Mariana Spatareanu

Department of Economics Tel: (973) 353 5249

Hill Hall – 823 Email: marianas@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Newark, NJ 07102-1801 Web: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~marianas

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CURRENT POSITIONS

Rutgers University, Newark 2005 - present

Research Associate

Hamburg Institute of International Economics 2007 - present

Research Fellow

The World Bank, Washington D.C. 2002 - 2005

Consultant, Development Economics Research Group

VISITING

EDUCATION

PhD in Economics

BA in Economics

Competitive Research Council Grants, Rutgers University 2005-present

Who’s Who in America 2008-2009

American Council for Learned Societies Grant 2008

The World Bank Spot Awards 2003- 2004

Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University 2001

Competitive Summer Research Grants, Washington University 2000-2001

University Fellowship, Washington University 1997-1998

Pew Charitable Trust Fellowship 1996-1997

PUBLICATIONS

“Migrant Networks and Foreign Direct Investment” with B.S. Javorcik, C. Ozden, and C. Neagu (forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics)

Vol. 7(7), 2009)

(The World Bank Economic Review, vol. 23 (2), 2009)

“Host Country's Governance and the Size of Foreign Investors” with V. Lskavyan (Economics Letters, vol. 100 (2), 2008)

“To Share or Not To Share: Does Local Participation Matter for Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment?” with B. S. Javorcik (Journal of Development Economics, vol. 85(1-2), 2008)

“In Search of Pollution Havens - The Impact of Environmental Regulations on

Foreign Direct Investment” (The Journal of Environment and Development, vol.16 (2), 2007)
“Ownership Concentration, Market Monitoring and Performance: Evidence from UK, The Czech Republic and Poland” with V. Lskavyan (Journal of Applied Economics, vol. IX (1), 2006)

“Do Foreign Investors Care about Labor Market Regulations?” with B. S.Javorcik, (Review of World Economics/ Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. 141(3), 2005)

Featured in an article in Jornal do Commercio of Recife (Brazil) on Jan 23, 2005
“Income-Related Biases in International Trade: What Do Trademark Registration Data Tell Us?” with C. Fink and B. S. Javorcik (Review of World Economics/ Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. 141(1), 2005)

“Disentangling FDI Spillovers Effects: What Do Firm Perceptions Tell Us?” with B. S. Javorcik (in M. Blomstrom, E. Graham and T. Moran, eds., Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development?, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., 2005

“Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment - the Case of Romania” in The New Economists about the Transition in Romania, Banca Nationala a Romaniei, ed., Editura Enciclopedica, Romania, 2003

“Productivity and Efficiency of US Commercial Banks” with V. Manole, in Proceedings of the International Applied Business Research Conference, 2000

“Capital Markets in Central and Eastern European Countries” In Z.

Sevic and G. Wright, eds., Transition in Central and Eastern Europe,

YASF, Belgrade, 1997

ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW

WORK IN PROGRESS

“FDI Spillovers and Access to Credit” with Vlad Manole and V. Lskavyan

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

Western Economic Association International Annual Meetings (Portland, June 2010)

Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Conference (Chicago, May 2010)

Conference on Finance and Growth in Central and Eastern Europe (Zagreb, April 2010)

Presented: “Exporting, Capital Investment and Financial Constraints”

Chaired session: “Outsourcing and Off-shoring”
Eastern Economic Association Annual Meetings (New York, February 2009)

Presented: “Tough Love: Do Czech Suppliers Learn from their Relationships with Multinationals?”

Organized and Chaired Sessions: “Services and Outsourcing”, “FDI, Innovation and Spillovers”, “Location and Effects of FDI”, “Trade, Reallocation and Governance”, “Trade and Competition Policies”
American Economic Association Annual Meetings (San Francisco, January 2009)
Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings (Washington D.C., November 2008)

Presented: “Does Exporting Ease Domestic Firms’ Liquidity Constraints?”

Discussed: “Intellectual Property Rights, Multinational Firms and Economic Growth” by Elias Dinopoulos and P. Segerstrom
Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Conference (Columbus, October 2008)

Presented: “Liquidity Constraints and Linkages with Multinationals”

Presented: “Are Suppliers to Multinationals less Credit Constrained?”

Presented: “Liquidity Constraints and Linkages with Multinationals”

Presented: “Liquidity Constraints and Linkages with Multinationals”

Discussed: “Sectoral Analysis of the Location Choice of Multinational Enterprise” by Banu Demir and Selin Sayek
Workshop on “Regional and Micro-level Effects of Globalization”, Institute for Applied Economics (Tubingen, July 2007)

Presented: “Liquidity Constraints and Linkages with Multinationals”

Eastern Economic Association Annual Meetings (New York, February 2007)

Presented: “Are Suppliers to Multinationals less Credit Constrained?”

Chaired session:”Industrial Impacts of International Trade”

Discussed: “Transmitting Spillovers to Industries by International Trade” by Maryanne Clifford and Robert Quinn

Presented: “Want to Play with the Big Boys? Grow up first! Interactions between Multinationals and Local Suppliers in the Czech Republic”

Presented: “Does It Matter Where You Come From? Vertical Spillovers from FDI and Investor’s Nationality”

Presented: “Does It Matter Where You Come From? Vertical Spillovers from FDI and Investor’s Nationality”

Chaired session: Foreign Direct Investment I
Provost Research Day, Rutgers University, Seminar (Newark, April 2006)

Presented: “The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Productivity”

Presented: “Knowledge Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment”

Presented: “Knowledge Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment”

Presented: “To Share or not to Share: Does Local Participation Matter for Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment?”

Presented: “Does Local Participation Matter for Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment?”

Presented: “To Share or not to Share: Does Local Participation Matter for Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment?”

Presented: “To Share or not to Share: Does Local Participation Matter for Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment?”

Presented: “Want to Play with the Big Boys: Grow up First! Interactions between Suppliers and Multinationals”

Presented: “The Productivity and Efficiency of US Commercial Banks”

International Economics I (graduate), Rutgers University

International Economics II (graduate), Rutgers University

Topics in International Trade (graduate), Core DGA course, Rutgers University

Topics in International Finance (graduate), Core DGA course, Rutgers University

International Economic Relations (undergraduate), Rutgers University

Macroeconomic Theory (graduate), Rutgers University

Introduction to Macroeconomics (undergraduate), Rutgers University

Intermediate Macroeconomics (undergraduate), Washington University

Introduction to Macroeconomics (undergraduate), Washington University

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member: American Economic Association

Canadian Economic Association

Eastern Economic Association

Southern Economic Association

Western Economic Association

Thesis title: “Institutions and Market Structure in Transition Economies”

Thesis title: “The Impact of Migrant Remittances on Economic and Social Welfare in Municipalities of El Salvador”

Thesis title: “Litigations under the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System”

Michoacán, México)

Thesis title: “FDI Spillovers in Mexico”
Arcadiusz Mironko (DGA, Rutgers University)

Thesis title: “The Location of FDI in Poland”