Belton M. Fleisher | Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A..

Office: 413 Arps Hall | Phone: 614-292-6429 | Fax: 614-292-3906 | E-mail: fleisher.1@osu.edu

Belton Fleisher was born in 1935 in California. He attended Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in economics in 1961. He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago 1961-65 and joined the Ohio State University faculty in 1965, where he is professor of economics. He spent the year 1963-64 at the London School of Economics. He has published a number of books, including The Economics of Delinquency (1966) and what is considered by many to be the first "modern" labor economics text, Labor Economics: Theory and Evidence (1970). In 1989 and 1990 he taught economics at the Renmin (People's) University of China in Beijing. In 1997 he received a Competitive Research Award for a paper on the Underpricing of Chinese IPO's from the Sandra Ann Morsilli Pacific-Basin Capital Markets Research Center for a paper "An Empirical Investigation of Underpricing in Chinese IPOs" (Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 1999, with Dongwei Su). He has authored and coauthored over 40 articles in professional journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Education, and China Economic Review and in a number of books and symposia. He has published 7 books and served as editor of a number of symposia, roundtables, and conference proceedings. Since 1990, his research has focused on economic growth and financial markets, and labor and productivity in the Chinese economy. He currently serves as a co-editor of China Economic Review.