Research at BEA | Staff Biography

Education

• Ph.D., Economics, American University, 2007
• M.A., George Mason University
• B.A., University of Mary Washington

Current Areas of Interest

• Regional industry clusters

Working Papers

• “Do U.S. Multinationals Engage In Sequential Choice? Evidence from New Manufacturing Operations in Europe”

Selected Publications

• “The Structure of Location Choice for New U.S. Manufacturing Investments in Asia-Pacific”
  • Journal of World Business, April 46 (2011): 154-165.
• “Vertical Production Networks in Multinational Firms”
  • with Gordon H. Hanson and Matthew J. Slaughter
  • Review of Economics and Statistics, November 87(2005): 664-678
• Review of “International Trade in Services and Intangibles in the Era of Globalization”
  • Marshall Reinsdorf and Matthew J. Slaughter, ed.,
  • Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, International Review of Economics and Finance 19(4) October 2010: 794-796.
• "Expansion Strategies of U.S. Multinational Firms"
  • with Gordon H. Hanson and Matthew J. Slaughter
  • 2002, Brookings Trade Forum 2001, edited by Susan M. Collins and Dani Rodrik Brookings Institution Press
• "An Examination of the Low Rates of Return of Foreign-Owned U.S. Companies"
  • Survey of Current Business 80 March 2000, pp. 55-73
• "Real Gross Product of U.S. Companies' Majority-Owned Foreign Affiliates in Manufacturing"
  • Survey of Current Business 77 April 1997, pp. 8-17