CURRICULUM VITAE Paul R. Gregory December 2007
ADDRESS Department of Economics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5019 713/743-3828 713/743-3798 FAX HOME 5122 Huisache Bellaire, Texas 77401 713/661-6784 713/661-1968 FAX
EDUCATION Ph.D. Harvard University 1969 Economics Free University of Berlin 1964-65 Graduate Study in Economics M.A. University of Oklahoma 1964 Russian Language and Literature B.A. University of Oklahoma 1963 Economics
ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1993-present Cullen Professor of Economics, University of Houston 1989-92 Baker Hughes Professor of Economics and Finance, University of Houston Professor of Economics (1975-present), University of Houston Associate Professor of Economics (1972-75), University of Houston 1969-72 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma 1967-69 Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Harvard University
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Chair, Department of Economics, 1981-83, 2001-2004 President Association for Comparative Economic Studies
VISITING APPOINTMENTS Visiting Scholar, Humboldt Fellow, University of Tubingen, 1975-1977. Visiting Scholar, BIOST, Cologne, Spring/Summer, 1985. Visiting Fellow, Population, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, Spring/Summer 1980. Visiting Professor, Economic History, Moscow State University, November/December, 1996. Visiting Professor, Europe-University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Summer 1999. Visiting Fellow, Population, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, Spring/Summer 1980. Visiting Professor, Economic History, Moscow State University, November/December, 1996. Visiting Professor of Economics, Europe-University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Summer 1999. Visiting Professor, Free University Berlin, Summer, 2000. Research Professor, Deutsches Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung- Berlin, Summer, 2001. Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Research Associate, Hoover Institution, 2000 to present.
HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Omicron Delta Kappa, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, NDFL Fellowship, NDEA Fellowship, Foreign Area Fellowship, Free University of Berlin Award, Bass Memorial Fellowship, Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, Volkswagen Senior Fellow for Advanced Soviet and East European Studies, Staff member of Harvard University Russian Research Center, 1966-69.
GRANTS Principal Investigator, Ford-Rockefeller Grant in Population Research, 1972-73. Principal Investigator, National Institute of Education Grant, 1973-75. Principal Investigator, Manpower Administration Grant, 1974, 1976-77, 1977-78. Principal Investigator, PHS-Center for Population Research Grant, 1975-76. Principal Investigator, NSF Grants in Economics, 1978-81, 1988-90,1991-93, 1997-2001, 2006- present. Principal Investigator, Soviet Economic Bureaucracy Project, Soviet Interview Project, 1979 to 1988. Principal Investigator, National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1978-79, 1981-82. Project Coordinator, Russian Petroleum Legislation Project, UH Law Center, 1991-December 1992. Principal Investigator, Transcoop Grant with DIW Berlin, 1995-1997.
EDITORIAL POSITIONS AND BOARDS (Past and Present) Comparative Economic Studies Slavic Review Journal of Comparative Economics Problems of Post-Communism. Explorations in Economic History Board, Hoover Institution Russian Archives Project Board, National Council for Russian and East European Studies, Washington DC Chairman, International Advisory Board, Kiev School of Economics Co-Editor Yale Press-Hoover Institution Series on Stalinism and the Origins of the Cold War
LANGUAGES Russian - fluent German - fluent
