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Hâle Utar
Sidney Meyer Professor of International Economics
On leave Fall semester 2024.
Hâle Utar holds the Sidney Meyer Endowed Chair in International Economics and is an Associate Professor. She is also a Research Fellow at IZA and CESifo, and serves as an Associate Editor at The Review of International Economics. She completed her undergraduate degree at BoÄŸaziçi University, Istanbul, and obtained her PhD in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. She held professorships at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Bielefeld University, Germany, prior to joining the College. Her course offerings at 51²è¹Ýapp include international economics and a seminar course in international trade. Her fields of specialization are International Trade, Labor Economics, and Industrial Organization.
Her research focuses on the impacts of globalization and how the macroeconomic environment, developments in international trade, and technology affect the organization of firms, industries, and labor markets. Recent decades' increased globalization and international trade have led to significant and visible shifts in the competitive environment faced by businesses and, consequently, in how the production of goods is organized across countries and markets. The implications of these shifts on local economies and individual lives have been a highly visible topic of debate, both in the broader public and in academia.
In a series of recent publications, Dr. Utar provides a detailed exploration of how globalization provokes adaptation in advanced country manufacturing firms, oftentimes costly transition for workers to other sectors and occupations, and indeed societal transformations in the form of polarization and changes in family patterns. Dr. Utar's current research agenda centers on adjustments of global value chains in the new era of rising protectionism and automation.
Selected Publications
, 2024, the World Bank Economic Review. (Also available as IZA DP # 15160, CESIfo WP # 7345.) doi/10.1093/wber/lhae037
, with W. Keller, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 145, 2023
, with W. Keller, Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 89, Issue 6, 2022
, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 100, No. 4, 2018
, Globalization: Strategies and Effects, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2017
, with E. Bond and J. Tybout, International Economic Review, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2015
, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 6. No. 4, 2014
, with L. Torres Ruiz, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 105, 2013
Recent Working Papers:
, with A. Cebreros and L. Torres, CESIfo WP # 10638, 2023 (R&R at the Review of Economics and Statistics).
Technology Hubs or Backwater? Lessons on Structural Change from Germany’s Coal Regions, with Janssen, Keller, and Vallizadeh, 2021.
Publications on Policy Portals:
Utar, Hale, Alfonso Cebreros, and Luis Torres. Shifting sands in cross-border supply chains: How Mexico emerged as a key player in the US-China trade war, , 9 December 2023.
Utar, Hale, Alfonso Cebreros, and Luis Torres. How Mexico emerged as a key player in the US-China trade war, , April 26, 2024.
Utar, Hale. Firms and labour markets in times of violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War, , March 28, 2021.
Utar, Hale, and Wolfgang Keller. Biological Clocks, Import Competition, and the Gender Gap in Earnings, , 5 March 2020
Keller, Wolfgang, and Hale Utar. A Biological Explanation for the Gender Gap in Earnings: Import Competition Increases Female Fertility, , 15 April, 2020
Utar, Hale. The challenges to manufacturing workers in the wake of globalisation, the , 7 Dec 2018
Utar, Hale. You are needed but not your skills: Challenges to manufacturing workers in the wake of globalisation, , 6 Dec 2018
Utar, Hale, and Wolfgang Keller. Globalization and Polarization in the wake of Brexit, , 5 July 2016