Peter Schott

Peter K. Schott is the Juan Trippe Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and Special-Sworn-Status researcher at the US Census Bureau. His research focuses on how countries, firms and workers react to globalization. Recent papers examine the decline of US manufacturing employment, the rise of service employment among US manufacturing firms, misallocation of export licenses by the Chinese government during the global Multifiber Arrangement, and techniques for comparing export quality across countries. His research is discussed in a variety of academic and popular press outlets, including top economics journals and the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, the Economist and the Harvard Business Review. Before joining Yale’s faculty, he worked as a commercial banker for Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. in New York and Los Angeles. He received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, a Master’s Degree in political science from UCLA in 1995, and a Ph.D. in business economics from UCLA in 1999.