Associate Professor

Department of Economics

Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450

TEL: (540) 463-8625
FAX: (540) 463-8639
E-MAIL: msmitka@wlu.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  automotive industry; development; general economics; industrial and manufacturing competitiveness; industrial organization; international economics; international trade; international trade and finance; labor and labor relations; macroeconomics; modernization; small business, family firms; trade, investment and promotion; trade relations; US competitiveness
• HISTORY
  business history; economic history
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  industrial policy; international economic policy; monetary and fiscal policy; trade policy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Judge, Automotive News PACE "Supplier of the Year" competition, 1993-present; Visiting Professor, International University of Japan, Jan-Mar 1997; Researcher, MIT International Motor Vehicle Program, 1992-1994; Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Rikkyo University, 1991-92; Bank of Tokyo, International Finance Center, 1978-80.

IN JAPAN: 1991-92 - sabbatical; 1983-84 - Fulbright, dissertation research; 1975-77 - employment; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Foreign Policy and the US Automotive Industry: By Virtue of Necessity?" Business and Economic History (forthcoming, 2000); editor, Japanese Economic History, 1600-1960 (7 vols., Garland Press, 1998); Competitive Ties: Subcontracting in the Japanese Automotive industry (Columbia University Press, 1991); "Contracting without Contracts: How the Japanese Manage Organizational Transactions," The Legalistic Organization (Sage Publishing, 1994); "Autos: The Next Export Industry?," Sloan Management Review (Fall, 1993); "Business-Business Relations: Auto Parts Sourcing in Japan," Japan's Economic Challenge (Joint Economic Committee, 1990).