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David Dorn

University of Zurich

University of Zurich

David Dorn holds the Professorship of Globalization and Labor Markets, endowed by the UBS International Center of Economics in Society. He was previously a tenured Associate Professor at the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) in Madrid, a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and a Visiting Scholar at Boston University, MIT, and the University of Chicago.

Professor Dorn`s research connects the fields of labor economics, international trade, economic geography, and macroeconomics. In particular, he studies how globalization and technological innovation affect labor markets.

Professor Dorn is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, and the Center for Economic Studies/ifo Institute (CESifo) in Munich. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is also the recipient of an ERC-level Starting Grant from the Swiss National Foundation.