Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey 
, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
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Maggie Xiaoyang Chen
Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Office: Monroe 367, 2115 G Street, N.W.
Phone: (202) 994-0192
Fax: (202) 994-6147
E-mail: xchen@gwu.edu
Web: http://home.gwu.edu/~xchen
Education:
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder
Expertise:
International trade, foreign direct investment, and regionalism
Background:
Maggie Chen is an associate professor of economics and international affairs at the George Washington University. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and B.A. in economics from Beijing Normal University in China. She was also a visiting scholar at the World Bank's Development Research Group.
Professor Chen's main research interests include multinational firms, foreign direct investment, and regional trade agreements. Outside the field of international trade, she has worked on patent protection and innovation. She has published in numerous academic journals including Journal of International Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, European Economic Review, and Canadian Journal of Economics. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in international economics.