CURRENT POSITION
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics
Professor, 2020 – present
Associate Professor (with tenure), 2013 – 2020
Director of Graduate Programs, 2016 – 2020
Assistant Professor, 2007 – 2013
Interim Director of Undergraduate Programs, 2011 – 2012
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Louisiana State University, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor, 2003 – 2007
EDUCATION
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Ph.D. in Economics, 2003
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, M.A. in Economics, 2000
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, B.Sc. in Economics, 1998, Summa Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa 1997
American International School of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, International Baccalaureate diploma, 1995
AFFILIATIONS
Center for Firms in the Global Economy (CeFiG), Budapest, Hungary, 2011 – present
Experimental Economics Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 – present
Guest Researcher, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany, 2012 – present
InsTED – Institutions, Trade, and Economic Development Network, 2015 – present
Forum for Research in Empirical International Trade (FREIT), Director, 2018 – present
Forum for Research in Empirical International Trade (FREIT), Associate Director, 2016 – 2018
RESEARCH INTERESTS
International Trade, Decision Making, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
TEACHING INTERESTS
International Trade, International Economics, Microeconomics
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Fly the Unfriendly Skies: The Role of Transport Costs in Gravity Models of Trade, Journal of International Economics, Volume 152, November 2024, 103994, joint with Jing Chu and Antu Panini Murshid
Smart or Smash? The Effect of Financial Sanctions on Trade in Goods and Services, Review of International Economics (2024), 32(1): 223-251, joint with Stefan Goldbach and Volker Nitsch
Students’ Preferences for Returning to Colleges and Universities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Discrete Choice Experiment, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (2022), Volume 82, Part B, 101266, joint with Lauren N. Steimle, Yuming Sun, Lauren Johnson, Patricia Mokhtarian, and Dima Nazzal
Cheap Talk? Financial Sanctions and Non-Financial Activity, European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103688, joint with Stefan Goldbach and Volker Nitsch
Trade Liberalization and Gender Gaps in Local Labor Markets Outcomes: Dimensions of Adjustment in the United States, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 183: 574-588, joint with Seung Hoon Lee and Tongyang Yang
Phase Out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?, Journal of International Economics, Volume 127, November 2020, 103385, joint with Tristan Kohl and James Lake
Economic Determinants of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, International Tax and Public Finance, 2020, 27(4): 832-864, joint with Erik P. Johnson and Xinping Tian
Optimizing Choice Architectures, Decision Analysis, 2019, 16(1): 2-30, joint with Mark Schneider, Cary Deck, Mike Shor, and Sudipta Sarangi
You’re Banned! The Effect of Sanctions on Cross-Border Financial Flows, Economic Policy, 2017, 32(90):263-318, joint with Stefan Goldbach and Volker Nitsch
Distorted Trade Barriers: A Dissection of Trade Costs in a “Distorted Gravity” Model, Review of International Economics, 2017, 25(1): 148-163, joint with Matthew T. Cole
The Hazardous Effects of Antidumping, Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55(1): 9-30 (lead article), joint with Thomas J. Prusa
Reducing Choice Overload without Reducing Choices, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(4):793-802, joint with Cary Deck, Sudipta Sarangi, and Mikhael Shor
Effort and Performance: What Distinguishes Interacting and Non-Interacting Groups from Individuals, Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 81(2):294-322, joint with Cary Deck, Sarah Quintanar, Sudipta Sarangi, and Mikhael Shor
Export Growth and Credit Constraints, European Economic Review, 2014, 70:350-370, joint with Byung-Cheol Kim and Volodymyr Lugovskyy
The Role of NAFTA and Returns to Scale in Export Duration, CESifo Economic Studies, 2013, 59(2):306-336
Decision-making Strategies and Performance among Seniors, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81(2):524-533, joint with Cary Deck, Sudipta Sarangi, and Mikhael Shor
Age Effects and Heuristics in Decision Making, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94(2):580-595, joint with Cary Deck, Sudipta Sarangi, and Mikhael Shor
The Role of Extensive and Intensive Margins and Export Growth, Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96(2):371-379, joint with Thomas J. Prusa
Export Differentiation in Transition Economies, Economic Systems, 2011, 35(1):25-44
A Search Cost Perspective on Formation and Duration of Trade, Review of International Economics, 2008, 16(5):835-849
Product Differentiation and Duration of US Import Trade, Journal of International Economics, 2006, 70(2):339-358 (lead article), joint with Thomas J. Prusa
Ins, Outs, and the Duration of Trade, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2006, 39(1):266-295, joint with Thomas J. Prusa
EDITED VOLUMES
Disrupted Economic Relationships, jointly edited with Volker Nitsch, MIT Press, 2019
