Garth Frazer

Associate Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough

Degrees:

PhD, Yale University
MPhil, Yale University
MA, University of Toronto
BEd, University of Western Ontario
B.Math, University of Waterloo

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Personal Website:

http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~gfrazer/

Bio

Garth Frazer is Associate Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy in the Department of Management at the University of Toronto-Scarborough, with a cross appointment to the Business Economics area at Rotman. His research is focused on industrial development and trade with a focus on productivity, particularly in Africa. He has explored the impact of trade agreements and trade preferences on African trade, and provided advice to African governments in their trade negotiations. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of African Economies.

Academic Positions

2009-present

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Selected Publications - Papers

Identification Properties of Recent Production Function Estimators

with Dan Ackerberg and Kevin Caves

Econometrica

Issue:83(6)

2015

Pages: p. 2411-2452
Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act

with Johannes Van Biesebroeck

Review of Economics and Statistics

Issue:92(1)

2010

Pages: p. 128-144
Used-Clothing Donations and Apparel Production in Africa

Economic Journal

Issue:118(532)

2008

Pages: p. 1764-1784
Inequality and Development Across and Within Countries

World Development

Issue:34(9)

2006

Pages: p. 1459-1481
Learning the Master's Trade: Apprenticeship and Human Capital in Ghana

Journal of Development Economics

Issue:81(2)

2006

Pages: p. 259-298
Which Firms Die? A Look at Exit from Manufacturing in Ghana

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Issue:53(3)

2005

Pages: p. 585-617