UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, Anderson School of Management

Associate Professor of Economics, Global Economics and Management Area, since 2008.

STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, Political Economy Group

Associate Professor of Economics, 2002-2008 (tenured in 2006).

Assistant Professor of Economics, 1998-2002.

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, Cambridge, MA

Research Associate, Political Economy program, International Finance and Macroeconomics program, since 2006.

Faculty Research Fellow, International Finance and Macroeconomics program, 2002-2006.

CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH, London, UK

Faculty Affiliate, International Trade program, since 2005.

EDUCATION

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA
PhD in Economics, 1998. MA in Economics, 1996.

UNIVERSITE DE PARIS-DAUPHINE, Paris, France
Master's Degree (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) in Economics, 1992.

INSTITUT D'ETUDES POLITIQUES DE PARIS, France
Bachelor's Degree (Diplôme) in Economics and Public Policy, 1990.

PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

· PUBLISHED ARTICLES

The Diffusion of Development
(with Enrico Spolaore) - March 2008, forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(2), May 2009.

Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence
(with Karen Horn Welch), World Bank Economic Review, 22(2), June 2008, pp. 187-231. Lead article.

Death and Development
(with Peter Lorentzen and John McMillan), Journal of Economic Growth, 13(2), June 2008, pp. 81-124. Lead article.

Small States, Big Pork
(with William R. Hauk, Jr.), Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2(1), January 2007, pp. 95-106.

Borders and Growth
(with Enrico Spolaore), Journal of Economic Growth, 10(4), December 2005, pp. 331-386.

Do Democratic Transitions Produce Bad Economic Outcomes?

(with Dani Rodrik), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 95(2), May 2005. pp. 50-55

Trade Liberalization and Intersectoral Labor Movements
(with Jessica Wallack), Journal of International Economics, 64(2), December 2004, pp. 411-439.

Fractionalization
(with Alberto Alesina, Arnaud Devleeschauwer, William Easterly and Sergio Kurlat), Journal of Economic Growth, 8(2), June 2003, pp. 155-194. Lead article.

Stages of Diversification
(with Jean Imbs), American Economic Review, 93(1), March 2003, pp. 63-86.

Measuring the Dynamic Gains From Trade
World Bank Economic Review, 15(3), October 2001, pp. 393-429.

How Democracy Affects Growth
(with José Tavares), European Economic Review, 45(8), August 2001, pp. 1341-1379. Lead article.

Economic Integration and Political Disintegration
(with Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore), American Economic Review, 90(5), December 2000, pp. 1276-1296.
Reprinted in Pomfret, Richard (ed.), The Economics of Regional Trading Arrangements, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, vol. 161, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003, (Chapter 23, pp. 471-491).

Is Europe Going Too Far?
(with Alberto Alesina), Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy
(supplement to the Journal of Monetary Economics), 51(1), December 1999, pp. 1-42. Lead article.

Openness, Country Size and Government
(with Alberto Alesina), Journal of Public Economics, 69(3), September 1998, pp. 305-321. Lead article.

· BOOK CHAPTERS AND BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Acemoglu and Robinson's "Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy"

Science, 313(5793), pp. 1576 – 1577 (15 September 2006).

Trade, Growth and the Size of Countries
(with Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore), Chapter 23 in Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, vol. 1B, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2005.

Review of Easterly's “The Elusive Quest for Growth”
Journal of Economic Literature, 40(3), September 2002, pp. 907-918.

The Economics of Civic Trust
(with Alberto Alesina), Chapter 7 in Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam (eds.), Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries?, Princeton University Press, June 2000.

· WORK IN PROGRESS

A Monte Carlo Study of Growth Regressions
(with William R. Hauk, Jr.) – November 2006 (also NBER Technical Working Paper #T0296).

Structural Convergence
May 2001.

Human Capital and Democracy
January 2001.

OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Member, Saloner Task Force for the reform of the Stanford MBA curriculum, 2006-2008.

Associate Director, Center for Global Business and the Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2006-2008.

Faculty Fellow, Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, 2002-2008.
Faculty Affiliate, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, 2002-2008.

Research Affiliate, Forum on Contemporary Europe, Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, 2006-2008.

VISITING POSITIONS

UCLA Anderson School of Management, September 2007 - July 2008.

The World Bank Research Group, Washington, DC, May 2005.

Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies, March 2003.

ICRIER: Indian Council For Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, Winter 2000.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
At UCLA: Managerial Economics (MBA core course).

At Stanford GSB: Political Macroeconomics (PhD course), Strategy in the Business Environment (MBA core course), Business Ethics (MBA core course), International Political Economy (MBA elective).
At Harvard University (as teaching fellow): Econometric Methods (PhD course, 1997), Quantitative Methods (PhD course, 1996 and 1997), Applied Econometrics (undergraduate course, 1995 and 1996).

REFEREE REPORTS FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS
Quarterly Journal of Economics (19), American Economic Review (7), Review of Economic Studies (9), Econometrica (4), Journal of Political Economy (3), Journal of Economic Growth (7), Journal of International Economics (9), Journal of the European Economic Association (6), European Economic Review (7), Journal of Public Economics (6), Journal of Development Economics (6), Economic Journal (1), Review of Economics and Statistics (3), Journal of Law and Economics (1), Economics Letters (6), Quarterly Journal of Political Science (2), American Economic Journal – Macroeconomics (1), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (1), American Political Science Review (1), Cambridge University Press (1), Economics of Governance (1), IMF Staff Papers (1), International Organization (1), Journal of Economic Surveys (1), Journal of International Money and Finance (1), Journal of Labor Economics (1), Journal of Policy Reform (1), Review of International Economics (1), World Politics (1).

