Trade JMPs (2025-2026)

For the 16th year running, I’ve gathered a list of trade-related job-market papers. If I’ve missed someone, please contribute to the list in the comments.

Here’s a cloud of the words that appear in these papers’ titles:

Fanwen Zhu (UCLA) – Sanctions and Startups: Trade Shocks and Innovator Entrepreneurship in the U.S.-China Trade War
Qi Zhang (Virginia) – Pollution Haven Next Door: Evidence from China
Viktoriia Zezerova (Penn State) – Market Power, Misallocation, and Trade Policy
Chek Yin Choi (IIES) – Supplier Search and Market Concentration
Yan Yan (Yale University) – The Informational Value of Lobbying in the Tariff Exclusion Process – https://yanyan-econ.github.io
Yuyao Wu (Michigan) – State Ownership and International Business Cycle
Cihang Wang (UIUC) – Taxing Production Networks: Trade, Misallocation, and Vertical Integration
Tao Wang (CEMFI) – Beyond Cheap Supplies: Risk and Competition in Global Sourcing
Germano Wallerstein (Michigan) – Exporter entry, expansion, and the skill premium
Barron Tsai (Duke University) – When Cutting Out the Middleman Backfires: Disintermediation, Wholesale Markups, and Misallocation
Ngan Tran (Oregon) – Unequal Gains: The Gendered Impact of Trade Liberalization in Vietnam
Lidia Smitkova (Oxford) – Export Subsidies as Industrial Policy: the Case of the 19th Century Sugar Industry
Sebastian Sardon (Northwestern) – Trade, Land Consolidation, and Agricultural Productivity
Bas Sanders (Harvard) – A New Bayesian Bootstrap for Quantitative Trade and Spatial Models
Alisha Saini (University of Illinois Chicago) – How Government Procurement affects Trade: Evidence from the U.S.
Jose Rojas-Fallas (Oregon) – Global Firms, Local Students: Multinational Presence Shapes College Major Choice
Yinan Qiu (Princeton) – Venture Capital Networks and Cross-Border Startup Knowledge Spillovers
Alberto Palazzolo (ULB ECARES) – Deglobalization and the Reorganization of Supply chains: Effects on Regional Inequalities in the EU
Guilherme Paiva Pinto (Indiana) – External Negotiations and Customs Union Stability
Saera Oh (Michigan State) – Related Party Trade and Gravity: Revisiting the Distance Effects
Vishan Nigam (MIT) – Specialization by design: the unequal geographic effects of modular product design
Ashwin Nair (Virginia) – Paving the Way for Higher Costs? The Impact of Steel Tariffs on Highway Procurement
Timothy Meyer (Uni Bonn, Kiel Institute) – Hegemonic Competition with Carrots and Sticks
Hubert Massoni (Bologna) – Climate Trade Costs: Extreme Weather, Transportation, and Supply Chains
Ignacio Marra de Artiñano (ULB ECARES) – The Labor Market Effects of Multinational Entry
Max Marczinek (Oxford) – Labour Scarcity and Productivity: Insights from the Last Nordic Plague
Jacob Lefler (Berkeley ARE) – Freight in the Time of Covid: A Model of US Trucking
Taylor Lathrop (Syracuse) – Foreign Direct Investment and Local Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Indonesia
Guido Lamarmora (Nottingham) – The Food Problem in an Open Economy
Ananya Kotia (London School of Economics) – When Competition Compels Change: Trade, Management, and Productivity
Xianglong Kong (Chicago) – Learning in Firm-to-Firm Trade
Kazuma Inagaki (Rochester) – Born Global, New Exporter Dynamics and the Aggregate Gains from Trade
Vanya Georgieva (Toronto) – Trade and Industrial Policy with Global Production Networks
Enrico Cristoforoni (Boston College) – International Prices, Domestic Wages, and Labor Market Power
Junyuan Chen (UCSD) – Sourcing Frictions Meet Inventories: A Dynamic Ricardian Framework for the Impact of Trade Shocks
Yaming Chang (Penn State) – Trade, Research Productivity and Growth: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach
Jonas Casper (LMU Munich) – Unproductive Exporters
Carlos Bolivar (Minnesota) – The Micro Effects of Aggregate Shocks in Endogenous Trade Networks
Shania Bhalotia (LSE) – Trade in Services under Regulatory Barriers: Evidence from UK Banking

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