{"59198":{"#nid":"59198","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nair-Reichert Focuses on Impacts of Trade Liberalization","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUsha Nair-Reichert, Associate Professor in the School of Economics, has focused her current research on trade and financial reforms, foreign direct investment, and sustainable economic development.  These interests are a natural offshoot of her previous work in the central bank in India in the areas of exchange control, trade, foreign direct investment and technology transfer policies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENair-Reichert\u0027s recent research includes a paper, \u0022Firm Heterogeneity, Trade Liberalization and Duration of Trade and Production:  The Case of India,\u0022  co-authored with Tibor Besedes, Assistant Professor, School of Economics.  The paper was accepted at conferences in Ljubljana, Slovenia and New Delhi, India in June 2009.   An interesting result from this work which uses data on Indian firms indicates that, after controlling for initial firm productivity, trade liberalization decreases the likelihood that a firm will cease producing and\/or exporting a given product.  This work is part of an ongoing research project that seeks to establish changes in the duration of trade and production after trade liberalization as additional channels through which trade reforms could impact firm productivity and growth.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother paper investigating these factors in India is titled,  \u0022Trade Liberalization, Firm Performance and Financing Constraints,\u0022  and is co-authored with Olga Shemyakina, Assistant Professor, School of Economics. It was presented at the 2nd Georgia International\/Development Economics Workshop at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta in December 2008. This study indicates that financing constraints, such as unavailability of external funding, have had a negative and significant impact on the productivity of Indian firms during the period 1994-2006. However, being an exporter in a financially constrained industry partially mitigates the negative impact on productivity.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENair-Reichert attended the scientific committee meeting of the European Economics and Finance Society (EEFS) at the University of Warsaw in Poland in June 2009. She presented a paper \u0022Export Competitiveness and Access to Trade Facilitating Services,\u0022  co-authored with Richard Cebula and Joy Mazumdar at the EEFS conference examining the role of liberalization of trade in services in facilitating trade in manufactured goods.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Usha Nair-Reichert, Associate Professor in the School of Economics, has focused her current research on trade and financial reforms, foreign direct investment, and sustainable economic development.  These interests are a natural offshoot of her previous work in the central bank in India in the areas of exchange control, trade, foreign direct investment and technology transfer policies.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Economics Professor Expands Area of Research"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2009-07-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:46","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59199":{"id":"59199","type":"image","title":"tjk84231.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176217","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:57","changed":"1475894390","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:50","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190901","name":"tjk84231.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tjk84231_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tjk84231_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":55954,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tjk84231_0.jpg?itok=HGDn-tKX"}}},"media_ids":["59199"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.econ.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/reichert","title":"More on Nair-Reichert"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"602","name":"economics"},{"id":"10102","name":"Liberalization"},{"id":"10101","name":"Nair-Reichert"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"6605","name":"Trade"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}