For the 15th 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:
Ernesto Ugolini (Aix-Marseille) – Varieties of Democracy and Preferences for Economic Integration
Tingting Peng (Albany) – The Impact of Air Connectivity on Travel Trade: Evidence from Cross-border Card Payments
Jiancong Liu (Bocconi) – Pro-Competitive Gains of Trade Facilitation: Evidence from China
Sanghyun Han (Boston College) – The Effect of Agricultural Protectionism under Climate Change
Yosuke Higashiyama (Boston University) – The China Shock Revisited: Firm Effects of Import Competition in India
Franco Maldonado Carlin (Boston University) – Trade Policy Uncertainty and Exporter Dynamics
Sasha Petrov (Chicago) – From Colonial Lines to Optimal Borders: Quantifying Welfare Gains in Africa
Olivier Kooi (Chicago) – Power and Resilience: An Economic Approach to National Security Policy
Thomas Bourany (Chicago) – The Optimal Design of Climate Agreements: Inequality, Trade, and Incentives for Climate Policy
Vinicius Cicero (Colorado State) – Resource boom, export composition, concentration, and sophistication: evidence from Brazilian local economies
Sang Hoon Kong (Columbia) – Quality Upgrading and Productivity Gains from Domestic Market Access Changes in India
Anh Nguyen (Cornell) – De-localizing the Local Impacts of Trade through Migration: Evidence from Vietnam
David Shin (Duke) – Climate Policies under Dynamic Factor Adjustment
Weiting Miao (Duke) – Technology Rivalry and Resilience Under Trade Disruptions: The Case of Semiconductor Foundries
Nida Jamil (Edinburgh) – Trading textiles along the new silk route: The impact on Pakistani firms of gaining market access to China
Camille Reverdy (Geneva Graduate Institute) – Building a new reputation: The impact of adopting voluntary standards
Constanza Abuin (Harvard) – Power Decarbonization in a Global Energy Market: The Climate Effect of U.S. LNG Exports
Maxim Alekseev (Harvard) – Trade Policy in the Shadow of Conflict: The Case of Dual-Use Goods
Yang Pei (Houston) – Demographics, Trade, and Growth
Sameer Malik (Houston) – How Do Unreported Intermediate Inputs Shape Supply Chains?
Victor Zuluaga (Houston) – The Distributional Consequences of Trade in Distorted Economies
Philipp Ludwig (KU Leuven) – Can Unilateral Policy Decarbonize Maritime Trade?
Shinnosuke Kikuchi (MIT) – Does Skill Abundance Still Matter? The Evolution of Comparative Advantage in the 21st Century
Sarah Gertler (MIT) – Exchange Rate Pass-through and Expenditure-Switching Revisited
Jie Zhou (MIT) – Firewall for Innovation
Edward Wiles (MIT) – Relational Frictions along the Supply Chain: Evidence from Senegalese Traders
Andrii Tarasenko (Mannheim) – Effects of Input Trade Liberalization with Strategic Sourcing
Chan Kim (Maryland) – From Research to Development: How Globalization Shapes Corporate Innovation
Oliver Loertscher (McMaster) – Small Resource-Rich Economies and the Green Transition
Anh Do (Michigan State) – Anticipating Tariff Changes: Did American Importers Respond to Trump’s 2016 Victory?
Xiaosheng Guo (Michigan) – Bank Loans, Trade Credit and Export Prices: Evidence from Exchange Rate Shocks in China
Daniel Velasquez (Michigan) – Highways, Commuting and Trade: Unpacking Suburban Growth
Juan Sebastián Fernández Ibáñez (Michigan) – The Dynamic Welfare Consequences of Trade Restrictions
Maurício Barbosa-Alves (Minnesota) – Climate Change, Food Prices, and Inequality
Dan Xie (PSE postdoc) – China’s Manufacturing Pollution, Environmental Regulation and Trade
Sungwan Hong (Penn State) – Green Industrial Policies and Energy Transition in the Globalized Economy
Hyungjin Kim (Penn State) – It’s Worse than You Think: On the Consequences of Chip Wars for U.S. Semiconductors
Viktoria Zezerova (Penn State) – Market Power, Misallocation, and Trade Policy
Weili Chen (Penn State) – Patent Protection in Developing Economies: The Role of Market Power and Technology Access
Yinong Tan (Penn State) – Supply Chain Disruption Risks as a Trade Barrier
Shamil Sharapudinov (Penn State) – The Distributional Effects of Trade across Local Labor Markets and Heterogeneous Consumers
John Sturm Becko (Princeton postdoc) – Strategic (Dis)Integration
Alejandro Sabal (Princeton) – Product Entry in the Global Automobile Industry
Daniel Teeter (Queens) – The Impact of Internal Trade Liberalizations on Plant Productivity and Markups
Seok (Sean) Kim (UC Davis) – Favoritism in the Fragmented Economy: When Political Incentives Meet Global Value Chains
Billy Ferguson (Stanford GSB) – Trade Frictions in Surface Water Markets
Ossian Prane (Stockholm) – Carbon Pricing and Fuel Switching by Firms: Theory and Evidence
Robin Sogalla (TU Berlin & DIW Berlin) – Unilateral Carbon Pricing and Heterogeneous Firms
Myeongwan Kim (Toronto) – Exporting State-Promoted Technologies and the Direction of Global Innovation: Evidence from 5G Standardization
Ruiqi Sun (Toronto postdoc) – Blocking the Giants: Theory and Evidence from the GFW
Sudipta Ghosh (UBC) – Re-measuring Welfare Effects of Trade with Endogenous Production Network
Giulia Lo Forte (UBC) – Trademarks and Gains from Variety: the Role of Multinational Enterprises
Cristian Espinosa (UCL) – From Protection to Retaliation: The Welfare Cost of Trade Wars
Oscar Perello (UCL) – Trade Intermediation and Resilience in Global Sourcing
Yasu Koike-Mori (UCLA) – Aggregating Distortions in Networks with Multi-Product Firm
Younghoon Kim (UCLA) – When Export Controls Backfire: Evidence from 2019 Korea-Japan Trade Dispute
Jiong Wu (Virginia) – Labor Market Responses to Trade: Job Creation and Destruction Across Space and Sectors
Lingmin Bao (Virginia) – Trade Liberalization, Structural Change, and Income Inequality: Evidence from China
Edoardo Tolva (Warwick) – One Way or Another: Modes of Transport and International Trade
Prakash Mishra (Wharton) – The Global Allocative Efficiency of Deforestation