Robert Johnson

Robert C. Johnson is an international economist, working at the intersection of international trade and macroeconomics. His research explores how the rise of global value chains shapes trade and macroeconomic interdependence between countries. Robert is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Associate Editor at the Journal of International Economics and Journal of Development Economics. He has previously served as a consultant and visiting scholar at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, as well as as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. Prior to arriving at Notre Dame in 2018, Robert was an Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Robert received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, a MSc. in Global Market Economics from the London School of Economics, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University.