Daniel Berkowitz
- Professor, Department of Economics
Daniel Berkowitz is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. His research fields include New Institutional Economics, Development, Law and Finance, Applied Microeconomics, and China.
Summer 2019, Writing Resident, Bellagio Institute, Rockefeller Foundation
2019-, Executive Secretary of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies
2018, President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies
2007-2016, Co-managing Editor (with Gerard Roland) of the Journal of Comparative Economics
Fall 2015, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University and the National Bureau for Economic Research
Spring 2011 and 2012, Visiting Senior Faculty, Tsinghua University
Fall 2009 and 2010, Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong
2009-present, secondary appointment, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
Relevent Publications:
“Environmental Hazards and Local Investment: A Half-Century of Evidence from Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells” (with Max Harleman and Jeremy Weber), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Volume 9, Number 4, July 2022, Pages 721-753, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/719383
“De-politicization and Corporate Transformation: Evidence from China” (with Chen Lin and Sibo Liu), The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Volume 38, Issue 2, July 2022, Pages 479–510, https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewab007
“How Bureaucratic Capacity Shapes Policy Outcomes: Partisan Politics and Affluent Citizens’ Incomes in the American States” (with George Krause), the Journal of Public Policy, 40(2): 305-328, 2020
“Recasting the Iron Rice Bowl: The Reform of China’s State-Owned Enterprises” (with Hong Ma and Shuichiro Nishioka), Review of Economics and Statistics, 99(4): 735-747, 2017
"Do Property Rights Matter? Evidence from a Property Law Enactment" (with Chen Lin and Yue Ma), Journal of Financial Economics, 116: 583-593, 2015, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304405X1500046X