MARIO J. CRUCINICurriculum Vitae
December 2020

Tel: 615-322-7357
Fax: 615-343-8495
mario.j.crucini@vanderbilt.edu
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Department of Economics
Box 351819-B
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235

Education

University of Rochester, College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D. in Economics, “The Transmission of Business Cycles in the Open Economy”
1991 (Advisors: Marianne Baxter, James Kahn, Robert G. King)
M.A. in Economics, 1989

University of Western Ontario, College of Arts and Sciences
B.A. in Economics, with Honors, 1985 (Advisor: Ronald Wonnacott)
Employment

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Professor of Economics, 2012 – present
Director of the Honors Economics Program, 2007 – 2014, 2016 –Midwest Macroeconomics Group. Co-Director, 2011 – present
Center for International Price Research. Co-Director, 2010 – present
Vice Chair, Department of Economics, 2002 – 2005
Associate Professor of Economics, 1999 – 2012

University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Department of Finance, Visiting AssistantProfessor of Economics, 1998 – 1999

New York University, Department of Economics, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics,
The Stern School of Business, 1995 – 1996

The Ohio State University, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor of Economics, 1991
– 1999Bank of Canada, Banking and Financial Studies, Research Assistant, 1985-1986

Research Appointments

NBER, Cambridge, MA. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research,
International Finance and Macroeconomics Program, 2008 – present
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX. Senior Fellow, Globalization andMonetary Policy Institute, 2008 – present

CAMA, Sydney, Australia. Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic
Analysis, Open Economy Macroeconomics Program, Crawford School of Public Policy,
Australian National University, May 2013 – present
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CEBRA, Switzerland. Officer, America’s Chapter, Central Bank Research Association(CEBRA), 2015 – present

Editorial Appointments

Journal of Monetary Economics, Associate Editor, 2008 – present

Pacific Economic Review, Editorial Board, 2013 – present
Canadian Journal of Economics, Co-editor, 2010 – 2013

Journal of International Economics, Associate Editor, 2001– 2010

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Associate Editor, 2001– 2008

Review of International Economics, Associate Editor, 2000 – 2003; Editorial Council, 1997–1999
National Science Foundation, Member, Economics Program Review Panel, 2003 – 2005.

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Guest Editor, Trade and Macroeconomics Special
Issue. “New Approaches to Enduring Puzzles,” November 2016, 72(0): 2-4.

Extended Scholarly Research Visits

Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, May 18-27, 2015

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus,
June 20-30, 2011

Visiting Principle Fellow, University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Business, April 9June 29, 2009
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Auckland, March 17-April 8, 2009

Weatherall Visiting Fellow, Queen’s University, Department of Economics, July 1 - August 30,
2008

HonorsVisiting Assistant Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria, June 27 - July 5,
2005
President, International Finance and Economics Society, January 2013 – 2014.
Vanderbilt University, Littlejohn Faculty Fellow, 2016.

Who’s Who in Economics, Fourth Edition, compiles biographical citations of 1,200 most cited
economists during the period 1990 to 2000.
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University of Rochester, Research Fellowship, financed by a Sloan grant awarded toProfessor Alan Stockman to support the Workshop on International Financial Markets, 1988
- 1989

University of Rochester, Summer Research Awards, 1987 – 1989
University of Rochester, Graduate Fellowship, 1986 –1989
University of Western Ontario, Deans Honor List

Research

Collection of Peer-reviewed Publications:

Crucini, Mario J. Understanding the Implications of Trade and Financial Market Integrationfor Business Cycles. World Scientific Studies in International Economics, Vol. 74. New Jersey:
World Scientific, 2020.

Articles in Refereed Journals
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Crucini, Mario J. and Nam Vu. “Did the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act HelpCounties Most Affected by the Great Recession,” Review of Economic Dynamics, available
online 17 November 2020.
Crucini, Mario J., and Christopher I. Telmer. “Microeconomic Sources of Real Exchange
Rate Variation,” Review of Economic Dynamics, October 2020, Vol. 38, 22-40.

Crucini, Mario J., Craig Benedict and Anthony Landry. “On What States Do Prices Depend?
Answers from Ecuador,” (online 15 October 2019) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
Crucini, Mario J. and Landry, Anthony, 2019. "Accounting for real exchange rates using
micro-data," Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 91(C), pages 86-100.

Crucini, Mario J. and Gregor Smith. “Distance and Time Effects in Swedish Commodity
Prices, 1732-1914,” East Asian Economic Review, December 2016, Vol. 20(4), 427-445.
Chen, Kan and Mario J. Crucini, “Trends and Cycles in Small Open Economies:
Making the Case for a General Equilibrium Approach,” Journal of Economic Dynamics
and Control, November 2016, Vol. 72, 159-168.

Crucini, Mario J., and J. Scott Davis. “Distribution Capital and the Short- and Long-Run
Import Demand Elasticity,” Journal of International Economics, May 2016, Vol. 100,
Pages 203-219.
Crucini, Mario J., and Mototsugu Shintani. “Measuring Business Cycles By Saving for a
Rainy Day.” Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 48(4), 1266–1290, November 2015.
Crucini, Mario J., Mototsugu Shintani and Takayuki Tsuruga. “Noisy Information,
Distance and Law-of-One-Price Dynamics Across US Cities.” Journal of Monetary
Economics, September 2015, Vol. 74, 52–66.

10. Crucini, Mario J. and Hakan Yilmazkuday. “Understanding Long-run Price Dispersion,”
Journal of Monetary Economics, September 2014, Vol. 66, 226-240.
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11. Crucini, Mario J., Mototsugu Shintani and Takayuki Tsuruga. “Real Exchange Rate
Dynamics in Sticky Wage Models.” Economic Letters, May 2014, Vol. 123(2), 160-163.

