Kyle Bagwell

Kyle Bagwell (born 1961) is an American economics professor. He is known for contributions to industrial organization and international trade.

Bagwell received a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Mathematics, both from Southern Methodist University, in 1983; and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University, in 1986, working under the supervision of Michael H. Riordan.

Bagwell is the Donald L. Lucas Endowed Professor in Economics at Stanford University. He held previous academic appointments at Columbia University and Northwestern University.

Bagwell was elected Fellow or the Econometric Society in 2005.

Bagwell has published over 50 papers in specialized economics journals, on topics including trade agreements; competition and cooperation under private information; collusion; advertising and pricing with asymmetric information. Several of these have been widely cited and reprinted in various scholarly collections. Together with Robert Staiger, he is also the author of The Economics of the World Trading System (MIT Press, 2002).

Bagwell served as Editor of the RAND Journal of Economics from 1996-2002.