Yuriy Gorodnichenko () is an

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and Quantedge Presidential

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at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. Gorodnichenko is also a visiting scholar at the

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (informally referred to as the San Francisco Fed) is the federal bank for the twelfth district in the United States. The twelfth district is made up of nine western states—Alaska, Arizona, California, ...

, a faculty research associate at the

National Bureau of Economic Research The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic c ...

, a research fellow at the

Institute for the Study of Labor The IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (german: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit), until 2016 referred to as the Institute of the Study of Labor (IZA), is a private, independent economic research institute and academic network focused o ...

. Gorodnichenko was the chair of the International Academic Board of the

Kyiv School of Economics Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) is an undergraduate and graduate school of economics and management in Kyiv, Ukraine, founded in 1996 by the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC) and the Eurasia Foundation. KSE has an agreement with ...

. Gorodichenko is a coeditor of th
Journal of Monetary Economics
Previously, he was a coeditor of th
Review of Economics and Statistics
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 The Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) is the leading scholarly organization for the support of studies on comparative economic systems. Its global membership includes academics, policymakers, and other economists and political scie ...

(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. His work was published in leading economics journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy,

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, Journal of European Economic Association, and many others. Gorodnichenko received awards for his teaching and research, including

Sloan Research Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

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award, World Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance, Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs, fellow of the

Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools to their field. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians. ...

, and others. Gorodnichenko's research was funded by the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,

Social Security Administration The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits. To qualify ...

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, and other agencies and firms. RePEc ranks Gorodnichenko as the top young economist in the world.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gorodnichenko, Yuriy 21st-century Ukrainian economists 1978 births Ukrainian academics Living people University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty University of Michigan alumni Fellows of the Econometric Society