Dr. David G. Tarr is a former Lead Economist with the World Bank; and a member of the academic board and policy adviser to the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET). Dr. Tarr has worked as an advisor to government officials in 27 countries, providing international trade policy advice to governments on a wide range of international trade policy issues. He has a special interest in economy-wide computer modeling of trade policies, international agreements on climate change that are effective and WTO compatible, and trade policy of countries that are transitioning from communist to market economies. He has worked in 13 of the 15 countries of the former Soviet Union.
Dr. Tarr has authored more than 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 as of September 2023. His solely authored articles in leading economics journals include articles in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Comparative Economics.
Two volumes of the collected works of Dr. Tarr have been published by World Scientific Publishers. He is recognized as a leading author in international trade policy and in policy modeling with computable general equilibrium models. He contributed a chapter on services and foreign direct investment to the Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling, in the Elsevier Handbooks in Economics series.
His most recent refereed journal publications include: "Welfare gains in the Armington, Krugman and Melitz Models: Comparisons grounded on gravity,” Economic Inquiry (2022); "Why Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms will not Save the Planet but a Climate Club and Subsidies for Transformative Green Technologies May," Energy Economics (2023); "The Importance of Deep Integration in Preferential Trade Agreements: the case of a successfully implemented Ukraine-Turkey Free Trade Agreement," Review of World Economy (2022); and "Mathematics of Generalized Versions of the Melitz, Krugman and Armington Models with Detailed Derivations," Journal of Global Economic Analysis (2022).
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
