Departmental faculty active in international trade and policy include Ann Harrison, Larry Karp, Brian Wright, and Alix Peterson Zwane. In addition to teaching and advising students and pursuing academic research, members of the faculty have provided counsel on policy issues to international, national, and state agencies.

The ARE Department has recently expanded its teaching and research in international trade and Ph.D. students can now take trade as their major field. The addition of the option to take trade as the major field of specialization is a complement to the growth in both faculty and graduate research in the area of international economics. We encourage applications from qualified candidates interested in doctoral study in this field.

The ARE Department is an excellent place to undertake graduate research on economic globalization (including trade, foreign investment, migration, and intellectual property regimes). Students can take advantage of both the breadth and depth of faculty that ARE and other Berkeley departments have to offer. By drawing on the expertise of ARE's excellent theoretical and empirical trade economists, as well as its applied econometrician's, graduate students can produce top quality work on this complex and important topic. Students interested in the linkages between economic globalization and policy, development, or environmental issues can draw on ARE's expertise in these areas, and may wish to make one of these their minor field. ARE faculty also work on questions related to labor and trade or foreign investment, and bring insights from behavioral economics to bear on questions of international policy. Students interested in this sort of work may wish to take labor or psychology in economics as a minor field through the Economics department.

Perhaps the best measure of the quality of ARE's graduate program is what our students do upon degree completion. Recent graduates have taken jobs at top-notch educational institutions that include Cornell, Columbia, Tufts, the University of Michigan, the London School of Economics, and the University of California. Graduates have also found work in non-government organizations, including the World Bank and Resources for the Future; government agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the General Accounting Office, and the Mexican Environmental Ministry; and in private industry.

For more information on our program, please check back here as we expand our website, or contact Gail Vawter () at (510) 642-3347. Information on applying to the program is available on the Graduate Division website.