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Kei-Mu Yi

I am the M.D. Anderson Professor of Economics at the University of Houston, and am a Research Associate with the ITI and IFM programs at the NBER.  I am also an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. 

Prior to coming to Houston, I held positions with the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis. In Philadelphia, I was the head of the Macro section, and in Minneapolis I was the Director of Research, and subsequently, special policy adviser to the President. 

I have also had positions with Rice University, the University of Iowa, the University of Virginia, and the Wharton School at the U. of Pennsylvania, as well as adjunct positions at Columbia University and New York University.  

I received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. 

My past research was on tests of endogenous growth models, on the trade-comovement puzzle, and, on documenting the increased vertical specialization of international trade and studying the consequences of that for the growth of world trade and the border effect puzzle. My current research interests are on the interrelationships between trade, growth, global value chains, and structural change.  

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