Peter A. Petri
Carl J. Shapiro Professor of International Finance
Brandeis International Business School

How to contact

I am currently on sabbatical and although I expect to be back at Brandeis from time to time, I will not be teaching until January 2010. From 15 February to 15 April I will be at the Asian Development Bank Research Institute in Tokyo.

  • Coordinates in Tokyo:
    ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK INSTITUTE
    Kasumigaseki Building 8F
    3-2-5 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku
    Tokyo 100-6008
    • JAPAN
    Tel: + 81 3 3593 5500
    Fax: + 81 3 3593 5571

  • Brandeis telephone: (1)781-736-2256
  • Fax: (1)781-736-2263
  • Assistant at Brandeis: Karen Muise (1)781-736-2240
  • Email: ppetri@brandeis.edu
Professional activities

My work addresses international trade, finance, investment and economic integration, with emphasis on East Asia. I have been a member of the Brandeis Economics Department since 1974,and served as the founding dean of the Brandeis International Business School (1994-2006). I am also a Senior Fellow of the East-West Center and have had a variety of consulting assignments, including with the World Bank, OECD, the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank and other public and private organizations. My AB and PhD degrees are from Harvard.

As the Convenor of the East-West Dialogue, I edit an East-West Center series that proposes and promotes innovative policy, business, and civic initiatives to enhance the US-Asia partnership. For more information, see:

I was the Principal Consultant for the Asian Development Bank study: Emerging Regionalism: A Partnership for Shared Prosperity. This study is downloadable now, with a final volume of research papers to appear shortly.

Books
  • The Future of the World Economy (with A. P. Carter and W. Leontief), Oxford Press, 1976
  • Modeling Japanese American Trade: A Study of Asymmetric Interdependence, Harvard Press, 1984
  • The Economics of the Dollar Cycle (ed. with S. Gerlach), MIT Press, 1990 and Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1989
  • East Asian Trade and Investment (with R. Agarwala and V. Thomas), World Bank, 1994
  • Regional Co-operation and Asian Recovery (ed.), ISEAS Press, 2000
  • Financing Global Aging (ed. with S. Sherrington), Rosenberg Institute, 2004
  • Challenges to the Global Trading System (ed. with S. LaCroix), Routledge, 2007
Current papers (downloadable)
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