Harry P. Bowen, Associate Professor and

   W.R. Holland Chair in International Business and Finance

 

 

 

  McColl School of Business

  Queens University of Charlotte

   1900 Selwyn Avenue

   Charlotte, N.C.  28274

    Tel: +1 704 688-2707

  bowenh@queens.edu

 

 

Welcome.  I joined the McColl School of Business in September 2007.  Before that, I was for 7 years Professor of Economics and International Business at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium; before that I was on the faculties (for about 9 years) of the Department of Economics and the Merage Graduate School of Business at University of California - Irvine; and for about 9 years before that I was first Assistant and then Associate Professor of Economics and International Business at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.  

 

Recent Publications

  • "The Use of Limited Dependent Variable Techniques in Strategy Research:  Assessment and Critique" (with M. Wiersema), Strategic Management Journal, 30(6): 679-692, 2009  (download)

  •  “A Composite Index of the Creative Economy,” Review of Business and Economics, 53(4), 2008 (with W. Moesen and L Sleuwaegen).

  • “Factor Mobility and the Distribution of Economic Activity in Integrated Economies: Evidence and Implications” European Economy Economic Papers, 315(March), 2008.  (with H. Munandar and J.-M. Viaene) (download)

  • “National Institutions and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Effort” Journal of International Business Studies, 39: 747-767 June 2008. (with Dirk de Clercq).

  • “Corporate International Diversification: The Impact of Foreign Competition, Industry Globalization and Firm Diversification.” Strategic Management Journal, 2(29): 115-132. February 2008. (with M. Wiersema).  

  • “European Integration: The Third Step” Journal of International Economics and Policy, 4(3): 241-262.  October 2007. (with L. Sleuwaegen).

  • “The Empirics of Multinationality and Performance” in Research in Global Strategic Management, Vol. 13: Regional Aspects of Multinationality and Performance, A. Rugman (ed.). Elsevier.  July 2007

  • “Ranking the Performance of Nations: Non-Uniform Weights and Non-Economic Dimensions”  Corporate Governance, 7(1): 6-16.  Jan. 2007. (with W. Moesen).

Education

Ph.D.      1980  Economics;  University of California,  Los Angeles

                           Concentrations: International Economics, Econometrics, Finance

                           Dissertation: Resources, Technology and Dynamic Comparative Advantage: A Cross-Country Test of the Product Cycle Theory of International Trade; Advisor Edward E. Leamer

 M.A.     1976    Economics; University of California, Los Angeles

 B.A.      1974    Economics, summa cum laude;  University of California,  San Diego         

Publications

  • "The Use of Limited Dependent Variable Techniques in Strategy Research:  Assessment and Critique" (with M. Wiersema), Strategic Management Journal, 30(6): 679-692, 2009

  • “National Institutions and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Effort” Journal of International Business Studies, 39: 747-767 June 2008. (with Dirk de Clercq).

  • “Corporate International Diversification: The Impact of Foreign Competition, Industry Globalization and Firm Diversification.” Strategic Management Journal, 2(29): 115-132. February 2008. (with M. Wiersema).

  • “European Integration: The Third Step” Journal of International Economics and Policy, 4(3): 241-262.  October 2007. (with L. Sleuwaegen).

  • “The Empirics of Multinationality and Performance” in Research in Global Strategic Management, Vol. 13: Regional Aspects of Multinationality and Performance, A. Rugman (ed.). Elsevier.  July 2007

  • “Ranking the Performance of Nations: Non-Uniform Weights and Non-Economic Dimensions”  Corporate Governance, 7(1): 6-16.  Jan. 2007 (with W. Moesen).

  • “Foreign-Based Competition and Corporate Diversification Strategy”, Strategic Management Journal, 26(12): 1153-1171. Dec. 2005. (with M. Wiersema)

  • “The Limiting Distribution of Production in Integrated Economies: Evidence from US States and EU Countries.” (with H. Munandar and J.-M. Viaene) Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 05-045/2 (2005).

  • “Modeling Limited Dependent Variables: Guidelines for Researchers of Strategic Management,” in Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, D. Ketchen, Jr. and D. Bergh Series Co-Editors, Elsevier Press, 2004. (with M. Wiersema).

  • “Does It Matter Where Immigrants Work?  Traded Goods, Non-traded Goods and Sector Specific Employment.” Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Working Paper No. 2004/14 (August 2004). (with J. Wu)

  • "Multicountry Multifactor Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory," American Economic Review, 77 (5) 1987 (Dec). (with E. Leamer and L. Sveikauskas).  Reprinted in E. Leamer (ed.): Worth Series in Outstanding Contributions in Economics: International Trade, (New York: Worth Publishers), 2001.

  • "Matching Method to Paradigm in Strategy Research: Limitations of Cross-Sectional Analysis and Some Methodological Alternatives," Strategic Management Journal, 20(7): 625-636.  July 1999. (with M. Wiersema)

  • “Empirical Methods in Strategy Research: Regression Analysis and the Use of Cross-Section versus Pooled Time-Series, Cross-Section Data,” in Statistical Models for Strategic Management, M. Ghertman (Editor), Kluwer Press, 1998. (with M. Wiersema)

  • “World Trade Flows, 1970-1992, With Production and Tariff Data," NBER Working Paper No. 5910,  January 1997.  (with R. Feenstra and R. Lipsey)

  • "Competitive Analysis in a World Economy" in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium of the Institut National des Sciences et de l’Administration des Entreprises: What Strategies for Business on the Threshold of the Third Millennium?, Antananarivo, Madagascar, June 1997. (with E. Milliot)

  • Review of International Economic Transactions, Issues in Measurement and Empirical Research, Peter Hooper and J. David Richardson (eds.), Journal of Economic Literature, March 1993.

