Dr. David G. Tarr is a member of the academic board and policy adviser to the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET) and is a former Lead Economist with the World Bank.  Dr. Tarr has worked as an advisor to government officials in 27 countries, including 13 of the 15 countries of the former Soviet Union, providing international trade policy advice on a wide range of international trade policy issues. He has also advised the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, and the Eurasian Economic Commission.

Dr. Tarr has authored over 80 refereed journal articles, written or edited 14 books or monographs, and over 100 additional professional papers. Google Scholar shows that he has an H index of 53.  He published solely authored articles in leading economics journals including  Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Comparative Economics.  

 He is recognized as a leading author of numerical models for policy applications having contributed a chapter to the Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling,  part of the Elsevier Handbooks in Economics series. World Scientific Publishers published two volumes of his collected works.

His current project is how to improve international cooperative agreements on climate policy so that they are effective. His working paper “A WTO-Compliant Climate Club that Solves the Free-Rider Problem in International Agreements on Climate Change” is available on the SSRN website. 

His curriculum vitae is available at curriculum vitae: David G. Tarr 

His publications, ranked by number of professional citations, are available at: Google Scholar: David G. Tarr

His SSRN Working Papers are available at:  http://ssrn.com/author=54135.

For additional publications from his work at the World Bank search for David Tarr at: World Bank documents