Curriculum Vitae - University of Toronto



Curriculum Vitae

Bernardo Soares BLUM

Current Status: Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management

University of Toronto

Address: Home: 295 Belsize Drive

Toronto, ON M4S 1M7

Work: 105 St George Street

Toronto, ON M5S 3E6

Telephone: Home: 416-929-4395

Office: 416-946-5654

Email: bblum@rotman.utoronto.ca

Citizenship: Brazil

Referee: American Economic Review

Review of Economic Studies

Journal of Development Economics

Journal of International Economics

Canadian Journal of Economics

Journal of Economic Geography

Specialization: International Trade

International Finance

Applied Econometrics

Education

2002: Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, US.

2001: C.Phil., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

2001: M.A., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, US.

1997: M.A., Economics, Pontificia Universidade Catolica – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

1994: B.A., Economics, Universidade de Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Awards and Fellowships

2001 – 2002: Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA.

1997 – 2001: Doctoral Fellowship, Brazilian Government (CAPES agency).

1994 – 1997: Masters Fellowship, Brazilian Government (CAPES agency).

Research Papers

- Pastore, Affonso C., B. Blum, C. Pinotti (1998), “Paridade de Poder de Compra , Cambio Real e Saldos Comerciais”, Revista Brasileira de Economia, vol. 52, 3.

- Blum, Bernardo S. and E. E. Leamer (2003), Can FTAA Suspend the Law of Gravity and Give the Americas Higher Growth and Better Income Distributions?, in FTAA and Beyond: Prospects for Integration in the Americas, edited by Antoni Estevadeordal, Dani Rodrik, Alan Taylor, and Andres Velasco, Harvard University Press. 2004.

- Blum, Bernardo S. and Avi Goldfarb, Does the Internet Defy the Law of Gravity? Journal of International Economics, 70(2), 2007.

- Blum, Bernardo. S., Trade, Technology, and the Rise of the Service Sector: The Effects on the US Wage Inequality, Journal of International Economics, 74(2), 2008.

- Bacolod, Marigee, Bernardo S. Blum, and William Strange, Skills in the City. Journal of Urban Economics, 65(2), 2009.

- Bacolod, Marigee, Bernardo S. Blum, and William Strange, Urban Interactions: Soft Skills vs. Specialization. Journal of Economic Geography, 9(2), 2009.

- Bacolod, Marigee and Bernardo S. Blum, Two Sides of the Same Coin: US Residual Inequality and the Gender Gap. Journal of Human Resources, 45(1), Winter 2010.

- Bacolod, Marigee, Bernardo S. Blum, and William Strange, Elements of Skill: Traits, Intelligences, and Agglomeration. Journal of Regional Science, 50(1), February 2010.

- Blum, Bernardo. S., Endowments, Output, and the Bias of Directed Innovation. Review of Economic Studies, 77(2), May 2010.

- Blum, Bernardo S., Sebastian Claro, and Ignatius Horstmann, Facts and Figures on Intermediated Trade, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2010.

- Blum, Bernardo, Sebastian Claro, and Ignatius Horstmann, Occasional and Perennial Exporters: The Role of Capacity in Export Mode. The Journal of International Economics, 90(1), May 2013.

- Blum, Bernardo, Sebastian Claro, and Ignatius Horstmann, A balls and Bins Model of Trade: comment. The American Economic Review, 106(3), March 2016.

Work in Progress

- Blum, Bernardo, Kunal Dasgupta, Sebastian Claro, and Ignatius Horstmann, Distribution Costs, Product Quality, and Cross-Country Income Differences. Working paper.

- Blum, Bernardo, Sebastian Claro, Ignatius Horstmann, and David Rivers, Productivity, Markup, and Marginal Cost: A Tale of the Three Determinants of Export Success, Working Paper.

- Blum, Bernardo, Sebastian Claro, and Ignatius Horstmann, Import Intermediaries and Trade: Theory and Evidence. Working Paper.

- Blum, Bernardo, Sebastian Claro, Ignatius Horstmann, and Trevor Tombe, Birth and Death at the Extensive Margin of Trade. Working paper.

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Work Experience

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management in the Business Economics group (July 2010 - )

Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management in the Business Economics group (July 2002 - June 2010)

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Teaching, Ph.D. Program Dept. of Economics (Fall 2000 & Fall 2001).

Taught 25% of the graduate course in International Trade (Econ 281A) under the supervision of Professor Edward Leamer. Sections lectured included Income Inequality and Trade and Empirical Studies on the Sources of Comparative Advantage.

Research Assistant, Anderson School of Management (Jan. 2000 – Jun. 2001).

Provided research assistance for Professor Edward Leamer. Developed and implemented Bayesian techniques to assess the determinants of cross country growth rates. Handled and cleaned Trade data.

Research Assistant, Dept. of Economics (Jul. 1998 – Dec. 1999).

Provided research assistance for Professor Joseph Hotz. Created C++ programs to access the determinants of women’s decisions on labor force participation.

Pontificia Universidade Catolica – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Research Assistant, Dept. of Economics (Jan. 1996 – Jul. 1997).

Provided research assistance for Professor Marcio G. P. Garcia.

Universidade de Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Research Assistant, Dept. of Economics (1992 –1993).

Provided research assistance for Professor Affonso C. Pastore.

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