Stephen Ross Yeaple

Associate Professor of Economics

Department of Economics

Pennsylvania State University

520 Kern Building
University Park, PA 16801

Telephone: (814)-808-6035

E-mail: sry3@psu.edu

Other Affiliations

Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics

Editorial Assistant, Canadian Journal of Economics

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, ITI Program

Unpaid Sworn Employee of the Bureau of Economic Analysis

Published Articles

“Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Technology Diffusion: A Firm-level Analysis of the Productivity Effects of Foreign Competition in the United States” (with Wolfgang Keller) forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009.

“Firm Heterogeneity and the Structure of U.S. Multinational Activity: An Empirical Analysis,” Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78(2): 206-215.

“International Knowledge Sourcing: Evidence from U.S. Firms Expanding Abroad” (with Wilbur Chung), Strategic Management Journal, 2008, 29(11): 1207-1224.

“An Assignment Theory of Foreign Direct Investment (with Volker Nocke),” Review of Economic Studies, 2008, 75(2): 529-557.

“Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions versus Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity” (with Volker Nocke), Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72(2), pages 336-365.

“International Productivity Differences, Infrastructure, and Comparative Advantage” (with Steve Golub), Review of International Economics, 2007, 15(2), pages 223-242.

“A Simple Model of Firm Heterogeneity, International Trade, and Wages,” Journal of International Economics, 2005, 65(1): 1-20.

“Exports versus FDI with Heterogeneous Firms” (with Elhanan Helpman and Marc Melitz), American Economic Review, 2004, 94(1): 300-316.

“The Complex Integration Strategies of Multinational Firms and Cross-Country Dependencies in the Structure of Foreign Direct Investment,” Journal of International Economics, 2003, 60(2): 293-314.

“The Role of Skill Endowments in the Structure of U.S. Outward Foreign Direct Investment,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85(3): 726-734.

“Firm Heterogeneity, Central Locations, and the Structure of Foreign Direct Investment,” chapter in Elhanan Helpman, Dalia Marin, Thierry Verdier (eds.), 2008, The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy, Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press.

“Offshoring, Foreign Direct Investment and the Structure of U.S. Trade,” Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4(2-3), 602-611.

“The Limits of Offshoring” (with Wolfgang Keller), Vox, March 2009.

“How do Lower Japanese Asset Prices affect Financial Markets around the Pacific” (with Robert McCauley) Federal Reserve Bank of New York Quarterly Review, 1994.

Working Papers

“Globalization and the Size Distribution of Multiproduct Firms,” (with Volker Nocke), NBER Working Paper 12322.

“Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy” (with Wolfgang Keller), 2008, NBER working paper 14626.