Pol Antràs
Pol Antràs | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Spanish |
Academic career | |
Institution | Harvard University, |
Field | International economics, macroeconomics |
Alma mater | MIT (Ph.D.) |
Doctoral advisor | Daron Acemoglu[1] Jaume Ventura[1] |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Pol Antràs Puchal (born June 30, 1975, in
He received his BA and MSc in economics in 1998 and 1999, respectively, from
Early life and education
A citizen of Spain, Antràs grew up in Barcelona attending Aula Escola Europea, a private school, from 1978 until 1993. A year later, in New Mexico as a foreign exchange student at the
Research
Antràs is a renowned international trade economist, particularly known for his contributions to the so-called "New" New Trade Theory, which stresses the importance of firms rather than sectors in understanding the challenges and the opportunities countries face in the age of globalization. In his 2003 Ph.D. thesis, Antràs developed a workhorse model of multinational firms and global sourcing that emphasizes the role of contractual frictions in shaping the international organization of production. Much of his early work on the topic is overviewed in his book Firms, Contracts and Trade Structure (2015, Princeton University Press).
More recently, Antràs’ research has focused on understanding the emergence of global value chains. His work has specifically emphasized the sequential nature of certain production processes, and the implications of this sequentiality for the global sourcing decisions of firms, and for the implications of trade wars. Together with Davin Chor, he developed an influential model of global value chains, while also developing a widely used measure of the position (or upstreamness) of industries in global value chains. This work was the basis of his 2018 Ohlin Lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Other activities
- Barcelona School of Economics, Member of the Scientific Council (since 2022)[4]
Since 2015, Antràs has served as editor of the
Recognition
Among other distinctions, Antràs was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007 and the Fundación Banco Herrero Prize in 2009, and he was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2015.
References
- ^ MIT. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ^ "Pol Antràs: Professor of Economics". Harvard University. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
- ^ "Pol Antràs CV" (PDF). Harvard University Department of Economics. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
- ^ BSE Board appoints 5 new Scientific Council members Barcelona School of Economics, press release of November 2022.
External links
- Pol Antràs on Twitter
- official Harvard profile
- Pol Antràs publications indexed by Google Scholar