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Bruce Blonigen

Edward Maletis Dean, Lundquist College of Business | Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science

Affiliations: Economics, SAIL, Office of the Dean
Office: Lillis 350

About

Degree History:
  • PhD, Economics, University of California, Davis, 1995
  • MA, Economics, University of California, Davis, 1992
  • BA, Economics, German, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, 1988
Professional Leadership:
  • Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002-present
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2017-present 
  • Member, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, 2017-present
  • External Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Globalisation and Economic Policy University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, 2002-present
  • Specialized Coeditor, Economic Inquiry, 2012-2019 
  • Scientific Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank, 2014-2015 
  • Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics, 2012-2014 
  • Coeditor, Journal of International Economics, 2006-2012 
  • Associate Editor, American Economic Review, 2006-2009 
  • Departmental Coeditor, Journal of International Business Studies, 2004-2007
  • Board of Editors, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2004-2007 
  • Consultant, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2004-2006 
  • Editorial Advisor, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2003-2007 
  • Consultant, World Bank, 2002 
  • Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics, 2001-2006
  • Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999-2002
  • Economist, U.S. International Trade Commission, 1994-1995
Honors and Awards:
  • National Science Foundation Grant: The Long-run Relationship Between Trade and the Growth of Cities, 2019-2022
  • National Science Foundation Grant: Trade Protection and the US Steel Industry, corecipient, 2004-2006
  • Williams Council Teaching Award, University of Oregon, corecipient, 2004
  • Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Oregon, 2003
  • Williams Council Teaching Award, University of Oregon, corecipient, 2002
     

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Areas of Expertise

Research:

  • Foreign direct investment
  • Multinational firms
  • Trade policies

Interests:

  • Applied econometrics
  • Industrial organization
  • International trade

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Publications

Journal Articles:

Blonigen, Bruce A., Anca Cristea, and Donghyun Lee, "Evidence for the Effect of Monitoring Costs on Foreign Direct Investment," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 177: 601-617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.06.008.

September 2020

Blonigen, Bruce A., Christopher R. Knittel, and Anson Soderbery. "Keeping It Fresh: Strategic Product Redesigns and Welfare," International Journal of Industrial Organization 53: 170-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2017.04.003.

July 2017

Blonigen, Bruce A. "Industrial Policy and Downstream Export Performance." Economic Journal 126: 1635-1659. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12223.

September 2016

Blonigen, Bruce A., Jeremy Piger, and Nicholas Sly. "Comovement in GDP Trends and Cycles Among Trading Partners." Journal of International Economics 94, no. 2: 239-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.06.008.

November 2014

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Jeremy Piger. "Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment." Canadian Journal of Economics 47, no. 3: 775-812. https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12091.

August 2014

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Anca D. Cristea. "Air Service and Urban Growth: Evidence From a Quasi-Natural Policy Experiment." Journal of Urban Economics 86: 128-146. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2015.02.001.

March 2015

Blonigen, Bruce A., Lionel Fontagne, Nicholas Sly, and Farid Toubal. "Cherries for Sale: The Incidence and Timing of Cross-Border M&A." Journal of International Economics 94: 341-357. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.08.005.

November 2014

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Jacob McGrew. "Task Routineness and Trade Policy Preferences." Economics and Politics 26: 505-518.

November 2014

Blonigen, Bruce A., Lindsay Oldenski, and Nicholas Sly. "The Differential Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6: 1-18. http://doi.org/10.1257/pol.6.2.1.

May 2014

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Wesley W. Wilson. "The Growth and Patterns of International Trade." Maritime Policy & Management 40: 618-635. http://doi.org/10.1080/03088839.2013.851454.

December 2013

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Anca Cristea. "Did the Interstate Commerce Act Lower Transport Costs? Evidence from Wheat Prices." Review of Industrial Organization 43: 41-62. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-013-9394-8.

August 2013

Blonigen, Bruce A., Benjamin H. Liebman, and Wesley W. Wilson. "Antidumping and Production-line Exit: The Case of the U.S. Steel Industry." Review of Industrial Organization 42: 395-413. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-013-9387-7.

June 2013

Blonigen, Bruce A., Benjamin H. Liebman, Justin R. Pierce, and Wesley W. Wilson. "Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas." Journal of International Economics 89: 369-378. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2012.08.009.

March 2013

Blonigen, Bruce A. "Revisiting the Evidence on Trade Policy Preferences." Journal of International Economics 85: 129-135. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.05.010.

September 2011

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Anson Soderbery. "Measuring the Benefits of Foreign Product Variety with an Accurate Variety Set." Journal of International Economics 82: 168-180. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2010.08.001.

November 2010

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Wesley W. Wilson. "Foreign Subsidization and Excess Capacity." Journal of International Economics 80: 200-211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2009.10.001.

March 2010

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Wesley W. Wilson. "Port Efficiency and Trade Flows." Review of International Economics 16: 21-36. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9396.2007.00723.x.

