CURRICULUM VITAE



CURRICULUM VITAE

KAREN THIERFELDER

PO Box 123

Arnold, MD 21012

(410) 349 -0393 (home)

(410) 293-6887 (office)

thier@usna.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1992

Dissertation: “Efficiency Wages, Trade Theory, and Policy Implications: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis”

Major Professor: J. David Richardson

Reading Committee: Robert E. Baldwin, Sherman Robinson (U.C. Berkeley)

M.S. Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1988

A.B. Political Science, High Honors, College of William and Mary, May 1986

Employment

Chair, Economics Department, U.S. Naval Academy, 2004- present.

Research Funding from National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Division of Undergraduate Education,

Course,Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI), Agreement No DUE-0632836

"Undergraduate Teaching Tools for Computable General Equilibrium Models,” September 2008- September 2009.

Professor, Economics Department, U.S. Naval Academy, 2003 – present (Associate Professor, Economics Department, U.S. Naval Academy, 1997-2003, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, U.S. Naval Academy, 1992-1997), teaching International Trade, International Finance, Econometrics, Statistics, and Microeconomic Theory.

Publications

Go, Delfin S., Marna Kearney, Vijdan Korman, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder, 2009. “Wage Subsidy and Labour Flexibility in South Africa,” Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming.

Polaski, Sandra, Joaquim Bento, Janine Berg, Scott McDonald, Karen Thierfelder, Dirk Willenbockel, Edwardo Zepeda, 2009. Brazil in the Global Economy, Measuring the Gains from Trade. Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Devarajan, Shantayanan, Delfin S. Go, John Page, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder, 2008. “The Macroeconomic Dynamics of Scaling-up Foreign Aid,” in Africa at the Turning Point? Growth, Aid, and External Shocks edited by Delfin S. Go and John Page. Washington D.C.: The World Bank, pp.143-194.

Essama-Nssah, B., Delfin S. Go, Marna Kearney, Vijdan Korman, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 2008. “Economywide and Distributional Impacts of an Oil Price Shock on the South African Economy,” in Africa at the Turning Point? Growth, Aid, and External Shocks edited by Delfin S. Go and John Page. Washington D.C.: The World Bank, pp. 485-529.

McDonald, Scott, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 2008. “Asian Growth and Trade Poles: India, China and East and South East Asia,” World Development 36(2): 210-234.

McDonald, Scott, Karen Thierfelder, and Sherman Robinson. 2007. “Globe: A SAM Based Global CGE Model using GTAP Data,” USNA Economics Department Working Paper No. 15.

Robinson, Sherman and Karen Thierfelder. 2006. “The Effects of Domestic Agricultural Reforms and Market Access on Trade and Production in Less Developed Countries,” in Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Soren Fransen, and Sherman Robinson editors, WTO Negotiations and Agricultural Trade Policy Liberalization: The Effects of Developed Countries’ Policies on Developing Countries, UK: CABI Publishing, pp.103-121.

Nielsen, Chantal and Karen Thierfelder. 2006. “Trade in Genetically Modified Food: Promises and Pitfalls for the Poor,” in Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Soren Fransen, and Sherman Robinson editors, WTO Negotiations and Agricultural Trade Policy Liberalization: The Effects of Developed Countries’ Policies on Developing Countries, UK: CABI Publishing, pp.261-281.

McDonald, Scott, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 2006. “Impact of Switching Production to Bioenergy Crops: The Switchgrass Example,” Energy Economics, Vol. 28, pp. 243-265.

McDonald, Scott and Karen Thierfelder, 2004. “Deriving a Global Social Accounting Matrix from GTAP versions 5 and 6 Data,” GTAP Technical Paper No. 22.

Burfisher, Mary, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 2004. “Regionalism: Old and New Theory and Practice,” in Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO: Where are We Heading? Giovanni Anania (ed), New York: Edward Elgar Press.

Nielsen, Chantal Pohl, Karen Thierfelder, and Sherman Robinson, 2004. “Genetically Modified Foods, Trade, and Developing Countries,” in Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda, Merlinda Ingco and L. Alan Winters (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 429-457.

Nielsen, Chantal Pohl, Karen Thierfelder, and Sherman Robinson, 2004. "Consumer Attitudes Towards Genetically Modified Foods: The Modelling of Preference Changes," in Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods, R.E. Evenson and V. Santaniello (eds.), London: CABI Press, pp. 209-229 (Ch 18).

Nielsen, Chantal Pohl, Karen Thierfelder, and Sherman Robinson, November 2003. “Consumer Preferences and Trade in Genetically Modified Foods.” Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 25, pp 777-794.

