CID’s faculty affiliates embody the breadth and depth of international development research at Harvard. Faculty affiliates hail from across Harvard and work in every region of the world, on every topic in development.
By CID Staff
Faculty affiliates at CID examine trade policy from multiple perspectives, offering research and analysis that provide valuable insights into the complexities of the global economy and the broader implications of policy shifts.
How will the trade policies of the new US administration affect the global economy? What can consumers in the US and abroad expect from a shift towards more protectionist policies?
CID Faculty Affiliate
Project Syndicate, January 2025.
When tariffs are moderate and used to complement a domestic investment agenda, they need not do much harm; they can even be useful. When they are indiscriminate and are not supported by purposeful domestic policies, they do considerable damage – most of it at home.
CID Faculty Affiliate: Gordon Hanson
Podcast: Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez, May 2024.
Hanson's current research addresses the causes and consequences of regional job loss, effectiveness of place-based policies in alleviating regional economic distress, and the labour market consequences of the energy transition. In this podcast, Hanson discuss the rise of China and its impact on the US, whether WTO entry mattered and which sectors played by the rules, comparing the rise of Japan and Asia Tigers, and much more.
CID Faculty Affiliate and co-author Davin Chor
Harvard Business School Working Paper Series, August 2024.
Global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress as a result of US-China trade tensions, the Covid-19 pandemic, and geopolitical shocks. We document shifts in the pattern of US participation in global value chains over the last four decades, in terms of partner countries, products, and modes, with a focus on the last five years (2017-2022).
CID Faculty Affiliate Jeffrey Frankel
Project Syndicate, June 2024.
Global demand for renewable energy is growing rapidly, fueled by the falling cost of solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles. But new Western tariffs on Chinese imports of these and other goods threaten to derail this progress by forcing American and European consumers to bear the costs of the green transition.
CID Faculty Affiliate: Gordon Hanson with co-authors David Autor, Anne Beck, and David Dorn
National Bureau of Ecomonic Research, January 2024.
The authors examine the economic and political consequences of the 2018-2019 trade war between the United States, China and other US trade partners at the detailed geographic level, exploiting measures of local exposure to US import tariffs, foreign retaliatory tariffs, and US compensation programs.
CID Faculty Affiliates and with co-authors Edmund Malesky, Sung-Ju Wu, and Bo Feng
Harvard Business School Working Paper Series, May 2024.
Origin-specific tariffs are a common policy tool; however, critics claim that such tariffs are often circumvented by rerouting goods through intermediary countries. This study examines whether rerouting increased due to the 2018-2019 US-China trade war via Vietnam.
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