European Immigrants and the United States’ Rise to the Technological Frontier - TDPE

Costas Arkolakis is a Professor of Economics at Yale University and an NBER Research Associate. He received his undergraduate degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Economics, and his Master and PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota. He joined the department of Economics at Yale University at 2007 and became an Associate Professor in 2013. He has been awarded two National Science Foundation grants including an NSF CAREER grant and published in a variety of journals (including the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics). He is a co-editor of Economic Theory and the Journal of International Economics. His research and teaching specializes in general equilibrium trade theory, spatial economics, and macroeconomics.

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