Lewis, Jeffrey D., Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder, Fall 2003. “Free Trade Agreements and the SADC Economies.” Journal of African Economies, Vol. 12, no.2, pp. 156-206.

Thierfelder, Karen and Sherman Robinson. 2003. “Trade and Tradability: Exports, Imports, and Factor Markets in the Salter-Swan Model” Economic Record, Vol 79, no. 244, pp. 103-111.

Robinson, Sherman and Karen Thierfelder. 2002. “Trade Liberalisation and Regional Integration: The Search for Large Number.” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Research Economics, Vol 46, no. 6 (December), pp. 1-20.

Burfisher, Mary, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 2002. “The Global Impacts of Farm Policy Reforms in OECD Countries.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 84, No. 3 (August), pp. 234-241.

Burfisher, Mary, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder. 2002. “Developing Countries and the Gains from Regionalism: Links between Trade and Farm Policy Reforms in Mexico.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 84, No. 3 (August), pp. 736-748.

Devarajan, Shantayanan, Karen Thierfelder, and Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput. 2001. “The Marginal Cost of Public Funds in Developing Countries.” In Policy Evaluations with Computable General Equilibrium Models, Amedeo Fossati and Wolfgang Wiegard (eds.). New York: Routledge Press.

Anderson, Kym, Chantal Polh Nielsen, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 2001. “Estimating the Global Market Effects of GMOs.” In Agricultural Biotechnology: Markets and Policies in an International World, Phillip G. Pardey, (ed.). Washington D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute.

Nielsen, Chantal Pohl, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 2001. “Genetic Engineering and Trade: Panacea or Dilemma for Developing Countries?” World Development, Vol. 29, no.8, (August), pp. 1307-1324.

Burfisher, Mary E., Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 2001. “The Impact of NAFTA on the United States.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 125-144.

Burfisher, Mary E., Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 2000. “North American Agriculture and the WTO.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 82, pp. 768-774.

Devarajan, Shantayanan, Hafez Ghanem, and Karen Thierfelder. 1998. “Labor Market Regulations, Trade Liberalization and the Distribution of Income in Bangladesh.” Journal of Policy Reform, Vol. 1., pp. 1-28.

Burfisher, Mary E., Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 1998. “Linkage Effects from Processed Food Exports: A Comparison of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.” In Global Policies in Processed Food: Theoretical and Practical Issues, Dennis Henderson, Jean Kinsey, Daniel Pick, and Ian Sheldon, (eds.). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Robinson, Sherman, Mary Burfisher, and Karen Thierfelder. 1998. “Agricultura, Comercio y Tasas de Cambio en el Mercosur (Agriculture, Trade, and Exchange Rates in MERCOSUR).” In Agricultura, Medio Ambiente y Pobreza Rural en América Latina. L. Reca and R. Echeverría (eds.), pp. 327-350. with English translation. Washington, D.C.: Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Sobre Políticas Alimentarias, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo.

Burfisher, Mary E., Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 1997. “Migration, Prices and Wages in a North American Free Trade Agreement.” In Issues in Agricultural Competitiveness, Markets and Policies, Roger Rose, Carolyn Tanner and Margot Bellamy (eds.). Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Company, Ltd.

Devarajan, Shantayanan, Hafez Ghanem, and Karen Thierfelder. 1997. “Economic Reforms and Labor Unions: A General-Equilibrium Analysis Applied to Bangladesh and Indonesia.” World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-28.

Thierfelder, Karen and Clinton R. Shiells. 1997. “Trade and Labor Market Behavior.” In Applied Trade Policy Modeling: A Handbook, Joseph F. Francois and Kenneth A. Reinert (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 435-478.

Burfisher, Mary, Sherman Robinson, and Karen E. Thierfelder. 1996. “NAFTA, Mexican Agricultural Policy Reform, and Labor Mobility.” In Política Agrícola e Desenvolvimento Rural. José Euclides A. Cavalcanti, Danilo R. D. Aguiar (eds.). Viçosa, Brazil: Departamento de Economía Rural (DER) da Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV). Also in NAFTA and Agriculture: Will the Experiment Work? T. Grennes and G. Williams (eds.). International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, 1994.

Burfisher, Mary E., Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 1994. “Wage Changes in a U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Area: Migration Versus Stolper-Samuelson Effects.” In Modeling Trade Policy: Applied General Equilibrium Assessments of North American Free Trade, Clinton R. Shiells and Joseph F. Francois (eds.).Cambridge University Press, pp. 195-223.

