Faculty Mentor Bios

The following faculty members have expressed an interest in participating in the CIBER Summer Doctoral Institute. In addition, any GW faculty member is eligible to participate. If you have interest in working with a faculty member not listed here on a research project related to the institutions and development theme, you may contact them to inquire about their interest.

• Meghana Ayyagari, Department of International Business, School of Business
  ayyagari@gwu.edu

• Timothy Fort, Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy, School of Business timfort@gwu.edu

• Lawrence Mitchell, Law School
  lmitch@law.gwu.edu

• Tjai Nielsen, Department of Management, School of Business
  tnielsen@gwu.edu

• Liesl Riddle, Department of International Business, School of Business
  lriddle@gwu.edu

• Jorge Rivera, Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy, School of Business jrivera@gwu.edu

• Jennifer Spencer, Department of International Business, School of Business jspencer@gwu.edu

• Emmanuel Teitelbaum, Department of Political Science, Elliott School of International Affairs
  ejt@gwu.edu

• Robert Weiner, Department of International Business, School of Business
  rweiner@gwu.edu

• Jiawen Yang, Department of International Business, School of Business
  jwyang@gwu.edu

Meghana Ayyagari

Meghana Ayyagari (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is an Assistant Professor of International Business and International Affairs at The George Washington University. Ayyagari’s expertise lies in international corporate finance, corporate development, and development economics. She teaches courses in international financial management and international business.

Professor Ayyagari's research focuses on international corporate governance structures and property rights protection across countries. Her research interests also include the theory of the firm with an emphasis on the constraints faced by firms in developing economies. Professor Ayyagari's academic research has been published in the Review of Financial Studies and Small Business Economics and she is currently working on a major project sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Professor Ayyagari has served as a consultant for several international organizations including the Development Research Group at the World Bank, USAID, and the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS). Professor Ayyagari is a member of the American Finance Association (AFA), Western Finance Association (WFA) and the Academy of International Business (AIB) and has served as a referee on several finance, economic and management journals.

Professor Ayyagari is particularly interested in working with doctoral candidates of Finance, Economics, or International Business who are familiar with programming in Stata.

Recent Publications and Working Papers:

Ayyagari, Meghana, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic. How Well Do Institutional Theories Explain Firms' Perceptions of Property Rights? Forthcoming Review of Financial Studies.

Ayyagari, Meghana, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Thorsten Beck. Small and Medium Enterprises Across the Globe . Forthcoming Small Business Economics.

Ayyagari, Meghana, Demirgüç-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic. Firm Innovation in Emerging Markets: Role of Governance and Finance. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper.

Ayyagari, Meghana. Does Cross-listing lead to Functional Convergence? Empirical Evidence. Working Paper.

Ayyagari, Meghana. Effect of Investor Protection and Strategic Complementarities on Organizational Design. Working Paper.

Ayyagari, Meghana, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic. Firms as Financial Intermediaries: Evidence from Trade Credit Data. Working Paper.

Ayyagari, Meghana, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic. How Important are Financing Constraints? The Role of Finance in the Business Environment . World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3820.

Ayyagari, Meghana, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic. What Determines Protection of Property Rights? An Analysis of Direct and Indirect Effects . World Bank Policy Research Working Paper.

Ayyagari, Meghana and Kosova, Renata. Does FDI Facilitate Domestic Entrepreneurship? Evidence from the Czech Republic. Working Paper.

Timothy Fort

Professor Fort (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is the Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics in the Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy at George Washington’s School of Business and an Adjunct Professor at GW’s Law School. Professor Fort’s areas of expertise include business ethics; peace through commerce; building ethical corporate cultures via total integrity management; faith, religion and business; and business law. His current research includes how ethical business behavior can contribute to the reduction of violence in the world; optimal organizational structures to foster affective ethical sentiments in business; the role of religion in business ethics; and issues in the commercialization of science and technology.

