There are plenty of trade economists on the job market this year. I’ve pulled together an incomplete list of JMPs, like last year. As usual, I focus on trade papers, thereby neglecting international finance and open-economy macro papers and trade economists working in other fields (such as urban). Please add more in the comments.
- Nikolas J Zolas (UC Davis): “Firm Locational Patenting Decisions“
- Nan Zhang (Virginia): “Productivity and Labor Market Effects of Offshoring to Low-Wage Countries“
- Yiqing Xie (Boulder): “Exporting, Licensing, FDI and Productivity Choice: Theory and Evidence from Chilean Data“
- Anna Wong (Chicago): “Measuring Trade Barriers: An Application to China’s Domestic Trade“
- Tao Wang (Princeton): “Kyoto Protocol and the Patterns of International Trade“
- Mehmet Fatih Ulu (Chicago): “Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Firm Selection into Foreign Markets“
- Martin Tobal (UCSD): “A Model Of Employment And Wage Impacts Of Service Offshoring“
- Olga Timoshenko (Yale): “Product Switching in a Model of Learning“
- Lucas Threinen (Chicago): “The Dynamic Response to Trade Policy“
- Michael J. Sposi (Iowa): “Evolving Comparative Advantage, Structural Change, and the Composition of Trade“
- Adam Storeygard (Brown): “Farther on down the road: Transport costs, trade and urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa“
- Wei Shi (UCLA): “A model of the technology adoption decision for heterogeneous firms“
- Huimin Shi (Ohio State): “Gravity or Distorted Gravity: Evidence from Chinese Data“
- Liugang Sheng (UC Davis): “ The Ownership Structure of Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China“
- Gisela Rua (Berkeley): “Fixed Costs, Network Effects, and the International Diffusion of Containerization
- Dorothée Rouzet (Harvard): “ Improving “National Brands”: Reputation for Quality and Export Promotion Policies“
- Gina Pieters (Minnesota): “Trade and Within-Country Consumption Inequality“
- Megha Mukim (LSE): “Does exporting increase productivity? Evidence from India“
- Madhura Maitra (Columbia): “Unexceptional Exporter Performance in China? Role of Processing Trade“
- April Xiangjun Ma (Virginia): “Do Taxes Influence the Organizational Boundaries of International Firms? An Income-Shifting Channel through Transfer Pricing“
- Gary Lyn (PSU): “Marshallian Externalities, Comparative Advantage and International Trade“
- William Lincoln (Michigan): “Entry Costs and Increasing Trade“
- Donghyun (Don) Lee (Oregon): “Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions with Heterogeneous Firms: Technology vs. Market Motives“
- Paul Landefeld (Virginia): “Task Trade, Wages, and Transportation Costs“
- Illenin O. Kondo (Minnesota): “Trade Reforms, Foreign Competition, and Labor Market Adjustments in the U.S.“
- Nune Hovhannisyan (Boulder): “Technology Gap and International Knowledge Transfer: New Evidence from the Operations of Multinational Corporations“
- David Hémous (Harvard):”Environmental Policy and Directed Technical Change in a Global Economy: Is There a Case for Carbon Tariffs?“
- Rachita Gullapalli (Berkeley): “Does Foreign Portfolio Investment Help In Bad Times? Firm-Level Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis“
- Daniel Gomez Gaviria (Chicago Booth): “Mergers and Heterogeneous Firms: Trade, asset reallocation and productivity “
- Teresa Fort (Maryland): “Breaking up is hard to do: Why firms fragment production across locations“
- Michael Fabinger (Harvard): “Trade and Interdependence in a Spatially Complex World“
- David DeRemer (Columbia): “The Evolution of International Subsidy Rules“
- F. Banu Demir (Oxford): “Trading Tasks and Quality“
- Hyo-Youn Chu (Boston U): “ Investments in Response to Trade Policy: The Case of Japanese Firms during Voluntary Export Restraints“
- Moonjung Choi (Virginia): “ Export Prices and Relative Location of Exporting Countries“
- Kristy Buzard (UCSD): “Trade Agreements, Lobbying and Separation of Powers“
- Wyatt Brooks (Minnesota): “Credit Market Frictions and Trade Liberalization“
- Cagatay Bircan (Michigan): “Optimal Degree of Foreign Ownership Under Uncertainty“
- Treb Allen (Yale): “Information Frictions and Trade“
Gary Lyn, from Penn State, is going to the market with JMP joint with Andrés Rodríguez-Clare “Marshallian Externalities, Comparative Advantage and International Trade”, http://www.personal.psu.edu/gal154/. Basically revisiting Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (QJE,2010).
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