12. Crucini, Mario J., Mototsugu Shintani and Takayuki Tsuruga. “Do Sticky Prices Increase
Real Exchange Rate Volatility at the Sector Level?” European Economic Review, May
2013, Vol. 62, 58-72.

13. Crucini, Mario J., John Conley, Robert Driskill and Ali Sina Onder. “The Effects of
Publication Lags on Life Cycle Research Productivity in Economics,” Economic Inquiry,
April 2013. Vol. 51(2), 1251–1276.
14. Bond, Eric W., Mario J. Crucini, Tristan Potter and Joel Rodrigue, “Misallocation and
Productivity Effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff,” Review of Economics Dynamics,
January 2013, Vol. 16(1), 120-134.

15. Berka, Martin, Mario J. Crucini and Chih-Wei Wang. “International Risk Sharing andCommodity Prices,” Canadian Journal of Economics, May 2012, Vol. 45(2), 427-447.

16. Crucini, Mario J., Ayhan Kose, and Christopher Otrok. “What Are the Driving Forces ofInternational Business Cycles?” Review of Economic Dynamics, January 2011, Vol. 14(1),156-175.
17. Crucini, Mario J., Mototsugu Shintani and Takayuki Tsuruga. “Accounting For Persistence
and Volatility of Good-Level Real Exchange Rates: The Role of Sticky Information.”
Journal of International Economics, May 2010, Vol. 81, 48-60.
18. Crucini, Mario J., Mototsugu Shintani and Takayuki Tsuruga. “The Law-of-One-Price
Without the Border: The Role of Distance Versus Sticky Prices.” The Economic Journal,
May 2010, Vol. 120(544), 462-480.

19. Crucini, Mario J. and Mototsugu Shintani. “Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations:
Evidence from Micro-Data.” Journal of Monetary Economics, April 2008, Vol. 55(3), 629644.
20. Crucini, Mario J., Christopher I. Telmer, and Marios Zachariadis. “Understanding
European Real Exchange Rates.” American Economic Review, June 2005, Vol. 95 (3),724-738.
21. Bidarkota, Prasad and Mario J. Crucini. “Commodity Prices and the Terms of Trade.”
Review of International Economics, November 2000, 8(4), 647-666.

22. Backus, David K. and Mario J. Crucini. “Oil Prices and the Terms of Trade.” Journal ofInternational Economics, February 2000, 50(1), 185-213.

23. Crucini, Mario J. “On International and National Dimensions of Risk Sharing.” The Review
of Economics and Statistics, February 1999, Vol. LXXXI, No. 1, 73-84.
24. Crucini, Mario J. “Country Size and Economic Fluctuations.” Review of International
Economics, May 1997, Vol. 5(2), 204-220.

25. Crucini, Mario J. and James Kahn. “Tariffs and Aggregate Economic Activity: Lessons
From the Great Depression.” Journal of Monetary Economics, December 1996, Vol. 38(3),427-467.
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26. Baxter, Marianne and Mario J. Crucini. “Business Cycles and the Asset Structure of
Foreign Trade.” International Economic Review, November 1995, Vol. 36(4), 821-854.
27. Crucini, Mario J. “Sources of Variation in Real Tariff Rates: The United States, 19001940.” American Economic Review, June 1994, Vol. 84(3), 732-743. Reprinted in: The
Seminal Works Of The Great Depression, edited by Randall E. Parker, Edward Elgar
Publishing, 2011.
28. Baxter, Marianne and Mario J. Crucini. “Explaining Saving-Investment Correlations.”
American Economic Review, June 1993, Vol. 83(3), 416-436. Reprinted in: “TheInternational Library of Critical Writings in Economics 191: Open Economy
Macroeconomics, Volume II,” edited by Norman C. Miller. Northampton, MA: Edward
Elgar Publishing, 2006.

29. Baxter, Marianne, Mario J. Crucini and K. Geert Rouwenhorst. “Solving the Stochastic
Growth Model by a Discrete-State-Space, Euler-Equation Approach.” Journal of Businessand Economic Statistics, January 1990, Vol. 8(1), 19-21.
Papers Under Review
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Crucini, Mario J., Dong Cheng, Hyunseung Oh and Hakan Yilmazkuday. “Early 20th
Century American Exceptionalism: Production, Trade and Diffusion of the Automobile ,”NBER Working Paper No. 26121, July 2019.

Crucini, Mario J., Mototsugu Shintani and Takayuki Tsuruga. “A Behavioral Explanation
for the Puzzling Persistence of the Aggregate Real Exchange Rate.” NBER Working Paper
No. 27420, June 2020.
Crucini, Mario J., and Oscar O’Flaherty. “Stay at Home Orders in a Fiscal Union,” NBER
Working Paper No. 28182, December 2020.

NBER Working Papers

Crucini, Mario J., Gregor W. Smith. “How Wide Was the Ocean? U.S. and Swedish
Commodity Price Dispersion from 1732 to 1860.” NBER Working Paper No. 20247, June
2014.

Work in Progress
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Crucini, Mario J., James Harrison, Mason Reasner, Joel Rodrigue and Nicholas Ziebarth.
“Sugar highs and sugar lows: U.S. interwar tariff policy and Cuba’s Great Depression,”draft in preparation.
Crucini, Mario J. and Joel Rodrigue. “Interwar Laffer Curves: Not So Funny,” draft in
preparation.

Crucini, Mario J., Oscar O’Flaherty and Nam T. Vu. “County-level Business Cycles andOptimal Fiscal Policy,” draft in preparation.

Bawa, Siraj, Martin Berka, Mario J. Crucini, Nam Vu and Ming-jen Chang. “The Terms ofTrade and the Wealth of Nations,” draft in preparation.
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5.

