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Christopher WoodruffAssociate Professor of Economics, Director of Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies UCSD, IR/PS, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0519 Office #1321 Phone: (858) 534-0590 Fax (858) 534-3939 Email: cwoodruff@ucsd.edu Professor Woodruff's research focuses on the challenges faced by small and medium sized firms in developing and transition economies. His research examines how disfunctional legal systems make formal contracting impossible, how inadequate financial systems limit access to financial capital, and how corruption makes retention of profits difficult. Woodruff's research spans a broad area of the developing world including Mexico, Vietnam, and Eastern Europe. Currently, Woodruff examines the sources of financial capital for small firms in Mexico. Together with a Mexican colleague, Woodruff finds that remittances from workers in the United States play a large role in financing small enterprises in urban Mexico. Woodruff has written articles on wages in Mexico and the adjustment of firms in Mexico's industrial sector to increases of import levels and export opportunities, the latter primarily the result of NAFTA. He has also written articles on the development of markets in Vietnam and Eastern Europe and has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Woodruff joined the faculty at IR/PS in 1994.
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