Prof. Dr. Jennifer Pédussel Wu
Prof. Dr. Jennifer Pédussel Wu is a Professor of Economics, in particular for world trade and international production. She retains an important relationship to risk and uncertainty in her current research and her latest projects use data developed for gravity model investigations to combine questions of institutional and defense economics in the context of international trade models.
Research Interests:
- International Trade and Regional Integration
- Trade in Factors of Production
- Gender and Immigration
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Innovation and Technology
Selected Publications:
Banach, C.N., Goulas, S., Silva Neira, I., and Wu, J.P. (2026) “Building BLOCS with PORTS: Trade Agreements and Chinese Maritime Networks”, Territory, Politics, Governance, forthcoming.
Wu, J.P., Silva Neira, I., Goulas, S., Banach, C.N. (2026) “Building BLOCS and Stepping Stones: Combined Data for International Economic and Policy Analysis”, International Interactions, Forthcoming.
Abreo, C., Silva Neira, I., Wu, J.P. (2025) “The Role of China in BRICS: Modern High -Tech Trade Networks” in Recalibrating the Global Compass: China and Shared Future in a Fragmented World, Stekić, N. (Ed). The 5th “Dialogues on China” International Academic Conference, Belgrade: Institute of International Politics and Economics, October 2025.
Abreo, C., Carrillo, E., and Wu, J.P. (2024) “Determinants of Colombian Inward Foreign Direct Investment. An Empirical Analysis”. CEPAL Review, No. 143 (August).
Azarhoushang, B., Wu., J.P., and Zaroki, S. (2021) “Foreign Direct Investment Effects on the Distribution of Regional Industrial Value-Added in China”, Journal of Asian Pacific Economy, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2021.1944021, published online 26 July 2021).
Bowen, H.P. and Wu, J.P. (2013) “Immigrant Specificity and the Relationship between Trade and Immigration: Theory and Evidence”. Southern Economic Journal, 80(2), 366–384. https://doi.org/10.4284/0038-4038-2011.230
Wu, J.P. (2005) “Trade Agreements as Self-Protection”, Review of International Economics, 13:3, 472-484. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9396.2005.00518.x