Crucini, Mario J., James Harrison and Joel Rodrigue. “Microeconomic Data Archive: Lineitem Data of U.S. Import Quantities, Unit Values and Tariffs: 1922 to 1933,” annual crosssections of 6,000 plus line items as well as cross-linked line-item panel.

Book Chapters
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Berka, Martin and Mario J. Crucini. “The Consumption Terms of Trade and Commodity
Prices.” Commodity Prices and Markets, East Asia Seminar on Economics, Volume 20,
Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, editors, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Crucini, Mario J. “International Real Business Cycles.” The New Palgrave Dictionary of
Economics, second edition, Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, editors, London:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 494-504.

Crucini, Mario J. and James Kahn. “Tariffs and the Great Depression Revisited.” In Great
Depressions of the Twentieth Century, Timothy Kehoe and Edward Prescott, editors,
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2007, 305-334.

Crucini, Mario J. and Gregory D. Hess. “International and Intranational Risk Sharing,” inIntranational Macroeconomics, Gregory D. Hess and Eric van Wincoop, editors,
Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 37-59.

Book Reviews, Comments and Published Abstracts
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Crucini, Mario J. “What Determines International Wages and Prices?” NBER Reporter
Research Summary, No. 2, 2013.

Crucini, Mario J. Comment on: “Nontraded Goods Prices, Terms of Trade andInternational Risk-Sharing: An Empirical Investigation,” International Seminar on
Macroeconomics, Christopher Pissarides and Jeffrey Frankel, editors, Chicago: Universityof Chicago Press, 2012.

Crucini, Mario J. Review of: “Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great
Depression.” by Douglas A. Irwin. Journal of Economic Literature, 2011, 49:4, 1297-1299.
Crucini, Mario J. “Purchasing Power Parity.” International Encyclopedia of the Social
Sciences, second edition, edited by William A. Darity, Macmillan Reference, USA, 2008,
634-635.

Crucini, Mario J. “Protectionism and Tariff Wars.” History of World Trade Since 1450,
edited by John J. McCusker, Macmillan Reference, USA, 2006, 611-614.

Crucini, Mario J. Comment on: “Has Monetary Policy Been So Bad That It Is Better To Get
Rid of It? The Case of Mexico.” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 33(2), May 2001,
434-439.

Crucini, Mario J. Review of: “Financial Integration and Real Activity.” by Tamim Bayoumi,
Journal of Economic Literature, June 1999, Vol. 37(2), 678-679.
Crucini, Mario J. Review of: “Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade.” by
Douglas Irwin, Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 64(4), April 1998, 1025-1028.
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9.

Crucini, Mario J. “Debt and Disinflation.” in International Stock Returns and Business
Cycles, a conference report published by the Weiss Center for International Financial
Research, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, August 1994, No. 5, 33-36.

Research Grants

National Science Foundation, Social and Economic Sciences, Economics“International Cities as the Economic Unit of Account: Theory and Measurement”(2010-2013)
Award #1030164 ($ 513,111)
Co-PIs, Mario J. Crucini and Mototsugu Shintani ($455,066)
Research Associate, Hakan Yilmazkuday ($ 58,045)“Understanding Real Exchange Rates” (2005-2008)
Award # 0524868 ($ 341,878)
Co-PIs, Mario J. Crucini and Mototsugu Shintani ($237,911)
Co-PI, Chris I. Telmer ($ 103,967)“The Anatomy of Real Exchange Rates” (2002-2005)
Award # 0136797 ($ 226,715)
Co-PI, Mario J. Crucini ($ 101,861)
Co-PI, Chris I. Telmer ($ 124,854)

Carnegie-Bosch Institute, GSIA, Carnegie-Mellon University“Determinants of International Relative Prices and Exchange Rates” (1999)
Funding for academic conference
Mario J. Crucini and Chris I. Telmer ($ 15,000)

Ohio State University“Savings and Investment in a Highly Integrated Capital Market: Lessons from Interprovincial Investment Flows in Canada” (1991-1993)
Seed Grant # 221412
PI: Mario J. Crucini

Scholarly Research VisitsFederal Reserve Bank of Dallas, June 17-21, 2019, June 11-15, 2018, March 6-10, 2017,
October 13-14, 2016, December 14-16, 2015, December 15-16, 2014, August 3-7, 2014,
March 2-7, 2014, May 31 – June 1, 2013, March 31 – April 7, 2012, March 21-25, 2011.
Federal Reserve Board, April 13 – 14, 2006, September 19, 2019
Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, May 18-27, 2015

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus,
June 20-30, 2011

Visiting Principle Fellow, University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Business, 2009

Weatherall Visiting Fellow, Queen’s University, Department of Economics, July 1 - August 30,
2008
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Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, October 14 – 17, 2008

Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria, June 27 - July 5,
2005
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Institute for Empirical
Macroeconomics, January to May 1991

Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund, April 12 - 14, 2005, April 10 – 12, 2006

Visiting Scholar, Central Bank of Brasil, May 23 – 28, 2004

Scholarly presentations of research
Invited Lectures

Invited speaker (one of five), “International Diffusion of the Automobile from 1913 to 1940,
Queen’s University Economics Department, Frontiers of Macroeconomics Workshop, May
2018.

Invited speaker, "The Terms of Trade: From the Mundane to the Metaphysical," on theoccasion of a memorial conference in honor of Professor David K. Backus, at the Stern Schoolof Business, New York University, September 16, 2016.

Keynote speaker at the inaugural meeting of the International Economics and Finance Society(Korea Chapter), “Understanding Real Exchange Rates Using Micro-Data: New Approaches toEnduring Puzzles,” Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea September 8, 2016.
IEFS, Presidential Address, “Globalization Boom and Bust: A Study of US Automobile Exports
from 1925 to 1940,” ASSA meetings in Boston, January 4, 2015.
Keynote speaker at the Global Policy, Global Institutions and Global Development
Conference, “Flat World Fiction, Real World Friction: What Determines International Wages
and Prices?” Queen Mary University of London on June 25, 2013.

