Dave DONALDSON is the Class of 1949 Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Associate at Theoretical Research in Development Economics(ThReD), a Research Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He has occupied a number of editorial functions: most recently he was the Co-Editor of Econometrica from 2019 to 2023.

His research focuses on trade, both international and intranational, with applications in the fields of International Economics, Development Economics, Urban Economics, Economic History, Environmental Economics, and Agricultural Economics. He has studied, among other topics: the welfare and inequality effects of market integration, the impact of improvements in transportation infrastructure, how trade can mitigate and exacerbate the effects of climate change, and how economists can quantify market failures and the interventions (such as industrial policy) that attempt to fix them. He was awarded the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal, as well as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and several grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Dave Donaldson will present a paper, joint with Rodrigo Adão and Arnaud Costinot, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

Putting Quantitative Models to the Test: An Application to Trump’s Trade War (read paper)

More about Dave DONALDSON and his research

Date: MONDAY, April 29th - 2.45 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room

The next Departmental Seminar will host Camille LANDAIS (LSE) on May 13th.