand Market Thickness: Effects on Organizations."

Bankard Workshop in International and Development Economics.

Our next session will be this coming Wednesday, September 22, in Room408, 2015 Ivy Road. The speaker will be Yutaka Yoshino (U.Va), whowill present "Trade, Agglomeration and theEnvironment:
Reactive and Preemptive Policies toFactorMigration."

Reading group in international and development economics.

(1) Next session: Friday, Feb. 27, 1:00-2:00pm in the TJ Lounge. Haimanot Teferra will present her dissertation chapter in progress, "Imitationand Multinationalization as a Channel of Technology Transfer:
The case of Intellectual Property Protection on the Dynamics of Growth."

(2) Here is a link to a page at Wisconsin of recent prominent jobmarket papers in international economics (thanks to Jose Fernandez), and here's a second link to some additional ones on Jose's web page.

And now, on to the nextgeneration !

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Last Modified: 11/12/04