Bio
Professor Bernard is an expert in international trade and investment and specializes in firm responses to globalization. In recent papers, he has documented the emergence of factory-less goods producers in the US, revisited traditional views of deindustrialization and explored the dynamics of new exporters and the role of intermediaries in global trade. His current research focuses on the evolution of global (and domestic) production networks and the consequences for firm performance.
Current Research Topics
- Firm responses to globalization
- Global value chains
Professional Activities
Academic positions
- Tuck School of Business, 1999–present
- Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, 1996–present
- Research Associate, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, London, UK, 2002–present
- Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2010–present
- Pierre Werner Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, 2009–10
- Director, Center for International Business, Tuck School, 2007–12
- Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management, 1997–99
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991–97
Board memberships
- Executive Committee, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Washington, D.C.
Editorial positions
- Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics
Awards
- National Science Foundation Grant, "Firms and Products in International Trade," 2003–07
Working Papers
- With S. Dhingra, "Contacting and the Division of the Gains from Trade," October 2015
- With T. Okubo, "Product Switching and the Business Cycle," August 2015
- With S. Dhingra, "Contracting and the Gains from Trade," August 2015
- With A. Moxnes and Y. Saito, "Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance"
- With A. Moxnes and K.H. Ulltveit-Moe, "Two-Sided Heterogeneity and Trade," May 2015
- With E. Blanchard, I. Van Beveren, and H. Vandenbussche, "Carry-Along Trade," November 2014
- With V. Smeets and F. Warzynski, "Rethinking Deindustrialization" November 2013
- With T. Okubo, "Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching in Japan," July 2013
- With R. Massari, J. Reyes, and D. Taglioni, "Exporter Dynamics, Firm Size and Growth, and Partial Year Effects," July 2013
Selected Publications
- With M. Grazzi and C. Tomasi, "Intermediaries in International Trade: Products and Destinations," Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming
- With T. Fort, "Factoryless Goods Producing Firms," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 105, No. 5, May 2015
- With I. Van Beveren and H. Vandenbussche, "Multi-Product Exporters and the Margins of Trade " Japanese Economic Review, 2014
- With S. Redding and P. Schott, "Testing for Factor Price Equality in the Presence of Unobserved Factor Quality Differences" American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 5, Issue 2, May 2013
- With B. Jensen, S. Redding, and P. Schott, "The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade", Annual Review of Economics Vol. 4, 2012
- With S. Redding and P. Schott, "Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization" Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 126(3), 2011
- With R. Robertson and P. Schott, "Is Mexico A Lumpy Country?" Review of International Economics, 18(5), 2010
- With B. Jensen, S. Redding, and P. Schott, "Intra-Firm Trade and Product Contractibility" American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 100, No. 2, May 2010
- With B. Jensen, S. Redding, and P. Schott, “Wholesalers and Retailers in US Trade” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings Vol. 100, No. 2, May 2010
- With S. Redding, and P. Schott, "Multiple-Product Firms and Product Switching" American Economic Review Vol. 100, No. 1, March 2010
- With S. Redding, and P. Schott, "Products and Productivity" Scandinavian Journal of Economics, December 2009, Volume 111, Issue 4
- With B. Jensen, S. Redding, and P. Schott, "The Margins of Trade" American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings Vol. 99, No. 2, May, 2009
- With S. Redding, P. Schott, and H. Simpson, "Relative Wage Variation and Industry Location in the United Kingdom" Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2008, Vol. 70, Issue 4