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Professor of Economics

Peter Schott's research focuses on how firms and workers respond to globalization. His most recent projects examine relative export quality across developed and developing countries as well as transfer pricing and product upgrading by multinationals.

Achievements and Awards
National Science Foundation Research Grant, “Estimating Export Quality” (2006-2009)
National Science Foundation Research Grant, “Firms and Product Choice in International Trade” (2003-2008)
NBER Research Associate

Editorships
Associate Editor, American Economic Review

Affiliations
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
International Research Associate, Institute for
Fiscal Studies (UK)
Research Associate, Centre for Economic
Performance (LSE)

Selected Articles
"The Relative Sophistication of Chinese Exports" Economic Policy, forthcoming

"Firms in International Trade" (with A. Bernard, J.B. Jensen, and S. Redding), Journal of Economic Perspectives, forthcoming 

"Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms" (with A. Bernard and S. Redding), Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 74, No. 1, 31-66, January, 2007

"Trade Costs, Firms and Productivity" (with A. Bernard and J.B. Jensen), Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 53, No. 5, 917-937, July, 2006

Working Papers
Products and Productivity (with A. Bernard and S. Redding)

Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization (with A. Bernard and S. Redding) 

Transfer Pricing by U.S.-Based Multinational Firms (with A. Bernard and J.B. Jensen) 

Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching (with A. Bernard and S. Redding)

Education
PhD The Anderson School at UCLA, 1999
MS UCLA, 1995
BS University of Pennsylvania, 1990