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Education:
Ph.D., Boston College
Expertise:
International trade and finance; law and economics and economies
in transition
Background:
Joseph
Pelzman, Professor of Economics, International Affairs and Law,
has been awarded a Senior Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and
do research at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, School of
Management in Beer Sheva, ISRAEL, during the 2005-2006 academic
year, according to the United States Department of State and the
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. [He can be
reached at jpelzman@bgu.ac.il or jpelz@gwu.edu.]
Professor
Pelzman's research will focus on Israel's 20 year experience
with "Fiscal Reform in Support of Tariff
Liberalization," post implementation of the US-Israel FTA.
Professor Pelzman will present lectures on his research findings
and on the following : "E-Commerce without Borders: a Legal
and Economic Perspective," and "International Trade
for a High Tech Economy with Constrained Outsourcing
Possibilities."
Professor
Pelzman is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and
professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for
the 2005-2006 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar
Program. The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international
educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S.
Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Recipients
of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of
academic or professional achievement and because they have
demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.
Among thousands of prominent Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton
Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Alan Leshner, CEO of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS);
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of
Intel Corporation.
Professor
Pelzman received his B.A. in economics from Boston College and
began his MA in Soviet Studies at Harvard University. His Ph.D.
in Economics was completed at Boston College. After 20 years as
an economics faculty member, Professor Pelzman entered George
Washington Law School and completed his JD in 1998. He is
admitted to practice in the State of Maryland.
Professor
Pelzman has been a faculty member at GWU since 1980 and a part
of the Elliott School since its creation. He has also taught
international economics and economies in transition at Harvard
University, Boston College, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
and to US diplomats at the Foreign Service Institute. Professor
Pelzman also teaches Law and Economics at GWU Law School, and on
a visiting basis at The Radzyner School Of Law, Herzlia, Israel,
and Catholic University Law School, Washington, DC.
Professor
Pelzman currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
international trade theory and policy as well as international
trade law and law and economics.
He
has published in numerous academic journals including the American
Economic Review, The European Economic Review, The Southern
Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, Economic
Development and Cultural Change, Integracion Latinoamericana,
and Weltwirtschafliches Archiv, and has been a
contributor to over 20 books.
Professor
Pelzman's current research and policy interests include: WTO and
the dispute resolution process; US-EU competition policy; U.S.
regional trade policy; and law and economics.
Courses
Taught:
Economies of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Economies of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
International Trade Theory
International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics
Survey of International Trade: Theory & Policy
Survey of International Macroeconomics
Special Topics
Seminar: Formerly Centrally Planned Economies
Seminar: International Economic Theory
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