Education and Work
Brander studied as an undergraduate at the Point Grey campus of the University of British Columbia at the UBC Department of Economics, in 1975, which is currently the top Economics Department in Canada and among the best in the world; then received an MA (1978) and a PhD (1979) from Stanford University. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Queen’s University from 1979-84 before moving back to the University of British Columbia.
His 1981 paper with Barbara Spencer, Tariffs and the Extraction of Foreign Monopoly Rents Under Potential Entry, won the Harry Johnson Prize of the Canadian Journal of Economics. By 1998, Brander's work had been cited over 1000 times.
He is a former managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics (1997–2001) and a former co-editor of the Journal of International Economics (1990–96), and he was a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1983-2002. He was president of the Canadian Economics Association for 2009-10.
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