Ariell Reshef

 

Department of Economics
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400182
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182

 

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Office: Monroe Hall, Room 255

Tel: 434-243-4977

Fax: 434-924-7659

Email: ariellr_at_virginia_dot_edu

 

·         CV

·         Teaching. Office hours: Tuesday, 17:00-18:30

·         Favorite Quotes

·         NYU Alumni conference, June 2-4 2011: Photos

 

 

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Research Interests

International Trade, Technological Change, Labor Economics, Development Economics.

 

 

Publications

 

·         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 working paper 11301 version.

 

 

Working papers

 

Technological change and labor economics:

 

·         Skill Biased Technological Change in Services
(A previous version of this paper circulated under the title “Is Technological Change Biased Towards the Unskilled in Services? An Empirical Investigation”)

 

Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006
With Thomas Philippon.
Previous NBER working paper 14644 version (also CPER discussion paper 7282).

Quoted 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.
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; Financial Times: Gillian Tett on April 6, 2009 and by Martin Wolf on April 14, 2009, April 2 2010; Wall Street Journal, and on May 14, 2009 (see related figure) September 10, 2009; 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.
- Quoted in: Written Testimony for the House Oversight Committee Hearing on Hedge Funds, November 13, 2008.

 

·         Skill Biased Financial Development: Education, Wages and Occupations in the U.S. Financial Sector
With Thomas Philippon.
NBER working paper 13437.

 

 

International trade and development:

 

·         Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium
With James Harrigan.
NBER working paper 17604.

 

·         African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts and Explanations
With William Easterly.
NBER working paper 16597. Read the NBER digest.
Interviews appendix.

 

·         Big Hits in Manufacturing Exports and Development
With William Easterly.

 

·         The Power of Exports
With William Easterly and Julia Schwenkenberg.
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5081.

 

·         Trade and Harmonization: If Your Institutions Are Good, Does It Matter If They Are Different?
With Roumeen Islam.
Previous World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3907.

 

·         Heckscher-Ohlin and the Global Increase of Skill Premia: Factor Intensity Reversals to the Rescue

 

 

Work in progress

 

·         Do Central Bank Governors Matter? Macroeconomic Policy, Regulation and the Financial Sector
With Prachi Mishra

 

 

 

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