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Professor Denise Konan



Professor Denise Konan, Ph.D.

Contact Information:
Mailing Address: Saunders Hall Room 542, 2424 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI, 96822
Telephone: (808) 956-8496
Fax: (808) 956-4347
Email: konan@hawaii.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests
International trade, computational economics, regional integration, multinationals, and services liberalization.

Recent Publications
Book Chapters: Konan, Denise. 2005. "Economic Implications of an Egypt - US FTA," in Anchoring Reform with a US-Egypt Free Trade Agreement, R. Lawrence and A. Galal, Washington: Institute for International Economics Press.

Konan, Denise. 2005. "Beyond Border Barriers, Services Liberalization in Tunisia and Egypt," in The World Economy: Global Trade Policy 2004, David Greenaway, editor, Blackwell Publishing.

Konan, Denise. 2005. "Deepening Egypt-US Trade Integration: Economic Implications of Alternative Options," in US-Egypt Free Trade Agreement, R. Lawrence and A. Galal, Washington: Institute for International Economics Press.

Konan, Denise. 2004. "Bilateral Trade Patterns and Welfare: An Egypt-EU Preferential Trade Agreement," in New Development of International Trade: Theoretical and Empirical Investigation, S. Katayama, editor. Kobe: REIB Kobe University Press.

Konan, Denise. 2003. "Alternative Paths to Prosperity: Trade Liberalization in Egypt and Tunisia." in Arab Economic Integration: Between Hope and Reality, Bernard Hoekman, editor, Rev.ookings Institute.

Konan, Denise. Trade Policy Developments in the Middle East and North Africa. Edited by Bernard Hoekman and Hanaa Kheir-El-Din. Mediterranean Development Forum. Washington DC: The World Bank, 2000. in the Journal of Economic Literature, 2001.

Journal Articles:

Konan, Denise. (Forthcoming). "Quantifying the Impact of Services Liberalization in Tunisia," Journal of Development Economics.

Konan, Denise. 2005. "Estimating Environmental Impacts of Ground Transportation in Hawaii Using Economic Data," Transportation Research Record.

Konan, Denise. September 2004. "Beyond Border Barriers, Services Liberalization in Tunisia and Egypt," World Economy, 27:9, pp. 1429-47.

Konan, Denise. 2003. "Transportation and Tourism in Hawaii: A Computable General Equilibrium Model," Transportation Research Record 1839.

Konan, Denise. 2002. "Intellectual Property Rights in China: American Pressure and Chinese Resistance," World Economy, 25:6.

Konan, Denise. 2001. "Prospects for FDI in the AFTA," ASEAN Economic Bulletin.

Affiliations
World Bank, Pacific Century Fellows, American Economic Association, International Economics and Finance Society, Committee on the Status of Women in Economics.

Service History
Konan has served as a trade policy advisor to The Ministry of International Cooperation of Tunisia regarding their negotiations on services liberalization with the World Trade Organization. In cooperation with Egypt's Ministry of International Cooperation, Konan developed an economic model to inform Egypt's negotiations of a partnership agreement with the European Union. Her research on trade policy in the Middle East and North Africa region has been widely published in academic journals. Konan has been involved in a Study Group on Middle East Trade Policy with the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

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