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Daniel Trefler

Economist, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Signed the letter · Academia · Canada

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Economist at the University of Toronto, where he holds the J. Douglas and Ruth Grant Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity at the Rotman School of Management. Holds a PhD from UCLA. Author of work on international trade, including 'The Case of the Missing Trade and Other Mysteries', and on AI and trade policy, including 'AI and International Trade' and 'An Economic Case for Regulating Artificial Intelligence'. Recipient of the 2016 Killam Prize in Social Sciences and a Bank of Canada Fellowship Award, and holder of a Canada Research Chair. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.

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14 works in the co-authorship map · 2,200 citations across them

Sources

  1. Daniel Trefler - Wikipedia
  2. Daniel Trefler | Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
  3. AI and International Trade
  4. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source

In the network

4 co-authors on the map · PageRank #38 of 400 · bridge #40 of 400 · 3 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Trade, investment and digital services.

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Documented positions

Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Will AI widen inequality? agrees

His 2026 policy paper argues that, as with earlier scalable technologies, dominant AI firms are positioned to capture large profits and political influence that aggravate social inequality, which he presents as a case for regulation.

Evidence

  1. An Economic Case for Regulating Artificial Intelligence and Implications for Policy

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Should governments act on AI now? agrees

Has published an economic case for regulating artificial intelligence and discusses its policy implications, alongside research on how cross-border data regulation shapes AI-driven digital trade.

Evidence

  1. An Economic Case for Regulating Artificial Intelligence and Implications for Policy
  2. AI and International Trade

Why researchers disagree on this · Who else says what

How fast will the impact arrive? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Selected work

Writes with

Nathan Nunn (3), Ruiqi Sun (3), Avi Goldfarb (1), Walid Hejazi (1)

Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (4 of 4 shown).

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