Program Director

Stephen J. Redding is the Harold T. Shapiro ‘64 Professor in Economics at Princeton University. His research interests span international trade, economic geography, and the determinants of productivity and economic growth. He has been an NBER affiliate since 2011.
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Upending a decades-long effort to reduce global trade barriers, China and the United States began mutually escalating tariffs on $450 billion in trade...
Two central insights from the Schumpeterian approach to innovation and growth are that the pace of innovation is...
This paper examines the political economy of U.S. trade policy around the time of the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, a...