image004Yuriy Gorodnichenko

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880

phone: (510) 643-0720

fax:     (510) 642-6615
email: ygorodni@econ.berkeley.edu

 

Information

Curriculum vitae (PDF) | Research | Teaching | Links | References

 

Publications

"Are oligarchs productive? Theory and evidence," with Yegor Grygorenko, Journal of Comparative Economics 36(1), 17-42, PDF (in media: Guardian) (other versions ScienceDirect, 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 ScienceDirect, 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 (other versions ScienceDirect, 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 ScienceDirect, SSRN, IZA)

Working papers

"Globalization and innovation in emerging markets," with Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell, PDF

"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 (under review) (in media: WSJ; VoxEU.org)

"Estimation of DSGE models when data are persistent," with Serena Ng, PDF (under review)

"When does FDI have positive spillovers? Evidence from 17 emerging market economies," with Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell, PDF (under review)

"Endogenous information, menu costs and inflation persistence" PDF (under review)

"Using firm optimization to evaluate and estimate returns to scale" PDF (under review)

(previous title: "Estimating Returns to Scale: Critique of Popular Estimators and New Solutions to Old Problems")

"Border effect or country effect? Seattle is 110 miles from Vancouver after all," with Linda Tesar, PDF (revise and resubmit)

(previous title: "Re-examination of the Border Effect in PPP Tests: Where is the Border?")

"Reduced rank identification of structural shocks in VARs" PDF (under review)

"Strategic interaction among heterogeneous price-setters in an estimated DSGE model," with Olivier Coibion, PDF (under review)

Complete list of working papers is in Research

 

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.