Doireann Fitzgerald

 

dfitzger at stanford dot edu

http://www.doireann.com

 

Academic Positions

·        2006 – present: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University

·        2003 – 2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UC-Santa Cruz

 

Visiting Positions

·        2005 – 2006: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University

 

Other Positions

·        2003 – present:      Visiting Scholar, San Francisco Fed

·        1999 – 2003:          Teaching and Research Assistant, Harvard University

·        2001:                     Graduate Intern, International Finance Division, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

·        2000:                     Graduate Research Programme, European Central Bank

 

Education

·        Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 2003

·        M.A. in Economics, University College Dublin, Ireland, 1997

·        B.A., University College Dublin, Ireland, 1996

 

Research Fields

·        International Macroeconomics and International Trade

 

Teaching Experience

·        International Trade (U, G), International Macroeconomics (U, G), and Macroeconomics (U).

 

Publications

·        “Can Trade Costs Explain Why Exchange Rate Volatility Doesn’t Feed into Consumer Prices?” September 2007. (Journal of Monetary Economics, forthcoming).

 

·        “Specialization, Factor Accumulation and Development,” with Juan Carlos Hallak. Journal of

International Economics, (2004), 64 (2), pp. 277-302.

 

Working Papers

·        “Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions and Risk Sharing: A Joint Test,” May 2007.

 

·        “Exchange Rates and Producer Prices: Evidence From Micro-Data,” with Stefanie Haller, December 2007

 

·        “Terms of Trade Effects, Interdependence and Cross-Country Differences in Price Levels,” May 2003.

 

Work in Progress

·        “Why Don’t Exports Respond to Large Devaluations?” with Kalina Manova

 

·        “What Are the Frictions in International Asset Markets?”

 

·        “Explaining Trade Shares,” with Pol Antràs

Invited seminars

·        2007: University of Southern California, UT-Austin, UC-San Diego, University of British Columbia

·        2006:  New York Fed, University of Connecticut, Harvard University, MIT, IMF, University of Wisconsin, Dallas Fed, UC-Santa Cruz, UC-Berkeley

·        2005:  Purdue, Harvard University, Pompeu Fabra (CREI), London School of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, UC-Davis, Boston Fed.

·        2004:  UC-Berkeley, University of Southern California

·        2003: San Francisco Fed, UC-Santa Cruz, Chicago GSB, Boston Fed, New York Fed, World Bank Research Group, University of Stockholm – IIES, Stockholm School of Economics, George Washington University, University of Southern California, University of Houston, Stanford University.

·        2002:  Boston Fed.

 

Conference Presentations

·        2007: Econometric Society Annual Meetings, Second Annual CEPR Workshop on Global Interdependence, “Frontiers of Macroeconomics and International Economics” Moscow Conference, Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Conference, Ninth Conference of the ECB-CFS Research Network

·        2006:  Econometric Society Annual Meetings, NBER-ITI Spring meetings, NBER Summer Institute

·        2005:  NBER-IFM Spring meetings, NBER-ITI Spring meetings, Western Economic Association Annual Meetings

·        2004:  American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Santa Cruz Center for International Economics Annual Conference

 

Discussions

·        2007: Katherine Smith and Diego Valderrama, “The Composition of Financial Flows When Emerging Market Firms Face Financing Constraints,” IMF-Cornell conference on “New Perspectives on Financial Globalization.”

·        2007: Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola and Sylvain Leduc, “Productivity and the Dollar,” San Francisco Fed Pacific Basin Conference.

·        2007: Robert Dekle, Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum, “Global Rebalancing With Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment,” IMF Eighth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference.

·        2005:  Andrew Atkeson and Ariel Burstein, “Trade Costs, Pricing to Market and International Relative Prices,” Santa Cruz Center for International Economics Annual Conference

 

Professional Activities

·        Referee: American Economic Review, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Review of International Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics

·        Research Associate, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, 2004-present

·        Co-organizer, SITE conference on Heterogeneity and Aggregation in Macroeconomics, August 2007

·        Assistant Director, Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (SCCIE), 2004-2005

·        Organizer, SCCIE Workshop on Firms in Emerging Markets, May 2005

·        Co-organizer, SCCIE Workshop on Trade and Finance, May 2004

·        Assistant Editor, NBER Macro Annual, 2001, 2002, 2003

 

Fellowships and Awards

·        2007: NSF grant 0647850: Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions and International Macro Puzzles

·        2005: UCSC Committee on Research Faculty Research Grant

·        2005: UCSC Division of Social Sciences Faculty Research Grant

·        2004: UCSC Committee on Research Faculty Research Grant

·        2004: UCSC Division of Social Sciences Faculty Research Grant

·        2003:UCSC Committee on Research Faculty Research Grant

·        2001 – 2002: MacArthur Scholar (Program on Transnational Security)

·        1997 – 1999: Harvard University Graduate Fellowship

 

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