Office: 423 RBC Phone: 610-758-5345 Fax: 610-758-4677 Email: djm0@lehigh.edu Economic Principles (Eco 1) Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis (Eco 417) Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis (Eco 119) International Trade (Eco 339) International Finance (Eco 340)

Judy McDonald is an Associate Professor of Economics. Her primary areas of research are gender pay inequities, applied international, and macroeconomics. Professor McDonald teaches International Finance, Intermediate Macroeconomics, International Trade, Economic Principles, and An Introduction to the Canadian Economy at the undergraduate level. She teaches the first Macroeconomics course, Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis, to first-year graduate students. A native of Canada who received her undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1979, Professor McDonald is the Director of Lehigh's Canadian Studies Institute. She received her PhD from Princeton University in 1986. She joined the Lehigh faculty in 1991.

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Research Interests

• Capital flows to developing countries
• U.S.-Canada trade relations during the 1930s
• External debt and deforestation in tropical countries
• Pay equity in Ontario
• Starting Salary Gender Pay Inequities

Publications and Working Papers

• "Do New Male and Female College Graduates Receive Unequal Pay?," (with Robert Thornton). Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2007, pp. 32-48.
• "Dynamic Capital Mobility, Capital-Market Risk, and Contagion: Evidence from Seven Asian Countries" (with Hong-Ghi Min and Jaeyong Choung). Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 15, 2003, pp. 161-183.
• "Comparable Worth in Academe: Professors at Ontario Universities," (with Robert Thornton) Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2001, pp. 357-373.
• "A New Look at the Gender Earnings Gap for Recent College Graduates" (with Robert Thornton). IRRA Proceedings of the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting, 2001, pp. 213-221.
• "Rethinking the Optimal Level of Environmental Quality: Justifications for Strict Environmental Policy" (with Amy Farmer, James Kahn, and Robert O'Neill). Ecological Economics, Vol. 36, 2001, pp. 461-73.
• "Private-Sector Experience with Pay Equity in Ontario," with Robert Thornton, Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1998, pp. 185-208.
• "The Role of Economic Factors in Tropical Deforestation," with James Kahn, Ch. 2 in Laurance, W. F. and R.O. Bierregaard, Jr., eds., Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities, The University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp. 13-28.
• "Trade Wars: Canada's Reaction to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff," with Colleen Callahan and Anthony O'Brien, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 57, No. 4, December 1997, pp. 802-826.
• "Third World Debt and Tropical Deforestation," with James Kahn, Ecological Economics, vol. 12, 1995, pp. 107-123.
• "Who Voted for Smoot-Hawley?" (with Colleen Callahan and Anthony O'Brien), The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 54, No. 3, September 1994, pp. 683-690.