NBER profile: Ann E. Harrison.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief article

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Ann E. Harrison is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs in International Trade and Investment and Environmental and Energy Economics. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1991. Since 2001, Harrison has been a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She previously taught at the University of Paris, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and Columbia Business School.

Harrison spent the last two years at the World Bank, where she was the Director of Development Policy. Prior to that, she was the Bank's manager for trade research. On January 1, 2012 she will be joining the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania as Professor of Management.

Harrison's research is in the area of international trade, foreign investment, and economic development. She has analyzed the impact of globalization on domestic labor markets, the linkages...