Hâle [Haːleh] Utar
I am an Associate Professor and Sidney Meyer Chair in International Economics at Grinnell College.
Associate Editor @ the Review of International Economics,
Research Fellow @ IZA, and CESIfo
Social Media @HaleUtar @haleutar.bsky.social
For a complete CV click here.
RESEARCH
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War, 2024, The World Bank Economic Review
Read on VoxEU: Firms and labour markets in times of violence, VOXEU Column, 28 March 2021.
WP versions: (IZA DP # 15160, CESifo Working Paper No. 7345)
International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level, with W. Keller, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 145, 2023, 103810 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2023.103810 Online Appendix
Read on VoxEU: Globalization and Polarization in the Wake of Brexit, VOXEU Column, 05 July 2016.
Globalization, Gender, and the Family, with W. Keller, Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 89, Issue 6, November 2022, pp. 3381–3409.
doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdac012 Online Appendix
Featured in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, FAZ
Read on VoxEU: Biological clocks, import competition, and the gender gap in earnings, VOXEU Column, 05 March 2020.
Also featured on VoxChina: Biological Explanation for the Gender Gap in Earnings, VoxChina Column, 15 April 2020.
Workers beneath the Floodgates: Impact of Low-Wage Import Competition and Workers' Adjustment, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 100, No. 4, October 2018, pp. 631-647.
Read on VoxEU: You are needed but not your skills: Challenges to Manufacturing Workers in the wake of Globalization, VOXEU Column, Dec 06, 2018
Featured at the World Economic Forum link
Characteristics of International Trade Intermediaries and Their Location in the Supply Chain, in Globalization: Strategies and Effects, Editors: B. J. Christensen, & C. Kowalczyk, 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Credit Rationing, Risk Aversion and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries, with E. Bond and J. Tybout, International Economic Review, August 2015, pp. 695-722.
When the Floodgates Open: Northern Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2014, Vol. 6, No. 4. pp. 226-250.
International Competition and Industrial Evolution: Evidence from the Impact of Chinese Competition on Mexican Maquiladoras, with L. B. Torres Ruiz, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 105, November 2013, pp. 267-287.
RECENT WORKING PAPERS
The US-China Trade War and Relocation of Global Value Chains to Mexico, with A. Cebreros Zurita and L. Torres Ruiz, CESIfo WP # 10638, 2023, R&R at Review of Economics and Statistics.
Shifting sands in cross-border supply chains: How Mexico emerged as a key player in the US-China trade war, VoxEU Column, 9 December, 2023
Also featured on VoxDev : How Mexico emerged as a key player in the US-China trade war, VoxDev, 26 April, 2024
Technology Hubs or Backwater? Lessons on Structural Change from Germany’s Coal Regions, with Janssen, Keller, and Vallizadeh, 2021.
HONORS, GRANTS, VISITS, and SCHOLARSHIPS
Visiting Scholar, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia (INEGI), Mexico City, March 2024
Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College, April/May 2023
Visiting Scholar, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia (INEGI) and Banco de Mexico, Mexico City, February 2023
Ranked by Handelsblatt (Forschungmonitoring 2017) as among the top 100 economists in the DACH countries
Invited Research Visit, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London, March 2019
Invited Research Visit, the Center for Economic Studies (CES), Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, April 2016
Visiting Scholar, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia (INEGI), Aguascalientes, Nov 2010
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Labor Markets Dynamics and Growth Center, University of Aarhus, Denmark, Fall 2009
Colorado European Union Center of Excellence, Faculty Research Grant, Spring 2009
National Science Foundation Research Grant, “Openness, Industrial Evolution and Job Flows”, (SES 061788 subcontracted from Pennsylvania State University as PI under 3383-UC-NSF-7888).
