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Séamus O'Cléireacáin, Ph.D. Seamus OCleireacain.jpg

Professor of Economics
School of Natural and Social Sciences

Office: 1035 SS Building
Tel: (914) 251-6609
Fax: (914) 251-6603
Email: seamus.ocleireacain@purchase.edu

Born in Galway in the West of Ireland,
Dr. O'Cléireacáin is a professor of economics in
the School of Natural and Social Sciences at Purchase College. He also holds a position as adjunct professor of economics and adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. A specialist on international economic relations, he was in charge of the Ford Foundation's program in International Economics and Development from 1991 to 1994. He has been a consultant and advisor to the United Nations, the State Department, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the UK Dept. of Trade and Industry, and the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.

Education

  • B.Comm., University College Dublin
  • M.Sc., University of Detroit
  • Ph.D., University of Michigan

Positions

  • Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.1996-97.
  • Visiting Professor, Helsinki School of Economics, 1995
  • Program Officer, The Ford Foundation, 1991-1994
  • Director, US-EC Seminars, Institute on Western Europe, Graduate School of
  • International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 1988-89.
  • Associate Director, Labor-Management Policy Studies, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, 1987-1990.
  • Assoc. Professor of Economics, Purchase College, SUNY, 1977-90.
  • Asst. Professor of Economics, Purchase College, SUNY, 1974-77.
  • Asst. Professor of Economics, Manhattanville College, 1974-77.
  • Leverhulme Research Fellow, University of Reading, England, 1971-74.
  • Lecturer in Economics, University of Michigan, 1970-71.
  • Lecturer in Economics, Al-Hikma University, Baghdad, Iraq, 1963-64.

Areas of Expertise

International economic policy, European economic integration including European Monetary Union, US-EU relations, and trade policy.

Honors and Awards

W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment research grant, 1990.
Commission of the European Communities research grant, 1988-89.
Japan Economic Research Center Tokyo, Visiting Research Fellowship, 1985.
SUNY Research Foundation Faculty Grant for the Improvement of Undergraduate Instruction 1981-82.
Social Science Research Council, UK, research grant 1976-78.
Leverhulme Foundation, UK, research fellowship, 1971-74.
University of Michigan Rackham Dissertation Grant 1969-70.

Courses Taught

Freshman Seminar; The World Economy; Introductory Macroeconomic Theory; Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory; Computers and Economics; International Political Economy; Senior Seminar.
Columbia University (graduate): The Economics of European Integration; US-EU Economics Relations; Transatlantic Trade and Monetary Policy.
Helsinki School of Economics (graduate): European Economic Integration.

Research Interests

The European Union's economic policies; US-EU trade disputes; WTO trade negotiations.

Selected Publications

"Sub-Saharan Africa's Trade Liberalisation Experience" in Ademola Oyejide, Benno Ndulu and David Greenaway (eds.), Regional Integration and Trade Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa (Macmillan Press, 1999).

"EC policies toward Japanese trade and investment: implications for US-EC relations" in George N. Yannopoulos (ed.), 1992: Europe and America (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991).

"Long-term implications of the unified European market: birth of an economic superpower?" Mediterranean Quarterly vol. 1 no. 4 (Fall 1990).

Third World debt and international public policy (New York: Praeger-Greenwood, 1990).

"The emerging social dimension of Europe 1992" in Michael S. Steinberg, 1992: Technological challenges and European security (London: Frances Pinter, 1990).

"Europe 1992 and gaps in the European Community's common commercial policy" Journal of Common Market Studies (March 1990).

"A view on the external effects of Europe 1992" in H. M. Belein (ed.), The United States and the European Community: convergence or conflict?, (The Hague: Nijgh and Van Ditmar Universitair, 1989).

"Long-term implications of Europe 1992 for the US economy" and "The impact of 1992 on the European Community's external relations" in Congress of the United States Joint Economic Committee, Europe 1992: Long-term implications for the U.S. economy, Hearings, April 26, 1989 (Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989), pp. 94-114 and pp. 115-147.

"Northern Ireland and Irish integration: the role of the European Communities", Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. XXII No. 2, (December 1983).