Thomas Prusa -- CV

Curriculum Vitae - Thomas J. Prusa

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 1988
M.S., Economics, Stanford University, 1985
B.A., Economics, Georgetown University, 1983

Fields:

International Economics, Trade Policy, Applied Microeconomics.

Employment:

• Professor, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 2001-present

• Visiting Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Princeton University, 1998-1999, 2001-2002

• Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998-present

• Associate Professor, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 1995-2001

• Associate Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1994-1995

• Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1993-1998

• Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1988-1994

Honors and Awards:

• Rutgers University Faculty of Arts & Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education at the Professor Level, 2001

• Economic Inquiry, Award for Best Article (1996 articles), 1997

• Review of International Economics, Award for Outstanding International Economics Article (1993 articles), 1994

• Award for Contributions to Undergraduate Education, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, 1993

• Mentor of the Year, Office of Special Programs, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, 1991-1992

• Recent Recipients of Ph.D. Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 1989

• Lynde and Harry Bradley Research Fellowship, Center for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, 1987-1988

• Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford University, 1986-1987

1.    "An incentive compatible approach to the transfer pricing problem," Journal of International Economics, 28, 1990 155-172.

2.    "An economic history and analysis of Section 337," in Technology, Trade, and World Competition: Protecting Intellectual Property with Trade Sanctions, (JEIDA, Washington, D.C., 1990).

3.    "Are new firms an important source of innovation?," with James A. Schmitz, Jr., Economic Letters, 35, 1991 339-342.
    • Reprinted in Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth, edited by Martin Carree and A. Roy Thurik (Edward Elgar, 2006).

4.    "The selection of antidumping cases for ITC determination," in Robert E. Baldwin ed., Empirical Studies of Commercial Policy, (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991).

5.    "Why are so many antidumping petitions withdrawn?," (Lead article) Journal of International Economics, 33(1/2), 1992 1-20.
    • Reprinted in Economics Alert, 1(2), 1993.
    • Reprinted in The WTO and Anti-Dumping, edited by Douglas R. Nelson and Hylke Vandenbussche (Edward Elgar, 2005).

6.    "Commercial policy towards multinational corporations under imperfect information," with Shabtai Donnenfeld, Review of International Economics, 1(2), 1993, 164-179. Winner of Award for Outstanding International Economics Article.

7.    "Does administrative protection protect? A reexamination of the U.S. Title VII and escape clause statutes," with Wendy L. Hansen, Regulation, 16(1), 1993, 35-43.
    • Reprinted in La Puerta: A doorway into the academy. Edited by Carin Bigrigg, Mary Friedman, Karen McKinney, Wanda Martin, Kate Warne, Rick Waters, and William Waters. (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1997).

8.    "International standards for intellectual property protection and R&D incentives," with Reiko Aoki, Journal of International Economics, 35, 1993, 251-273.

9.   "Pricing behavior in the presence of antidumping law," Journal of Economic Integration, 92, 1994, 260-289.

10.   "Can companies maintain their initial innovative thrust?: A study of the PC software industry," with James A. Schmitz, Jr., Review of Economics and Statistics, 76(3), 1994, 523-540.

11.   "The road most taken: The rise of Title VII protection," with Wendy L. Hansen, The World Economy, 18(2), 1995, 295-313.
    • Reprinted in The WTO, Safeguards, And Temporary Protection From Imports, edited by Chad P. Bown (Edward Elgar, 2006).

12.   "Monitoring and coordination in MNCs: Implications for transfer pricing and intra-firm trade," with Shabtai Donnenfeld, Journal of Economic Integration, 10(2), 1995, 230-255.

13.   "An overview of the impact of U.S. unfair trade laws," in Trading Punches: Trade Disputes and Their Resolution Under NAFTA, edited by Rafael Fernandez De Castro, William B.P. Robson, and S. Dahlia Stein, (Washington, D.C.: National Planning Association), 1996, 183-205.

14.   "Cumulation and ITC decision-making: The sum of the parts is greater than the whole," with Wendy L. Hansen, Economic Inquiry, 34, 1996, 746-769. Winner of Award for Best Article.

15.   "Product development and the timing of information disclosure under U.S. and Japanese patent systems," with Reiko Aoki, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 10(3), 1996, 233-249.

16.   "Sequential versus simultaneous choice with endogenous quality," with Reiko Aoki, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 15(1), 1997, 103-122.

