Tibor Besedes

About

Tibor Besedes is the Mary S. and Richard B. Inman, Jr. Professor in the School of Economics at Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD and MA in economics from Rutgers University and his BSc in economics from Texas Christian University. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2007, he spent four years at Louisiana State University. His research in international trade focuses on the duration of trade and the effects of credit constraints, trade and environmental agreements, and antidumping. In behavioral economics, his research centers on understanding decision making in the presence of many options. He serves as the director of the Forum for Research in Empirical International Trade, is a co-editor of The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, and an associate editor of the Southern Economic Journal.

Research topics

• Economics
• Political Science
• International economics
• Macroeconomics
• Finance
• Market economy
• International trade
• Business
• Monetary economics
• Labour economics

Selected publications

• THE HAZARDOUS EFFECTS OF ANTIDUMPING

  Economic Inquiry · 2016-04-07 · 78 citations

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  We investigate the extent to which antidumping actions eliminate trade altogether. Using quarterly 10‐digit HS ‐level export data for products involved in U.S. antidumping cases we find that antidumping actions increase the hazard rate by more than 50%. We find strong evidence of investigation effects with the impact during the initiation and preliminary duty phases considerably larger than once final duties are imposed. There are also important differences with respect to the size of duties wit…

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• Cheap talk? Financial sanctions and non-financial firms

  European Economic Review · 2021 · 64 citations

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• Phase out tariffs, phase in trade?

  Journal of International Economics · 2020-09-08 · 34 citations

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• Trade liberalization and gender gaps in local labor market outcomes: Dimensions of adjustment in the United States

  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · 2021 · 33 citations

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• Distorted Trade Barriers: A Dissection of Trade Costs in a “Distorted Gravity” Model

  Review of International Economics · 2016-09-20 · 13 citations

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  Abstract It is common in the trade literature to use iceberg transport costs to represent both tariffs and shipping costs alike. However, in models with monopolistic competition these are not identical trade restrictions. This difference is driven by how the two costs affect the extensive margin. We illustrate these differences in a gravity model. We show theoretically that trade flows are more elastic with respect to tariffs than transport costs and find a linear relationship between the elasti…

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Frequent coauthors

• Sudipta Sarangi

  37 shared

• Cary Deck

  University of Alabama

  35 shared

• Mikhael Shor

  University of Connecticut

  32 shared

• Volker Nitsch

  Technical University of Darmstadt

  21 shared

• Thomas J. Prusa

  Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

  18 shared

• Stefan Goldbach

  Deutsche Bundesbank

  10 shared

• Sarah Marx Quintanar

  Midwestern State University

  4 shared

• Antu Panini Murshid

  3 shared

Labs

• CLEAR Economics LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Economics

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  2003

• M.A., Economics

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  2000

• B.Sc., Economics

  Texas Christian University

  1998

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