Full Scholarship, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Economics, 2001-2006
Haci Omer Sabanci Scholarship, 1993-1999, awarded for outstanding performance in the National Student Placement Examination
INVITED SEMINAR TALKS
RECENTLY INVITED SEMINAR TALKS
Inter-American Development Bank, D.C. , 2024
Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, 2024
OECD, Paris, 2024
Sabanci University, 2024
The United States International Trade Commission (USITC), 2023
Iowa State University, 2023
Colby College, 2023
Dartmouth College, 2023
The United States International Trade Commission (USITC), 2022
Inter-American Development Bank, D.C. , 2021
Syracuse University, NY, 2021
University of Cardiff, UK, 2021
Iowa State University, Ames, 2021
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, 2020
CReAM, University College London, 2019
University of Trento, Italy, 2019
IZA (Institute of Labor Economics), Bonn, 2019
University of Cologne, Germany, 2019
University of New South Whales (UNSW), Sydney, 2018
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE), Shanghai, 2018
Johns Hopkins SAIS, Washington D.C. 2018
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2018
World Bank, Washington D.C. 2018
Maastricht University, 2018
GIGA-German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, 2018
University of Gottingen, 2018
Norwegian School of Economics, 2017
Copenhagen Business School, 2017
Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, 2017
University of Munich, 2017
INVITED SEMINAR TALKS EARLIER THAN 2017
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Munich (x2), University of Nottingham; University of Groningen; Johannes Kepler University of Linz; Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) (x2); Bielefeld University, Germany; Bogazici University, Istanbul; Central European University, Budapest; Colorado State University, Fort Collins; Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Koc University, Istanbul; Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland; University of Aarhus, Denmark; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Duisburg-Essen; University of Iowa; University of Texas, Austin; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Sabanci University, Istanbul.
CONFERENCE and WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
PRESENTATIONS (since 2015)
2024 :
Owens Conference "Shifting Patterns of Globalization: Trade, Migration, and North American Integration", Dallas, TX
CESIfo Global Economy Conference, Munich, Germany
ABFER (The Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research ) Conference, Singapore
GEN (Global Economic Networks) Workshop, Tübingen, Germany
Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP) Annual Academic Conference, Nottingham, UK
Danish International Economic Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark
GGDC Conference, Groningen, Netherlands
Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) Conference, Pennsylvania State University
2023 :
Empirical Investigation in International Trade (EIIT), Syracuse University
TIGN (Trade, Integration, and Growth Network) Conference, Buenos Aires
IZA workshop on “Labor Markets and Innovation during Times of War and Reconstruction"
SEA Meeting, New Orleans
Advancing sustainability of critical supply chains in developing countries, ifW Kiel
The European Trade Study Group, University of Surrey, UK
The Penn State Alumni Conference, State College, PA
Koç University Winter Workshop, Istanbul
2022 :
The Society of Labor Economics (SOLE) Conference, Minneapolis
Warwick University, Political Violence, and Labor Market Outcomes Workshop
2021 :
CAED Conference, University of Coimbra, Portugal
The Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, LACEA-LAMES
North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) Meeting, London School of Economics
Trade, Technology, and Demographics, 6th international conference of the DFG Priority Program 1764
2020 :
NBER SI Gender in the Economy
The Econometric Society and Bocconi University Virtual World Congress
EALE SOLE AASLE World Conference
CESIfo Area Conference on Global Economy
AEL Conference of the Research Group on Development Economics
Online Economics of Crime Seminar
2019 :
European Research Workshop in International Trade (ERWIT), London School of Economics and CEPR
6th Institutions Trade & Economic Development (InsTED) Workshop, Nottingham, UK
Empirical Investigations in International Trade (EIIT), University of Colorado, Boulder
10th Trade, Integration and Growth Network (TIGN) Conference, Bogotá, Colombia
CAED Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The International Conference of the DFG Labor Network : "Technology, Demographics and the Labor Market", Cologne
CESIfo Area Conference on Applied Microeconomics, Munich
North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (ASSA), session on Crime and Development, Atlanta
the 13 Winter Workshop in Economics at Koç University, Istanbul
2018 :
Applied Economics Workshop, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Koc University, Winter Workshop, Istanbul
Polarisation(s) in Labour Markets, DARES-ILO Conference, Paris
CESIfo Area Conference on Global Economy, Munich
CESIfo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, Munich
Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference (LETC), Izola, Slovenia
EEA-ESEM, Cologne
European Meeting of the Urban Economic Association, Dusseldorf
CBRT Policy Evaluation Workshop, Antalya
American Economic Association meetings (ASSA), session on Topics on International Trade, Philadelphia
2017 :
CESIfo Area Conference: Employment and Social Protection, Munich
Trade, Integration and Growth Network (TIGN), Annual Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay
3rd International Conference of DFG Labor Network (SPP1764): The Role of the Firm in the Labor Market, Berlin
Sardinian Empirical Trade Conference, Cagliari
