Prof. Dr. Jennifer Pédussel Wu

Ph.D. in Economics from UC Irvine, California and B.A. from Oberlin College, Ohio

Currently Professor of International Trade and Production at the Berlin School of Economics and Law

Previously taught at American University of Paris, Ecole des Dirigeants et Créateurs d’Entreprises (EDC), Paris, University of Bonn, University of California, Irvine and Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, ShanXi, People’s Republic of China.

From 2001-2005 was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Integration Studies (ZEI), Bonn, Germany, and has also been a research associate with LEN Research Centre, University of Nantes and OCRE – EDC, Paris.

Previous working experience includes positions as an economist with the National Income and Wealth Division, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, as a team member at Sabre Decision Technologies, Paris SNCF site, research assistantships with the LARTA Institute in Los Angeles, the Klemm Analysis Group, Inc., Washington, D.C., and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Microeconomics

Regional Economic Integration

International Trade

International Trade

Regional Economic Integration

Migration and FDI

Multi-national Firms and Production

“The Role of China in BRICS: Modern High -Tech Trade Networks”(with Carlos Abreo and Ignacio Silva Neira) in Recalibrating the Global Compass: China and Shared Future in a Fragmented World, Stekić, N. (Ed). The 5th “Dialogues on China” International Academic Conference, Belgrade: Institute of International Politics and Economics, October 2025. 

“Determinants of Colombian Inward Foreign Direct Investment. An Empirical Analysis” (with Carlos Abreo and Eduardo Carrillo). CEPAL Review, No. 143, forthcoming, August 2024.

“Chinese Port Investments and Their Effects on Bilateral Trade” (with Clark Banach) in New Chinese Initiatives for a Changing Global Security, in Stekić, N. and Mitić, A. (Eds.), New Chinese Initiatives for a Changing Global Security, The 3rd “Dialogues on China” International Academic Conference, Belgrade: Institute of International Politics and Economics, 2023.

“Foreign Direct Investment Effects on the Distribution of Regional Industrial Value-Added in China” (with Behzad Azarhoushang and Shahryar Zaroki), Journal of Asian Pacific Economy, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2021.1944021, published online 26 July 2021). 

"Immigrant gender and international trade" (with Harry P. Bowen), Special Issue on Migration and Institutions, Mondes en Développement, 46:184 (15-30), 2018. https://doi.org/10.3917/med.184.0015

“The effect of FDI on industry value-added: Evidence from China” (with Behzad Azarhoushang) in Truger, Achim, Hein, Eckhard, Heine, Michael, and Hoffer, Frank (Eds) Monetary Macroeconomics, Labour Markets and Development: Festschrift for Hansjörg Herr, Marburg: Metropolis-Verlag, 2016, pp. 361-382 (21 pages).

“The Federal Reserve as Lender of Last Resort During the Subprime Crisis-Successful Stabilisation Without Structural Changes” (with Hansjörg Herr and Sina Rüdiger), Journal of Economics and Political Economy, 3:2 192-210, June, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1453/jepe.v3i2.776

“Immigrant Specificity and the Relationship between Trade and Immigration: Theory and Evidence” (with Harry P. Bowen) Southern Economic Journal 2013, 80(2), 366–384. https://doi.org/10.4284/0038-4038-2011.230

“Measuring and Explaining Levels of Regional Economic Integration”, in De Lombaerde, Philippe (Ed.) Assessment and Measurement of Regional Integration, London: Routledge, 2006, 146-164 (19 pages).

“Trade Agreements as Self-Protection”, Review of International Economics, 13:3, 2005, 472-484. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9396.2005.00518.x

“A Database for Investigating Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Trade” (with Salmai Qari, Clark Banach and Behzad Azarhourshang), Institute for Political Economy Berlin, Working paper 94/2017.

“The effect of FDI on industry value-added: Evidence from China” (with Behzad Azarhoushang) in Truger, Achim, Hein, Eckhard, Heine, Michael, and Hoffer, Frank (Eds) Monetary Macroeconomics, Labour Markets and Development: Festschrift for Hansjörg Herr, Marburg: Metropolis-Verlag, 2016.

“The Federal Reserve as Lender of Last Resort During the Subprime Crisis-Successful Stabilisation Without Structural Changes” (with Hansjörg Herr and Sina Rüdiger), Journal of Economics and Political Economy, 3:2 2016.

“Immigrant Gender and International Trade: Its Relevance and Impact, " (with Harry P. Bowen),Harriet Taylor Mill-Institut für Ökonomie und Geschlechterforschung Discussion Paper 24, 04/2014

“Immigrant Specificity and the Relationship between Trade and Immigration: Theory and Evidence” (with Harry Bowen) Southern Economic Journal 2013, 80(2), 366–384.

“Measuring and Explaining Levels of Regional Economic Integration”, in De Lombaerde, Philippe (Ed.) Assessment and Measurement of Regional Integration, London: Routledge, 2006.

“Economic Integration in a Multicone World” (with Christian Martincus Volpe), ZEI Working Paper B07-2005.

“Trade Agreements as Self-Protection”, Review of International Economics, 13:3, 2005.