FACULTY
Henryk Kierkowski

Phone: +41 22 908 5945 Fax: +41 22 733 30 49 Email: kierzkow@hei.unige.ch Address: HEI, 11A, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva Office Hours: Monday 12:15h - 13:30h Personal Home Page

Henryk Kierzkowski obtained his Ph.D. at Queen’s University in Canada. His publications have been in the area of international trade, macroeconomics, development and economics of transition. He is best known for his work on imperfect competition and international trade and a book he edited when the new trade theory was launched (Monopolistic Competition and International Trade, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984.) He has also written jointly with Ronald Findlay a well-known article on human capital and trade (International Trade Theory and Human Capital, Journal of Political Economy, December, 1983.)

Henryk Kierzkowski held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, Australian National University, Bocconi University in Milan, Tor Vergata University in Rome, Claremont College in California, University of Nairobi, University of Warsaw, Institute for International Economics in Stockholm and at other academic institutions.

During the last decade or so, Professor Henryk Kierzkowski has focused his professional interests – teaching, research and advisory work - on two major issues of the contemporary world: economic transition in Eastern Europe and globalization of the world economy.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

Articles
I) Globalization:

Henryk Kierzkowski (2002) "Trade and public health in an open economy: a framework for analysis" in Cesar Vieira, ed.,Trade in Health Services Global Regional and Country Perspectives, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C.

Ronald Jones, Henryk Kierzkowski and Greg Leonard, (2002), "Fragmentation and Intra-Industry Trade" in P. Lloyd and H-H Lee, eds., Frontiers of Research in Intra Industry Trade, Macmillan, London.

Henryk Kierzkowski, (2001), "Global Production Networks", WIDER Angle, Helsinki.

Henryk Kierzkowski (2001), “Joining the Global Economy: Experience and Prospects of the Transition Economies”, in S. Arndt and H. Kierzkowski (2001).

Ronald Jones and Henryk Kierzkowski, (2001), “Globalization and Consequences of International Fragmentation”, in R. Dornbusch, G. Galvo and M. Obsfeld, eds., Money, Factor Mobility and Trade: Festchrift in Honor of Robert A. Mundell, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ronald Jones and Henryk Kierzkowski, (2001), “A Framework for Fragmentation” in S. Arndt and H. Kierzkowski (2001).

Ronald Jones and Henryk Kierzkowski, (2001), “Horizontal Aspects of Vertical Fragmentation” in L. Cheng and H. Kierzkowski (2001).

Ronald Jones and Henryk Kierzkowski, (1990), “The Role of Services in Production and International Trade: A Theoretical Framework”, in R..Jones and A. Krueger, The Political Economy of International Trade: Festschrift in Honor of Robert Baldwin, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

II) Economic transition in Eastern Europe

Henryk Kierzkowski, (2000), “Challenges of Globalization: Foreign Trade Restructuring of Transition Economies”, Russian and East European Finance and Trade, June.

Christopher Allsopp and Henryk Kierzkowski, (1997), “The Assessment: Economics of Transition in Eastern and Central Europe”, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Summer.

Henryk Kierzkowski, (1996), “Central Europe Looks West”, The World Economy.

Henryk Kierzkowski, (1996), “Economic Transition in Eastern Europe: Predicting the Unpredictable”, Claremont Policy Brief, December.

Henryk Kierzkowski, (1996), “Reforms in Central Europe: Preparing for the EU Membership”, in K. Kaiser and M. Brunning, eds., East-Central Europe and the EU, Europa Union Verlag, Bonn.

Henryk Kierzkowski, (1993), Stabilization and Structural Adjustment in Poland, Co-Editor, Routlage, London.

Henryk Kierzkowski, Edmund Phelps and Gylfi Zoega, (1994), “Mechanisms of Economic Collapse and Growth in East Europe”, EBRD research report, London.

Books
Monopolistic Competition and International Trade, Editor, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984.

Protection and Competition in International Trade: Essays in Honour of W.M. Corden, Editor and co-author, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987.

Stabilisation and Structural Adjustment in Poland, Co-editor, Routledge, London, September 1983.

Fragmentation: New Production Patterns in the World Economy, Co-editor (with Sven Arndt), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001.

Global Production Networks and Trade in East Asia, Co-editor (with Leonard Cheng), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2001.

Europe and Globalization, editor, Macmillan - Palgrave, London, 2002.

Courses Taught

• International Economics for non-specialists
• Globalization: Economic Costs and Benefits
• The Economics of Transition
• International Trade and Money