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

·         Favorite Quotes

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

 

 

 

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Research Interests:

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

 

 

Publications

 

·         Why Does Capital Flow to Rich States?
With Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent Sorensen and Oved Yosha, forthcoming at Review of Economics and Statistics. Programs and data. See also previous NBER working paper 11301 version.

 

 

Working papers

 

·         Skill Biased Technological Change in Services versus the Rest: an Estimate and Interpretation
(Previously circulated under the title “Is Technological Change Biased Towards the Unskilled in Services? An Empirical Investigation”)

 

·         Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Sector: 1909-2006
With Thomas Philippon. Revise and resubmit at Journal of Finance. Also NBER working paper 14644, CPER discussion paper 7282.

Quoted in the media:

New York Times (also on February 4, 2009, February 5, 2009, August 14, 2009) and by Paul Krugman’s New York Times Op-Ed; The Economist: February 25, 2009, May 28, 2009; Financial Times: April 6, 2009 and by Martin Wolf on April 14, 2009; 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. Also NBER working paper 13437.

 

·         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, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3907.

 

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

 

 

 

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