Distinguished Alumni Speaker, “A Model of International Cities: Implications for RealExchange Rates,” Wegmans’ Conference, Department of Economics, University of Rochester,
October 20, 2008.

Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series, “Flat World Fictions, Real World Frictions” University ofMemphis, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, (Honorarium of $1,000), November
14, 2008.

Invited Presentations

2020:(Unless otherwise noted: departments of economics at Universities and research
departments at government institutions; host paid travel expenses)“The Health and Wealth Effects of COVID-19,” (with Oscar OFlaherty)
Macroeconomics and International Brown Bag Seminar, Vanderbilt University.

“Did the ARRA Help Counties Most Affected by the Great Recession: A County Level
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2019:
2018:
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2016:

Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway, May 19, 2020 (online video seminar).

“Did the ARRA Help Those Most in Need: A County Level Analysis?”
Department of Economics, Georgetown University, September 20.
Research Department, International Division, Board of Governors, September 19.
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, March 25.
“Did the ARRA Help Those Most in Need: A County Level Analysis?”
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, June 12.

“Did the ARRA Help Those Most in Need: A County Level Analysis?”Economics Department, College of William and Mary, October 20.
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, August 25.

"Globalization Boom and Bust: A Study of US Automobile Exports from 1913 to 1940
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, March 7, 2017.

“Trends and Cycles in Small Open Economies: Making The Case For A General
Equilibrium Approach.”
Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, University of Alabama,
December 2.

“Understanding Real Exchange Rates Using Micro-data: New Approaches to Enduring
Puzzles.”Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, October 13.

2015:
2014:

“Distribution Capital and the Short- and Long-run Import Demand Elasticity”
University of Iowa, May 1.
Auburn University, April 1.
Drexel University, February 26.

“Distribution Capital and the Short- and Long-run Import Demand Elasticity”
Kyoto, University, Japan, May 26.

“Trends and Cycles in Small Open Economies: Making The Case For A General Equilibrium
Approach.”
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, December 15.
“On What States Do Prices Depend? Answers From Ecuador”
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, August 7.

“Distribution Capital and the Short- and Long-run Import Demand Elasticity”
Boston College, September 18

2012: “Do Sticky Prices Increase Real Exchange Rate Volatility at the Sector Level?”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Brandeis University.

2011: “Do Sticky Prices Increase Real Exchange Rate Volatility at the Sector Level?”
European Central Bank (Frankfurt, Germany)
Central Bank of Cyprus and University of Cyprus (Nicosia, Cyprus)

2010: “Do Sticky Prices Increase Real Exchange Rate Volatility at the Sector Level?”
European Commission (Brussels, Belgium)
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
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Federal Reserve Board (Washington, D.C.)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta“A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates”
Clemson University

2009:“The Law-of-One-Price Without the Border: The Role of Distance Versus Sticky
Prices”
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas“Accounting for Real Exchange Rates with Micro-data”
University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)“A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates”
University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)
University of Adelaide (Adelaide, Australia)
Massey University (Auckland, New Zealand)“The Law-of-One-Price Without the Border: The Role of Distance Versus Sticky
Prices”
University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand)2008:“Accounting For Persistence and Volatility of Good-Level Real Exchange Rates: The Role ofSticky Information”
Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Wellington, New Zealand)“Do Sticky Prices Increase Real Exchange Rate Volatility at the Sector Level?”Bank of Canada (Ottawa, Canada)“A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates”
Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada)
University of Memphis, Fogelman College of Business and Economics

2007:
2006:

2005:

“Accounting For Persistence and Volatility of Good-Level Real Exchange Rates: The Role ofSticky Information”
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Duke University
North Carolina State University“Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data”
University of Michigan“Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data”
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (Washington, D.C.)“Price Dispersion: the Role of Borders, Distance and Location”
International Monetary Fund

“Price Dispersion: the Role of Borders, Distance and Location”
Purdue University“Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data”
Joint Luncheon Lecture Series co-sponsored by the European Central Bank, theCenter for Financial Studies and Deustch Bundesbank (Frankfurt, Germany)
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2004:

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1993:

Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna, Austria)“Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data”
Ohio State University
University of Colorado
Central Bank of Brazil“Understanding European Real Exchange Rates: 1975-1990”
University of Sao Paulo and Central Bank of Brazil (Sao Paulo, Brazil)“Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data”
Louisiana State University
University of VirginiaInternational Monetary Fund

“Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data”
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank
Vanderbilt Economics“Understanding European Real Exchange Rates: 1975-1990”
University of Kentucky“Understanding European Real Exchange Rates: 1975-1990”
University of Houston“Dispersion in Real Exchange Rates”
Vanderbilt University“Dispersion in Real Exchange Rates”
University of Pennsylvania (Department of Finance)
Notre Dame University (Department of Economics and Finance)
Rutgers University“Oil Prices and the Terms of Trade”
Georgetown University
Arizona State University“Oil Prices and the Terms of Trade”
Purdue University
Notre Dame University
New York University
Ohio State University“On National and International Dimensions of Risk Sharing”
New York University (Stern School of Business and Department of Economics)“On National and International Dimensions of Risk Sharing”
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Department of Finance)“Tariffs and Aggregate Economic Activity: Lessons from the Great Depression”
Ohio State University (Department of Rural and Agricultural Economics)
Vanderbilt University (Department of Business and Economics)“Business Cycles and the Asset Structure of Foreign Trade”
Indiana University
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1992:

University of Washington
Simon Fraser University
University of British Columbia“International Risk Sharing: A Simple Comparative Test”
University of Rochester
Carnegie-Melon University (Graduate School of Industrial Management)“The Fall of the Soviet Empire” (Panel discussion on public television moderated, by Charles
Herman)Ohio State University (WOSU TV-34)

Conference Presentations
2020:“A Behavioral Explanation for the Puzzling Persistence of the Aggregate Real Exchange Rate”
IMFC5 Conference, virtual conference hosted by Korea University, June 5, 2020.

