PROFESSOR J. DAVID RICHARDSON

            Professor Richardson was educated at McGill University (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D.). Since 1991 he has been Professor of Economics (and International Relations, from 1997) at Syracuse University, where Economics is a department in the Maxwell School.  Since 1997 he has coordinated the inter-disciplinary Global Political Economy Research Consortium.  In 1999 he was named Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.  From 1970 to 1991 he was Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  He has also taught on a visiting basis at Wheaton College (Illinois), the University of Michigan, the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State, and in the Pew-Foundation-sponsored Faculty Summer Seminars in Christian Scholarship (at Calvin College) and Younger Scholars Program (at the University of Notre Dame).  He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts and spends two days each week visiting the Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C. as a Senior Fellow. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and a consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Economic Council of Canada, the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the Ford and Pew Foundations, and Educational Testing Service. He writes extensively on international trade policy and its effects.  He specializes in empirical research on trade under imperfect competition, on regional trade, and on trade and labor-market outcomes, with a focus on the United States.  He has authored two books, co-edited nine books, and written numerous other monographs, book chapters, and papers for professional journals.  During the early 1980s he co-directed the National Bureau of Economic Research team that examined U.S. trade policy while attempting to maintain regular communication with business, labor, and policy communities over research priorities and results. The National Science Foundation experimentally funded this project.  More recently, his policy research has focused on globalization and on competition policies.  The first involves estimating the effects of U.S. export disincentives, of U.S. import dependence, and of trends in investment and outsourcing.  The second involves assessments of cross-country differences in competition policies and opportunities for their negotiated reconciliation.  These projects have been funded by several grants to the Institute for International Economics.