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DENNIS NOVY
December 2014
Department of Economics
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 247 615 0046
Fax: +44 (0) 247 652 3032
Email: d.novy@warwick.ac.uk
APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, since October 2011
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, 2006-2011
Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), since 2011
EDUCATION
PhD in Economics, University of Cambridge, 2002-2007
MPhil in Economics, University of Cambridge, 2001-2002
Graduate Economics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, 2000-2001
Undergraduate Economics, University of Cologne, Germany, 1998-2000
RESEARCH INTERESTS
International Trade, International Economics, Macroeconomics
PUBLICATIONS
“Trade Costs, 1870-2000.” American Economic Review 98(2), Papers & Proceedings, May 2008, pp. 529534. (With David Jacks and Christopher Meissner)
“Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization.” Explorations in Economic History 47(2), April 2010,
pp. 127-141. (With David Jacks and Christopher Meissner) Runner-up for the Explorations Prize
for the best article published in the previous year. Available as NBER Working Paper 12602.
Reprinted in: ‘Globalization and Transport’ edited by Kenneth Button and Henry Vega,
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012.
“Trade Costs and the Open Macroeconomy.” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 112(3), September
2010, pp. 514-545.
“Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs.” Journal of International Economics 83(2), March 2011,
pp. 185-201. (With David Jacks and Christopher Meissner) Available as NBER Working Paper
15267.
“Gravity, Trade Integration, and Heterogeneity across Industries.” Journal of International Economics
85(2), November 2011, pp. 206-221. (With Natalie Chen) Previous version entitled “International
Trade Integration: A Disaggregated Approach” available as CEPR Discussion Paper 7103.
“On the Measurement of Trade Costs – Direct vs. Indirect Approaches to Quantifying Standards and
Technical Regulations.” World Trade Review 11(3), July 2012, pp. 401-414. (With Natalie Chen)
Available as CEPR Discussion Paper 8883.
“Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data.” Economic Inquiry 51(1), January
2013, pp. 101-121. 2013 Best Article Award for best paper published in Economic Inquiry.
“International Trade without CES: Estimating Translog Gravity.” Journal of International Economics
89(2), March 2013, pp. 271-282 (lead article). Available as CEPR Discussion Paper 9125.
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“Is the International Border Effect Larger than the Domestic Border Effect? Evidence from U.S. Trade.”
CESifo Economic Studies 59(2), June 2013, pp. 249-276. (With Cletus Coughlin)
RESEARCH PAPERS
“Trade and Uncertainty.” (With Alan M. Taylor) Available as NBER Working Paper 19941 and CEPR
Discussion Paper 9888.
“Is the Iceberg Melting Less Quickly? International Trade Costs after World War II.”
“Hedge Your Costs: Exchange Rate Risk and Endogenous Currency Invoicing”
“Do International Economic Conditions Affect Election Outcomes?” (With Emanuel Kohlscheen)
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Internal Trade Costs” with James Anderson, Mario Larch, Yoto Yotov
“Estimating Border Effects: The Impact of Geographic Aggregation” with Cletus Coughlin
“Market Potential and Global Growth over the Long Twentieth Century” with David Jacks
“Asymmetric Trade Costs: Evidence from Sailing and Steamships” with Natalie Chen and Luigi Pascali
“Gravity Aggregation” with Holger Breinlich and João Santos Silva
OTHER WRITING
“Attention David Cameron: Time to Stop the Scaremongers from Strangling TTIP” The
Conversation.com 5 October 2014
“TTIP Has the Potential to Be a Forum Which Sets 21st Century Trade Rules” London School of
Economics USAPP – American Politics and Policy 21 July 2014, and British Politics and Policy 26 July
2014
“TTIP – Is Free Trade Coming to the North Atlantic?” VoxEU.org 28 May 2014, and CEP CentrePiece
Volume 19(3) Winter 2014/15
“Uncertainty and the Great Trade Collapse: New Evidence” VoxEU.org 19 March 2014 (with Alan M.
Taylor)
“Gaining Further Understanding of the Factors Which Influence Export Engagement among UK SMEs”
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS), May 2013
(with Giordano Mion)
“Do Falling Trade Costs Benefit All Countries Equally?” VoxEU.org 11 October 2012
“Intellectual Property, Overseas Sales, and the Impact of UKTI Assistance in Entering New Overseas
Markets” UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS), May
2012 (with Holger Breinlich, Giordano Mion and Patrick Nolen)
“The Role of Trade Costs in the Great Trade Collapse” In: ‘The Great Trade Collapse: Causes,
Consequences and Prospects’ edited by Richard Baldwin, London: Centre for Economic Policy Research
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Press, 2011: pp. 159-167. (With David Jacks and Christopher Meissner) Also available as VoxEU
Ebook, 27 November 2009, pp. 161-169.
