Curriculum Vitae Alexander Ueberfeldt January 2009 Page 1

Alexander Ueberfeldt Bank of Canada Monetary Policy Studies 234 Wellington Street, 6W Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G9 Phone: (613) 782 7839 Fax: (613) 782-7163 Canada E-Mail : [email protected] Web Page : http://alexander.ueberfeldt.googlepages.com/ Major Fields of Interest Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Macro-Labor Economics Positions Since 2005 2003-2005

Senior Analyst, Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Research Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Education Degree Ph. D. Diplom M. A. Vordiplom

Field Economics Economics Economics Economics

Institution University of Minnesota University of Bielefeld Purdue University University of Bielefeld

Year 2005 2000 1999 1997

Dissertation Title: “Labor Supply over the 20th Century – A Macroeconomic Perspective” Dissertation Advisor: Ellen R. McGrattan and Edward C. Prescott Honors and Awards 2004-2005

Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2000-2001

Department of Economics Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1998-1999

German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.

Teaching Experience 2001-2002

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Recitation Leader for Graduate Macroeconomics. 1999-2000

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. Recitation Leader for Introduction to Macroeconomics and Introduction to Microeconomics.

Bank of Canada Working Papers “Adopting Price-Level Targeting under Imperfect Credibility,” Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Malik Shukayev, and Alexander Ueberfeldt 2008 “Schooling, Inequality and Government Policy,” with Oleksiy Kryvtsov, 2007. “Optimal Monetary Policy under Incomplete Markets and Aggregate Uncertainty,” with Oleksiy Kryvtsov and Malik Shukayev, 2007. “Human Capital Risk and the Firmsize Wage Premium,” with Danny Leung, 2008. “Driving forces of the Canadian economy: An accounting exercise,” with Simona Cociuba, 2008. “What Accounts for the U.S.-Canada Education-Premium Difference?,” with Oleksiy Kryvtsov, 2008 “Working Time over the 20th Century,” Bank of Canada Working Paper 2006-18, 2006. Work in progress “Who's afraid of population aging?” draft January 2009. “Social Security and the Retirement Decision,” joint with Shutao Cao, draft December 2008. Other projects “U.S. Hours and Productivity Behavior using CPS Hours,” with Edward C. Prescott and Simona Cociuba, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2005. Conference presentations Canadian Economics Association Meetings (Montreal 2006, Halifax 2007, Vancouver 2008), European Economics Association Meetings (Vienna 2007), Econometrics Society Summer Meetings (Durham NC 2007), Midwest Economics Association Meetings (Minneapolis 2007), Midwest Macro Meetings (Philadelphia 2008), Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society (Rio de Janeiro, 2008), Society for Computational Economics Meetings (Paris 2008) Professional Associations • Econometric Society • American Economics Association, • Canadian Economic Association Referee for • American Economic Review, • Review of Economic Dynamics