Kaye G. Husbands Fealing

William Brough Professor of Economics

Office: South Academic Building Rm. 301
E-mail: Kaye.G.Husbands@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2476
Fax: (413)-597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
South Academic Building
Williamstown, MA 01267

Education

Harvard University, Ph.D, 1990
University of Pennsylvania, B.A., Economics and Mathematics, 1981

Fields of Specialization

Pricing Strategies in the Auto Industry
Technology Transfer Diffusion and Innovation in Emerging markets
Strategic Alliances between Customers and Suppliers
Competitive Advantage of Mexican Auto Suppliers

Research

Publications

"Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Racial Employment Patterns in U.S. Manufacturing," (with Abera Gelan and James Peoples), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2007.

“Automobile Industry,” entry in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, Macmillan Press, New York, forthcoming 2008.

“Regulatory Reform and Racial Employment Patterns,” (with James Peoples), in Product Market Structure and Labor Treatment, John Haywood and James Peoples, eds., State University of New York Press, New York, 2005.

Instructor’s Manual and Test-Item File, (with William D. Gunther, Paul M. Sommers, and Kathryn A. Nantz) for the Edwin Mansfield and Gary Yohe Microeconomics textbook, 11th edition, W. W. Norton & Company Press, New York, 2004.

“Regional Prosperity in a Globalised Economy: Evidence from Mexico,” in Roger Sugden, Rita Hartung Cheng and Richard Meadows, eds., Urban And Regional Prosperity In A Globalised, New Economy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (UK) and Brookfield (US), 2003.

“Regulated Industries and Measures of Earnings Discrimination: Comment,” in James Peoples, ed., Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1997.

“Education and Agricultural Productivity in Kenya,” (with Thomas Pinckney and Tobias Konyango) in Henry J. Bruton and Catharine B. Hill, eds., The Evaluation of Public Expenditure in Africa, World Bank, Washington D.C., 1997.

Strategic Adjustment of Price by Japanese and American Automobile Manufacturers, in the monograph series Government and the Economy: Outstanding Studies and Recent Dissertations, Garland Publishing Inc., New York, 1993.

Working Papers

“Shocks and Responses: The Canadian Auto Parts Suppliers Adjust to Free Trade and Lean Production,” (with L. Eden and M.A. Molot), International Motor Vehicle Program working paper, November 1997 (revised version).

“Strategic Alliances in the Mexican Auto Parts Industry,” International Motor Vehicle Program working paper, June 1994.

“Strategic Adjustment of Price by Japanese and American Automobile Manufacturers,” working paper, July 1991.

“Assessing the VER’s Effects on Profitability: A Critical Review of Previous Studies on the Japanese-U.S. Automobile Import Restraints,” working paper, July 1991.

“VER Effects on Quantities, Prices and Profits,” working paper, July 1991.

Grants

National Science Foundation POWRE Grant, 1998-1999.

Sloan Foundation/International Motor Vehicle Program Grant, 1992-2000.

Lean Aircraft Initiative Grant, 1993-95.

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1992.

Social Science Research Council, Latin American Studies Postdoctoral Grant, 1992, $15,000.

Country Experience

Mexico