The European Trade Study Group (ETSG) Annual Conference, Florence
Aarhus-IfW Kiel Workshop, Sandbjerg, Denmark
2016:
Koc University, Winter Workshop, Istanbul
Aarhus-Kiel Workshop, Sanbjerg, Denmark
TASKS IV: Labor Market Adjustments to Digitization and the Future of Work, Mannheim
DEGIT, XXI, Nottingham
EEA-ESEM, Geneva
2nd International Conference of DFG Labor Network (SPP 1764): Occupations, Skill, and the Labor Market, Mannheim
American Economic Association Session on Trade and Firm Dynamics, San Francisco
2015:
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute (NBER-SI), CRIW Workshop, Cambridge, MA
Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data Conference (CAED), Istanbul
The Econometric Society World Congress, Montréal
Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference (LETC), Izola, Slovenia
Barcelona GSE Summer Forum: Trade, Growth and Income Distribution, Barcelona
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Boston
1st International Conference of DFG 1764 Labor Network (SPP 1764): The German Labor Market in a Globalized World: Trade, Technology, and Demographics, Nuremberg
PRESENTATIONS before 2015
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute (NBER-SI), Macroeconomics and Productivity, Cambridge, MA (x2)
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute (NBER-SI), International Trade and Investment, Cambridge, MA
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute (NBER-SI), Macroeconomics, Trade and Productivity Workshop, Cambridge, MA
North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (ASSA), Philadelphia
North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (ASSA), San Diego
North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (ASSA), Chicago
Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meetings (SED), Vancouver
Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meetings (SED), Istanbul
Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data Conference (CAED), Nuremberg
Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data Conference (CAED), London
Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data Conference (CAED), Chicago
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Washington D.C.
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Boston
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Vancouver
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Savannah
The European Trade Study Group (ETSG) Annual Conference, Munich
Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Invited Session on Firms’ Entry, New Orleans
Cornell-University of Michigan Conference on Labor Markets in Developing and Transition Economies, Ann Arbor
Egon-Sohmen Symposium: The Economic Consequences of Globalization, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
The World Congress on National Accounts and Economic Performance Measures for Nations, Washington D.C.
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Workshop: Firm-Level Data Analysis in Transition and Developing Economies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Labor Market Dynamics and Growth Meeting (LMDG) at the Norwegian School of Management, Oslo
Labor Market Dynamics and Growth (LMDG): The Conference on Labor Market and International Trade, Sandbjerg, Denmark
American Economic Association Session on Globalization and Labor Market Institutions: Firing Costs and Discrimination, San Francisco
Koc University, Winter Workshop, Istanbul
Empirical Investigations in Trade and Investment Conference (EITI), Bangkok, Thailand
9th Danish International Economics Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark
Workshop on Applied International Trade and Trade Facilitation, Bilkent University, Ankara
PARTICIPATION in CONFERENCES where co-author presented
NBER ITI Winter Meeting 2015, Stanford
CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy 2015, Munich
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
COURSES TAUGHT
Graduate (PhD) Teaching
Empirical Industrial Organization (Bielefeld University 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Industrial Organization (University of Colorado 2009, 2011)
Seminar in International Trade (Bielefeld University 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018)
Undergraduate Teaching
Seminar in International Trade (Grinnell College 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
International Economics (Grinnell College 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024)
International Economics (Bielefeld University 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19)
Industrial Organization and Regulation (University of Colorado, 2007, 2010)
Multinational Firms in the Global Economy (2010, 2011)
Economics of the European Union and Its Enlargement Process (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Intermediate Microeconomics (Penn State University, 2004, 2005)
STUDENT ADVISING
Ph.D. THESIS SUPERVISION
Luis Bernardo Torres Ruiz, "Mexican maquiladoras: Evidence from plant-level panel data'', University of Colorado, 2011
first placement: Banco de Mexico, current: Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas
Victor Eduardo Zapata Garcia, "Essays on Labor Economics and International Trade", 2019.
MASTER THESIS SUPERVISION
Melana Kalpakidou, "The Impact of Financial Crisis on Firms' Growth and Productivity: Evidence from Greece", 2018.
Huyen Nguyen, "Examination of Occupation Wage Gap with respect to Globalization", 2019.
UNDERGRADUATE HONOR THESIS SUPERVISION
Steven Cryer, "The impact of labor market regulations on the size of informal economy", University of Colorado, 2007 (magna cum laude)
HONORS EXAMINER at SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, 2021
Francis Dillon
Matthew Salah
Tom Wang
Ph.D. THESIS SECOND ADVISOR
Robert Genthner, “Firm dynamics and regional development in Indonesia”, Göttingen University, 2022.
