Contact Information
School of Public Policy
George Mason University
MSN 3B1
3401 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201 USA
Phone: (1)703-993-8212
Fax: (1)703-993-8215
Email: kreinert@gmu.edu
Homepage: http://mason.gmu.edu/~kreinert

Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, 1988

M.A., Economics, University of Maryland, 1985

M.A., Geography, Boston University, 1982

B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Geography, Boston University, 1980

Employment
Professor of Public Policy, School of Public
Policy, George Mason University, 2008

Associate Professor of Public Policy, School of
Public Policy, George Mason University, 2000 to
present

Associate Professor of Economics, Kalamazoo
College, 1999 to 2000

Assistant Professor of Economics, Kalamazoo
College, 1993 to 1999

Senior International Economist, US International
Trade Commission, 1991 to 1993

International Economist, US International Trade
Commission, 1988 to 1991

Research Assistant, Bureau of Business and
Economic Research, University of Maryland,
1983 to 1987

Other Professional Activities
Director, International Commerce and Policy Program, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, 2007 to present

Member, Global Research and Education Committee, George Mason University, 2007 to present

Editorial Board Member, Foreign Policy Bulletin, 2006 to present

Fulbright Faculty Associate, 2006 to 2007
Editorial Board Member, Innovations:
Technology/Governance/Globalization, 2005
to present

Faculty Affiliate, Center for Global Policy,
School of Public Policy, George Mason
University, 2005 to present

Senior Fellow, Trade Partnership Worldwide,
2004 to present

Faculty Affiliate, Center for Global Studies,
George Mason University, 2004 to present

Research Fellow, Rural Development Research
Consortium, 2003 to present

Visiting Professor, Western Michigan University,
2000

Member, Faculty Executive Committee,
Kalamazoo College, 1997 to 1999

Visiting Scholar, GATT Secretariat, 1994

Visiting Assistant Professor, Wellesley College,
1992 to 1993

Lecturer, University of Maryland Baltimore
County, 1991 to 1992

Honors and Awards
Werner Sichel Lecture, Western Michigan University, 2007

Best-Selling Academic Book, World Bank, 2006

Distinguished Teaching Award, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, 2003

Listed in Who’s Who in the East, 1991

International Trade and Development Fellowship, University of Maryland, 1987 to
1988

Award for Excellence in Geography, Boston University, 1980

Professor Augustus Howe Buck Scholarship, Boston University, 1978 to 1980

Books
The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, edited with R.S. Rajan, A.J. Glass and L.S. Davis, Princeton University Press, 2009.

Globalization for Development, with I.A. Goldin, Palgrave MacMillan and World Bank, 2006 and 2007.
Indian edition, Rawat, 2006. Spanish edition, Planeta, 2007. Chinese edition,
Tsinghua University Press, 2007. French edition, Eska, 2007.

Globalización y Pobreza, with I.A. Goldin, Alfaomega and World Bank. 2005.

Windows on the World Economy: An Introduction to International Economics, South-Western Thomson, 2005.

Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis: A Handbook, edited with J.F. Francois, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Selected Journal Articles
“Ethiopia in the World Economy: Trade, Capital Flows and Migration,” Africa Today,
53:3, 2007.

“The European Union, the Doha Round and Asia,” Asia Europe Journal, 5:3, 2007.

“World Trade in Used Automobiles: A Gravity Analysis of Japanese and US Exports,” with D. Pelletiere, Asian Economic Journal, 20:2, 2006.

“Global Capital Flows and Development: A Survey” with I. Goldin, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 14:4, 2005.

“Outcomes Assessment in Trade Policy Analysis: A Note on the Welfare Propositions of the ‘Gains from Trade,’” Journal of Economic Issues, 38:4, 2004.

“Used Automobile Protection and Trade: Gravity and Ordered Probit Analysis,” with D. Pelletiere, Empirical Economics, 29:4, 2004.

“Outcomes Assessment in Trade Policy Analysis: A Note on the Welfare Propositions
of the ‘Gains from Trade,’” Journal of Economic Issues, 38:4, 2004.

“Used Automobile Protection and Trade: Gravity and Ordered Probit Analysis,” with
D. Pelletiere, Empirical Economics, 29:4, 2004.

“The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing: Safeguard Actions from 1995 to 2001,” with S.J. Kim and G.C. Rodrigo, Journal of International Economic Law, 5:2, 2002.

“The Political Economy of Used Automobile Protection in Latin America,” with D.
Pelletiere, The World Economy, 25:7, 2002.

“North American Economic Integration and Industrial Pollution in the Great Lakes
Region,” with G.C. Rodrigo and D.W. Roland-Host, Annals of Regional Science, 36:3, 2002.