Professor Fort is also the Executive Director at the Institute for Corporate Responsibility,
Coordinator at the Peace Through Commerce Initiative, Faculty Fellow at The Business Roundtable Ethics Institute, and Faculty Fellow at The William Davidson Institute.

Recent Publications and Working Papers:

Fort, Timothy. Prophets, Profits, Passions and Peaces: How Business Can Become Instruments of Peace and Foster Religious Harmony. Yale University Press. Forthcoming. 2008.

Fort, Timothy. Business, Integrity, & Peace: Beyond Geopolitical and Disciplinary Boundaries. Cambridge University Press. 2007.

Fort, Timothy. The Role of Business in Fostering Peaceful Societies. Cambridge University Press. 2004.

Fort, Timothy. Ethics and Governance: Business as Mediating Institution: Oxford University Press. 2001.

Lawrence Mitchell

Lawrence Mitchell (J.D. Columbia University) is the Theodore Rinehart Professor of Business Law at the George Washington University Law School. Professor Mitchell’s areas of expertise include regulation; fiduciary duty; ethics; corporate law, governance and finance; bondholder's and stakeholder's rights; relational investing; securities regulation; economic history; jurisprudence; legal philosophy; social policy and welfare.

Professor Mitchell joined the Law School faculty in 1991. For six years before entering academia, Professor Mitchell practiced corporate law in New York City. His teaching and scholarly interests include corporate law and finance, and jurisprudence. Professor Mitchell has had articles on corporate law and on jurisprudence published in a number of leading law reviews. He recently has done substantial work using economic sociology to address corporate law issues.

Professor Mitchell is the editor of Progressive Corporate Law (1995), co-author of the casebook, Corporate Finance and Governance, with Lawrence Cunningham and Jeffrey Haas, and coauthor of the casebook, Corporate Law with Dalia Tsuk Mitchell. His books include Stacked Deck: A Story of Selfishness in America (1998), Corporate Irresponsibility: America’s Newest Export (2001), and The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry (October 2007).

Professor Mitchell is director of the Sloan Program for the Study of Business in Society and the International Institute for Corporate Governance and Accountability.

Mitchell, Lawrence. On the Direct Election of CEOs. 12. Ohio Northern University Law Review. 261-286. 2006.

Mitchell, Lawrence. The Relevance of Corporate Theory to Corporate and Economic Development: Comment on 'The Transplantation of the Legal Discourse on Corporate Personality Theories. 63 Washington & Lee Law Review 1489-1502. 2006.

Mitchell, Lawrence. Structural Holes, CEOs, and Informational Monopolies: The Missing Link in Corporate Governance. 70 Brooklyn Law Review 1313-1368. 2005.

Mitchell, Lawrence. Vulnerability and efficiency (of what?). 2 Berkeley Business Law Journal 153-165. 2005.

Mitchell, Lawrence. The Trouble with Boards. GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 159. 2005.

Mitchell, Lawrence and Dalia Tsuk Mitchell. Corporations, A Contemporary Approach: Cases and Materials for a Course in Corporate Law. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2004. 

Mitchell, Lawrence. Structure as an Independent Variable in Assessing Stock Market Failures. 72 George Washington Law Review 547-596. 2004.

Mitchell, Lawrence. The Creation of American Corporate Capitalism: The First Public Response--The Legislative Solution. GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 105. 2004.

Mitchell, Lawrence and Theresa Gabaldon. If I only had a Heart: Or, How can We Identify a Corporate Morality. 76 Tulane Law Review 1579-1672. 2002.

Mitchell, Lawrence. Talking with my Friends: A Response to a Dialogue on Corporate Irresponsibility.70 George Washington Law Review 988-999. 2002.

Mitchell, Lawrence. American Corporations: The New Sovereigns. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle Review 18. 2002.

Mitchell, Lawrence. Corporate Irresponsibility: America's Newest Export. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2001. 

