Regular biography
Pablo Fajgelbaum is a Dubchansky Chair in Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Department of Economics. He is a trade economist whose recent research focuses on the distributional impact of international trade and the effects of regional policies on the spatial distribution of economic activity. His work has been published in leading economics journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, and Econometrica. Fajgelbaum holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and is affiliated with the UCLA Economics Department.
Scholar-generated biography
Pablo Fajgelbaum is a Professor of Economics at UCLA, specializing in international trade and economic policy. His research explores the impacts of trade policies, including protectionism, tariffs, and trade wars, on income distribution, product quality, and global reallocations. He investigates how trade barriers and market power influence economic outcomes, with a focus on structural transformation, regional specialization, and spatial misallocation. Fajgelbaum also examines the role of transport infrastructure, lockdown policies, and labor market frictions in shaping trade dynamics. His work often integrates theoretical models with empirical evidence from historical and contemporary data.