Jeffrey Bergstrand

Education

• Ph D, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Economics
• MA, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Economics
• BA, Northwestern University, Economics and Political Science

Jobs

• Scientific Board Member, Revue Region et Developpement

Expertise

• International Trade and Regional Economic Integration
• Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Enterprises
• Macroeconomics
• U.S. Economy

• Quantile Gravity, The Economic Effects of Free Trade Agreements conference, University of Surrey (England) (2023)
• Quantile Gravity, U.S. International Trade Commission, Economics Seminar, Washington, DC (2023)
• Increasing Marginal Costs, Firm Heterogeneity, and the Gains from "Deep" International Trade Agreements, Gravity at 60 Conference/Austrian Institute of Economic Research (2022)
• Distribution-Free Gravity, University of Surrey (England) Department of Economics Seminar (2021)
• Measurement and Impact of Deep Trade Agreements, U.S. International Trade Commission-Keough School of Global Affairs Symposium (2021)
• Modeling Foreign Direct investment with an Eye Toward Trade and FDI Policies, U.S. International Trade Commission Workshop (2021)
• The Gains from International Trade with Increasing Marginal Costs, Stellenbosch University (2019)
• The African Continental Free Trade Agreements: Gains, Challenges, and the Rationale, University of Cape Town, Department of Economics (2019)
• The Gains from International Trade with Increasing Marginal Costs, University of Cape Town, Department of Economics (2019)
• The Gains from International Trade with Increasing Marginal Costs, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics (2019)
• International Trade: Economic and Policy Issues, Indiana University-Bloomington, Department of Economics (2019)
• Regional Trade Agreements, Forging a New Path for North American Trade (2019)
• Structural Gravity for Foreign Direct Investment: Toward Bridging International Trade and Finance, University of Michigan International Economics Seminar (2017)
• Quantifying Economic Integration Agreements' Effects, 20th Applied Economics Conference (2017)
• Going Global in the 21st Century, Congress Go Global (2017)
• Economic Integration Agreements and the New International Economic Order, New International Economic Order and East Asia (2016)
• Heterogeneous Economic Integration Agreement Effects, International Economics and Finance Society/ASSA (2016)
• Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation, Southern Economics Association Annual Meetings (2014)
• Services Trade and Economic Integration Agreements, Empirical Investigations in Services Trade (2014)
• Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation, Estimation of Gravity Models of Bilateral Trade (2014)
• Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation, ASSA Meetings (2014)
• Is the World Getting Smaller After All?, University of Missouri at Columbia (2013)
• Economic Integration Agreements and the Margins of International Trade, Georgia Institute of Technology (2013)
• Understanding Globalization: The Role of the Gravity Equation in International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment After 50 Years, Empirical Issues in International Trade and Finance (2013)
• Economic Integration Agreements and the Margins of International Trade, Symposium on International Economics (2012)
• What Determines BITs?, Asia-Pacific Trade Conference (2012)
• (Keynote Lecture) Economic Integration Agreements and the Margins of International Trade, Empirical Investigations in International Trade Conference (2011)
• Economic Integration Agreements and the Margins of International Trade, Globalization: Strategies and Effects (2011)
• Economic Integration Agreements and the Margins of International Trade, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH University) (2011)
• (Keynote Lecture) International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Economic Integration Agreements, XII Conference on International Economics (2011)
• What Determines BITs?, Conference on Global Economy (2011)
• (Keynote Lecture) Measuring the Effects of Endogenous Policies on Economic Integration, Conference on Measuring Economic Integration (2011)
• What Determines BITs?, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH University) (2010)
• What Determines BITs?, University of Colorado at Boulder (2010)
• Ex-Post Assessment of the Trade Effects of EU FTAs, Chief Economist's Seminar, Directorate General-Trade (2010)
• Gravity Redux: Structural Estimation of Gravity-Equation Coefficients, Elasticities of Substitution, and General Equilibrium Comparative Statics under Asymmetric Bilateral Trade Costs, Georgia Tech (2010)
