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Ariel Weinberger Updated May 14, 2015 Contact Information 1 Shields Avenue Department of Economics University of California, Davis Davis, CA, 95616 Citizenship United States, Israel Research Interests International Trade, Aggregate Productivity, Empirical Studies of Trade and Market Power. Employment University of Oklahoma Assistant Professor of Economics, 20015-Present Education University of California, Davis Ph.D., Economics, June 2015 M.A., Economics, 2010 | Mobile: +1 (408) 307-9925 | E-mail: aweinberger@ucdavis.edu | Website: aweinberger.weebly.com UC San Diego B.S., Management Science, 2007 Previous Employment Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis Research Associate, 2007-2009 University of California, San Diego Research Assistant for Professor Valerie Ramey, 2006-2007 Research: Job Market Paper Markups and Misallocation with Trade and Heterogeneous Firms With general preferences, a monopolistic competition equilibrium can be inefficient in the way inputs are allocated towards production. This paper formalizes the welfare impact of reallocation of quantities across firms (within an industry) by comparing real income growth with the hypothetical case of no misallocation in quantities – as is the case when consumer preferences are CES and producers choose a constant markup. In contrast, my monopolistic competition model is consistent with variable markups such that reallocations initiated by aggregate shocks that affect firms’ demand or cost curves can impact allocative efficiency. Open economy shocks, even by raising production overall, can have opposing consequences for the misallocation distortion depending on the adjustment of the market power distribution. Using firm-level data from Chile for 1995-2007, a period with large terms of trade gains, I find that average revenue productivity gains are not necessarily associated with gains in allocative efficiency because firms pass-through productivity gains into markups. Using industry-year variation, I find evidence that industries that import a larger share of their inputs have higher markup dispersions and become more misallocated as a result of appreciations compared to “open” sectors that compete globally in the sale of their output. Working Papers Heterogeneous Exporter Markups: Quantitative Implications for Consumer Welfare, with Ina Simonovska and Jae Wook Jung Importing, Productivity and the Exchange Rate, with Felipe Aviles Lucero Published Papers: FDI, Productivity and Country Growth, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, March/April 2009, 91(2), p. 61-78, with Silvio Contessi . 1 of 2 Teaching Experience University of California, Davis Instructor Intermediate Macroeconomics Teaching Assistant International Trade, Intermediate Macroeconomics, International Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Economics of East Asia, International Economics, Principles of Macroeconomics. Awards University of California, Davis UC Davis Graduate Fellowship, Winter 2015, $11,432 Institute for Governmental Affairs/Department of Economics Research and Travel Award, 2014 Economics Department Offer TA Award, 2009 - 2014. Professional Activities Conference Presentations 2015 Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference, May 2015, Banff, Canada 2014 Economics PhD Conference at the University of Leicester, December 2014, Leicester, UK Midwest International Trade Conference, Spring 2014, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Invited Presentations and Seminars Int’l/Macro Brown Bag, 2012, 2013, 2014, UC Davis, CA Department Seminar, Fall 2014, Sonoma State University Conferences Attended Empirical Investigations in International Trade, UC Santa Cruz 2012 AEA Annual Meeting, San Diego 2013 International Trade Workshop, UCLA 2014 International Comparison of Income, Prices and Production, UC Davis 2014 Midwest International Trade Conference, Indian University Purdue University Indianapolis, Spring 2014 Referee Regional Science and Urban Economics Department Service Organizer, International/Macroeconomics Brownbag Series, UC Davis Department of Economics Fall 2013, Spring 2014 Additional Skills Languages: English (Native, fluent), Spanish (fluent), Hebrew (basic) Software: Matlab, STATA, Gauss. References Available to Contact Prof. Robert Feenstra, Chair Department of Economics University of California, Davis rcfeenstra@ucdavis.edu Prof. Ina Simonovska Department of Economics University of California, Davis inasimonovska@ucdavis.edu Prof. Katheryn Russ Department of Economics University of California, Davis knruss@ucdavis.edu 2 of 2
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