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Talk by Economist Dave Donaldson (MIT)
Renowned economist Prof. Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT) will give a talk at the University of Basel on "How important is Home-Market Size for Research in the Pharmaceutical Industry, and beyond?". The event will take place on 2 November 2023, from 18:45 - 19:45 at the Kollegienhaus.
The talk will be followed by a discussion with Dr. René P. Buholzer, CEO of Interpharma in Basel. Interpharma is the association of Switzerland’s research-based pharmaceutical industry. The event is part of the lecture series "Innovation in the Global Economy" organized by the Center for International Economics and Business of the University of Basel and hosted by Rolf Weder, Professor of International Trade and European Integration at the Faculty of Economics and the Institute for European Global Studies.
About Prof. Dave Donaldson
Class of 1949 Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (USA). He teaches and carries out research on trade, both international and intranational, with applications in the fields of International Economics, Development Economics, Economic History, Environmental Economics, Urban 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, and how trade can mitigate and exacerbate the effects of climate change. This work was awarded the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal, given by the American Economic Association to the US-based economist “under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge”, as well as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and several grants from the National Science Foundation.