Doireann Fitzgerald

Contact Information

Department of Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

tel (650)-724-1427
fax (650) 725-5702
dfitzger at stanford dot edu

Education

2003: Harvard University, PhD in Economics.
1997: University College Dublin, MA in Economics.
1996: University College Dublin, BA in Economics.

Academic positions

2006 --: Assistant Professor, Stanford University.
2003-06: Assistant Professor, UC-Santa Cruz.

Visiting positions

2010-11: Fellow, International Economics Section, Princeton University.
2005-06: Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvard University.

Research Interests

International Macroeconomics

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. "Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions and Risk Sharing," (2011), accepted American Economic Review.
2. "Can Trade Costs Explain Why Exchange Rate Volatility Doesn't Feed Into Consumer Prices?" (2008), Journal of Monetary Economics, 55 (3), pp.606-628.
3. "Specialization, Factor Accumulation and Development," with Juan Carlos Hallak (2004), Journal of International Economics, 64 (2), 277-302.

Other Publications

1. "Education and Growth in the Irish Economy," with Joseph Durkan and Colm Harmon (1999), in Understanding Ireland's Economic Growth, Frank Barry, ed. London: Macmillan Press.

Working Papers

1. "Pricing-to-Market: Evidence From Producer Prices," with Stefanie Haller (2010), Revision requested, Review of Economic Studies.

Work in Progress

1. "Exporters and Exchange Rates," with Stefanie Haller *Coming soon*
2. "Price Setting in Ireland," with Stefanie Haller

Older Papers

1. "Terms-of-Trade Effects, Interdependence and Cross-Country Differences in Price Levels," (2003).

Grants and Fellowships

• NSF Grant 0921748: Exchange Rates and Firm Behavior, 2009 -- 2012
• NSF Grant 0647850: Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions and International Macro Puzzles, 2007 -- 2010
• UCSC Committee on Research Faculty Research Grant, 2005
• UCSC Division of Social Sciences Faculty Research Grant, 2005
• UCSC Committee on Research Faculty Research Grant, 2004
• UCSC Division of Social Sciences Faculty Research Grant, 2004
• UCSC Committee on Research Faculty Research Grant, 2003
• MacArthur Scholar (Program on Transnational Security)

Invited Seminars

• 2011: University of Michigan, Yale, NYU, NY Fed.
• 2010: Duke, Kansas City Fed, MIT, TCD.
• 2009: UCSC, Penn State, UCLA, FRB.
• 2008: UC-Davis, NYU.
• 2007: USC, UT-Austin, UCSD, UBC.
• 2006: NY Fed, University of Connecticut, Harvard, MIT, IMF, Wisconsin, Dallas Fed, UCSC, Berkeley.
• 2005: Purdue, Harvard, CREI, LSE, TCD, UC-Davis, Boston Fed.
• 2004: Berkeley, USC.
• 2003: SF Fed, USC, Chicago GSB, Boston Fed, NY Fed, World Bank, IIES, Stockholm School of Economics, GWU, USC, University of Houston, Stanford.
• 2002: Boston Fed.

Conference Presentations

• 2011: Milton Friedman Institute Price Dynamics Conference.
• 2010: SITE, SED, FRB-Dallas and Vanderbilt Conference on Microeconomic Sources of Real Exchange Rate Behavior, Philadelphia Fed International Trade Workshop.
• 2009: NBER Summer Institute (Price Dynamics).
• 2008: NBER Summer Institute (ME, IFM).
• 2007: Econometric Society Annual Meetings, CEPR Workshop on Global Interdependence, Moscow Conference on Frontiers of Macroeconomics and International Economics, SED, 9th Conference of the ECBCFS Research Network.
• 2006: Econometric Society Annual Meetings, NBER-ITI (Spring), NBER Summer Institute (IFM).
• 2005: NBER-IFM (Spring), NBER-ITI (Spring), WEA Annual Meetings.
• 2004: AEA, SCCIE Annual Conference.

Discussions

• 2011: Feenstra, Obstfeld and Russ, "In Search of the Armington Elasticity," Cowles Conference on New Perspectives on International Trade, Development and Macroeconomics.
• 2011: Head and Lapham, "The Dynamics of Market Power and International Prices," Econometric Society Winter Meetings
• 2009: Carvalho and Nechio, "Aggregation and the PPP Puzzle in a Sticky Price Model," SCIIE Annual Conference
• 2007: Smith and Valderrama, "The Composition of Financial Flows When Emerging Markets Face Financing Constraints," IMF-Cornell Conference
• 2007: Corsetti, Dedola and Leduc, "Productivity and the Dollar," SF Fed Pacific Basin Conference
• 2007: Dekle, Eaton and Kortum, "Global Rebalancing With Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment," IMF 8th Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference
• 2005: Atkeson and Burstein, "Trade Costs, Pricing to Market and International Relative Prices," SCCIE Annual Conference

Professional Activities

Reviewer for: American Economic Review, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of International Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Co-Organizer, SITE Conference on Imperfect International Capital Markets, June 2010.
Co-Organizer, SITE Conference on Heterogeneity and Aggregation in Macroeconomics, August 2007, August 2008.
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.