Dave Donaldson (born 4 June 1978) is a Canadian economist and a professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[1] He was awarded the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal and elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.
[2][3][4] Donaldson received a Masters in Physics from Trinity College, Oxford, in 2001, and a Diploma in 2002, an M.Sc.
His research explores welfare and economic growth effects of market integration; broad impacts of reduced intra-national trade barriers; and how climate-change-effects-on-humans, as well as food security and famine risks may each be mediated by trade and specialization.
He served as a co-editor of Econometrica from 2019 to 2023.