Rate My Professor Greg Wright

Greg Wright is an Associate Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics section in the Department of Economics and Business Management at the University of California, Merced. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis in 2011, a Master of Arts in Economics from UC Davis in 2006, and a B.A. in Astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998. Wright's research focuses on the labor market consequences of international trade, technological change, immigration, and innovation. His studies examine firm responses to globalization, the impact of offshoring and immigration on employment, investments in information and communications technologies and their effects on wage inequality, and the historical dimensions of globalization on labor markets. Key research interests include international trade, immigration, economic growth, and labor markets.

Wright has published in prestigious journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Review of Economics of the Household, and Journal of Economic Theory. Selected publications include 'Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs' with Giovanni Peri and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano (American Economic Review, 2013); 'Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms' with Giovanni Peri and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano (Journal of International Economics, 2018); 'From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization' with Holger Breinlich and Anson Soderbery (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018); 'Processing Immigration Shocks: Firm Responses on the Innovation Margin' with Rowena Gray and Giulia Montresor (Journal of International Economics, 2020); 'The Human Capital Legacy of a Trade Embargo' with Matthias Parey and Abhishek Chakravarty (Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021); and 'A Rising Tide? The Local Incidence of the Second Wave of Globalization' with Rowena Gray (Journal of International Economics, 2024). He holds affiliations as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and research affiliate at CESifo. As department chair, he leads academic initiatives in economics at UC Merced.