“Industrial Pollution Linkages in North America: A Linear Analysis,” with D.W. Roland-Holst, Economic Systems Research, 13:2, 2001.

“NAFTA and Industrial Pollution: Some General Equilibrium Estimates,” with D.W. Roland-Holst, Journal of Economic Integration, 16:2, 2001.

“Give Us Virtue, But Not Yet: Safeguard Actions under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing,” The World Economy, 23:1, 2000.

“Rural Nonfarm Development: A Trade-Theoretic View,” Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 7:4, 1998.

“Whither the Linkage Concept? External Economies and Firm Networks,” Science,
Technology and Development, 16:3, 1998.

“¿ Qué Diferencia Un País? Efectos de Los Loops Abiertos y Cerrados en la América
del Norte,” with M. Ricaurte and D.W. Roland-Holst, El Trimestre Económico, 65:4, 1998.

“North-South Trade and Occupational Wages: Some Evidence from North America,”with D.W. Roland-Holst, Review of International Economics, 6:1, 1998.

“The Distributional Effects of US Textile and Apparel Protection,” with K.A. Hanson, International Economic Journal, 11:3, 1997.

“Rural Grassroots Organizations in Haiti: A Case of Wasted Potential,” with J. Voss,
Development in Practice, 7:1, 1997.

“The Role of Services in the Structure of Production and Trade: Stylized Facts from a Cross-Country Analysis,” with J.F. Francois, Asia-Pacific Economic Review, 2:1, 1996.

“Commercial Policy and the Domestic Carrying Trade: A General Equilibrium Assessment of the Jones Act,” with J.F. Francois, H.M. Arce, and J.E. Flynn, Canadian Journal of Economics, 29:1, 1996.

“The Effects of a North American Free Trade Agreement on the US Glassware Market,” with G. Scorza, Applied Economics Letters, 3:7, 1996.

“Market-Based Systems for Reducing Chemical Use in Agriculture in the United States,” with C.M. Rendleman and J.A. Tobey, Environmental and Resource Economics, 5:1, 1995.

“A Computable General Equilibrium Estimation of the Effects of the US Meat Program,” with G.C. Berg, International Economic Journal, 9:1, 1995.

“NAFTA Trade Liberalization and the Role of Nontariff Barriers,” with D.W. Roland-Holst and C.R. Shiells, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 5:2, 1994.

“Aggregation and the Welfare Analysis of Tariffs: Evidence from the United States,”
with H.M. Arce, Journal of Economic Studies, 21:6, 1994.

“Structural Change in the United States: Social Accounting Estimates for 1982-1988,”
with D.W. Roland-Holst, Empirical Economics, 19:3, 1994.

“Discriminatory Export Taxation in Costa Rica: A Counterfactual History,” Journal of Developing Areas, 28:1, 1993.

“The Welfare and Resource Allocation Implications of the US Dairy Quotas,” with J.E. Flynn, International Economic Journal, 7:2, 1993.

“Armington Models and Terms-of-Trade Effects: Some Econometric Evidence for North           America,” with C.R. Shiells, Canadian Journal of Economics, 26:2, 1993.

“Social Accounts and the Structure of the North American Economy,” with D.W.
Roland-Holst and C.R. Shiells, Economic Systems Research, 5:3, 1993.

“Textile and Apparel Protection in the United States: A General Equilibrium Analysis,” The World Economy, 16:3, 1993.

“Modeling a North American Free Trade Area: Estimation of Flexible Functional Forms,” with C.R. Shiells and D.W. Roland-Holst, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 129:1, 1993.

Matríz de Contabilidad Social (SAM) y Estructura de la Economía Norte-Americana,” with D.W. Roland-Holst and C.R. Shiells, Economía Industrial, 290, 1993.

“ The Welfare and Resource Allocation Implications of the US Dairy Quotas,” with
J.E. Flynn, International Economic Journal, 7:2, 1993.

“Armington Elasticities for United States Manufacturing Sectors,” with D.W. Roland-Holst, Journal of Policy Modeling, 14:5, 1992.

“A Detailed Social Accounting Matrix for the USA, 1988,” with D.W. Roland-Holst, Economic Systems Research, 4:2, 1992.

“Cheap Food and Resource Allocation in Central America,” Journal of Economic Studies, 18:2, 1991.

“Food Pricing Policy in Costa Rica: A General Equilibrium Analysis,” North American Review of Economics and Finance, 2:2, 1991.

“The Effects of Domestic Agricultural Policy Reform on Environmental Quality,” with J.A. Tobey, Journal of Agricultural Economics Research, 43:2, 1991.

“Nontradable Goods and the Timmer-Falcon Effect,” The Developing Economies, 27:2, 1989.

“A Note on Estimating a Long-Run Average Cost Curve for Flue Gas Desulfurization,” with S.J. Ratick, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 15:1, 1988.

