June 2006

                                                       Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

 

                                                        JAMES ALAN BRANDER

 

Office Addresses:

 

University of British Columbia (UBC)                       Delta Economics Group Inc.:

 

Sauder School of Business                                             Airport Square - Suite 930

University of British Columbia (UBC)                             1200 West 73rd Avenue

Vancouver, B.C., Canada  V6T 1Z2                               Vancouver, B.C.  Canada V6P 6G5

(604) 822-8478 Fax:  822-8477                                       (604) 264-7888 Fax: (604) 264-7878

E-Mail: brander@sauder.ubc.ca                                     Web: http://www.deltaecon.com

Web: http://strategy.sauder.ubc.ca/brander/               

 

Education

 

University of British Columbia:  B.A. (Economics, 1975).

Stanford University:   A.M. (1978);  Ph.D. (Economics, 1979).

 

Present Positions

 

Asia Pacific Professor of International Business, Sauder School of Business, UBC 

Senior Consultant, Delta Economics Group Inc., Vancouver, B.C.

 

Previous Positions

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Queen’s University, 1979-84.

Associate Professor, Faculty of Commerce (now Sauder School), UBC, 1984-90. 

Visiting Research Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian Nat. Univ. 1989-90

Chair of Policy Analysis Division, Faculty of Commerce (now Sauder School), UBC, 1990-93.

Associate Dean, Sauder School of Business,  UBC, 1999-2003

 

Selected Other Professional Experience & Honours

 

Harry Johnson Prize (awarded annually to the author(s) of the paper judged to be the best paper published in the Canadian Journal of Economics in the preceeding year (with B. Spencer), 1982

 

Faculty Research Fellow, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Res. 1983-2002.

 

Inaugural UBC Killam Research Prize, 1986

 

Bieley Prize, (UBC’s “top research prize” given annually to one person), 1998

 

Co-Editor, Journal of International Economics, 1990-96.

 

Managing Editor, Canadian Journal of Economics, 1997-2001.

Research and Consulting

 

Major Research and Consulting Areas:       

 

1.  International Trade Policy

2.  Industrial Economics (esp. Competition Policy and Intellectual Property)

3.  Estimation of Economic  Damages

4.  Venture Capital Finance

5.  Environmental and Resource Management

 

Consulting Experience: Clients, Industries, Types of Cases and Major Issues

 

Advice provided to a number of public and private sector clients with respect to international trade policy, competition and regulatory matters, intellectual property, and environmental policy in the following industries (among others): waste disposal, grocery retailing, natural gas, sugar, baby food, audio recording media, natural gas, zinc, MSG, sorbates, citric acid, steel, vitamins, women's clothing, venture capital finance, hydrogen peroxide, DRAM, automobiles.

 

Types of cases have included: anti-dumping, subsidies, mergers, abuse of dominant position,  price-fixing (especially the measurement of damages), intellectual property, environmental planning, corporate strategy.

 

Expert Testimony Provided 

 

Expert Witness Before Canadian International Trade Tribunal, 1995, sugar anti-dumping, witness for plaintiffs.

 

Expert Witness Before Canadian International Trade Tribunal, 1998, baby food anti-dumping, witness for plaintiffs

 

Expert Witness Before Canadian Copyright Board, 1999, audio recording media, witness for manufactures of recording media.

 

Expert Witness Before Canadian Copyright Board, 2000, audio recording media, witness for manufacturers of recording media.

 

Expert Witness Before Canadian International Trade Tribunal, 2002, steel safeguards, witness for Commissioner of Competition.

 

Expert Witness Before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, 2006, women's clothing, witness for defendant in intellectual property case

 

 

Selected Publications: (See UBC website for a complete list.)

 

1)       Brander, James A.  (2005) Government Policy Toward Business, 4th. ed., Wiley: Toronto, Canada                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

2)       Jean de Bettignies and James A. Brander (2006) "Financing Entrepreneurship: Bank Finance versus Venture Capital" Journal of Business Venturing, (forthcoming). 

3)       James A. Brander (2006) "The Effect of Ethical Fund Portfolio Inclusion on Executive Compensation", Journal of Business Ethics. (forthcoming).

4)       Jen Baggs and James A. Brander (2006) "Trade Liberalization and Financial Leverage" Journal of International Business Studies 37 (March), 196-211.

5)       James A. Brander and Thomas W. Ross (2006) Estimating Damages from Price-Fixing, Canadian Class Action Review  3 (No. 1, January) pp: 335-370.

