Katheryn Niles Russ  Assistant Professor Department of Economics   CV

Research Interests: International Trade and Finance, International Monetary Economics.  Papers:   FDI in the Banking Sector: Why lending costs fall while spread proxies increase The New Theory of Foreign Direct Investment (Draft review of Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade by Jim Markusen and Foreign Direct Investment: A Theory of Aggregate Flows by Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka, for the journal International Finance) Exchange Rate Volatility and First-Time Entry by Multinational Firms (Revised 10/2007) The Endogeneity of the Exchange Rate as a Determinant of FDI: A Model of Money, Entry, and Multinational Firms Journal of International Economics (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 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