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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:
Ph.D. in Economics,
Harvard University, 2004-2009
M.A. in Economics, New Economic School (Moscow), 2002-2004
B.Sc. in Economics, Moscow State University, 1999-2003
Academic Appointments:
2009–present: Princeton University,
Department of Economics, and Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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Assistant
Professor of Economics and International Affairs, July 2010–present
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Associate
Research Scholar, International
Economics Section, 2009–2010
2010–present: National Bureau of
Economic Research, Faculty Research Fellow
2010-present: Centre for Economic Policy
Research, Research Affiliate
Working
Papers:
1.
Fiscal Devaluations, December 2011
with Emmanuel Farhi and Gita
Gopinath; Slides
2.
Trade and Inequality: From Theory to
Estimation, December 2011, preliminary
and incomplete draft
with Elhanan Helpman, Marc
Muendler and Stephen Redding; Slides
3.
Trade Prices and the Global Trade Collapse of
2008-2009, November 2011
with Gita Gopinath and Brent
Neiman
4.
Price Dynamics for Durable Goods,
May 2011, draft coming soon
with Michal Fabinger and
Gita Gopinath
5.
Optimal Redistribution in an Open Economy,
November 2008, work in progress; Slides
6.
Wages, Unemployment and
Inequality with Heterogeneous Firms and Workers, September 2008
with Elhanan Helpman and Stephen Redding; Slides
Earlier version: NBER Working Paper No. 14122, June
2008
7.
How Expensive is Commitment?, May 2007, preliminary and incomplete draft; Slides
Publications:
1.
Trade and Labor Market Outcomes, February 2011
Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding
forthcoming in 2011, in D.Acemoglu, M.Arellano and
E.Dekel (eds.), Advances in Economics and
Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Tenth World Congress of the
Econometric Society.
Frisch Memorial Lecture at the 2010
World Congress of the Econometric Society in Shanghai; Slides
2. In Search of Real
Rigidities, May 2010 [link
to the chapter - without Section 6 on Bargaining model]
Gita Gopinath and Oleg Itskhoki
NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2010,
Volume 25, 2011, pp. 261-310, The University of Chicago Press; Slides
comments by Mike Golosov and Virgiliu Midrigan
3.
Inequality and Unemployment in a Global
Economy, February 2010 [link to
journal article]
Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and
Stephen Redding
Econometrica, July 2010, 78
(4): 1239–1283
Technical
Appendix with Formal Derivations and Proofs, February 2010
Earlier version: NBER Working Paper No. 14478,
November 2008; Slides
4.
Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and
Unemployment, April 2009 [link to
the journal article]
Elhanan Helpman and Oleg Itskhoki
Review of
Economic Studies, July 2010, 77
(3): 1100–1137
Earlier versions: Draft with additional results,
June 2008; NBER Working Paper No.
13365, September 2007; Slides
Labor
Market Rigidity, Trade and Unemployment: A Dynamic Model, April 2009, a technical note
5.
Unequal Effects of Trade on
Workers with Different Abilities, September 2009 [link
to the journal article]
Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding
Journal of
the European Economic Association
Papers & Proceedings, April/May
2010, 8 (2–3): 456-466
Technical Appendix,
August 2009
6.
Frequency of Price Adjustment and
Pass-through, May 2009 [link
to the journal article]
Gita Gopinath and Oleg Itskhoki
Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2010, 125 (2): 675-727
Earlier version: NBER Working Paper No. 14200, July
2008; Slides
7.
Currency Choice and Exchange Rate
Pass-through, October 2008 [link to the
journal article]
Gita Gopinath, Oleg
Itskhoki and Roberto Rigobon
American Economic Review, March 2010, 100 (1): 304-336
Earlier version: NBER Working Paper No. 13432,
September 2007; Slides
8.
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
9.
Model Selection and Paradoxes of
Prediction
Quantile, September 2006, 1: 43-51 [in Russian]
English version: SSRN-id942870, January 2005
Teaching:
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ECO 553: Ph.D.
