Ranking of Internation Trade Programs?

[dhatura]

What happened to studies of International Trade? Is there a ranking of programs with that field of specialiation? Is it that this is a dying field?

[applicant12]

Rankings: Trade & Development (econ phd.net ranking)

 

and I hope it's not dying :(

[Golden Rule]

Here's US News for what it's worth: International Economics - Economics - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report though I think these reputations are way out of date

 

Why on earth would you say this is a dying field?

[yichen426]

You could check IDEAS

Field Rankings at IDEAS: International Trade (This list is updated on March 2010)

 

If you ignore IMF,world bank, etc.., if you only look at US programs, and if you combine biz-econ and econ department together, you could get

1 MIT

2 Chicago

3 Harvard

4 UC-Davis

5 NYU

6 U Colonado

7 Princeton

8 Stanford

9 PSU

10 USC

11 MSU

12 Columbia

13 Michigan

14 Dartmouth

15 Penn

16 Norte Dame

17 Boston College

18 Boston U

19 UC-SC

20 Berkeley

21 G'town

22 Maryland

23 Brown

24 Yale

25 Virginia

 

You don't need to agree w/ the ranking.

[Golden Rule]

Here's another ranking --- the count of researchers by institution in the NBER ITI program

 

Harvard 9

Columbia 7

Penn State 5

UC-Davis 5

Dartmouth 4

Princeton 4

Berkeley 4

UCSD 4

Colorado 3

Stanford 3

UChicago 3

Yale 3

Purdue 2

Virginia 2

Wisconsin 2

 

Obviously this isn't a perfect ranking, but it's a method of something concrete, it gives you an idea of which programs have some depth in researchers in international trade.

 

It gives proper due to schools like Penn State (who's hired a lot in the area recently), Stanford (ditto) and UCSD and UC-Davis, that didn't fare as well in the other rankings linked here.

 

I did count researchers regardless of affiliation, but I think that's fair. For instance, at my school, the two business school professors on the list regularly attend trade seminars and are involved in advising students.

[kimbanator]

It's not a dying field. In the past two years, MIT has hired Donaldson and Costinot, both trade economists.

[Golden Rule]

Also, if you prefer placement rankings, here's the list of the PhD institutions of the NBER ITI associates added in the last 5 years (I just picked an arbitrary year).

 

Berkeley

Berkeley

Columbia

Harvard

Harvard

Johns Hopkins

Michigan

Minnesota

Minnesota

MIT

Princeton

Princeton

Stanford

Toronto

Yale

[Golden Rule]

One more ranking -- number of JIE publications from 2004-2008

Of course you want faculty who publish trade papers in the top five, not field journals, but this gives you some idea of where profs are with interests in international.

 

1. HARVARD UNIVERSITY 13

2. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 11

UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM 11

4. LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE 10

5. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 8

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 8

7. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 7

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 7

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ 7

10. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 6

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 6

UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH 6

13. BOSTON COLLEGE 5

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 5

UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN 5

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO 5

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 5

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 5

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 5

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 5

YALE UNIVERSITY 5

22. SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY 4

STANFORD UNIVERSITY 4

STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 4

TUFTS UNIVERSITY 4

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS 4

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 4

UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA 4

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 4

UNIVERSITY OF KIEL 4

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 4

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 4

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN 4

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 4

[dreck]

Don't think anyone's posted this yet. There's some field rankings in SEJ from a couple years back. Go to page 989, for International economics, which is as close as it gets to trade.

http://www.econ.uconn.edu/Ranking.pdf

[discreetcharm]

ah, rankings

[Golden Rule]

JEL category F: International economics

Princeton U 1 13 0.17 0.12

Harvard U 2 19 0.16 0.09

Columbia U 3 16 0.12 0.22

UC Berkeley 4 16 0.39 0.08

U Wisconsin, Madison 5 9 0.24 0.16

UCLA 6 15 0.22 0.10

U Michigan 7 20 0.15 0.09

UC Davis 8 9 0.46 0.19

Stanford U 9 14 0.35 0.08

U Maryland, College Park 10 7 0.38 0.15

UC Santa Cruz 11 12 0.21 0.24

U Colorado, Boulder 12 13 0.27 0.23

UC San Diego 13 9 0.31 0.08

New York U 14 13 0.26 0.06

U Pennsylvania 15 7 0.40 0.10

U Virginia 16 6 0.35 0.11

U Washington 17 9 0.35 0.18

Georgetown U 18 13 0.13 0.16

Duke U 19 11 0.18 0.11

Vanderbilt U 20 12 0.24 0.12

That's a pretty good list, just adjust for the major senior faculty movements since:

Penn St +Eaton (from NYU) +Yeaple (Penn, Colorado)

Stanford +Bagwell (from Columbia), Staiger (from Wisconsin)

Harvard +Melitz (from Princeton)

[untitled]

That's a pretty good list, just adjust for the major senior faculty movements since:

Penn St +Eaton (from NYU) +Yeaple (Penn, Colorado)

Stanford +Bagwell (from Columbia), Staiger (from Wisconsin)

Harvard +Melitz (from Princeton)

 

Just a note, the ranking Golden Rule has posted is from the Grijalva and Nowell (2008) paper which is the one that dreck linked to above (or here), a version hosted at uconn.

[dreck]

Which I in turn knew about from when I asked a similar question here :)

http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/118300-where-can-i-find-field-rankings.html

[Golden Rule]

Just a note, the ranking Golden Rule has posted is from the Grijalva and Nowell (2008) paper which is the one that dreck linked to above (or here), a version hosted at uconn.

Ok, thanks for making that crystal clear to people. I was in a hurry.