17.   "The role of the median voter in U.S. trade policy: A historical analysis," with Wendy L. Hansen, Economic Inquiry, 35, 1997, 97-107.

18.   "The trade effects of U.S. antidumping actions," in Effects of U.S. Trade Protection and Promotion Policies, in Robert C. Feenstra ed., (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997).

19.   "Economics and politics: An empirical analysis of ITC decision-making," with Wendy L. Hansen, Review of International Economics, 5(2), 1997, 230-45.
    • Reprinted in The WTO and Anti-Dumping, edited by Douglas R. Nelson and Hylke Vandenbussche (Edward Elgar, 2005).

20.   "Cumulation and antidumping: A challenge to competition," The World Economy, 1998, 1021-1033.

21.   "Tariff policy for a monopolist in a signaling game," with Dobrin R. Kolev, Journal of International Economics, 49(1), 1999, 51-76.

22.   "Dumping and Double Crossing: The ineffectiveness Of Cost-Based Trade Policy Under Incomplete Information," (joint with Dobrin R. Kolev), International Economic Review, 43(3), 2002, 895-918.

23.   "On the Spread and Impact of Antidumping," (Lead article) Canadian Journal of Economics 34(3), August 2001, 591-611.
    • Reprinted in The WTO and Anti-Dumping, edited by Douglas R. Nelson and Hylke Vandenbussche (Edward Elgar, 2005).

24.   "A simultaneous equations approach to antidumping injury investigations," (joint with David Sharp), Journal of Forensic Economics, 14(1), 2001, 63-78.

25.   "The Economic and Strategic Motives for Antidumping Filings" (joint with Susan Skeath), Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 138(3), 2002, 389-413.

26.   "WTO Exceptions as insurance," (Lead article; joint with Ronald Fischer), Review of International Economics, 11(5), 2003, 745-57.
    • Reprinted in The WTO, Safeguards, And Temporary Protection From Imports, edited by Chad P. Bown (Edward Elgar, 2006).

27.   "Antidumping" (joint with Bruce Blonigen) Handbook of International Economics, edited by E. Kwan Choi and James Harrigan, (Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing), 2003, pp. 251-284.

28.   "Using Safeguard Protection to Raise Domestic Rivals' Costs," (joint with James P. Durling), Japan and the World Economy, 15(1), 2003, 47-68.

29.   "The Cost of Antidumping: The Devil is in the Details" (joint with Bruce Blonigen) Journal of Policy Reform, Vol. 6 (December 2003) 233-45.

30.   "Macroeconomic factors and antidumping filings," (Lead article; joint with Michael M. Knetter), Journal of International Economics 61(1), 2003, 1-18.
    • Reprinted in The WTO and Anti-Dumping, edited by Douglas R. Nelson and Hylke Vandenbussche (Edward Elgar, 2005).

31.   "Modern Commercial Policy: Managed Trade or Retaliation?" (joint with Susan Skeath), Handbook of International Trade, Volume II: Economic and Legal Analyses of Trade Policy and Institutions edited by E. Kwan Choi and James Hartigan, (Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing), 2004, pp. 358-82.

32.   "The Growing Problem of Antidumping Protection," Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose (eds.) International Trade in East Asia, NBER-EASE Volume 14, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2005, 329-359.

33.   "Antidumping: A Growing Problem in International Trade," The World Economy. May 2005, 28(5), 683-700.

34.   "East Asia's antidumping problem," The World Economy. June 2006, 29(6), 743-761.

35.   "The Trade Effects Associated with an Antidumping Epidemic: The Hot-Rolled Steel Market, 1996-2001," (joint with James P. Durling) European Journal of Political Economy (special issue on antidumping), September 2006, 22(3), 675-95.

36.   "Ins, Outs, and the Duration of Trade," (joint with Tibor Besedes) Canadian Journal of Economics, 39(1): 266-295, 2006.

37.   "Product Differentiation and Duration of U.S. Import Trade?" (joint with Tibor Besedes), 2004, Journal of International Economics, December 2006, 70(2), 339-58 (lead article).

38.    "The Reasons for and the Impact of Antidumping Protection: The Case of People's Republic of China" (joint with Tianshu Chu), in Philippa Dee and Michael Ferrantino (eds.) Quantitative Methods for Assessing the Effects of Non-tariff Measures and Trade Facilitation, Imperial College Press, 2005 (Singapore: World Scientific Ltd. for APEC), 411-34.

