Stephen Redding is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is a Professor in Economics, at the Department of Economics, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Dr Stephen’s research interests include productivity growth at the firm and industry, international trade, and economic geography. His recent work has examined the relationship between comparative advantage and heterogeneous firms’ response to international trade, the role of product choice in understanding firm development and industry dynamics, the uneven effects of Indian liberalization, the role of ‘absorptive capacity’ in facilitating the international transfer of technology; and the role played by market access in determining economic prosperity. He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize Fellowship during 2001-4 for his research on international trade and economic growth and a Global Economic Affairs Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in 2008. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Harvard University during Fall 2007 and a Peter Kenen Fellow in International Economics at Princeton University during 2005-6. Dr Stephen is also serving as the Director of the Globalization Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a Research Fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Prior to this, he was a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE), he also worked as a research economist at the Bank of England on the relationship between international openness and economic growth, published as Openness and Growth, (eds) Proudman and Redding, Bank of England, London. He has a PhD in Economics and a M. Phil. in Economics from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He also has a First Class Honours Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from Magdalen College, University of Oxford.