UNU-WIDER Paul Krugman

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA

While at Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT during the 1980s and 1990s, Paul Krugman contributed to UNU-WIDER’s research programme on ‘Money, Finance and Trade – Reform for World Development’.  Krugman was one of the key contributors to the WIDER Annual Reports on the World Economy dealing with ‘World Imbalances’ 1989, ‘Reform in Eastern Europe’ 1990,  and ‘East-West Migration: The Alternatives’ 1991. His particular studies dealt with the problems of trade policies, and trade aspects of the reform process in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as well as migration, capital flows, and restructuring of eastern Europe. Since UNU-WIDER’s start in 1985, as a contributor to the WIDER conference on Debt, Stablization and Development with a study on ‘New Trade Theories and Less Developed Countries’, Krugman has participated in several meetings organized by UNU-WIDER, most recently as a discussant at the project meeting on Spatial Inequality and Development in 2002 at the London School of Economics.

Nobel prize economics 2008