Mitchell, Lawrence. The Importance of Being Trusted. 81 Boston University Law Review 591-617. 2001.

Tjai Nielsen

Tjai Nielsen (Ph.D., University of Tennessee) is an Assistant Professor of Management at The George Washington University School of Business. His areas of expertise include work teams, leadership and development, organizational change, and management consulting. Professor Nielsen’s current research focuses on cultural intelligence & team performance; diversity, international teams, and performance; team wisdom and meta-analysis of pro-social behavior and performance across multiple levels of analysis. In addition to his work at GW, Professor Nielsen is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Group and Organization Management.

Professor Nielsen is particularly interested in working with a student on a project related to diaspora investment in developing countries.

Nielsen, T.M., A.C. Edmondson and E. Sundstrom. Team Wisdom: Definition, Dynamics, and Applications. Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom. E. Kessler & J. Bailey. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Forthcoming.

Halfhill, T. & Nielsen, T.M. Quantifying the Softer Side of Management Education: An Example Using Teamwork Competencies. Journal of Management Education. Forthcoming.

 Van Dyne, L., Ang, S., & Nielsen, T.M. Cultural intelligence. In S. Clegg & J. Bailey (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Forthcoming.

Nielsen, T.M. & Halfhill, T. A Strategic Contingency Model of Team Leadership. (pp. 191-211). In C. Cooper (Ed.). Inspiring Leaders London, England: Taylor and Francis. 2006.

Nielsen, T.M., Sundstrom, E., & Halfhill, T. Group Dynamics and Effectiveness: Five Years of Applied Research. Handbook of Group Research and Practice (pp. 285-312). In S.A. Wheelan (Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 2005.

Halfhill, T., Nielsen, T.M., & Sundstrom, E. Group Personality Composition and Performance in Military Service Teams. Journal of Military Psychology, 17(1), 41-54. 2005.

Liesl Riddle

Liesl Riddle is an Assistant Professor of International Business and International Affairs at The George Washington University. She holds a BA and MA in Middle Eastern Studies, a MBA in Marketing/International Business, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Riddle has written extensively on the topics of cross-cultural management values, trade and investment promotion, and diaspora roles in homeland economic development. She is an ad-hoc expert for the United Nations regarding diaspora investment and entrepreneurship policies and often serves as a consultant to the World Bank on these issues. Dr. Riddle has conducted fieldwork in Egypt and Turkey and among diaspora communities in the USA and Europe (Afghan, Armenian, Cuban, Ghanaian, Iranian, Liberian, and Palestinian communities). She is on the editorial board of two journals, Education Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues and the Journal of Education for Business.

Dr. Riddle is one of the founding members of the Diasporas, Policy, and Development research program within GW’s Elliott School for International Affairs’ Institute for Global Studies. She is also a faculty coordinator for GW’s Center for International Business Education and Research (GW-CIBER) in the areas of Diasporas and Business and Society. Dr. Riddle has received Best Reviewer Awards from the Academy of International Business and the Academy of Management. She also has received several GW teaching awards, including the 2006 School of Business' Teaching Excellence Award. She is the co-principle investigator of two consecutive research grants funded by the GW-CIBER focusing on diaspora homeland investment issues.

Recent Publications and Working Papers:

Riddle, Liesl. Building Effective Exporter Networks: Evidence from the Istanbul Clothing Cluster. Working Paper.

Gillespie, Kate and Liesl Riddle. Export Promotion Organization Emergence and Development. Working Paper.

Riddle, Liesl. Conducting Qualitative International Business Research in the Middle East: The Importance of Cultivating Group Feeling. Invited Book Chapter, edited volume, entitled A Handbook of Qualitative Research in International Business (Catherine Welch and Rebecca Piccari, eds.). Working Paper.

Gillespie, Kate, Brad McBride, and Liesl Riddle. Globalization, Acculturation, and Managerial Success in Mexico City. Working Paper.

