Bio-statement CV Photo & Intro High Resolution Photo		Wing Thye Woo Professor of Economics B.A., Economics, Swarthmore College, 1976 B.Sc., Engineering, Swarthmore College, 1976 M.A., Economics, Yale University, 1978 M.A., Economics, Harvard University, 1982 Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 1982  wtwoo@ucdavis.edu
Research Interests: International and Domestic Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Comparative Economic Systems.  Current Research: Provision of Global Public Goods, Economic Geography, Fiscal Decentralization, Restructuring of State-Owned Enterprises, International Capital Flows.  Selected Publications: "Facing Protectionism Generated by Trade Disputes: China's Post-WTO Blues" (with Geng Xiao), Paper prepared for the China Update 2007 Conference, Integrating Markets in China: Domestic and International, to be held at The Shine Dome, Acton, Australian National University in Canberra, Australia on 12 July 2007. "What are the High-Probability Challenges to Continued High Growth in China?" Paper prepared for the conference Assessing the Power of China: Political, Economic, and Social Dimensions co-sponsored by the Institute for China Studies at Seoul National University, and the POSCO Research Institute (POSRI) in Seoul, South Korea, May 30-31, 2007. This paper has its origin in the Debate on China's Economy in the Reframing China Policy Debate Series of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where I argued for the motion that "Without significantly accelerated reforms and major new policy actions, China's rapid growth will unravel before its economy overtakes the U.S."; see http://www.carnegieendowment.org/events/index.cfm?fa=eventDetail&id=929&&prog=zch “Serious Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest,” 2 November 2004 Testimony at Hearing of U.S.-China Commission on Economic and Security Review on China's Growth as a Regional Economic Power: Impact and Implications for the U.S. on 4 December 2003. Prepared Statement “The Economic Impact of China's Emergence as a Major Trading Nation.” "The Consequences of China's WTO Accession on its Neighbours," (with Warwick J. McKibbin), Asian Economic Papers, Vol. 2 No. 2, Spring 2003. "Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China," (with Sylvie Demurger, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Shuming Bao, Gene Chang, and Andrew Mellinger), Asian Economic Papers, Vol. 1 No. 1, Winter 2002. "Recent Claims of China's Economic Exceptionalism: Reflections Inspired by WTO Accession," China Economic Review, Vol 12 No 2/3, 2001. The Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons for a Resilient Asia, (edited with Jeffrey D. Sachs and Klaus Schwab), MIT Press, 2000. "The Real Reasons for China's Growth," The China Journal, January 1999.  Economies in Transition: Comparing Asia and Europe, (edited with Stephen Parker and Jeffrey D. Sachs), MIT Press, 1997. Economic Reform and Fiscal Management in China (with Christine Wong and Christopher Heady), Oxford University Press, 1995. "Structural Factors in the Economic Reforms in China, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union," (with Jeffrey Sachs), Economic Policy, April 1994.  Macroeconomic Crises, Policies and Long-Term Growth in Indonesia, 1965-90 (with Bruce Glassburner and Anwar Nasution), World Bank, 1994.  "Saving Behavior under Imperfect Financial Markets and the Current Account Consequences," (with Liang-Yn Liu), Economic Journal, May 1994.  "How Successful Has Chinese Enterprise Reform Been? Pitfalls in Opposite Biases and Focus," (with Wen Hai, Yibiao Jin and Gang Fan), Journal of Comparative Economics, June 1994. “The Art of Economic Development: Markets, Politics, and Externalities,” International Organization, Summer 1990. “Some Evidence of Speculative Bubbles in the Foreign Exchange Market,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, November 1987.