Dave Donaldson

Dave Donaldson is the Class of 1949 Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics. His research focuses on Development Economics, Environmental Economics, and International Economics. He teaches and carries out research on trade, both international and intranational, with applications in these fields. His work includes the welfare and inequality effects of market integration, the impact of transportation infrastructure improvements, and how trade can influence climate change. He has also studied market failures and interventions such as industrial policy. Donaldson's research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and he has served as a co-editor at Econometrica and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.