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS Paul Gregory, Socialist and Non-Socialist Industrialization Patterns (New York: Praeger, 1970). Paul Gregory and Robert Stuart, Soviet and Post Soviet Economic Structure and Performance , editions 1 (1972) – 7 (2001) (Harper and Row, Addison Wesley). Paul Gregory and Robert Stuart, Comparative Economic Systems, editions 1 (1974) -6 (2000), Houghton-Mifflin. Paul Gregory, Russian National Income, 1885-1913 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983). Roy Ruffin and Paul Gregory, Principles of Economics, editions 1 (1982)-8 (2001), Addison Wesley, Harper. Paul Gregory, Restructuring The Soviet Economic Bureaucracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Paul Gregory, Before Command: The Russian Economy From Emancipation to Stalin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994). Robert Stuart and Paul Gregory, The Russian Economy (New York: Harper Collins, 1995). Paul Gregory, Essentials of Economics, editions 1 (1985)- 4(2001), Addison Wesley. Paul Gregory (ed.), Behind the Façade of Stalin’s Command Economy (Palo Alto: Hoover Press, 2001). Paul Gregory, The Political Economy of Stalinism (New York: Cambridge University Press, f2004). Paul Gregory and Valery Lazarev (eds.), The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag (Stanford: Hoover Press, 2003). Paul Gregory, co-editor, Istoriia Stalinskogo Gulaga, seven vols. (Moscow: Rosspen, 2004). Paul Gregory, Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Soviet Secret Archives (Stanford: Hoover Press, 2007). Paul Gregory, Oleg Khlevnyuk, and Alexander Vatlin (eds.), Stenogramy Politburo, 1923-1938 (Moscow: Rosspen, 2007). Paul Gregory and Norman Naimark (eds.), The Lost Transcripts of the Politburo (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008). Paul Gregory, Terror by Quota: State Security from Lenin to Stalin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS BY FIELD (in chronological order)
SOVIET ECONOMICS Paul Gregory, "Economic Growth, U.S. Defense Expenditures and the Soviet Defense Budget: A Suggested Model," Soviet Studies (January, 1974). Paul Gregory, Bruce Fielitz, and Thomas Curtis, "The New Soviet Investment Allocation Rules: A Guide to Rational Investment Planning?" Southern Economic Journal (January, 1974). Paul Gregory, "A Reply to Franz Walter," Soviet Studies (October, 1974). Robert C. Stuart and Paul R. Gregory, "A Model of Soviet Rural-Urban Migration," Economic Development and Cultural Change (October, 1977). Paul R. Gregory, "Economic Growth and Structural Change in Czarist Russian and the Soviet Union," Steven Rosefield (ed.), Economic Welfare and the Economics of Soviet Socialism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981). Paul Gregory, "Productivity, Slack, and Time Theft in the Soviet Economy: Evidence from the Soviet Interview Project," in J. Millar (ed.), Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the Soviet Union, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Paul Gregory and Janet Kohlhase, "Earning Differentials in the Soviet Union: Evidence From the Soviet Interview Project," Review of Economics and Statistics (August 1988). Paul Gregory and Irwin Collier, "Unemployment in the Soviet Union: Evidence from the Soviet Interview Project," American Economic Review (September 1988). Paul R. Gregory, "Soviet Bureaucratic Behavior," Soviet Studies (October 1989). Paul R. Gregory, "Soviet National Income, 1913-1928," in R.W. Davies (ed.), The Soviet Economy: From NEP to Five Year Plan (London: MacMillan, 1990). Paul Gregory, "The Stalinist Command Model," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Vol. 507, January 1990, pp. 18-26. Paul R. Gregory and Barbara Dietz, "Soviet Perceptions of Economic Conditions During the Stagnation Period: Evidence From Two Diverse Surveys," Soviet Studies, Vol. 43, no. 3, 1991. Paul R. Gregory, "The Impact of Perestroika on the Soviet Planned Economy: Results of a Survey of Moscow Economic Officials," Soviet Studies, 1991. Paul R. Gregory, "Bureaucrats, Managers, and Perestroika," The Soviet Economy Under Gorbachev (NATO: Brussels, 1992). Paul R. Gregory, "The Communist Party and the Economic Bureaucracy in the Soviet Union," in James Millar (ed.), Cracks in the Monolith: Party Power in the Brezhnev Era (New York: Share, 1992). M. Mokhtari and Paul Gregory, "Backward Bends, Quantity Constraints, and Soviet Labor Supply: Evidence from the Soviet Interview Project," International Economic Review, 34, 1, February 1993. James Millar, Paul Gregory, et. al., "An Evaluation of the CIA's Analysis of Soviet Economic Performance, 1970-90," Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Summer 1993). Paul Gregory, "Money and Banking," The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Paul Gregory (with N. Asgary and M. Mokhtari), "Money Demand and Quantity Constraints: Evidence from Soviet Interview Project," Economic Inquiry (April 1997).