February 2008

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Van Kolpin. "Technology, Agglomeration, and Regional Competition for Investment." Canadian Journal of Economics 40: 149-1167. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.00446.x.

November 2007

Blonigen, Bruce A., Ronald B. Davies, Glen R. Waddell, and Helen Naughton. "FDI in Space: Spatial Autoregressive Relationships in Foreign Direct Investment." European Economic Review 51: 1303-1325. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2006.08.006.

July 2007

Blonigen, Bruce A. "Working the System: Firm Learning and the Antidumping Process." European Journal of Political Economy 22: 715-731. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2005.03.005.

September 2006
August 2006
December 2005
December 2005

Blonigen, Bruce A., Christopher J. Ellis, and Dietrich Fausten. "Strategic FDI and Industrial Groupings." Japan and the World Economy 17: 125-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japwor.2003.12.008.

April 2005

Blonigen, Bruce A., Christopher J. Ellis, and Dietrich Fausten. "Industrial Groupings and Foreign Direct Investment." Journal of International Economics 65: 75-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2003.12.003.

January 2005

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Ronald B. Davies. "The Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties on U.S. FDI Activity." International Tax and Public Finance 11: 601-22. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ITAX.0000036693.32618.00. (Reprinted in The Effect of Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment: Bilateral Investment Treaties, Double Taxation Treaties, and Investment Flows, edited by Karl P. Sauvant and Lisa E. Sachs, 485-511. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195388534.003.0018.)

September 2004

Blonigen, Bruce A., KaSaundra Tomlin, and Wesley W. Wilson. "Tariff-jumping FDI and Domestic Firms' Profits." Canadian Journal of Economics 37: 656-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0008-4085.2004.00242.x.

August 2004

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Jee-Hyeong Park. "Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Antidumping Policy: Theory and Evidence." American Economic Review 94: 134-154. http://doi.org/10.1257/000282804322970742.

March 2004

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Thomas J. Prusa. "The Cost of Antidumping: The Devil is in the Details." Journal of Policy Reform 6: 233-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/134841280410004698996.

December 2003

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Chad P. Bown. "Antidumping and Retaliation Threats." Journal of International Economics 60: 249-273. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1996(02)00055-7. (Reprinted in The WTO, Economic Interdependence, and Conflict: Critical Perspectives on the Global Trading System and the WTO, edited by Marc L. Busch and and Edward D. Mansfield. Northampton, Massachusetts: Elgar, 2007.)

August 2003

Blonigen, Bruce A., Ronald B. Davies, and Keith Head. "Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise: Comment." American Economic Review 93: 980-994. http://doi.org/10.1257/000282803322157214.

June 2003

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Stephen E. Haynes. "Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-Through of Exchange Rates and Antidumping Duties." American Economic Review 92: 1044-1061. http://doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.3.1283.

September 2002

Blonigen, Bruce A. "Tariff-Jumping Antidumping Duties." Journal of International Economics 57: 31-50. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1996(01)00135-0.

June 2002

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Matthew J. Slaughter. "Foreign Affiliate Activity and U.S. Skill Upgrading." Review of Economics and Statistics 83: 362-376. https://doi.org/10.1162/00346530151143888.

May 2001

Blonigen, Bruce A., and KaSaundra Tomlin. "Size and Growth of Japanese Plants in the United States." International Journal of Industrial Organization 19: 931-952. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-7187(99)00055-7.

May 2001
February 2001

Gallaway, Michael P., Bruce A. Blonigen, and Joseph E. Flynn. "Erratum to 'Welfare Costs of the U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws.'" Journal of International Economics 52: 205. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1996(00)00080-5.

October 2000

Figlio, David N. and Bruce A. Blonigen. "The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Local Communities." Journal of Urban Economics 48: 338-363. https://doi.org/10.1006/juec.2000.2170.

September 2000

Gallaway, Michael P., Bruce A. Blonigen, and Joseph E. Flynn. "Welfare Costs of the U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws." Journal of International Economics 49: 211-244. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1996(98)00063-4. (Reprinted in The WTO and Antidumping: Critical Perspectives on the Global Trading System and the WTO, edited by Douglas R. Nelson and Hylke Vandenbussche, 428-461. Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar, 2005.)

December 1999

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Wesley W. Wilson. "Explaining Armington: What Determines Substitutability Between Home and Foreign Goods?" Canadian Journal of Economics 32: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.2307/136392.

February 1999

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Yuka Ohno. "Endogenous Protection, Foreign Direct Investment, and Protectionbuilding Trade." Journal of International Economics 46: 205-227. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1996(97)00042-1. (Reprinted in The WTO and Antidumping: Critical Perspectives on the Global Trading System and the WTO, edited by Douglas R. Nelson and and Hylke Vandenbussche, 39-61. Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar, 2005.)

December 1998

Blonigen, Bruce A., and David N. Figlio. "Voting for Protection: Does Direct Foreign Investment Influence Legislator Behavior?" American Economic Review 88: 1002-1014.

