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5330 S. Blackstone Av. Apt.311 Chicago, IL 60615 773-273-0127 PEDRO GETE pgete@uchicago.edu http://home.uchicago.edu/~pgete Education Ph.D. in Economics University of Chicago Expected June 2009 M.A. in Economics University of Chicago June 2004 J.D. Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain June 2002 B.A. in Economics Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain June 2002 Fields Job market paper Working paper Macroeconomics, International Finance, Monetary economics “Housing Markets and Current Account Dynamics” I model global imbalances as arising from changes in preferences for housing relative to tradable goods. The key ingredients in the model are labor reallocation across sectors and consumption smoothing between housing and tradable goods. Countries import goods during periods when more domestic labor is devoted to housing construction. Housing booms are larger and more persistent in countries that can run trade deficits. This occurs despite the absence of wealth effects, and even if trade is not primarily concentrated in capital goods. I provide several types of evidence to support the theory: First, over the last decade housing variables have decoupled from the business cycle while consumption and consumer durables have not. Second, for the same period there is a strong cross country correlation between housing variables and current account dynamics. Third, a parameterized version of the model generates cross section correlation between the labor share employed in construction (or value added from the construction sector) and the trade balance which is consistent with recent global imbalances. Fourth, I use sign restrictions implied by the model to estimate a vector autoregression and identify the effects of housing specific shocks on the U.S. trade deficit. The results imply that housing shocks are an important driving force of current account dynamics. “Savings, Investment and Endogenous Fertility under Uncertainty” (work in progress) Presentations Macro/International Workshop, University of Chicago-GSB. October 2008 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Washington D.C. July 2008 Economic Dynamics, Capital Theory Working groups, The University of Chicago. 2006, 2007, 2008 Research experience Teaching experience Dissertation Internship. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Summer 2008 Internship. Bank of Spain. Madrid, Spain. Summer 2006 Research Assistant for Anil Kashyap, The University of Chicago. 2006, 2007 and 2008 Research Assistant for Monika Piazzesi, The University of Chicago. 2005 and 2006 MBA courses at University of Chicago Graduate School of Business: Understanding Central Banking (Assistant for Anil Kashyap). Spring 2006 and 2008, Fall 2007 Macroeconomics (Assistant for Veronica Guerrieri). Winter 2008 College Courses at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain: Macroeconomics I and II (Assistant for Silvio Rendon and Juan Ruiz). 2002- 2003 Microeconomics (Assistant for Pedro Albarran). 2002- 2003 Awards Harper Dissertation Fellowship. Social Sciences Division. University of Chicago. 2008-09 Margaret Reid Dissertation Fellowship. Department of Economics. University of Chicago. 2007-08 NBER Summer Institute Monetary Economics, invited graduate student (Doolittle grant). 2007 Bank of Spain Fellowship. 2005-2007 La Caixa Foundation Fellowship. 2003-2005 Middlebury College French School Fellowship. Summer 1999 Languages and Computer skills Spanish (native language), English and French (fluent) AMPL, Dynare, E-Views, Matlab, Stata References Anil Kashyap (Co-chair), University of Chicago-GSB 773 702 1235 Monika Piazzesi (Co-chair), Stanford University 650 723 9289 Samuel Kortum, University of Chicago 773 702 8251 anil.kashyap@chicagogsb.edu piazzesi@stanford.edu kortum@uchicago.edu
Aspen Gorry 1530 East 59 th Street • Chicago, IL 60637 aspen@uchicago.edu • http://home.uchicago.edu/~aspen • Phone: (602) 885-8856 EDUCATION Ph.D. Economics, University of Chicago (Expected) 2009 M.A. Economics, University of Chicago 2006 B.S. Economics and B.S. Mathematics, Arizona State University, Summa Cum Laude 2004 FIELDS Primary: Macroeconomics / Money and Banking Secondary: Economic Growth, International Trade, Public Finance, Labor / Human Capital JOB MARKET “Experience and Labor Market Flows” 2008 PAPER This paper presents a model of learning where labor market experience provides information about the quality of future job matches. While previous models of learning focus on the effects of workers' productivity while employed, learning is also important to understand workers' search behavior while unemployed. When past experience provides a signal about job quality, the model can explain the decline in both job finding and separation rates found in the data. Models without learning cannot account for any decline in finding rates. Beyond accounting for labor market flows, the model gives predictions that are consistent with observed empirical wage distributions. Finally, I evaluate the effects of minimum wages on labor outcomes and find that the endogenous decline in job finding rates is essential to understand high unemployment rates for young workers subjected to minimum wages. WORKING “Labor Market Connections, Minimum Wages, and Youth Employment” 2008 PAPERS “Optimal Taxation over the Life Cycle” (with Ezra Oberfield) 2008 TEACHING Teaching Assistant, Theory of Income III (graduate), Robert Shimer, University of Chicago 2007 EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, Theory of Income II (graduate), Thomas Sargent, University of Chicago 2007 Teaching Assistant, Theory of Income I (graduate), Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago 2006 Teaching Assistant, Theory of Income III (graduate), Robert Shimer, University of Chicago 2006 Teaching Assistant, Theory of Income II (graduate), Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago 2006 Supplemental Instruction Leader (undergraduate), Macroeconomics, Arizona State University 2002 Teaching Assistant, Various Courses (undergraduate), Arizona State University 2001-2003 RESEARCH Research Assistant, Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER 2007-2008 EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, Robert Shimer, University of Chicago 2004-2005 Research Assistant, Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University 2003-2004 PRESENTATIONS Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA 2008 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Carnegie Mellon University 2008 Money and Banking Workshop, University of Chicago 2008 Capital Theory Working Group, University of Chicago 2007 & 2008 AWARDS & Esther and T.W. Schultz Endowment Fund Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago 2008-2009 FELLOWSHIPS Martin and Margaret Lee Prize in Economics, Price Theory Core Exam, University of Chicago 2005 Martin and Margaret Lee Prize in Economics, Macro Core Exam, University of Chicago 2005 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2004-2007 Century Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Chicago 2004-2008 Omicron Delta Epsilon Award, Outstanding Graduating Economics Major, Arizona State University 2004 Phi Beta Kappa 2004 Rondthaler Prize for Outstanding Junior Major in Economics, Arizona State University 2002 REFEREE Journal of Political Economy REFERENCES Robert Shimer (Chair) (773) 702-9015 shimer@uchicago.edu Fernando Alvarez (773) 702-4412 f-alvarez1@uchicago.edu Derek Neal (773) 702-8166 d-neal@uchicago.edu Nancy Stokey (773) 702-0915 nstokey@uchicago.edu
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