Judith Thornton, Department of Economics

Judith Thornton
Charles R. Nelson Professor
Areas of Interest: Economics of Transition, Property Rights
Email: thornj@u.washington.edu
Office: Savery 332
Phone: (206) 543-5784
Office Hours: TTh 3:30-5:30 and by appointment Savery 332
Curriculum Vitae
Professor Thornton is a Professor of Economics at the University of Washington and a member of the International Advisory Board for the Economics Education and Research Consortium in Russia of the Eurasia Foundation. Her research interest is the economics of the transition economies. She is currently working on strategies of Western businesses in Russia and determinants of tax effort in Russia's regions

Courses Taught

Books

Russia's Far East: Region at Risk, Judith Thornton and Charles Ziegler. University of Washington Press, 2002

Working Papers

UWEC-2003-11 - " The Prospects for Expansion of Trade in Oil and Gas in Northeast Asia ," Judith Thornton. (PDF)
" Sakhalin Energy; Problems and Prospects ," Judith Thornton. (PDF)
" Development of Sakhalin Energy; Can the Barriers be Overcome? ," Judith Thornton. (PDF)
UWEC-2011-15 - " Institutional Change and Economic Development in Siberia and the Russian Far East ," Judith Thornton. (PDF)
UWEC-2009-22 - " The Impact of Nationalization and Insecure Property Rights on Oil and Gas Developments in Russia's Asia Pacific ," Judith Thornton. (PDF)
UWEC-2007-36 - " Nationalization of Energy Assets and Regional Welfare; Sakhalin 2007 ," Judith Thornton, Department of Economics University of Washington. (PDF)
UWEC-2007-35 - " Benchmarking North Korean Economic Policies; The Lessons from Russia and China ," Judith Thornton, Department of Economics University of Washington. (PDF)
UWEC-2007-34 - " The Response of Federal Transfers to Measures of Social Need in Russia's Regions ," Judith Thornton, Department of Economics University of Washington; Krisztina Nagy, Department of Economics University of Washington. (PDF)
UWEC-2003-28 - " Incentives and Performance of Russian Regional Government Officials , " Judith Thornton.
UWEC-2003-27 - " Sakhalin Energy: Committing to an Energy Project, Is There a Successful Strategy? , " Judith Thornton.

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Published Papers

"Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization in Russia and China: Figures," Elliott Parker; Judith Thornton; Forthcoming in Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 49, 4. (PDF)
"Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization in Russia and China," Elliott Parker, Department of Economics University of Nevada, Reno; Judith Thornton, Department of Economics University of Washington; Forthcoming in Comparative Economic Studies , Vol 49, 4. (PDF)
"The Russian Far East in Perspective," Judith Thornton; Charles Ziegler; The Russian Far East; Region at Risk, University of Washington Press 2002, 165-192.
"The Exercise of Rights to Resources ," Judith Thornton; The Russian Far East and Pacific Asia: Unfulfilled Potential, Curzon Press 2001, 58-120. (PDF)
""Restructuring Production without Market Infrastructure," ," Judith Thornton; Transforming Post-Communist Political Economy, Natl Resource Council 1998, 133-156.
"Sakhalin Energy: Problems and Prospects," Judith Thornton; Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 43, 4 (Winter 2001), 9-32.
"Institutional and Structural Change in Pacific Russia," Judith Thornton; Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 43, 4 (Winter 2001).
"Economic Reform in the Russian Far East; the Implications for Russian-Chinese Economic Cooperation," Judith Thornton; Rapprochment or Rivalry: Russia-Chinese Relations, Carnegie Endowment for Intl Peace 2000, 257-313.
"Structural Change in the Russian Far East: Implications for Trade and Factor Markets," Judith Thornton; Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol 24, No 3 (September 1996), 208-227.
"The Strategies of Foreign and Foreign-Assisted Firms in the Russian Far East; Alternatives to Missing Infrastructure," Judith Thornton; Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 38, No 4 (December 1996) 85-119. (PDF)
"Strukturnye izmeneniia i problemy integratsii dal'nego vostok rossi v ekonomiku tikhookeanskgogo regiona," Judith Thornton; Structural Change and Problems of Integrating the RFE into the Pacific, IER RAN 1992, 1-34.
"Recent Changes in the Environment for Investment in Russia and the Asian Newly Independent States," Judith Thornton; Recent Changes in the Environment for Investment in Russia and the Asian Newly Independent States, September 1992, 1-17.
"The Consequences of Crisis for the Russian Far East Economy and for the Russo-Japanese Economic Relationship," Judith Thornton; Russia and Japan: an Unresolved Dilelmma, Berkeley Press 1993, 299-342.