2019: “Did Durable Goods Producing States Suffer a Greater Great Depression?” Midwest
Macroeconomics Meetings, Michigan State University, November 2, 2019,“Did the ARRA Help Counties Most Affected by the Great Recession?” Midwest
Macroeconomics Meetings, University of Georgia, May 2019.

2018: “International Diffusion of the Automobile, 1913-1940.” 7th Annual Workshop on International
Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, December 7.
2017:
2016:
2015:

2014:
2013:

“International Diffusion of the Automobile, 1913-1940.” Midwest Macroeconomics
Conference, Vanderbilt University, November 3.

“Process Innovation and Product Diffusion Through Trade: A Study of US Automobile Exports
from 1913 to 1940.” Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, University of Pittsburgh, November
4, 2017.
“Globalization Boom and Bust: A Study of US Automobile Exports from 1913 to 1940.”
International Price Comparisons Conference, MIT Sloan School of Management, May
28.

“Trends and Cycles in Small Open Economies: Making The Case For A General Equilibrium
Approach.
20th Anniversary Midwest Macroeconomics Meeting, Department of Economics,
University of Rochester, November 7.
IEFS Japan 20th Anniversary Annual Meeting 2015, Third Conference on Institutions,Markets, and Market Quality, May 21.

“Trends and Cycles in Small Open Economies: Making The Case For A General Equilibrium
Approach.”Workshop on International Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Dec. 5.
Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, Florida International University, November 8.

“Understanding Long-run Price Dispersion.”
Princeton University Conference on ICP/PPP.

“Measuring International Business Cycles by Saving for a Rainy Day.”
Monetary Policy in a Global Setting: China and the United States (Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China)
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2012:
2011:“Misallocation and Productivity Effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930”
Trade Conference (Florida International University, Miami, USA)

“Misallocation and Productivity Effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930”
RED Mini-Conference at the Society for Economic Dynamics meetings, (Ghent,
Belgium)
Conference on: “Macroeconomic Policy in Open Economies during Times of Crisis(Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey)“Do Sticky Prices Increase Real Exchange Rate Volatility at the Sector Level?”
Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Conference (Ghent, Belgium)“Accounting for Real Exchange Rates Using Micro-Data”
Econometric Society Winter Meetings (Denver)
CMSG, Vancouver, Canada (University of British Columbia)

2010:“Incentives and Effects of Publication Lags on Life Cycle Research Productivity in Economics”
Canadian Economic Association Annual Meetings (Ottawa, Canada)“How Wide Was the Ocean? Commodity Price Dispersion in the US and Sweden 1732-1860”
Conference on Microeconomic Sources of Real Exchange Rate Behavior (Vanderbilt
University)“International Risk Sharing and Commodity Prices”
CEPR Conference on “International Risk Sharing” (Universite de Libre Bruxelles,
Brussels, Belgium)“Accounting for Real Exchange Rates Using Micro-Data”
Canadian Economic Association Annual Conference (Quebec City)“Measuring Business Cycles By Saving for a Rainy Day”
Euro Area Business Cycle Network Conference on “International Business Cycles:
Linkages, Differences and Implications,” (Budapest, Hungary)“A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates”
American Economic Association Session at the ASSA Annual Meeting (Atlanta)
2009:

2008:
2007:

“Do Sticky Prices Increase Real Exchange Rate Volatility at the Sector Level?”
Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings (Michigan State University)“A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates”
Conference on Macroeconomic Theory (University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)“The Consumption Terms of Trade and Commodity Prices”
NBER-ASEAN Annual Conference (Hong Kong)
Society for Economic Dynamics (Istanbul, Turkey)“A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates”
Wegmans’ Conference, Distinguished Alumni Speaker (University of Rochester)
Murray S. Johnson Memorial Conference (UT-Austin)
Midwest International Trade Meetings (Ohio State University)“Microeconomic Sources of Real Exchange Rate Variation”
Conference on Exchange Rates and Prices (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Summer CEU Workshop (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)
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Canadian Economic Association Meetings (Halifax, Canada)
Midwest Macroeconomics Conference (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)“The Anatomy of Real Exchange Rates”
Econometric Society Meetings (Chicago, IL)
2006:

2005:
2004:

“What Are the Driving Forces of International Business Cycles?”American Economic Association Session at the ASSA Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL)“Measuring Business Cycles By Saving for a Rainy Day”
American Economic Association Session at the ASSA Annual Meeting (Boston)“Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data”
Midwest Macroeconomics Conference (Washington University, St. Louis)“Price Dispersion: the Role of Borders, Distance and Location”
Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Conference (Budapest, Hungary)
Midwest International Trade Meetings (Vanderbilt University)“Price Dispersion: the Role of Borders, Distance and Location”
Conference on Macroeconomics and Development (Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
American Economic Association Session at the ASSA Annual Meeting (San Diego)“The Trade Cost Model: Implications for the Law-of-One-Price and PPP”
Midwest International Trade Meetings (IUPUI)

2003:
2002:

2000:

“Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data”
NBER, Summer Institute, IFM Program (Cambridge, MA)“Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data”
ASSA Meetings (Washington, D.C.)
Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Conference (Paris, France)“Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data”
Econometric Society Meetings (UCLA)
Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings (Vanderbilt University)“Understanding European Real Exchange Rates: 1975-1990”
Minnesota Macroeconomic Theory Conference (University of Minnesota)“Cross-sectional variation in European Real Exchange Rates: 1975-1990”
NBER Universities Conference on Real Exchange Rates (Cambridge, MA)“Dispersion in Real Exchange Rates”
NBER Summer Institute, IFM program (Cambridge, MA)
Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings (Indiana University)
Canadian Macro-Study Group Meetings (University of Western Ontario)

