Program Director
![Stephen Redding Profile](/https/www.nber.org/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2022-06/Stephen%20Redding%20Profilecropped2.jpg?itok=6WGjIwfH)
Stephen J. Redding is the Harold T. Shapiro ‘64 Professor in Economics at Princeton University. His research interests span international trade, economic geography, and the determinants of productivity and economic growth. He has been an NBER affiliate since 2011.
Featured Program Content
![The Jones Act and Energy Prices figure](/sites/default/files/styles/promo/public/2024-01/w31938.jpg?itok=JEl3jvHM)
The Jones Act of 1920 mandates that goods transported by water between US ports must travel on ships constructed, owned, and operated by US entities and...
![Chinese Firms Access Foreign Capital in International Tax Havens](/sites/default/files/styles/promo/public/2023-02/w30865.jpg?itok=AapXWZpc)
Tax havens are increasingly the avenue for emerging market countries, particularly China, to raise money from foreign investors. Many Chinese companies use...
![Economics, Politics, and the Evolution of Global Supply Chains Figure](/sites/default/files/styles/promo/public/2023-11/w31661_SupplyChains_figure_Final%20%281%29-01.jpg?itok=BZTi9iju)
World trade grew steadily in the four decades before the 2008 global financial crisis. In the 1990s, the ratio of trade in goods and services to GDP was 38...