Eric T. Stuen

The focus of Eric Stuen’s research is the many roles of high-skilled labor in the knowledge economy, and by extension, regional economic development. He has explored the economics of international students and of the high importance of international Ph.D. students to the conduct of science. His research has also focused on geographically mediated knowledge spillovers, both between universities and industry, and between wineries. Current projects include studying the distributional effects of China’s recently constructed high-speed rail network on labor markets in China, and studying trends in international education in an increasingly multipolar world.             

Stuen’s courses in international economics, development economics, and macroeconomics overlap substantially with his research. He has made and maintained international connections through a Fulbright specialist exchange to Vietnam and as a visiting academic in Australia. Local connections are also an important feature of his work, as an affiliate faculty member of the Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology department, and through recent research on winery clusters in Washington State.    

• Economics of Science

• Regional Economics

• Labor Economics

• Wine Economics

• Stoddard CBE Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Idaho, 2016-2017.
• Monnett International Business Faculty Fellowship, University of Idaho, 2014.
• Thiessen Family Excellence in Research Award, University of Idaho, 2012, 2013.
• Shortlisted for Royal Economic Society Prize, for best Economic Journal article of 2012.

• Stuen, E., Liao, H. and Miller, J. (2022) “The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers and Vineyard Proximity on Winery Clustering”, Journal of Wine Economics, 17, 241-256.

• Stuen, E. and Ramirez, S. (2019) “The Effects of Social Networks on the Flow of International Students”, The World Economy, 42, 509-529.

• Morales, L.E., Hoang, N. and Stuen, E. (2017) “Spatial Price Premium Transmission for Meat Standards Australia Graded Cattle: the Vulnerability of Price Premiums to Outside Shocks” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 61(4), 590-609.

• Lee, J. and Stuen, E. (2016). “University Reputation and Technology Commercialization: Evidence from Nanoscale Science” Journal of Technology Transfer, 41(3), 586-609.

• Stuen, E., Miller, J. and Stone, R. (2015). “An Analysis of Wine Critic Consensus: A Study of Washington and California Wines” Journal of Wine Economics 10(1): 47-61.

• Maskus, K., A.M. Mobarak and Stuen, E. (2013), “Doctoral Students and U.S. Immigration Policy”.  Science, 324: 562-563.

• Stuen, E., Mobarak, A.M. and Maskus, K. (2012), “Skilled Immigration and Innovation: Evidence from Enrolment Fluctuations in US Doctoral Programmes.” The Economic Journal, 122: 1143–1176.

• Miller, J. Stone, R., Stuen, E. and M. Barker (2011) “Tests for Convergence Toward a Signaling Equilibrium: The Case of California Cabernet Sauvignon”.  Journal of Business and Economic Studies, 17:1 pp. 65-79.

• Maskus, K., Mobarak, A.M. and Stuen, E. (2007) “International Graduate Education and Innovation: Evidence and Issues for East Asian Technology Policy”, Asian Economic Papers V. 6 n. 3.