James Riedel
Professor Emeritus
About
James Riedel is Professor Emeritus and formerly the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economics at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he has been on the faculty since 1976. His interests lie in economic development, international finance, and international trade theory and policy. He is member of the Board of Directors of the Vietnam Debt Fund (Dragon Capital Group). He has been Senior Economic Advisor to the USAID‐funded STAR‐project, which advises the government of Vietnam on economic policy and a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the OECD and other international organizations and corporations. He is on the advisory boards of the American Committee for Asian Economic Studies and the Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research. He has been a research fellow at the Institut fur Weltwirtschaft (Kiel), a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Fulbright Professor in Vietnam. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Asian Economics and on the advisory boards of The World Economy and Asia Pacific Economic Literature. He has published numerous books and articles on international trade theory, international finance and economic development.
- “Lessons for Last-Comers from Vietnam’s Transition,” Journal of Southeast Asian
Economies, Vol. 32, No1 (2015), 125-39. - “Expectations and the Cost of Disinflation in Vietnam,” Journal of Asian Pacific Economy
(Routledge), Vol. 18, no.1, 2013, 86-97. (with Tra Pham) - “On the Conduct of Monetary Policy in Vietnam,” Asia Pacific Economic Literature
(Blackwell), Vol. 26, no.1, 35-45, 2012. (with Tra Pham). - “The Tyranny of Numbers or the Tyranny of Methodology: Explaining the East Asian Growth Experience,” Annals of Economics and Finance, 8-2, 385-396 (2007).
- “Aid and Growth: Reflections on the China and Vietnam,” Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 2006. Annals of Economics and Finance, forthcoming.
- How China Grows: Investment, Finance, and Reform, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press 2007: Beijing: Peking University Press, 2007 (bilingual edition), with Jing Jin and Jian Gao
- The Politics and Economics of Transition to an Open Market Economy in Vietnam, Paris: OECD 1999, with William Turley
- Sustaining the Development Process, Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1995, contributor and co-editor with Ross Garnaut and Enzo Grilli
- Economic Crises and Long-term Growth in Turkey, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1993, with Ziya Onis
- Kinh Te Hoc Quoc Te: Ly Thuyet va Thuc Tien (International Economics: Theory and Practice), Hanoi: State Planning Committee, 1993, 185 pps (in Vietnamese).
- The Direction of Trade Policy, Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1990, contributor and co-editor with Charles Pearson
- Myths and Reality of External Constraints on Development, London: Gower Publishing Company Ltd. (for the Trade Policy Research Centre) 1987
- The Implications of Managed Floating Exchange Rates for U.S. Trade Policy, New York: NYU Monograph Series in Economics and Finance, 1979, with Isaiah Frank and Charles Pearson
- The Industrialization of Hong Kong, Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr/Paul Siebeck, 1974