Javier D. Donna

Javier D. Donna, a native of Mendoza, Argentina, completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Northwestern University in 2012. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Florida in the U.S. and a Fellow of the Rimini Center for Economic Analysis in Italy. His research investigates the efficiency of various market and non-market institutions, including auctions, posted prices, quotas, and online trading platforms. He has examined the operation of many markets, including water markets, transportation markets, and labor markets.

Professor Donna was awarded the Public Utility Research Prize for Best Paper in Regulatory Economics at the 2016 International Industrial Organization Conference. He has published in leading academic journals, and his research has been featured in many periodicals and news outlets, including the Harvard Business Review, the Economist, VOX EU, Fortune, Yahoo! Finance, the Long Run, the Global Water Forum, and Europe Now. He is an Affiliated Faculty of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida and has written several general-press essays for «Nada es Gratis,» a flagship economic blog that discusses public policy.

For additional information about Professor Donna, visit his website.
http://www.jdonna.org/