Riddle, Liesl. Transnational Social Networks and Trade Competitiveness. Working Paper.

Riddle, Liesl and Kate Gillespie. 2003.  Information Sources for New Ventures in the Turkish Clothing Export Industry. Small Business Economics 20(1): 105-120.

Riddle, Liesl, Gillespie, Kate and Edward Sayre. 2001. Changes in Palestinian-American Interest in Homeland Investment 1994-1999. Middle East Studies Journal 55(2): 237-255.

Riddle, Liesl, Kate Gillespie, Jean-Pierre Jeannet and H. David Hennessey. 2003. Obstacles to Survey Research in the Turkish Clothing Industry in Global Marketing: An Interactive Approach. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.

Riddle, Liesl. 2003. Selector’s European Dilemma in Global Marketing: An Interactive Approach, Kate Gillespie, Jean-Pierre Jeannet, and H. David Hennessey.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.

Liesl Riddle, Gillespie, Kate, and Vivek Padmanaban. 2003. Instructors’ Manual.  Gillespie/Jeannet/Hennessey Global Marketing: An Interactive Approach. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.

Jorge Rivera

Jorge Rivera (Ph.D., Duke University, University of North Carolina) is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the George Washington University’s School of Business. He holds a joint Ph.D. in Environmental Policy and Business Strategy from Duke University (2001). His research focuses on studying the relationship between corporate environmental/social responsibility and public policy. In 2001, he received the Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management's Organizations and the Natural Environment Division and was a Finalist for the Academy of Management Newman Award for a Best Paper based on a Dissertation. The Policy Sciences Society awarded him the McDougal Prize for Best Published Paper in 2003. In 2006, one of his papers examining the voluntary environmental behavior of the US ski industry was selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as one of the ten best examples of excellent research available on the compliance and environmental behavior literature.

He has published more than 10 journal articles in top public policy journals (all available online at http://home.gwu.edu/~jrivera/ ). He is on the editorial boards of Policy Sciences and Organization & Environment. These articles have generated more than 20 stories in such outlets as The New York Times, The LA Times, The Denver Post, The Seattle Post, CNN, and MIT Technology Review, the Boston Globe, Travel and Leisure Magazine, the Associated Press, MSNBC, and CBS News among others.Currently, he is editing a Special Issue on Voluntary Environmental Programs for the Policy Studies Journal.

Between 2004 and 2006, Professor Rivera was selected as one of five Lead Authors evaluating environmental policy responses in different parts of the world for the United Nations’ Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Later, he was also selected to prepare the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment’s Business Synthesis Report. As a result of this work, he co-authored two peer reviewed UN reports that were translated into five languages and generated hundreds of newspaper stories around the world at time of the reports’ publication in 2005.

Recent Publications and Working Papers:

Shah, K., and Rivera, J. Export processing Zones and Corporate Environmental Performance in Emerging Economies: The Case of the Oil, Gas and Chemical Sectors of Trinidad and Tobago. Working Paper.

Rivera, J., Oetzel, J., de Leon, P., and Starik, M. The Policy Process and Business Political Environmental Management Strategies in Developing Nations. Working Paper.

Steelman, T., and Rivera, J. Do Voluntary Environmental Programs Promote the Public Interest? A Policy Sciences Approach. Working Paper.

Husted, B., Allen, D. and Rivera, J. Governance choice for strategic corporate social responsibility: Evidence from Central America. Forthcoming. Business and Society.

Steelman, T., and Rivera, J. Voluntary environmental programs in the United States: Whose Interests Are Served? Organization & Environment, Vol. 19, No. 4: 505-526. 2006.

Rivera, J., de Leon, P. and Koerber, C. Is Greener Whiter Yet? The Sustainable Slopes: Program after Five Years. Policy Studies Journal Vol. 34, No. 2: 195-224. 2006.

