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.
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: September 6, 2009
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