Christian Broda

WORKING PAPERS

"Inequality and Prices: Does China Benefit the Poor in America?” with John Romalis (Chicago GSB). March 2008.

"Understanding International Price Differences using Barcode Data" with David Weinstein (Columbia University). October 2007.

“From Groundnuts to Globalization: A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth” with Josh Greenfield and David Weinstein (Columbia University). Also, NBER wp n. 12512. (Revise and resubmit Journal of Political Economy). September 2006.

"Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices" with David Weinstein (Columbia University). June 2007.

PUBLICATIONS

“Product Creation and Destruction: Evidence and Price Implications,” with David Weinstein (Columbia University). Conditionally Accepted American Economic Review. Also, NBER wp n. 13041. April 2007.

"Optimal Tariffs and Market Power: The Evidence" with Nuno Limao (U. Maryland) and David Weinstein (Columbia University), forthcoming American Economic Review. Also NBER Working Paper No. 12033 (that includes appendix).

"Defining Price Stability in Japan: A View from America" with David Weinstein (Columbia University) forthcoming Journal of Monetary and Economic Studies (Special Edition), Bank of Japan, December 2007. Also NBER Working Paper No. 13255 and

• Comment on the Financial Press on this paper: “CPI overstated by 1.8%?” Macquire Research , July 18, 2007.

“Exchange Rate Regimes and National Price Levels,” Journal of International Economics, Volume 70, Issue 1, September 2006.

“Globalization and the Gains from Variety,” with David Weinstein ( Columbia University), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 121, Issue 2 - May 2006. For an earlier version NBER working paper # 10314 . Elasticities of Substitution between varieties of Foreign Imports.

• Featured in “Is Variety the Spice of Life?” New York Times “Economic Scene” column of June 17, 2004.
  
• Featured in "Buying Strawberries in Winter" The Economist, and Capital Ideas University of Chicago, September, 2006.
  

“Endogenous Deposit Dollarization” with Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 38, Number 4, June 2006. [Universidad di Tella working paper version]

“Variety Growth and World Welfare” with David Weinstein, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 94, No. 2, May 2004.

“Terms of Trade and Exchange Rate Regimes in Developing Countries.” Journal of International Economics Vol. 63, pp. 31-58, May 2004.

"Coping with Terms-of-Trade shocks: Peg versus Floats." American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 91, No. 2, May 2001.

Review of “Managing Currency Crisis in Emerging Markets” by Michael Dooley and Jeffrey Frankel, University of Chicago Press (NBER). Journal of Economic Literature Vol. XLII (June 2004).

Review of “Emerging Capital Market in Turmoil” by Guillermo Calvo, MIT Press. Journal of International Economics, forthcoming.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

“Prices, Poverty and Inequality” with David Weinstein, forthcoming AEI Well-being Series Monograph, January 2008.

“Happy News from the Dismal Science: Reassessing Japanese Fiscal Policy and Sustainability,” with David Weinstein, in Solutions to Japan’s problems, eds, Takatoshi Ito and David Weinstein, forthcoming MIT Press. Also, NBER wp n.10988

• “Grey Hair, Red Ink but Blue Skies?” Economics Focus column, The Economist, June 26, 2004

• “The Incredible Shrinking Country,” The Economist, November 11, 2004.
  

“Are We Underestimating the Gains from Globalization for the United States?” FRBNY Current Issues in Economics and Finance, January 2005 (with D. Weinstein).

“CPI Biases and their Impact on Policy” International Perspectives No. 32, July 2004, International Research Department, FRBNY.

“Coping with Terms of Trade shocks in Developing Countries,” FRBNY Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Vol. 9, No.11 November 2003 (with C. Tille).

“Terms of Trade shocks and Exchange Rate Regimes” in Currency Unions, eds. Alberto Alesina and Robert Barro, Hoover Press. May 2001.

“Dollarization and the Lender of Last Resort” with Eduardo Levy Yeyati, in Dollarization eds. E. Levy Yeyati and F. Sturzenegger, MIT Press, November 2002.

"Can the Traditional Lender of Last Resort be replaced under Dollarization?" International Perspectives, No. 23, August 2002, International Research Department, FRBNY.

WORK IN PROGRESS

“The Poor Pay Less: Evidence from Scanner Data” with Erik Hurst (University of Chicago, GSB)

“The Geography of Prices ” with David Weinstein (Columbia University).

"The Cyclicality of Product Entry and Exit: Evidence from Japan" with David Weinstein (Columbia University)

“The Quality and Variety of Trade: Time series vs. Cross Section ”

“Identifying the relationship between Exchange Rate Volatility and Trade” with John Romalis (University of Chicago), mimeo FRBNY, July 2003.