Gene Grossman
Quick Facts
Biography
Gene Michael Grossman (born December 11, 1955, in New York) is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. He became assistant professor at Princeton University in 1980 and full professor of economics in 1988. His research focuses on international trade, in particular on the relationship between economic growth and trade and the political economy of trade policy. He is also known for his work on the environmental Kuznets curve. He frequently collaborated with Elhanan Helpman. In 2009, Grossman received an honorary doctorate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen. Grossman received the 2015 Onassis Prize for International Trade. In 2016, Grossman received an honorary doctorate in Economics from the University of Minho.
Publications
- Grossman, Gene; Krueger, Allan B. (1991). "Environmental impacts of a North American Free Trade Agreement". National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 3914, NBER. Cambridge MA. doi:10.3386/w3914.
- Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan (1993). Innovation and growth in the global economy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBNÂ 9780262570978.
- Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan (2002). Special interest politics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBNÂ 9780262571678.