Guido Menzio
Assistant Professor in Economics
Contact
Information and Vitae
Contact Information:
Email:
“gmenzio” at “econ.upenn.edu”
Phone:
773-865-6337
Office:
215-898-5170
Fax:
215-573-2057
Mail:
467 McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk,
Fields of Specialization:
Primary:
Macroeconomics, Search Theory.
Secondary:
Labor Economics, Monetary Theory, Contract Theory.
Academic Positions:
Assistant
Professor: Dept of Economics,
National
Fellow: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, CA, 2008.
Short Visiting Positions:
Visiting Scholar: FRB Philadelphia, PA, November 2009.
Visiting Scholar: FRB Minneapolis, MN, December 2008.
Doctoral Studies:
Ph.D.:
Economics, Northwestern University,
Dissertation:
The Wage Policy of the Firm:
Micro-foundations and Macro Implications
Committee
Chairperson: Professor Dale T. Mortensen
Predoctoral Studies:
M.A.:
Economics, Northwestern University,
B.A.:
Economics, University of Torino, Italy, 1994-1999, Summa cum Laude.
Honors, Scholarships and Grants:
National
Bureau of Economic Research, National Research Fellow, 2009-
Duke University, Young Macroeconomists Jamboree, 2008.
Northwestern
University,
Northwestern
University, Graduate Fellow, 2003-04.
Northwestern University, Teaching Assistant Award,
2003.
Northwestern
University, Distinction on Preliminary Examinations, 2001.
Medio Credito Centrale, Scholarship
Marco Fanno, 2000-02.
Alleanza Assicurazioni, Best Thesis Award, 2000.
Refereed Publications:
“Inflation and Unemployment in the
Long Run,” with Aleksander
Berentsen and Randall Wright, American Economic Review (Accepted).
“Block Recursive Equilibria
for Stochastic Models of Search on the Job,” with Shouyong
Shi, Journal of Economic Theory
(Forthcoming).
“A Theory of Partially Directed Search,” Journal of Political Economy, 115 (2007),
748-769.
Working Papers:
“Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle,”
with Shouyong Shi, NBER Working Paper 14905, Revise
and Resubmit at the Journal of Political
Economy (September 2009).
“Directed Search on the Job and Aggregate Fluctuations,”
with Shouyong Shi, Manuscript (September 2009).
“Job Search with Bidder Memories,”
with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Eric Smith, IZA
Working Paper 4319, Submitted to the International
Economic Review (July 2009).
“Worker Replacement,” with Espen Moen, PIER Working Paper 08-040, Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Monetary Economics (June
2009).
“Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle,”
with Shouyong Shi, NBER Working Paper 14905 (March
2009).
“A Search Theory of Rigid Prices,” PIER Working Paper
07-031, Under revision for The Quarterly Journal of Economics (September 2007).
“High-Frequency Wage Rigidity,” Job Market Paper
(March 2005).
Work in Progress:
“Equilibrium Price Dispersion and
Rigidity,” with Allen Head, Lucy Qian Liu and Randall Wright.
“Monetary Theory with Non-Degenerate
Distributions,” with Shouyong Shi and Hongfei Sun.
Invited Seminars:
2010: Aarhus University, University of Amsterdam.
2009: Duke University, University of Wisconsin at
Madison, FRB Minneapolis, FRB Chicago, Pennsylvania State University, FRB
Philadelphia, Georgetown University.
2008: University of Michigan, Stanford University,
Hoover Institution.
2007: University of Maryland; FRB Cleveland,
University of Pennsylvania; University of Toronto.
2006: University of Turin; University of Oslo;
Stanford University; University of Pennsylvania; UC Los Angeles; FRB Saint
Louis.
2005: Princeton; Carnegie-Mellon; UT Austin; University
of Pennsylvania; University of Chicago; IIES; London School of Economics;
University of Minnesota; UC San Diego; University of Chicago GSB; Northwestern
University.
Conference Presentations:
2009: Research on Money and Markets Workshop at the
University of Toronto, NBER Small Group Meeting (RSW), Search and Matching
Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, SED Istanbul, Tsinghua
University Conference on Macroeconomics.
2008: ASSA New Orleans; Philadelphia FED Conference on
Monetary and Macro Economics; SED Cambridge; NBER Summer Institute (RSW).
2007: Philadelphia FED Conference on Monetary and
Macro Economics; NBER Small Group Meeting (RSW); SED Prague; NBER Summer
Institute (RSW); NBER Summer Institute (EFG); NBER Summer Institute (EFCE);
Minnesota Macro Conference.
2006: Search and Matching Conference at the University
of Pennsylvania; SED Vancouver; NBER Summer Institute (RSW).
2005: ESWC 2005 at UCL; NBER Summer Institute (RSW).
2004: Labor Market Models,
Scientific Committees:
2007-2010:
Society for Economic Dynamics.
Refereeing:
American Economic Review, American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Canadian Journal of Economics,
Economic Journal, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, Israeli National
Science Foundation, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European
Economic Association, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Monetary
Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics,
International Economic Review, Labor Economics, National Science Foundation,
Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Studies.
Teaching Experience:
Lecturer, University of
Pennsylvania, Topics in Macroeconomics (graduate), 2006.
Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania,
Macroeconomic Theory, 2006, 2007, 2009.