“ Accident Costs for Highway Safety Decisionmaking,” with B.C. Kragh and T.R. Miller, Public Roads, 50:1, 1986.

“A Location-Assignment Model for Urban Snow and Ice Control Operations,” with T.R. Miller and H.G. Dickerson, Journal of Urban Analysis and Public Management, 8:2, 1985.

“Mathematical Programming Models for the Economic Design and Assessment of Wind Energy Conversion Systems,” Wind Engineering, 7:1, 1983.

Contributions to Edited Volumes
“ Globalization for Development?” in S. Asefa (ed.), Globalization and International
Development: Critical Issues for the 21st Century, W.E. Upjohn Institute, in
process.

“Trading Blocs and Customs Unions,” in P.N. Sterns (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of
the Modern World, Oxford University Press, in process.

“ Introduction,” with R.S. Rajan, A.J. Glass, and L.S. Davis, in K.A. Reinert, R.S.
Rajan, A.J. Glass and L.S. Davis eds., The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World
Economy, Princeton University Press, 2008.

“ Migration,” with A. Beath and I.A. Goldin, in K.A. Reinert, R.S. Rajan, A.J. Glass
and L.S. Davis eds., The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton
University Press, 2008.

“ Gravity Models,” in K.A. Reinert, R.S. Rajan, A.J. Glass and L.S. Davis eds., The
Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press,
2008.

“ Applied General Equilibrium Modeling,” in in K.A. Reinert, R.S. Rajan, A.J. Glass
and L.S. Davis eds., The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton
University Press, 2008.

“ Chilean Accession to the NAFTA: General Equilibrium Estimates,” with D.W.
Roland-Holst, in A. Fossati and J. Hutton, eds., Policy Simulations in the European
Union, Routledge, 1998.

“ Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis: An Overview,” with J.F. Francois, in
J.F. Francois and K.A. Reinert, eds., Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis:
A Handbook, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

“ Social Accounting Matrices,” with D.W. Roland-Holst, in J.F. Francois and K.A.
Reinert, eds., Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis: A Handbook,
Cambridge University Press, 1997.

“Sector-Focused General Equilibrium Modeling,” with B. Blonigen and J.E. Flynn,
in J.F. Francois and K.A. Reinert, eds., Applied Methods for Trade Policy
Analysis: A Handbook, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

“ The Role of Services in US Production and Trade: An Analysis of Social
Accounting Data for the 1980s,” with R.S. Dighe and J.F. Francois, in P.T. Harker,
ed., The Service Productivity and Quality Challenge, Kluwer, 1995.

“ A General Equilibrium Analysis of North American Economic Integration,” with
D.W. Roland-Holst and C.R. Shiells, in C.R. Shiells and J.F. Francois, eds.,
Modeling Trade Policy: Applied General Equilibrium Assessments of North
American Free Trade, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Book Reviews
Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment, T. Mkandawire and C.C. Soludo, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, 1999, in Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa,
1:2, 1999.

Economic Modelling Under the Applied General Equilibrium Approach, A. Fossati,
ed., Avebury, Hampshire, 1996, in Economic Systems Research, 9:3, 1997.

Articles in Process
“Women’s Leadership, Innovation and
Development,” with G. Debebe and V. Wilde.

“World Exports of New and Used Automobiles: A
Gravity Model Comparison among the EU, Japan
and the United States,” with D. Pelletiere.

Articles under Review
“Ideas, Globalization, and Development,” with I. Goldin.

“The European Union, the Doha Round and
Asia.”

“No Small Hope: The Basic Goods Imperative.”

“Textile and Clothing Safeguards: From the ATC
to the Future” with S.J. Kim.

“Standards and Institutional Capacity: An
Examination of Trade in Food and Agricultural
Products” with S.J. Kim.


Official and Professional Documents
“The Industrial Pollution Impact of NAFTA: Some Preliminary Results,” with D.W.
Roland-Holst, in The Environmental Effects of
Free Trade, Commission for Environmental
Cooperation, Montreal, 2002. Translated into
French and Spanish.

“Update and Economic Assessments of the
Uruguay Round,” with J.F. Francois, in
Guide to the Uruguay Round Agreements, World
Trade Organization and Kluwer
Law International, The Hague, 1999
(unattributed).

“Quantifying the Effects of Trade Policy
Changes,” in World Prosperity through Free
Trade: Initiatives for The Textile and Clothing
Sector, Gesamttextil, Eschborn, 1999.

“Verflechtungen des Tertiären Sektors,” with
J.F. Francois, in Der Österreichesche
Außenhandel 1996, Verlag Österreich, 1996.

