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Teresa Fort is an Associate Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, focusing on international trade, industrial organization, and political economy. She teaches core microeconomics and seminars on firm globalization, while maintaining affiliations as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her work bridges economic theory with empirical analysis using U.S. Census Bureau data.
- PhD, University of Maryland (2012)
- MA, University of Maryland (2008)
- BA, University of Virginia (2000)
Her research explores global production fragmentation, technology's impact on offshoring, and globalization's heterogeneous effects. Key findings include: technology's disproportionate role in domestic production reorganization, the rise of factoryless goods producers redefining manufacturing statistics, and evidence on how trade policies create interdependent sourcing dynamics.
Recent publications in Review of Economic Studies and Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics examine tariff escalation welfare effects and multinational firm trade patterns. Her work has been featured in major media outlets including Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Marketplace.
- NBER Faculty Research Fellow
- CEPR Research Affiliate
- Coauthor of influential studies on global value chains
She actively participates in academic conferences, recently discussing topics like multinational firm strategies and labor mobility during recessions. Her empirical methods often involve novel data infrastructure projects, including redesigning the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database and County Business Patterns imputation techniques.