Rivera, J., and de Leon, P. Chief Executive Officers and Voluntary Environmental Performance: Costa Rica’s Certification for Sustainable Tourism. Policy Sciences Vol. 38, No. 2-3: 107-127. 2005.

United Nations. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Business Synthesis Report. New York: United Nations. 2005.

Rivera, J., and Delmas, M. (Co-Editors) Special Issue on Business and Environmental Policy. Human Ecology ReviewVol. 11, No. 3. 2004.

Rivera, J., and Delmas, M. Business and Environmental Policy: An Introduction. Human Ecology Review Vol. 11, No. 3. 2004.

Rivera, J. and deLeon, P. Is greener whiter? The Sustainable Slopes Program and the Voluntary Environmental Performance of Western Ski Areas. Policy Studies Journal Vol.32, No.3, p. 417-437. 2004.

Rivera, J. Institutional Pressures and Voluntary Environmental Behavior in Developing Countries: Evidence from Costa Rica. Society and Natural Resources Vol. 17:779-797. 2004.

Rivera, J. Assessing a Voluntary Environmental Initiative in the Developing World: The Costa Rican Certification for Sustainable Tourism. Policy Sciences Vol. 35: 333-360. 2002.

Rivera, J. Does it pay to be green in the developing world? Participation in Voluntary 
Environmental Programs and Its Impact on Firm Competitive Advantage. Washington DC: Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. 2001.

Jennifer Spencer

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Jennifer Spencer (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is an Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs at George Washington University.  Professor Spencer’s expertise lies in international corporate strategy, with a focus on the technology strategies of multinational enterprises, knowledge spillovers between firms, international entrepreneurship, and multinational enterprises’ investments into developing countries. She is on the editorial review board of the Journal of International Business Studies, and has published articles in the top journals in the management, strategy, and international business fields, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of International Business Studies.

Recent Publications and Working Papers:

Spencer, Jennifer W. The Impact of Multinational Enterprise Strategy on Indigenous Enterprises:  Horizontal Spillovers and Crowding out in Developing Countries. Forthcoming. Academy of Management Review.

Spencer, Jennifer W., Thomas P. Murtha and Stefanie A. Lenway. 2005. How Governments Matter to New Industry Creation. Academy of Management Review. 30 (2): 321.

Spencer, Jennifer W. and Carolina Gomez. 2004. The Relationship Among National Institutional Structures, Economic Factors, and Domestic Entrepreneurial Activity: A Multi-Country Study. Journal of Business Research. 57 (10): 1098.

Spencer, Jennifer W. 2003. Global Gatekeeping, Representation, and Network Structure:  A Longitudinal Analysis of Regional and Global Knowledge-Diffusion Networks. Journal of International Business Studies. 34 (5): 428.

Spencer, Jennifer W. 2003.  Firms' Knowledge-Sharing Strategies in the Global Innovation System: Empirical Evidence from the Global Flat Panel Display Industry. Strategic Management Journal. 24(3): 217-233.

Spencer, Jennifer W.  2001. How Relevant is University-Based Scientific Research to Private High Technology Firms?  A U.S.-Japan Comparison. Academy of Management Journal. 44(2) 432-440.

Spencer, Jennifer W. 2000. Knowledge Flows in the Global Innovation System: Do US Firms Share More Scientific Knowledge Than Their Japanese Rivals? Journal of International Business Studies. 31 (3) 521-530.

Busenitz, Lowell, Carolina Gomez, and Jennifer W. Spencer. 2000. Country Institutional Profiles: Unlocking Entrepreneurial Phenomena. Academy of Management Journal. 43 (5) 994-1003.

Vasudeva, G., Jennifer W. Spencer and Hildy Teegen. Alliances as a Mechanism for Boundary-Spanning Knowledge Acquisition: A Study of Fuel Cell Technology innovation (Under revision for Strategic Management Journal).

