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ProDoc Trade Short Course

   
 
International Trade and Labour Markets: Unemployment, Inequality and Redistribution
Three classes with Oleg Itskhoki, Professor of Economics at Princeton
Thursday, 8th to Friday, 9th December, 2011 

Venue
Villa Rigot
9, Avenue de la Paix, Geneva

Thursday, 8th from 16:00 to 18:00
Friday, 9th from 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 16:00

Organised by
The Graduate Institute's Centre for Trade and Economic Integration in collaboration with the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the WTO.

Registration Deadline
To register for this event, please submit the Registration Form by Wednesday 7th December.

In addition, Professor Itskhoki Oleg will present a paper as part of the
Geneva Trade and Development Workshop
Thursday, 8th from 12:00 to 13:30
(request separately for admission to the WTO and sandwich lunch by sending an email to gtdw@wto.org)
 
Slides
 
Registration Form
 

Overview

The course will examine the following papers (available for download at http://www.princeton.edu/~itskhoki):
 

  • Helpman and Itskhoki (REStud 2010) "Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment"
     
  • Helpman, Itskhoki and Redding (forthcoming in Econometric Society volume) "Trade and Labor Market Outcomes"
     
  • Helpman, Itskhoki and Redding (ECMA 2010) "Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy"
     
  • Helpman, Itskhoki, Muendler and Redding (2011, unpublished) "On the New View of Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Evidence"
     
  • Itskhoki (2011, unpublished) "Optimal Redistribution in an Open Economy"
     
 
 
 

Biography
 

Oleg Itskhoki, Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, since July 2010.

Oleg has research interests in the fields of Macroeconomics and International Economics. One line of his research focuses on the effects of international trade on labor market outcomes, including unemployment, income inequality and redistributive policies. Another line of his research studies the pricing policies of firms in international transaction, in particular focusing on currency choice by importing and exporting firms and its implication for macroeconomic policies. His most recent research is centered around the issue of the optimal macroeconomic policy in currency unions. His research is supported by a National Science Foundation grant and his work is published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies.

Oleg is a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER and a Research Affiliate at the CEPR. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Moscow State University (2003), an M.A. in Economics from New Economics School (Moscow, 2004), and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University (2009).