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New Research Sheds Light on How Trade Agreements Increase International Trade

Professor Tibor Besedeš and his co-authors Tristan Kohl (University of Groningen) and James Lake (Southern Methodist University) examine in their latest project how international trade between members of a trade agreement grows after the agreement enters into force. Their forthcoming paper in the Journal of International Economics, “Phase Out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?,” examines how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) increased U.S. imports from Mexico and Canada.

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Stefan Santavicca

What Georgia Tech and the School of Economics Taught Me:

The students and faculty at Georgia Tech and the School of Economics are among the best in the world. Every day I was able to take inspiration from those around me. Georgia Tech's competitive nature and tendency for excellence have motivated me to continue to drive harder and farther in my own pursuits. Furthermore, I learned that there will always be more to learn and to always seek out growth.

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Candice Sessa

What Georgia Tech and the School of Economics Taught Me:

The Master's in Economics program gave me practical knowledge in econometrics and statistics. Going in to the program I was most insecure of my quantitative abilities. After completing the program, I am confident in my quantitative skills and have been able to apply them to my job after the program.

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Olga Shemyakina

Background & Expertise

Dr. Olga Shemyakina is our very own expert on how large-scale negative market interruptions, such as armed conflict and natural disasters, impact individual choices /decisions on whether it is possible to continue with one’s education, get necessary healthcare, or maybe it is time to move or migrate to a safer place. Until Shemyakina’s work, most research focused on country-level data, i.e.

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Cade Lawson

Lawson who is a native Atlantan chose Georgia Tech because he was excited for the opportunity to be a part of the next wave of economists and social science researchers who are finding new ways to infuse the data-driven technologies of the past decade with traditional theories that have existed for hundreds of years.

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Using Imaging Data to Understand Pandemic's Impact on Medical Sector

Danny Hughes, a health economist at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Economics, is using data about how often such technologies are used to reveal the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the medical imaging sector, and how it might affect the health of Americans in the years to come.

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Georgia Tech Leads Team Effort to Reduce Georgia's Carbon Footprint

School of Economics Chair, Laura Taylor, co-leads the “Beyond Carbon” team along with Beril Totkay and Michael Oxman, (Scheller College of Business) and David Iwaniec (Georgia State University) as a part of the Georgia Drawdown Project.

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New Research Explains the World Trade Organization's Response to Export Subsidies

Assistant Professor, Seung Hoon Lee, (School of Economics) and co-author, Kyle Bagwell (Stanford University), provides a new rationale for global trade policy set by the World Trade Organization (WTO). In their forthcoming paper in the Journal of International Economics, the authors provide a new theoretical explanation for trade regulation that explains why the WTO bans direct export subsidies.