George Alessandria is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester and NBER Research Associate. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. Prior to joining Rochester, in 2014, he was a senior policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He has held academic positions at Ohio State, New York University, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University.
His research interests include Macroeconomics, International Finance, and International Trade. He is very interested in the aggregate effects of trade policy with an explicit consideration of dynamics. Some of his recent publications include Trade Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 years of U.S.-China Trade (w/ Khan, Khederlarian, Ruhl, & Steinberg), in the Journal of Political Economy, 2025, "Taking Stock of Trade Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from China's Pre-WTO Accession (with Khan & Khederlarian), Journal of International Economics, 2024, “The Aggregate Effects of Global and Local Supply Chain Disruptions: 2020–2022” (with Khan, Khederlarian, Mix & Ruhl), Journal of International Economics, 2023, “Trade adjustment dynamics and the welfare gains from trade” (with H. Choi and K.J. Ruhl), Journal of International Economics, 2021, and “The dynamics of the US trade balance and real exchange rate: The J curve and trade costs?” (with H. Choi), Journal of International Economics, 2021. He currently has a grant from the NSF with Kim Ruhl, "The Micro and Macro Effects of Supply-Chain Disruptions."
He is a co-edtor of the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Series on Public Policy. He has been on the editorial board of the International Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Monetary Economics.
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