# Stan Veuger

> Stan Veuger is a Dutch-born economist and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies political economy and public finance, and who became briefly famous in 2025 for co-authoring the AEI analysis that exposed a factor-of-four error at the heart of the Trump administration's reciprocal tariff formula. A Harvard PhD with a stack of unrelated degrees in Spanish literature, law, and business, he edits AEI Economic Perspectives, teaches at Harvard, and once published peer-reviewed research proving that LeBron James measurably increased the number of restaurants near his arena.

- **Role:** Senior Fellow in Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute
- **Organizations:** American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Harvard University Department of Economics, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs (Madrid), Tilburg University, CEPR, Netherland-America Foundation, AEI Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility
- **From:** Netherlands
- **Nationality:** Dutch
- **Education:** PhD in Economics, Harvard University, AM in Economics, Harvard University, MSc in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Doctorandus in Spanish Language and Literature, Universiteit Utrecht, Doctorandus in Business Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, LLB in Laws, University of London
- **Known for:** Senior fellow and editor of AEI Economic Perspectives at the American Enterprise Institute, Co-authored the widely-cited 2025 analysis exposing the elasticity error inflating Trump's reciprocal tariffs roughly fourfold, Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, and The Review of Economics and Statistics

## Career timeline

- **2017** — Co-authors 'Taking My Talents to South Beach (and Back)' with Daniel Shoag, quantifying LeBron James' local economic impact
- **2016 & 2018** — Visiting lecturer of economics at Harvard University
- **2025** — Co-authors AEI analysis with Kevin Corinth exposing the factor-of-four error in the Trump reciprocal tariff formula
- **2025** — Joins 40+ economists in amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to rule the reciprocal tariffs unlawful

## Achievements

- Senior fellow and editor of AEI Economic Perspectives at the American Enterprise Institute
- Co-authored the widely-cited 2025 analysis exposing the elasticity error inflating Trump's reciprocal tariffs roughly fourfold
- Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, and The Review of Economics and Statistics
- Authored peer-reviewed research on the local economic spillovers of LeBron James
- Visiting lecturer of economics at Harvard University
- Director and executive committee member of the Netherland-America Foundation

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Co-authored the AEI analysis showing the Trump reciprocal tariff formula was based on an error, sparking national coverage in Axios, Fortune, Newsweek and beyond.
- **2025** — Continued writing on the legality and economics of the tariffs, including follow-up pieces and an amicus brief with dozens of economists.

## Links

- Website: https://www.aei.org/profile/stan-veuger/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veuger
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/stanveuger

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