1995:“Oil Prices and the Terms of Trade”
Canadian Macroeconomic Study Group Meeting (Queen’s University)
NBER Summer Institute, IFM Program (Cambridge, MA)“On National and International Dimensions of Risk Sharing”
Midwest International Trade Meetings (University of Iowa)
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1994:

1994:
1993:
1992:

“On National and International Dimensions of Risk Sharing”
Econometric Society Session at the AEA“Tariffs and Aggregate Economic Activity: Lessons from the Great Depression”
NBER, Summer Institute, DEA Program (Cambridge, MA)
Midwest International Trade Meetings (University of Michigan)“Debt and Disinflation”
Conference on “International Stock Returns and Business Cycles,” the Weiss Center,
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and the CEPR (London, UK)“International Risk Sharing: A Simple Comparative Test”
Midwest International Economics Conference (University of Kentucky)“International Risk Sharing: A Simple Comparative Test”
Midwest International Trade Conference (University of Pittsburgh)“Price Deflation and Real Tariff Rates: The United States: 1903 – 1940”
NBER Summer Institute, Development of the American Economy (Cambridge, MA)
Econometric Society Session on Historical Perspectives on Macroeconomics, American
Economic Association Meetings (New Orleans)

Scholarly discussions of research (incomplete list)
1.

2.
3.
4.

“Product Introductions, Currency Unions and the Real Exchange Rate,” by Alberto Cavallo,
Brent Neiman, Roberto Rigobon. The Effects of Globalization on Market Structure, Industry
Evolution and Pricing, a conference organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, andSwiss National Bank and the Centers for International Price Research, Vanderbilt University(Dallas, USA).
“Nontraded Goods Prices, Terms of Trade and International Risk-Sharing: An EmpiricalInvestigation,” by Giancarlo Corsetti and Luca Dedola. International Seminar on
Macroeconomics organized by the NBER, June 2011 (Malta).

“Immigration and the Macroeconomy,” by Federico S. Mandelman and Andrei Zlate, IFM
Summer Institute, July 2009 (Cambridge, MA).

“Large Devaluations and the Real Exchange Rate,” by Ariel Burstein, Martin Eichenbaum andSergio Rebelo. Exchange Rates, Prices and the International Transmission Mechanism, aconference organized by the Banca d’Italia and the Universita di Rome Tre, June 23-24, 2003
(Rome, Italy).

Teaching

Vanderbilt Ph.D. courses:
International Macroeconomics (Economics 317)
Macroeconomic Theory I (Economics 305a)
Macroeconomic Theory II (Economics 8210, formerly Economics 305b)
Macroeconomic Theory III (Economics 305c)
Workshop on Economics (Economics 398)
Vanderbilt M.A. course:
Econometrics (Economics 308)

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Vanderbilt undergraduate courses
Honors Seminar (Economics 4981, formerly Economics 295)International Finance (Economics 3610, formerly Economics 264)
Introduction to Econometrics (Economics 3050, formerly Economics 253)
Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Economics 232)
Vanderbilt Ph.D. thesis committees chaired:
1.

2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

Hanjo “Terry” Kim (in progress). International Macroeconomics. Dissertation proposal
defended, February 20, 2020. Committee members: Kevin Huang, Malin Hu, David Parsley(external).

Oscar O'Flaherty (in progress). Macroeconomics and Labor. Dissertation proposal defended,
March 11, 2020. Committee members: Gregory Huffman, Peter Rousseau, Craig Lewis(external).

James Harrison (2018). “Trade-Frictions and Micro-Price Behaviors: Historical Applications
from the United States.” First appointment, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA.
Dong Cheng (2018). “Essays on the Role of Durables and Financial Frictions in Business
Cycles and International Trade.” First appointment: Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA.

Craig Benedict (2018). First appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Oswego, USA.
Siraj Bawa (2016). “Essays in Corporate Taxation for the Modern Economy.” First
appointment: United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Current
appointment: United States Department of Treasury.

Nam Vu, 2015. “Essays on International Economics.” First appointment: Assistant Professor,
Miami University, Ohio, USA.
Zhongzhong Hu, 2015. “Productivity Dynamics and Economic Transition in China.” First
appointment: University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, CHINA.

Yuanzhi “Jake” Gao, 2015. “Essays in Commodities and Firms.” First appointment: JP Morgan
Chase, Columbus, Ohio. Current appointment: Quantitative Research Vice President at Wells
Fargo.

10. Kan Chen, 2013. “Essays on International Real Business Cycle Models and Bayesian
Estimation.” First appointment: Research Analyst, International Monetary Fund. Current
appointment: Senior Economist, BBVA Research, Houston, USA.

11. Scott Davis, 2009. “Globalization and the Business Cycle.” First appointment: Research
Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Current appointment: Senior Research Economist
and Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
12. Hakan Yilmazkuday, 2009. “Monetary Policy, Price Dispersion and Trade Patterns: The Roleof Trade Costs.” First appointment: Assistant Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
Current appointment: Full Professor, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
13. Chih-Wei Wang, 2008. “Commodity Price Dynamics: Evidence and Theory.” First
appointment: Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington.

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14. Inkoo Lee, 2005. “Essays on Arbitrage, Trade Costs and Real Exchange Rates.” First
appointment: Korea International Economic Policy. Current appointment: Associate
Professor (with tenure), Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea.

15. Roberto Penaloza, 2005. “Dollarization and Price Dynamics.” First appointment: Statistician,National Center on School Choice, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.

