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Economics and Finance

D-Index
89
Citations
53067
World Ranking
175
National Ranking
126

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
  • 2017 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Robert C. Feenstra is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a significant body of work within Economics and Econometrics, as well as related subfields including General Economics, Strategy and Management, Finance, and Marketing.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Global trade and economics
  • Global Trade and Competitiveness
  • Economic theories and models
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing

Their recent publications demonstrate an emphasis on international trade and economic analysis. Notable papers include:

  • "How did China's WTO entry affect U.S. prices?", 2020, Journal of International Economics
  • "Tariff Reductions, Heterogeneous Firms, and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for 1990-2010", 2023, IMF Economic Review
  • "What is the Price of Tea in China? Goods Prices and Availability in Chinese Cities", 2020, The Economic Journal
  • "A second-best argument for low optimal tariffs on intermediate inputs", 2023, Journal of International Economics
  • "China's import demand for agricultural products: The impact of the Phase One trade agreement", 2021, Review of International Economics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Feenstra include:

  • Lorenzo Caliendo
  • Mingzhi Xu
  • John Romalis
  • Alexis Antoniades
  • Alan M. Taylor

These collaborations often appear in research outlets such as the Journal of International Economics, which features multiple publications by Feenstra, as well as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Review of International Economics, IMF Economic Review, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Aside from journal articles, Feenstra has contributed to book publications, including work published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. For example, the book titled "World Trade Flows, 1980-1997" released in 2021 is among their scholarly contributions.

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Robert C. Feenstra was awarded the Fellowship of the Econometric Society in 2017.

Best Publications

  • The Next Generation of the Penn World Table

    Robert C. Feenstra;Robert Inklaar;Marcel P. Timmer

  • INTEGRATION OF TRADE AND DISINTEGRATION OF PRODUCTION IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

    Robert Feenstra

  • Integration of Trade and Disintegration of Production in the Global Economy

    Robert C. Feenstra

  • Advanced International Trade : Theory and Evidence Ed. 2

    Robert C. Feenstra

  • Globalization, Outsourcing, and Wage Inequality

    Robert C Feenstra;Gordon H Hanson

  • Foreign direct investment and relative wages: Evidence from Mexico's maquiladoras

    Robert C Feenstra;Gordon H Hanson

  • The Impact of Outsourcing and High-Technology Capital on Wages: Estimates For the United States, 1979–1990

    Robert C. Feenstra;Gordon H. Hanson

  • World Trade Flows: 1962-2000

    Robert Feenstra;Robert Lipsey;Haiyan Deng;Alyson C. Ma

  • Foreign Investment, Outsourcing and Relative Wages

    Robert Feenstra;Gordon Hanson

  • New product varieties and the measurement of international prices

    Robert C. Feenstra

  • Global Production Sharing and Rising Inequality: A Survey of Trade and Wages

    Robert Feenstra;Gordon Hanson

  • Using the gravity equation to differentiate among alternative theories of trade

    Robert C. Feenstra;James R. Markusen;Andrew K. Rose

  • Functional equivalence between liquidity costs and the utility of money

    Robert C. Feenstra

  • Exports and Credit Constraints Under Incomplete Information: Theory and Evidence from China

    Robert C. Feenstra;Zhiyuan Li;Miaojie Yu

  • World Trade Flows: 1962-2000

    Robert C Feenstra;Robert C Feenstra;Robert E Lipsey;Haiyan Deng;Alyson C Ma

  • Symmetric Pass-Through of Tariffs and Exchange Rates Under Imperfect Competition: An Empirical Test

    Robert C. Feenstra

  • International Prices and Endogenous Quality

    Robert C. Feenstra;John Romalis

  • Border Effects and the Gravity Equation: Consistent Methods for Estimation

    Robert C. Feenstra

  • Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm

    Robert C. Feenstra;Gordon H. Hanson

  • In Search of the Armington Elasticity

    Robert C Feenstra;Philip A Luck;Maurice Obstfeld;Katheryn N Russ

  • Pricing to Market, Staggered Contracts, and Real Exchange Rate Persistence

    Paul R. Bergin;Robert C. Feenstra

  • World Trade Flows, 1970-1992, with Production and Tariff Data

    Robert Feenstra;Robert Lipsey;Harry Bowen

  • Advanced international trade

    Robert C. Feenstra

  • Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Wages: Evidence from MexicoAS Maquiladoras

    Robert C. Feenstra;Robert C. Feenstra;Gordon H. Hanson;Gordon H. Hanson

  • China's Growing Role in World Trade

    Robert C Feenstra;Shang-Jin Wei

  • Online Appendix to: The Next Generation of the Penn World Table*

    Robert C. Feenstra;Robert Inklaar;Marcel Timmer

  • Exports and Credit Constraints under Incomplete Information: Theory and Evidence from China

    Robert C. Feenstra;Li Zhiyuan;Yu Miaojie

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan M. Taylor
Alan M. Taylor University of California, Davis
Gail Hanson
Gail Hanson University of California, Riverside
Tracy R. Lewis
Tracy R. Lewis Duke University
Andrew K. Rose
Andrew K. Rose University of California, Berkeley
Robert Inklaar
Robert Inklaar University of Groningen
Marcel P. Timmer
Marcel P. Timmer University of Groningen
Matthew D. Shapiro
Matthew D. Shapiro University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lee Branstetter
Lee Branstetter Carnegie Mellon University
Peter K. Schott
Peter K. Schott Yale University
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Jagdish N. Bhagwati Columbia University

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