TRANSITION ECONOMICS
Paul R. Gregory, "Soviet Bureaucracy and Economic Reform," in William S. Kern (ed.), From Socialism to Market Economy: The Transition Problem (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Upjohn Institute, 1992). J. Ivancevich, R. DeFrank and P. Gregory, "The Soviet Enterprise Director," Academy of Management Executive, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1992. Paul R. Gregory, "Creating a Legislative Framework for a Market in Energy Resources," Houston Journal of International Law, Spring 1993. Paul R. Gregory, "Unemployment and Search in Emerging Capitalist Economies," Department of Labor, Economic Statistics for Economies in Transition, Washington, D.C., 1993. Paul Gregory, "Sketches of New Russians," Problems of Post Communism, Sept/October 1996. Paul Gregory, M. Mokhtari and W. Schrettl, “Do Russians Really Save That Much? Evidence from RLMS,” Review of Economics and Statistics, December, 2000. Paul Gregory, “Has Russia’s Transition Been a Failure?” Problems of Post-Communism (November/December 1997). Paul Gregory, “Macroeconomic Policy, Structural Factors, and Poverty: the Russian and Ukrainian Transitions,” Workshop on Knowledge Networking for Poverty Reduction, United Nations Development Programme, New York, Sept. 11-12, 1997. Paul Gregory, “Transition Economies: Social Consequences of Transition, United Nations Development Programme, January, 1998. Paul Gregory and Wolfram Schrettl, ““Administration and Reform of the Soviet Economy,” in Russia’s Uncertain Future, Joint Economic Committee of Congress, December 2001, pp.81-96. Paul Gregory (with Ulrich Thiessen), “Modelling Sructural Change,” Eastern European Economics, July-August 2007.
ECONOMIC HISTORY
Paul Gregory, "Some Empirical Comments on the Theory of Relative Backwardness: The Case of Russia," Economic Development and Cultural Change (May, 1974). Paul Gregory, "A Note on Relative Backwardness and Industrial Structure," Quarterly Journal of Economics (August, 1974). Paul Gregory and James Griffin, "Secular and Cross Section Industrialization Patterns Controversy," Review of Economics and Statistics (August, 1974). Paul Gregory, "Economic Development and Structural Change in Tsarist Russia: A Case of Modern Economic Growth?" Soviet Studies, January 1972. Reprinted in German Translation in D. Geyer (ed.) Wirtschaft and Gesellschaft in Vorrevolutionaren Russland (1975). Paul R. Gregory, "Russian National Income in 1913 - Some Insights Into Russian Economic Development," Quarterly Journal of Economics (August, 1976). Paul R. Gregory, "Russian Industrialization: A Survey of the Western Literature," Jahrbucher fur die Geschichte Osteuropas (December, 1976). Paul R. Gregory and Joel Sailors, "Russian Monetary Policy and Industrialization," Journal of Economic History (December, 1976). Paul R. Gregory, "The Russian Industrialization Experience: Some Observations on Savings, Absorptive Capacity and Balance of Payments," Soviet Union, Vol. 4, (1977). Paul R. Gregory, "The Russian Balance of Payments, The Gold Standard and Monetary Policy: A Historical Example of Foreign Capital Movements," Journal of Economic History (June 1979). Paul R. Gregory, "Russian Living Standard During the Industrialization Era," Review of Income and Wealth, 1980. Paul R. Gregory, "Grain Marketings and Peasant Consumption," Explorations in Economic History, 17, 1980. Paul R. Gregory, Badi Baltagi, and Joel Sailors, "How the Gold Standard Worked 1880-1914. Intercountry and Intertemporal Evidence," NBER Conference: A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard, March 18-21. Paul R. Gregory, "The Soviet Agrarian Crisis Revisited," in Robert Stuart (ed.), Soviet Rural Economy, 1984. Paul R. Gregory, "The Role of the State in Promoting Economic Development: The Russian Case and its General Implications,” in R. Sylla and G. Toniolo (eds), Patterns of European Industrialization: the Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1991). Paul R. Gregory, "Rents, Land Prices, and Economic Theory," in L. Edmundson (ed.), Essays on Russian Economic History in Honor of Olga Crisp (London: MacMillan, 1990). Paul R. Gregory and M. Mokhtari, "Grain Collections and