16. Sunhee Lee, 2004. “Money Demand and Financial Innovation.” Project Leader, Korea
Telecom, Seoul, Korea.

17. Kamal Amin El-Wassal, 2002. “An Empirical Examination of Stock Markets' Growth in the
Emerging Economics (1980-2000).’’ Senior Economist, Government of Dubai.
Vanderbilt PhD thesis committee member (titles are dissertation or proposals):
1.

Christopher Sichko (in progress). “Drought, Plumbing, and Prices in Early 20th Century
United States,” Dissertation proposal defended, July 19, 2019.

3.

Ziyi Guo, 2013. “Essays in Macroeconomics and Dynamic Factor Models.”

2.
4.
5.
6.

7.
8.
9.

Frank Ciarliero, 2020. “Essays in Macroeconomics with Financial Frictions andApplications to Monetary and Macroprudential Policy,” Dissertation Committee member.
First appointment: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
Ayse Sapci, 2013. “Financial Intermediation Costs: Effects of Business Cycles, Delayed
Recoveries and Relative Consumption Volatility.” First appointment: Visiting AssistantProfessor, Colgate, University. Current appointment: Assistant Professor, Utah State
University.

P. J. Glandon, 2011. “The Economics of Sales.” First appointment: Assistant Professor,
Kenyon College. Current appointment: Associate Professor, Kenyon College.

Matthew Jaremski, 2009. “Free banking: a reassessment using bank-level data.” First
appointment: Assistant Professor, Colgate University. Current appointment: Associate
Professor, Utah State University.

Osayi Ethel Ovbiosa-Akinbosoye, 2009. “Essays on the Effects of Trade Liberalization and
Oil Price Volatility in Open Economies.” Senior Pricing Manager, Global Insights at
Walgreens Boots Alliance.
Aleskandr Vashiliko, 2008. Essays on Trade Liberalization with Firm Heterogeneity.”First appointment: Institute for the Economy in Transition

Tomas Cvrcek, 2007. First appointment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,
Clemson University; Current appointment: Lecturer, University College of London,
London, UK.

10. Kun, Yang, 2006. “Econometric Analysis of Financial Markets Using High Frequency
Data.” Portfolio Manager, PanAgora Asset Management

11. Gemma Lee, 2006. “Three Essays on Equity Offerings and Related Issues.” AssistantProfessor, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa

12. Rajdeep Senjupta, 2006. “Essays in Financial Market Imperfections.” First appointment:
Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Current appointment: Federal
Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
13. Jiaren Pang, 2005. “Three Essays on the Development of Financial and Labor Markets.”
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14. Chia-Ying Chang, 2002. “Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics with Frictions.” Lecturer,
School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

15. Jinyoung Hwang, 2001. “Three Essays on Corruption and Inequality.” College of
Economics and Business, Hannam University, Deajeon, South Korea.
Ohio State Ph.D. thesis committee member for:1.

2.

Marios Zachariadis, 2000. “Models of R&D Induced Growth: An Empirical Investigation.” Full
Professor (with tenure), University of Cyprus.

Prasad Bidarkota, 1996. “State-Space Modeling of Economic Time Series with Stable Shocks.”
Associate Professor (with tenure), Florida International University.

3.

Jian Chen, 1995. “Long-horizon Predictability of Foreign Currency Prices and Excess Returns:
Alternative Procedures for Estimation and Inference.” Kenyon College.

5.

Kyriacos Aristotelous, 1993. Professor of Economics, Department of Business Accounting andEconomics, Otterbein College.

4.

Bonghan Kim. 1994.

Vanderbilt M.A. thesis advisor for:Gemma Lee, 2005. “Who Monitors Potential Manipulation of Earnings in Newly Public
Firms?” Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Jie He, 2001. “How the FDI Inflows Have Influenced Trade Flows – Case of Developing
Countries in Asia and Latin America”

Vanderbilt M.A. internship, post-doctoral mentor for:Alexei Kokin, 2001. Graduate study internship, 2000

Min-jen Chang, 2004. Post-doctoral mentor, Assistant Professor, National DongHwa
University

Vanderbilt Honors economics thesis committee chair for:
1.

2.
3.
4.
5.

Jacob Vest, 2020. “Design and Predicted Effects of a Carbon Tax with Border Carbon
Adjustment in the United States.” Recipient, Aldrich Prize for Best Honors Thesis.

Aidan Livingston, 2020. “The Effects of Aluminum Tariffs on US Secondary Producers:
Who Bears the Incidence?”

Yue Qi, 2018. “Analysis of Brexit’s Asymmetric Effects on Stock Returns.” Pursuing a
Ph.D. in Economics at Yale University.

Marc Chen, 2017. “The Relationship between Public Transit Accessibility and Labor
Force Participation in Nashville, TN.” Awarded Highest Honors. Recipient, T. Aldrich
Prize for Best Honors Thesis. Schwarzman Scholar, Beijing, China.
Mason Reasner, 2016. “The Interwar U.S.–Cuban Sugar Trade and the Hawley Smoot
Tariff.” Awarded Highest Honors. Recipient, T. Aldrich Prize for Best Honors Thesis.
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in economics, Purdue University.
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6.
7.

8.
9.

Richard McQueary, 2015. "The Lucas Paradox Revisited: Tracking the Returns to Capitalacross the Development Spectrum."
Tyler Huber, 2014. “Rating Changes and Sovereign Bond Yields.”

Daniel Eubanks, 2013. "Improving Fuel Economy Through Subsidies: Evidence from Cashfor Clunkers." Awarded Highest Honors. Co-recipient of the T. Aldrich Finegan Prize forBest Thesis. First appointment: Research Assistant, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Potter, 2010. “The Distributive Effects of Tariff Policy During the Interwar Period.”
Awarded Highest Honors. Co-recipient of the T. Aldrich Finegan Prize for Best Thesis.
First appointment: Assistant Professor, Drexel University.

