Shang-Jin Wei.

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Shang-Jin Wei is a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER's Programs on International Finance and Macroeconomics and on International Trade and Investment. He is also an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and, during 1999-2000, an Advisor at the World Bank.

Wei received his B.A. in world economy from Fudan University in China in 1986. After attending Pennsylvania State University, he transferred to the University of California at Berkeley, where he obtained his M.S. in finance in 1991 and his Ph.D. in economics in 1992.

Wei has been a visiting scholar at the Internal Monetary Fund, the World...