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ALEXIS ANTONIADES

School of Foreign Service in Qatar            ASAS Twin Towers, #1403

Georgetown University                              Doha, State of Qatar

974 4457 8288                                           +974 6603 0647

P.O. Box 23689                                          aa658@georgetown.edu

Doha, State of Qatar                                   www.georgetown.edu/faculty/aa658

Employer:

2008-CurrentAssistant Professor

Georgetown University

School of Foreign Service in Qatar

2012-2013   Associate Research Fellow

Niehaus Center for Globalization

and Member of the European Union Program

Woodrow Wilscon School of Public and International Affairs

Princeton University

Education:

2008 Ph. D.Economics, Columbia University (Sep 2006 – May 2008)

2006 M. PhilEconomics, Columbia University (Sep 2005 – May 2006)

2005 M. A.Economics, Columbia University (Sep 2003 – May 2005)

2001 B. A.Economics (Honors), University of Wisconsin-Madison (Sep 1997 – May 2001)

2001 B. A.Mathematics (Concentration in Finance), University of Wisconsin-Madison

(Sep 1997 – May 2001)

Teaching and Research Fields:

International Finance, International Trade, International Macro

Money and Banking – Fall 2008, Fall 2009

International Finance – Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011

Topics in International Economics – Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2013

The Global Financial System– Fall 2010

Intermediate Macroeconomics           – Fall 2011

Work Experience:

2004-2007Research Assistant, Professor David Weinstein, Columbia University

2001-2002Assistant Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

1995-1997Second Lieutenant, Cyprus National Guard

Publications:

● “Local versus Producer Currency Pricing: Evidence from Disaggregated Data”, International Economic Review, Vol 53(4), November 2012

● “The Gulf Monetary Union”, in The Political Economic of the Persian Gulf, edited by M. Kamrava (Columbia University, Hurst 2012)

● “Taking the Pulse of the Tech Sector: A Coincident Index of High-Tech Activity” (with Bart Hobijn, and Kevin Stiroh), Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Current Issue in Economics and Finance, Vol 9(10), Oct 2003

● “Goods and Services Price Inflation: Recent Behavior and Historical Relationship” (with Richard Peach, and Robert Rich), Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Economic Policy Review, Vol 10(3), December 2004

Work in Progress:

● Retailer Rate Pass-Through and Its Determinants Using Scanner Data (with Nicola Zaniboni), revised and resubmitted, Journal of International Economics

● Heterogeneous Firms, Quality, and Trade, submitted

● Multiproduct Firms and Economic Shocks: Short-Term Effects of Long-Term Boycotts, submitted

● Altruism and Remittances, (with Ganesh Seshan, Georgetown University and Robertas Zubriskas   and Roberto Weber from the University of Zurich), submitted

● Six Facts About Retailers

● Ideologies, Media Branding, and the Hostile Media Effect

Grants:

2013

$     20,000      “Using Social Media to Study Financial Bubbles: The Case of Bitcoin”, UREP,      QNRF

2012

$    10,000“Using Social Media to Assess Qatar as a Brand,” UREP, QNRF

2012

$      7,000      “Social Aspects of Financial Behavior,” Faculty Research Grant

2011

$       7,000“An Experiment of Human Cooperation Among Workers from Kerala, India Working in Qatar (with Ganesh Seshan, Georgetown University and Robertas Zubriskas and Roberto Weber from the University of Zurich) – Faculty Research Grant, Georgetown University

2010

$     20,000“Public-Private Partnerships: How Can Qatar Benefit?” UREP, QNRF

$       7,000      “Danish Cartoons, Boycotts, and Retailers’ Behavior” - Faculty Research Grant, Georgetown University

2009

$1,050,000“The First Micro-Study on he Gulf Economies Using Scanner Level Data“ - National Priorities Research Grant, QNRF (three-year grant)

$       7,000 “Imitation Versus Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Sector” – Faculty Research Grant, Georgetown University

$     10,000“Media Branding, Background, and Perception”, UREP, QNRF

2008

$       7,000 “Innovation versus Imitation in the Pharmaceutical Sector” – Faculty Research Grant, Georgetown University

Honors:

2012-2013Niehaus Fellowship, Princeton University

2007-2008GSAS, Dissertation Fellowship

2006-2007Wueller Award for Teaching Excellence, Columbia University

2006-2007Summer Research Fellowship (GSAS), Columbia University

2005-2006Wueller Award for Teaching Excellence, Columbia University

2005-2006Summer Research Fellowship (GSAS), Columbia University

2005-2006Wueller Award for Best Third Year Paper (runner up), Columbia University

2005-2006Fellowship, Program for Economic Research, Columbia University

2005-2006Fellowship, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

2003-2007Four-Year Fellowship, Economics Department, Columbia University

2000-2001Best Senior Thesis Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1997-2001Four-Year Fulbright/CASP Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Conferences and Seminars

2013

University of Wisconsin-Madison. George Washington University, Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School), Princeton University (Economics), Bank of Canada, ICP/PPP Working Group, European Economic Association Meeting (scheduled)

2012

University of Bern, University of Cyprus, Princeton University (Economics department), Georgetown University, 12th Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics,  Columbia University

2011

The Economic Transformation of the Gulf, The 9th Conference of Communication and Mass Media

2010

The Middle East Economic Association Meeting, Istanbul, June 2010, 9th Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics

2009

Qatar Central Bank, University of Cyprus, Georgetown University, Center for Interfaith Dialogue Roundtable, European Economic Association Meeting, Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University

2008

Columbia University, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Board of Governors, Bank of Canada, Central Bank of Cyprus, University of Cyprus, Athens University of Business and Economics

Computer Skills

Excellent knowledge of C++, Java, Matlab, Rats, Eviews, Stata, Gauss, Sas

Languages

English and Greek fluently, some Russian