Meredith Crowley — Research on International Trade
Meredith Crowley

Meredith A. Crowley

Professor of Economics · Deputy Chair, Faculty of Economics
University of Cambridge & Fellow, St John's College
Research Coordinator, Janeway Institute
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Public lecture

Trade wars and the future of globalisation — Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 20 May 2025

Recent work

  • Forthcoming
    Markets and Markups: Evidence on the Rising Market Power of Exporters from China
    With Corsetti, Han, and Song. Revised April 2026. Forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics.
    Open Access PDF
  • New working paper
    Adapting to Brexit: The Response of Corporate Structures to Geopolitical Uncertainty
    With Domenech Palacios, Faraglia, Giannitsarou, and Havemeister. March 2026. CEPR Discussion Paper 21312.
    Open Access PDF
  • New project
    Trade Wars and the Reallocation of Market Power in Global Export Markets
    With Cheng, Corsetti, and Han.
    Slides Open Access PDF
  • Policy seminar
    From Globalisation to Fragmentation: Market Power and the Future of Trade
    Seminar to the Council and Ambassadors of the OECD, Paris, 25 March 2026.
    Slides (20 min)

Biography

Meredith A. Crowley is a Professor and Deputy Chair of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John's College, and Research Coordinator at the Janeway Institute at Cambridge. She is President of the International Economics and Finance Society, a co-investigator of the publicly-funded Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a member of the Scientific Advisory Councils of CEPII and the Kiel Institute.

Her research on international trade, multinational trade agreements, and trade policy has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, and the World Trade Review. She has over 100 media citations or appearances, including the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Economist, and The Guardian.

Prior to arriving at Cambridge in 2013, Crowley worked in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She has held visiting positions at Georgetown University, the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Nanjing University, and has presented at the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO.

Crowley received bachelor's degrees in Asian studies and chemistry from Bowdoin College, a master of public policy degree in international trade and finance from Harvard University, and master's and doctorate degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Contact

Email: meredith.crowley [at] econ.cam.ac.uk