Robert Blecker
Department Chair, Economics
Economics
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Additional Positions at AU
Affiliated Faculty, School of International Service
- Professor Blecker’s research interests include international trade, open economy macroeconomics, the value of the dollar and the U.S. trade deficit, economic integration in North America, the Mexican economy, the limits to export-led growth strategies in developing countries, and trade policy in the U.S. steel industry. His teaching fields include international economics, macroeconomics, history of economic thought, and political economy.
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Degrees
PhD and MA, Economics, Minor in Political Science, Stanford University
Graduate Studies in Economics, Centro de Estudios Economicos y Demograficos, El Colegio de Mexico
AB, Economics, Yale University -
Languages Spoken:
English, Spanish - DOWNLOAD FULL BIO (PDF)
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OFFICE
- CAS - Economics
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SEE ALSO
- AU Department of Econcomics
Partnerships & Affiliations
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Research Associate
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Political Economy Research Institute
Research Associate
Teaching
Fall 2009
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- ECON-671 International Economics: Trade
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Spring 2010
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- ECON-371 International Economics: Trade
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
Books and Monographs
- Taming Global Finance: A Better Architecture for Growth and Equity. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 1999.
- Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy: Economics, Politics, Laws, and Issues,second edition (co-authored with Stephen D. Cohen and Peter D. Whitney). Boulder, CO: Westview, 2003.
Articles in Referred Journals
- “Macroeconomic Effects of Reducing Gender Wage Inequality in an Export-oriented, Semi-industrialized Economy” (co-authored with Stephanie Seguino), Review of Development Economics, vol. 6, no. 1 (March 2002), pp. 103-119. Reprinted in: The Feminist Economics of Trade, edited by Irene Van Stavern, Diane Elson, Caren Grown, and Nilüfer Cagatay, London: Routledge (2007), pp. 91-114.
- “The North American Economies after NAFTA: A Critical Appraisal,” International Journal of Political Economy, vol. 33, no. 3 (Fall 2003 issue; published 2005), pp. 5-27.
- “The Economic Consequences of Dollar Appreciation for U.S. Manufacturing Profits and Investment: A Time-Series Analysis,” International Review of Applied Economics, vol.21, no. 4 (September 2007), pp. 491-517.
- Unpublished Statistical Appendix to "The Economic Consequences of Dollar Appreciation for U.S. Manufacturing Investment"
- “Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Moving Up the Ladder to Escape the Fallacy of Composition” (co-authored with Arslan Razmi), Journal of Development Studies, vol. 44, no. 1 (January 2008), pp. 21-48.
- “The Fallacy of Composition and Contractionary Devaluations: Output Effects of Real Exchange Rate Shocks in Semi-Industrialised Countries” (co-authored with Arslan Razmi), Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 32, no. 1 (January 2008), pp. 83-109.
- “External Shocks, Structural Change, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1979-2007,” World Development, vol. 37, no. 7 (July 2009), pp. 1274–1284,.
- “Davidson on Keynes: The Open Economy Dimension,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, forthcoming 2009.
Book Chapters
- “Financial Globalization, Exchange Rates, and International Trade,” in Financialization and the World Economy, edited by Gerald Epstein. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton,MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2005, pp. 183-209.
- “U.S. Steel Import Tariffs: The Politics of Global Markets,” in Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade, 3rd edition, edited by Ralph G. Carter,Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2008, pp. 249-80.
- “Steel,” in The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, edited by Kenneth A. Reinert and Ramkishen S. Rajan, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Invited Articles and Policy Papers
- “Why the Dollar Needs to Fall Further,” Challenge, vol. 46, no. 5 (September/October 2003), pp. 15-36.
- "The trade deficit trap: How it got so big, why it persists, and what to do about it," Working Paper No. 284, Economic Policy Institute, July 2009.
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
- American University, University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in a Full-time Appointment, 2005.
Work In Progress
- “Stolper-Samuelson after Kalecki: International Trade and Income Distribution with Oligopolistic Mark-Ups and Partial Pass-Through,” paper presented at EEA meetings, March 2009.
- “Comercio, Empleo y Distribución: Efectos de la Integración Regional y Global,” revised version, September 2009. Forthcoming in: Nora Lustig, Antonio Yúnez Naude y Alejandro Castañeda Sabido, editores, México 2010: Volumen Economía, Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2010. (in Spanish)
- “Would a North American Monetary Union Protect Canada and Mexico Against the Ravages of ‘Dutch Disease’?" (Co-authored with Mario Seccareccia), final draft of July 2008, forthcoming in The Political Economy of Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation: Essays in Honor of Jane D’Arista, edited by Gerald Epstein, Thomas Schlesinger, and Matías Vernengo. Cheltenham,UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2010.
- "Export-Led Growth, Real Exchange Rates, and the Fallacy of Composition" (Co-authored with Arslan Razmi), final draft of March 2009, forthcoming in The Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Growth, edited by Mark Setterfield. Cheltenham,UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2010.
- "Long-run Growth in Open Economies: Export-led Cumulative Causation or a Balance-of-Payments Constraint?" Paper prepared for presentation at the 2nd Summer School on Keynesian Macroeconomics and European Economic Policies, Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies, August 2009, Berlin, Germany.
CURRICULUM VITAE
AU Expert
Area of Expertise: International trade; balance of payments, exchange rates, and the U.S. trade deficit; macroeconomics; U.S. steel industry; global finance
Additional Information: Robert A. Bleckeris the author of Taming Global Finance (Economic Policy Institute, 1999) and coauthor of Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy (Westview, 2003).
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