Wendy K. Dobson

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Wendy Dobson joined the Rotman School in 1990. She is a former Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in the Canadian government and a former President of the C.D. Howe Institute, Canada's leading independent economic think tank and a non-executive director of Canadian companies in finance and energy. She is also a director of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation, Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation and member of the Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute of International Economics. She participates actively in a number of international networks, including the Pacific Trade and Development Network (PAFTAD). Her course offerings include International Business in the World Economy and a Capstone Course for the School of Public Policy and Governance.

Academic Positions

Non-Academic Positions

Selected Publications - Papers

• "Climbing the Value Chain?

  with Tom Westland

  East Asia Forum

  Issue:March 28

  2017

• Financial Liberalisation and Trade: An examination of moving up value chains in Asia Pacific region

  Wendy Dobson and Tom Westland, forthcoming

  Issue:Asian Economic Integration in an Era of Global Uncertainty, managing editors: Shiro Armstrong and Tom Westland.

  2017

• The Future of Canada's Relationship with China

  with Paul Evans

  IRPP, Policy Horizons Essay

  Issue:November

  2015

• Why Delay the Inevitable: Why the AIIB matters to Canada's future

  Co-author Eugene Beaulieu

  SPP Communique

  Issue:April

  2015

  Pages: 7(2)

• China's State-owned Enterprises and Canada's FDI Policy

  Wendy K. Dobson

  March

  2014

• Op Ed: Redback Rising: Canada and RMB Internationalisation

  Gregoire-Francois Legault and Wendy K. Dobson

  National Post.com

  Issue:April 8

  2014

  Pages: On-line

• History Matters: China and Global Governance

  In Huang, Yiping and M. Yu, Eds., China's New Role in the World Economy, London:Routledge

  2012

• Canada, China and Rising Asia: A Strategic Proposal

  CCCE and CCBC

  2011

• Does Canada Have an India Strategy? Why it Should and What Both Sides Can Gain from Comprehensive Trade Talks

  C.D. Howe Institute

  2011

• Differentiating Canada: The Future of the Canada-US Relationship

  School of Public Policy, University of Calgary

  2010

• A Window of Opportunity Opens? Asian and US Views of the International Financial Architecture

  Asian Economic Policy Reveiw 4

  Issue:2

  2009

• Will the Renminbi become a World Currency?

  with Paul R. Masson

  Final draft. Edited version appears in China Economic Review 20

  Issue:1

  2009

  Pages: 124-35

• China's Integration into the Global Financial System

  with Paul Masson and Robert Lafrance

  Bank of Canada Review

  Issue:August

  2008

• The transition from imitation to innovation: An inquiry into China's evolving institutions and firm capabilities

  with A. Edward Safarian

  Final draft. Edited version published in Journal of Asian Economics 19

  Issue:4

  2008

  Pages: 301-11

• Financial Reform in China and India: A comparative anaylsis

  IFPRI/CES/SUFE International Conference on Dragon and Elephant: China and India's Economic Reforms, Shanghai, July 1-2

  Issue:to be revised

  2006

• Scepticism needed in China's banking frenzy

  with Anil Kashyap

  Financial Times

  Issue:October 18

  2006

  Pages: (Op-Ed)

• The contradiction in China's gradualist banking reforms

  with Anil Kashyap

  Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press.

  Issue:BPEA, September

  2006

• The Indian Elephant Shed its Past. The Implications for Canada

  C.D. Howe Institute

  Issue:Commentary. No. 235. June

  2006

• The transforming Chinese economy: global and Canadian implications

  International Journal. Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs

  Issue:vol. 61, no. 2. Spring

  2006

• Beyond FTAs: Deepening North American Integration.

  Paper prepared for a conference on Free Trade in the Americas, Baylor University, October 6-7

  2005

• The transforming Chinese economy: global and Canadian implications

  International Journal

  Issue:(Forthcoming).

  2005

• Taking a Giant's Measure: Canada, NAFTA and an Emergent China

  C.D. Howe Institute

  Issue:Commentary No. 202

  2004

• Shaping the Future of the North American Economic Space: A Framework for Action

  C.D. Howe Institute Commentary

  Issue:No. 162

  2002

• Deeper Integration in East Asia: Implications for the International Economic System

  In Charles Morrison, Coordinator. East Asia in the International System. New York: The Trilateral Commission

  2001

• Deeper Integration in East Asia: Regional Institutions and the International Economic System

  The World Economy. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell

  2001

• The Future of the Japan-Canada Economic Relationship

  IIB Working Paper Series, No. 7

  2000

• Fallout From the Global Financial Crisis: Should Capitalism Be Curbed?

  International Journal

  Issue:Summer

  1999

  Pages: pp.375-385

• Globalizing Trends and Canada's Economic Future

  Ivey Business Journal. November/December

  1999

• Prisoners of the Past in a Fast-Forward World: Canada's Policy Framework for the Financial Servies Sector

  C.D. Howe Institute Commentary. No. 132.

  1999

• What to do with the IMF?

