J. Bradford Jensen

J. Bradford Jensen, senior fellow, has been affiliated with the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2003, serving as deputy director from 2003 to August 2007. He is also an associate professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining the Institute, he served as director of the Center for Economic Studies at the US Bureau of the Census and on the faculty of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Jensen pioneered the use of plant-level microdata to investigate the impact of trade on the US economy. His recent work examines the relationship between trade and firm performance and the impact of trade in services on the US economy. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics.

Jensen received his PhD in economics from Stanford University in 1993 and BA from Kalamazoo College.