American economist
Marc J. Melitz (born January 1, 1968)[2] is an American economist . He is currently a professor of economics at Harvard University .
Melitz has published a number of highly cited articles in the area of international economics and international trade ,[3] most notably "The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity" in Econometrica which explores the effects of international trade on the competition within domestic industries.[4]
In addition to his Harvard position, Melitz is also a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2000. Before joining Harvard, Melitz was a professor at Princeton University .[5]
Melitz holds a BA in Mathematics from Haverford College (1989), an MSBA in Operations Research from the University of Maryland, College Park (1992)[5] a M.A.(1997), and a Ph.D. (2000) in Economics from the University of Michigan .
In 2008, The Economist listed Melitz as one of the top 8 young economists in the world.[6]
^ Melitz, Marc (2000). International trade and industry productivity dynamics with heterogeneous producers (Ph.D.). University of Michigan . ProQuest 304607604 .
^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
^ As of February 2010[update] , Melitz is the most highly cited young economists according to the IDEAS repository: Rankings at IDEAS:Top Young Economists, as of February 2010
^ ——— (2003), "The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity", Econometrica , 71 (6): 1695–1725, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.563.6294 , doi :10.1111/1468-0262.00467 .
^ a b According to his academic CV Archived 2014-03-08 at the Wayback Machine .
^ "International bright young things" , The Economist , December 30, 2008
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