Yuriy Gorodnichenko

Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Born1978
NationalityUkrainian
Occupation(s)Economist, professor
Academic background
EducationB.A. (1999), M.A. (2001) National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

M.A. (2004), Ph.D. (2007) University of Michigan
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
National Bureau of Economic Research
Institute for the Study of Labor
Centre for Economic Policy Research

Yuriy Gorodnichenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Городніченко) is an economist and Quantedge Presidential professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

Gorodnichenko is also a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,[2] a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research,[3] a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor.[4], a leader of the Ukrainian initiative at CEPR, a member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Gorodnichenko was the chair of the International Academic Board of the Kyiv School of Economics.[5]

Gorodichenko is a coeditor of the American Economic Review. Previously, he was a coeditor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and Journal of Monetary Economics. Gorodnichenko also serves on the editorial board of Visnyk of the National Bank of Ukraine. Gorodnichenko is a cofounder of VoxUkraine. Gorodnichenko is a member of the executive committee of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES).

A significant part of his research has been about monetary policy (effects, optimal design, inflation targeting), fiscal policy (countercyclical policy, government spending multipliers), taxation (tax evasion, inequality), economic growth (long-run determinants, globalization, innovation, financial frictions), and business cycles. Gorodnichenko coauthored several proposals on the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. His work was published in leading economics journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of European Economic Association, and many others.

Gorodnichenko received awards for his teaching and research, including Sloan Research Fellowship,[6] NSF CAREER award,[7] World Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance,[8] Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs,[9] fellow of the Econometric Society,[10] R.K. Cho Prize in Economics, and others. Gorodnichenko's research was funded by the National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, National Bureau of Economic Research, Social Security Administration, Google, and other agencies and firms.

RePEc ranks Gorodnichenko as the top young economist in the world.[11]

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  5. ^ Carlos, Red. "International Academic Board". Kyiv School of Economics (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  6. ^ Staff, Seif Abdelghaffar | (2013-02-22). "Four faculty members awarded Sloan Fellowships". The Daily Californian. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  7. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1151168 - CAREER: Analysis of Prices, Informational Rigidities and Productivity Differences". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  8. ^ "Winners of the 2018 Monetary Economics and Finance Prize". TSE. 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  9. ^ "List of Previous Prize Winners". www.ifw-kiel.de. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  10. ^ "Congratulations to our 2021 Fellows | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  11. ^ "Young Economist Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2020-07-17.