Lasha Chochua, "Essays in Political Economy of International Trade Policy", Bielefeld University, 2019.
Niklas Herzig, "Essays in International Trade", Bielefeld University, 2019.
Ph.D. THESIS COMMITTEE MEMBER
Toni Glaser, "Essays on Globalization and Economic Policy", Bielefeld University, 2015
first placement: the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs
Watcharapong Ratisukpimol, "A Theory and Some Empirics on Modern Maritime Piracy", University of Colorado, 2011
first placement: Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Tianle Zhang, "Three Essays on Innovation and Information Economics", University of Colorado, 2010
first placement: School of Accounting and Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong
Molly Lipscomb, "Three essays on environmental issues in developing countries", University of Colorado, 2009
first placement: Notre Dame University
Cong Khai Dinh, "Trade Effects of the WTO and Anti-dumping Policy in Developing Countries", University of Colorado, 2009
first placement: Fulbright Economics Teaching Program, University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Karuna Wiwattanakantang, "Three essays on fiscal competition, the value of commitment, and foreign direct investment determination", University of Colorado, 2008 (completed)
MASTER THESIS SECOND ADVISOR
Homa Haddad, "The Impact of Trade Sanctions on Iran'', 2018.
Alexander Ringbeck, "Bilateral investment treaties and investor-state dispute settlement'', 2019.
Julius Ferdinand Loermann, "Wage Growth by Means of Job Changes and Promotions: Empirical Evidence for Germany'', Bielefeld University, 2015.
Clara Mareike Pott, "Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Empirical Evidence for Germany'', Bielefeld University, 2015.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Associate Editor: Review of International Economics, 2021 - .
Refereeing for: American Economic Review (AER), Econometrica (ECMA), Review of Economic Studies (REStud), Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA), International Economic Review (IER), Review of Economics and Statistics (ReStat), Economic Journal (EJ), Journal of Development Economics (JDE), Journal of International Economics (JIE), Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE), European Economic Review (EER), Canadian Journal of Economics (CJE), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (JMCB), Demography, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO), Scandinavian Journal of Economics (SJE), World Bank Economic Review (WBER), Demography, Economic Inquiry (EI), Empirical Economics (EE), Southern Economic Journal (SEJ), Review of International Economics (ROIE), International Review of Economics and Finance, International Economics and Economic Policy, Review of World Economics (ROWE), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Asian Journal of Social Science, Economie et Statistique.
Reviewer for: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), The Leverhulme Trust
Chairing sessions at:
Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) Conference 2024; The European Trade Study Group (ETSG) Surrey 2023; The Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, LACEA-LAMES 2021; CESIfo Area Conference on Global Economy 2020; CESIfo Area Conference on Applied Microeconomics 2019; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference 2018; 2nd International Conference on DFG Labor Network (SPP 1764): Occupations, Skill, and the Labor Market 2016; International Industrial Organization Conference 2012; International Industrial Organization Conference 2011; International Industrial Organization Conference 2010
Discussant at:
Empirical Investigation in International Trade Conference (EIIT), Purdue University, 2024; Danish International Economics Workshop 2024; Women in International Economics 2023; Empirical Investigation in International Trade Conference (EIIT), Syracuse University, 2023; American Economic Association Annual Meetings 2023; Warwick University, Political Violence, and Labor Markets Workshop 2022; North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association 2021; Trade, Integration, and Growth Network (TIGN) Conference 2021; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference 2018; Sardinian Empirical Trade Conference 2017; Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference 2015; International Industrial Organization Conference 2015; Empirical Investigations in Trade and Investment Conference (EIIT) 2013; International Industrial Organization Conference 2012; International Industrial Organization Conference 2011; International Industrial Organization Conference 2010; American Economic Association Annual Meetings 2009; Empirical Investigation in International Trade Conference (EIIT) 2008; International Industrial Organization Conference 2007; Southern Economic Association Meetings 2007
Mentoring for Junior Economists
Women in International Economics Conference, 2023, Rochester
Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), the 2022 ASSA Annual Meeting
Women in International Economics Conference, 2022, Minneapolis
Women in International Economics Conference, 2021
Women in International Economics Conference, 2020
Graduate Student Training, European Doctorate in Economics Erasmus Mundus, Berlin 2018
Selection and Scientific Committees
Scientific Committee, Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) Conference, Pennsylvania State University, 2024
Selection Committee, ROWE Young Economist Award, 2015