| Gina C. Pieters
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Last updated: November 2, 2011 |
| Gina C. Pieters
( PDF version) |
Last updated: November 2, 2011 |
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Contact Information
Phone: 612.625.6696 (preferred method of contact) Email: piet0120@umn.edu Office: 3-137 Hanson Hall |
| Citizenship: USA (Citizen), South Africa (Citizen), New Zealand (Permanent Resident) |
| Languages: English (Fluent), Afrikaans (Native) |
| Computer Skills: Matlab, Mathematica, STATA, LaTeX |
| Degree | Field | Institution | Year |
| Ph.D. | Economics | University of Minnesota (expected) | 2006-2012 |
| B.S. | Physics | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2001-2005 |
| B.A. | Economics (Highest Honors) | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2001-2005 |
| Trade and Within-Country Consumption Inequality (Job market Paper)
Last Upated: November 27, 2011 | |
| I study the effect of trade on consumption inequality within a country. Using a model of trade with product differentiation, pricing-to-market, and heterogeneity in firm productivity, I show that even in the absence of income changes, trade liberalization changes the optimal pricing decision of firms which causes changes in consumption inequality. I find that when the trade partner is an identical country trade liberalization increases consumption inequality. Trade with a country with high income inequality increases consumption inequality, while trade with a country with a high level of development decreases consumption inequality. | |
| Learning About Growth, joint with Andy Glover | |
| We introduce a model in which consumers must learn whether a country's growth rate shock is permanent or transitory. We document that for developing countries TFP growth rates have been highly volatile, while for developed country the growth rate is comparatively stable. This difference is sufficient to explain the allocation puzzle, the observation that developing countries with higher growth experience higher capital outflow. In addition, we document that the allocation puzzle decreases over time - in agreement with our model predictions. We interpret this as evidence that the learning mechanism underlying our model is relevant to understanding the differences in behavior of developed and developing countries. |
| 2011 (Fall) | Travel Grant , Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2010 (Summer) | Travel Grant , Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2009 | Second Place, Hardy Third Year Paper Competition for "Learning about Growth", joint with Andy Glover. Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2009 (Summer) | Graduate Research Partnership Program Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2006 - 2007 | Graduate School Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 2005 | Highest Honors, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| October 2011 | "Trade and Within-Country Consumption Inequality", presented at The 11th Annual Missouri Economics Association and Washington University's 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference, St. Louis, USA |
| July 2010 | "Learning about Growth", presented at Society for Economic Dynamics Meeting, Montreal, Canada |
| Journal of International Economics |
| 2009 - Present | Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
| 2010-2011 | Walter W. Heller Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 2010 (Spring) | Distinguished Instructor, Principles of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 2010 (Fall) | Distinguished Instructor, Principles of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 2009-2010 | Walter W. Heller Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota | 2010 (Summer) | Distinguished Instructor, Principles of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 2009 (Spring) | Distinguished Instructor, Principles of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 2008 (Fall) | Distinguished Instructor, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 2008 (Summer) | Distinguished Instructor, Principles of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 2008 (Spring) | Distinguished Teaching Assistant, Principles of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 2010 - Present | Lead Instructor - Principles of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prepare all instructional material to be used by all other macro principles instructors, which includes creating and distributing lecture notes, recitation notes, exams, homework and online coursework, supervising and mentoring graduate student teaching assistants and graders (11 classs, 8 instructors, 10 teaching assistants, 1000+ undergraduate students annually). |
| 2009 - Present | Large Lecture Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prepare all instructional material and supervise teaching assistants and graders for the large lecture section of Principles of Macroeconomics. |
| Fall 2011: Principles of Macroeconomics (170 students). Book: "Macroeconomics", Mankiw | |
| Spring 2011: Principles of Macroeconomics (600 students). Book: "Macroeconomics", Mankiw | |
| Fall 2010: Principles of Macroeconomics (180 students). Book: "Macroeconomics", Mankiw | |
| Spring 2010: Principles of Macroeconomics (400 students). Book: "Macroeconomics", Mankiw | |
| Fall 2009, 2010: Principles of Macroeconomics (210 students). Book: "Macroeconomics", Mankiw | |
| Spring 2009: Principles of Macroeconomics (240 students). Book: "Macroeconomics", McConnell Brue | |
| 2008, 2010 | Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Summer 2011: Principles of Macroeconomics, Summer Intensive (17 students). Book: "Macroeconomics", Mankiw | |
| Summer 2010: Principles of Macroeconomics, Summer Intensive (25 students). Book: "Macroeconomics", Mankiw | |
| Fall 2008: Intermediate Macroeconomics (20 students). Book: "Macroeconomics", Williamson | |
| Summer 2008: Principles of Macroeconomics, Summer Intensive (35 students). Book: "Macroeconomics", McConnell Brue | |
| 2007-2008 | Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Spring 2008: Principles of Macroeconomics (3 sections of 35 students). Book: "Macroeconomics", Krugman Wells | |
| Fall 2007: Principles of Microeconomics (3 sections of 35 students). Book: "Microeconomics", Mankiw |
| Sachs, Jeffery and Gordon McCord. 2009 Principles of Economics and Global Sustainable Developvement. Addison-Wesley: Boston (Prospectus Review) | |
| Cowen, Tyler and Alex Tabarrok, 2009. Modern Principles of Economics. Worth Publishers: New York | |
| Williamson, Stephen, 2009. Macroeconomics, 3rd Edition. Addison-Wesley: Boston (Pre-revision review) |