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Richard Baldwin

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Richard Edward BALDWIN is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute as well as Member of the Council of the European Economic Association, and Chairman of the Foundation Board of the World Trade Institute in Bern.

He has published in the areas of international trade, European integration, economic geography, political economy, growth and regionalism. He is a Research Associate of the US-based academic network known as the NBER and Policy Director of the European-based academic network known as the CEPR.

He wrote his PhD at MIT under the guidance of Paul Krugman, with whom he has co-author a half dozen articles the most recent of which was published in 2004. His M.Sc. is from the London School of Economics, and his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received an honorary doctorate from the Turku School of Economics and Business in 2005.

In 1990-1991 he followed trade matters for the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the Bush Administration. He has consulted for many international organisations including the EU, the OECD, the World Bank, EFTA, USAID. He worked as an Associate Economic Affairs Officer for UNCTAD in the early 1980s.


Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
  PhD, MIT
  Doctor Honoris Causa, Economics, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland, 2005

Teaching Experience
1990- Professor of International Economics,
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
2002-2003 Visiting Professor, MIT
1986-1990 Assistant Professor, Columbia University Business School, New York

Policy Experience
2001-2003 Group of Economic Analysis for Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission
1990-1991 Senior Staff Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors
  Advisor on globalisation and regionalism to various governments and international organisations (e.g. G-20, OECD, WTO, World Bank, EU, EFTA)

 


Selected Publications

Articles

"Trade and growth with heterogeneous firms," with Frederic Robert-Nicoud, forthcoming in the Journal of International Economics 2007

"Multilateralising Regionalism: Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade," The World Economy, Vol. 29, No. 11, pp. 1451-1518, 2006..

"Multinationals and Endogenous Growth," with Henrik Braconier and Rikard Forslid, Review of International Economics, Vol. 13(5), pp. 945-963, 2005.

"Agglomeration, Integration and Tax Harmonization," with Paul Krugman, European Economic Review, Vol. 48 (1), pp. 1-23, 2004.

"Multiproduct Multinationals and Reciprocal FDI Dumping," with G. Ottaviano, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 54 (2), pp. 429-448, 2001.

"Regulatory Protectionism, Developing Nations and a Two-Tier World Trading System," Brookings Trade Forum, edited by Susan Collins and Dani Rodrik, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, pp. 237-293, 2000. Re-published in Quantifying the impact of technical barriers to trade: Can it be done? K. Maskus and J.S. Wilson (eds), Michigan University Press, 2001.

"Trade Liberalisation and Endogenous Growth: A q-Theory Approach," with Rikard Forslid, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 50 (2), pp. 497-517, 2000.

"The causes of regionalism," The World Economy, Vol. 20 (7), pp. 865-888, 1997.

"Measurable Dynamic Gains from Trade", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 100 (1), pp. 162-174, 1992.

"Persistent Trade Effects of Large Exchange Rate Shocks," with Paul Krugman, Quarterly Journal of Economics, No. 419, pp. 635-654, 1989.

"Hysteresis in Import Prices: The Beachhead Effect," American Economic Review, Vol. 78 (4), pp. 773-785, 1988.


Books
The Economics of European Integration, textbook with Charles Wyplosz, McGraw-Hill, 2006, 458 pages, 2nd edition.

The Economics of European Integration, textbook with Charles Wyplosz, McGraw-Hill, 2003, 458 pages.

Economic Geography and Public Policy, with Rikard Forslid, Philippe Martin, Gianmarco Ottaviano, and Frederic Robert-Nicoud, Princeton University Press, 2003, 504 pages.

Nice Try: Should the Treaty of Nice be Ratified? with Erik Berglof, Francesco Giavazzi and Mika Widgren, CEPR, London, 2001, 137 pages.

Towards an Integrated Europe, CEPR, London, 1994, 234 pages.


Courses Taught

  • International Trade and Trade Policy (Masters level course)
  • Advanced Topics in International Trade Analysis (PhD level)
  • Advanced Topics in International Trade Policy (PhD level)
  • Introduction to the Economics of European Integration (undergrad level)
  • Topics in the Economics of European Integration (Masters level)
  • Microeconomics (Masters level)
 

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