Gene M. Grossman is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University, Chair of Princeton’s economics department, and the Director of the International Economics Section. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1976 and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. Professor Grossman joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1980 and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Professor Grossman has received numerous professional honors and awards including the Harry G. Johnson Prize from the Canadian Economics Association, the Bernard-Harms Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1992, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997, and a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2008, and he holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of St. Gallen. Professor Grossman served a three-year term on the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and of the Center for Economic Policy Research, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Growth, the Review of International Economics, the German Economic Review, and several other professional journals.
Professor Grossman has written extensively on international trade. He is well known for his work on the determinants of international competitiveness in dynamic, research-intensive industries, and in particular for his book with Elhanan Helpman entitled Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy. He has also written (with colleague Alan Krueger) a pair of widely-cited papers on the likely environmental impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement and on the relationship between economic growth and the environment, which initiated a voluminous literature on the so-called “Environmental Kuznets Curve.” Another branch of Professor Grossman’s research focuses on the political forces that shape modern trade policy. He and Elhanan Helpman collaborated on Special Interest Politics, which was published by the MIT Press in 2001 and on Interest Groups and Trade Policy, which was published by Princeton University Press in 2002. Professor Grossman’s recent research focuses on the causes and consequences of offshoring, or what he and co-author Esteban Rossi-Hansberg have termed “task trade."
