Research Interests: International Economics and Public Finance

• Globalization, the WTO and the global trading system
• Applications of general equilibrium computational techniques to the analysis of policy issues in taxation, international trade, and development
• Global environmental issues; global warming and carbon taxes
• Public finance, the effects of taxes, sales and income taxes

Other Roles

• Co-Investigator, Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE)
• Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario
• Distinguished Fellow, The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Waterloo, Ontario
• Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA
• Coordinator, Global Economy Group, CESifo, University of Munich
• Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
• Fellow of The Econometric Society
• Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada

 

Publications