John McLaren

Department of Economics
Unive rsity of Virginia
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Hi, there. I'm an economist with interests in international trade, economic development, political economy, and industrial organization. Lately I've been doing work on the dynamics of labor market adjustment to trade shocks; implications of worker mobility costs for trade and trade policy; globalization and risk; media bias and media mergers; and the economics of civil war in the Third World.

I really, really apologize for hardly ever updating this page. I’ll be more attentive to it in the future. Honest.

Here is my cv (updated November 2011).

Recent publications:

“A Structural Empirical Approach to Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: An Application to Turkey” (Joint with Erhan Artuç.) Forthcoming in Guido Porto (ed.), Adjustment Costs and Adjustment Impacts of Trade Policy, World Bank.

“Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: A Structural Empirical Approach.” Joint with Erhan Artuç and Shubham Chaudhuri. American Economic Review, June 2010.

“Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake.” Joint with Bilgehan Karabay; forthcoming in the Journal of International Economics.

Working papers:

“Looking for Local Labor Market Effects of NAFTA.” Joint with Shushanik Hakobyan.

"Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality." Joint with Ann Harrison and Margaret McMillan. This is a concise survey paper written for the Annual Reviews of Economics; the final published version will have to be a lot shorter than this one.

“Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers.” Joint with Simon Anderson.

“Globalization and Civil War.”

“Pareto-Improving Firing Costs?” Joint with Bilgehan Karabay.

I’m also revising an undergraduate textbook, International Economics: Analysis of Globalization and Policy, to be published by Wiley in Fall 2011. You can read the preface here. I’m pretty excited about the project because I’ve got a fairly innovative approach to teaching the material that has been very successful in the classroom. I’m happy to share the draft chapters; let me know if you are interested.

Right now, I'm in Cambridge, UK, where I'm the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Scholar at Downing College at the University of Cambridge until June 2012.