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

Research Fields

International Macroeconomics and International Trade

Education

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

Academic positions

Assistant Professor, Stanford University, 2006 --
Assistant Professor, UC-Santa Cruz, 2003-2006

Visiting positions

Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvard University, 2005 -- 2006

Other positions

SIEPR Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 2009 --
Research Associate, IIIS, TCD, Ireland, 2004 --
Visiting Scholar, SF Fed, 2003 --

Publications

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

Working Papers

1. "Pricing-to-Market: Evidence From Producer Prices," with Stefanie Haller (2009).
2. "Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions and Risk Sharing," (2010), submitted.

Work in Progress

1. "Price Setting in Ireland," with Stefanie Haller
2. "Domestic Sales and Exports at the Intensive and Extensive Margin," with Stefanie Haller

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

• 2010: Duke, Kansas City Fed
• 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

• 2010: SITE, SED
• 2009: NBER Summer Institute (Price Dynamics)
• 2008: NBER Summer Institute (ME, IFM)
• 2007: Econometric Society Annual Meetings, 2nd Annual CEPR Workshop on Global Interdependence, Frontiers of Macroeconomics and International Economics Moscow Conference, 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

• 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.