Stephen Redding is a British-American economist. His research interests include international trade, economic geography, urban economics, transportation economics and productivity growth. Recent work has been concerned with firm heterogeneity and international trade, multi-product firms, the distributional consequences of globalization, agglomeration forces, and transport infrastructure improvements.
He taught at the London School of Economics and the Yale School of Management and was a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University; he has also worked at the Bank of England. [1]
In 2025 he is a professor of economics at Stanford University and director of the International Trade and Investment Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research. [2] He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, [3] and an associate editor of Econometrica and the Quarterly Journal of Economics . In 2025, he is also an international research fellow of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. [4]