Education
University of Michigan. Haverford College.
University of Michigan. Haverford College.
He is currently a professor of economics at Harvard University. Melitz has published a number of highly cited articles in the area of international economics and international trade, most notably "The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity" in Econometrica which explores the effects of international trade on the competition within domestic industries. In addition to his Harvard position, Melitz is also a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2000.
Before joining Harvard, Melitz was a professor at Princeton University.
Melitz holds a Bachelor in Mathematics from Haverford College (1989), an Master of Science in Business Administration in Operations Research from the University of Maryland, College Park (1992) a Master of Arts(1997), and a Doctor of Philosophy (2000) in Economics from the University of Michigan. The Economist lists Melitz as one of the top 8 young economists in the world.