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Rebecca Freeman.

Rebecca Freeman

Associate

Expertise: empirical international trade, supply chains, and heterogeneous firms

Telephone:
020 3461 4444
Email:
rebecca.freeman@graduateinstitute.ch
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Biography

Dr Rebecca Freeman joined the CEP as an Associate in September 2018. She is an economist in the Bank of England International Directorate. Previously, Rebecca has held research positions at the OECD, World Bank, ILO and UN-ECLAC. She received a PhD in Economics from the Graduate Institute, Geneva in 2019, a MA in International Economics and International Relations from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) in 2014, and a BA in Economics from Smith College in 2009.

Current areas of research include:

  • Empirical international trade: economic integration; gravity models; duration and lifecycle analysis.
  • Global supply chains: trade openness and volatility; indicators; cumulative tariffs.
  • Heterogeneous firms: analysis of firm-level data on exports, imports, production and research and development.

Publications

Blog
Supply chain disruptions: Shocks, links, and hidden exposure

Supply chain disruptions are routinely blamed for things ranging from elevated inflation to shortages of medical equipment in the pandemic. But how should exposure to foreign supply chains be measured? Using a global inp... Read more...

Richard E. Baldwin, Rebecca Freeman and Angelos Theodorakopoulos

29 November 2023

Journal article
Deconstructing Deglobalization: The Future of Trade is in Intermediate Services

This article contests the idea that the world has entered a post-globalization era. It argues that rapid globalization has evolved rather than ended. Even though the global goods trade-to-GDP ratio reached its zenith 15 ... Read more...

Richard E. Baldwin, Rebecca Freeman and Angelos Theodorakopoulos

10 October 2023

Journal article
The impact of non-tariff barriers on trade and welfare

Deep trade agreements (DTAs) are widespread and have taken the world beyond tariff liberalization in goods trade. As the importance of global supply chains and the services sector has increased across the world, shallow ... Read more...

Swati Dhingra, Rebecca Freeman and Hanwei Huang

01 January 2023

External publications
The economics of Brexit: what have we learned?

This eBook, produced by VoxEU/CEPR and UK in a Changing Europe, brings together leading academic researchers on trade, immigration and political economy to assess what we have learned, 18 months on from its implementatio... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon, Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Luisa Opitz, Thomas Prayer, Thomas Sampson and Dilan Yang

24 June 2022

Chapter
The impact of Brexit on UK-EU trade

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Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson

23 June 2022

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Trade disruptions in the wake of Brexit

A dramatic fall in the value of UK imports from the European Union relative to the rest of the world occurred when the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement came into effect. What's more, according to research by R... Read more...

Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson

21 June 2022

CEP discussion papers
UK trade in the wake of Brexit

This paper studies the impact of Brexit on the UK's trade with the EU relative to its trade with the rest of the world. We find no evidence that uncertainty and anticipation effects led to a significant decline in relati... Read more...

Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson

26 April 2022

Blog
Brexit: the major trade disruption came after the UK-EU agreement took effect in 2021

The impact of Brexit on UK trade is a highly contested topic. Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer, and Thomas Sampson summarise the findings of new research on how Brexit has affected the UK's goods trade with ... Read more...

Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson

26 April 2022

Journal article
Risks and global supply chains: what we know and what we need to know

Recent supply disruptions catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains (GSCs) to the top of policy agendas and created the impression that shortages would have been less severe if GSCs had been either shorter and... Read more...

Richard E. Baldwin and Rebecca Freeman

08 April 2022

Blog
Global supply chain risk and resilience

Supply disruptions caused by systemic shocks such as Brexit, Covid, and Russia-Ukraine tensions have catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains to the top of policy agendas. In some sectors, however, there is a... Read more...

Richard E. Baldwin and Rebecca Freeman

06 April 2022

Blog
Quantifying the full impact of country-specific policies on trade flows

Rebecca Freeman, Mario Larch, Angelos Theodorakopoulos and Yoto Yotov propose a solution to issues measuring country-specific impact using structural gravity models - a popular way to analyse the impact of trade policie... Read more...

Rebecca Freeman, Mario Larch, Angelos Theodorakopoulos and Yoto Yotov

12 January 2022

Journal article
Gravity model estimates of the spatial determinants of trade, migration, and trade-and-migration policies

Using a gravity model, we explore the effects of distance and borders on trade, migration, and trade-and-migration policies and document three key differences between trade and migration patterns in otherwise equivalent ... Read more...

Rebecca Freeman and John Lewis

01 July 2021

Blog
The differing effects of globalisation on trade versus migration

Better communications, enhanced transport links, integration agreements between governments, and other factors have all helped increase global economic interconnectedness over the past few decades. This column compares a... Read more...

Rebecca Freeman and John Lewis

02 June 2021

Blog
The trade and welfare benefits of deep trade agreements

Deep trade agreements are widespread and have taken the world beyond tariff liberalisation in goods trade. As the importance of global supply chains and the services sector increased across the world, shallow tariff redu... Read more...

Swati Dhingra, Rebecca Freeman and Hanwei Huang

21 January 2021

CEP discussion papers
The impact of non-tariff barriers on trade and welfare

Deep trade agreements are widespread and have taken the world beyond tariff liberalization in goods trade. As the importance of global supply chains and the services sector increased across the world, shallow tariff redu... Read more...

Swati Dhingra, Rebecca Freeman and Hanwei Huang

12 January 2021

Journal article
Are all trade agreements equal? The role of distance in shaping the effect of economic integration agreements on trade flows

How does geographic distance affect the impact of trade agreements on bilateral exports, and through what channels? This paper examines this questions in a gravity model context for different types of goods for 185 count... Read more...

Rebecca Freeman and Samuel Pienknagura

01 May 2019

CEP discussion papers
Beyond tariff reductions: what extra boost from trade agreement provisions?

There is a growing recognition that for developed economies, like the UK, tariff-free market access is just one of a number of measures that ease cross-border trade flows. Modern trade agreements go beyond tariff reducti... Read more...

Swati Dhingra, Rebecca Freeman and Eleonora Mavroeidi

13 March 2018

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