Katheryn Niles Russ  Assistant Professor Department of Economics   CV

Research Interests: International Trade and Finance, International Monetary Economics.  Papers:   Understanding Markups in the Open Economy under Bertrand Competition FRBD Institute for Globalization and Monetary Economics Working Paper No.67, also NBER Working Paper No.16587 Previously circulated under the title "Teams of Rivals: Endogenous Markups in a Ricardian World" All Banks Great, Small, and Global: Loan Pricing and Foreign Competition Previous version: FDI in the Banking Sector NBER Working Paper No. 16029 Financial Choice in a Non-Ricardian Model of Trade NBER Working Paper No. 15528 A Theory of Banks, Bonds, and the Distribution of Firm Size NBER Working Paper No. 15454 The New Theory of Foreign Direct Investment International Finance 12:1, 2009: 107-119 Exchange Rate Volatility and First-Time Entry by Multinational Firms NBER Working Paper No. 13659 The Endogeneity of the Exchange Rate as a Determinant of FDI: A Model of Money, Entry, and Multinational Firms Journal of International Economics 71(2), 344-372 (for Technical Appendix click here) (ppt slides)(pdf slides) Entry, Multinational Firms, and Exchange Rate Volatility (with Thomas Lubik) August 2006 Exchange Rate Regimes and Foreign Direct Investment (for Technical Appendix click here ) In Exchange Rates, Economic Integration and the International Economy, edited by Leo Michelis and Mark Lovewell, APF Press 2004: 169-198 Courses (Websites maintained via the MyUCDavis network):   ECN 160A International Microeconomics ECN 160B International Macroeconomics ECN 162 International Economic Relations ECN 171 Economy of East Asia ECN 190 Financial Crises in East Asia ECN 260E Topics in International Trade: Heterogeneity in General Equilibrium Modeling