Andrew R. Blair, Professor Emeritus of Business

Andrew R. Blair

Professor Emeritus of Business Administration and of Economics

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Andrew Blair is currently professor emeritus of business administration and of economics at the University of Pittsburgh in the School of Business (Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration), having joined the School’s faculty in 1971. From 1999 to 2012, he served as the University’s vice provost for faculty affairs. During 1996-97, Blair served as interim dean of the Katz School/CBA. Earlier (1971-89), he served as associate dean and then executive associate dean of the Katz School. From 1989 to 1999, he was the founding director of the School’s International Business Center.

Before joining the University of Pittsburgh faculty, Blair was at Fordham University for a number of years, serving at various periods as acting dean of the College of Business Administration and vice chair of the Department of Economics. During part of 1969, he served as an economist in the Foreign Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. While on sabbatical from the University of Pittsburgh during 1976-77, Blair was a visiting scholar/professor in the Department of Political Economy, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland.

Blair’s teaching and research interests have focused on managerial economics, international economics, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, and the relationship of international trade to the process of direct investment by multinational corporations. He has published in such journals as Oxford Economic Papers, European Economic Review, Journal f Policy Modeling, Review of Economics & Finance, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, the National Tax Journal, and Economia Internazionale, and has also contributed to edited scholarly monographs.

During the 1990s, Blair was significantly involved in central Europe’s transition to market-oriented economies, serving as one of the Katz School’s principal representatives to two of the new western-style management programs it helped to found in the region, as well as project director on two large USAID grants in support of those programs. He formerly served as chair of the Western Pennsylvania District Export Council (appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce). He is a former treasurer and member of the executive committee of the Board of Directors of the Council on International Educational Exchange. Blair has also served as a consultant for a wide variety of profit and not-for-profit organizations in the areas of strategic planning and regional economic development.

Awards and Honors

Phi Beta Kappa

Gold Medal for service to the Master of Business Administration Program at the Faculty of Management, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

New York State Regents Teaching Fellowship (competitive award)

New York State Regents Scholarship (competitive award)

National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellowship competition, Honorable Mention.

Degrees

PhD in Economics, Fordham University
MA in Economics, Fordham University
BS in Economics, Fordham University

Selected Publications

The Growth of U.S. Manufactured Imports and the Dubious Feasibility of Current U.S. Trade Policy,” Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 48, Number 5, September/October 2026.

“Recent Changes in the Structure of U.S. Imports from China – Implications for the Future,” Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 46, Number 4, July/August 2024.

“Assessing the Impact of IT-Enabled Services Offshoring on U.S. Employment and Earnings,” SSRN eLibrary, https://papers.ssrn.com, Posted 15 January 2020.

“United States Manufacturing Investment and Trade: The Case of Canada and Mexico under NAFTA and Earlier Trade Liberalization Measures,” Review of Economics & Finance, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2017).

“Forecasting the Resurgence of the U.S. Economy in 2010: An Expert Judgment Approach,” with G. N. Mandelker, T. L. Saaty, and R. Whitaker, Review of Economics & Finance, Volume 5, Issue 2 (2015), based on the original paper below (September 2010), including an updated postscript setting forth what transpired after that original forecasting exercise was concluded.

“Forecasting the Resurgence of the U.S. Economy in 2010: An Expert Judgment Approach,” with G.N. Mandelker, T.L. Saaty and R. Whitaker, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Vol. 44, No. 3, September 2010.

“Forecasting Foreign Exchange Rates: An Expert Judgment Approach,” with R. Nachtmann, J.E. Olson and T.L. Saaty, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Vol. 21, No. 6, 1987.

“The Relative Distribution of United States Direct Investment: The UK/EEC Experience,” European Economic Review, Vol. 31, No. 5 (July 1987).

“Incidence of the Amusement Tax,” with Michael H. Spiro and Frank Giarratani, The National Tax Journal, Vol. XL, No. 1 (March 1987).

“Import Bottlenecks and Inflation: The Case of Brazil,” Oxford Economic Papers, 19, No. 2 (July 1967).

Academic Area

Marketing and Business Economics

Personal Interests

Whenever feasible, Blair likes to spend time at his house in Avalon, N.J., bicycling and taking long walks on the beach.