6)       James A. Brander, Raphael Amit and Werner Antweiler (2002) Venture Capital Syndication: Improved Venture Selection versus the Value-Added Hypotheses, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 11 (Fall) pp. 423-451.

7)       Raphael Amit, James A. Brander and Christoph Zott (1998) "Why do Venture Capital Firms Exist? Theory and Canadian Evidence" Journal of Business Venturing 13 (November) pp. 441-548 (lead article). Reprinted in Lowell W. Busenitz, Harry J. Spinieza, and Mike Wright (eds.) Venture Capital (2003) Edward Elgar Publishing: Camberley, UK

8)       Brander, James A. and M. Scott Taylor (1998) "Open-Access Renewable Resources: Trade and Trade Policy in a Two-Country Model", Journal of International Economics 19, 267-298.

9)       Brander, James A. and M. Scott Taylor (1998) "The Simple Economics of Easter Island: A Ricardo-Malthus Model of Renewable Resource Use", American Economic Review 88 (March) 119-138.

10)   Brander, James A. and M. Scott Taylor (1997) "International Trade between Consumer and Conservationist Countries", Resource and Energy Economics 19, 267-298.

11)   Brander, James A. and M. Scott Taylor (1997) "International Trade and Open Access Renewable Resources: the small open economy case", Canadian Journal of Economics 30, 526-552.

12)   Brander, James A. and Barbara J. Spencer  (1994) "Trade Adjustment Assistance: Welfare and Incentive Effects of Payments to Displaced Workers", Journal of International Econ. 36, 239-262.

13)   Brander, James A. and Steve Dowrick (1994) "The Role of Fertility and Population in Economic Growth: New Evidence from Aggregate Cross-National Data" Journal of Population Economics 7, pp. 1-25.

14)   Brander, James A. and Anming Zhang (1993) "Dynamic Competition in the Airline Industry", International Journal of Industrial Organization 11, pp. 407-435.

15)   Barbara J. Spencer and James A. Brander (1992) "Pre-commitment and Flexibility:  Applications to Oligopoly Theory", European Econ. Rev. 36:8, pp. 1601-1626, December.

16)   Brander, James A. (1992) "Comparative Economic Growth: Evidence and Interpretation", Canadian Journal of Economics vol. 25 (Nov), pp. 792-818  (This paper was the 1992 Innis Lecture at the Canadian Economics Association Meetings, Charlottetown, PEI, June 1992.

17)   Brander, James A. and Michel Poitevin (1992) "Managerial Compensation and the Agency Costs of Debt Finance" Managerial and Decision Economics vol. 13, pp. 55-64.

18)   Brander, James A. (1991) "Election Polls, Free Trade, and the Stock Market: Evidence from the1988 Canadian General Election", Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 24  (Nov), pp. 827-843.

19)   Brander, James A. and Anming Zhang (1990) "Market Conduct in the Airline Industry: An Empirical Investigation", Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 21 (Winter), pp. 567-583.

20)   Brander, James A. and Barbara J. Spencer (1989) "Moral Hazard and Limited Liability: Implications for the theory of the firm" International Economic Review, vol.30 (Nov), pp. 833-849.

21)   Brander, James A. and Barbara J. Spencer (1988) "Unionized Oligopoly and International Trade Policy", Journal of International Economics, vol.24 (May), pp.217-234.

22)   Brander, James A.  and Tracy Lewis (1988) "Bankruptcy Costs and the Theory of Oligopoly", Canadian Journal of Economics, vol.21, (May) pp.221-243.

23)   Brander, James A. and Barbara J. Spencer (1987) "Foreign Direct Investment, Unemployment, and Endogenous Taxes and Tariffs", Journal of International Economics, 22 (May) 257-280.

24)   Brander, James A.  and Tracy Lewis (1986) "Oligopoly and Financial Structure:  the effects of limited liability  American Economic Review  76 (December) 956-970. Reprinted in Andrew Daughety, ed.,Cournot Oligopoly (1988), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England.

25)   Brander, James A. and Barbara J. Spencer (1985) "Ramsey-Optimal Two Part Tariffs: the Case of Many Heterogeneous groups, PublicFinance, (No. 3), 335-346.

26)   Brander, James A. and Barbara J. Spencer (1985) "Tacit Collusion, Free Entry and Welfare", Journal of Industrial Economics 33 (March), 277-294.

27)   Brander, James A. and Barbara J. Spencer (1985) "Export Subsidies and International Market Share Rivalry", Journal of International Economics 17 (February), 83-100.