September 1998

Blonigen, Bruce A. "Firm-Specific Assets and the Link Between Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment." American Economic Review 87: 447-465.

June 1997
Books:

Blonigen, Bruce A. Foreign Direct Investment. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/11176.

April 2019

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Thomas J. Prusa. Dumping and Antidumping Trade Protection. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

January 2019

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Wesley W. Wilson. Handbook of International Trade and Transportation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

September 2018

Blonigen, Bruce A. Monitoring International Trade Policy: A New Agenda for Reviving the Doha Round. London, UK: Centre for Economic Policy Research.

November 2008
Book Chapters:

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Cheyney O'Fallon. "Foreign Firms and Local Communities." In Firms in the International Economy: Closing the Gap Between International Economics and International Business, edited by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Steven Brakman, Hans van Ees, and Harry Garretsen, 127-151. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9716.003.0009.

December 2013

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Alyson Ma. "Please Pass the Catch-up: The Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports." In China's Growing Role in World Trade, edited by Robert C. Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei, 475-512. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

March 2010

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Thomas J. Prusa. "Antidumping." In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics second edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, 173-177. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-58802-2_46.

June 2008

Blonigen, Bruce A. "Foreign Direct Investment." In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics second edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, 2265-2269. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-58802-2_593.

June 2008

Blonigen, Bruce A., Ronald B. Davies, Helen Naughton, and Glen R. Waddell. "Spacey Parents: Spatial Autoregressive Patterns in Inbound FDI." In Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise, edited by Steven Brakman and Harry Garretsen, 173-198. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262026451.003.0012.

March 2008

Blonigen, Bruce A. and Miao Wang. "Inappropriate Pooling of Wealthy and Poor Countries in Empirical FDI Studies." In Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development?, edited by Theodore H. Moran, Edward M. Graham and Magnus Blomstrom, 221-243. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics.

May 2005

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Ronald B. Davies. "Do Bilateral Tax Treaties Promote Foreign Direct Investment?" In Handbook of International Trade, Volume II: Economic and Legal Analysis of Laws and Institutions, edited by E. Kwan Choi and James C. Hartigan, 526-546. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470757697.ch19. (Reprinted in The Effect of Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment: Bilateral Investment Treaties, Double Taxation Treaties, and Investment Flows, edited by Karl P. Sauvant and Lisa E. Sachs, 461-484. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195388534.003.0018.)

January 2005

Blonigen, Bruce A. "Food Fight: Antidumping Activity in Agricultural Goods." In Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO: Where Are We Heading?, edited by Giovanni Anania, Mary E. Bohman, Colin A. Carter, and Alex F. McCalla, 568-592. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

January 2004

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Thomas J. Prusa. "Antidumping." In Handbook of International Trade, edited by E. Kwan Choi and James Harrigan, 251-284. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470756461.ch9.

January 2003

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Pei-Wen Hsieh. "The Multinational Enterprise's Choice of Technology in LDCs with Potential Imitators." In Technological Diffusion in Third World, edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer, Neelambar Hatti, and Rameshwar Tandon, 51-80. New Delhi, India: B.R. Publishing.

January 1999

Blonigen, Bruce A., and Robert C. Feenstra. "Protectionist Threats and Foreign Direct Investment." In Effects of U.S. Trade Protection and Promotion Policies, edited by Robert C. Feenstra, 55-80. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

May 1997

Blonigen, Bruce A., Joseph E. Flynn, and Kenneth A. Reinert. "Sector-focused General Equilibrium Modeling." In Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis: A Handbook, edited by Joseph F. Francois and Kenneth A. Reinert, 189-230. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139174824.009.

January 1997
Other Publications:

Blonigen, Bruce A., William T. Harbaugh, Robert H. Horner, Larry K. Irvin, Larry D. Singell, Jr., and Keith Smolkowski. "Application of Economic Analysis to School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SW-PBS) Programs." Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions 10, no. 1: 5-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098300707311366.

January 2008

Blonigen, Bruce A. "Foreign Direct Investment Behavior of Multinational Corporations." NBER Reporter, 11-14.

December 2005

Blonigen, Bruce A. "Review of 'Multinational Firms in the World Economy' by Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Anthony J. Venables." Journal of International Economics 67: 520-524. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2005.05.001.

December 2005
March 2002

Blonigen, Bruce A., "Comment on 'Determinants and Effects of Multinational Growth: The Swedish Case Revisited,' by Birgitta Swedenborg." In Topics in Empirical International Economics: A Festshrift in Honor of Robert E. Lipsey, edited by Magnus Blomstrom and Linda Goldberg, 131-135. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for National Bureau of Economic Research.

April 2001

Blonigen, Bruce A., et al. The Economic Effects of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders and Suspension Agreements. Washington, DC: U.S. International Trade Commission.

June 1995

Blonigen, Bruce A., et al. The Economic Effects of Significant Import Restraints. Washington, DC: U.S. International Trade Commission.

October 1993

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