Ethan Ilzetzki
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Economics Department
Current Positions
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Economics, LSE
Affiliate, Centre for Macroeconomics
Associate, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research
Education
PhD Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, May 2009
MA International Economics, Johns Hopkins University—SAIS, 2001
BSc Electrical Engineering, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, 1995
Publications
Weak States and Steady States: The
Dynamics of Fiscal Capacity (with Tim Besley and Torsten Persson)
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2013.
How Big (Small?) are Fiscal Multipliers? (with Enrique G. Mendoza
and Carlos A. Vegh)
Journal of Monetary Economics 60:2, 2013 pp. 239-254.
Rent-Seeking Distortions and Fiscal Procyclicality
Journal of Development Economics 96, 2011 pp. 30-46.
Working Papers
A Positive Theory of Tax Reform Version: June, 2014.
The Puzzling Change in the Transmission of U.S. Macroeconomic Policy Shocks (with Keyu Jin) Version: February 2013.
Kosher Pork (with Allan Drazen) Version: January 2013.
Fiscal Policy and Debt Dynamics in Developing Countries Version: May 2011.
Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: Truth or Fiction? (With Carlos A. Vegh) Version: July 2008.
Teaching
London School of Economics
EC440: Macroeconomics for Public Policy, 2013-
EC442: Macroeconomics for MRes Students, 2013-
EC540: Political Economy for Research Students, 2014-
EC539: Macroeconomics for Research Students, 2009-13
EC453: Political Economy for MSc 2011-12
EC301: Advanced Topics in Economics (Undergraduate), 2009-12
EC312: Advanced econometrics (Summer School) 2010-11
EC322: Topics in econometrics (Summer School) 2011
University of Maryland
MATLAB for Ph.D. students, 2007-8.
Math Camp for Ph.D. students, 2006-7.
American Economic History before the Civil War, 2006.
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
International Finance, 2009.
Macroeconomics I, 2006.
Economics of International Trade, 2006.
Previous Positions
International Economist, Department of the Treasury, Office of Intl. Affairs 2003-2004
Research Assistant, International Monetary Fund, Research Department 2002-2003
Professional Activities
External examiner: London Business School.
Conference Organization
Deputy Chair of the Programme Committee for the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, 2014 (on the Programme Committee 2012-3)
Program committee of the European Economic Association Annual Congress (2012-3), Econometric Society European Meeting (2012-3).
Editorial and Refereeing
Member of the Economic Policy Journal editorial panel for 2013-4.
Grant referee for the ESRC, the Israeli Science Foundation, and the Falk Institute.
2011 Referee Award for the Economic Journal.
Referee for American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Economic Policy, Economica, European Economic Review, IMF Economic Review, International Economic Review, International Finance, International Tax and Public Finance, Israel Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Southern Economic Journal, World Bank Economic Review, World Politics.
Presentations
2014: Political Economy Conference Ecole de Mines, Paris, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Central Bank of Poland, IMF, University of British Columbia, Royal Economic Society, Princeton Political Economy Conference, Public Economics UK
2013: University of Amsterdam, University of Bonn, European Summer Symposium in International Macroeconomics, University of Naples, EACBN conference on “Global Spillovers and Economic Cycles”, University of Pennsylvania Political Economy Conference, Bank of England, Goethe University Frankfurt, European Union Institute.
2012: Bank of England-LSE joint workshop, Royal Economic Society Annual Meetings, Public Economics UK, University of Bonn, CSDA International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics.
2011: Bank of England, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University, Ben Gurion University, NIPE, Universidade do Minho, CEPR-CREi Workshop on Politics, Information and the Macroeconomy, Society for Economic Dynamics, International Growth Centre Workshop on Fiscal and Monetary Policies.
2010: Trinity College Dublin, IIES Stockholm, CEP annual conference, ITIC annual congress, Public Economics UK, NBER Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar: Fiscal Policy, NBER Summer Institute: Dynamic Public Finance, Oxcarre conference on the management of national resource booms, University of Birmingham, Oxford University, Columbia University, Federal Reserve Board, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco Fed.
2009: AEA meetings, Hebrew University, London School of Economics, University of California at Santa Cruz, Cambridge University, London Business School, IIES Stockholm, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, American Enterprise Institute, World Bank, Colby College.
2008: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Federal Reserve Board, International Monetary Fund, European Economic Association Annual Meetings
2007: Western Economic Association's Annual Meetings, World Meetings of the Public Choice Society, LACEA political economy group, Catholic University of Louvain, Free University of Brussels, and University of Maryland.