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Avinash Dixit is an Indian-born American economist whose research covers international trade, industrial organization, game theory, political economy, and investment under uncertainty. With Joseph Stiglitz, he developed the Dixit-Stiglitz model of monopolistic competition, which explains markets con...
Elhanan Helpman is an Israeli economist whose research has shaped modern theories of international trade and economic growth. He has held academic appointments at Harvard University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. With Gene Grossman and other collaborators, he developed models connecting tra...
Marc Melitz is an American economist and professor at Harvard University. He is best known for his influential 2003 paper that introduced a model of firm heterogeneity into international trade theory. Melitz demonstrated how trade liberalization leads to the reallocation of market share toward more...
Bertil Ohlin was a Swedish economist and political figure whose work helped establish modern international trade theory. He shared the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Meade for contributions to the theory of international trade and international capital movements. The Hecks...
Gene Grossman is an American economist at Princeton University whose research focuses on international trade, political economy, economic growth, and environmental economics. With Elhanan Helpman, he developed influential models connecting innovation, knowledge accumulation, trade, and long-run grow...
Jonathan Eaton is an American economist and a professor at Penn State University. He is recognized for co-developing the Eaton-Kortum model with Samuel Kortum in 2002. This framework became a foundational element of modern quantitative trade theory by linking technology diffusion, productivity, and...
Pol Antras is a Spanish-American economist and a professor at Harvard University. His research focuses on the organization of international trade, specifically the boundaries of multinational firms and the structure of global supply chains. He has developed frameworks explaining why firms choose to...
Samuel Kortum is an American economist and a professor at Yale University. He is recognized for his collaborative research with Jonathan Eaton, specifically the co-development of the Eaton-Kortum model published in 2002. This theoretical framework successfully links technology diffusion and comparat...
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg is a Greek-American economist whose research covers international trade, development, industrial organization, price measurement, and pharmaceutical markets. She served as chief economist of the World Bank from 2018 to 2020 and has held academic positions at Yale and Prin...
Stephen Redding is a British economist and a professor at Princeton University. His research specializes in quantitative international trade and new economic geography. He is known for developing mathematical models that explain the spatial distribution of economic activity, examining why specific i...
Arnaud Costinot is a French-American economist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He specializes in the theory of international trade and quantitative economics, with a focus on the underlying drivers of comparative advantage. His academic research frequently explores how...
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg is an Argentine-American economist at the University of Chicago, previously on the faculty at Princeton University. His research centers on spatial economics and quantitative models of cities, regions, and trade, incorporating elements such as firm dynamics, worker mobility, a...
Andrew Bernard is an American economist who serves as a professor of international economics at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. His primary academic focus lies in the field of international trade, where he conducts extensive empirical research on firm-level heterogeneity in global...
Lorenzo Caliendo is an economist who currently serves as a professor of economics at the Yale School of Management. His academic research focuses on international trade, specifically examining the aggregate effects of trade agreements and the role of firm dynamics within the global economy. Caliendo...
The MERCOSUR Permanent Review Tribunal, created by the Olivos Protocol in 2002 and based in Asunción, Paraguay, reviews arbitral awards in disputes among South American member states.
