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Dave Donaldson

  • Professor of Economics
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Research programme directors

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Dave Donaldson is a Research Programme Director for the IGC's Firms research programme.

Dave Donaldson teaches and carries out research on topics at the intersection of International/Intranational Trade, Development Economics, Economic History and Environmental Economics. He has studied, among other topics: the welfare and other effects of market integration, the impact of improvements in transportation infrastructure, how trade can mediate the effects of climate change, and how trade affects food security and famine. He is currently a Co-Editor of American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, an editorial board member at the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of International Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.”

In April 2017, he was awarded the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark Medal, awarded annually to an economist under 40 years old in recognition of "outstanding research accomplishments in economics".

His personal website is http://dave-donaldson.com

Projects

The importance of firm networks: Methods and evidence from transaction-level administrative data

Paul Carrillo, Dave Donaldson, Dina D. Pomeranz, Monica Singhal 31 May 2017
Project

Who's getting globalised? Intra-national trade costs and world price pass-through in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

David Atkin, Dave Donaldson 1 Dec 2011
Project

All contributions

IGC-Stanford conference on firms, trade and development

3–4 November 2022
Past Event

IGC-Stanford conference on firms, trade and development

4–5 November 2021
Past Event

IGC evidence paper - Firms, trade, and productivity

David Atkin, Dave Donaldson, Imran Rasul, Matthieu Teachout, Eric Verhoogen, Christopher Woodruff
Synthesis paper

IGC-Stanford University conference on firms, trade and development

5–6 November 2020
Past Event

The bigger the better: Using lotteries to identify the allocative efficiency effects of firm size

Paul Carrillo, Dave Donaldson, Dina D. Pomeranz, Monica Singhal
Policy brief

Call for Papers - Conference on Firms, Trade and Development

5 December 2019 Stanford University
Past Event

IGC and Stanford University conference on firms, trade and development

5 December 2019 Koret-Taube Conference Center John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building 366 Galvez Street, Stanford
Past Event

Firms, trade and development conference

27–28 October 2017 Columbia University, New York
Past Event

Beyond borders: Making transport work  for African trade

Dave Donaldson, Amanda Jinhage, Eric Verhoogen
Growth brief

FDI, SMEs, firm growth, and trade in East Africa

29 March 2017 Nairobi, Kenya
Past Event

Trade policy roundtable

28 March 2017 Kigali, Rwanda
Past Event

IGC-SCID Conference on firms, trade, and development 2016

3–4 November 2016 Stanford University
Past Event
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Who’s Getting Globalized? Intra-national Trade Costs and World Price Pass-Through in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (Working Paper)

David Atkin, Dave Donaldson
Working paper
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Who’s Getting Globalized? Intra-National Trade Costs and World Price Pass-Through in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (Policy Brief)

David Atkin, Dave Donaldson
Policy brief