James Brander

James Alan Brander (* 1953 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada ) is a Canadian economist and university professor. The focus of his work lies in the field of foreign trade, industrial economics and environmental and resource management.

Career, teaching and research

Brandner studied at the University of British Columbia, where he graduated in 1975 as Bachelor of Arts. He then went to Stanford University, where he was a year after obtaining his Masters of Arts in 1979 as a Ph.D. completed. In the same year Brander took up his first job as an assistant professor at Queen 's University, before he returned in 1984 as an associate professor at the University of British Columbia. There he was appointed full professor in 1990 and held between 1999 and 2003, the Office of the Deputy Dean of the College.

Brander published and lectured in particular on topics related to international trade, industrial organization, environmental and resource management and venture capital, but also about economics and government intervention in the economy. Together with Barbara Spencer he developed in the early 1980s, the so-called Brander - Spencer model, was shown to the contrary at the time of the common models, how, under certain conditions state intervention for the protection of entrepreneurs, the total welfare can increase.

Editorial work for the Canadian Journal of Economics between 1997 and 2001, he was active from 2009 as president of the Canadian Economics Association.