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Created: 1/24/2001 Updated: 3/9/2017 Visits: 5,813	Dr. David Hummels Dean and Professor of Economics Purdue University 403 West State St West Lafayette, IN 47906 United States http://www.krannert.purdue.edu/faculty/hummelsd/ hummelsd@purdue.edu 765 494 4495 (ph)

Biography
Bio Professor Hummels’ teaching interest is in international economics. His research focuses on empirical investigations in international trade, with a special emphasis on product differentiation, barriers to trade, and the effects of transportation and infrastructure on trade and economic development. Professor Hummels’ major publications include "International Transportation Costs and Trade in the Second Era of Globalization". Journal of Economic Perspectives (2007); “The Variety and Quality of a Nation’s Exports,” American Economic Review (2005); “Shipping the Good Apples Out? An Empirical Confirmation of the Alchian Allen Conjecture,” Journal of Political Economy (2004); “Intra-national Home Bias: Some Explanations,” Review of Economics and Statistics, (2003); “The Nature and Growth of Vertical Specialization in World Trade,” Journal of International Economics, (2001); and “Monopolistic Competition and International Trade: Reconsidering the Evidence” Quarterly Journal of Economics, (1995). Professor Hummels is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics, and an Associate Director of the Forum for Research on Empirical International Trade. 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. He previously worked as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.

Roles/Contributions
- 10th Annual Conference Participant - 20th Annual Conference Participant - 20th Annual Conference Program Committee Member

Interest Areas
No interest areas have been specified.

GTAP-Related Resources
- Tom Hertel’s influence and its lessons about academic inquiry by Hillberry, Russell and David Hummels Publication: GTAP Working Paper No. 85 Resource Type: Working Paper Keywords: The GTAP Data Base and extensions - Developing a Multi-region Input-Output Framework from GTAP for Analyzing the Vulnerability of the Asia-Pacific Supply Chain to Natural Disasters by Hertel, Thomas, David Hummels and Terrie Walmsley Publication: Presented at the 16th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Shanghai, China Resource Type: 2013 Conference Paper Keywords: Economic crisis, Other data bases and data issues, The GTAP Data Base and extensions, Asia (East), A... - Time as a Barrier to Trade: A GTAP Database of Ad Valorem Trade Time Costs by Minor, Peter and David Hummels Publication: Presented at the 13th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Penang, Malaysia Resource Type: 2010 Conference Paper Keywords: The GTAP Data Base and extensions - The Trade Reducing Effects of Market Power in International Shipping by Hummels, David, Volodymyr Lugovskyy and Alexandre Skiba Publication: Presented at the 10th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Purdue University, USA Resource Type: 2007 Conference Paper Keywords: Economic development, South America - Measurable Dimensions of Product Differentiation in International Trade by Hummels, David Publication: Presented at the 7th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Washington DC, USA Resource Type: 2004 Conference Paper - How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements? by Hertel, Thomas, David Hummels, Maros Ivanic and Roman Keeney Publication: GTAP Working Paper No. 26 Resource Type: Working Paper - How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements? by Hertel, Thomas, David Hummels, Maros Ivanic and Roman Keeney Publication: Presented at the 6th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, The Hague, The Netherlands Resource Type: 2003 Conference Paper Keywords: Calibration and parameter estimation - Toward a Geography of Trade Costs by Hummels, David Publication: GTAP Working Paper No. 17 Resource Type: Working Paper Keywords: Trade in services - Have International Transportation Costs Declined? by Hummels, David Publication: University of Chicago Resource Type: GTAP Application - Time as a Trade Barrier by Hummels, David Publication: GTAP Working Paper No. 18 Resource Type: GTAP Application, Working Paper Keywords: Trade in services - The Quality and Variety of a Nation's Exports by Hummels, David and Peter J. Klenow Publication: Presented at the 4th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Purdue University, USA Resource Type: 2001 Conference Paper

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