“What’s Driving the Trade Collapse?” VoxEU.org 19 September 2009 (with Douglas Campbell, David
Jacks and Christopher Meissner)
“Zero Tariffs and High Trade Costs: EU Technical Barriers to Trade” VoxEU.org 27 January 2009 (with
Natalie Chen)
“Globalization and Trade Costs: 1870 to the Present” VoxEU.org 16 August 2008 (with David Jacks and
Christopher Meissner)
RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
RePEc Top 100 Young Economists (10 years or less, worldwide), 2014 (out of a total pool of 20,000)
Winner, University Public Engagement Award 2014, for “The House of Lords and the Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)”, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Warwick,
July 2014
Best Article Award for best paper published in Economic Inquiry in 2013 for “Gravity Redux: Measuring
International Trade Costs with Panel Data”, February 2014
RePEc Top 100 Young Economists worldwide (5 years or less, worldwide), 2010
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Principal Investigator, Grant RES-000-22-3112,
£101,480, “International Trade Integration: New Methods and New Data” 2008-2010, Overseas
Co-Investigators: David Jacks (Simon Fraser University) and Christopher Meissner (UC Davis)
Runner-up (with David Jacks and Christopher Meissner) for the Explorations Prize for the best article
published in the previous year in Explorations in Economic History, September 2010
North American Travel Fund, University of Warwick, January 2008
German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), Scholar 1998-2006, PhD
Scholarship 2002-2006
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), PhD Studentship 2002-2005
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Raymond Burton Studentship 2003-2004
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Great Britain Scholarship 2001-2002
Cambridge European Trust Bursary 2001-2002
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Advising Positions
Specialist Adviser, House of Lords, European Union Committee, for their inquiry on the Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), 2013/14
Affiliations
Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), since 2011
Research Associate, Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), Warwick, since
2010
Associate, Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics, since 2011
Research Fellow, CESifo Institute, Munich (Global Economy), since 2014, Research Affiliate 2009-2014
Affiliate Member, Centre for International Macroeconomics and Finance (CIMF), University of
Cambridge, since 2006
Visiting Positions
Visitor, London School of Economics, September-December 2010
Visiting Scholar, Economics Department and Center for the Evolution of the Global Economy, University
of California-Davis, August-December 2008
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Visitor, Yale University, October 2008
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, April and December 2008
Visitor, Economics Department, University of California-Davis, November 2007
Visitor, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, September 2007
Conferences and Workshops Organized
CAGE International Trade Research Day, University of Warwick, May 2015
Global Fragmentation of Production and Trade Policy (CEPR/CAGE/ECARES), Brussels, September 2014
Tri-Continental International Trade Policy Symposium, UIBE, Beijing, May 2014
CAGE International Trade Research Day, University of Warwick, May 2013
CAGE/CEP Workshop on Trade Policy in a Globalised World, Venice, June 2012
Tri-Continental International Trade Policy Symposium, UIBE, Beijing, May 2012
CAGE International Trade Research Day, University of Warwick, February 2011
Trade Costs and International Trade Integration: Past, Present and Future, Venice, June 2010
Warwick Research Day on International Trade, University of Warwick, March 2009
Conference Referee Verein für Socialpolitik Jahrestagung, September 2012, September 2013
External PhD Examiner Cecília Hornok, Central European University, Budapest, 2011; Festus
Turkson, University of Nottingham, 2012; Shawn Tan, University of Melbourne, 2013. (Internal at
Warwick: Yeo Joon Yoon, 2014.)
Grant Funding Reviewer British Academy, Churchill College University of Cambridge, Economic and
Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College, Research Grants Council Hong Kong,
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German
National Academic Foundation), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Interviewer Undergraduate Admissions for St John’s College (2004), Sidney Sussex College (2004),
King’s College (2005), University of Cambridge
Graduate Student Representative Faculty Board, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge,
2003-2004
Referee American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied
Economics, African Journal of Agricultural Research, African Journal of Business Management, B.E.
Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Canadian Journal of Economics, China Agricultural Economic
Review, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economics Bulletin, Economics Letters, Economic Systems,
Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Global Policy,
International Economic Review, International Journal of Finance and Economics, International Review of
Economics and Finance, International Trade Journal, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of
Development Economics, Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics, Journal of the European
Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance,
Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal
of Regional Science, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Manchester School, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and
Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Economics and
Statistics, Review of International Economics, Review of World Economics, Scandinavian Journal of
Economics, World Bank Economic Review, World Economy, World Trade Review
Conference Presentations
AEA Meetings, Boston, January 2015
LACEA-LAMES Meetings, Sao Paolo, November 2014
Global Fragmentation of Production and Trade Policy (CEPR/CAGE/ECARES), Brussels, Sept. 2014 (organizer)
Royal Society of Medicine Global Health Event on TTIP, London, September 2014
SIRE Workshop on Country Size and Border Effects in a Globalised World, Edinburgh, June 2014
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ESRC Scottish Centre on Constitutional Change, Seminar on Borders, Edinburgh, June 2014
CEPR European Research Workshop on International Trade, Oslo, June 2014 (attending)
CESifo Area Conference on the Global Economy, Munich, May 2014
International Trade Policy Symposium, UIBE, Beijing, May 2014
Distance and Border Effects in Economics Workshop, Loughborough University, January 2014 (keynote speaker)
AEA Meetings, Philadelphia, January 2014 (attending)
Monash-Warwick Workshop on Development Economics, Melbourne, August 2013
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE), Palo Alto, June 2013
CEPR European Research Workshop on International Trade, Rotterdam, June 2013 (attending)
CESifo Area Conference on the Global Economy, Munich, May 2013
NBER Program Meeting, International Trade and Investment, Boston, March 2013
Economic Geography and International Trade Research Meeting (EGIT), Berlin, February 2013 (keynote speaker)
AEA Meetings, San Diego, January 2013 (attending)
Industrial Organization and Spatial Economics Conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 2012 (keynote speaker)
Western Economic Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, June 2012
CAGE/CEP Workshop on Trade Policy in a Globalised World, Venice, June 2012 (organizer)
CEPR European Research Workshop on International Trade, Barcelona, May 2012 (attending)
Tri-Continental International Trade Policy Symposium, UIBE, Beijing, May 2012
Midwest International Economics Meetings, Bloomington, Indiana, May 2012
NBER Program Meeting, International Trade and Investment, New York, March 2012 (attending)
AEA Meetings, Chicago, January 2012 (discussant)
LACEA-LAMES Meetings, Santiago de Chile, November 2011
European Trade Study Group, Copenhagen, September 2011
Verein für Socialpolitik Jahrestagung, Frankfurt, September 2011
European Congress of the Regional Science Association, Barcelona, August 2011
Econometric Society Asian Meeting, Seoul, Korea, August 2011
Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting, St. Louis, June 2011
CEPR European Research Workshop on International Trade, Nottingham, June 2011 (attending)
Kiel International Economics Meeting, May 2011
CESifo Measuring Economic Integration Conference, Munich, February 2011
AEA Meetings, Denver, January 2011 (attending)
LACEA Trade Integration and Growth Network, San Jose, Costa Rica, September 2010
Econometric Society World Congress, Shanghai, August 2010
NBER Summer Institute, International Trade and Investment, August 2010
Trade Costs and International Trade Integration: Past, Present and Future, Venice, June 2010 (organizer)
CEPR European Research Workshop on International Trade, Rome, June 2010 (attending)
Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference, Banff, May 2010
CEGE Conference on Financial Shocks and the Real Economy, UC Davis, May 2010 (discussant)
CESifo Area Conference on the Global Economy, Munich, February 2010
Young Scholars Symposium on International Economics and Business, Xiamen University, December 2009
LACEA Trade Integration and Growth Network, Mexico City, December 2009 (discussant)
Midwest International Economics Meetings, Penn State, October 2009
European Trade Study Group, Rome, September 2009
Conference on Gravity and Specialization, Valencia, July 2009
Nottingham GEP Trade Costs Conference, June 2009
CEPR European Research Workshop on International Trade, Madrid, June 2009 (attending)
Warwick Research Day on International Trade, March 2009
CESifo Area Conference on the Global Economy, Munich, February 2009
AEA Meetings, San Francisco, January 2009
Santa Cruz Center for International Economics Conference, October 2008 (discussant)
