Mary Amiti

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Mary Amiti is an Australian economist and a vice president of the Microeconomic Studies Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [1]

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During her career, she worked at the World Bank, IMF and various universities before joining the Federal Reserve in 2006. She is a research associate at the CEPR. [2]

Education and career

Before obtaining her PhD, she worked as an Economic Analyst at the Australian Commonwealth Treasury from 1990 to 1991. She obtained her MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics in 1997 as well as a Bachelor in Economics from La Trobe University in Australia. [1] Her doctoral thesis was titled International trade in the manufacturing sectors of industrialised countries: Theory and evidence. [3]

She was then hired as an assistant professor at the Department of Economics in the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. She then had various academic jobs at the La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne. [1] In 2002, she was on sabbatical from Melbourne University and spent a year at the World Bank as a consultant. [4] In 2005 she joined the IMF as a Senior Economist in the Trade and Investment Division. In 2006, she joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a Senior Economist where she was promoted several times until obtaining her current post. [1]

Research

She is mainly focusing on International trade, International economics and Financial economics. Her works have been cited over 10000 times [5] and she is ranked in the 1000 most cited economists according to IDEAS. [6] Her research deal with questions of the impact of outsourcing, trade and tariffs.

Her research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, [7] The American Economic Review, [8] [9] The Review of Economic Studies [10] and the Journal of Political Economy. [11]

Selected bibliography

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mary Amiti - FEDERAL RESERVE BANK of NEW YORK". www.newyorkfed.org. Archived from the original on 2020-03-29. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  2. ↑ "Researcher Contact Details". cepr.org. Archived from the original on 2019-05-12. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  3. ↑ Amiti, Mynyre (1996). International trade in the manufacturing sectors of industrialised countries: Theory and evidence (PhD). London School of Economics and Political Science. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  4. ↑ "Mary Amiti | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal". voxeu.org. Archived from the original on 2020-03-29. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  5. ↑ "Mary Amiti - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Archived from the original on 2024-08-28. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  6. ↑ "Economist Rankings, Number of Citations | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Archived from the original on 2004-11-24. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  7. ↑ Amiti, Mary; Weinstein, David E. (2011-11-01). "Exports and Financial Shocks". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 126 (4): 1841–1877. doi:10.1093/qje/qjr033. ISSN   0033-5533. Archived from the original on 2024-08-09. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  8. ↑ Amiti, Mary; Konings, Jozef (2007). "Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs, and Productivity: Evidence from Indonesia". American Economic Review. 97 (5): 1611–1638. doi:10.1257/aer.97.5.1611. ISSN   0002-8282. S2CID   53378643. Archived from the original on 2020-03-29. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  9. ↑ Amiti, Mary; Itskhoki, Oleg; Konings, Jozef (2014). "Importers, Exporters, and Exchange Rate Disconnect". American Economic Review. 104 (7): 1942–1978. doi:10.1257/aer.104.7.1942. hdl: 10419/144450 . ISSN   0002-8282. Archived from the original on 2024-08-28. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  10. ↑ Amiti, Mary; Davis, Donald R. (2012-01-01). "Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence". The Review of Economic Studies. 79 (1): 1–36. doi:10.1093/restud/rdr016. ISSN   0034-6527. Archived from the original on 2024-08-28. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  11. ↑ Amiti, Mary; Weinstein, David E. (2018-04-01). "How Much Do Idiosyncratic Bank Shocks Affect Investment? Evidence from Matched Bank-Firm Loan Data". Journal of Political Economy. 126 (2): 525–587. doi:10.1086/696272. ISSN   0022-3808. S2CID   157493138. Archived from the original on 2020-03-29. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
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