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Blood Alcohol Regulation and EU Beer Exports, in Geography of Beer: Policies, Perceptions, and Place, Mark W. Patterson and Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, eds, Springer, 2023, pp. 59-71, joint with Thomas J. Prusa
The Effects of European Integration on the Stability of International Trade: A Duration Perspective, in Handbook of European Economic Integration, Harald Badinger and Volker Nitsch, eds., Routledge, 2015, pp 188-204
The Duration of Trade Relationships, in Adjustment Costs and Adjustment Impacts of Trade Policy, Bernard Hoekman and Guido Porto, eds, CEPR, 2010, pp. 265-282, joint with Thomas J. Prusa
MAJOR GRANTS
NIH grant no. 1R21AG030184-01A1 “Confusion from Profusion,” co-PI (PI: Mikhael Shor, Vanderbilt), $363,272, 2007-2010
SMALL GRANTS
- Small Grant for Research, SGR-A 2022, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts ($11,500)
- Special Opportunity for Faculty Development Activities (SODA-A Curriculum Development Project), Georgia Institute of Technology, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, $7,760, 2021
- Small Grant for Research, SGR-C, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, course release, 2018
- Small Grant for Research, SGR-A, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, $8,500, 2014
- E.J. Ourso College of Business Award for Intellectual Contribution, Louisiana State University, $10,000, 2006
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Award for High Performance in Academic Publications, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics, 2017
- Special Research Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, 2011
- ISERF Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, 2010
- Excellence in Teaching Award, Undergraduate Category, Louisiana State University, Department of Economics, 2005
- Sidney I. Simon Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching, Rutgers University, Department of Economics, 2002
- Peter Asch Memorial Scholarship, Rutgers University, Department of Economics, 2001
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
- 2024 Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference, Banff, Canada
- Gravity, Trade Agreements, and Policy: Celebrating the Contributions of Jeff Bergstrand, University of Notre Dame, 2024
- 2024 Empirical Investigations in Trade and Investment, Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2023 Midwest International Trade and Theory Conference, Georgia Tech
- 2023 Empirical Investigations in International Trade, Syracuse University
- 2023 Sardinia Empirical Trade Conference, Cagliari, Italy
- 2022 Empirical Investigations in International Trade, UC San Diego
- 2022 Sardinia Empirical Trade Conference, Cagliari, Italy
- 2021 Empirical Investigations in International Trade, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- 2021 International Trade Online (virtual)
- 2020 Empirical Investigations in International Trade, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (virtual)
- 2020 International Trade Online (virtual)
- 2019 Empirical Investigations in International Trade, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
- 2019 Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference, Banff, Canada
- 2018 Empirical Investigations in International Trade, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- 2018 Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference, Ottawa, Canada
- 2017 Empirical Investigations in International Trade, Federal Reserve Board and George Washington University, Washington DC
- 2017 Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference, Banff, Canada
- 2016 Empirical Investigations in International Trade, University of Michigan
- 2016 CESifo Venice Summer Institute – Disrupted Economic Relationships: Disasters, Sanctions,
- Dissolutions, Venice International University, Venice, Italy, 2016
- 3rd Advances in International Trade, Georgia Institute of Technology, November 20-21, 2014
- 2nd Advances in International Trade, Georgia Institute of Technology, November 19-20, 2010
- Advances in International Trade, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 11-12, 2008
EXTERNAL SEMINAR ORGANIZATION
Empirical Trade Online Seminar, FREIT and Georgia Institute of Technology
INVITED LECTURES
Firm and Product Heterogeneity in International Trade, KU Leuven, Keynote, “Duration of Trade: A Retroprospective,” November 15-16, 2013
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2024: Sanctions: Theory, Quantitative Evidence, and Policy Implications
2023: European Trade Study Group, Economics of Global Interactions, Sardinian Empirical Trade Conference, XVIIth Danish International Economics Workshop; 13th Trade, Integration, and Growth Network Conference; Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Spring)
2022: Southern Economic Association; Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Fall); European Trade Study Group; Beeronomics; U.S. ITC Academic Symposium: The Impact of Trade on U.S. Workers: Distributional and Other Effects; Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Spring)
2021: Southern Economic Association Meetings; European Trade Study Group; Nordic International Trade Seminar
2020: Southern Economic Association Meetings; INFORMS
