Prof. Diana Van Patten Wins Award for Research on International Trade
Van Patten will be recognized by the Kiel Institute alongside three other economists for a group of studies on international trade.
Diana Van Patten, assistant professor of economics, will receive the 2024 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany for her “outstanding research in international trade and development.” The award recognizes Van Patten’s work on the impact of multinationals on local economies, the determinants of local attitudes towards international trade, and the role of migrant networks in determining local imports of foreign products.
Launched in 2007, the Excellence Awards in Global Economic Affairs recognize the work of four economists under the age of 37 each year. Winners receive a research fellowship from the Kiel Institute and present their research in Berlin during the Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics. Van Patten will receive the Theodor Wille and Heinrich-Diederichsen “Fair Trade” Fellowship, which is awarded every two years. The other three 2024 award recipients are Adrien Bilal of Harvard and Emil Verner and Christian Wolf of MIT.
Van Patten, who joined the Yale SOM faculty in 2021 after earning her PhD at UCLA and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University, studies international trade and macroeconomics, with a focus on developing economies.
Read about Van Patten’s research on the United Fruit Company in Yale Insights.