APPLIED ECONOMICS AND DATA SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
Sandro Steinbach
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
Research Affiliate, Yale University
Ph.D. Economics, ETH Zurich 2018
Research Group News
January 2022
KVPR, the NPR for Central California, interviews Dr. Steinbach on supply chain disruptions and California agriculture.
January 2022
Steinbach Research Group receives new award on preferential trade from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
January 2022
Dr. Steinbach publishes new research on supply chain disruptions. This work with C. Carter and X. Zhuang appeared as an ARE Update.
Research Highlights
Counterfactual Impact Evaluation of Trade Wars
How do trade wars affect the United States and its foreign trading partners? How can empirical evidence be integrated into decision-making processes?
Approach:
-> Machine learning techniques
-> Counterfactual construction methods
-> Impact evaluation models
Environmental Trade Standards and Global Waste Trade
How do environmental trade standards affect global waste trade? What are the implications of recent changes in trade standards of developing countries?
Approach:
-> Product-level analysis
-> Trade destruction and deflection
-> Counterfactual evaluation
Bilateral Investment Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment
How do investment treaties affect brownfield and greenfield foreign direct investment activities? What role do environmental standards play?
Approach:
-> Big data methods
-> Gravity-type regression models
-> Welfare calculation