Chang-Tai Hsieh

Chang-Tai Hsieh conducts research on growth and development. Hsieh has published several papers in top economic journals, including "Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India," in the Quarterly Journal of Economics; "Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity," in the American Economic Review; "Can Free Entry be Inefficient? Fixed Commissions and Social Waste in the Real Estate Industry," in the Journal of Political Economy; and "What Explains the Industrial Revolution in East Asia? Evidence from the Factor Markets," in the American Economic Review.

Hsieh has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis, as well as the World Bank's Development Economics Group and the Economic Planning Agency in Japan. He is a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, a Co-Director of the China Economics Summer Institute, and a member of the Steering Group of the International Growth Center in London.

He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, Smith-Richardson Foundation Research Fellowship, and the Sun Ye-Fang award for research on the Chinese economy.

Selected Publications

With Peter Klenow, "Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India," Quarterly Journal of Economics (2009).

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With Peter Klenow, "Relatives Prices and Relative Prosperity," American Economic Review (2007).

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With Enrico Moretti, "Did Iraq Cheat the United Nations? Underpricing, Bribes, and the Oil for Food Program," Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006).

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With Enrico Moretti, "Is Free Entry Inefficient? Fixed Commissions and Social Waste in the Real Estate Industry," Journal of Political Economy (2003).

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"What Explains the Industrial Revolution in East Asia? Evidence from the Factor Markets," American Economic Review (2002).

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