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Robert W. Staiger

Robert W. Staiger

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
56
Citations
16131
World Ranking
990
National Ranking
618

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1990 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Robert W. Staiger is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and has contributed to research in economics, econometrics, finance, engineering, and social sciences. Their work spans several subfields including general economics, econometrics, political science, international relations, strategy and management, and building and construction.

Staiger's research primarily focuses on topics related to global trade and economics, World Trade Organization law, international arbitration and investment law, merger and competition analysis, as well as sustainable building design and assessment. Additional interests include building energy and comfort optimization and hybrid renewable energy systems.

The scholar has published in various venues with a significant number of papers appearing in the SSRN Electronic Journal. Other frequent publication venues include Econometrica, Journal of International Economics, Economic Policy, and American Economic Journal Applied Economics.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Staiger include:

  • The Economic Structure of International Trade-in-Services Agreements, 2020, Journal of Political Economy
  • The "New" Economics of Trade Agreements: From Trade Liberalization to Regulatory Convergence?, 2021, Econometrica
  • Multilateral Trade Bargaining: A First Look at the GATT Bargaining Records, 2020, American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • Trade wars: What do they mean? Why are they happening now? What are the costs?, 2020, Economic Policy
  • Learning by ruling and trade disputes, 2020, Journal of International Economics

Staiger has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including Adrian Tanțǎu, Alan O. Sykes, Ralph Ossa, Kyle Bagwell, and Ali Yürükoğlu.

In terms of book publications, Staiger has contributed to works published by The MIT Press and Sustainable Management, Wertschöpfung und Effizienz. Titles include A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century (2022) and Geschäftsmodellkonzepte mit grünem Wasserstoff (2020).

Notable recognitions include being named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2008 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1990.

Best Publications

  • The Economics of the World Trading System

    Kyle Bagwell;Robert William Staiger

  • An Economic Theory of GATT

    Kyle Bagwell;Robert W. Staiger

  • Measuring Industry Specific Protection: Antidumping in the United States

    Robert W Staiger;Frank A Wolak

  • Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements

    Pol Antràs;Robert W. Staiger

  • Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty, and International Economic Institutions

    Kyle Bagwell;Robert W. Staiger

  • Measuring Industry Specific Protection: Antidumpting in the United States

    Robert Staiger;Frank A. Wolak

  • A Theory of Managed Trade

    Kyle Bagwell;Robert W Staiger

  • Discretionary Trade Policy and Excessive Protection

    Robert W Staiger;Guido Tabellini

  • What do trade negotiators negotiate about? Empirical evidence from the World Trade Organization

    Kyle Bagwell;Robert W. Staiger

  • Multilateral Tariff Cooperation During the Formation of Regional Free Trade Areas

    Kyle Bagwell;Robert Staiger

  • MULTILATERAL TARIFF COOPERATION DURING THE FORMATION OF FREE TRADE AREAS

    Kyle Bagwell;Robert W. Staiger

  • Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts

    Henrik Horn;Giovanni Maggi;Robert W. Staiger

  • Multilateral tariff cooperation during the formation of customs unions

    Kyle Bagwell;Kyle Bagwell;Robert W. Staiger;Robert W. Staiger

  • Collusion over the Business Cycle

    Kyle Bagwell;Robert W. Staiger

  • International rules and institutions for trade policy

    Robert Staiger

  • The sensitivity of strategic and corrective R&D policy in oligopolistic industries

    Kyle Bagwell;Robert W. Staiger

  • Collusive Pricing with Capacity Constraints in the Presence of Demand Uncertainty

    Robert W. Staiger;Frank A. Wolak

  • Enforcement, Private Political Pressure, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization Escape Clause

    Kyle Bagwell;Robert W. Staiger

  • Regionalism and Multilateral Tariff Cooperation

    Kyle Bagwell;Robert Staiger

  • Reciprocity, non-discrimination and preferential agreements in the multilateral trading system

    Kyle Bagwell;Kyle Bagwell;Robert W. Staiger;Robert W. Staiger

  • OFFSHORING AND THE ROLE OF TRADE AGREEMENTS Pol Antràs

    Robert W. Staiger

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyle Bagwell
Kyle Bagwell Stanford University
Alan O. Sykes
Alan O. Sykes Stanford University
Frank A. Wolak
Frank A. Wolak Stanford University
Petros C. Mavroidis
Petros C. Mavroidis Columbia University
Guido Tabellini
Guido Tabellini Bocconi University
Robert Howse
Robert Howse New York University
Pol Antràs
Pol Antràs Harvard University
Alan V. Deardorff
Alan V. Deardorff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Steven N. Durlauf
Steven N. Durlauf University of Chicago
Aaditya Mattoo
Aaditya Mattoo World Bank

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