Loren Brandt
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Professor
Ph.D. (Illinois, 1983), M.A. (Illinois, 1979), B.S. (Wesleyan, 1977) Office: Max Gluskin House, 150 St. George Street, 303. Phone: 416-978-4442. Fax: 416-978-6713. Email address: Personal website: http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/brandt/ Research fields: Economic development, Economic history, Chinese economy |
Selected research
- Loren Brandt and Eric Thun, "The Fight for the Middle: Upgrading, Competition, and Industrial Development in China", World Development 38 (11 ) (2010), 1555–1574.
- Loren Brandt and Thomas Rawski (eds.), China's Great Economic Transformation , Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008.
- Loren Brandt and Xiaodong Zhu, "Redistribution in a Decentralized Economy: Growth and Inflation in Reform China", Journal of Political Economy 108 (2000), 422–439.
- Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, John Giles, "Did High Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China", Economic Journal, forthcoming.
- Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Yifan Zhang, "Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction: Firm Level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing", Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming.
Honors and awards
- Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2008.
- Connaught Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1994.
- National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1986-87.
Teaching
- Applied Microeconomic Development
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- The Economy of China