Professor Jonathan Eaton is a leading scholar in international economics, a former Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a co-winner (with Samuel Kortum) of the Frisch Medal. Professor Eaton's recent research has focused on the implications of firm heterogeneity for international trade theory and policy, international technology diffusion, and innovation, competition, and productivity change in a global economy.

The new Pittsburgh International Trade and Development Seminar is a joint undertaking sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Graduate School of Policy and International Affairs at the

University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. This seminar series brings leading scholars in the domains of international economics and development economics to the Pittsburgh area.