David Hummels

David Hummels teaches courses in International Economics, Growth and Innovation, and has won multiple teaching awards at the graduate and undergraduate level. His research focuses on a broad range of issues in international trade, including offshoring and its impact on labor markets, product differentiation, barriers to trade and the broader impacts of aviation, infrastructure, and trade facilitation on trade and economic development.  More recently he has worked on a set of issues related to labor markets, including executive compensation, the intersection between worker health and labor markets, and the economics of higher education.

He has published four books and many research articles in major economic journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. 

Hummels is a Distinguished Professor of Economics, the Dean Emeritus of the Daniels School of Business, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.  He has worked as a consultant for and visiting scholar at a wide variety of central banks, development banks and policy institutes around the world.