“Chilean Accession to the NAFTA: General
Equilibrium Estimates,” with D.W.
Roland-Holst, in K. Fatemi (ed.), Western
Hemispheric Economies in the 21st
Century, Funpadem, San José, Costa Rica and
Texas A&M University, Laredo, Texas, 1996.

“The USITC CGE Model,” in The Economic
Effects of Significant US Import Restraints, US
International Trade Commission, USITC
Publication 2699, Washington, DC, 1993.

Estimated Elasticities of Substitution for
Analysis of a North American Free Trade
Area, with C.R. Shiells, US International Trade
Commission, Staff Research Study No. 19,
Washington, DC, 1992.

“North American Trade Liberalization and the
Role of Nontariff Barriers,” with D.W.
Roland-Holst and C.R. Shiells, in Economy-Wide
Modeling of the Economic Implications of a FTA
with Mexico and a NAFTA with Canada and
Mexico, US International Trade Commission,
USITC Publication 2508, Washington, DC, 1992.

“Models for Government Trade Policy Analysis:
A Survey of Methods,” with J.F. Francois,
Atlantic Economic Society Best Papers
Proceedings, 2:1, 1992.

An Introduction to the ITC Computable General
Equilibrium Model, with D.W. Roland-Holst, US
International Trade Commission, USITC
Publication 2423, Washington, DC, 1991.

“A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of
Significant US Import Restraints,” in The
Economic Effects of Significant US Import
Restraints, US International Trade Commission,
USITC Publication 2422, Washington, DC, 1991.

Economic Effects of Significant US Import
Restraints, with others, US International
Trade Commission, USITC Publication 2222,
Washington, DC, 1989.

Alternative Approaches to Accident Cost
Concepts: Executive Summary, with T.R.
Miller and B.E. Whiting, US Federal Highway
Administration, Report No. FHWA/RD-83/078,
Washington, DC, 1984.

Alternative Approaches to Accident Cost
Concepts, with T.R. Miller and B.E. Whiting, US
Federal Highway Administration, Report No.
FHWA/RD-83/079, Washington, DC, 1984.

Ancillaries
Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank for Windows
on the World Economy: An Introduction to
International Economics, with A. Wallace,
South-Western Thomson, 2005.

Published Working Papers
“What Sort of Global Education? Towards a
Modification of International Economics
Instruction,” Economic Research Network
Educator, 2005.

“The Role of Services in the Structure of
Production and Trade: Stylized Facts from a
Cross-Country Analysis,” with J.F. Francois,
Centre for Economic Policy Research
Discussion Papers, 1228, London, 1995.

Grants, Contracts, and Consulting
George Mason University, “Outcomes
Assessment in International Economics: A
Critical Review of Objects of Value,” 2006.

World Bank, “An Assessment of Applied General
Equilibrium Modeling in the Global Prospects
Group,” 2006.

US Department of Commerce, “Executive
Education in Accounting, Finance, and
Multinational Operations,” 2005.

World Bank, “Making Globalization Work for Poor
People: Towards a Policy Agenda,” 2004.

Center for Global Studies, George Mason
University, “Trade-Related Technical
Assistance in the Least-Developed Countries,” 2004.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, “Empirical Trade Analysis
Conference Rapporteur,” 2003.

Commission for Environmental Cooperation,
“The Industrial Pollution Impacts of NAFTA,”
2000.

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, “The Environmental Impacts on the Great Lakes
Region of North American Economic
Integration,” 1999.

World Trade Organization, “Economic
Assessments of the Uruguay Round,” 1997.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development, “Implementing a Simple, General
Equilibrium Trade Model,” 1995.

US International Trade Commission,
“Constructing a Detailed Social Accounting
Matrix of the United States,” 1994.

US Department of Labor, “Employment
Responses to North American Trade
Liberalization,” 1994.

Selected Presentation Venues
American Economic Association
Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
Conference
Eastern Economic Association
Economics and the Classroom Conference
German Textile Association, Gesamttextil
International Input-Output Association
International Trade and Finance Association
Mansfield College, Oxford University
Midwest Economic Association
North American Commission for Environmental
Cooperation
North American Regional Science Association
US Agency for International Economic
Development
US Department of Labor
US International Trade Commission
Wharton School of Business, University of
Pennsylvania
World Bank
World Trade Organization

Selected Manuscript Reviews
Africa Today
American Economic Review
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Annals of Regional Science
Asian Economic Journal
Cambridge University Press
Canadian Journal of Economics
Conflict Management and Peace Science
Economic Modelling
Economic Systems Research
International Economic Journal
Journal of Developing Areas
Journal of Economic Education
Journal of Economic Integration
Journal of Industrial Economics
Journal of International Trade and Economic
Development
McGraw-Hill
Oxford University Press
Papers in Regional Science
Regional Studies
Review of International Economics
South-Western Thomson
The World Economy

Proposal Reviews
US National Science Foundation