28)   Brander, James A. and Barbara J. Spencer (1984) "Trade Warfare:  Tariffs and Cartels", Journal of International Economics 16 (May), 227-242.                                                                                                                                 

29)   Brander, James A.  and Jonathan Eaton (1984) "Product Line Rivalry", American Economic Review, 74 (June) 323-334.                                                                                                                                                                                  

30)   Brander, James A. and Paul Krugman (1983) "A 'Reciprocal Dumping' Model of International Trade", Journal of International Economics, 15 (November) 313-321 (with Paul Krugman). Reprinted in J.M.Alec Gee and G. Norman, ed. Market Strategy and Structure (1993) Harvester Wheatsheaf: New York. Reprinted in Gene Grossman ed. Imperfect Competition and International Trade (1992) MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.

31)   Spencer, Barbara J. and James A. Brander (1983) "International R & D Rivalry and Industrial Strategy", Review of Economic Studies, 50 (October) 707-722 (with Barbara Spencer). Reprinted in David B. Audretsch ed. Industrial Policy and Competitive Advantage (1996) Eward Alger Press: Cheltenham, UK.

32)   Brander, James A. and Barbara J. Spencer (1983) "Strategic Commitment with R & D:  The Symmetric Case",  Bell Journal of Economics, 14 (Spring), 225-235.

33)   Brander, James A. and Slobodan Djajic (1983)  "Rent-Extracting Tariffs and the Management of Exhaustible Resources", Canadian J.  of  Economics, 16  (April)  289-299.

34)   Spencer, Barbara J. and James A. Brander (1983) "Second Best Pricing of Publicly Produced Inputs:  The Case of Downstream Imperfect Competition", Journal of Public Economics, 20, (February), 113-119.

35)   Brander, James A. and Barbara Spencer (1981) "Tariffs and the Extraction of Foreign Monopoly Rent Under Potential Entry", Canadian Journal of Economics 14 (August) 371-384  (won Harry Johnson Prize). Reprinted in Jagdish Bhagwati, ed. International Trade: Selected Readings, 2nd ed. (1987) MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.

36)   Brander, James A. (1981)  "Intra-industry Trade in Identical Commodities", Journal of International Economics 11 (February), 1-14. Reprinted in M.L. Greenhut, and G. Norman The Economics of Location. Edward Elger Publishing, London. Reprinted in P. J. Lloyd and Herbert G. Grubel (eds) Intra-Industry Trade Edward Elgar Pub., Camberley, UK (2002).

 

Teaching

Courses Taught:                     Managerial Economics

                                                Government and Business

                                                International Business

                                                International Trade Theory and Policy

                                                Microeconomic Theory (graduate level)

                                                Industrial Organization

Ph.D. Students Supervised

                                               

Student Name             Start Year        Comp. Year     Principal Supervisor   Co-Supervisor           

Hwang, Hong                1980                 1983                 Brander           

Howe, Maureen            1985                 1987                 Heinkel                         Brander et. al.

Poitevin, Michel             1984                 1987                 Schworm                      Brander et. al.

Stein, Michael               1985                 1988                 Simunic                         Brander et. al

Smith, Maxwell             1987                 1989                 Kraus                           Brander et. al.

Zhang, Yimin                1986                 1989                 Brander           

Pillay, Subramanian       1986                 1990                 Brander           

Zhang, Anming              1987                 1990                 Brander           

Parayre, Roch               1988                 1991                 Wehrung                       Brander et. al.

Fullerton, Michael          1988                 1992                 Brander           

Vandenbosch, Mark      1990                 1992                 Weinberg                      Brander et. al.

Van Amsberg               1993                 1990                 Brander           

Fu, Yuming                   1991                 1993                 Helsley                         Brander et. al.

Downie, David              1991                 1994                 Giammarino                  Brander et. al.

Chapple, Clive               1994                 1999                 Brander           

Anderies, John              1995                 1998                 Colin Clark                    Brander et. al.

Zott, Christoph              1995                 1999                 Brander/Amit   

Yu, Zhi hao                   1996                 1999                 Taylor/Copeland            Brander et. al.

Agrawal, Ajay               1996                 2000                 Cockburn                      Brander et. al.

Wagner, Don                1996                 2000                 Head                            Brander et. al.

Deutsch, Yuval             1998                 2002                 Ross                             Brander et. al.

Baggs, Jennifer             1998                 2002                 Brander/Head  

Finucane, Sean              2000                 2004                 Brander/Li       

Aviad Pe'er                   2000                 2005                 Vertinsky                      Brander, et. al.