The Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy sponsors visitors from time to time.

Takashi Shimizu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Advanced Social and International Studies at the University of Tokyo.  Dr. Shimizu spent 2004-March 2006 at Yale working on several research projects: one concerns the effects of legal sanctions on firms; another compares industrial organization in the U.S. and Japan; a third is a joint project with Professor Koichi Hamada (Economics, Yale) on WTO dispute settlement and enforcement.

Benno Torgler, was a postdoctoral fellow under Leitner auspices from the University of Basel for 2004-2006.  He was a prolific scholar on topics of taxation and moral hazard, as reflected by his numerous contributions to our working paper series.  He also taught a graduate seminar for the masters program in International Relations on “Tax Evasion, Shadow Economies, and Corruption: The Dark Side of Economics.”

Joerg Baten, Chair of Department of Economics, Tuebingen visited the Leitner Program from March 2-April 6, 2005. He participated in the Workshop on Biological Welfare and Inequality on March 3-4, presented a Leitner seminar on March 28 on “The Techinical Component of Human Capital,” and collaborated with Frances Rosenbluth (Political Science, Yale) on The Political Economy of Height Inequality and with Jose Cheibub (Political Science) on Height Inequality and Democracy.

Mariano Tommasi, (Spring 2003), Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Universidad de San Andres and Director of the Center of Studies for Institutional Development, both in Argentina. Tommasi is the Vice-president of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association.  He specializes in political economy and institutional economics, with focus on developing countries. He has published several books and articles, in journals such as American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, International Economic Review, Economics and Politics, Journal of Policy Reform, and Economic Inquiry. He has held visiting positions such as Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, Ben Nathan Chair of Economics at Tel Aviv University, and a Visiting Professorship at the University of California – Los Angeles.  He has been an advisor to several Latin American governments, and to international organizations such as the World Bank and the Inter American Development Bank.

Dr. Tommasi is putting the final touches on a book with Pablo Spiller (U. C. Berkeley Graduate School of Business) on the political economy of development and reform, and is starting a new project that looks at the inter-temporal nature of political bargaining.  In addition, he is teaching a graduate seminar on Institutions, Politics, and Economic Policy (in Developing Countries).

Amrita Narlikar, Visiting Fellow (Spring 2002). Dr. Narlikar is a Research Fellow in International Relations at St. John's College, Oxford, UK. While at Yale, Dr. Narlikar researched the effects of lobbying efforts of WTO officials.