Spencer, Jennifer W. and C. Gomez. How Does a Host Country’s Corruption Environment Affect Multinational Enterprises? The Influence of Home Country Institutional Environment and Subsidiary Strategy (Under review at Strategic Management Journal.)

Vasudeva, G., Jennifer W. Spencer and Hildy Teegen. The Impact of Corporatism on Technology Alliance Formation and Knowledge Acquisition. (Stage: Final Editing: Target: American Journal of Sociology).

Spencer, Jennifer W. The Impact of Multinational Enterprise Strategy on Indigenous Enterprises: Horizontal Spillovers and Crowding Out in Ghana. (Stage: Phase I data collection completed; Phase II data collection under way. Target: Academy of Management Journal).*

Emmanuel Teitelbaum

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Emmanuel Teitelbaum (Ph.D., Cornell University) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. His expertise lies in comparative politics, South Asian politics, the political economy of development, and the political economy of labor. Professor Teitelbaum received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and his B.A. from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. He has published articles in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Development Studies and Critical Asian Studies. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. Professor Teitelbaum's dissertation, "Mobilizing Restraint: Unions and the Politics of Economic Development in South Asia" was awarded the American Political Science Association's 2007 Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best dissertation in comparative politics. Professor Teitelbaum is currently writing a series of articles and a book manuscript on how trade union political affiliations affect worker protest and, ultimately, the pace of economic development in South Asia.

Recent Publications and Working Papers:

Teitelbaum, Emmanuel. Does a Developing Democracy Benefit from Labor Repression? Evidence from Sri Lanka. Journal of Development Studies. Forthcoming. July 2007.

Teitelbaum, Emmanuel. In Grips of a Green Giant: How the Rural Sector Tamed Organized Labor in India. Comparative Political Science 40(6): 638-664. 2007.

Teitelbaum, Emmanuel. Was the Indian Labor Movement Really Co-opted? Evaluating Standard Accounts. Published in “Recovering Class: Observation from the Subcontinent,” a special edition of Critical Asian Studies 38(4): 389-417. December 2006.

Robert Weiner

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Dr. Robert J. Weiner (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of International Business and International Affairs, at the School of Business, George Washington University, where he teaches international financial management, international financial markets, and international portfolio management. Professor Weiner's current research interests include commodity markets, multinationals, transfer pricing, privatization/state-owned enterprise, natural-resource industries, risk management, and contracting and vertical integration.

Professor Weiner was the  2005-2006 Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future, Washington DC. He is concurrently Membre Associé, GREEN (Groupe de Recherche en Économie de l'Énergie et des Ressources Naturelles), Département d'économique, Université Laval, Québec. Besides GW, he has taught at Harvard University, Brandeis University, and the Royal Complutense University (Spain), where he has offered courses in finance, international business, industrial organization, and environmental and natural-resource economics. He has lectured to executives in Russia, Spain, and the United States. During 1997-1998, he was Visiting Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He served as Chairman of the GW Department of International Business 2001-2005.

Professor Weiner has been Research Fellow in the International Energy Program, Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and consultant to the International Petroleum Exchange; the New York Mercantile Exchange; the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. International Trade Commission; the Harvard Institute for International Development; the World Bank; and private clients. He has won research awards from the Ministère des Affaires Internationales, Québec; Resources for the Future; the Columbia Center for the Study of Futures Markets; and the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Professor Weiner received his Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics, and Master's and Doctoral Degrees in Business Economics, all from Harvard University. He has authored or coauthored four books (Energy and Environment, Oil Shock, Oil and Money, and Oil Markets in a Turbulent Era), and more than fifty articles on environmental and natural resource economics, focusing on contracting, risk management, and the oil and gas industry.

Recent Publications and Working Papers:

Weiner, Robert and R. Click. Does The Shadow Of Political Risk Fall On Asset Prices? Oily Evidence. January 2007.

