Bradford Jensen

J. Bradford Jensen is professor of economics and international business at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a senior policy scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Jensen currently serves as the executive director of the Georgetown Census Research Data Center.

Jensen’s work focuses on the relationship between international trade and investment and firm performance. His recent work examines the impact of trade in services on the U.S. economy. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. His work has been published in scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, International Organization, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Harvard Business Review. Jensen’s research has been cited in popular press publications including the Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, and Business Week.

Prior to joining Georgetown in 2007, Jensen served as deputy director at the Peterson Institute. Jensen has also served as director of the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau, on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, and as a visiting professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Jensen received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and B.A. from Kalamazoo College.

Education

• Stanford University - Ph.D.
• Kalamazoo College - B.A.

Publications

Books (1)

J. Bradford Jensen. Global Trade in Services: Fear, Facts, and Offshoring. Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011.

Articles in Journals (5)

J.B. Jensen. "Trade in High-Tech Services." Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 8, 3-4 (2008): 181-197.

J.B. Jensen, A. Bernard. "Firm Structure, Multinationals, and Manufacturing Plant Deaths." Review of Economics and Statistics, 89, 2 (2007): 193-204.

J.B. Jensen, A. Bernard, S. Redding, P. Schott. "Firms in International Trade." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21, 3 (2007): 105-130.

J.B. Jensen, A. Bernard, P. Schott. "Survival of the Best Fit: Competition for Low Wage Countries and (Uneven) Growth of U.S. Manufacturing Plants." Journal of International Economics, 68, 1 (2006): 219-237.

J.B. Jensen, A. Bernard, P. Schott. "Trade Costs, Firms and Productivity." Journal of Mentary Economics, 53, 5 (2006): 917-937.

Articles in Conference/Workshop Proceedings (3) Bernard, Andrew B., J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, and Peter K. Schott. "Intra-Firm Trade and Product Contractibility." , American Economic Review, 2010.

Bernard, Andrew B., J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, and Peter K. Schott. "Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade." , American Economic Review, 2010.

Bernard, Andrew B., J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, and Peter K. Schott. "The Margins of U.S. Trade." , pp. 487-93. American Economic Review, 2009.

Edited Books or Special Edition Journals (1)

Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.