🌐 Global Economy Aug 19, 2024 · jdingel

The surprisingly small decline in trade JMPs

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The surprisingly small decline in trade JMPs
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A number of trade economists are worried that PhD students have been losing interest in international trade. One way to measure interest in the field is to tally job-market papers, which I’ve been doing since 2010. The number of JMPs in international trade listed on my blog has grown over time, but the set of schools I cover has been expanding. When looking at the number of trade candidates produced by a fixed set of schools, I expected to find a substantial decline.
I tallied the number o

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