Agricultural Markets and and Trade Policy

Dave Donaldson is the Class of 1949 Professor at the department of economics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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.