International Macroeconomics (Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2012); Syllabus
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WWS 544: MPA
International Macroeconomics (Fall 2010, Spring 2012); Syllabus
Honors,
Fellowships and Grants:
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Duke Young
Macroeconomists’ Jamboree, 2010
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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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2012 (scheduled) |
AEA
Meetings (Chicago; discussant), Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton,
Wisconsin, Barcelona, Warwick, LSE, Stanford, Kiel Institute, SED (Cyprus). |
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2011 |
AEA
Meetings (Denver; discussant), University of Michigan, Michigan State
University, NY Fed, Philadelphia Workshop on Macroeconomics (discussant),
University of Pennsylvania, Chicago Booth (short visit), FGV/EPGE Advances in
Macroeconomics (Rio de Janeiro), NES-HSE CAS Conference on General
Equilibrium (Moscow), Yale Cowles Summer Conference on Trade and
Macroeconomics (discussant), Conference on Worker-specific Effects of
Globalisation (Tubingen, Germany), NBER IFM Summer Institute (discussant),
NES (Moscow), Philadelphia Fed, Board of Governors of the FRS, Columbia, NBER
IFM Fall Meeting (Boston), UPenn-Wharton, NYU, Harvard, Philadelphia Fed
Trade Workshop, MIT, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, NY Fed, Graduate
Institute and WTO (Geneva). |
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2010 |
NBER
Macroannual (Boston), SED Annual Meeting (Montreal), Duke Macroeconomics
Jamboree, Vanderbilt, Maryland, Temple, Hitotsubashi COE Conference on
International Trade & FDI (Tokyo), University of Tokyo. |
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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
(discussant), 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. |
Public service:
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Program committee
member for the SED Annual Meeting in Cyprus, July 2012
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Program committee
member for the SED Annual Meeting in Montreal, July 2010
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Excellence in
Refereeing Award, American Economic
Review, 2009, 2010
Refereeing:
AEJ-Macro,
American Economic Review, B.E. Journals, Canadian Journal of Economics,
Economic Journal, Economics of Transition, European Economic Review, Journal of
Development Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European
Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of International
Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking,
Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Quantile, Review
of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of
International Economics, World Development, National Science Foundation Grant Proposals.
Discussions:
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AEA Meetings 2012
(Chicago): "Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching" by Carl
Davidson, Fredrik Heyman, Steve Matusz, Fredrik Sjöholm and Susan Zhu [Slides]
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NBER IFM SI 2011:
"Sudden Stops and Sovereign Defaults" by Luis Catão, Ana Fostel and Romain Rancière [Slides]
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2011 Cowles
Summer Conference "New Perspectives on International Trade, Development,
and Macroeconomics" (Yale University): "Trade Protection and Currency
Manipulation" by Arnaud Costinot, Guido Lorenzoni and Iván Werning [Slides]
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9-th Philadelphia
Workshop on Macroeconomics, April 2011: "Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and
Wage Distribution in an Open Economy" by Kerem Coşar, Nezih Guner and James Tybout [Slides]
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AEA Meetings 2011
(Denver): “Dissecting the French Export Wage Premium” by Jonathan Eaton, Samuel
Kortum, Francis Kramarz and Raul Sampognaro [Slides]
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NBER ITI SI 2009:
“R&D Investment, Exporting, and Productivity Dynamics” by Bee Yan Aw, Mark
Roberts and Daniel Xu
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NBER ITO May
2009: “Innovation, Firm Dynamics and International Trade” by Andrew Atkeson and
Ariel Burstein
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NBER ITO April
2008: “Heterogeneity and Trade” by Arnaud Costinot
Ph.D. students:
2010: Saroj Bhattarai
(PennState)
2011: Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA), Shlomi Kramer (General Electric), Mathieu
Taschereau-Dumouchel (UPenn-Wharton), Edouard Schaal (NYU)
Revised: 9 January 2012