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

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

"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.

Empirical and Theoretical Issues in International Trade and Finance
Consumer Search