Samuel S. Kortum
/Professor of Economics
Yale University
Areas of Expertise:
- International economics
- Industrial organization
- Mathematical economics
Kortum is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and PhD in Economics from Yale.
Kortum was formerly on the faculty of Boston University and the University of Minnesota, a Staff Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, and a National Fellow at the NBER. In 2004, he and Jonathan Eaton received the Frisch Medal for their paper "Technology, Geography, and Trade." He is currently an editor of the Journal of Political Economy. In addition to international economics, Kortum has written on economic growth, innovation, technology diffusion, and firm dynamics. His research has appeared in top academic journals and has been supported by a series of grants from the National Science Foundation.