• The Growth of Bilateralism, Conference on "Trade Costs" (2010)
• Measuring the Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Trade Flows Using Matching Econometrics, Chief Economist's Seminar, Directorate General-Trade (2010)
• The Growth of Bilateralism, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (2010)
• Economic Determinants of the Timing of Preferential Trade Agreement Formations and Enlargements, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH University) (2009)
• Finding Vertical Multinational Enterprises, London School of Economics and Political Science (2009)
• Finding Vertical Multinational Enterprises, Oxford University (2009)
• Finding Vertical Multinational Enterprises, Drexel University (2009)
• Gravity Redux: Structural Estimation of Gravity Equations, Elasticities of Substitution, and Economic Welfare Under Asymmetric Bilateral Trade Costs, Conference on Trade Costs (2009)
• The New Expats: Economic Determinants of Bilateral Expatriate, FDI, and International Trade Flows, European Economics and Finance Society Annual Meeting (2009)
• Understanding Globalization: Economic Determinants of International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Skilled Migration in a World with Multinational Enterprises, European Economics and Finance Society Annual Meeting (2009)
• Gravity Redux: Structural Estimation of Gravity Equations, Elasticities of Substitution, and Economic Welfare Under Asymmetric Bilateral Trade Costs, University of Warsaw (2009)
• Economic Determinants of the Timing of Preferential Trade Agreement Formations and Enlargements, Conference on Empirical Determinants of Regionalism (2009)
• Shouldn't Physical Capital Also Matter for Multinational Enterprise Activity and International Trade?, Southern Economics Association Annual Meeting (2008)
• The Growth of FDI Relative to Trade: Measurement, Determinants, and Consequences of International Trade Flows in Intermediates, Johns Hopkins University (2008)
• The New Expats: Economic Determinants of Bilateral Expatriate, FDI, and International Trade Flows, University of Bayreuth (2008)
• The Growth of Regional Economic Integration Agreements and the Middle East, Conference on Regional Economic Relations (2008)
• The New Expats: Economic Determinants of Bilateral Expatriate, FDI, and International Trade Flows, Erasmus University (2008)
• Gravity Redux: Structural Estimation of Gravity Equations, Elasticities of Substitution, and Economic Welfare Under Asymmetric Bilateral Trade Costs, University of Innsbruck (2008)
• Estimating the Effects of Free Trade Agreements on International Trade Flows Using Matching Econometrics, Allied Social Science Association (2008)
• World Trade vs. Protectionism, Hesburgh Lecture (2007)
• Bonus Vetus OLS: A Simple Method for Approximating International Trade-Cost Effects Using the Gravity Equation, The Gravity Equation: New Perspectives on Distance in International Economics and Theory, Measurement, and Application of the Gravity Model (2007)
• Gravity Redux: Structural Estimation of Gravity Equations with Asymmetric Bilateral Trade Costs, The Gravity Equation: New Perspectives on Distance in International Economics and Theory, Measurement, and Application of the Gravity Model (2007)
• Shouldn't Physical Capital Also Matter in a World Economy with Multinational Enterprises?, European Trade Study Group (2007)
• Regional and Inter-Regional Trade Agreements: Examining Their Role for the Middle East, Globalization in the 21st Century (2007)
• Bonus Vetus OLS: A Simple Approach to Addressing the 'Border Puzzle' and Other Gravity-Equation Issues, Southern Economics Association Annual Meetings (2006)
• A Knowledge-and-Physical-Capital Model of International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Multinational Enterprises: Developed Countries, Economics Department Seminar, Texas A&M University (2006)
• World Trade vs. Protectionism, Hesburgh Lecture at Seattle University (2006)
• Causes and Consequences of the Growth of Regionalism, Keynote address at the conference, "Understanding the Latest Wave of Regionalism" (2006)
• Bonus Vetus OLS: A Simple Approach for Addressing the 'Border Puzzle' and Other Gravity-Equation Issues, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalization and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham (2006)
• The New Regionalism: Causes and Consequences, Keynote address at conference, "The New Regionalism: Progress, Setbacks and Challenges" (2006)
• Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Globalization, Invited paper at the conference, "The Political Economy of Globalization" (2005)
• Do Free Trade Agreements Actually Increase Members' International Trade?, U.S. International Trade Commission, Economic Research Department (2005)
• Bonus Vetus OLS: A Simple OLS Approach for Addressing the 'Border Puzzle' and Other Gravity-Equation Issues, University of Munich (2005)
• From Proliferating PTAs to APEC-Wide Liberalization: Is There a Way Forward?, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Study Centers Consortium Meeting (2004)
• A Knowledge-and-Physical-Capital Model of International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Outsourcing: Part 1, Developed Countries, Empirical Investigations in International Trade annual conference (2004)
• Trade Agreements and Trade Flows: Estimating the Effect of Free Trade Agreements on Trade Flows with an Application to an EU-GCC Free Trade Agreement, European Commission, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG-ECFIN) (2004)
• Do Free Trade Agreements Actually Increase Members' International Trade?, International Society of New Institutional Economics (2004)
• A Knowledge-and-Physical-Capital Model of International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Outsourcing: Part I, Developed Countries, Purdue University, Dept. of Economics (2004)
• A Knowledge-and-Physical-Capital Model of International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Outsourcing: Part 1, Developed Countries, Syracuse University, Dept. of Economics (2004)
• Do Free Trade Agreements Increase Members' International Trade?, Bryn Mawr College (2003)
• Endogenous Free Trade Agreements and the Gravity Equation, Georgia Institute of Technology (2003)
• On the Endogeneity of International Trade Flows and Free Trade Agreements, American Economic Association annual meeting (2002)
• Comments on 'Geographic Concentration of U.S. Manufacturing Establishments', International Economics and Finance Society (2002)
• On the Endogeneity of International Trade Flows and Free Trade Agreements, Midwest International Economics Conference (2002)
• The Growth of World Trade and Outsourcing, American Economic Association annual meeting, New Orleans (2001)
• The Growth of World Trade and Outsourcing, Austrian Institute for Economic Research in Vienna Conference (2001)
• On the Economic Determinants of Free Trade Agreements, Economics Department Seminar, West Virginia University (2001)
• On the Economic Determinants of Free Trade Agreements, Inaugural Conference of Regional Integration Network in Punta del Este, Uruguay (2001)
• On the Economic Determinants of Free Trade Agreements, Invited Lecture at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research in Vienna (2001)
• On the Economic Determinants of Free Trade Agreements, Invited Lecture at the German Institute of Economic Research in Berlin (2001)
• Comments on 'The Impact of Outsourcing to China on Hong Kong's Labor Market', NBER Universities Research Conference on 'Labor in the Global Economy' (2001)
• Is Bilateralism Good? On the Economics of Free Trade Agreements, European Trade Study Group Conference, University of Glasgow (2000)
• Is Bilateralism Good? On the Economics of Free Trade Agreements, Midwest International Economics Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (2000)
• Is Bilateralism Good? On the Economics of Free Trade Agreements, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2000)
• International Trade in Goods, Services and the Emerging Popularity of Regional Free Trade Agreements, American Economic Association annual meetings, New York City (1999)
• Nontradable Goods, Nonseparable Utility, and Global Portfolio Diversification, Multinational Finance Society annual meeting, Toronto (1999)
• Public Investments, Taxes, and Economic Growth (1999)
• Comments on 'Decomposing the Growth of OECD Trade During 1970-1996', Sixth Empirical Investigations in International Trade Conference, Purdue University (1999)
• Government Expenditures and Equilibrium Real Exchange Rates, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (1999)
• International Trade in Services, Regional Free Trade Agreements, and the WTO, World Services Congress, Atlanta (1999)
• The Growth and Regionalization of International Trade, American Economic Association annual meetings, Chicago (1998)
• Comments presented on 'Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise' (1998)
• The Growth and Regionalization of International Trade, Joint conference of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Lund University, in Lund, Sweden (1998)

• Visiting Scholar, CESifo (2006)