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Economic Growth
The geography of consumption
Consumer mobility helps to shape the retail market.
J. Bradford Jensen is the McCrane/Shaker Chair in International Business at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Senior Policy Scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Jensen pioneered the use of plant-level microdata to investigate the impact of trade on the US economy. His recent work examines the relationship between trade and firm performance and the impact of trade in services on the US economy.