Bruce A. Blonigen

PLC 511; 541-346-4680; bruceb@uoregon.edu

Biographical Information

Bruce A. Blonigen, Professor, received his B.A. in Economics in 1988 from Gustavus Adolphus College, and a M.A. in 1992 and Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of California at Davis. He is a Faculty Research Fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research and Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics. He joined the UO faculty in 1995. To go to Professor Blonigen's homepage, click here.

Research Interests

Bruce Blonigen has research interests in empirically examining international trade issues from a microeconomic and political economy perspective, especially with respect to multinational corporations and antidumping policies. His work on multinational corporations and foreign direct investment (FDI) has explored determinants of FDI activity in the United States, particularly the effect of exchange rates and bilateral tax treaties, as well as impacts of inward FDI on the U.S. economy. For example, recent papers find that foreign firm investment leads to higher real wages for local communities, but does not contribute to the growing wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in the U.S.

Another area of interest has been with respect to antidumping policies, an increasingly popular form of trade protection. For example, one paper estimates that the welfare impact of U.S. antidumping policies is one the largest of all U.S. trade protection programs. More recent work, funded by the National Science Foundation, explores firm-level responses of firms involved in U.S. antidumping investigations, including their FDI responses and pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations to export prices. The grant also led to the creation of a firm-level database on U.S. antidumping activity that is available from Professor Blonigen's webpage

Teaching

Professor Blonigen teaches international trade and industrial organization at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as principles of microeconomics.