Ehsan U. Choudhri

 B.A. (Government College), M.A. (Punjab), Ph.D. (Chicago)

Chancellor's Professor (Economics)

Office: D-895/4 Loeb, 613-520-2600 x 3754

E-mail: ehsan_choudhri [at] carleton [dot] ca

Web site: http://www.carleton.ca/~echoudhr/

Languages spoken other than English: Urdu

Research fields: international economics, macroeconomics

Expertise:
• exchange rates
• welfare effects of trade and foreign direct investment
• efficiency wages

Selected publications:

“Trade Liberalization, Macroeconomic Adjustment, and Welfare: How Costly Are Nominal Rigidities?” (with Hamid Faruqee and Stephen Tokarick), IMF Economic Review, Vol. 59, No. 3 (August 2011), pp. 455–487.

“Productivity, the Terms of Trade, and the Real Exchange Rate: Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis Revisited” (with Lawrence L. Schembri), Review of International Economics, Vol. 18, No. 5 (November 2010), pp. 924–936.

“A Dynamic Model of Shirking and Unemployment: Private Saving, Public Debt, and Optimal Taxation” (with Richard A. Brecher and Zhiqi Chen), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 34, No. 8 (August 2010), pp. 1392–1402.

“Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices: Does the Inflationary Environment Matter?” (with Dalia S. Hakura), Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 25, No. 4 (June 2006), pp. 614–639.

“Explaining the Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Different Prices” (with Hamid Faruqee and Dalia S. Hakura), Journal of International Economics, Vol. 65, No. 2 (March 2005), pp. 349–374.

“Unemployment and Growth in the Long Run: An Efficiency-Wage Model with Optimal Savings” (with Richard A. Brecher and Zhiqi Chen), International Economic Review, Vol. 43, No. 3 (August 2002), pp. 875–894.

“Productivity Performance and International Competitiveness: An Old Test Reconsidered” (with Lawrence L. Schembri), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 35, No. 2 (May 2002), pp. 341–362.

Short biography:

Ehsan Choudhri received his M.A. from Punjab University in Pakistan and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has undertaken research on a wide range of topics in international and monetary economics. His work has been published in many journals including the Canadian Journal of Economics, the International Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He has held visiting positions at a number of institutions, including the University of California at Los Angeles, Rutgers University, Georgetown University, and the International Monetary Fund. He has served as Chair of the Department of Economics at Carleton University and as Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics.