Recent research on trade and the environment (with Carolyn Fischer)

Combining Rebates with Carbon Taxes: Optimal Strategies for Coping with Emissions Leakage and Tax Interactions, May 2009.

Comparing Policies to Combat Emissions Leakage: Border Tax Adjustments versus Rebates, February 2009.

Materials for 2003 GTAP Conference in Scheveningen, the Netherlands

TSCAPE: A Time Series of Consistent Accounts for Policy Evaluation in Acrobat format. File distribution tscapedist.zip. Presentation in Microsoft Power Point format.

Measuring Border Crossing Costs and their Impact on Trade Flows: The United States-Mexican Trucking Case in Acrobat format. Presentation in Microsoft Power Point format.

Welcome!  I received my Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 2000.  My work focuses on international trade, with an emphasis on computable general equilibrium modeling.

In October 2000, I joined the Research Division, Office of Economics, of the U.S. International Trade Commission.
 

Contact information

• Office phone: 202-205-3267
• Office fax:  202-205-2340
• Office e-mail: Alan.Fox@usitc.gov
• Home e-mail: alanfox@umich.edu

Curriculum Vitae

• Click to download CV in Acrobat format.

Publications

• "Is Puerto Limon a Real Lemon? Port Inefficiency and its Impact," International Handbook of Maritime Economics, Kevin Cullinane, ed., Edward Elgar, Chetenham, UK and Northampton, MA, 2011 (with Paul Kent).
• "The role of trade and competitiveness measures in US climate policy," American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 101(3):258-62, May 2011 (with Carolyn Fischer).
• "Why Don't Foreign Firms Cooperate in Antidumping Investigations?: An Empirical Analysis," published online 8 November 2009, Review of World Economics (with Michael O. Moore).
• "Textile and Apparel Barriers and Rules of Origin: What's Left To Gain after the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing?" , Journal of Economic Integration, 23(3), September 2008. (with William Powers and Ashley Winston)
• "Output-based Allocation of Emissions Permits for Mitigating Tax and Trade Interactions," Land Economics, 83(4), November 2007, doi:10.3368/le.83.4.575 (with Carolyn Fischer).
• "Is There a Rationale for Output-based Rebating of Environmental Levies?", Resource and Energy Economics, 29(2), May 2007, doi:10.1016/j.reseneeco.2006.07.001 (with Alain L. Bernard and Carolyn Fischer).
• "Taste Parameters as Model Residuals: Assessing the 'Fit' of an Armington Trade Model," Review of International Economics, 13(5), (November 2005) (with Russell H. Hillberry, Michael A. Anderson, and Edward J. Balistreri).
• "Evaluating the Success of a CGE Model of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement," presented at The Second Annual Conference in Global Economic Analysis, June 20-22, 1999. Updated paper available in Acrobat format.
• "Computational Analysis of Goods and Services Liberalization in the Uruguay Round," in The Uruguay Round and the Developing Economies, Will Martin and L. Alan Winters (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 1996 (with Drusilla Brown, Alan Deardorff and Robert Stern).
• "A Computational Analysis of the Effect of Reductions in US Military Expenditures," in The Economics of International Security, Manas Chatterji, Henk Jager, and Annemarie Rima (eds.), St. Martin's Press, 1994 (with Robert Stern).
• "Effects of Reductions in NATO Military Expenditures on US Employment by Sector/Occupation/Region," The World Economy, 16:193-211 (1993), doi:10.1111/j.1467-9701.1993.tb00162.x (with Robert Stern).

Academic background

Professional background

• Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan.  Introductory Macroeconomics, Winter 1998.
• Research Assistant, University of Michigan, 1991-1999.  Assisted Professors  Alan Deardorff and  Robert Stern in CGE modeling, including studies of the Uruguay Round, expansion of the EU, NAFTA expansion, Tunisia-EU liberalization, and liberalization in India.
• Summer Assistant, World Bank, IECIT and AF2PE Divisions, 1996.  International Economics, International Trade Division: developed e-mail mailing list management tools.  Africa Technical Families, Macro 2: researched development opportunities for Eritrea.
• Research Associate, Pelavin Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. 1990-1991.  Research for educational consulting firm.  Activities included computer systems administration, software development, database development and data analysis.
• Temporary Research Assistant,  Charles River Associates, Inc. , Washington, DC, Economic Litigation Group, 1989, 1990.  Antitrust litigation support.
• Research Assistant, ICF Consulting Associates, Washington, DC, Competitive Analysis Group, 1988-1989.  Antitrust litigation support, market analysis, product liability and company valuation.
• Paid Internship, The Hon. Frank McCloskey, Eighth District-IN, Washington, DC, 1988.  Legislative research and analysis related to issues falling under the Departments of Interior and Justice.
• Research Assistant to the Adenauer Chair, German Studies, Georgetown University, 1987-1988.  Assisted Professor Hubert Kiesewetter (1987) in research in economic history of agricultural mechanization and in the expansion of railroads.  Assisted Professor Hans Rattinger (1988) in statistical analysis of survey results.

• Referee, World Development
• Referee, American Economic Review
• Proficient in French and German; basic skills in Spanish and Dutch

• Extensive programming experience, including FORTRAN, Pascal, and other procedural languages. Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model construction using GEMPACK.  Data management experience includes using a variety of databases, UNIX tools, and custom-programming tools for data set construction. Statistical packages used include SAS, STATA, and RATS.  Extensive experience in UNIX, Windows NT, DOS and OS/2 environments.