ANDERS ÅKERMAN [email protected] CURRICULUM VITAE GENERAL INFORMATION: Date of birth: October 22, 1977 Nationality: Swedish CURRENT POSITION: Researcher at Stockholm University (Department of Economics) EMPLOYMENT: 2015 (August) – 2016 (July) Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago (Department of Economics) 2015 (February) – 2015 (July) Parental leave 2009 (Jun) – 2015 (January) Post Doc Researcher at Stockholm University (Department of Economics) 2008 (Aug) – 2009 (May) Researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm 2007 (Jun – Aug) Summer Intern at Riksbanken (The Central Bank of Sweden), Stockholm 2006 (Jul – Sep) Summer Intern at the International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. 2001 (Aug) – 2002 (May) Analyst at JPMorgan Chase, Corporate Finance, London ACADEMIC STUDIES: PhD Economics, Stockholm University, Department of Economics. (2003–2008) Visiting PhD Student, Harvard University, Department of Economics. (Fall 2005) MSc Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science. (2002–2003) BSc Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science. (1998–2001) ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS: "Wholesalers and Economies of Scope in International Trade" Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming "Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites" Economic Inquiry, 54(1), 229–246, 2016 (with Alireza Naghavi and Anna Seim). "The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130(4), 1781–1824, 2015 (with Ingvil Gaarder and Magne Mogstad). "The Global Arms Trade Network 1950–2007" Journal of Comparative Economics, 42(3), 535–551, 2014 (with Anna Seim). "Sources of Wage Inequality" American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 103(3), 214–219, 2013 (with Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Marc Muendler and Stephen Redding). ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS: "Information Frictions, Broadband Internet and the Relationship between Distance and Trade" (with Edwin Leuven and Magne Mogstad) "Do Technology Differences Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity?" (with Ingvil Gaarder and Magne Mogstad)

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UNPUBLISHED PAPERS: "Country Size, Productivity and Trade Share Convergence: An analysis of heterogenous firms and country size dependent beachhead costs" (with Rikard Forslid and Toshihiro Okubo). CEPR Discussion Paper 6545 "Outsourcing and the Division of Labor between Firms: Evidence from Swedish Cities" (with Loriane Py) "The Effect of Intra-Industry Trade on Aggregate Productivity: Is there a Bridge between Theory and Data in Oresund?" RESEARCH FIELDS: Applied Microeconomics International Economics Labor Economics REFEREE ASSIGNMENTS: American Economic Journal (Economic Policy); American Economic Review; American Political Science Review; Canadian Journal of Economics; Economic Journal; European Economic Review; Industrial Relations; Industrial and Labor Relations Review; International Economic Review; Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade; Journal of International Economics; Journal of Peace Research; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of the Japanese and International Economies; Kyklos; Labor Economics; Open Economies Review; Regional Science and Urban Economics; Review of World Economics; Scandinavian Journal of Economics TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 2009 – 2016 International economics (undergraduate level) once per year except 2015 New topics in international trade theory (PhD level) in 2010, 2012 and 2016 Supervision of Bachelor and Master theses by undergraduate and master students RESEARCH GRANTS: 2016–2018

Torsten Söderberg Foundation: Full funding for research project on the effect of the internet on productivity, globalization and income inequality. Tore Browaldh Foundation: Full funding for position as Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago. Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council): Full funding for research project on international trade and the environment (joint with Rikard Forslid, principal investigator, and Shon Ferguson). Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation: Full funding for Post Doc research at Stockholm University. Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation: Full funding for research studies at Stockholm University. Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation: Full funding for research studies at Harvard University. Wallenberg Scholarship Fund: Full funding for MSc Economics studies at the London School of Economics.

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ACADEMIC VISITS: 2015/2016: 2011–2016: 2013: 2012: 2011:

Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago (Department of Economics) Five one week visits to Statistics Norway and University of Oslo Visitor at University College London for one week Visitor at the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) for four weeks Visitor at Keio University for two weeks Visitor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for one week

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LANGUAGES: Swedish (native) and English (fluent) German, Chinese (Mandarin) and Russian (good) OTHER EDUCATION: One year of Chinese (Mandarin) studies at Lund University, Sweden (1997) and at Beijing Language and Culture University, China (1998) Military service as interrogator in Russian at Försvarets Tolkskola (Swedish Defence Language Institute) in Uppsala 1996/97 SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZER: Co-organizer of main seminar series, Department of Economics, Stockholm University: 2013–2017 except 2015 and spring 2016. Organizer of brownbag seminar series, Department of Economics, Stockholm University: 2009–2014. Organizer of NOITS conference in Stockholm, 2014, and the CEPR GIST conference in Stockholm in 2012.

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