Written By Myrto Kalouptsidi

Myrto Kalouptsidi is the Augustus Cobb Professor of International Economics at Harvard. Her main research interests are in Industrial Organization and International Trade, with a special interest in transportation markets. Myrto’s work has focused on the impact of industrial policy on the global allocation of production and welfare, as well as on industry cycles and firm investment in volatile industries. She is currently working on global transport markets and infrastructure, studying how they affect world trade, whether they operate efficiently, and why they are so prone to disruptions. She is the recipient of the 2021 Bodossaki Young Scientist Prize in the Social Sciences, awarded to a Greek scientist up to age 40, as well as the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society. Her work has been awarded several NSF grants, including an NSF CAREER grant in 2019. She is currently a Foreign Editor on the Review of Economic Studies. Myrto is a Research Associate at the NBER and a Research Fellow at the CEPR. Myrto received her BA from the University of Athens and her PhD from Yale University. Prior to joining Harvard, she was on the faculty at Princeton University.