Prof. Dr. Jennifer Pédussel Wu

Jennifer Pédussel Wu joined the Berlin School of Economics and Law in 2008 as a Professor of International Trade and Production. Previously, she was a Professor of Economics at the Ecole des Dirigent et Createurs d’Entreprise, Paris and an Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris. She has also been a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), Bonn (Germany). She holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Oberlin College (1990), a M.A. degree in Mathematical Behavior Science (1998) and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of California, Irvine (2001).

Research Interests

International Trade, Regional Integration, Migration, Gender, Financial inclusion, Remittances and FinTech, Inter-cultural management, International Management, Multinational Firms, Education and Economics

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Research Statement

Lectures and thesis supervisions

Current lectures:

  • SS 2022: Regional Economic Integration (683098), Current Issues (552091), International Economics (400394, 200394.01 with A. Farroukh), Strategic Management (420701),

Courses Previously Taught:

Undergraduate level: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Principles of Economics and Introductory Economics (for non-majors), International Economics, International Trade, International Management, Strategic Management, Franco-German Management, Public Finance, International Monetary Economics, Economic Theories of Organization, Fair Trade and Sustainable Development, Research seminar tutorials, internship seminars.

Master/Graduate level: International Trade, Regional Economic Integration, Current Issues, Managerial Economics, Trans-Atlantic Regional Integration, research seminars.

 

Publications

“Digital Remittances: The Role of Alternative Money Transfers Channels” (with Martina Metzger and Tim Riedler) in Chou, Daisy, O’Sullivan, Conall, and Papavassiliou, Vassilios (Eds) Digital Remittances: The Role of Alternative Money Transfers Channels (forthcoming 2022).

“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 (forthcoming: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2021.1944021, published online 26 July 2021).

“A cultural comparison of mindfulness and student performance: Evidence from university students in five countries” (with Albert J. Sumell, Eric P. Chiang, Steven Koch, Esa Mangeloja, and Jin Sun), International Review of Economics Education. 37: 100213, June 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.iree.2021.100213

"Immigrant gender and international trade" (with Harry Bowen), Special Issue on Migration and Institutions, Mondes en Développement, 46:184 (15-30), 2018.

“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 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.

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

Economic Integration, Institutions, and Protection Against Risk, thesis, University of California, Irvine 2001.

“Moving Minds and Money: The Political Economy of Migrant Transfers” (with Martina Metzger) ICDD Working Papers, Paper No. 33, December 2020. kobra.uni-kassel.de/handle/123456789/12370 (28 pages)

“South Asian Free Trade Area and Food Trade: Implications for Regional Food Security (with Hansjörg Herr and Megan Ward), Institute for Political Economy Berlin, Working Paper 148/2020. www.ipe-berlin.org/fileadmin/institut-ipe/Dokumente/Working_Papers/ipe_working_paper_148.pdf. (42 pages)

“Migrant Remittances: The Effects of Alternate Money Transfer Forms” (with Martina Metzger and Tim Riedler), Institute for Political Economy Berlin, Working Paper 127/2019. www.ipe-berlin.org/fileadmin/institut-ipe/Dokumente/Working_Papers/ipe_working_paper_127.pdf. (37 pages)

“Industrial Sector Foreign Direct Investment and Chinese Regional Inequality” (with Behzad Azarhoushang and Shahryar Zaroki), Institute for Political Economy Berlin, Working Paper, 119/2019. www.ipe-berlin.org/fileadmin/institut-ipe/Dokumente/Working_Paper__No._119_2019.pdf. (25 pages)

“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. www.ipe-berlin.org/fileadmin/downloads/Papers_and_Presentations/IPE_WP_94.pdf (16 pages)

“The Subprime Crisis and the Federal Reserve – Paths and Choices after 2007,” (with Hansjörg Herr and Sina Rüdiger), Institute for International Political Economy Berlin, Working Paper, No. 65/2016.

“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

"The Impact of Immigrant Gender on International Trade: An Empirical Assessment," (with Harry P. Bowen), Discussion Paper Series 2013-01, McColl School of Business, Queens University of Charlotte.

"Immigrant specificity and the relationship between trade and immigration: Theory and evidence," (with Harry P. Bowen), Working Papers 70/2012, Institute of Management Berlin (IMB), Berlin School of Economics and Law.

"Immigrant Specificity and the Relationship between Trade and Immigration: Theory and Evidence," (with Harry P. Bowen), Discussion Paper Series 2011-01, McColl School of Business, Queens University of Charlotte, revised 13 Jul 2012.

“Does It Matter Where Immigrants Work? Traded Goods, Non-traded Goods, and Sector Specific Employment” (with Harry P. Bowen), ZEI Working Paper B16-2004.

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

20th Monetary Policy Conference, Berlin (October 2019)

European Trade Study Group, Warsaw (13-15 September 2018)

18th Monetary Policy Conference, Berlin (October 2017)

INFER Annual Conference, Bordeaux, June 2017

European Trade Study Group, Helsinki (8-11 September 2016)

16th Monetary Policy Conference, Berlin (September 2015)

European Trade Study Group, Paris (10-12 September 2015)

15th Monetary Policy Conference, SWUFE Chengdu, PRC (27-28 September 2014)

European Trade Study Group, Munich (11-13 September 2014)

European Trade Study Group, Leuven (13-15 September 2012)

European Trade Study Group, Lausanne (9-11 September 2010)

INFER Orléans June 2010

European Trade Study Group, Rome (10-12 September 2009)

European Trade Study Group, Athens (13-15 September 2007)

European Trade Study Group, Dublin (8-10 September 2005)

Association Française de Science Economique, Paris (22-23 September 2005)

European Economics Association, Amsterdam (24-27 August 2005)

Western Economics Association, San Francisco (4-7 July 2005)

Canadian Economics Association Annual Meetings,

Hamilton/McMaster University, (24-26 May 2005)

ASSA 2005, International Economics and Finance Society, Philadelphia (7-9 January 2005)

Irish Economic Association Annual Meeting,

Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland (23-25 April 2004)

Latin American and Caribbean Association Annual Meetings, Puebla, Mexico (10-13 October 2003)

Canadian Economics Association Annual Meetings, Ottawa (29 May -1 June 2003)

Les enjeux économiques de la globalisation, Nantes (12-13 December 2002)

Political Economy of Transition: Institutions, Politics and Policies, Bonn (24-25 May 2002)


Invited Seminars at: ZEI; UC Irvine; University of Lille 3 (Gremars); CERAS; INRA; BLS; GAO; USITC; USDA; University of Nantes (LEN); University of Birmingham, U.K ; Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR); University of Luxembourg; Queen’s University, Charlotte; ESCE Paris; University of Missouri, St. Louis; . Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Free University (FU), Berlin. 

On-going projects

Current professional memberships and service activities:

  • Board member, Aletheia Research Institute, https://aletheia-research.org/; 2020-present.
  • Founding Member, Berlin Institute of International Studies, HWR Berlin, 2014-present
  • Member, Institute of International Political Economy, HWR Berlin, 2015-present
  • Member, American Economic Association, CSWEP, European Economic Association, International Economics and Finance Society, International Network for Economic Research (INFER), Association Française de Science Economique (AFSE).