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Loren Brandt
Professor
Loren Brandt
Employment in the Department
1998 –  
Professor
1990 – 1998
Associate Professor
1987 – 1990
Assistant Professor
Education
1983
Ph.D. Illinois
1979
M.A. Illinois
1977
B.S. Wesleyan
Research Fields
Economic development, Economic history, Chinese economy
Selected Publications
Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China

Review of Economic Studies, 2025
Loren Brandt, Gueorgui Kambourov, Kjetil Storesletten

Land Security and Mobility Frictions

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024
Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Chaoran Chen, Diego Restuccia, Xiaoyun Wei

Misallocation, Selection and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China

Econometrica, 2022
Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Jessica Leight, Diego Restuccia

WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms

American Economic Review, 2017
Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Luhang Wang, Yifan Zhang

From Divergence to Convergence: Re-evaluating the History Behind China's Economic Boom

Journal of Economic Literature, 2014
Loren Brandt, Debin Ma , Thomas Rawski

Redistribution in a Decentralized Economy: Growth and Inflation in Reform China

Journal of Political Economy, 2000
Loren Brandt and Xiaodong Zhu

Honors and Awards
2025
Visiting Professor, Stanford
2024
Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego
2017
Visiting Professor, University of Oslo
2008
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
1986
National Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University