Impact
Awards & Honors
- Emily Blanchard: Awarded Lifetime membership to the Council on Foreign Relations; Invited panelist at WTO-BIS-PIIE Conference on Economic Fragmentation (2024), World Trade Forum (May 2025), IFRI Symposium on Economic Security (September 2024); Delivered 2024 Goldman Lecture at Wellesley College.
- Andrew Bernard: Invited keynote speaker, Melbourne Empirical Trade Conference (December 2024); Invited speaker: Research Workshop on Global Value Chains at University of International Business and Economics (August 2024); NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics (March 2205); NBER China Economy Working Group (March 2025)
- Teresa Fort: Invited keynote speaker, Global Economic Networks Workshop (June 2024); Invited speaker, Nordic International Trade Seminars (NOITS) (October 2024), Columbia Institute of Global Politics webinar on tariffs and their implications (April 2025)
- Anaïs Galdin: Invited speaker, 2nd OECD Conference on Medical Supply Chains (2024); Harvard-MIT joint trade seminar (2025); Harvard-MIT-Boston University Health Economics seminar (2025); Yale University Trade Day (2025); Georgetown Strategy seminar (2025); Devils and Wolves International Economics Seminar Series at Duke (2025)
- Davin Chor: Invited Speaker, Chinese University of Hong Kong summer school on Supply Chains in Trade (July 2024); Invited keynote speaker, Latin America Untapped Opportunities in Global Value Chains conference (April 2024); Invited speaker, 2023 Annual Conference of the OECD Global Forum on Productivity (September 2023)
Academic Leadership
- Emily Blanchard: Board Member, World Trade Review; former Chief Economist, U.S. Department of State; Advisory Board member, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)
- Teresa Fort: Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics
- Davin Chor: Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics; Associate Editor, Journal of Comparative Economics; Associate Editor, Economic Development and Cultural Change; Co-Editor, Economic Inquiry
- Andrew Bernard: Organizer, annual Empirical Investigations in Trade and Investment Conference
- Erin Mansur: Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics; Co-organizer, Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics
Recent Papers
- Teresa Fort: “Exporting, Global Sourcing, and Multinational Activity: Theory and Evidence from the United States”, with Pol Antràs, Evgenii Fadeev, and Felix Tintelnot, the Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming); “Trade Policy and Global Sourcing: An Efficiency Rationale for Tariff Escalation”, Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics (2024); “The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains”, Journal of Economic Perspectives (2023)
- Emily Blanchard: “Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy”, with Chad Bown and Robert Johnson, Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming 2025); “Industrial Policy 2.0: Objectives, Design Principles, and Challenges”, in Steering Structural Change: Rethinking Economic Policy to Support Fundamental Economic Transitions (forthcoming 2025); “Did Trump's Trade War Impact the 2018 Election?”, with Davin Chor and Chad Bown, Journal of International Economics (2024); “A Sanctions Guidebook for Policymakers”, Brookings Working Paper (2024)
- Davin Chor: “Did Trump's Trade War Impact the 2018 Election?”, with Emily Blanchard and Chad Bown, Journal of International Economics (2024); “Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China’s Economy”, with Bingjing Li, Journal of International Economics (2024); “Global Supply Chains: The Looming ‘Great Reallocation’”, with Laura Alfaro—prepared for the 2023 Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Economic Policy Symposium in Jackson Hole
- Erin Mansur: “The Economics of Electricity Reliability”, with Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell, Journal of Economic Perspective (2023); “Why Marginal CO2 Emissions are not Decreasing for US Electricity: Estimates and Implications for Climate Policy”, with Stephen Holland, Matthew Kotchen, and Andrew Yates, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2022)
- Andrew Bernard: “The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach”, with Emmanuel Dhyne, Glenn Magerman, Kalina Manova, and Andreas Moxnes, Journal of Political Economy (2022)