Jennifer Pédussel Wu

Co-Director of the IPE

Prof. Dr. Jennifer Pédussel Wu joined the Berlin School of Economics and Law in 2008 as a Professor of Economics (Professor for Economics, in particular for world trade and international production). Previously, she was a Professor of Economics at the Ecole des Dirigeants et Créateurs d’Entreprises (EDC-Paris) and an Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris. She has been an Associate Member of the LEN Research Center at the University of Nantes (France) and was a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), Bonn (Germany). She holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Oberlin College, a M.A. degree in Mathematical Behavior Science and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of California, Irvine.  Her research areas of interest include: International Trade and Regional Integration, European Union, Trade in Factors of Production, Gender and Immigration, and Foreign Direct Investment.

Research Interests: 

• International Trade and Regional Integration
• European Union
• Trade in Factors of Production
• Gender and Immigration
• Foreign Direct Investment

Selected Publications

• “Determinants of Colombian Inward Foreign Direct Investment. An Empirical Analysis” (with Carlos Abreo and Eduardo Carrillo). CEPAL Review, No. 143, August 2024.
• “Chinese Port Investments and Their Effects on Bilateral Trade” (with Clark Banach) in New Chinese Initiatives for a Changing Global Security, in Stekić, N. and Mitić, A. (Eds.), New Chinese Initiatives for a Changing Global Security, The 3rd “Dialogues on China” International Academic Conference, Belgrade: Institute of International Politics and Economics, 2023.
• “Digital Remittances: The Role of Alternative Money Transfers Channels” (with Martina Metzger and Tim Riedler) in: Daisy Chou, Daisy, O’Sullivan, Conall and Vassilios G. Papavassiliou (eds.), FinTech Research and Applications: Challenges and Opportunities, Transformations in Banking, Finance and Regulation series, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2023. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.hwr-berlin.de/lib/hwr/detail.action?docID=7217550
• “Foreign Direct Investment Effects on the Distribution of Regional Industrial Value-Added in China” (with Behzad Azarhoushang and Shahryar Zaroki), Journal of Asian Pacific Economy, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2021.1944021, published online 26 July 2021).
• "Immigrant gender and international trade" (with Harry P. Bowen), Special Issue on Migration and Institutions, Mondes en Développement, 46:184 (15-30), 2018. https://doi.org/10.3917/med.184.0015
• “Immigrant Specificity and the Relationship between Trade and Immigration: Theory and Evidence” (with Harry P. Bowen) Southern Economic Journal 2013, 80(2), 366–384. https://doi.org/10.4284/0038-4038-2011.230
• “Measuring and Explaining Levels of Regional Economic Integration”, in De Lombaerde, Philippe (Ed.) Assessment and Measurement of Regional Integration, London: Routledge, 2006, 146-164 (19 pages).
• “Trade Agreements as Self-Protection”, Review of International Economics, 13:3, 2005, 472-484. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9396.2005.00518.x Economic Integration, Institutions, and Protection Against Risk, thesis, University of California, Irvine 2001.

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