VIVEK H. DEHEJIA
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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. In addition, he is affiliated with the university's newly-formed India
Centre, and 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
International Herald Tribune and the Financial Times, and spoken in television
and radio interviews, including for the BBC and the CBC. Dehejia
is at present a contributing writer to the New York Times’ India blog, “India Ink.” In addition, he is an
occasional contributor to other newspapers and magazines. 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.
Research: Current Working Papers and Other Resources
These are
available from http://www.carleton.ca/economics : click on “Working Papers”.
"The Fallacy of the 'Free Market' and the Future of
Globalization", Carleton Economics Papers 2010-9.
“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”.
All links to my writing in the media are found at the blog “Cultural
Reflections” linked immediately above.
Profs & Students
My
Columbia Professors
Some of
my Co-authors
My
Doctoral Students
Dr. Hazrat-Omar Zakhilwal
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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content of this page and related pages: copyright reserved by Vivek H. Dehejia.
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