Constantinos Syropoulos

Trustee Professor of International Economics
Department of Economics and International Business
LeBow College of Business
DREXEL UNIVERSITY

Address:

ECON 301: Intermediate Microeconomics (UG) -- Winter 2010

ECON 322: Undergraduate Seminar (UG) -- Winter 2010

INTB 334: International Trade (UG)

ECON 960: International Economics (G)

ECON 969: International Trade Seminar (G)

Research:

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Preferential Trade Arrangements, Political Economy, Conflict and Appropriation, Economic Growth

Publications

• "Globalization and Insecurity: Reviewing Some Basic Issues" (with Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas) in G.D. Hess (ed.), Guns and Butter: The Economic Causes and Consequences of Conflict, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, June 2009.



• "Trade Costs and Multimarket Collusion" (with Eric W. Bond), Rand Journal of Economics, 39(4), (Winter 2008), pp. 1080-1104.



• "Globalization and Domestic Conflict" (with Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas), Journal of International Economics, 76:2, (December 2008), pp. 296-308.



• "Tariff Adjustments in Preferential Trade Agreements" (with Eric W. Bond) in H. Beladi, K. Choi, N.V. Long, M. Tawada, and B. Tran-Nam Atax (eds.), Globalization and Emerging Issues in Trade Theory and Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, October 2008.



• "Patent Protection and Global Schumpeterian Growth" (with Elias Dinopoulos and Ali Gungoraydinoglu) in E. Dinopoulos, P. Krishna, A. Panagariya and K. Wong (eds.), Trade, Globalization and Poverty, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Ltd, January 2008.



• "Rent Protection as a Barrier to Innovation and Growth" (with Elias Dinopoulos), Economic Theory, 32(2), (August 2007), pp. 309-332.



• "A Strategic and Welfare Theoretic Analysis of Free Trade Areas" (with Eric W. Bond and Raymond G. Riezman), Journal of International Economics, 64:1, (October 2004), pp. 1-27. (Lead Article).



• "Rules for the Disposition of Tariff Revenues and the Determination of Common External Tariffs in Customs Unions," Journal of International Economics, 60:2, (August 2003), pp. 387-416.



• "Comparing Bargaining Solutions in the Shadow of Conflict: How Norms against Threats Can Have Real Effects" (with Nejat Anbarci and Stergios Skaperdas), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 106, No. 1, (September 2002), pp. 1-16. (Lead Article).



• "Optimum Tariffs and Retaliation Revisited: How Country Size Matters," Review of Economic Studies, 69:3, (July 2002), pp.707-727.



• "On Tariff Preferences and Delegation Decisions in Customs Unions: A Heckscher-Ohlin Approach," Economic Journal, 112:481, (July 2002), pp. 625-648.



• "Insecure Property and the Efficiency of Exchange" (with Stergios Skaperdas), Economic Journal, 112:476, (January 2002), pp. 133-146.



• "Guns, Butter and Openness: On the Relationship between Security and Trade" (with Stergios Skaperdas), American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 91(2), (May 2001), pp. 353-357.



• "Deepening of Regional Integration and Multilateral Trade Agreements" (with Eric W. Bond and L. Alan Winters), Journal of International Economics, 53:2, (April 2001), pp. 335-361. (Unpublished Appendix).



• "Customs Unions and Comparative Advantage," Oxford Economic Papers, 51:2, (April 1999), pp. 239-266. (Lead Article).



• "Complementarity in Contests" (with Stergios Skaperdas), European Journal of Political Economy, 14:4, (November 1998), pp. 667-684.



• "International Diffusion and Appropriability of Technological Expertise" (with Elias Dinopoulos) in M.R. Baye (ed.), Volume 7: Advances in Applied Microeconomics, pp. 115-137, JAI Press, 1998.



• "Tariffs and Schumpeterian Growth" (with Elias Dinopoulos), Journal of International Economics, 42:3, (May 1997), pp. 425-452.



• "The Distribution of Income in the Presence of Appropriative Activities" (with Stergios Skaperdas), Economica, 64, (March 1997), pp. 101-117.



