Department of Indec

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

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Loren Brandt
Professor; Noranda Chair
Loren Brandt
Employment in the Department
1998 –  
Professor
1990 – 1998
Associate Professor
1987 – 1990
Assistant Professor
Education
1983
Ph.D. Illinois
1979
M.A. Illinois
1977
B.S. Wesleyan
Research Fields
Economic development, Economic history, Chinese economy
Selected Publications
WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms

American Economic Review, 2017
Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Luhang Wang, Yifan Zhang

From Divergence to Convergence: Re-evaluating the History Behind China's Economic Boom

Journal of Economic Literature, 2014
Loren Brandt, Debin Ma , Thomas Rawski

Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction: Firm Level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing

Journal of Development Economics, 2012
Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Yifan Zhang

Redistribution in a Decentralized Economy: Growth and Inflation in Reform China

Journal of Political Economy, 2000
Loren Brandt and Xiaodong Zhu

Honors and Awards
2017
Visiting Professor, University of Oslo
2008
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
1986
National Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University