Marc Melitz

Marc J. Melitz (1967 ) is an American economist and professor of economics at Princeton University and from the middle of 2009 at Harvard University.

Melitz is known primarily for its Econometrica publication " The Impact of Trade on Intra - Industry Real Locations and Aggregate Industry Productivity". In this paper he examines the relationship between productivity and the export activities of the company.

In addition to his position at Princeton, Melitz since 2000 is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining Princeton, he was an Assistant Professor at Harvard University 2000 to 2006.

Melitz holds a PhD (2000) and MA (1997) in economics from the University of Michigan, a MSBA in Operations Research from the University of Maryland ( 1992) and a BA in mathematics from Haverford College ( 1989).