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(San Diego) session on Trade and Skills - NYU
Alumni conference: May 31–June 1 2013. Call
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University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400182
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182
Co-organized with Nico Voigtlander.
(Inaugural NYU Alumni conference
June 2–4 2011:
Photos)
Publications
An
International Look at the Growth of Modern Finance
With Thomas Philippon.
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(2), Spring 2013, pp. 73–96. Symposia: The Growth of the Financial Sector.
Is Technological Change
Biased Towards the Unskilled in Services? An Empirical Investigation
Review of Economic Dynamics, 16 (2013) pp. 312–331.
Online
appendix.
Programs and data (zip).
(A previous version of this paper circulated under the title “Skill
Biased Technological Change in Services”)
Wages
and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909–2006
With Thomas Philippon.
Online appendix.
The Quarterly Journal of Economics,
127(4), November 2012, pp. 1551–1609. Lead article.
Previous NBER WP 14644
version (also CPER discussion paper 7282).
Cited by:
- Paul
Krugman’s New York Times Op-Ed.
- Nominated Paper
of the Year by The Baseline
Scenario.
- Featured in 13
Bankers, by James Kwak and Simon
Johnson.
- Another book that quotes our work is Winner-take-all
Politics, by Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson.
- Written
Testimony for the House Oversight Committee Hearing on Hedge Funds,
November 13, 2008.
- New York Times: Floyd
Norris on January 22, 2009, February
4, 2009, February
5, 2009, August
14, 2009; The Economist: February
25, 2009, May
28, 2009, January 20, 2011,
March
14, 2012, Andrew
Ross Sorkin on April 4, 2012
- Financial Times: Gillian Tett on April 6,
2009 and January 30, 2012,
by Martin
Wolf on April 14, 2009, April
2 2010, by Daniel
Schäfer on May 27 and June
13, 2012
- Wall Street
Journal, and on May
14, 2009 (see related figure)
September
10, 2009;
- Other newspapers: Time;
Le
Monde; Les
Echos (also on May
19, 2009); Handelsblatt; Haaretz
- Howard
Davies (Director of the LSE)
- and some blogs (Reuters,
WSJ
Bolgs, American
Enterprise Institute, Resource Investor
and VOX, Portfolio.com,
Creative
Class, Truth Out).
- NPR interview on Planet Money and related article.
- BBC interview
with Gillian Tett and related article.
African
Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts and Explanations
With William Easterly.
Interviews
appendix.
Forthcoming: NBER/University of Chicago volume, Africa Successes
NBER WP 16597. Read
the NBER digest.
- In the media: New
York Times Magazine
Why
Does Capital Flow to Rich States?
With Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan,
Bent Sorensen and Oved Yosha.
Review of Economics and Statistics,
November 2010, 92(4), pp. 769–783.
Programs and data.
Previous NBER WP 11301 version.
Working papers
Technological change and labor economics:
Skill
Biased Financial Development: Education, Wages and Occupations in the U.S.
Financial Sector
With Thomas Philippon.
NBER WP 13437.
International trade and
development:
Skill Biased
Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium
With James Harrigan.
- Submitted
NBER WP 17604.
Big
Hits in Manufacturing Exports and Development
With William Easterly.
Trade and Harmonization: If Your Institutions Are Good, Does It
Matter If They Are Different?
With Roumeen Islam.
Previous World Bank Policy
Research WP 3907.
Work in progress
Do Central Bank Governors Matter?
Macroeconomic Policy, Regulation and the Financial Sector
With Prachi Mishra.
The Skill Premium Puzzle and Differentiated
Factor Mobility
With Ohad Raveh.
Wages and Human Capital in Finance:
International Evidence, 1970–2007
With Hamid Boustanifar,
Everett Grant and Thomas Philippon.
Old papers
Heckscher-Ohlin and the Global Increase of Skill Premia: Factor Intensity Reversals to the Rescue
Mimeo, NYU.
The
Power of Exports
With William Easterly and Julia Schwenkenberg.
World Bank Policy Research WP 5081.