About

George Alessandria is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. He is also an NBER Research Associate. Prior to joining Rochester, in 2014, he was a senior policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He has held academic positions at Ohio State, New York University, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University.

His research interests include Macroeconomics, International Finance, and International Trade.  Some of his recent publications include “Trade adjustment dynamics and the welfare gains from trade” (with H. Choi and K.J. Ruhl) in the Journal of International Economics, 2021, “The dynamics of the US trade balance and real exchange rate: The J curve and trade costs?” (with H. Choi) in the Journal of International Economics, 2021, and “The Aggregate Effects of Global and Local Supply Chain Disruptions: 2020–2022” (with S.Y. Khan, A. Khederlarian, C.B. Mix & K.J. Ruhl), NBER Working Papers 30849, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2023. He currently has a grant from the NSF with Kim Ruhl, "The Micro and Macro Effects of Supply-Chain Disruptions."

He is a member of the advisory panel of the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Series on Public Policy. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Monetary Economics. He has been on the editorial board of the International Economic Review and the Journal of International Economics.

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