Alex Trew
Professor, Economics
Adam Smith Business School
University of Glasgow, Glasgow.Email: .
Professor, Economics
Adam Smith Business School
University of Glasgow, Glasgow.Email: .
Radek Stefanski and Alex Trew, ‘Selection, Patience, and the Interest Rate’, Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, 2024, 2(1):149-81, paper; working paper version.
Muscatelli, Anton, Graeme Roy and Alex Trew, ‘Persistent States: Lessons for Scottish Devolution and Independence’, National Institute Economic Review, 2023 (Spring):51-63, paper; working paper version.
Khomba, Dan and Alex Trew, ‘Aid and Local Growth in Malawi’, Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58(8):1478-1500, paper.
Heblich, Stephan, Alex Trew and Yanos Zylberberg, 'East Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting’, Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129(5):1508-52, paper. TED talk. Cheddar video. Guardian article. WSJ podcast. econimate video. The Economist. Freakonomics Radio. Washington Post.
Trew, Alex, ‘Endogenous Infrastructure Development and Spatial Takeoff in the First Industrial Revolution’, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2020, 12(2):44-93, paper. AEA Research Highlight.
Stephan Heblich and Alex Trew, ‘Banking and Industrialization’, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17(6):1753–1796, paper.
Charles Nolan and Alex Trew, ‘Transaction Costs and Institutions’, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Contributions), 2015, 15(2):391-432, paper.
Trew, Alex, ‘Spatial Takeoff in the First Industrial Revolution’, Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, 17:707-25, paper, MATLAB code.
Trew, Alex, ‘Finance and Balanced Growth’, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2014, 18(4):883-98, paper.
Trew, Alex, ‘Contracting Institutions and Development’, Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 3(3), paper.
Trew, Alex, ‘Infrastructure Finance and Industrial Takeoff in England’, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2010, 42(6):985-1010, paper.
Trew, Alex, ‘Efficiency, Depth and Growth: Quantitative Implications of Finance and Growth Theory’, Journal of Macroeconomics, 2008, 30(4):1550-68, paper.
Trew, Alex, ‘Finance and Growth: A Critical Survey’, Economic Record, 2006, 82(259):481-90, paper.
Hans-Joachim Voth, Bruno Caprettini and Alex Trew, ⓡ, ‘Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technology Adoption during the British Industrial Revolution’, working paper, conditional accept at American Economic Review. The Economist. FAZ.
Stephan Heblich, David Nagy, Alex Trew and Yanos Zylberberg, ‘The Death and Life of Great British Cities’, NBER Working Paper. VoxDev article.
Radek Stefanski, Lassi Ahlvik, Jørgen Juel Andersen, Torfinn Harding, Alex Trew, ‘Extracting Wedges: Misallocation and Taxation in the Oil Industry’, CESifo Working Paper No. 11915.
Dehua Li (2024–), Mingchen Liu (2023–), Sulemana Abdul-Karim (2023–)
Completed: Nikolay Chernyshev (2018, now at Bristol), Dan Khomba (2017, first placement Scottish Fiscal Commission)
Economic Geography (Honours), Economic History (Honours). Previously: macroeconomics, econometrics, money and banking, financial intermediation, growth theory.
Fellow: Royal Economic Society (2025–), CESifo (2023–), IZA (2023–), Advance HE (2016–).
Scottish Economic Society council (2023–26). External examiner: Bristol (2023–27), Heriot-Watt (2020–25). MRes Economics, director (2020-23).
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ($48,598, 2025–26), INET ($95,000, 2015–18), Shell Foundation (£131,500, 2006–08).
PhD Economics, University of St Andrews (2007). MSc Economics, University of Warwick (2004). BA Economics, University of Durham (2003).