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Professor of Economics

Professor Redding's research interests include foreign direct investment, international trade, economic geography, and productivity growth at the firm and industry level. His recent work has examined the relationship between comparative advantage and heterogeneous firms' response to international trade; the role of product choice in understanding firm development and industry dynamics; the uneven effects of Indian liberalization; the role of 'absorptive capacity' in facilitating the international transfer of technology; and the role played by market access in determining economic prosperity. Redding's distinctions include the Kiel Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs in 2008 and the Philip Leverhulme Prize Fellowship during 2001-2004 for his research on international trade and economic growth.

Redding was a visiting associate professor in the department of economics at Harvard University in 2007-2008 and a Peter Kenen Fellow in International Economics in the department of economics at Princeton University in 2005-2006. He is director of the Globalization Program at the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is also a research fellow in the international trade programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Prior to joining the London School of Economics, he worked as a research economist in the Monetary Analysis Division at the Bank of England on the relationship between international openness and economic growth.

Selected Publications
"The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification" (with D. Sturm), CEPR Discussion Paper, 5015, American Economic Review, forthcoming

"The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India" (with P.Aghion, R. Burgess and F. Zilibotti), American Economic Review, forthcoming
 
"Firms in International Trade" (with A. Bernard and P. Schott), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 3, 105–130, 2007
 
"Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms" (with A. Bernard and P. Schott), Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 73, No. 1, 31-66, 2007

"Entry Liberalization and Inequality in Industrial Performance’ (with P. Aghion, R. Burgess and F. Zilibotti), Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 3, No. 2-3, 291-302, 2005

Working Papers
"Multi-product Firms and Product Switching" (with A. Bernard and P. Schott)

"History and Industrial Location: Evidence from German Airports" (with D.Sturm and N. Wolf)

Education
PhD University of Oxford, 1996
MPhil University of Oxford, 1994
BA University of Oxford, 1992