Collectivization," Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 30, 1992. John Antel and Paul Gregory, "Grain Marketings and the Terms of Trade," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1993. Paul Gregory, “Russia and Europe: Lessons from the Pre-Command Era,” in R. Tilly and P. Welfens (eds), European Economic Integration as a Challenge to Industry and Government (Berlin: Springer, 1996). Paul Gregory and Joel Sailors, “Russia During the Great Depression,” in Theo Balderston (ed.), World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump (London: MacMIllan, 2002 forthcoming). Paul Gregory and Aleksei Tikhonov, “Central Planning and Unintended Consequences: Creating the Soviet Financial System, 1930-30,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 60, no. 4 (December 2000). Eugenia Belova and Paul; Gregory, “Dictator, loyal and opportunistic agents: The Soviet Archives on Creating the Soviet Economic System,” Public Choice, vol. 2002. Valery Lazarev and Paul Gregory, “The Wheels of Dicatorship, “ Economic History Review, 55, 2 (2002). Paul Gregory and Andrei Markevich, “Creating Soviet Industry: The House That Stalin Built,” Slavic Review. 61, no. 4 (Winter 2002). Valery Lazarev and Paul Gregory, “Commissars and Cars,” Journal of Comparative Economics, 31, no, 1 (March 2003). Paul Gregory, “Soviet Defence Puzzles: Archives, Strategy, and Underfulfillment,” Europe Asia Studies, 55, no. 6 (September 2003). Paul Gregory, “The Political Economy of Stalinism: A Bergsonian Perspective,” Comparative Economic Studies, June, 2005. Paul Gregory and Mark Harrison, “Planning and Policy Under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin’s Archives, Journal of Economic Literature, September 2005.
COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
Paul Gregory, "Normal Comparisons of Industrial Structures in East and West Germany," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Band 104 (1970). Paul Gregory, "Cross Section Comparisons of the Structure of GNP by Sector of Origin: Socialist and Western Countries," Kyklos, Vol. XXIV (1971). Robert Stuart and Paul Gregory, "The Structural Convergence of Economic Systems," Yearbook of East European Economics, Band 2 (1971). Paul Gregory, "A Model of Socialist Industrial Wage Differentials," Quarterly Journal of Economics (February, 1973). Paul Gregory, "Some Indirect Estimates of Eastern European Capital Stocks and Factor Productivity," Soviet Studies (January, 1975). Paul R. Gregory and Gert Leptin, "Similar Societies Under Differing Economic Systems: The Case of Two Germanys," Soviet Studies, 29 (October 1977). Reprinted in Morris Bornstein (ed), Comparative Economic Systems 4th ed. (Irwin 1978).
ECONOMIC DEMOGRAPHY
Paul Gregory, John Campbell, and Benjamin Cheng, "A Cost-Inclusive Simultaneous Equation Model of Birth Rates," Econometrica, Vol. 40, No. 4 (1972). Paul Gregory, John Campbell, and Benjamin Cheng, "A Simultaneous Equation Model of Birth Rates in the United States," Review of Economics and Statistics (November, 1972). Paul Gregory, John Campbell, and Benjamin Cheng, "Differences in Fertility Determinants: Developed and Developing Countries," The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (January, 1973). Paul Gregory and John Campbell, "A Model of Fertility Interactions," in M. Keeley (ed.), Fertility and Economic Development (New York: Praeger, 1975). Paul Gregory and John M. Campbell, "Fertility Interactions and Modernization Turning Points: A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Fertility," Journal of Political Economy (August, 1976). Paul R. Gregory and R. William Thomas, "The Micro-Economic Foundations of Generational Crowding," American Statistical Association Proceedings, 1980. Paul R. Gregory, "A Model of Fertility and Labor Force Behavior in the USSR and Eastern Europe," Review of Economics and Statistics, 1982. Paul Gregory, "Soviet Theories of Fertility," Journal of Comparative Economics, Spring, 1983. Paul Gregory and M. Mokhtari, “Fertility and the Household Economy: Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Survey,” in J. Fleishhacker and R. Muenz (eds.), Gesellschaft und Bevoelkerung in Mittel- und Osteuropa im Umbruch (Berlin:DGBw, 1997).
