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Wendy Dobson

Co-Director, Rotman Institute for International Business Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at Rotman School of Management

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Rotman School of Management

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Wendy Dobson is a Professor and Co-Director for the Institute of International Business at Rotman and former Canadian Associate Deputy Minister of Finance. She offers courses in international business and Canadian public policy. She chairs the Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) research network and has published in English and Mandarin on Asia’s rise; the future of the Indian and Chinese economies in the world economy; the Chinese financial system; and Chinese innovation. Ya Zhou Xin Shi Li, the Mandarin translation of her book Gravity Shift, won the Annual Award for the Best Book in Finance and Economics by China’s public affairs website Hexun.com. Her most recent publications are Partners and Rivals: The Uneasy Future of China’s Relationship with the United States (2014) and The Future of Canada’s Relationship with China (2015).

Academic Positions

1993-Present  Co-Director, Institute for International Business; Rotman School of Management

1993-Present  Professor; Rotman School of Management

1990-1993  Professor and Senior Fellow; Faculty of Management

1989-1991, 1998, 2000  Visiting Fellow; Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.

Honors and Awards

1998  Ohira Prize, awarded by Ohira Foundation, Tokyo, for best English-language book on the Asia Pacific economies

1994, 2002  Student Choice Award for Teaching Excellence; Rotman School

1993  UBC Alumni of Distinction Award

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Books

Financial Development in Asia: Work in Progress; Wendy K. Dobson and Edward K Y Chen; Intro. Chapter In Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific; London: Routledge; 2014

Asia in Global Economic Governance; with Peter Petri; Chapter In N. Singh Ed., Handbook on Economics of the Pacific Rim; 2014

Financial Development and Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific; Co-edited with Edward K.Y. Chen; London: Routledge; 2014

Partners and Rivals: The Uneasy Future of China''s Relationship with the United States; Wendy K. Dobson; University of Toronto Press; 2013

Human Capital Formation and Growth: Microeconomic Dimensions; with Umar Boodoo; In Wendy K. Dobson, Ed., Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific; London: Routledge; 2013

Gravity Shift: How Asia''s New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the 21st Century; Wendy K. Dobson; Rotman-University of Toronto Press; 2009

Financial Services and International Trade Agreements: the Development Dimension; Aaditya Mattoo, Gianni Zanini, and Robert M. Stern (eds.); Chapter contributed to Services Handbook. Washington, D.C.: World Bank in Cooperation with Palgrave Macmillan; Issue: forthcoming; 2006

Asia Pacific regional architecture and financial market integration; Christopher Findlay and Hadi Soesastro (eds.); Chapter contributed to Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order. New York: Routledge with PAFTAD International Secretariat.; 2006

Governance, Multinationals and Growth; Co-edited with Lorraine Eden; London: Elgar; Issue: June; 2005

East Asia in Transition: Economic and Security Challenges, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 2002

World Capital Markets: Challenge to the G-10, co-authored with Gary Hufbauer; Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics; 2001

Financial services liberalization: The role of the millennium round; Chapter contributed to Freer trade in the next decade: Issues in the Millennium Round, (Subsequently published by Routledge, London); Issue: March; 2001

Financial Services Liberalization in the WTO; with P. Jacquet; Washington DC: Institute for International Economics; 1998

Business Networks in East Asia: Diversity and Evolution; in Rong-I Wu and Yun-Peng Chu, eds. Business Markets and Governments in the Asia Pacific; London and New York: Rutledge; 1998

Fiscal Frameworks and Financial Systems in East Asia: How Much Do They Matter? Edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1998

The People Link: Human Resource Linkages Across the Pacific, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1997

Multinationals and East Asian Integration, edited with Chia Siow Yue. Ottawa and Singapore: IDRC Books, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Awarded 1997 Ohira Prize; 1997

Whither APEC''s Ministers of Finance? Macroeconomic Policy, Exchange Rates and Financing Growth; in C. Fred Bergsten, ed. Whither APEC? Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics; 1997

Liberalizing and Stabilizing the Canadian Economy; in B. Curtis Eaton and Richard G. Harris, Trade Technology and Economics, Brookfield US: Edward Elgar; 1997; Pages: pp. 186-197

Pacific Triangles: US Economic Relationships with Japan and China; in Richard Harris, ed. The Growing Importance of the Asia Pacific Region in the World Economy: Implications for Canada, Calgary: University of Calgary Press; 1997

Stabilization and Liberalization in Canadian Economic Policy; in Trade Technology and Economics: Essays in Honour of Richard G. Lipsey. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar; 1997

East Asian Capitalism: Diversity and Dynamism, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1996

Managing U.S. Japanese Trade Disputes: Are There Better Ways? edited with H. Sato. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press; 1996

Benchmarking the Canadian Business Presence in East Asia, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1995

Pacific Trade and Investment: Options for the 90s, edited with F. Flatters. Kingston: John Deutsch Institute, Queen''s University; 1995

Surveillance and the International Monetary System: Ideas and Realities; in J.M. Boughton and K.S. Lateef, (Eds.) Fifty Years After Bretton Woods: The Future of the IMF and the World Bank. (Washington DC: International Monetary Fund World Bank Group); 1995

