Robert W Staiger is an American economist who is the Roth Family Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College.[1] He is best known for his research on international trade policy, and in particular on the economics of the GATT/WTO.[2]
Robert W. Staiger | |
|---|---|
| Born | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Known for | International trade research International Trade Policy |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Bachelor of Arts, Williams College PhD Economics, University of Michigan |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan Deardorff |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College |
Together with Kyle Bagwell, Staiger has developed an influential theory centered around the notion that the key purpose of trade agreements, and in particular the GATT-WTO, is to prevent countries from manipulating terms-of-trade, and that some of the key rules of the GATT-WTO, such as the reciprocity and non-discrimination rules, can be understood in light of that purpose.[3]
Staiger's research has been published in a variety of academic journals, and in two books: The Economics of the World Trading System, co-authored with Kyle Bagwell and published by MIT Press (2002),[4] and A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century, published by MIT Press in 2022.[5] He has also served as Editor, with Kyle Bagwell, of The Handbook of Commercial Policy, published by Elsevier in December 2016.[6]
Additionally, Staiger is well-known for having fostered a large number of graduate students, many of whom have become accomplished academic economists.[7]
Education and career
editStaiger completed his Bachelor of Arts from Williams College in 1980 and his PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1985. After completing his PhD, Staiger joined Stanford University as an assistant professor of economics, a position he held until 1991, when he was promoted to associate professor of economics. He moved to the University of Wisconsin in 1993 and was promoted to full professor there in 1996. He returned to Stanford University in 2006 and was named Holbrook Working Professor in Commodity Price Studies in 2009. He returned to Wisconsin as the Stockwell Professor of Economics in 2012, serving until 2014. Since 2014, he has been the Roth Family Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College.[8]
Staiger also served as Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers from 1991 to 1992, He also served as Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics from 1995 to 2010 and as Editor (with Charles Engel) from 2010 through 2017. He has been a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1989.[9]
In 2024, Staiger signed a faculty letter supporting Dartmouth College president Sian Beilock, who ordered the arrest of 90 students and faculty members nonviolently protesting the Israel-Hamas war.[10][11][12]
Awards and honors
edit- 1988 – Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University
- 1988–89 – National Fellow, The Hoover Institution
- 1990–92 – Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow
- 2008 to present – Fellow, Econometric Society[13]
- 2016 – Ohlin Lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics
- 2018 – Dr. Frank Anton Distinguished Lecture at the University of Calgary
- 2018 – Frank D. Graham Memorial Lecture at Princeton University[14]
- 2018 – Luca d’Agliano Lecture in Turin Italy[15]
- 2018 – Jones Lecture at the University of Rochester.
References
edit- ^ "Robert W. Staiger – Professor of Economics".
- ^ "Robert W. Staiger – Google Scholar". Google Scholar.
- ^ Bagwell, Kyle (March 1999). "An Economic Theory of GATT". American Economic Review. 89 (1): 215–248. doi:10.1257/aer.89.1.215 – via American Economic Association.
- ^ "The Economics of the World Trading System".
- ^ "A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century".
- ^ "Handbook of commercial policy".
- ^ "Former Students – (Stanford and Wisconsin)". Dartmouth.
- ^ "Dartmouth – Robert W. Staiger". dartmouth. 23 July 2014.
- ^ "Robert W. Staiger – National Bureau of Economic Research".
- ^ "Letter to the Editor: We Dartmouth Faculty Members Support the Recent Actions by College President Sian Leah Beilock". The Dartmouth. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ Patel, Vimal (2024-05-03). "Police Treatment of a Dartmouth Professor Stirs Anger and Debate". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-05.
- ^ "Adkins: Dozens of people arrested at pro-Palestine protest at Dartmouth College". WMUR 9 News. May 1, 2024. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
- ^ "Fellows of the Econometric Society".
- ^ "The Frank D. Graham Memorial Lecture".
- ^ "Sixteenth Luca d'Agliano Lecture in Development Economics: "Is Multilateralism Dead?: Trade in the Era of Trump" by Robert W. Staiger, 19th October 2018, Collegio Carlo Alberto".