Martin Berka
School of Economics and Finance
Victoria University of Wellington
P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
ph: ++64 4 463 5893
fx: ++64 4 463 5014
email: martin.berka@vuw.ac.nz

I am a lecturer in economics at Victoria University of Wellington. I am also a research associate at the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Center for International Price Research at Vanderbilt University and at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at ANU. My primary research interests lie in international finance and trade, open macroeconomics and monetary economics.

I am one of the organizers of an annual VUW Macro Workshop (submit your work!)

C.V.

Teaching
MMAF 521 - Macroeconmic Processes and FM
Econ 413 - International economics: monetary
Econ 178.308 - Advanced Macroeconomics
Fin 125.785 - Research Methods in Finance

Research
Non-linear Adjustment in International Prices and Physical Characteristics of Goods, published in Review of International Economics, Vol 17 (1), 2009.

The Consumption Terms of Trade and Commodity Prices (with Mario J. Crucini), published in Commodity Prices and Markets, NBER book series published by University of Chicago Press (eds. Ito and Rose), February 2011 (NBER WP 15580 here)

International Risk-sharing and commodity prices (with Mario J. Crucini and Chih-Wei Wang), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol 45 (2), 2012 (Working paper version here)

Real exchange rate adjustment in and out of the Eurozone (with Michael B. Devereux and Charles Engel), forthcoming, American Economic Review (Papers & Proceedings)

General Equilibrium Model of Arbitrage Trade and Real Exchange Rate Persistence 

Basle Accord and Financial Intermediation: The Impact of Policy (FRB St. Louis WP 2011-042A, with Christian Zimmermann, see long abstract)

What Determines European Real Exchange Rates? (NBER WP 15753 (new version), with Michael B. Devereux)

Price setting in a leading Swiss online supermarket (with Michael B. Devereux and Thomas Rudolph, first draft (NBER WP 17126))

Real exchange rate adjustment in and out of the Eurozone (with Michael B. Devereux and Charles Engel)

Credit Crunch as an Optimal Decision of Risk-Averse Banks under Uncertainty

Funding of regions in New Zealand

Purchasing Power Parity Puzzle as a Trade Phenomenon (Ph.D. thesis), and matlab files related to chapter 1 of my dissertation

Concordances between
Note: second column denotes a weight (assumed equal across all industries in a particular row

Restructuring the Banking Sector in Slovakia (M.A. thesis), with defense notes (all you really need to know, encrypted)

Research reports and theses of some of the students I supervised:
Other
New Economics Papers in Open Macroeconomics (and Open Macro blog)
RePEc - Research Papers in Economics, the largest database of econ literature, free of charge.

Victoria University / School of Economics and Finance

"A perfection of means and a confusion of aims seems to be our main problem" - Albert Einstein (other quotes)

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