Kala Krishna is Liberal Arts Research Professor of Economics at the Pennsylvania State University. She grew up in New Delhi, India and Washington D.C. where her father was with the Indian Embassy and the IMF. After a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Delhi University, she received Ph.D in Economics from Princeton University in 1984. She was Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University from 1984-1992, William L Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University 1992-1993, and Professor of Economics at The Pennsylvania State University since 1993. She has had visiting appointments at MIT, Princeton, The Hebrew University, University of Copenhagen, Stockholm University, the IMF, World Bank, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. She was a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) from 1984-1992 and has been a Research Associate since then. She is a Co-editor of the Journal of International Economics and is on the board of the IJIO, Economics Letters, and a number of other journals. She has consulted for the World Bank and the IMF. Her research interests are in Trade, Development, Industrial Organization, Political Economy, Auctions, Crime and most recently Education. She has worked extensively on trade policy issues, including Voluntary Export Restraints, Free Trade Areas and Rules of Origin, and the Multi Fibre Arrangement. A focus of recent work is trade policy in heterogeneous firm settings.
