JUAN CARLOS HALLAK Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel: (5411) 4725-7081 Fax: (5411) 4725-7010 Email: jchallak@udesa.edu.ar Last updated: 12/30/2014 CURRENT APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andrés, since 2010 Associate Editor, Journal of Development Economics, since 2010 Investigador Adjunto, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), since 2013 Co-Director, Trade, Integration, and Growth Network, LACEA-IDB-CAF, since 2011 Member, International Growth Centre (IGC), since 2011 Faculty Associate, International Policy Center, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, since 2005 PAST APPOINTMENTS Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia University, Fall 2014 Research Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), 2013 Investigador Asistente, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), 2010-2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andrés, 2007-2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 2002-2007 Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), 2004-2012 Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, 2006-2007 EDUCATION Ph.D in Economics, Harvard University, 1997-2002 Masters in Economics, Harvard University, 1997-1999 Masters in Economic Policy, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), 1994-1995 Licenciado en Economía, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), 1987-1993 PUBLISHED PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS Export Emergence of Differentiated Goods from Developing Countries: Export Pioneers and Business Practices in Argentina (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel), 105, Journal of Development Economics, pp. 19-35, November 2013. Product and Process Productivity: Implications for Quality Choice and Conditional Exporter Premia (with Jagadeesh Sivadasan), Journal of International Economics, 91(1), pp. 53-67, September 2013.
Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality (with Peter Schott), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(1), pp. 417-474, February 2011. A Product-Quality View of the Linder Hypothesis, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 92(3), pp. 453-466, August 2010. Equilibrium Demand Elasticities Across Quality Segments (with Olivier Coibion and Liran Einav), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25(1), pp. 13-30, February 2007. Product Quality and the Direction of Trade, Journal of International Economics, 68(1), pp. 238-265, January 2006. Specialization, Capital Accumulation, and Development (with Doireann Fitzgerald), Journal of International Economics, 64(2), pp. 277-302, December 2004. PAPERS IN SPANISH AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS Levantando el Velo Doméstico: el Desafío de Exportar Bienes Diferenciados a Países Desarrollados (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel), Desarrollo Económico, 53(211), pp.285-311, Enero-Abril 2014. The Internationalization of Argentine SMEs Oriented to Nonmass Market Segments in Developed Countries (with Andrea González), Integration & Trade, 37, pp. 11-21, July-December 2013. TV Formats in Argentina (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel), in Sabel, C., E. Fernández-Arias, R. Hausmann, A. Rodríguez Clare, and E. Stein (editors), Export Pioneers in Latin America. IDB-Harvard (DRCLAS), Washington D.C., 2012. Review of Sebastian Edwards, Gerardo Esquivel, and Graciela Márquez (eds.), The Decline of Latin American Economies: Growth, Institutions, and Crises. Journal of Economic Literature, 47(2), pp. 532-534, June 2009. Fooling Ourselves: Evaluating the Globalization and Growth Debate (with Jim Levinsohn), in Ernesto Zedillo (Ed.), The Future of Globalization: Explorations in Light of Recent Turbulence. Routledge, London and New York, 2008. WORKING PAPERS Export Survival with Uncertainty about Foreign Markets (with Sebastián Fanelli). Work in Progress. Survival in Export Markets (with Facundo Albornoz and Sebastián Fanelli), mimeo. September 2014. Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Argentina (with Roberto Bisang, Andrea González, Andrés López, Daniela Ramos and Ricardo Rozemberg). IDB Working Paper Series, No. 478. March 2014. Insertion of Argentine Firms in Global Value Chains Not Oriented to the Mass Market: The Cases of High-End Footwear and the Basso Group (with Andrea González, Peter Schott and Tatiana Soria Genta). IDB Working Paper Series No. 375. November 2012. Export Emergence of Differentiated Goods from Developing Countries: Four Argentine Cases, (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel), San Andrés Economics Department Working Paper No. 107. March 2011. Domestic Firms vs. Multinationals: The Effects of Integration, February 2000
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (PICT-2013-1351), PI, 2014-2016: Determinantes de la Supervivencia de las Firmas en los Mercados de Exportación (with Facundo Albornoz). ANCE 2012 Prize for best paper written by an Argentine economist above age 40 for Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality (with Peter Schott), awarded by the Argentine National Academy of Economics. 2012. Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (PICT-1643), PI, 2011-2013: Determinantes del Desempeño Exportador a Nivel de la Firma: el Rol de la Calidad de Producto. Programa de Apoyo a la Investigación (PAI-UdeSA), 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014. National Science Foundation Grant (SES-0550190), PI, 2006-2013: Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality (with Peter Schott). Center for International Business Education Grant, 2006, Quality, Productivity, and Exporting (with Jagadeesh Sivadasan). Visiting Researcher Fellowship, Center for Financial Research, Universidad T. Di Tella (Argentina), July 2001. Fortabat Scholarship, Harvard University, 1999-2001. Graduate Fellowships Program, Organization of American States, 1997-1999. Masters in Economic Policy Scholarship, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1994-1995. PRESENTATIONS AT RESEARCH SEMINARS Birmingham (2010), British Columbia (2002, 2008), Brown (2014), Columbia (2003, 2009, 2014), Dartmouth (2005), Duke (2002), FGV-Sao Paulo (2014), Fuqua School of Management Duke (2002), Georgetown (2009), Haas School of Business Berkeley (2006), IDB (2011), London School of Economics (2005, 2008, 2013), Maryland (2005), Michigan (2002, 2003, 2005, 2011), Michigan State (2004), Minneapolis Fed (2014), MIT (2001), Oregon (2006), Oxford (2008), Paris School of Economics (2013), Penn State (2005, 2014), Princeton (2004, 2006, 2009), Purdue (2002, 2003), Rotman School of Management Toronto (2002, 2011), Stanford (2008), Syracuse (2004), Toronto (2011), U. Católica de Chile (2014), U. Chile (2013), U. de Montevideo (2008, 2013), UCLA (2014), UC San Diego (2006, 2011), UT Austin (2002), Western Michigan (2005), World Bank (2002, 2009, 2014), Yale (2005, 2010, 2014), Yale School of Management (2002). In Argentina: Academia Nacional de Ciencias Económicas (2014), UTDT (2006, 2008, 2011), FIEL (2009), San Andrés (2005, 2007, 2008, 2011), UBA (2009), UN Córdoba (2011), UN La Plata (2010), UN San Martín (2010), UN Tucumán (2010). CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2014: LACEA, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2013: IGC Trade Working Group Firm Capabilities (discussant), Berkeley, CA
IES Summer Workshop (discussant), Princeton, NJ 2012: LACEA, Lima, Perú XIV Workshop in International Economics and Finance (discussant), UTDT, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2011: IGC Trade Research Network, Penn State University, PA V Congreso Nacional de Estudiantes de Posgrado en Economía, Bahía Blanca, Argentina IES Summer Workshop (discussant), Princeton, NJ TIGN, III Annual Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay 2010: AAEP Annual Meeting, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Euro-Latin Network on Integration and Trade, BID-INTAL, CEPII, Paris, France Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada 2009: AAEP Annual Meeting, Mendoza, Argentina Conference of Product Heterogeneity and Quality Het. in International Trade, SNB, Zurich, Switzerland 2008: Euro-Latin Network on Integration and Trade, BID-INTAL, EUI, Florence, Italy Productividad y Crecimiento en Latinoamérica y Europa, IVIE-UdeSA-CEPAL, Buenos Aires, Argentina El Desarrollo de Nuevos Sectores Exportadores en Argentina, BID-INTAL, Buenos Aires, Argentina NBER-ITI Summer Institute, NBER, Cambridge, MA Egon Sonhem Symposium, CREI (UPF), Barcelona, Spain Murray S. Johnson Conference, UT Austin, TX 2007: VI Workshop on Firm internationalization, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. LACEA, Bogotá, Colombia Firms in the Global Economy (discussant), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI IX Workshop in International Economics and Finance (discussant), UTDT, Santiago, Chile Firms Selection, Industry Dynamics and Institutions, UNIBO-OBREAL, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2006: Firms and the Evolving Structure of Global Economic Activity (discussant), NBER, Cambridge, MA Microeconomics of Growth Network, The World Bank, Washington, DC Workshop on Measuring Export Diversification, IDB/INT, Washington, DC 2005: Microeconomics of Growth Network, Tsinghua University, Beijing LACEA, Paris Empirical Investigations in International Trade (EIIT), Purdue University NBER-ITI Summer Institute, NBER, Cambridge, MA NBER-CRIW Summer Institute NBER, Cambridge, MA 2004: NBER-ITI Summer Institute, NBER, Cambridge, MA WDI/CEPR Annual International Conference on Transition Economics (discussant), Hanoi 2003: Empirical Investigations in International Trade (EIIT), Purdue University North American Econometric Society Winter Meetings (discussant), Washington, DC The Future of Globalization: Explorations in Light of Recent Turbulence, Yale University TEACHING AND OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Instructor, International Trade (U), Columbia University, Fall 2014 Instructor, International Trade (G), Universidad de San Andrés, since 2007 Instructor, International Economics (U), Universidad de San Andrés, since 2006
Instructor, Knowledge and Internationalizaton (G-Bus.), Universidad de San Andrés, since 2007 Instructor, International Trade (G), University of Michigan, 2002 2005 Instructor, Theory of International Trade (U), University of Michigan, 2003-2005 Teaching Fellow, International Trade (U), Industrial Organization (U), Economics of Regulation and Antitrust (U), Harvard University, 1999-2002 Teaching Assistant, Econometrics (U), Statistics (U), Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1991-1995 Visiting Researcher, Universidad T. Di Tella, July 2001 Research Assistant for Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University, January 2000-January 2001 Research Assistant for Robert Lawrence, Harvard University, Summer 1998 NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Macroeconómica (Macroeconomic Consultants), Argentina, 1996-1997 INDEC (National Institute of Statistics and Census), Argentina, 1993-1994 Valfinsa (Financial Company), Argentina, 1992-1993 Estudio Polo (Transportation Studies), Argentina, 1991-1992 Foundation for Latin-American Economic Research (FIEL), Argentina, 1988-1990 STUDENTS (graduation year and placement in parenthesis) Brian Kovak (2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz School) Isao Kamata (2008, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public International Affairs) Justin May (2007, College of William and Mary, Economics Department) Peter Morrow (2007, University of Toronto, Economics Department) Siwook Lee (2005, Korean Development Institute) William Powers (2005, International Trade Commission) Mine Senses (2005, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) REFEREE ACTIVITY American Economic Journal, American Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Bulletin of Economic Research, Canadian Journal of Economics, Econometrica, Economic Inquiry, Economic Letters, Economic Journal, Economic Systems, Economia, Economica, International Economic Review, International Review of Economics and Finance, International Sociology, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Finance, Journal of Industry Competition and Trade, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Journal of Political Economy, Latin American Economic Review, National Science Foundation, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of International Economics, Review of World Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, World Development, The World Economy. MEMBER American Economic Association; Asociación Argentina de Economía Política; Latin-American and Caribbean Economic Association