… ever to understand how developing countries could leverage trade and access to global markets to grow,” says new faculty … member Mayara Felix, an expert on international trade and economic development. Her research focuses on developing, … in an era of trade liberalization, she didn’t understand why some communities had so much wealth while others were …

… to advance research spanning macroeconomics, international trade, development economics, and industrial organization, … and the evolving market structure in this sector. Using real-world data, I studied how consumers and firms respond to policy interventions, and what that means for effective …

… his graduate work on examining technology as a driver of economic productivity. Eaton encouraged him to consider the … eventually led the two colleagues to examine international trade.  “We had not included trade in our work on the … issues,” Kortum said.  “It can be used to think through policy ideas and get things right.”  Lorenzo Caliendo, …

… The American Economic Association (AEA), in conjunction with 56 … Lorenzo Caliendo , co-presenter,  Organizations, Trade, and Productivity , ”Productivity and Organization in … , presenter,  Evaluating Behavioral Policy Applications Using Administrative Data , “Direct Outreach to Small-Scale …

… of a new research enterprise, the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale, named for the late James Tobin, … donors for supporting Yale’s emphasis on the importance of using empirical approaches in the social sciences to address … economic theory, industrial organization, international trade, and the study of developing economies. The new center …

… Event recap: Clare Balboni (IDE ’09) returns to Yale for a … environmental challenges often incorporate  fundamentally economic problems where market failures require appropriately … waste imported from high-income developed nations. Using shifts in China’s waste import policies, she examines …

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… the major and electives that draw curious non-majors into economic thinking for the first time. Whether guiding … Professor Fieler’s research focuses on international trade in developing countries, using quantitative models to study contrasting patterns of …

… Q&A: Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg on Why Market Size and Equality Are Critical for Poverty … Larson Access to foreign markets has been a key driver of economic development and poverty alleviation in several … look at the country’s number of signed trade agreements, using a new database put together by the World Bank, as well …

… the possibility that sometimes the dominant reason why a recession is severe is related to the prevalence and vividness of certain stories, not the purely economic feedback or multipliers that economists love to … is a sequence of events in history. That’s not how I’m using the term. For me, narrative economics means studying …

… graduate students selected to speak at the  Review of Economic Studies  May Meetings. Informally known as the … investigate information costs in international trade, using original data she collected on Nigerian consumer goods … She hopes her paper will bring more attention to why market integration policies beyond transportation and …

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