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Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 61-64

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From page 61...
... Medberry chair in management at UCLA Anderson, along with joint academic appointments in the departments of statistics and economics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and a frequent visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
From page 62...
... Katz is Elisabeth Allison Professor of economics at Harvard University and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on broad issues of labor economics and the economics of social problems, including wage and income inequality; unemployment; theories of wage determination; the economics of education; the impact of globalization and technological change on the labor market; and the evaluation of the effectiveness of social and labor market policies.
From page 63...
... Previously, she served as assistant director of the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; senior international economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers; and adviser to the chief economist at the World Bank. Her current work focuses on the economic and policy issues of global information, communications, and technology, particularly with reference to the U.S.
From page 64...
... Michael Storper is professor of regional and international development in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California at Los Angeles and centennial professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics. His major research interests and areas of supervision are globalization and local and regional economic development processes; the effects of liberalized trade and technology flows on global location patterns; the role of local economic policies in influencing the effects of globalization in local and regional economies; the overall geography of the global economy: changes and continuities in location and specialization patterns; face-to-face contact as a source of urbanization economies; the effects of new communications technologies on face-to-face contact and delocalization; and comparative regional development processes.


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