  • “Competitiveness in a Global Economy,” UC Insight, Graduate School of Management, University of California at Irvine, (Spring) 1993 

  • “Judging Factor Abundance,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1992. (with L. Sveikauskas)

  • “The Real Issues Behind Free Trade with Mexico,” Orange Country Business Journal, January 13, 1992. (with D. Aigner)

  • "Semiconductors," in The European Challenge: Industry's Response to the 1992 Programme, David Mayes (Editor), (Harvester‑ Wheatsheaf: London), 1991

  • "Consumer Electronics," in The European Challenge: Industry's Response to the 1992 Programme, David Mayes (Editor), (Harvester‑ Wheatsheaf: London), 1991

  • "Developing Country Export Competitiveness" in The Convergence of International and Domestic Markets, D. Audretsch, L. Sleuwaegen and H. Yamawaki (eds.), Contributions to Economic Analysis Series Volume 180, (North Holland: Amsterdam) May 1989

  • "Inter‑Industry Regression Estimates of Factor Abundance" in The Internationalization of U.S. Markets, Michael Claudon and David Audretsch (eds.), (New York University Press), 1989 (with L. Sveikauskas)

  • Review of Empirical Methods in International Trade, Robert C. Feenstra (ed.), Journal of International Economics, 27 1989 

  • Review of Barriers to European Growth by R. Lawrence and C. Schultze, Journal of Economic Literature, December 1989

  • Comment on “Differentiated Products, Economies of Scale and Access to the Japanese Market" (by Gary Saxonhouse) in Trade Policies for International Competitiveness, R. Feenstra (Editor), NBER Research Conference Report (University of Chicago Press) 1989

  • "Protection and Welfare in the Presence of Dynamic Learning", Review of World Economics (previously Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 124 (4) December 1988.

  • Comment on “Imperfection Competition, Scale Economies, and Trade Policy in Developing Countries" (by Dani Rodrik) in Trade Policy Issues and Empirical Analysis, Robert Baldwin (editor), NBER Research Conference Report (University of Chicago Press) 1988

  • "Multicountry Multifactor Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory," American Economic Review, 77 (5) 1987 (Dec). (with E. Leamer and L. Sveikauskas)

  • Comment on “Is the Japan Problem Over?" (by Paul Krugman) in Trade Friction and Economic Policy, R. Sato and P. Wachtel (Editors), (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge) 1987

  • Review of Trading for Growth by G. Hufbauer and J. Schott. Journal of International Business, 28 (1) 1987

  • "On Measuring Comparative Advantage: Further Comments," Review of World Economics (previously Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 122 (2) 1986

  • "On Measuring Comparative Advantage: A Reply and Extensions," Review of World Economics (previously Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 121 (2) 1985

  • “Review of The Changing Structure of Comparative Advantage in American Manufacturing by K. Maskus.” Journal of International Economics, 19, 1985

  • “U.S. Export Competitiveness: 1962‑1977," Applied Economics, 16 (3) 1984. (with J. Pelzman)

  • "Appendix B ‑ Data Sources and Methods" in Sources of International Comparative Advantage: Theory and Evidence by Edward E. Leamer (MIT Press: Cambridge), 1984

  • "Changes in the International Distribution of Resources and Their Impact on U.S. Comparative Advantage," Review of Economics and Statistics, 65 (3) 1983

  • "On the Theoretical Interpretation of Indices of Trade Intensity and Revealed Comparative Advantage," Review of World Economics (previously Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 119 (3) 1983

  • "Cross‑Section Tests of the Heckscher‑Ohlin Theorem: Comment,"  American Economic Review, 71 (5) 1981. (with E. Leamer)

  • "Study of U.S. Competitiveness" in Report of the President on U.S. Competitiveness, (U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C.), September, 1980

  • "Changes in the International Pattern of Factor Abundance and the Composition of Trade," Economic Discussion Paper No. 8, U.S. Department of Labor, 1980

  • "A Constant Market Share Analysis of U.S. Export Growth,"  Economic Discussion Paper No. 10, U.S. Department of Labor, 1980.  (with J. Pelzman)

  • "Assessing the Changing Structure of World Trade,"  Economic Discussion Paper No. 11, U.S. Department of Labor, 1980. (with C. M. Aho and J. Pelzman)

  • “Erosion in U.S. Trade,” The Washington Star, December 22, 1980. (with C. M. Aho)

 

    Books

Applied International Trade Analysis (University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor and Palgrave-Macmillan: London), 1998. (with A. Hollander and J-M. Viaene)  (2nd edition in process).

    Papers  

 

 

   Cases

 “Cowboys to Gentlemen: Doing Business in Central Europe,” Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Case, ECCH Reference 206-028-1, 2006. (with I. De Voldere)

"Teaching Note: Cowboys to Gentlemen: Doing Business in Central Europe,” Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Case, ECCH Reference 206-028-8, 2006. (with I. De Voldere)