Ariel Weinberger
Updated May 14, 2015
Contact
Information
1 Shields Avenue
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA, 95616
Citizenship
United States, Israel
Research
Interests
International Trade, Aggregate Productivity, Empirical Studies of Trade and Market Power.
Employment
University of Oklahoma
Assistant Professor of Economics, 20015-Present
Education
University of California, Davis
Ph.D., Economics, June 2015
M.A., Economics, 2010
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UC San Diego
B.S., Management Science, 2007
Previous
Employment
Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis
Research Associate, 2007-2009
University of California, San Diego
Research Assistant for Professor Valerie Ramey, 2006-2007
Research:
Job Market
Paper
Markups and Misallocation with Trade and Heterogeneous Firms
With general preferences, a monopolistic competition equilibrium can be inefficient in the way
inputs are allocated towards production. This paper formalizes the welfare impact of reallocation of quantities across firms (within an industry) by comparing real income growth with the
hypothetical case of no misallocation in quantities – as is the case when consumer preferences
are CES and producers choose a constant markup. In contrast, my monopolistic competition
model is consistent with variable markups such that reallocations initiated by aggregate shocks
that affect firms’ demand or cost curves can impact allocative efficiency. Open economy shocks,
even by raising production overall, can have opposing consequences for the misallocation distortion depending on the adjustment of the market power distribution. Using firm-level data
from Chile for 1995-2007, a period with large terms of trade gains, I find that average revenue
productivity gains are not necessarily associated with gains in allocative efficiency because firms
pass-through productivity gains into markups. Using industry-year variation, I find evidence
that industries that import a larger share of their inputs have higher markup dispersions and
become more misallocated as a result of appreciations compared to “open” sectors that compete
globally in the sale of their output.
Working
Papers
Heterogeneous Exporter Markups: Quantitative Implications for Consumer Welfare, with Ina Simonovska and Jae Wook Jung
Importing, Productivity and the Exchange Rate, with Felipe Aviles Lucero
Published
Papers:
FDI, Productivity and Country Growth, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review,
March/April 2009, 91(2), p. 61-78, with Silvio Contessi .
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Teaching
Experience
University of California, Davis
Instructor
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Teaching Assistant
International Trade, Intermediate Macroeconomics, International Macroeconomics, Money
and Banking, Economics of East Asia, International Economics, Principles of Macroeconomics.
Awards
University of California, Davis
UC Davis Graduate Fellowship, Winter 2015, $11,432
Institute for Governmental Affairs/Department of Economics Research and Travel Award,
2014
Economics Department Offer TA Award, 2009 - 2014.
Professional
Activities
Conference Presentations
2015 Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference, May 2015, Banff, Canada
2014 Economics PhD Conference at the University of Leicester, December 2014, Leicester,
UK
Midwest International Trade Conference, Spring 2014, Indiana University Purdue University
Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Invited Presentations and Seminars
Int’l/Macro Brown Bag, 2012, 2013, 2014, UC Davis, CA
Department Seminar, Fall 2014, Sonoma State University
Conferences Attended
Empirical Investigations in International Trade, UC Santa Cruz 2012
AEA Annual Meeting, San Diego 2013
International Trade Workshop, UCLA 2014
International Comparison of Income, Prices and Production, UC Davis 2014
Midwest International Trade Conference, Indian University Purdue University Indianapolis,
Spring 2014
Referee
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Department
Service
Organizer, International/Macroeconomics Brownbag Series, UC Davis Department
of Economics
Fall 2013, Spring 2014
Additional
Skills
Languages: English (Native, fluent), Spanish (fluent), Hebrew (basic)
Software: Matlab, STATA, Gauss.
References
Available to
Contact
Prof. Robert Feenstra, Chair
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
[email protected]
Prof. Ina Simonovska
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
[email protected]
Prof. Katheryn Russ
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
[email protected]
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