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Shang-Jin Wei has been Professor of Finance and Economics and N.T. Wang Chair in Chinese Business and Economy at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business since 2007. He is also Director for the National Bureau of Economic Research's Working Group on the Chinese Economy and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (Europe). Before joining Columbia University, he had had the positions of Assistant Director, Chief of Trade and Investment Division, Chief of Mission to Myanmar (Burma) at the International Monetary Fund, the New Century Chair Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Associate Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He has undertaken consulting work for both private companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and government organizations such as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the United Nations. Professor Wei has published extensively on topics on international finance, trade, and the Chinese economy in leading academic journals. His research has also been reported in Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, and other news media. Professor Wei received his MS in business administration (finance) and Ph.d in economics from University of California, Berkeley.

• Fall 2009
  International Seminar China
  
• Spring 2009
  International Seminar China
  
• Fall 2008
  Globalization of the Chinese Economy
  
International Business

• Spring 2008
  International Seminar China
  
• Fall 2007
  International Business
  

Corruption and Cross-Border Investment in Emerging Markets: Firm-Level Evidence In Journal of International Money and Finance (2009) Coauthor(s): Beata Javorcik, Shang-Jin Wei

The Value of Making Commitments Externally: Evidence from WTO Accessions In Journal of International Economics (2009) Coauthor(s): Man-Keung Tang, Shang-Jin Wei

Estimation of De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes: Synthesis of the Techniques for Inferring Flexibility and Basket Weights In IMF Staff Papers (2008) Coauthor(s): Jeffrey Frankel, Shang-Jin Wei

In Search of a Euro Effect: Big Lessons from a Big Mac Meal? In Journal of International Money and Finance (2008) Coauthor(s): David Parsley, Shang-Jin Wei

A Prism into the PPP Puzzles: The Microfoundations of Big Mac Real Exchange Rates In The Economic Journal (2007) Coauthor(s): David Parsley, Shang-Jin Wei

Assessing China's Exchange Rate Regime In Economic Policy (2007) Coauthor(s): Jeffrey Frankel, Shang-Jin Wei

Collateral Damage: Capital Controls and International Trade In Journal of International Money and Finance (2007) Coauthor(s): Shang-Jin Wei, Zhiwi Zhang

The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly but Unevenly In Journal of International Economics (2007) Coauthor(s): Arvind Subramanian, Shang-Jin Wei

Monetary Policies for Developing Countries: The Role of Institutional Quality In Journal of International Economics (2006) Coauthor(s): Haizhou Huang, Shang-Jin Wei

Transparency and International Portfolio Holdings In The Journal of Finance (2004) Coauthor(s): R. Gaston Gelos, Shang-Jin Wei

Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from 'Missing Imports' in China In Journal of Political Economy (2004) Coauthor(s): Raymond Fisman, Shang-Jin Wei

A Faith-based Initiative: Does a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Really Facilitate Current Account Adjustment? In NBER No. 14420 (2008) Coauthor(s): Menzie Chinn, Shang-Jin Wei

How Much of Chinese Exports Is Really Made In China? Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Pervasive In NBER No. 14109 (2008) Coauthor(s): Robert Koopman, Zhi Wang, Shang-Jin Wei

How Does Corporate Governance Risk at Home Affect Investment Choices Abroad? In NBER No. 13721 (2008) Coauthor(s): Woochan Kim, Taeyoon Sung, Shang-Jin Wei

Current Account Adjustment: Some New Theory and Evidence In NBER No. 13388 (2007) Coauthor(s): Jiandong Ju, Shang-Jin Wei

Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization In NBER No. 13148 (2007) Coauthor(s): Jiandong Ju, Shang-Jin Wei

Financial Globalization: A Reappraisal In NBER Working Paper No. 12484 (2006) Coauthor(s): M. Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad, Kenneth Rogoff, Shang-Jin Wei

Offshoring Tariff Evasion: Evidence from Hong Kong as Entrepôt Trader In Working Paper (2005) Coauthor(s): Raymond Fisman, Peter Moustakerski, Shang-Jin Wei

Do External Interventions Work? The Case of Trade Reform Conditions in IMF Supported Programs In Journal of Development Economics (2009) Coauthor(s): Shang-Jin Wei, Zhiwi Zhang

The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques In American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2009) Coauthor(s): Raymond Fisman, Shang-Jin Wei