Regular biography
Scott Orr is an Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business, within the Strategy & Business Economics Division. His research interests include International Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, and Economics of Crime. Orr has published in leading journals such as the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and RAND Journal of Economics. His work includes studies on topics such as import substitution in illicit markets and within-firm productivity dispersion. He teaches courses such as Strategic Management and Seminar in Applied International Economics.
Scholar-generated biography
Scott Orr is an Assistant Professor at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, specializing in Economics. His research focuses on international trade, industrial organization, and productivity analysis. Orr's work explores topics such as within-firm productivity dispersion, complementarity in markets, and the impact of trade on gender wage gaps. He has published extensively on estimating productivity using Chinese data, identifying scale and scope economies, and analyzing import substitution in illicit markets. His research combines empirical methods with theoretical insights to address key issues in trade and industrial organization.