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Steve Suranovic

Associate Professor of Economics
and International Affairs

Director, International Trade &
Investment Policy Program

Steve Suranovic received his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University. He has been a faculty member at the George Washington University since 1988. He also teaches regularly as an adjunct for Cornell University's Washington DC program. In Fall 2002, he taught at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China as a visiting Fulbright lecturer. Professor Suranovic teaches international trade and international finance theory and policy. His research interests include international trade policy analysis, fairness in international trade and the behavioral economics of cigarette addiction and dieting. He has spoken to business, government and academic audiences in Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, China and Mongolia as part of the US State Department speaker's programs. He has published in numerous academic journals including the Journal of International Economics, the Canadian Journal of Economics, the World Economy, and the Journal of Health Economics.


Steve maintains the International Economics Study Center. This website features an online textbook covering International Trade Theory and Policy Analysis, a growing collection of notes in International Finance, The Fair Trade Page - a place to read about and discuss fairness as it is applied to international trade, links to current trade news stories, and much more. The site is continually under construction, so check back regularly for updates and expansions.


Some Recent Working Papers

An Economic Model of Youth Smoking: Welfare and Tax Effects

Cultural Effects of Trade Liberalization, with Robert Winthrop

A Behavioral Model of Cyclical Dieting, with Robert Goldfarb.

Modeling Alternative Motives for Dieting, with Robert Goldfarb and Thomas Leonard.


Contact information

Department of Economics
Institute for International Economic Policy
The George Washington University
2115 G St. N.W.,
Washington, DC 20052



Office: 1957 E St. N.W. - Room 501M
Phone: (202) 994-7579, Fax: (202) 994-6147
Email: smsuran@gwu.edu
Fall 2007 Office Hours: 2-5 pm Mondays

in Hall of Govt. Room 323



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Last Updated on October 5, 2007