Richard Baldwin

Richard Edward Baldwin has been Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, since 1991 and Policy Director of CEPR since 2006.

He was Co-managing Editor of the journal Economic Policy from 2000 to 2005, and Programme Director of CEPR’s International Trade programme from 1991 to 2001. Before that he was Senior Staff Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the Bush Administration (1990-1991).

Prior to going to Geneva, he was Associate Professor at Columbia University Business School, having done his PhD in economics at MIT with Paul Krugman. He was visiting professor at MIT in 2002/03 and has taught at universities in Italy, Germany and Norway.

He has also worked as consultant for the European Commission, OECD, the World Bank, EFTA, USAID and UNCTAD. The author of numerous books and articles, his research interests include international trade, globalisation, regionalism and European integration. He is editor-in-Chief of Vox.

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Richard Baldwin's Latest Articles | 11

21st Century Regionalism and Global Trade Governance

May 23, 2011| 

How will global trade evolve in the 21st century? This column introduces a new CEPR Policy Insight arguing that 1) trade today is radically more complex than last... Read »

Is America Mis-Thinking Its 21st Century Trade Strategy? (Part 2)

May 17, 2011| 

Most observers in Geneva expect the Doha round to fail. If that happens, this column argues that the prospects for US market-access policy will be grim. New multilateral... Read »

Is America Mis-Thinking Its 21st Century Trade Strategy? (Part 1)

May 15, 2011| 

Two decades of spectacular growth and industrialisation in emerging economies has transformed the world economy, presenting US trade policy with new challenges.... Read »

The U.S. is Painting Itself Into a Corner on 21st Century Trade Policy

Apr 28, 2011| 

America’s best chance at getting better access to the world’s fastest growing economies is on the table – it is called the Doha Round. The US should push hard... Read »

Global Trade Talks: Doha is Doable this Year

Jan 28, 2011| 

The Doha Round is likely to conclude this year, as a burst of political leadership by G20 and APEC nations and deft diplomacy by the WTO have spurred talks that... Read »

Thinking About Offshoring and Trade: An Integrating Framework

Apr 24, 2010| 1

Offshoring is one of the most controversial outcomes of globalisation. This column asks whether economists need a new analytic framework to understand it. New research... Read »

How to Destroy the Eurozone: Feldstein’s Euro-Holiday Idea

Feb 22, 2010| 

Martin Feldstein suggested last week that Greece take a “holiday” from the Eurozone, rejoining with a depreciated nominal exchange rate. This column argues that... Read »

The Illusion of Improving Global Imbalances

Nov 15, 2009| 

Global imbalances are shrinking at a fabulous rate. This column argues that these improvements are mostly illusory – the transitory side-effect of the greatest... Read »

Calomiris on Historical Crisis Lessons

Nov 4, 2009| 

Policymakers and macroeconomists often remind us that banking crises are nothing new. This column, based on recent papers by Columbia professor Charles Calomiris,... Read »

How Many Jobs are Onshorable? Re-Interpreting the Blinder Numbers in the Light of New Trade Theory

Jun 15, 2009| 

According to Alan Blinder, constant improvements in global communications will bring much more offshoring of “impersonal services’’, with an estimated 30 million... Read »

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