Open Regionalism: East Asia Sets the Pace; M.A. Molot and H. von Riekhoff, (Eds.) A Part of the Peace. Ottawa: Carleton University Press; 1994

Economic Policy Coordination Institutionalized? The G-7 and the Future of the Bretton Woods Institutions; Bretton Woods: Looking to the Future. Washington D.C. Bretton Woods Commission; 1994

Japan in East Asia: Trade and Investment Strategies. Singapore: The Institute for Southeast Asian Studies; 1993

International Economic Policy Coordination: Requiem or Prologue? Washington DC: Institute for International Economics; 1991

Shaping Comparative Advantage, edited with R. Lipsey. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute; 1987

Papers

  • Financial Development in Asia: Work in Progress; Wendy K. Dobson and Edward K Y Chen; Intro. Chapter In Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific; London: Routledge; 2014
  • Asia in Global Economic Governance; with Peter Petri; Chapter In N. Singh Ed., Handbook on Economics of the Pacific Rim; 2014
  • Financial Development and Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific; Co-edited with Edward K.Y. Chen; London: Routledge; 2014
  • Partners and Rivals: The Uneasy Future of China''s Relationship with the United States; Wendy K. Dobson; University of Toronto Press; 2013
  • Human Capital Formation and Growth: Microeconomic Dimensions; with Umar Boodoo; In Wendy K. Dobson, Ed., Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific; London: Routledge; 2013
  • Gravity Shift: How Asia''s New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the 21st Century; Wendy K. Dobson; Rotman-University of Toronto Press; 2009
  • Financial Services and International Trade Agreements: the Development Dimension; Aaditya Mattoo, Gianni Zanini, and Robert M. Stern (eds.); Chapter contributed to Services Handbook. Washington, D.C.: World Bank in Cooperation with Palgrave Macmillan; Issue: forthcoming; 2006
  • Asia Pacific regional architecture and financial market integration; Christopher Findlay and Hadi Soesastro (eds.); Chapter contributed to Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order. New York: Routledge with PAFTAD International Secretariat.; 2006
  • Governance, Multinationals and Growth; Co-edited with Lorraine Eden; London: Elgar; Issue: June; 2005
  • East Asia in Transition: Economic and Security Challenges, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 2002
  • World Capital Markets: Challenge to the G-10, co-authored with Gary Hufbauer; Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics; 2001
  • Financial services liberalization: The role of the millennium round; Chapter contributed to Freer trade in the next decade: Issues in the Millennium Round, (Subsequently published by Routledge, London); Issue: March; 2001
  • Financial Services Liberalization in the WTO; with P. Jacquet; Washington DC: Institute for International Economics; 1998
  • Business Networks in East Asia: Diversity and Evolution; in Rong-I Wu and Yun-Peng Chu, eds. Business Markets and Governments in the Asia Pacific; London and New York: Rutledge; 1998
  • Fiscal Frameworks and Financial Systems in East Asia: How Much Do They Matter? Edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1998
  • The People Link: Human Resource Linkages Across the Pacific, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1997
  • Multinationals and East Asian Integration, edited with Chia Siow Yue. Ottawa and Singapore: IDRC Books, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Awarded 1997 Ohira Prize; 1997
  • Whither APEC''s Ministers of Finance? Macroeconomic Policy, Exchange Rates and Financing Growth; in C. Fred Bergsten, ed. Whither APEC? Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics; 1997
  • Liberalizing and Stabilizing the Canadian Economy; in B. Curtis Eaton and Richard G. Harris, Trade Technology and Economics, Brookfield US: Edward Elgar; 1997; Pages: pp. 186-197
  • Pacific Triangles: US Economic Relationships with Japan and China; in Richard Harris, ed. The Growing Importance of the Asia Pacific Region in the World Economy: Implications for Canada, Calgary: University of Calgary Press; 1997
  • Stabilization and Liberalization in Canadian Economic Policy; in Trade Technology and Economics: Essays in Honour of Richard G. Lipsey. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar; 1997
  • East Asian Capitalism: Diversity and Dynamism, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1996
  • Managing U.S. Japanese Trade Disputes: Are There Better Ways? edited with H. Sato. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press; 1996
  • Benchmarking the Canadian Business Presence in East Asia, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1995
  • Pacific Trade and Investment: Options for the 90s, edited with F. Flatters. Kingston: John Deutsch Institute, Queen''s University; 1995
  • Surveillance and the International Monetary System: Ideas and Realities; in J.M. Boughton and K.S. Lateef, (Eds.) Fifty Years After Bretton Woods: The Future of the IMF and the World Bank. (Washington DC: International Monetary Fund World Bank Group); 1995
  • Open Regionalism: East Asia Sets the Pace; M.A. Molot and H. von Riekhoff, (Eds.) A Part of the Peace. Ottawa: Carleton University Press; 1994
  • Economic Policy Coordination Institutionalized? The G-7 and the Future of the Bretton Woods Institutions; Bretton Woods: Looking to the Future. Washington D.C. Bretton Woods Commission; 1994
  • Japan in East Asia: Trade and Investment Strategies. Singapore: The Institute for Southeast Asian Studies; 1993
  • International Economic Policy Coordination: Requiem or Prologue? Washington DC: Institute for International Economics; 1991
  • Shaping Comparative Advantage, edited with R. Lipsey. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute; 1987

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