Henrik Horn, Professor of International Economics, joined the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University in 1978. He became Doctor of Economics at Stockholm School of Economics 1983, Associate Professor at the IIES 1986, and was Full Professor at the IIES from 1994 until his resignation 2007. He was Deputy Director at the IIES between 2000 and 2004. Since 2006 his main affiliation is with the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (formerly IUI) in Stockholm, where he is Senior Research Fellow. Horn is also Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based think tank, Chief Reporter (jointly with Petros C. Mavroidis) for the American Law Institute project Legal and Economic Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law. Horn is Research Fellow in the International Trade and Industrial Organization Programmes of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, and an Editorial Board member of the World Trade Review and Journal of World Trade.
Horn has done research in a variety of areas, including International Economics, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics and Economics of Sports. For the last 15 years, Horn's research has focused mainly on issues at the intersection between Economics and Law, and in particular economic and legal aspects of international integration agreements, such as the WTO and the EU, and competition and regulation issues. He is also working in a long-term project on the relation between nationally defined environmental policies and the WTO Agreement.
Current projects
Horn has taught from introductory courses to advanced graduate courses at e.g. Stockholm University, Stockholm School of Economics, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, the World Trade Institute (Bern), and the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva). He has served as a Judge in the Swedish supreme court for antitrust cases, and worked for 4 years in the Economic Research and Analysis Division of the WTO.
Principles of World Trade Law: The World Trade Organization
Henrik Horn is, together with Petros C. Mavroidis, Chief Reporter of the American Law Institute project Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law. In this long-run project in economists and lawyers jointly analyze the WTO Agreement and the case law from its Dispute Settlement system. To date, more than 60 WTO disputes have been discussed by pairs of economists and lawyers.
Reports written in the project, as well as more information on the project, are available at the ALI web site.
For another project, Henrik Horn has jointly with Petros C. Mavroidis compiled a data set on the Dispute Settlement system of the WTO comprising approximately 28 000 observations on various legal and administrative aspects of all WTO disputes initiated since the inception of the 1995, from the initial Request for Consultations to latest events officially recorded, including officially specified HS numbers. The data set currently contains data through 2006, but the data is currently being updated, and a new version of the data set should be available early in 2011.