Loren Brandt
Professor of Economics and Research Fellow, IZADepartment of Economics, University of Toronto
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E-mail: brandt@chass.utoronto.ca
Loren Brandt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto specializing in the Chinese economy. He has been at the University of Toronto since 1987. He is also a research fellow at the IZA (The Institute for the Study of Labor) in Bonn, Germany. He has published widely on the Chinese economy in leading economic journals, and has been involved in extensive household and enterprise survey work in both China and Vietnam. He was co-editor and major contributor to China’s Great Economic Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2008), a landmark study that provides an integrated analysis of China’s unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. Brandt was also one of the area editors for Oxford University Press’ five-volume Encyclopedia of Economic History (2003). His current research focuses on issues of industrial upgrading in China, inequality dynamics, and economic growth and structural change.
RECENT WORKING PAPERS:
- Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth? joint with Dwayne Benjamin and John Giles (2009): IZA
- Large Demographic Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market, joint with Aloysius Siow and Carl Vogel (2009): IZA
- Substitution Effects in Parental Investments, joint with Aloysius Siow and Hui Wang, (2009): IZA
- Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction? Firm-Level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing, joint with Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Yifan Zhang, (2009): NBER
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