Robert Christopher Feenstra was born on 1956 and is an American economist, academic and author.
25 Facts About Robert Feenstra
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Robert Feenstra is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis.
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Robert Feenstra served as the director of the International Trade and Investment Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1992 to 2016.
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Robert Feenstra served as Associate Dean in the Social Sciences at the University of California, Davis from 2014 to 2019.
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Robert Feenstra is most known for his research on: measuring the gains from product variety; assessing the impact of offshoring; and the Penn World Table, a project jointly with the University of Groningen on measuring real GDP across different countries in dollar values.
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Robert Feenstra has written over 100 published articles and six books.
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Robert Feenstra was awarded the Bernhard Harms Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy at the University of Kiel in Germany in 2006.
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Robert Feenstra has presented numerous invited lectures at universities around the world.
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Robert Feenstra then started graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he completed his Ph.
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Robert Feenstra was the chair of Department of Economics at UC Davis from 1990 to 1995.
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In 1992, Robert Feenstra was appointed as the director of the International Trade and Investment program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Robert Feenstra remains a faculty research fellow at the NBER.
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Robert Feenstra has been an international research fellow and then associate of the Kiel Institute for World Economy since 2006.
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Robert Feenstra was the co-editor of the Journal of International Economics from 1987 to 1990.
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Robert Feenstra then served as the editor of the journal from 1995 to 2001.
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Robert Feenstra's research is focused on the theory and estimation of international trade models, including assessing the impact of trade policies and measurement issues that arise in these topics.
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Robert Feenstra wrote the article "New Product Varieties and the Measurement of International Prices," published in the American Economic Review in 1994, which is one of his most widely cited articles.
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Robert Feenstra wrote the article "Integration of Trade and Disintegration of Production in the Global Economy" published in 1998.
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Robert Feenstra is widely known for his work on the Pen World Table.
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Robert Feenstra wanted to introduce prices on international traded products, in addition to the prices for consumption and investment goods already collected.
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Robert Feenstra is engaged in several projects collecting prices for the measurement of real GDP.
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Robert Feenstra has collaborated with Alberto Cavallo of the Billion Prices Project MIT, to obtain bar-code level prices for various countries that can be used to calculate real GDP.
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Robert Feenstra explored the question in theory in a paper entitled "Restoring the Product Variety and Pro-competitive Gains from Trade with Heterogeneous Firms and Bounded Productivity", where he started with a popular class of models used in international trade that does not give rise to a pro-competitive effect of city or country size on prices.
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Robert Feenstra showed what mathematical assumptions in these models need to be modified in order to restore a pro-competitive effect.
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In 2018, Robert Feenstra was invited for a keynote lecture at the Econometric Society meeting.