10. Billy Slater, 2008. “Effects of Exchange Rate Regime Choice on European Union Business
Cycles” Awarded Highest Honors. Co-recipient of the T. Aldrich Finegan Prize for Best
Thesis.

11. Jeffrey Moredock, 2008. “Office Capitalization Rates: The Effects of Interest Rates”

12. Burcu Basaran, 2007. “The Law of One Price and the Width of the Border”

13. Elizabeth Mielke, 2004. “International Financial Crises and the Real Economy”

Service

14. Robby Thompson, 2001. “Real Exchange Rates”

Service to Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University
Committee on Undergraduate Immersion, 2018-

International Economics Seminar Coordinator, 2003-

Departmental Seminar (Macroeconomics), 2017-2018

Chair, Graduate Ph.D. Admissions Committee, 2016-2017, 2015-2016

Policy and Evaluation Committee, 2014-2015, 2015-2016

Co-chair Macroeconomics Recruiting Committee, 2013-2014

Macroeconomics Recruiting Committee, 2012-2013

Graduate Ph.D. Internal Awards Committee, 2011-12, Member.

Graduate Program in Economic Development, Ad Hoc Review Committee, 2010, 2012–2013

Graduate Program in Economic Development Admissions Committee, 2010-2011, 2011-2012

Development and External Affairs Committee, Co-Chair, 2018-present; Member, 2009–2010;
Chair, 2007–2009
Hiring Plan Committee Member, 2001

Senior Recruiting Committee Member, 1999–2002

Departmental seminar series coordinator (Spring 2002, Fall 2004 and Spring 2005)

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Service to College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University

Commodore Classroom, Lecture on Brexit, New York, NY, TN, June 24, 2019
Commodore Classroom, Lecture on Brexit, Knoxville, TN, April 16, 2019
Economics Major Advisor, 1999-present

Senior Advisory Review Committee (SARC) for academic year 2013-2014

Vice Chair, Department of Economics, July 2002 - June 2005
Freshman Advisor, 2001

Service to Vanderbilt University

University Senate, College of Arts and Sciences representative, 2020-

Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program, Proposal Review Committee, Spring2020.
Responsible Conduct of Research Seminar, Founding Faculty Leader, 2010; Seminar andDiscussion Leader, 2010 – 2015
Chair, Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Committee (Economics), 2000

Service to the Profession (excluding editorial positions)
Referee for (in alphabetical order):American Economic Review; American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics; Canadian Journalof Economics; Review of Economic Dynamics; Economic Inquiry; European Economic
Review; International Economic Review; International Studies Quarterly; Journal of Applied
Economics; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Journal of the European Economic
Association; Journal of International Economics; Journal of International Money and Finance;
Journal of Macroeconomics; Journal of Money Credit and Banking; Journal of Monetary
Economics; Journal of Political Economy; National Science Foundation; Quarterly Review of
Economics and Finance; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Review of Economic Dynamics;
Review of Economic Studies; Review of Economics and Statistics; Review of International
Economics; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Social Science and Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada; Southern Economic Journal; The Economic Journal

Conference Program Committee

Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings

Vanderbilt University, November 2-4, 2018 (co-chair with Hyunseung Oh)

Vanderbilt University, May 20-22, 2011
Vanderbilt University, April 2002.

Ohio State University, September 13-15, 1996 (co-chair with Eric Fisher).

“Microeconomics Sources of Real Exchange Rate Behavior,” (with Mark Wynne), hosted at
Vanderbilt University. Budget: $ 25,000. The conference was co-sponsored by the Center forInternational Price Research, Vanderbilt University and the Globalization and Monetary
Policy Institute, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, September 2010.

“Microeconomics Sources of Real Exchange Rate Behavior,” (with Chris I. Telmer), hosted at
GSIA, Carnegie-Mellon University. Budget: $ 25,000 funding awarded by the Carnegie-Bosch
Institute, September 2005.
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Program Committee Member
Organized conference: “International Risk Sharing,” (with Giancarlo Corsetti, Michael
Devereux, and Robert Kollman) at ECARES, University of Brussels, Belgium, October 2010.
Conference Sessions OrganizedInternational Finance and Economics Society sessions on international finance at the annual
ASSA Conference: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 (also chaired sessions)

Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, Spring 2006 (alsochaired session)
Midwest Economics Association Meetings in Chicago, Illinois, March 15, 2008

European Union Studies Association Conference (interdisciplinary meeting), Nashville,
Tennessee, March 27-29, 2003 (also chaired panel session)
Midwest Economics Association Meetings, Cleveland, March 2001 (also chaired session)

NBER Summer Institute, session on international price determination (co-organized withCharles Engel), July 1999
Conference Sessions Chaired

Southern Economic Association Meetings, November 2019.

Midwest International Trade Meetings
Vanderbilt University, Spring 2005
Indiana-University-Purdue-University, Spring 2004
Indiana University, 1997

AEA Session at the ASSA Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 2004
Service to the Nashville Community

Public Lecture, “The Economics of Fear,” Access Partners Client Conference, Union Station
Hotel, Nashville, TN, September 6, 2012.

Public Debate: “Paper Money (Dr. Mario J. Crucini) versus Gold and Silver (Dr. Robert
Murphy)”, hosted by the Young Americas for Liberty at Vanderbilt University, April 21, 2011

Panel Discussion: “The Financial Crisis,” co-sponsored by Academic Affairs of the Law &Business Society and Vanderbilt Bar Association, October 13, 2008

Panel Discussion: “Recent Developments in U.S. Financial Markets,” Certified Commercial
Investment Member Luncheon, August, 2003
Luncheon Presentation, “The State of the U.S. Economy,” Institute of Management
Accountants, Faculty Club, Vanderbilt University, September 2003

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