2019: Southern Economic Association Meetings; Beijing Forum; European Trade Study Group; Economics of Global Interactions; Sardinia Empirical Trade Conference; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference, Sanctions: Theory, Quantitative Evidence, and Policy Implications; 15th Western Economic Association International, ASSA Meetings
2018: Southern Economic Association Meetings, 13th International Study Group on Exports and Productivity Workshop, Sardinia Empirical Trade Conference, 10th Asian Dynamics Initiative Conference; CEPR European Research Workshop in International Trade; Australasian Trade Workshop; Southeastern International/Development Economics Workshop
2017: Southern Economic Association Meetings; Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Fall); Economics of Global Interactions; Sardinia Empirical Trade Conference; XIIIth Danish International Economics Conference; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference; Instead/Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV Workshop; Empirical Investigations in Trade and Investment; 13th International Conference of Western Economic Association International
2016: Southern Economic Association Meetings; European Trade Study Group; The Gravity Equation: Perspectives from Economic History and Trade; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference; XIIth Danish International Economics Workshop; 63rd Economic Policy Panel; ASSA Meetings
2015: Southern Economic Association Meetings; Empirical Investigations in International Trade; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference; Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Spring); Empirical Investigations in Trade and Investment
2014: Southern Economic Association Meetings; 3rd Advances in International Trade; Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Fall); European Trade Study Group; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference
2013: Southeastern International/Development Economics Workshop; Firm and Product Heterogeneity in International Trade, KU Leuven (keynote speaker); European Trade Study Group; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference; NETSPAR International Pension Workshop; Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Spring); 4th Trade, Integration, and Growth Network Conference; Australasian Trade Workshop; Empirical Investigations in Trade and Investment
2012: European Trade Study Group; International Economic Science Association Conference; Cognitive Aging Conference; Empirical Investigations in Trade and Investment; ASSA Meetings
2011: Southeastern International/Development Economics Workshop; Southern Economic Association Meetings; Psychology and Economics 9.0. Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Workshop; European Trade Study Group; International Economic Science Association Conference; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference; Measuring Economic Integration (CESifo)
2010: 2nd Advances in International Trade; Southern Economic Association Meetings; European Trade Study Group; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference; Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Spring)
2009: Southeastern International/Development Economics Workshop; Southern Economic Association Meeting; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference; NETSPAR Pension Workshop
2008: Southeastern International/Development Economics Workshop; Southern Economic Association Meeting; Congress of the Game Theory Society; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference; 1st Advances in International Trade
2007: Southeastern International/Development Economics Workshop
2006: Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference; Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Fall)
2005: Econometric Society World Congress; CEPR European Research Workshop on International Trade; 5th Missouri Economics Conference;
2004: Southern Economic Association Meeting; Empirical Investigations in International Trade; Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Fall)
2003: Empirical Investigations in International Trade
2002: Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Fall)
2001: Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Fall); Midwest International Economics Group Meeting (Spring)
SEMINARS GIVEN
2023: University of Tennessee Knoxville, Paris Trade Seminar, Georgia Tech
2022: Virginia Tech, U.S. International Trade Commission
2020: Paris Trade Seminar
2019: Clemson University, Gakushuin University
2018: University of North Dakota, Central Bank of Mexico, University of Oslo, Aarhus University, Keio University, Hitotsubashi University, University of Sydney, University of New South Wales
2017: Appalachian State University, Inter-American Development Bank
2016: Harvard University (Growth Lab), Boston College, University of Groningen
2015: Indiana University, Lund University, University of Copenhagen
2014: Paris Trade Seminar, KU Leuven, University of Tennessee
2013: Universiteit Gent, EU Commission, Virginia Commonwealth University, UC Dublin, Texas Christian University, Southern Methodist University, Monash University, University of New South Wales, Georgia Institute of Technology
2012: Technische Universität Darmstadt, Florida International University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