• "Nontariff Trade Controls and Leader-Follower Relations in International Competition," Economica, 63, (November 1996), pp. 633-648.



• "On Pareto-Improving Voluntary Export Restraints," International Journal of Industrial Organization, 14:1, (1996), pp. 71-84.



• "Bilateral Trade Wars" (with Elias Dinopoulos and Mordechai E. Kreinin), International Trade Journal, 10, (Spring 1996), pp. 3-20. (Lead Article).

Reprinted in K. Fatemi (ed.), International Trade in the 21^st Century, Oxford: Elsevier Science, 1997.

• "The Size of Trading Blocs: Market Power and World Welfare Effects" (with Eric W. Bond), Journal of International Economics, 40:3, (May 1996), pp. 411-438.

Reprinted in C. Kowalczyk (ed.), Economic Integration and International Trade, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1999. (Series: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics).

• "Can the Shadow of the Future Harm Cooperation?" (with Stergios Skaperdas), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 29:3, (May 1996), pp. 355-372. (Lead Article).



• "Trading Blocs and the Sustainability of Inter-Regional Cooperation" (with Eric W. Bond) in M. Canzoneri, W.J. Ethier and V. Grilli (eds.), The New Transatlantic Economy, pp. 118-141, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London: Cambridge University Press, 1996.



• "Trade Liberalization and Trade Adjustment Assistance: Discussion" in M. Canzoneri, W.J. Ethier and V. Grilli (eds.), The New Transatlantic Economy, pp. 287-294, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London: Cambridge University Press, 1996.



• "Fortress Common Markets: Are They Welfare Improving?" (with Elias Dinopoulos) in C.C. Paraskevopoulos, R. Grinspun and T. Georgakopoulos (eds.), Economic Integration and Public Policy in the European Union, pp. 47-60, London: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1996.



• "On the Effects of Insecure Property" (with Stergios Skaperdas), Canadian Journal of Economics, 29, (April 1996), pp. S622-S626.



• "Implications of Preferential Trading Arrangements for Policy and Market Access," Canadian Journal of Economics, 29, (April 1996), pp. S401-S405.



• "Growth-Creating Trading Blocs" (with Elias Dinopoulos), Canadian Journal of Economics, 29, (April 1996), pp. S371-S375.



• "Competitive Trade with Conflict" (with Stergios Skaperdas) in M.R. Garfinkel and S. Skaperdas (eds.), The Political Economy of Conflict and Appropriation, pp. 73-95, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.



• "Gangs as Primitive States" (with Stergios Skaperdas) in G. Fiorentini and S. Peltzman (eds.), The Economics of Organized Crime, pp. 61-82, (Centre for Economic Policy Research) London: Cambridge University Press, 1995.



• "Bilateral Quota Wars" (with Elias Dinopoulos and Mordechai E. Kreinin), Canadian Journal of Economics, 28:4a, (November 1995), pp. 939-944.



• "Endogenous Timing in Games of Commercial Policy," Canadian Journal of Economics, 27:4, (November 1994), pp. 847-864.



• "Quantitative Restrictions and Tariffs with Endogenous Firm Behavior," European Economic Review, 36:8, (December 1992), pp. 1627-1646.

Working Papers

• "Globalization, Factor Endowments and Scale-Invariant Growth" (with Elias Dinopoulos)



• "Intra-Industry Trade and Wage-Income Inequality" (with Elias Dinopoulos and Bin Xu)



• "On the Stability of Multimarket Collusion in Price-Setting Supergames" (with Osayi Akinbosoye and Eric W. Bond)



• "Economic Integration and the Sustainability of Multimarket Collusion" (with Eric W. Bond)



• "Bilateralism: 'Stepping Stone' or 'Stumbling Block' to Global Free Trade?" (with Elias Dinopoulos)



• "International Trade and Transnational Insecurity: How Comparative Advantage and Power are Jointly Determined" (with Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas)



• "Multi-Country Tariff Wars and the Feasibility of Free Trade Agreements" (with Elias Dinopoulos)