Robert Staiger

Research: International trade, theoretical and empirical analysis of international trade policy rules and institutions, GATT and the WTO, cartel behavior among firms
Current Research: The economics of the GATT/WTO
Teaching: International Trade

Robert W. Staiger is Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Staiger received his A.B. from Williams College and his Ph.D. from The University of Michigan. He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University from 1985 through 1991, was promoted at Stanford to tenured Associate Professor in 1991, joined The University of Wisconsin Economics Department in 1993, and returned to Stanford as Professor of Economics in 2006. Staiger was a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution during 1988-89, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 1990-92, a Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers during 1991-92, and a Fellow at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences during 1996-97. He currently serves as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and as a Reporter for the American Law Institute, in its study of Principles of Trade Law: The World Trade Organization. In addition, Staiger has served as Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics (JIE) since 1995, and has agreed to become JIE Editor beginning in 2010. Staiger has also served as Associate Editor of the American Economic Review, as Associate Editor of the B.E. Journal in Economic Analysis and Policy, and on the Editorial Board of Studies in International Economics Series, The University of Michigan Press. Staiger’s research interests include theoretical and empirical analysis of international trade policy rules and institutions, GATT and the WTO, and cartel behavior among firms. His research has been published in numerous professional journals, and in a recent book, The Economics of The World Trading System, co-authored with Kyle Bagwell and published by MIT Press.