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Economics Faculty

Robert Lipsey, Professor Emeritus
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Office Location: CUNY Graduate Center
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Schools Attended:
BA,Columbia

MA,Columbia

Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Interests: International Direct Investment and Its Relation to Trade and Economic Development; International Comparisons of Prices, Real Income, Output, Savings and Investment; The Measurement of International Prices and the Role of Price and Exchange Rate Changes in Trade  

Publications
 

Books Written:

 

Price and Quantity Trends in the Foreign Trade of the United States,Princeton,1963

Studies in the National Balance Sheet of the United States,(with Raymond W. Goldsmith and Morris Mendelson,Princeton,1963

Source Book of Statistics Relating to Construction(with Doris Preston),NBER,1966

Price Competitiveness in World Trade(with Irving B. Kravis),NBER,1971

The Financial Effects of Inflation(with Phillip Cagan),Ballinger,1978

Book Chapters:

 

"Home and Host Country Effects of FDI," in Robert E. Baldwin and L. Alan Winters,Editors, Challenges to Globalization,University of Chicago Press,2004

"Host Country Effects of FDI:Why such Different Answers?,"(with Fredrik Sjoholm)in Theodore H. Moran,Edward M. Graham, and Magnus Blomstrom, Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development? Institute for International Economics,2005

"Foreign MNCs and Wages in Indonesia,"(with Fredrik Sjoholm) in Eric D. Ramstetter and Fredrik Sjoholm, Editors, Multinational Corporations in Indonesia and Thailand, London, Palgrave Macmillan,2006.

Journal Articles:

 

"Is Fixed Investment the Key to Economic Growth?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 111, No. 1, February 1996. With M. Blomstrom and M. Zejan.

"Wages and Foreign Ownership: A Comparative Study of Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States." Journal of International Economics, Vol. 40, No. 3/4, May 1996. With B. Aitken and A. Harrison.

"Foreign Direct Investment and Employment: Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden." The Economic Journal, Vol. 107, November 1997. With M. Blomstrom and G. Fors.

"Japanese Exports, MNC Affiliates, and Rivalry for Export Markets," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, June 2003, with Eric D.Ramstetter

"Foreign Direct Investment, Education, and Wages in Indonesian Manufacturing," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 73, No.1, Feb. 2004,with Fredrik Sjoholm

"FDI and Wage Spillovers in Indonesian Manufacturing,"Review of World Economics, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Vol. 140,No.2,2004, with Fredrik Sjoholm

"Foreign Ownership, Wages, and Wage Changes in U.S. Industries"Contemporary Economic Policy,Vol. 24, No.1,January 2006, with Zadia Feliciano

"Foreign Firms and Indonesian Manufacturing Wages:An Analysis with Panel Data," Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 55,No.1, October 2006, with Fredrik Sjoholm.

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