Canadian Centre for South Asian Studies

Ehsan Choudhri

Ehsan U. 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 Canadian Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Political Economy and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He has held a faculty position at Carleton University and visiting positions at a number of institutions including University of California at Los Angeles, Rutgers University, Georgetown University and International Monetary Fund. He has served as a chair of the Department of Economics at Carleton University and an associate editor for the Journal of International Economics.

Recent Papers

"Real Exchange Rates In Developing Countries: Are Balassa-Samuelson Effects Present?" (with Mohsin S. Khan), October 2004.

“Dynamic Stability in a Two-Country Model of Optimal Growth and International Trade” (with Richard A. Brecher and Zhiqi Chen), February 2004, forthcoming in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

“Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic prices: Does the Inflationary Environment Matter?” (with Dalia S. Hakura), November 2003, forthcoming in Journal of International Money and Finance.

“Explaining the Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Different Prices” (with Hamid Faruqee and Dalia S. Hakura), October 2003, forthcoming in Journal of International Economics.

Recent Publications

“Absolute and Comparative Advantage, Reconsidered: The Pattern of International Trade With Optimal Saving” (with Zhiqi Chen and Richard A. Brecher), Review of International Economics, 10 (November 2002).

"Unemployment and Growth in the Long Run: An Efficiency-Wage Model with Optimal Savings" (with Zhiqi Chen and Richard A. Brecher), International Economic Review, 43 (August 2002), 875-894.

"Productivity Performance and International Competitiveness: An Old Test Reconsidered" (with Lawrence L. Schembri), Canadian Journal of Economics, 35 (May 2002).

"Was Expansionary Monetary Policy Feasible During the Great Contraction? An Examination of the Gold Standard Constraint" (with Michael D. Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz)", Explorations in Economic History, 47 (January 2002), 1-28.

"International Trade and Productivity Growth: Exploring the Sectoral Effects for Developing Countries" (with Dalia S. Hakura), International Monetary Fund Staff Papers, 47 (2000), No.1, 30-53.