Rolf Mirus

Email

rmirus@ualberta.ca

Research Interests

I completed my Vordiplom at the Free University Berlin (1963) and my MA (1966) and PhD (1973) in Monetary Economics at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. My research interests include international business and commercial policy, and international financial and informal markets.

Research in Progress

• Tax Evasion by the Self-Employed in Canada (with Roger Smith)
• International Payments (with Gunter Dufey).

Selected Recent Research Publications

• Mirus, Rolf, with Laura Baughman, Morris Morkre and Dean Spinanger, "Of Try Cords, Ties and Tents: Window Dressing at the ATC", The World Economy, Vol. 20, No. 4, July 1997, pp. 407-434.
• Mirus, Rolf with Barry Scholnick and Dean Spinanger, "Frontloading Protection: Canada's Approach to Phasing Out the Multi-Fiber Arrangement", The International Trade Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4, Winter 1997, pp. 433-451.
• Mirus, Rolf, "Binational Panels in the Settlement of Trade Disputes: A Canadian Perspective of the Review of Dumping and Subsidy Determination under the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement", The North American Journal of Economics and Finance", Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 1994, pp. 121-136.
• Mirus, Rolf, with Roger Smith and Vladimir Karoleff, "Canada's Underground Economy Revisited: Update and Critique", Canadian Public Policy, September 1994, pp. 235-252.
• Mirus, Rolf, with Bernard Yeung, "Why Countertrade? An Economic Perspective", The International Trade Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4, Summer 1993, pp. 409-433.
• Mirus, Rolf, "Exchange Rate Variability and News: Lessons from the 1988 Election in Canada", Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (Review of World Economics), Vol. 127, No. 3, (1991), pp. 584-593.
• Mirus, Rolf, with Bernard Yeung, "The Relevance of the Invoicing Currency in Intra-Firm Trade Transactions", Journal of International Money and Finance", Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1987, pp. 449-464.

Major Research and Other Grants

• SSHRC, "Buy Back and Technology Transfer" (with B. Yeung)
• SSHRC, "Canada's Unobserved Economy" (with R. Smith)
• SSHRC, "Invoicing Decisions in Intra-Firm Trade" (with B. Yeung)
• UNESCO, "Cultural and Economic Reasons for the International Dominance of US TV Programming (with C. Hoskins)
• CIDA, Canada China Management Education Program, I and II ($2.25 million)
• CIDA, Canada China Management Education Program, 1995 ($225,000)
• CIDA, Canada China Higher Education Program, 1997-2001 ($926,000)

Awards

• Canadian Guest Professor, Christian Albrechts Universitaet, Kiel, Germany
  
• Eric Geddes Professor of Business Economics, 1992-1995

Teaching Awards

In 1995, I was recognized as "Teacher of the Year" for the MBA Program (Year One).