Position(s) at the Institute

Professor, International Economics

Profile

PhD, Columbia University
After having held teaching appointments at Queen's University and Columbia University, Slobodan Djajic joined the Institute faculty as Professor of International Trade and Economic Development. His current research is mainly in the field of international migration, although his earlier publications cover a broad range of topics including exchange rate and current account analysis, trade in exhaustible resources, macroeconomic implications of commercial policies, and the effects of transfers and foreign aid.

Areas of expertise

• Development, cooperation and aid policies
• Migration policies and law, International Migration

Selected publications

• "Investment Opportunities in the Source Country and Temporary Migration," Canadian Journal of Economics, 43, (May 2010), 663-682.
• "On the Welfare Implications of Temporary and Permanent Immigration," Bank i Kredyt, 40 (2009), 49-60.
• "Foreign Aid, Infrastructure Development and Welfare," Review of Development Economics, 13, (May 2009), 393-402.
• "Immigrant Parents and Children: An Analysis of Decisions Related to Return Migration," Review of Development Economics, 12, (August 2008), 469-485.
• "Logic of Aid in an Intertemporal Setting," with Sajal Lahiri and Pascalis Raimondos-Møller, Review of International Economics, 12, (February 2004), 151-161.