2011: Georgia Institute of Technology (School of Psychology, School of Economics), Purdue University, UT Dallas, Texas Christian University, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, Copenhagen University, Aarhus University, Vanderbilt University
2010: Central European University, World Bank, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Louisiana State University, Rutgers University
2009: Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Tennessee, University of Texas at Dallas, Texas Christian University
2007: Georgia Institute of Technology
2004: Tulane University, Louisiana State University
2003: Marquette University, Louisiana State University, St. Louis University
2002: University of Arkansas, Albion College, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Rutgers University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate: International Trade, International Finance, International Economics, Introduction to Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics
Graduate: Micro I, International Trade (masters and PhD level)
PhD STUDENT ADVISING
Jancy Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, co-chair, initial placement: College of Wooster
Ian Helfrich, Georgia Tech, co-chair
Xiaoxi Wang, Georgia Tech, 2022, chair
Tongyang Yang, Georgia Tech, 2021, co-chair, initial placement: Widener University
Anthony Harding, Georgia Tech, 2020, committee member, initial placement: Harvard University post-doc
Jingwen Qu, Georgia Tech, 2020, chair
Xi Mao, Georgia Tech, 2020, committee member, initial placement: UT Rio Grande Valley
Christopher Blackburn, Georgia Tech, 2019, initial placement: BEA
Sen Yan, Georgia Tech, 2017, chair, initial placement: First Tennessee Bank
Jianqiu Wang, Georgia Tech, 2016, chair, initial placement: Shanghai Finance University
Xinping Tian, Georgia Tech, 2016, chair, initial placement: Hunan University
Mingge Wu, Georgia Tech, 2014, chair, initial placement: Intercontinental Hotels Group
Nongnuch Soonthornchawakan, LSU, 2007, co-chair, initial placement: Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Chris Coombs, LSU, 2005, committee member, initial placement: Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia
EXTERNAL PHD COMMITTEE SERVICE
Francois Karl Steenkamp, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, external reader
Bryn Lampe, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, external reader
Anna Andersson, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 2015, faculty opponent
Zuzanna Studnicka, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2014, external examiner
REFEREEING ACTIVITY
Agribusiness: An International Journal; Agricultural Economics; American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics; American Economic Review; American Journal of Agricultural Economics; B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy; Canadian Journal of Economics; China Economic Review; Comparative Economic Studies; Contemporary Economic Policy; Development Studies Research; Economic Inquiry; Economic Journal; Economic Modeling; Economic Policy; Economica; Economics Bulletin; Economics of Disasters and Climate Change; Economics of Transition; Education Economics; Emerging Markets Finance and Trade; Empirical Economics; Environmental and Resource Economics; European Economic Review; Experimental Aging Research; Experimental Economics; FWO – Research Foundation Flanders; Global Economy Journal; International Economics; International Interactions; International Regional Science Review; International Review of Economics and Finance; Japan and the World Economy; Journal of Agricultural Economics; Journal of Applied Economics; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Development Studies; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Economic Geography; Journal of Economics and Management Strategy; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Income Distribution; Journal of International Economics; Journal of International Trade and Development; Journal of Labor Research; Journal of Money Credit, and Banking; Journal of Multinational Financial Management; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of the European Economic Association; KU Leuven Grant; National Science Foundation; Oxford Economic Papers; Peace Economics, Peace Studies and Public Policy; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Review of International Economics; Review of Economics and Statistics; Review of World Economics; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; South African Journal of Economics; Southern Economic Journal; World Bank Economic Review; World Development; World Trade Review; The World Economy
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Associate Editor, Southern Economic Journal, 2017 – present
Director, Forum for Research in Empirical International Trade, 2018 – present
Associate Director, Forum for Research in Empirical International Trade, 2016 – 2018
Executive Secretary, International Economics and Finance Society, 2016 – present
MEDIA MENTIONS
Academic Times; Atlanta Business Chronicle; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; CBS46; CTV News Channel; Daily Mail; GPB; GPB’s “On Second Thought;” NPR’s “1A;” Health; KCSN New York Magazine; U.S. News and World Report’ State Affairs; WABE News; WSAV-TV; WSB-TV’s WSB Tonight; The Wrap
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Languages spoken: Croatian (native), English (fluent), German (basic)
Citizenship: U.S., Croatia