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Princeton
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Oleg Itskhoki
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Contact
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Personal
Information:
Date and Place of
Birth: 7 January 1983, Moscow (Russia)
Citizenship: Russian
Research
Fields:
Macroeconomics and
International Economics
Education:
B.Sc. in Economics,
Moscow State University, 1999-2003
M.A. in Economics, New Economic School (Moscow), 2002-2004
Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 2004-2009
Academic Appointments:
Princeton University, Department of
Economics, 2009 –
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Assistant
Professor of Economics, starting July 2010
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Associate
Research Scholar, International Economics
Section (IES), 2009-2010
Working
Papers:
1.
Inequality and Unemployment in a Global
Economy, November 2009, resubmitted to the Econometrica
with Elhanan Helpman and Stephen Redding
Technical
Appendix with Formal Derivations and Proofs, November 2009
Earlier version: NBER Working Paper No. 14478,
November 2008; Slides
2.
Optimal Redistribution in an Open Economy,
November 2008, work in progress; Slides
3.
Wages, Unemployment and
Inequality with Heterogeneous Firms and Workers, May 2008, under review
with Elhanan Helpman and Stephen Redding; Slides
4.
How Expensive is Commitment?, May 2007, preliminary and incomplete draft; Slides
Publications:
1.
Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment,
April 2009
Elhanan Helpman and Oleg Itskhoki
Review of
Economic Studies, forthcoming
Earlier
version with additional results, June 2008; Slides
Labor
Market Rigidity, Trade and Unemployment: A Dynamic Model, April 2009, a technical note
2.
Unequal Effects of Trade on
Workers with Different Abilities, September 2009
Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding
Journal of
the European Economic Association,
Papers and Proceedings of the 2009 EEA
Meetings
Technical Appendix,
August 2009
3.
Frequency of Price Adjustment and
Pass-through, May 2009
Gita Gopinath and Oleg Itskhoki
Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming in May 2010, 125(2)
Earlier version: NBER Working Paper No. 14200, July
2008; Slides
4.
Currency Choice and Exchange Rate
Pass-through, October 2008
Gita Gopinath, Oleg
Itskhoki and Roberto Rigobon
American Economic Review, forthcoming in March 2010, 100(1)
Earlier version: NBER Working Paper No. 13432,
September 2007; Slides
5.
Asymmetric Price Rigidity and the
Optimal Rate of Inflation
Ekonomika i Matematicheskie Metody, July 2008, 44(3): 17-37 [in Russian]
Old version in English:
NES
Master Thesis, July 2004
6.
Model Selection and Paradoxes of
Prediction
Quantile, September 2006, 1: 43-51 [in Russian]
English version: SSRN-id942870, January 2005
Honors,
Fellowships and Grants:
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National Science
Foundation Grant “Risk and Inequality in a Global Economy” (co-PI with Elhanan
Helpman and Stephen J. Redding), 2009-2012
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Review of Economic Studies Tour,
2009
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Chiles
Fellowship, Harvard University, 2008-2009
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Merit Award,
Harvard University, 2007-2008
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Dillon
Fellowship, Harvard University, 2004-2005
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Don
Patinkin Prize, New Economic School, 2004
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Best Student
Paper Award, New Economic School, 2004
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Evraz-Holding
Scholarship, New Economic School, 2004-2005
Conference
Presentations and Invited Seminars:
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2009 |
Princeton, Northwestern, Chicago,
Chicago GSB, Stanford, Stanford GSB, Berkeley, MIT, UCLA, CEFIR/NES,
UPF/CREI, Spring NBER ITO Meeting (Boston; discussant), CESifo (Munich),
ECARES (Brussels), Oxford, LSE/LBS, SED Annual Meeting (Istanbul), Princeton
IES, NBER SI ITI, IMF, Moscow State University, LAMES-LACEA (Buenos Aires),
Cornell, World Bank, Minneapolis Fed (short visit). |
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2008 |
Spring NBER ITO Meeting (Boston; discussant), Spring NBER Price Dynamics Meeting (Stanford), Penn State, NBER Summer Institute ME Meeting (Boston), SED Annual Meeting (Boston), SITE Summer Institute (Stanford), CEFIR/NES, Harvard, Yale, Chicago Fed. |
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2007 |
Spring NBER IFM Meeting (Boston), Harvard, CEFIR/NES, Central European University (Budapest), EEA/ESEM Meeting (Budapest), Fall NBER EFG Meeting (Chicago), Fall NBER ME Meeting (Boston), Winter NBER ITI Meeting (San Francisco), New York Fed Conference on Exchange Rates and Prices. |
Referee:
AEJ-Macro,
American Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Journal,
Economics of Transition, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European
Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of International
Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Quantile, Review of Economics Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics.
Revised: 12 November 2009