Robert A. Blecker

Research


RESEARCH  INTERESTS

International trade and finance, open economy macroeconomics, U.S. trade policy, the steel industry, trade and development, North American integration, the Mexican economy, post-Keynesian and neo-Kaleckian economic theory, and history of economic thought.

WORKING PAPERS

"Stolper-Samuelson after Kalecki: International Trade and Income Distribution with Oligopolistic Mark-Ups and Partial Pass-Through," revised March 2008.

"External Shocks, Structural Change, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1979-2006," revised January 2008.

"Davidson on Keynes: the Open Economy Dimension," July 2008 (revised version of presentation at the Eastern Economic Association meetings, Boston, MA, March 2008).

"Would a North American Monetary Union Protect Canada and Mexico against the Ravages of 'Dutch Disease'?" co-authored with Mario Seccareccia (University of Ottawa). Paper presented at "The Political Economy of Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation: A Conference in Honor of Jane D'Arista," Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2008 (revised, July 2008).

RECENT PUBLICATIONS  (since 2002)

"Steel," entry in the Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, edited by Kenneth A. Reinert and Ramkishen S. Rajan, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, forthcoming.

"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.
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"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; doi: 10.1093/cje/bem021.  Links:
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Unpublished Theoretical and Econometric Appendices to "The Fallacy of Composition and Contractionary Devaluations..."

"The Economic Consequences of Dollar Appreciation for U.S. Manufacturing Investment: A Time-Series Analysis," International Review of Applied Economics, vol. 21, no. 4 (September 2007), pp. 491-517.
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"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, copyright 2008 (actually published, October 2007, and available for order).

"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.
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"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.

"International Economics After Joan Robinson," in Joan Robinson's Economics: A Centennial Celebration, edited by Bill Gibson. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2005.

"International Competitiveness, Relative Wages, and the Balance-of-Payments Constraint," in Essays on Balance of Payments Constrained Economic Growth, edited by J. S. L. McCombie and A. P. Thirlwall. London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 84-107. [Reprint of an article in the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (1998).]

"The Diminishing Returns to Export-Led Growth," in The Bridge to a Global Middle Class: Development, Trade, and International Finance in the 21st Century, edited by Walter Russell Mead and Sherle R. Schwenninger. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers for the Milken Institute, 2003.

"Why the Dollar Needs to Fall Further," Challenge, vol. 46, no. 5 (September/October 2003), pp. 15-36.

"International Economics," in The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics, edited by John King. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2003.

 "The Balance-of-Payments-Constrained Growth Model and the Limits to Export-Led Growth," in A Post Keynesian Perspective on the Twenty-First Century Economic Problems, edited by Paul Davidson. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002.

"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 (February 2002), pp. 103-19.  Reprinted in The Feminist Economics of Trade, edited by Irene Van Stavern, Diane Elson, Caren Grown, and Nilüfer Cagatay, London: Routledge, 2007.

"Distribution, Demand, and Growth in Neo-Kaleckian Macro Models," in The Economics of Demand-Led Growth: Challenging the Supply Side-Side Vision of the Long Run, edited by Mark Setterfield. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002.

"International Capital Mobility, Macroeconomic Imbalances, and the Risk of Global Contraction," in International Capital Markets: Systems in Transition, edited by John Eatwell and Lance Taylor. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.  (Earlier working paper version: Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis,The New School, Working Paper 1998-10.)

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