Raymond Riezman

Biography

Raymond Riezman is a Visiting Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, a Visiting Professor at Aarhus University, and the C. Woody Thompson Research Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Iowa. He is the Founder and Director of the Midwest International Economics Group. His research focuses on protection and preferential trading agreements, trade and technology transfer, political economy, voting theory, outsourcing, and experimental economics. His PhD is from the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota and he did his undergraduate work at Washington University in St. Louis. He is an External Research Fellow at GEP, Nottingham, Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Studies - Institute for Economic Research (CES-ifo), Munich, associate editor of Economics Bulletin and associate editor at the Review of International Economics.

Selected Publications

"China's Gains from WTO Accession: Imports vs Exports." (with Lai, T.-W. and Wang, P.), Review of International Economics, Vol. 24, Issue 4, pp837-856, 2016.

"The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development" (with Wenbiao Cai and B. Ravikumar) Economic Inquiry, Vol 53, Issue 4, 1839-1849, October, 2015.

"Minorities and Storable Votes " (with Alessandra Casella and Tom Palfrey) Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2008, 3, 1-36.

"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.

"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.

"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.

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

"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.