Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
phone: (510) 643-0720
fax: (510) 642-6615
email: ygorodni@econ.berkeley.edu
Other affiliations:
NBER, Faculty research fellow
IZA, Research fellow
Information
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Publications
"Myth and reality of flat tax reform: Micro estimates of tax
evasion and productivity response in Russia," with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and
Klara Sabirianova Peter,
PDF (in
media: WSJ; VoxEU.org) (longer
versions SSRN,
NBER, IZA), Journal of Political Economy 117(3), 504-554.
"Globalization and innovation in emerging markets," with Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell, PDF (other versions NBER, IZA) (in media: MIT Sloan Management Review), accepted for publication in the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
"Border effect or country effect? Seattle may not be so far from
Vancouver after all," with Linda
Tesar, American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics 1(1), 219–241, PDF
(other versions NBER).
(previous
title: "Re-examination of the Border Effect in PPP Tests: Where is the
Border?")
"Are Airlines’ Price-Setting Strategies Different?" with Volodymyr Bilotkach and Oleksandr Talavera, accepted for publication in Journal of Air Transport Management, available at SSRN.
"Financial
Constraints and Continental Business Groups: Evidence from German Konzerns," with Dorothea Schafer and Oleksandr
Talavera, PDF, accepted for publication in
Research in International Business and
Finance. (other versions SSRN)
"Are oligarchs productive? Theory and evidence," with Yegor
Grygorenko, Journal of Comparative
Economics 36(1), 17-42, PDF
(in media: Guardian) (other versions SSRN, IZA)
"Monetary policy when potential output is uncertain:
Understanding the growth gamble of the 1990s," with Matthew
D. Shapiro, Journal of Monetary
Economics 54(4), 1132-1162. PDF (in media: WSJ)
(other versions SSRN, NBER)
"Public sector pay and corruption: Measuring bribery from
micro data," with Klara Sabirianova Peter,
Journal of Public Economics 91(2007),
963-991. PDF
(World Bank’s Beyond
Transition 17(3)) (other versions SSRN, IZA)
"Returns to schooling in Ukraine and Russia: A semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis," with Klara Sabirianova Peter, Journal of Comparative Economics 33(2005), 223-240. PDF (other versions SSRN, IZA)
Working papers
"The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love," with Linda
Tesar and Enrique Mendoza,
available at NBER,
SSRN, IZA (under review).
"What can survey forecasts tell us about informational
rigidities?" with Olivier
Coibion, PDF (other versions NBER) (under
review).
"Monetary Policy, Trend Inflation and the Great Moderation: An
Alternative Interpretation," with Olivier Coibion, PDF (other versions NBER) (revision
requested at American Economic Review).
"Strategic interaction among heterogeneous price-setters in
an estimated DSGE model," with Olivier Coibion, PDF (other versions NBER) (revised
and resubmitted to Review of Economics
and Statistics).
"Inequality and Volatility
Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and
Income," with Dmitriy
Stolyarov and Klara
Sabirianova Peter, available at NBER,
SSRN, IZA (revised and resubmitted to Review of Economic Dynamics).
(previous
title: "A Bumpy Ride Along the Kuznets curve: Consumption and Income
Inequality Dynamics in Russia")
"Estimation of DSGE models when data are persistent," with Serena
Ng, PDF (revision requested at Journal of Monetary Economics).
"When does FDI have positive spillovers? Evidence from 17 emerging market economies," with Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell, PDF.
"Endogenous information, menu costs and inflation persistence" PDF (other versions NBER) (under review).
"Using firm optimization
to evaluate and estimate returns to scale"
PDF (other versions NBER)
(previous
title: "Estimating Returns
to Scale: Critique of Popular Estimators and New Solutions to Old
Problems")
"Reduced rank identification of structural shocks in VARs," PDF.
"Sensitivity of Prices to Demand Shocks: A Natural Experiment in
the San Francisco Bay Area," with Volodymyr Bilotkach and Oleksandr Talavera, PDF (under review).
Publications in Ukrainian
Books
Contemporary econometric
methods in finance, Kiev,
Ukraine, 2002 (with Iryna Luckyanenko)
Econometric modeling of local government
budgets, Kiev, Ukraine, 2001
(with Iryna Lukyanenko and Larisa Krasnikova)
Methodological aspects of development and
application of macroeconometric models: The case of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, 2000 (with Iryna Lukyanenko
and Kwaja Sultan)
Articles
"Error correction models for forecasting tax revenues," Finance of Ukraine, 2001 (with Iryna Lukyanenko)
"The impact of tax sharing on the effectiveness of the local tax policy," Scientific Records of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2001 (with Taras Tokarchuk)
"The flypaper effect: The case of Ukraine," Scientific Records of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2001
"Modeling monetary side of Ukraine's economy," Scientific Records of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2000 (with Iryna Lukyanenko)
"Distribution of intergovernmental grants among Ukraine's
regions," Herald of the National Bank of Ukraine,
1999 (with Iryna Lukyanenko)
Chapters
"Inter-budgetary
reform in cherkaska oblast" in The system of public finance in Ukraine:
The ways of providing transparency and optimal decentralization of financial
flows, Ihor Burakovskiy, ed., Kiev: East-West Institute, 2001.