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CURRICULUM VITAE
August 2016
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Address:
Ariel Tomas Burstein
Bunche Hall 8365
Department of Economics, UCLA
Box 951477, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477
Phone:
(310) 206-6732
Fax:
(310) 825-9528
Email:
[email protected]
WWW: http://www.econ.ucla.edu/arielb
Date of Birth:
September 22nd, 1974
Citizenship:
Argentina, US Permanent Resident
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
University of California at Los Angeles
Professor of Economics, July 2016 - Present
Associate Professor of Economics, July 2009 – June 2016
Assistant Professor of Economics, July 2003 – June 2009
University of Michigan
Assistant Professor of Economics, August 2002 – June 2003
VISITING APPOINTMENTS
MIT
Visiting Associate Professor, September – November 2014
Swiss National Bank
Visiting Scholar, June 2014
New York University
Visiting Associate Professor, August 2009 – March 2010
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Visiting Research Scholar, September 2006 – March 2007
Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires
Visiting Professor of Economics, 2003-2015
EDUCATION
Northwestern University, IL , Ph.D. in Economics, June 2002, Thesis Advisors: Lawrence Christiano,
Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo
Universidad de San Andres, Argentina, BA in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, 1997
RESEARCH
Peer Reviewed Publications
[1] “Distribution Costs and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics,” with Joao Neves and Sergio Rebelo,
Journal of Monetary Economics, September 2003.
[2] “Large Devaluations and the Real Exchange Rate,’’ with Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo,
Journal of Political Economy, August 2005
[3] “Inflation and Output Dynamics with State Dependent Pricing Decisions,” Journal of
Monetary Economics, October 2006.
[4] “Modeling Exchange Rate Passthrough After Large Devaluations?,” with Martin Eichenbaum and
Sergio Rebelo, Journal of Monetary Economics, March 2007.
[5] “International Trade, Production Sharing, and the Transmission of Business Cycles,” with
Christopher Kurz and Linda Tesar, Journal of Monetary Economic, May 2008.
[6] “Pricing-to-Market, Trade Costs, and International Relative Prices,” with Andrew Atkeson,
American Economic Review, December 2008.
[7] “Foreign Know-How, Firm Control, and the Income of Developing Countries,” with Alexander
Monge-Naranjo, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2009.
[8] “Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade,” with Andrew Atkeson, Journal of
Political Economy, June 2010.
[9] “Importing Skilled-Biased Technology,” with Javier Cravino and Jonathan Vogel, AEJ: Macro, April
2013
[10] “Measured Aggregate Gains from International Trade,” with Javier Cravino, AEJ: Macro, April 2015
[11] “International Trade, Technology, and the Skill Premium,’’ with Jonathan Vogel, forthcoming Journal
of Political Economy.
Other Publications
[12] “Investment Prices and Exchange Rates: Some Basic Facts,” with Joao Neves and Sergio Rebelo,
Journal of the European Economic Association, April/May 2004.
[13] “The Importance of Nontradable Goods’ Prices in Cyclical Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations” with
Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo, Japan and the World Economy, August 2006.
[14] “Pricing-to-Market in a Ricardian Model of International Trade” with Andrew Atkeson, American
Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2007.
[15] “Welfare Costs of Inflation in a Menu Cost Model,” with Christian Hellwig, American
Economic Review Papers and Proceeding, May 2008.
[16] Firm dynamics and Trade Liberalizations,” with Marc Melitz (Advances of
Economics of the 2010 World Congress of the Econometric Society), 2013
[17] “International Prices and Exchange Rates,” with Gita Gopinath, Handbook of International
Economics, 2014
Working Papers
[18] “Understanding Movements in Aggregate and Product-level Real Exchange Rates,’’ with Nir
Jaimovich.
[19] “Factor Price and International Trade: A Unifying Perspective,” with Jonathan Vogel.
[20] “Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy,” with Andrew Atkeson.
[21] “Changes in Between Group Inequality: Computers, Occupations, and International Trade,” with
Eduardo Morales and Jonathan Vogel.
[22] “Prices and Market Shares in a Menu Cost Model,’’ with Christian Hellwig.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
National Science Foundation Grant 2010-2012, “General Equilibrium Perspectives on Innovation by
Firms,” with Andrew Atkeson.
National Science Foundation Grant 2010-2012, “Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium,” with
Jonathan Vogel.
National Science Foundation Grant 2008-2011, “Microeconomic Evidence and Macroeconomic
Implications of Models with Nominal Rigidities,” with Christian Hellwig.
National Science Foundation Grant 2005-2007, “International Relative Prices in Micro-Founded Models
of International Trade,” with Andrew Atkeson.
UCLA’s Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award, Fall 2007
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Co-Editor, Journal of International Economics, 2010-2016
Associate Editor, American Economic Review, 2013Associate Editor, Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010Editorial Board, IMF Economic Review, 2011Editorial Board, Journal of Economics Literature, 2012Editorial Board, Journal of Economic Theory, 2008-2010
Program Co-Chair, Society of Economic Dynamics Meetings, Cambridge MA, 2008
Conference Chair, New Perspective on International Trade, Development, and Macroeconomics, Cowles
Foundation, New Haven, June 2011
Program Co-Chair, Minnesota Macro Conference, Minneapolis, August 2014
Program Co-Chair, NBER International Finance and Macroeconomics, Cambridge MA, Fall 2015-17
Program Co-Chair, NBER Economic Growth, San Francisco, Winter 2016