Bio
Anna Maria Mayda is Visiting Professor of Economics at SAIS Europe
Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
Anna Maria Mayda is a Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Economics Department and School of Foreign Service. She studied statistics and economics at University of Rome La Sapienza, where she received her degree
summa cum laude. Before graduate school, she worked at the World Bank in the Latin America and Caribbean Region Unit. She received a MA and PhD in Economics at Harvard University, where she was also a doctoral fellow at the Center for International Development. She was a visiting scholar in several institutions including the Trade Unit of the IMF Research Department, University of Milan, EIEF in Rome and CEPII in Paris. More recently she was Senior Economist and Senior Adviser in the Office of the Chief Economist at the U.S. State Department in the Obama Administration. She is a Research Affiliate at CEPR, IZA and CReAM.
Anna Maria Mayda’s research mainly focuses on issues of trade, immigration and political economy and has been published in journals such as the
Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of International Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied, the Journal of Development Economics and the European Economic Review. She has also been awarded two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants. In terms of topics, she has worked on: the determinants of individual attitudes towards trade and immigration across countries; the role played by interest groups in shaping U.S. trade and migration policy; multilateral trade negotiations and preferential trade agreements; the determinants of international migration flows; the H-1B visa and the Refugee Resettlement programs in the U.S.; the political and fiscal impacts of immigration to the United States. For a recent curriculum vitae including a full list of publications,
see personal website.
Courses
- International Economics I
This course provides an introduction to the study of international trade. The first part of the course will focus on theoretical frameworks designed to understand the drivers and implications of international trade and review empirical applications of these models. The second part of the course will cover distributional consequences of trade policy instruments, arguments for trade protection, and the organization of the world trade system. Principles of microeconomics is a prerequisite for this course; more advanced topics in microeconomics will be introduced throughout the course.
- Immigration: Drivers & Impacts
This course focuses on the economics of international migration. In the first part of the class we will analyze the impact of immigration on destination countries. We will consider several economic channels, which include the labor market, the welfare state (fiscal effects), price effects and the impacts of immigration on trade and FDI flows. We will also investigate the non-economic effects of immigration, from a cultural, crime and political point of view. In the second part of the class we will examine the determinants of international migration. Among them, we will single out migration policies of destination countries. We will develop a political-economy model of migration policy and investigate its components, in particular public opinion on migration and the role of interest groups. We will also investigate the impact of immigration on election outcomes.