39.   "Antidumping," New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (joint with Bruce Blonigen), Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

40.   "Trade remedy provisions in regional trade agreements," (joint with Robert Teh and Michella Budetta), in Regional Rules in the Global Trading System, edited by Antoni Estevadeordal, Kati Suominen, and Robert Teh (forthcoming 2009, Cambridge University Press).

41.   "The Role of Extensive and Intensive Margins and Export Growth," (joint with Tibor Besedes), NBER Working Paper No. 13628, October 2007.

42.   "United States — Laws, Regulations and Methodology for Calculating Dumping Margins (Zeroing) and United States — Measures Relating to Zeroing and Sunset Reviews?" (joint with Edwin Vermulst), forthcoming World Trade Review, 2009.

43.   "Protection Reduction and Diversion: PTAs and the Incidence of Antidumping Disputes," (joint with Robert Teh), working paper.

44.   "Contingent Protection Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements," (joint with Robert Teh), working paper.

Working papers:

Other Publications:

1.   International Trade Policies, Incentives, and Firm Behavior, (Garland Publishing Inc., New York, 1990).

2.    Review of P.K.M. Tharakan, ed., Policy Implications of Antidumping Measures , (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991), in Journal of International Economics, 32, 1992, 198-200.

3.    Response to T. Stewart's comments on "Does administrative protection protect?," (with Wendy L. Hansen), Regulation, 16(2), 1993, 3-5.

4.   Review of Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Kimberly Ann Elliott, Measuring the Costs of Protection in the United States, (Institute of International Economics, Washington, 1994), in European Journal of Political Economy, 609-612.

5.   Book review of Lectures in International Trade, 2nd edition (by Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya, and T. N. Srinivasan), Comparative Economic Studies, 40 (4), Winter 1998, 113-114.

6.    Book review of Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern, Measurement of Nontariff Barriers, (University of Michigan Press, 1998) in Journal of International Economics, 55:1, October 2001, 239-242

7.    Comments on "International R&D deployment and locational advantage: A case study of Taiwan," Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose (eds.) International Trade in East Asia, NBER-EASE Volume 14, University of Chicago Press, 2005.

8.    Review of World Trade Organization Trade Policy Review – The United States 2004. The World Economy 28 (9), 1263-1275 (2005).
    * Reprinted in The World Economy Global Trade Policy 2005, Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

9.    Comments on "US – Countervailing Duty Investigation of DRAMS," by Joseph F. Francois and David Palmeter, World Trade Review, 2008, 7(1), 231-34.

10.   Comments on "The Appellate Body interpretation of 'sunset reviews' provisions of AD and CVM agreements: A critical analysis," by Claudio Dordi, forthcoming Contingent Protection in the WTO: A Law and Economics Analysis, 2008 (edited by Petros Marvodis).

11.   Comments on "Antidumping: Overview of the Agreement," by Terence P. Stewart and Amy S. Dwyer, forthcoming Contingent Protection in the WTO: A Law and Economics Analysis, 2008 (edited by Petros Marvodis).

12.   Book review of Gary Hufbauer, Jeffrey Schott, Kimberly Elliott and Barbara Oegg, Economic Sanctions Reconsidered (3rd edition), (Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, 2007), in Journal of International Economics, 76:1, September 2008, 135-137.

13.   Book review of Daniel Cohen , Globalization and Its Enemies, (The MIT Press, 2006) in Journal of Economic Literature, September 2008.

14.   Book review of Philip Bentley and Aubrey Silberston, Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Action: Limits Imposed by Economic and Legal Theory, (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007) in Journal of Economic Literature, forthcoming.

15.   Comments on "China's WTO Entry: Antidumping, Safeguards, and Dispute Settlement" by Chad P. Bown, forthcoming China's Growing Role in World Trade, edited by Robert C. Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei, University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Grants:

The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, with Reiko Aoki, 7/1992-8/1993

Rutgers University, Research Council Grants, 1995-2000, 2002-2008

East-West Center Visiting Fellowship, Summer 2003

Other Professional Activities:

Editorial Board, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2004-present

Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics, 1995-2004.

Editorial Board, Review of International Economics, 1994-present.

Referee for American Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Eastern Economic Journal, Economica, Economic Inquiry, European Economic Review, Global Finance Journal, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Management Science, National Science Foundation, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Oxford Economic Papers, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of International Economics, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Southern Economic Journal,, World Bank Economic Review, The World Economy, World Trade Review