AWARDS AND HONORS

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Scholarship, 1993-1997.
Stanford MBA Class of 1969 Faculty Scholar, 2000-2001.
Hoover Institution, Edward Teller National Fellow, 2002-2003.
Louise and Claude N. Rosenberg, Jr. Faculty Scholar, 2004-2005.

Research grant from Stanford's Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies ($177,150 over 3 years), 2006-2009.

Moghadam Family Faculty Fellow, 2006-2007.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

University of Southern California (April 2008), Brown University (April 2008), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (April 2008), University of Oregon (February 2008), UC Davis (December 2007), Commission on Growth and Development, Yale University (September 2007), New York University (March 2007), World Bank (March 2007), Penn State University (March 2007), UC Santa Barbara (December 2006), UCLA (December 2006), UC San Diego (November 2006), UCLA (November 2006), International Monetary Fund (October 2006), Princeton University Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference (May 2006), NBER Political Economy Program meeting (May 2006), University of British Columbia (March 2006), Northwestern University (December 2005), UC San Diego (November 2005), UC Berkeley (November 2005), London Business School (November 2005), INSEAD (November 2005), International Monetary Fund (May 2005), Stanford University (May 2005), UC Santa Barbara (March 2005), MIT (January 2005), Columbia University (January 2005), AEA meetings in Philadelphia (January 2005), Stanford University (October 2004), University of Colorado at Boulder (October 2004), University of Houston (October 2004), Harvard University (March 2004), World Bank (March 2004), UCLA (February 2004), Duke University (January 2004), UC Davis (November 2003), Cornell University (October 2003), Stanford University (October 2003), UC San Diego (April 2003), Stockholm School of Economics (March 2003), Stockholm University (March 2003), Hoover Institution (November 2002), Stanford University (April 2002), UC Berkeley (April 2002), UC Berkeley (March 2002), AEA meetings, Atlanta (January 2002), Dartmouth College (December 2001), New York University (December 2001), International Seminar On Macroeconomics, University College Dublin (June 2001), Columbia University (April 2001), Yale University (April 2001), UCLA (March 2001), Stanford University (February 2001), Université de Paris-Dauphine (December 2000), UC Davis (November 2000), 21st NBER Summer Institute (July 2000), University of Chicago (May 2000), Caltech-Stanford Formal Political Economy Conference (May 2000), ICRIER (March 2000), University of Maryland (November 1999), Stanford University (November 1999), Conference on Democracy, Participation and Economic Development, Columbia University (April 1999), UC Berkeley (February 1999), Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy (November 1998), Delhi School of Economics (July 1998), World Bank (February 1998), UC Irvine (February 1998), Stockholm University (February 1998), Federal Reserve Board (February 1998), University of Chicago (January 1998), Stanford University (January 1998), New York University (January 1998), Columbia University (January 1998), Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (January 1998), Harvard University (November 1997).

Co-organizer, Conference on the Media and Economic Performance, Stanford Institute for International Studies, March 2004.

Co-organizer, Conference on Demographics, Health and Economic Development, Stanford Institute for International Studies, May 2005.

Organizer, Political Economy Program Meeting, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2008.

PAST AND CURRENT PH.D. STUDENTS

Francesco Giovannoni – Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK. (Ph.D. Stanford GSB, 2000)

Asaf Zussman – Department of Economics, Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Ph.D. Stanford Economics, 2003)

Jessica Wallack – IR/PS, UC San Diego (Ph.D. Stanford GSB, 2004)

Irena Asmundson – International Monetary Fund (Ph.D. Stanford Economics, 2005)

John Hatfield – Stanford Graduate School of Business (Ph.D. Stanford Economics, 2005)

William Hauk, Jr. – Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina (PhD Stanford GSB, 2005)

Cameron Shelton – Dept. of Economics, Wesleyan University (PhD Stanford GSB, 2005)

Silvia Console Battilana (Ph.D. Stanford Economics, 2007)

Peter Lorentzen – Dept. of Political Science, UC Berkeley (Ph.D. Stanford GSB, 2007)

Erik Snowberg – California Institute of Technology (PhD Stanford GSB, 2008)

Christopher Paik – Stanford Graduate School of Business (4^th year student)

Katrina Kosec – Stanford Graduate School of Business (2^nd year student)

Cecilia Mo – Stanford Graduate School of Business (2^nd year student)

Anna D’Souza – UCLA Economics Department (5^th year student)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Short Term

Consultant

THE WORLD BANK, Washington, DC

Development Economics Vice Presidency. Wrote a research paper on the links between trade policy and economic growth, in preparation for the Global Economic Prospects report of 1997. June 1996-January 1997.

Research

Intern

MINISTRY OF FINANCE, Paris, France

Conducted a study and wrote a report on the economic evaluation of public spending and public management control. Summer 1990.

PERSONAL / OTHER

General:	Citizen of France, US permanent resident, married to Magali Delmas, two children.
Language:	Bilingual in French and English, fluent in Spanish.
Travel:	Extensive travel in Western Europe and the Indian Subcontinent. Lived in India for seven years.