Jeffrey Bergstrand's Homepage
I am a Professor in the Department of Finance (formerly, Finance and Business Economics) in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame and a Concurrent Professor in the Department of Economics at Notre Dame. I have been studying International Economics, both trade and finance, since earning my Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1981. My research interests and publications span both theoretical and empirical models of international trade, foreign direct investment, and international finance. I have published articles in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics and several chapters and comments in books on determinants of international trade flows, intra-industry trade, free trade agreements, and the gravity equation. I have published articles in the American Economic Review, Journal of International Money and Finance and several chapters and comments in books on determinants of equilibrium real exchange rates and relative national price levels. I have been Associate Editor of the Review of International Economics and am also a Faculty Fellow in Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
My current research spans the areas of international
trade flows, economic integration agreements, foreign direct investment, and
multinational firms. Along with Scott Baier of Clemson University, I
explore the causes and consequences of the growth of regionalism. This
work is investigating the impact of economic integration agreements on trade flows
and economic and political determinants of economic integration agreements to
better understand the growth in the breadth, depth, and scope of regional
economic integration. Along with Peter Egger of ETH University of Zurich,
I am exploring the theoretical and empirical determinants of foreign direct
investment flows and bilateral investment treaties in a manner consistent with
recent developments in the theory of international trade flows and of
multinational firms.
I have been teaching in the undergraduate, MBA,
and Executive MBA programs at the University of Notre
Dame since 1986. My teaching interests have been in the areas of
open-economy macroeconomics and international finance. In recent years, I
have been teaching primarily in the graduate program, in particular Global
Macroeconomic Environment.
- Federal Reserve Bank of
Prior to
arriving at Notre Dame, I was a research economist at the Boston Fed. My
responsibilities included conducting independent research projects for
publication in the Bank's bimonthly economic review, New England Economic
Review, preparing frequent briefings for the Board of Directors on
current and prospective international and domestic economic conditions, and
preparing speeches on national and international economic issues for
presentation outside the Bank.
- Ph.D in Economics,
Dissertation
title: "The Gravity Equation in International Trade"
Dissertation committee: J. David Richardson, Robert
Baldwin, Rachel McCulloch, Andre Sapir
- M.A. in Economics,
- B.A. in Economics and Poltical Science, Northwestern University, 1974.
- American Economic Association
- The Global Trade Negotiations Home Page at the Center for International Development,
a centralized information resource at Harvard University on global trade negotiations and the multilateral trade system.
- University of Notre Dame Homepage
- University of Notre Dame College of Business Administration
- University of Notre Dame Department of Finance and Business Economics
- Kellogg Institute-Notre Dame-IADB Conference, "The Sequencing of Regional Economic Integration"
- Database on Economic Integration Agreements (June
2009)
(Database above is in a zip file; save to hard disk and then open.) - Database on Economic Integration Agreements (May
2011)
(Database above is in a zip file; save to hard disk and then open.) - Database on Economic Integration Agreements (May
2012)
(NOTE: Database above is UNDER REVISION FOR SOME CODING ERRORS as of Jan. 1, 2013. Database above is in a zip file; save to hard disk and then open.)
