Background
Bernard, Andrew B. was born on June 20, 1963 in Cleveland.
Bernard, Andrew B. was born on June 20, 1963 in Cleveland.
He received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard and his Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University in economics in 1991 and was on the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale School of Management prior to coming to Tuck. At the Tuck School, Bernard teaches a core Master of Business Administration course on Global Economics for Managers as well as an elective focused on global issues facing firms.
Bernard is an expert on firm and industry responses to globalization. He was one of the first academics to study how firms respond to globalization and has published papers on exporting, offshoring, outsourcing, and productivity. He has also examined the strategic response of United States. and German firms to competition from low-cost countries such as China, transfer pricing decisions by United States-based multinationals, and the effects of tariff and trade cost reductions on firm performance and productivity growth in the economy.
His current research is focused on analyzing the factors multinational firms consider when entering multiple product markets in different countries, where they choose to produce those products, and how they are sourced.
He received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support his work on firms and products in international trade. Bernard is a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.
He has presented his research on the topic of firms and globalization at the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, White House, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission. The Office character Andy Bernard was named for Professor Bernard by the producer, Greg Daniels.
Fellow National Bureau Economic Research (faculty), Center for Asia and Emerging Economics.