NBER Summer Institute, International Trade and Investment, July 2008 (attending)
Offshoring Conference, Nottingham, June 2008 (discussant)
Financial Globalisation Conference, Trinity College Dublin, June 2008 (discussant)
CEPR European Research Workshop on International Trade, Appenzell, June 2008 (attending)
Midwest International Economics Meetings, Urbana-Champaign, May 2008
The Changing Global Economy, University of Western Ontario, April 2008
AEA Meetings, New Orleans, January 2008
Conference for German Economists Abroad, Mannheim, December 2007
CEPR European Research Workshop on International Trade, Kiel, October 2007
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European Trade Study Group, Athens, September 2007
NBER Summer Institute, International Trade and Investment, July 2007
Exchange Rates: Choices and Consequences, Cambridge, UK, June 2007 (discussant)
European Economics and Finance Society Annual Conference, Sofia, June 2007
Zeuthen Workshop on International Trade and Investment, Copenhagen, April 2007
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Warwick, April 2007
AEA Meetings, Chicago, January 2007 (attending)
Centre for International Macroeconomics and Finance, Cambridge, UK, May 2006 (discussant)
AEA Meetings, Boston, January 2006 (attending)
European Economic Association Annual Congress, Amsterdam, August 2005
AEA Meetings, Philadelphia, January 2005 (attending)
European Doctoral Group in Economics Jamboree, Aix-en-Provence, September 2003
European Trade Study Group, University Carlos III, Madrid, September 2003
Summer School on the European Monetary Union, University of Crete, August 2003
European Economics and Finance Society Annual Conference, University of Bologna, May 2003
Spring Meeting of Young Economists, University of Leuven, April 2003
Seminars
Tilburg University, March 2015
Université Catholique de Louvain, December 2014
Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 2014
University of Oldenburg, June 2014
HM Treasury, London, May 2014
London School of Economics, May 2014
Lancaster University, April 2014
University of Strathclyde, April 2014
University of Dundee, March 2014
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, March 2014
Penn State, September 2013
Boston College, September 2013
Nankai University, July 2013
London School of Economics, June 2013
University of Oxford, May 2013
University of Nottingham, April 2013
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, May 2012
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, May 2012
Paris Trade Seminar, Sciences Po, November 2011
University of Sussex, October 2011
University of Düsseldorf, May 2011
Central European University, May 2011
University of Nottingham, January 2011
Universitat de Valencia, May 2010
University of Kiel, April 2010
University of Oxford, March 2010
Loughborough University, February 2010
London School of Economics, November 2009
University of Warwick, November 2009
Simon Fraser University, October 2009
Stockholm University, May 2009
University of Essex, April 2009
Santa Clara University, December 2008
Vanderbilt University, November 2008
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, October 2008
Yale University, October 2008
Columbia University, September 2008
Fordham University, April 2008
Georgia Tech, April 2008
University of Nottingham, March 2008
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University of Oxford, November 2007
Royal Holloway, University of London, November 2007
University of California-Santa Cruz, November 2007
University of California-Davis, October 2007
University of Nagoya, October 2007
Waseda University, Tokyo, October 2007
University of Oxford, February 2007
University of Birmingham, December 2006
University of Warwick, October and November 2006
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, February 2006
University of Warwick, February, 2006
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, February 2006
University of California-Riverside, January 2006
University of Groningen, May 2005
University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy, February 2005
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics, April and May 2003, Feb. 2004, May and Nov. 2005
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
PhD students (placement in parentheses): Wanyu Chung (University of Nottingham), Jorge Chavez
Cotrado
EC315 International Trade, Undergraduate, London School of Economics, 2010
EC956 Macroeconomics, MSc in Finance and Economics, Warwick Business School, 2007-2010
EC9B3 Topics in International Economics, PhD, University of Warwick, 2015EC312/EC336 International Trade, Undergraduate, University of Warwick, 2007-2015
EC123 Mathematical Techniques B, Undergraduate, University of Warwick, 2011-2014
EC106 Macroeconomics, Undergraduate, University of Warwick, 2007-2015
Graduate Macroeconomics, Teaching Fellow, University of Cambridge, 2002-2006
Undergraduate Macroeconomics, Teaching Associate, King’s College, Cambridge, 2005-2006
Undergraduate Macroeconomics, College Lecturer, St John’s College, Cambridge, 2004-2005
Undergraduate Microeconomics, Teaching Assistant, Technical University Berlin, 2000-2001
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