VIVEK H. DEHEJIA
Biography
Vivek H. Dehejia, B.A.
(Carleton), A.M., Ph.M., Ph.D. (Columbia), is
Associate Professor in the
Department of Economics, Carleton
University , Ottawa, Canada. He serves on the Executive
Committee of Carleton University’s Centre
on Values and Ethics. He is a Research Fellow of CESifo , University
of Munich, Munich, Germany,
a Senior Researcher of RIIM,
Fellow of CUTS-CITEE, and is Associate
Editor of Economics and
Politics . In addition, he is Member of the Board of Advisors of the Single Global Currency Association.
Dehejia completed his Ph.D. in Economics in 1995 at Columbia University, where his doctoral
thesis supervisors included Jagdish Bhagwati, the noted international trade
economist, and Robert Mundell, the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Economics. His fields
of specialization are international trade, international aspects of economic
development, and international macroeconomics. His research interests centre on
globalization, currency regimes, and economic applications of choice theory. He
has published numerous articles in scientific journals, including, Economics
Letters, Economics & Politics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,
and Journal of International Economics. In addition, he has published articles
in policy-oriented and applied journals, as well as op-eds and letters in
newspapers and magazines, including the Financial Times and Ottawa Citizen, and
spoken in radio interviews, including for CBC Ottawa. Dehejia has presented
short lecture courses, and academic seminars, at numerous institutions in North
America, Europe, and Asia, including at the University of Chicago, the
Norwegian School of Business Administration (Bergen), the Catholic University
(Leuven), in the Program in Applied Economics at the Institute for Advanced
Studies (Vienna), the Center for Economic Studies (Munich), CERGE-EI (Prague),
Comenius University (Bratislava), EERC (Kiev), the Elieff Centre, AUBG (Sofia),
the Indian Statistical Institute (New Delhi), ICRIER (New Delhi), St. Stephen’s
College (New Delhi), and the India International Centre (New Delhi). He has
chaired, presented, and discussed at various scientific conferences in North
America, Europe, and Asia, including the Canadian Economics Association, the
American Economic Association, CESifo (Munich),
and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (New
Delhi). Apart from his academic research, he writes
essays concerning the interrelationships amongst culture, politics, and
society, with a particular interest in Central Europe and South
Asia.
C.V.
Complete c.v.
Research: Current
Working Papers and Other Resources
These are available
from http://www.carleton.ca/economics : click on “Working Papers”.
“Can
Median-Maximizing Behavior Be Rational?” (with J. Zhang), Carleton Economics
Papers 2008-9.
“Trade and Labor
Standards in the European Union: A Gravity Model Approach” (with Y. Samy),
Carleton Economics Papers 2008-8.
“International
Income Comparisons and Location Choice: Methodology, Analysis, and
Implications” (with M. Voia), Carleton Economics Papers 2008-2.
“Risk Aversion,
Stochastic Dominance, and Rules of Thumb: Concept and Application”, Carleton
Economics Papers, 2008-1.
“Trade and Labour
Standards: A Review of the Theory and New Empirical Evidence” (with Y. Samy),
Carleton Economics Papers, 2007-12.
“Democracy and
Development: Friends or Foes?”, Carleton Economics Papers, 2007-11.
The three working
papers below, written when I was a graduate student, are no longer available in
the working paper series in which they were originally published. They are
available for download here:
“A Note on the Solow-Swan
Growth Model with a Fixed Wage”, mimeo, Columbia University, October 1992.
“The Dynamics of Debt and
Taxation: The Case of Endogenous Time Preference”, mimeo, Columbia
University, October 1992.
“Adjustment in Trade Models”,
mimeo, Columbia University, November 1993.
Teaching: Current
Syllabi and Other Resources
Registered students: Course materials are
on “my Carleton”.
Syllabi are
available from: http://www.carleton.ca/economics
: click on “Courses”.
"Commanding Heights" webpage
Weblinks
“Cultural
reflections”
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Profs & Students
My Columbia
Professors
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati
Professor Robert A. Mundell
Professor
Alessandra Casella
Professor John McLaren
Some of my Co-authors
Professor Eugene Beaulieu
Professor James W. Dean
My Doctoral Students
Dr. Hazrat-Omar Zakhilwal
Professor
Teddy Samy
Afshan Dar
Disclaimers: Opinions expressed in my public
writing are my own and should not be attributed to any institution with which I
am affiliated. The author of this page is not responsible for the contents of
external sites.
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Page created: October 30, 2001
Page last modified: April 7, 2010
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