Tom Hertel’s Influence and Its Lessons about Academic Inquiry

Russell Hillberry and David Hummels

Chapter 2 in Policy Analysis and Modeling of the Global Economy:A Festschrift Celebrating Thomas Hertel, 2021, pp 9-39 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Fields of academic inquiry differ in their preferred forms of output, in the ways in which knowledge is accumulated and stored, and so in the ways that academic influence is measured. We compare Tom Hertel’s research record to other international economists of his generation in order to illustrate the unique breadth and influence of his work and of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) broadly. We then provide an analytical framework that helps to explain the evolution of the field of international economics from a tool-use standpoint. This framework helps us to assess the academic productivity gains from creating the GTAP model and consortium. It also provides a possible answer to a significant puzzle: why is GTAP increasingly influential in the physical and biological sciences, but less so within the international economics community?

Keywords: Computable General Equilibrium Modeling; CGE Models; Trade Policy Modeling; GTAP; Global Trade Analysis Project; Trade Impact Assessments; Sustainability Impact Assessments; Trade and Employment; Trade and Climate; Globalization; Preferential Trade Agreements; Thomas Hertel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 F13 F18 Q54 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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