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Dr. Susan Pozo,
Ph.D, Michigan State University, 1980
Professor
5315, Friedman Hall
Phone: 269-387-5553
Email: Susan.Pozo@wmich.edu
Web: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~pozo/
Areas of Interest:
International Finance, Immigration, Macroeconomics
Current Research: Workers' Remittances; Precautionary Saving, Insurance and Migration; Measurement of Currency Crisis

Special Honors:

CSWEP Board Member,1996-1998
Second Vice President of Midwest Economics Association, 1990-1991

Selected Publications:

“Do Remittances Decay with Emigrants’ Foreign Residencies? Evidence from Mexican Migrants,”(with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes) Well-being and Social Policy Journal/Bienestar y Política Social, forthcoming.

“Workers’ Remittances and Currency Crises,” (with Alketa Hysenbegasi) Well-being and Social Policy Journal/Bienestar y Política Social, forthcoming.

"Exchange Rate Regimes and Currency Crises: An Evaluation using Extreme Value Theory," (with Fasika D. Haile), Review of International Economics, Vol. 14, No. 4, September 2006, pp. 554-70.

“Remittance Receipt and Business Ownership in the Dominican Republic.” (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes), World Economy, Vol. 29, No. 7, July 2006, pp. 939-56.

“Remittances as Insurance: Evidence from Mexican Migrants,” (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes) Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 227-54.

"Migration, Remittances and Male and Female Employment Patterns,” (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 96, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 222-26.

"Requiring a Math Skills Unit: Results of a Randomized Experiment," (with Charles A. Stull) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 96, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 437-41.

"Dollarization and Illegal Immigration: Implications for NAFTA," in Monetary Integration and Dollarization: No Panecea, edited by Matias Vernengo, Edward Elgar, 2006.

“Below the Surface: Underground Economic Activity,” Harvard International Review, Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 56-59.

"On the Use of Differing Money Transmission Methods by Mexican Immigrants," (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes) International Migration Review, Vol. 39, No 3, Fall 2005.

"On the Remitting Patterns of Immigrants: Evidence from Mexican Survey Data," (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Cynthia Bansak) Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 1st Quarter, 2005.

"On Remittances and Risk," in Beyond Small Change: Making Migrant Remittances Count, Donald F. Terry and Steven R. Wilson, editors, Washington D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank, 2005, pp. 71-92.

"Exchange-Rate Uncertainity and Workers' Remittances," (with Matthew Higgins and Alketa Hysenbegasi) Applied Financial Economics, March 2004.

"Statistical Distributions and the Identification of Currency Crises," (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes) Journal of International Money and Finance, August 2003.

"Precautionary Saving by Young Immigrants and Young Natives," (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 69, 2002.

"Foreign Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment," (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes), International Trade Journal, Fall 2001.

Prewar and Postwar Macroeconomic Uncertainty: An International Perspective," (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes), Journal of Macroeconomics, Fall 2001.

"Exchange-Rate Uncertainty and Economic Performance," (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes), Review of Development Economics, October 2001.

Exchange-Rate Uncertainty and Dollarization: A Structural Vector Error Correction Approach to Estimating Money Demand," (with Mark Wheeler), Applied Financial Economics, December 2000.

"Expectations and the Black Market Premium", (with Mark Wheeler), Review of International Economics, May 1999.

"Is the World Economy More Integrated Today than a Century Ago?", (with Mark Wheeler), Atlantic Economic Journal, June 1997.

Price Behavior in Illegal Markets, Avebury, 1996.

Exploring the Underground Economy: Studies of Illegal and Unreported Activity, (editor)W.E.Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1996.

"Illegal Immigration, Wage Volatility and NAFTA," NAFTA: Law and Business Review of the Americas, Summer 1995.

"Are Flexible Exchange Rates Really More Volatile? Evidence from the Early 1900s," Applied Economics, November 1992.

"Conditional Exchange-Rate Volatility and the Volume of International Trade: Evidence from the Early 1900s" Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1992.

"Fernandez Florez's: Mandeville Rehearsed", (with Warren J. Samuels), Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 1992.

"Exchange Risk and the Invoicing of Trade: Evidence from Seven European Countries", in Selected Readings on International Trade, Khosrow Fatemi (editor), New York, Taylor and Francis, 1991.

"Monetary Operating Procedures and Exchange-Rate Volatility", Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Summer 1988.

"The ECU as International Money", Journal of International Money and Finance, June 1987

"Pensions, Social Security, and Asset Accumulation" (with Stephen A. Woodbury), Eastern Economic Journal, July-September 1986.

Essays on Legal and Illegal Immigration, (ed.) W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1986.

"Composition and Variability of the SDR," Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1984.

 

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