Short
Bio
I
am an economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
My research focuses on
the behavior of U.S.
firms affected by international trade. Prior
to
beginning my graduate studies, I worked in the private
sector,
advising domestic and foreign firms involved in antidumping and
safeguard
investigations.
This is a personal website. Any results or conclusions in the
research presented on this website are my own and do not necessarily
represent the views of the Federal Reserve System.
You can visit my official website here: http://www.federalreserve.gov/research/staff/piercejustinr.htm
Employment
2011 - Present Economist,
Federal
Reserve Board of Governors
2009 - 2011 Economist,
Center for Economic Studies,
U.S. Census Bureau
2001 - 2003 Economic
Analyst,
Georgetown
Economic Services, LLC
Education
2009 Ph.D., Economics, Georgetown University
2005 M.A., Economics, Georgetown University
2001 B.A., Economics, International Affairs, The George
Washington University
Publications
Plant-Level
Responses to Antidumping Duties: Evidence from
U.S. Manufacturers, Journal of
International Economics,
85
(2),
pp. 222-233 (November 2011).
This paper was briefly
circulated under the
title: "Spare the Rod, Spoil the Firm? A Plant-Level Analysis of the
Effects of Temporary Protection."
The published version is available
here.
Press coverage of this article in
Strategy and Business magazine:
"Mixed
Blessings from Antidumping Duties"
Concording
U.S.
Harmonized System Categories Over Time, Journal of Official Statistics,
28 (1), pp. 53-68 (March 2012). A previous version of the paper
was circulated as
NBER Working Paper (
WP14837)
and CES Working
Paper (
CES-WP-09-11).
Joint
with
Peter Schott.
Data Appendix.
A Concordance Between
U.S.
Harmonized System Codes and SIC/NAICS Product Classes and Industries,
Journal of Economic and Social
Measurement (forthcoming). NBER
Working Paper (
WP15548),
CES Working
Paper (
CES-WP-09-41).
Joint
with
Peter Schott.
Data Appendix.
Working Papers
Are All Trade
Protection Policies
Created Equal? Empirical Evidence
for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects for Tariffs and Quotas (March 2012). NBER
Working Paper (
WP16391),
CES Working Paper (
CES-WP-10-27).
Joint
with
Bruce Blonigen,
Benjamin Liebman
and
Wesley Wilson.
Works in Progress
The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment.
Joint with
Peter Schott.
Trade Liberalization and International Sourcing of Inputs.
Applied Research
Making Sense of
Africa's Infrastructure Endowment: A Benchmarking Approach (April 2009), World Bank Policy
Research Working Paper (
WBPS4912)
. Joint with
Vivien Foster and Tito Yepes.
Productive Infrastructure
and Logistics Services for Competitiveness (October 2006). Joint with
Tito Yepes. Chapter in
Infrastructure
Service Provision in El Salvador: Fighting Poverty, Resuming Growth.
Costa
Rica's Infrastructure: Contributor or Bottleneck to Growth? (September 2006). Joint with
Tito Yepes. Chapter in
Costa
Rica Country Economic Memorandum:
The Challenges for Sustained Growth.
Presentations by Paper
The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment -
Southern Economic Association (11/21/2011); Council of Economic
Advisors, Executive Office of the President
(07/07/2011); Georgetown Center for Economic Research (06/02/2011);
Federal Reserve
Bank of Minneapolis (05/13/2011); Advances in International
Trade: Trade Empirics (11/19/2010); Center for Economic Studies
(10/21/2010).
Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence
for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects for Tariffs and Quotas -
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (04/27/2012); University of Wisconsin
Whitewater (04/25/2012); University of Virginia (08/31/2011); Southern
Economic Association
Meetings (11/21/2010); Vassar
College (10/25/10); Midwest International Trade and
Theory Meetings (09/17/2010); Center
for Economic Studies (04/01/2010).
Plant-Level Responses to Antidumping Duties: Evidence from U.S.
Manufacturers - Federal Reserve Board of Governors (05/27/2011);
Midwest
Economic Association (03/21/2010); Comparative
Analysis of Enterprise Data Meetings
(10/02/2009); Econometric Society North American Summer Meetings
(06/04/2009); Midwest International Economics Group (05/01/2009);
George Washington University/World Bank Antidumping
Conference (04/09/2009);
Georgetown University (10/20/2008); Center for Economic Studies
(10/02/2008).
Trade Liberalization, Productivity and Input Variety: Evidence from
Colombian Manufacturers - Midwest Economic Association (03/15/2008).
Referee Activities
Economics
Letters, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic
Growth, Journal of International Economics, Review of
Industrial Organization, Southern
Economic Journal, World Development.