Weiner, Robert. Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Speculator Herding in the World Oil Market. Resources for the Future .Discussion Paper 06-31. June 2006.

Weiner, Robert. Do Crises Tear the Fabric of Oil Trade? Resources for the Future .Discussion Paper 06-16. March 2006.

Jiawen Yang

Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. from the Stern School of Business, New York University, MA and BA from the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China.  He joined the George Washington University in 1994 and has been teaching courses in financial institutions management and modeling, international finance, the world economy, and China’s economic/financial environment.  He has also taught at New York University, Vanderbilt University, Beijing University, and the University of International Business and Economics in China.  His research on exchange rate pass-through, international financial crisis, China’s economic and business environment, and U.S. economic sanctions has appeared in The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Review of International Economics, International Review of Economics & Finance, The International Trade Journal, China Economic Review, The World Economy, Business Economics, Applied Economics, Issues & Studies and other academic journals.  Dr. Yang is also author of many book chapters and coauthor of two books on economic sanctions.

Dr. Yang’s current research interests include China’s financial market and its integration with the global financial market; risk and recovery analysis of non-performing loans in emerging markets; risk and securitization analysis of debt in emerging markets; american deposit receipt (ADR) pricing; asset pricing of bank and non-bank stocks; domestic and international economic integration: comparative study of developed and developing countries.

Recent Publications and Working Papers:

Yang, Jiawen, Hossein Askari, John Forrer and Hildy Teegen U.S. Economic Sanctions: Examining Their Philosophy and Efficacy. Praeger Books. 2003.

Yang, Jiawen, Hossein Askari, John Forrer and Hildy Teegen. Case Studies of Economic Sanctions: The Chinese, Cuban and Iranian Experience. Praeger Books. 2003.

Yang, Jiawen. Guest Editor. The Chinese Currency: Valuation and Convertibility, Symposium. International Journal of Public Administration, 30 (2). 2007.

Yang, Jiawen. Is Exchange Rate Pass-Through Symmetric? Evidence from U.S. Imports.
Applied Economics, Volume 39, Number 2. 169-178. 2007.

Yang, Jiawen, Haiyan Yin and Hui He. The Chinese Currency: Background and the Current Debate. The International Journal of Public Administration, 30(2). 2007.

Yang, Jiawen, Bajeux-Besnainou, Isabelle. Is the Chinese Currency Undervalued?
International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, Issue 2, 107-
130. 2007.

Yang, Jiawen, Hossein Askari, John Forrer and Tarek Hachem. Economic Sanctions: Assessing Vulnerability to Reduce US Costs. Business Economicspp 41-
55. 2005.

Yang, Jiawen, Hossein Askari, John Forrer and Hildy Teegen. U.S. Economic Sanctions Against China: Who Gets Hurt? The World Economy, 27(7), pp. 1047-81. 2004.

Yang, Jiawen. Nontradables and the valuation of RMB—An evaluation of the Big Mac index. China Economic Review, 15(3), pp. 353-9. 2004.

Yang, Jiawen, Hossein Askari, John Forrer and Hildy Teegen U.S. Economic Sanctions: An Empirical Study. The International Trade Journal, XVIII(1), pp.
23-62. 2004.

Yang, Jiawen. Inter-National and Intra-Country Economic Integration: The Case of China. Issues& Studies, 38(3), pp. 33-58. 2002.

Yang, Jiawen, Hossein Askari, John Forrer and Hildy Teegen Economic Sanctions and US International Interests. Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro Quarterly Review, LV (220), pp. 55-69. 2002.

Yang, Jiawen. Hossein Askari, John Forrer and Hildy Teegen. U.S. Economic Sanctions: Lessons from the Iranian Experience. Business Economics, XXXVI (3), pp. 7-19. 2001.

Yang, Jiawen. Capital Flows and Financial Stability: The Mexican Experience, International Journal of Public Administration, 23(5-8), pp. 941-61. 2000.