Christopher Bliss
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, F.B.A., Fellow of Econometric Society
Nuffield Professor of International Economics
College or Institution: Nuffield College
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Research Interests
Summary: Economic theory; international economics; trade and development.
Including macroeconomic theory that abuts those fields. I am writing a book, ‘Trade Growth and Inequality’ that gathers this research, which has also been reflected in journal publications. Leading results include demonstrations that: (i) simple “non-square” trade models improve greatly on the standard Heckher-Ohlinson-Samuelson (HOS) model; (ii) allowing for a variable elasticity of inter-temporal substitution improves the theory of economic growth; and (iii) very weak catching-up effects yield growth convergence even in endogenous growth models that normally lack it, and the nature of the catching-up process decides the form of convergence that will be observed.
Research Group(s)
Recent Working Papers
- Tradeable Goods, Non-Tradeable Goods and Participation (2005)
- Some Implications of a Variable EIS (2004)
- The Stationary Distributions of Wealth with Random Shocks (2002)
- The Smash-and-Grab Game (2000)
- The Application of Toy Economic Models to the Analysis of Globalization (2000)
- The Ergodic Distribution of Wealth with Random Shocks (1998)
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Category: Emeritus Faculty