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Richard A. Brecher is a Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of Economics, Carleton University, affiliated with the Faculty of Public and Global Affairs. He holds degrees from McGill University (B.A.) and Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D.). His expertise focuses on international trade theory, economic growth, and unemployment dynamics with special emphasis on income distribution, foreign investment, labour migration, and bilateral transfers.
Key research contributions include analyzing unemployment effects of international trade with low-wage economies, dynamic models linking shirking behavior to unemployment and fiscal policy, and foundational work on bilateral transfers in multilateral systems. His work frequently addresses paradoxes in trade theory and policy implications of economic growth models.
Publications span leading journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics, with reprints in major academic compilations. Though no awards are explicitly listed, his extensive citation in reprinted volumes underscores scholarly impact.
He advises no listed graduate students but collaborates extensively with co-authors like Jagdish Bhagwati and Zhihao Yu on critical trade theory issues. Office location is B-852 Loeb Building, Carleton University.