ENERGY ECONOMICS
James Griffin and Paul Gregory, "An Intercountry Translog Model of Energy Substitution Response," American Economic Review (December, 1976). Paul R. Gregory, "Comment: Energy Price Increases and the Productivity Slowdown in United States Manufacturing," The Decline in Productivity Growth, (Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1980). Paul Gregory, “The Legal Regime,” in Emirate Center for Strategic Studies and Research, The Caspian Energy Resource: Implications for the Arab Gulf (Abu Dhabi: ECSSE, 1999).
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
Problems of Economic Transition in the Soviet Union, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, December 1989 (in conjunction with USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Moscow). Problems of Economic Transition, Part II, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 1990 (in conjunction with the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow and Georgia branches). The Lessons of Capitalism: Seminar series of five lecturers from the University of Houston, sponsored in conjunction with the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Literaturnaya Gazeta, the Academy for the National Economy. Seminars held in Moscow and Riga in March of 1990. The Legislative Framework of Soviet Reform: Conference sponsored by the Law Foundation the Center for Public Policy of the University of Houston with five speakers from the Soviet Union. December 1990. Four Seasons Hotel, Houston, Texas. Russian Petroleum Legislation: A Forum for Discussion, November 10, 1992, Westin Oaks Hotel, Houston, Texas. This conference brought 15 Russian legislators and legal drafting experts to Houston to discuss impending Russian petroleum legislation. A Management Training Program for Russia: This was a management training program conducted by the College of Business Administration of the University of Houston in May of 1989, 1990, and 1991 sponsored by the Cullen Foundation in Moscow and Leningrad. Energy in the Former Soviet Union: Industrial Structure, Demonopolization, and Financing, (co- sponsored University of Houston) at Oxford University, March 20-21, 1998. How We Studied the Soviet Union and Its Statistics, (Co-sponsor with Harvard Davis Center, August 2001), Harvard University. Initial Conditions and the Russian Transition Economy (co-sponsored by St. Anthonys College, Oxford), University of Houston, April 2001. The Soviet Economy: Views from the 21st Century (Co-sponsored by Harvard Davies Center and Moscow University), Zvenigorod, Russia, June 2001. Productivity and Growth: Studies in Honor of Abram Bergson (Co-sponsored by Harvard Davis Center), Harvard University, November 2003.
PUBLICATIONS IN RUSSIAN Paul Gregory and G. Zoteev, Ekonomicheski rost: sravnitelny analiz lhozaistvennykh sistem (Rossii - SSSR), Kommunist, 1991. Paul Gregory, "Programma s obtratnym deistviem," Literaturnaya gazeta, June 26, 1990. Paul Gregory, "Vstrechi na vtorom etazhe," Literaturnaya Gazeta, May 23, 1990. Paul Gregory, Biurokratiia i perestroika," Institute of Economics, USSR, Problemy perekhoda k reguliruemomu rynku v SSSR (Moscow: Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1990). Paul Gregory, “Byla Rossiskaia reforma tak neudachna?” Voprosy ekonomiki, 1998. Paul Gregory, Natsional’ny dokhod Rossii (Moscow: Rosspen, 2003). Paul Gregory, Politicheskaia ekonomika Stalinizma (Moscow: Rosspen 2007).