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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2010 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1991 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
  • 1986 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Elhanan Helpman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within economics and related fields, with a particular focus on global trade and supply chain dynamics.

The main fields of study for Helpman include Economics, Econometrics and Finance as well as Business, Management and Accounting. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Sociology and Political Science, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their work addresses several important topics including:

  • Global trade and economics
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Global Trade and Competitiveness
  • International Development and Aid
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Helpman's recent academic papers include:

  • When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains, 2024, American Economic Review
  • Identity Politics and Trade Policy, 2020, The Review of Economic Studies
  • Supply Chain Resilience: Should Policy Promote International Diversification or Reshoring?, 2023, Journal of Political Economy
  • Electoral competition with fake news, 2022, European Journal of Political Economy
  • Endogenous Education and Long-Run Factor Shares, 2021, American Economic Review Insights

They frequently publish in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, and European Journal of Political Economy.

Helpman has collaborated often with several co-authors, notably:

  • Gene M. Grossman
  • Benjamin Niswonger
  • Hugo Lhuillier
  • Gita Gopinath
  • Kenneth Rogoff

In addition to journal articles, Helpman has published books, including Interest Groups and Trade Policy (2020) with Princeton University Press.

The scientist has been recognized with multiple awards and honors including:

  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2013)
  • Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2010)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993)
  • Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association (1991)
  • Fellow of the Econometric Society (1986)
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Best Publications

  • Protection For Sale

    Gene M. Grossman;Elhanan Helpman

  • Innovation and growth in the global economy

    Gene M. Grossman;Elhanan Helpman

  • Market Structure and Foreign Trade: Increasing Returns, Imperfect Competition and the International Economy

    Elhanan Helpman;Paul R. Krugman

  • International R&D spillovers

    David T. Coe;Elhanan Helpman;Elhanan Helpman

  • Export Versus FDI with Heterogeneous Firms

    Elhanan Helpman;Elhanan Helpman;Elhanan Helpman;Marc J. Melitz;Marc J. Melitz;Marc J. Melitz;Stephen R. Yeaple

  • North-South R & D Spillovers

    David T. Coe;Elhanan Helpman;Alexander W. Hoffmaister

  • Estimating Trade Flows: Trading Partners and Trading Volumes

    Elhanan Helpman;Marc J. Melitz;Yona Rubinstein

  • Quality Ladders in the Theory of Growth

    Gene M. Grossman;Elhanan Helpman

  • A Simple Theory of International Trade with Multinational Corporations

    Elhanan Helpman

  • Endogenous Innovation in the Theory of Growth

    Gene M. Grossman;Elhanan Helpman

  • Trade, knowledge spillovers, and growth

    Gene M. Grossman;Elhanan Helpman

  • The Politics of Free Trade Agreements

    Gene M Grossman;Elhanan Helpman

  • Comparative Advantage and Long-run Growth

    Gene M. Grossman;Elhanan Helpman

  • Special Interest Politics

    Gene M. Grossman;Elhanan Helpman

  • Market structure and foreign trade

    Elhanan Helpman

  • Outsourcing in a Global Economy

    Gene M. Grossman;Elhanan Helpman

  • Integration versus Outsourcing in Industry Equilibrium

    Gene M. Grossman;Elhanan Helpman

  • Electoral Competition and Special Interest Politics

    Gene M. Grossman;Elhanan Helpman

  • Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

    Elhanan Helpman;Oleg Itskhoki;Stephen Redding

  • Imperfect competition and international trade: Evidence from fourteen industrial countries

    Elhanan Helpman

Frequent Co-Authors

Gene M. Grossman
Gene M. Grossman Princeton University
Assaf Razin
Assaf Razin Tel Aviv University
Pol Antràs
Pol Antràs Harvard University
Marc J. Melitz
Marc J. Melitz Harvard University
Stephen J. Redding
Stephen J. Redding Stanford University
Allan Drazen
Allan Drazen University of Maryland, College Park
Manuel Trajtenberg
Manuel Trajtenberg Tel Aviv University
Leonardo Leiderman
Leonardo Leiderman Tel Aviv University
Efraim Sadka
Efraim Sadka Tel Aviv University

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