Kyle Handley

Kyle Handley is an economist that studies international trade, investment, uncertainty, and firm employment dynamics. He is Associate Professor of Economics and the Rafael and Marina Pastor Endowed Fellow at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. Handley is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Director of the Center for Commerce and Diplomacy at UC San Diego. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, American Economic Journal, Management Science, and other outlets. He is the 2011 winner of the World Trade Organization Essay Award for Young Economists. He was a Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow in 2015 and a Campbell Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2019. He received a B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Wisconsin, an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He was previously faculty at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.