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George Alessandria, Senior EconomistGeorge Alessandria

Senior Economist

Phone: (215) 574-6402
Fax: (215) 574-4303
E-mail: George.Alessandria@phil.frb.org E-mail
Curriculum vitae PDF

Working Papers

  • "Inventories, Lumpy Trade, and Large Devaluations," with Joseph Kaboski and Virgiliu Midrigan, Working Paper 08-3, PDF January 2008.
  • "Pricing-to-Market and the Failure of Absolute PPP," with Joseph Kaboski, Working Paper 07-29, PDF September 2007.
  • "Establishment Heterogeneity, Exporter Dynamics, and the Effects of Trade Liberalization," with Horag Choi, Working Paper 07-17, PDF July 2007.
  • "Do Sunk Costs of Exporting Matter for Net Export Dynamics," Working Paper 05-20, PDF September 2005 (with Horag Choi). Revision forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Economics.
  • "Consumer Search, Price Dispersion, and International Relative Price Volatility," Working Paper 05-9, PDF May 2005.
  • "Trade and the (Dis) Incentive to Reform Labor Markets: The Case of Reform in the European Union," Working Paper 04-18, PDF September 2004.
  • "Violating Purchasing Power Parity," Working Paper 04-19, PDF September 2004.

Publications

  • "Trade and the (Dis) Incentive to Labor Market Reform," (with Alain Delacroix), Journal of International Economics, forthcoming.
  • "Consumer Search, Price Dispersion and International Relative Price Fluctuations," International Economic Review, forthcoming.
  • "Do Sunk Costs of Exporting Matter for Net Export Dynamics?" with Horag Choi, forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Economics (February 2007), pp. 289-336.
  • “International Deviations from the Law of One Price: The Role of Search Frictions and Market Share,” International Economic Review (November 2004), pp. 1263-91.
  • "Endogenous Financial Intermediation and Real Effects of Capital Account Liberalization,” (with Jun Qian, Boston College), Journal of International Economics (September 2005), pp. 97-128.

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Business Review Articles

Research Interests

  • Empirical and Theoretical Issues in International Trade and Finance
  • Consumer Search