  Policy Options

  Issue:July-August

  1999

  Pages: pp.37-42

• Summitry and International Monetary System: The Past as Prologue

  Canadian Foreign Policy

  Issue:III:1

  1995

  Pages: pp. 5-15

Selected Publications - Books and Chapters

• Asia in Global Economic Governance

  with Peter Petri

  Chapter In N. Singh Ed., Handbook on Economics of the Pacific Rim

  2014

• Financial Development and Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific

  Co-edited with Edward K.Y. Chen

  London: Routledge

  2014

• Financial Development in Asia: Work in Progress

  Wendy K. Dobson and Edward K Y Chen

  Intro. Chapter In Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific; London: Routledge

  2014

• Human Capital Formation and Growth: Microeconomic Dimensions

  with Umar Boodoo

  In Wendy K. Dobson, Ed., Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific; London: Routledge

  2013

• Partners and Rivals: The Uneasy Future of China's Relationship with the United States

  Wendy K. Dobson

  University of Toronto Press

  2013

• Gravity Shift: How Asia's New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the 21st Century

  Wendy K. Dobson

  Rotman-University of Toronto Press

  2009

• Asia Pacific regional architecture and financial market integration

  Christopher Findlay and Hadi Soesastro (eds.)

  Chapter contributed to Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order. New York: Routledge with PAFTAD International Secretariat.

  2006

• Financial Services and International Trade Agreements: the Development Dimension

  Aaditya Mattoo, Gianni Zanini, and Robert M. Stern (eds.)

  Chapter contributed to Services Handbook. Washington, D.C.: World Bank in Cooperation with Palgrave Macmillan

  Issue:forthcoming

  2006

• Governance, Multinationals and Growth

  Co-edited with Lorraine Eden

  London: Elgar

  Issue:June

  2005

• East Asia in Transition: Economic and Security Challenges, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

  2002

• Financial services liberalization: The role of the millennium round

  Chapter contributed to Freer trade in the next decade: Issues in the Millennium Round, (Subsequently published by Routledge, London)

  Issue:March

  2001

• World Capital Markets: Challenge to the G-10, co-authored with Gary Hufbauer

  Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics

  2001

• Business Networks in East Asia: Diversity and Evolution

  in Rong-I Wu and Yun-Peng Chu, eds. Business Markets and Governments in the Asia Pacific

  London and New York: Rutledge

  1998

• Financial Services Liberalization in the WTO

  with P. Jacquet

  Washington DC: Institute for International Economics

  1998

• Fiscal Frameworks and Financial Systems in East Asia: How Much Do They Matter? Edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

  1998

• Liberalizing and Stabilizing the Canadian Economy

  in B. Curtis Eaton and Richard G. Harris, Trade Technology and Economics, Brookfield US: Edward Elgar

  1997

  Pages: pp. 186-197

• Multinationals and East Asian Integration, edited with Chia Siow Yue. Ottawa and Singapore: IDRC Books, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Awarded 1997 Ohira Prize

  1997

• Pacific Triangles: US Economic Relationships with Japan and China

  in Richard Harris, ed. The Growing Importance of the Asia Pacific Region in the World Economy: Implications for Canada, Calgary: University of Calgary Press

  1997

• Stabilization and Liberalization in Canadian Economic Policy

  in Trade Technology and Economics: Essays in Honour of Richard G. Lipsey. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

  1997

• The People Link: Human Resource Linkages Across the Pacific, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

  1997

• Whither APEC's Ministers of Finance? Macroeconomic Policy, Exchange Rates and Financing Growth

  in C. Fred Bergsten, ed. Whither APEC? Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics

  1997

• East Asian Capitalism: Diversity and Dynamism, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

  1996

• Managing U.S. Japanese Trade Disputes: Are There Better Ways? edited with H. Sato. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press

  1996

• Benchmarking the Canadian Business Presence in East Asia, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

  1995

• Pacific Trade and Investment: Options for the 90s, edited with F. Flatters. Kingston: John Deutsch Institute, Queen's University

  1995

• Surveillance and the International Monetary System: Ideas and Realities

  in J.M. Boughton and K.S. Lateef, (Eds.) Fifty Years After Bretton Woods: The Future of the IMF and the World Bank. (Washington DC: International Monetary Fund World Bank Group)

  1995

• Economic Policy Coordination Institutionalized? The G-7 and the Future of the Bretton Woods Institutions

  Bretton Woods: Looking to the Future. Washington D.C. Bretton Woods Commission

  1994

• Open Regionalism: East Asia Sets the Pace

  M.A. Molot and H. von Riekhoff, (Eds.) A Part of the Peace. Ottawa: Carleton University Press

  1994

• Japan in East Asia: Trade and Investment Strategies. Singapore: The Institute for Southeast Asian Studies

  1993

• International Economic Policy Coordination: Requiem or Prologue? Washington DC: Institute for International Economics

  1991

• Shaping Comparative Advantage, edited with R. Lipsey. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute

  1987

Research and Teaching Interests

Prof. Dobson teaches RSM2123: International Business in The World Economy and PPG 2003H a Capstone Course for the School of Public Policy and Governance. Her current research focuses on emerging market economies, economic integration in North America, the international financial system, regional and global governance, and Canadian public policy issues.

Honors and Awards

Professional Affiliations/Memberships

Academic / Professional Service