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Armon Rezai

Fall 2009

email: Armon.Rezai [@] gmail.com

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics New School for Social Research, New York
• M.A. in Economics (equivalent) Vienna University of Economics with distinction
• Study Abroad: London School of Economics
  Georgetown University
  UNU-WIDER PhD Research Internship, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki
  Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (CAPORDE), University of Cambridge

Fellowships

• Fulbright Grantee for study in the USA
• New School for Social Research University Fellow
• New School for Social Research Dean’s Fellow
• Scholarships for exceptional students, Vienna University of Economics
• Several other grants and stipends, e.g. from the Vienna University of Economics, Austrian federal institutions and the EU

Teaching & Research Experience

• Research Assistant, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis’ project “Economic Growth and Unemployment”Empirically estimating the short and long run effects of productivity growth on unemployment. Estimating the relationship between inflation and unemployment for various income groups in the US and Germany.
• Teaching Fellow, New School for General Studies
  Designing and teaching development courses to undergraduate students (NECO3150: “Introduction to Economic Development”)
• Short Term Consultant, Public Finance, PREM, The World Bank
  Researching the effects of fiscal policy on economic growth
  Conducting country studies to explore the effects of different expenditure compositions on economic growth
• Research Assistant, New School for Social Research Conducting research in the fields of inequality and education
  Studying macroeconomic models using dynamic optimization

Publications & Works in Progress

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• “Global Warming and Economic Externalities” (with D.K. Foley and L. Taylor), Economic Theory, forthcoming.
• “Long and Short Run Considerations of Productivity Growth and Unemployment in RBC models” (with P. Chen, Gang Gong, and W. Semmler) Investigacion Economica num. 264 (LXVII), pp. 36-61.

Articles in Books:

• “Short and Long Run Effects of Productivity Shocks in an Intertemporal Model” (with P. Chen, Gang Gong, and W. Semmler) Economics of Employment and Unemployment, Nova Publishers.
• “Wirtschaftswachstum und Globale Klimaerwärmung: Emissionshandel oder Emissionssteuer?” [“Economic Growth and Climate Change: Emission Trading and Taxation“] (with E. Nell and W. Semmler) in E. Altvater and A. Brunnengräber (eds.) Ablasshandel gegen Klimawandel? [“Selling of Climate Indulgences“], VSA Verlag.

Discussion Papers and Other Articles:

• “Fiscal Policy, Public Expenditure Composition, and Growth: Theory and Empirics” (with W. Semmler, A. Greiner, B. Diallo, and A. Rajaram), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4405 (Nov. 2007).
• “Productivity Growth and Unemployment in the Short and Long Run” (with P. Chen and W. Semmler), SCEPA Working Paper 2007-8.
• “Productivity and Unemployment in the Short and Long Run” (with Willi Semmler), SCEPA Policy Brief (Dec. 2007).
• “Steuerwettbewerb in Agglomerationsmodellen” [Tax Competition in Agglomeration Models], Unpublished Master’s Thesis.

Submitted Articles:

• “Productivity Growth and Unemployment in the Short and Long Run” (with P. Chen and W. Semmler) International Review of Applied Economics (under revision).
• “A Model of Economic Growth for Public Policy” (with W. Semmler, A. Greiner and B. Diallo, and A. Rajaram) submitted to Empirica.
• “A Note on Effective Demand, Productivity Growth, and Wage Price Spirals” submitted to Metroeconomica.

Work in Progress:

• “Recast DICE: On the Economics of Global Warming”
• “On Two Specifications of Damage in Models of Global Warming”
• “Demand Regimes in Open, but Integrated Economies”
• “Cycles in Monetary and Real Terms ”
• “An Alternative Model of Interest Rate Determination” (with E. Nell and H. Shin)

Teaching

Organizer:

• “Has Economics Failed the Challenge of Development?”, New School for Social Research, April 06
• “Mechanisms of Inequality: Theory and Empirics”, New School for Social Research, November 06
• “Has Economics Failed the Challenge of Reality?”, New School for Social Research, April 07

Presenter:

• “Public Policy for Economic Growth: Theory and Empirics” (with W. Semmler, A. Greiner and B. Diallo, and A. Rajaram), NYC Computational Economics & Complexity Workshop, November 2006
• “Fiscal Policy, Public Expenditure Composition, and Growth: Theory and Empirics” (with W. Semmler, A. Greiner, B. Diallo, and A. Rajaram), Debt Sustainability Workshop, University of Klagenfurt, May 2007
• “Productivity Growth and Unemployment in the Short and Long Run” (with P. Chen and W. Semmler), New School – UMass Graduate Workshop in Economics, November 2007
• “A Model of Economic Growth for Public Policy” (with W. Semmler, A. Greiner and B. Diallo, and A. Rajaram), 14th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, June 2008.
• “Recast DICE: On the Economics of Global Warming”, New School–UMass Graduate Workshop in Economics, October 2008, and 18 th PhD Workshop on ICP, Columbia University, April 2009

Languages

• German
• English