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Princeton
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Oleg Itskhoki
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Contact
Information: |
On leave,
visiting University of Chicago in 2012-13
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 [My NBER working papers]
2010-present: Centre for Economic Policy
Research, Research Affiliate
Visiting
Positions:
September 2012 -
June 2013: Visiting Becker-Friedman Institute, Department of Economics,
University of Chicago
Working
Papers:
1.
Financial
Frictions and Industrial Policies, April 2013, draft coming soon
with Ben Moll
2.
Importers, Exporters and Exchange Rate
Disconnect, November 2012
with Mary Amiti and Jozef Konings
revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review
Slides; VoxEU column; NY
Fed Blog; WSJ
Blog
3.
Trade and Inequality: From Theory to
Estimation, April 2013, new revised
draft!
with Elhanan Helpman, Marc
Muendler and Stephen Redding
revise and resubmit at the American Economic Review
Slides; Appendix; Data supplement; VoxEU
column
Previous version: NBER Working Paper No. 17991,
April 2012
4.
Fiscal Devaluations, April 2013, new revised draft!
with Emmanuel Farhi and Gita
Gopinath
revise and resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies
Slides; Project
Syndicate article; Bloomberg
Version with a static model:
NBER Working Paper No. 17662,
December 2011
5.
Price Dynamics for Durable Goods,
May 2012, draft coming soon
with Michal Fabinger and
Gita Gopinath
6.
Optimal Redistribution in an Open Economy,
November 2008, work in progress; Slides
7.
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
8.
How Expensive is Commitment?, May 2007, preliminary and incomplete draft; Slides
Publications:
1.
Sources of Wage Inequality, January
2013
Anders Akerman, Elhanan
Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Marc-Andreas Muendler and Stephen Redding
American Economic Review Papers &
Proceedings, forthcoming
2.
Trade Prices and the Global Trade Collapse of
2008-2009, July 2012
Gita Gopinath, Oleg Itskhoki
and Brent Neiman
IMF Economic Review, September 2012, 60 (3): 303-328 [link to journal
article]
VoxEU column
3.
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
4. 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
5.
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
6.
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
Top-3
most cited paper in REStud in 2009-2012
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
7.
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
8.
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
9.
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
10. 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
11. 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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Kiel
Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs, 2012
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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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2013 (scheduled) |
AEA
Meetings (San Diego), UC Berkeley, UC Davis, San Francisco Fed, Harvard,
CREI\UPF, LSE, Bocconi, Spring NBER IFM (Boston;
discussant), World Bank, Bank of Canada, HEC-Montreal, Cambridge, Oxford,
Chicago Booth, Dallas Fed Conference, Cowles Macro Workshop on Matching
(Yale), Northwestern, SED Meeting (Seoul). |
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2012 (scheduled) |
AEA
Meetings (Chicago; discussant), Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton,
Wisconsin, Workshop on “Industry and Labor Market Dynamics”(Barcelona
GSE), Johns Hopkins, Warwick, LSE,
Edinburgh, Stanford, Kiel Institute, SED (Cyprus), Princeton IES Workshop,
NBER ITI and Macro Perspectives Summer Institute, Princeton, Yale, FREIT EIIT
at UCSC, NBER IFM Fall Meeting (Boston), Philly Fed Trade Workshop, NBER ITI
Winter Meeting (Stanford), U of Chicago, NBER Meeting in Chicago
(discussant), NES 20-th Anniversary Conference (Moscow), ECB Conference. |
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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 Meetings: Montreal 2010, Cyprus 2012, Seoul 2013
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Program committee
member for the NES 20-th
Anniversary Conference, Moscow, December 2012
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Excellence in
Refereeing Award, American Economic
Review, 2009, 2010, 2012.
Refereeing:
AEJ-Macro,
AEJ-Policy, American Economic Review, B.E. Journals, Canadian Journal of
Economics, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economics
of Transition, European Economic Review, IMF 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, Review of World Economics,
World Development, National
Science Foundation Grant Proposals.
Discussions:
1.
NBER IFM March
2013 (Boston): "International Reserves and Rollover Risk" by Javier
Bianchi, Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Leonardo Martinez [Slides]
2.
AEA Meetings 2013
(San Diego): "Foreign Ownership of US Safe Assets: Good or Bad" by
Jack Favilukis, Sydney Ludvigson
and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
[Slides]
3.
NBER
Macroeconomics Within and Across Borders, December 2012 (Chicago): "Fiscal
Unions" by Emmanuel Farhi and Iván Werning [Slides]
4.
Princeton IES
Summer Workshop 2012: "The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade"
by Costas Arkolakis, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare [Slides]
5.
AEA Meetings 2012
(Chicago): "Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching" by Carl
Davidson, Fredrik Heyman, Steve Matusz, Fredrik Sjöholm and Susan Zhu [Slides]
6.
NBER IFM SI 2011:
"Sudden Stops and Sovereign Defaults" by Luis Catão,
Ana Fostel and Romain Rancière
[Slides]
7.
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]
8.
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]
9.
AEA Meetings 2011
(Denver): “Dissecting the French Export Wage Premium” by Jonathan Eaton, Samuel
Kortum, Francis Kramarz and Raul Sampognaro [Slides]
10. NBER ITI SI 2009: “R&D Investment, Exporting, and
Productivity Dynamics” by Bee Yan Aw, Mark Roberts and Daniel Xu
11. NBER ITO May 2009: “Innovation, Firm Dynamics and
International Trade” by Andrew Atkeson and Ariel
Burstein
12. 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)
2013: Diogo Guillen (Gavea Investimentos)
Revised: 6 April 2013