Burfisher, Mary, Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 1993. “Agricultural Policies and Migration in a U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Area: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis.” Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 15, Nos. 5-6, pp. 673-701. An earlier version appeared in U.S. International Trade Commission, Economy-Wide Modeling of the Economic Implications of a FTA with Mexico and a NAFTA with Canada and Mexico. An Addendum to the Report on Investigation No. 332-317 under Section 332 of the Tariff Act of 1930. USITC Publication 2508, May 1992.

Burfisher, Mary, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 1992. “Agricultural and Food Policies in a U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement.” North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 117-139.

Recent Working Papers

Devarajan, Shantayanan, Delfin S. Go, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder, 2009. “Tax Policy to Reduce Carbon Emission in South Africa,” Policy Research Working Paper no. 4933, Washington D.C.: The World Bank. (Submitted August 2009 to Berkeley Electronic Press, Journal of Applied Economics.)

Go, Delfin S., Marna Kearney, Vijdan Korman, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder, 2009. “Wage Subsidy and Labour Flexibility in South Africa,” Policy Research Working Paper no. 4871, Washington D.C.: The World Bank. (Also published as Economic Research South Africa (ERSA) Working Paper no. 114, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa). (Forthcoming, Journal of Development Studies.)

Devarajan, Shantayanan, Delfin S. Go, John Page, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder, 2008. “The Macroeconomic Dynamics of Scaling-up Foreign Aid,” Policy Research Working Paper no. 4480, Washington D.C.: The World Bank. (Submitted August 2009 to Journal of International Economics.)

Essama-Nssah, B., Delfin S. Go, Marna Kearney, Vijdan Korman, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 2007. “Economywide and Distributional Impacts of an Oil Price Shock on the South African Economy,” Policy Research Working Paper no. 4354, Washington D.C.: The World Bank.

Thierfelder, Karen, Scott McDonald and Sherman Robinson. 2007. “Globe: A SAM Based Global CGE Model Using GTAP Data,” Working Paper No. 14, USNA, Economics Department.

Go, Delfin S., Marna Kearney, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder. 2005. “An Analysis of South Africa’s Value Added Tax,” Policy Research Working Paper no. 3671, Washington D.C.: The World Bank.

McDonald, Scott and Karen Thierfelder. 2005. “Deriving a Global Social Accounting Matrix from GTAP versions 5 and 6 Data.” GTAP Technical Paper no. 22, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University.

Recent Presentations

“Turkey and the EU: Economic Integration and Labour Migration” (with Scott McDonald and Yontem Sonmez), presented at the 12th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile, June 10-12, 2009.

“Tax Policy and Carbon Emissions in South Africa” (with Shanta Devarajan, Delfin S. Go, and Sherman Robinson), presented at the 12th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile, June 10-12, 2009.

“SADC Integration and EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements” (with Scott McDonald), presented at the 12th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile, June 10-12, 2009.

“Tax Policy and Carbon Emissions in South Africa” (with Shanta Devarajan, Delfin S. Go, and Sherman Robinson), presented at the World Bank Seminar series, May 2009.

“Brazil in the Global Economy, Measuring the Gains from Trade” (with Sandra Polaski and Eduardo Zepeda), presented at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace seminar series, May 2009.

“Undergraduate Teaching Tools for Computable General Equilibrium Models” (with Mary Burfisher), presented at the USNA Research Department Seminar Series, January 2009.

“Leveling the Global Playing Field: Taxing Energy Use and Carbon Emissions” (with Scott McDonald and Sherman Robinson), presented at the 11th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Marina Conference Center, Helsinki, Finland, June 12-14, 2008.

“Wage Subsidy and Labour Flexibility in South Africa” (with Go, Delfin S., Marna Kearney, Vijdan Korman, and Sherman Robinson) presented at the World Bank Seminar series, May 2008.

“The Macroeconomic Dynamics of Scaling-up Foreign Aid” (with Devarajan, Shantayanan, Delfin S. Go, John Page, and Sherman Robinson) presented at the World Bank PREM-DEC Workshop, “Brainstorming Meeting on Improving the Delivery of Aid: Making Aid more Predictable,” December 17, 2007.

“Wage Subsidy and Labour Flexibility in South Africa” (with Go, Delfin S., Marna Kearney, Vijdan Korman, and Sherman Robinson) presented at South Africa National Treasury, Modeling Exercise Seminar, Pretoria, South Africa, January 2007.

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