Curriculum Vitae
Contact (2008/09)
Department of Economics
Fisher Hall 304A
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
phone: 609-258-7440
fax: 609-258-6419
Born: May 11, 1977
Citizenship: France (US permanent resident)
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Economics, 2005
Thesis committee: Xavier Gabaix, Marc Melitz, Daron Acemoglu
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
M.A. in Economics, 2000
Academic Positions
Princeton University, Department of Economics
Peter B. Kenen Visiting Fellow, 2008-2009
University of Chicago, Department of Economics
Assistant Professor and Thornber Research Fellow, since 2005
Other Positions
National Bureau of Economic Research
Faculty Research Fellow, since 2006 (International Trade and Investment)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Research Department Consultant, since 2006
London School of Economics
Visiting Researcher, 2002-2003
Awards
2005: Review of Economics Studies European Tour.
2005: Robert Sollow Prize for Graduate Student Excellence, MIT.
2000-2002: MIT, Graduate Fellowship
1997-2001: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Full Fellowship
Publications
"Distorted Gravity: the Intensive and Extensive Margins of International Trade".
American Economic Review, September 2008, Vol. 98, No. 4.
"Exchange Rate Pass-Through in a Competitive Model of Pricing-to-Market".
(with Raphael Auer, Swiss National Bank)
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming.
Working Papers
"The Corporate Wealth Effect: from Real Estate Shocks to Corporate Investment".
(with David Sraer, Berkeley; and David Thesmar, HEC and CEPR)
"Technological Mismatch: a Model of Trade and Technology Diffusion".
"Liquidity Constrained Exporters".
"The Dynamic Effect of Trade Opening:
Productivity Overshooting with Heterogeneous Firms".
"How Do Prices of Different Goods Respond to Exchange Rate Shocks?
A Model of Quality Pricing-to-Market".
(with Raphael Auer, Swiss National Bank)
Research in progress
"French Exporters" (with David Sraer, Berkeley)
"Trade and Wage Inequality" (with Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard)
Teaching Experience
University of Chicago
Firms and International Trade (Econ 357, Ph.D.).
Macroeconomics (Econ 202, Undergraduate).
Dissertation supervision
Stefania Garetto (2008, Princeton IES Fellow and Boston University)
Abderrahmane Reda Cherif (2008, International Monetary Fund)
Last update: September 2008.
