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CURRENT POSITION
Economist, International Monetary Fund, Research Department, June 2004-
Visiting Scholar, CREi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, March-April 2010
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Visiting Scholar, Banque de France, April 2008
Summer Intern, International Finance Division, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2003
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
“Essays on International Capital Flows, Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy”
Advisors: Professors Maurice Obstfeld, Barry Eichengreen, Andrew K. Rose
B.A., Economics and Finance, McGill University, 1998
First class joint-honours, minor in Mathematics
PUBLICATIONS & FORTHCOMING
“What Drives Capital Flows? The Case of Cross-Border M&A Activity and Financial Deepening,” Journal of International Economics, Vol. 65, No. 1 (January 2005), pp. 127–149.
“Remoteness and Real Exchange Rate Volatility,” with Claudio Bravo-Ortega, IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 53, Special Issue (August 2006) pp. 115–132.
“The Impact of Foreign Interest Rates on the Economy: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime,” with Jay C. Shambaugh, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 74, No. 2 (March 2008), pp. 341–361.
“Following Germany’s Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect ofMonetary Policy on the Economy,” with Justin McCrary and Till von Wachter, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 91, No. 2 (May 2009), pp. 315–331.
“Trade Openness and Volatility,” with Andrei A. Levchenko, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 91, No. 3 (August 2009), pp. 558–585.
“Putting the Parts Together: Trade, Vertical Linkages, and Business Cycle Comovement,” with Andrei A. Levchenko, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 2, No. 2 (April 2010), pp. 95–124.
WORKING PAPERS
“Power Laws in Firm Size and Openness to Trade: Measurement and Implications,” with Andrei A. Levchenko and Romain Rancière, CEPR Discussion Paper 7773, March 2010.
“The Value of Human Capital Wealth,” with Akito Matsumoto, September 2009.
“Firm Entry, Trade, and Welfare in Zipf’s World,” with Andrei A. Levchenko, RSIE Discussion Paper 591, March 2009.
“International Trade and Aggregate Fluctuations in Granular Economies,” with Andrei A. Levchenko, RSIE Discussion Paper 585, October 2008.
“The Risk Content of Exports: A Portfolio View of International Trade,” with Andrei A. Levchenko, RSIE Discussion Paper 581, January 2008.
“Trade Costs and Real Exchange Rate Volatility: The Role of Ricardian Comparative Advantage,” with Claudio Bravo-Ortega), IMF Working Paper No. 05/5, January 2005.
POLICY WRITING
“International trade, vertical production linkages, and the transmission of shocks,” with Andrei A. Levchenko, VoxEU.org, http://voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/4185, November 2009.
“Trade Linkages and Business Cycles,” with Andrei A. Levchenko, IMF Research Bulletin, Vol 9, No. 1 (March 2008).
“A Simple Stochastic Approach to Debt Sustainability Applied to Lebanon,” with Edward H. Gardner, IMF Working Paper No. 08/97, April 2008.
TEACHING
Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, 1999-2002
Courses: Intermediate Macroeconomics, Macroeconomic Theory (Ph.D.), and Mathematical Tools for Economists (Ph.D.)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Referee: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Review of International Economics, Review of Economics & Statistics, Review of World Economics/Weltwirtscha?iches Archiv
Conference Organization: Co-organizer for the Eighth Jacques Polak IMF Annual Research Conference (2007)
Affiliations: American Economic Association
SEMINARS & CONFERENCES (PAST FIVE YEARS)
2010: CREi (scheduled), World Bank (scheduled)
2009: U.C. San Diego IR/PS, U.C. Davis, McGill University, Dartmouth College, John Hopkins SAIS, Trinity College Dublin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
2008: Boston College, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Third Annual Workshop on Global Interdependence (CEPR-CREi), Banque de France, IMF, NBER IFM Summer Institute, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, University of British Columbia, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Irvine
2007: Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings, IMF, CEA Annual Meeting
2006: World Bank-CEPR-CREi conference on “Growth and Welfare Effects of Macroeconomic Volatility”, NBER IFM Spring Program Meeting, NBER ITI Spring Program Meeting, IMF, Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, U.C. Berkeley, McGill University, LACEA, Dartmouth College
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Internal IMF Research Grants, 2005-07
Academic Progress Award, U.C. Berkeley, 2003
Clausen Center Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley, 2001
Institute of Business and Economic Research Mini-Grant Award, U.C. Berkeley, 2001
Social Science and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, 2000-2002
Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la Recherche Fellowship, 1998-2003
Block Grant Fellowship, Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, 1998-1999
OTHER INFORMATION
Citizenship: Canadian, Italian
Language: English (native), French (fluent), Spanish (beginner-intermediate), Sanskrit (beginner)
