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Dan Trefler is the J. Douglas and Ruth
Grant Canada Research Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity at the Rotman School. He was born and raised in Toronto. He has
degrees in economics from the University of Toronto (B.A.), Cambridge University (M.Phil.), and UCLA
(Ph.D.). His primary affiliations have been with the University of Toronto (1989-94), the University of Chicago (1994-96) and
again with the University
of Toronto (since
1997). He is currently a Research Fellow at the Canadian
Institute for Advanced Research. As well, he is a Research Associate
at the Institute for
Policy Analysis (University of Toronto), a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a
member of the Academic Advisory Board for Canada's Department of Foreign
Affairs and International Trade and serves on the Ontario Task Force on
Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress. He is the
recipient of the Canadian Economics
Association's Rae Award for Excellence in Research and is co-editor
of the Journal
of International Economics. Trefler's research centres on the
interface of international trade with institutions, technological change,
skill acquisition, income distribution, and domestic politics. His
current research focuses on the domestic and international levers for
promoting Canadian competitiveness.
Much of this research is done in conjunction with the Ontario Task
Force and its research arm, the Institute for Competitiveness &
Prosperity.
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