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Nancy ChauAssociate Professor Areas of ExpertiseInternational Trade, Regional Economics, Development Economics
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Nancy Chau joined the faculty in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell in 1999. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a research fellow at the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn.
Professor Chau's research interests fall under three main areas: international trade, regional economics, and economic development, with particular emphasis on the economics of information and uncertainty. Recent research focuses on index measurement of trade restrictiveness that accounts for second-best argumentation of trade policies, market-based approaches to foster labor and environmental standards via international trade, and the impact of direct farm payments and import barriers on export promotion.
Courses Taught
AEM
4190: Strategic Thinking
AEM
4300: International Trade Policy
AEM
6320: Open Economy Analysis: Theory and Applications
Selected Publications
“A Race to the Bottom from the Bottom: Labor Standards Competition Among Developing Countries,” (with Ravi Kanbur). Forthcoming in Economica. 2005.
“Nonprofits and Public Good Provision: A Contest based on Compromises,” (with Marieke Huysentruyt). Forthcoming in European Economic Review. 2005.
“Guaranteed Manufactured without Child Labor,” (with Arnab Basu and Ulrike Grote). Forthcoming in Review of Development Economics. 2004.
“An Exploration into the Determinants of the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Is Redemption a Viable Option?” (with Arnab Basu). Forthcoming in Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption. K. Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl (eds), Princeton University Press. 2005.
“Exploitation of Child Labor and the Dynamics of Debt Bondage,” (with Arnab Basu) Journal of Economic Growth 9: 209-238. 2004.
“Trade Restrictiveness and Efficiency,” (with Rolf Fare and Shawna Grosskopf) International Economic Review 44 (3): 1079-1095. 2003.
“Concessional Amnesty and the Politics of Immigration Reforms” Economics and Politics 15(2): 193-224. 2003.
“Targeting Child Labor in Debt Bondage: Evidence, Theory and Policy”, (with Arnab Basu) World Bank Economic Review 17: 255-281. 2003.
“The Adoption of International Labor Standard Conventions: Who, When and Why?” (with Ravi Kanbur) Brookings Trade Forum, 2001: 113-156. 2002.
“Strategic Amnesty and Credible Immigration Reforms,” Journal of Labor Economics 19 (3): 604-634. 2001.
“Optimal Urban Employment Policies: Notes on Calvo and Quibria,” (with M. Ali Khan) International Economic Review 42(2): 557-568. 2001.
“North-South Investment Flows and Optimal Environmental Policies,” (with Hamid Beladi and M. Ali Khan) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 40: 275-296. 2000.
“On Risk Aversion and Nonlinear Budget Constraints with Many Commodities”, Canadian Journal of Economics 31 (5): 1076-1100. 1998.
“Dynamic Stability, International Trade under Uncertainty”, Economica 65 (August): 381 - 399.
Education
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1996
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1993
B.A., International Christian University, Tokyo, 1991
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