Professor Ph.D. (Illinois, 1983), M.A. (Illinois, 1979), B.S. (Wesleyan, 1977) Office: Max Gluskin House, 150 St. George Street, 303. Phone: 416-978-4442. Fax: 416-978-6713. Email address: Personal website: http://brandt.economics.utoronto.ca Research fields: Economic development, Economic history, Chinese economy

Selected research

• Loren Brandt, Gueorgui Kambourov, Kjetil Storesletten, "Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China", Review of Economic Studies 00 (2025), 1–41.
• Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Chaoran Chen, Diego Restuccia, Xiaoyun Wei, "Land Security and Mobility Frictions", Quarterly Journal of Economics 139 (3) (2024), 1941–1987. (Freely available.)
• Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Jessica Leight, Diego Restuccia, "Misallocation, Selection and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China", Econometrica 90 (3) (2022), 1261–1282. (Freely available.)
• Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Luhang Wang, Yifan Zhang, "WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms", American Economic Review 107 (9) (2017), 2784–2820.
• Loren Brandt, Debin Ma , Thomas Rawski, "From Divergence to Convergence: Re-evaluating the History Behind China's Economic Boom", Journal of Economic Literature 521 (1) (2014), 42–123.
• Loren Brandt and Xiaodong Zhu, "Redistribution in a Decentralized Economy: Growth and Inflation in Reform China", Journal of Political Economy 108 (2000), 422–439.

Honors and awards

• Visiting Professor, Stanford, 2025.
• Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego, 2024.
• Visiting Professor, University of Oslo, 2017.
• Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2008.
• National Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University, 1986.

Courses taught 2025–2026

• Fall

• ECO101H1F, section L0401 (St. George) • Principles of Microeconomics • W1-3
• ECO101H1F, section L5101 (St. George) • Principles of Microeconomics • W6-8
• ECO435/1730H1F, section L0101 (St. George) • The Economics of Modern China • T1-4