Trade Facilitation in Latin America

While visiting CES, Georg Schaur will focus on the impact of several trade-promotion policies in Latin America, as part of a joint research project with Christian Volpe from the Inter-American Development Bank and Jerónimo Carballo at the University of Colorado. Using highly detailed transaction level trade data, the researchers will examine how the introduction of a transit regime, single window clearance technologies and other trade facilitation measures affect trade in Latin America. The objective is to provide information related to the costs and benefits of these trade facilitation measures to inform policy.

Mr Schaur is also working on a project examining the effects of export promotion on Danish firms (together with Jakob Munch at the University of Copenhagen). In this project he merges highly detailed Danish firm level data with export promotion activities by the Danish trade Council. In addition to examining the effects on exports, he also asks whether export promotion and related export activities increase employment opportunities, wages and productivity. To measure the returns to export promotion, a cost/benefit analysis is performed.

Mr Schaur's fields of interest are International Trade, Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organisation and Education. Recent articles have been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Review of International Economics and the American Economic Review.

Georg Schaur is Associate Professor and Spiva Scholar at the Department of Economics of the University of Tennessee. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization as well as Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Education. His studies in Economics began at the University of Freiburg and were completed at Purdue University (MS and PhD). Memberships include the AEA Committee on Economic Education, CBER Faculty Fellow and CESifo Research Network Fellow.