Liberal Arts and Sciences
Gunnar Heins Research Group
Led by Gunnar Heins · Economics
What we study
Dr. Heins studies international trade and industrial organization with computational economic models, such as markups, production relocation and how trade shocks affect local labor markets and voting.
What working here is like
- Computational
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding required
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Trade Shocks and Attentive Voting: Evidence from U.S. Local Labor Markets
2026 · Journal of Labor Research
- The role of vertical market structure on subsidy incidence: The case of agricultural markets
2025 · Economics Letters
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- Markups, Production Relocation, and the Gains from Trade
2025 · Journal of the European Economic Association
Tests how markup differences impact trade gains using a multisector, multicountry model and data on 36,000 sector-country pairs.
- Effort, talent, and inequality in a small open economy
2024 · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
- Endogenous Vertical Differentiation, Variety, and the Unequal Gains from Trade
2021 · The Review of Economics and Statistics
Shows trade benefits are unequal, with wealthier and smaller economies gaining more, and overestimates inequality if quality choices are ignored.
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How to reach out
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