M A R I Y A M I L E V A

Nationality: Bulgaria

Date of birth: February 14, 1984

Address: Kiellinie 66, 24105 Kiel, Germany

Phone: 0049-(0)431-8814-601

E-Mail: mariya.mileva@ifw-kiel.de

Website: www.ifw-members.ifw-kiel.de/~mariya_mileva_ifw_kiel_de (work)

milevasite.wordpress.com (personal homepage)

Update: November 19, 2015

CURRENT POSITION

Since 08/2012 Post-doctoral researcher, Research Areas of “Monetary Policy under Market

Imperfections” and “Globalization and the Welfare State”, Kiel Institute for the

World Economy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

07/2011-09/2011 Ph.D. Intern, International Spillovers Team, Bank of England

07/2009-09/2009 Research Assistant, Monetary Policy Research Division, European Central Bank

EDUCATION

08/2007-6/2012 Ph.D. in Economics, University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA

“Essays on Monetary Policy and International Macroeconomics”

Committee: Carl Walsh (Chair), Joshua Aizenman and Ken Kletzer

08/2007-06/2010 M.A. in International Economics, University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA

08/2003-05/2007 B.A. with a double major in Economics and Business and International Affairs,

Lafayette College, PA, USA

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

International Macroeconomics, International Finance, International Trade, Monetary Policy Economics,

Labor Markets

PUBLICATIONS

Mileva, M. (2015). “Valuation Effects and Long-Run Real Exchange Rate Dynamics.” Journal of

International Money and Finance, 51: 390–408.

WORKING PAPERS

Lechthaler, W., Mileva, M. (2015). “Comparative Advantage and Business Cycle Dynamics.” Working

Paper.

Mileva, M. (2015). “Optimal Monetary Policy in Response to Shifts in the Beveridge Curve.” Working

Paper.

Lechthaler, W., Mileva, M. (2014). “Smoothing the Adjustment to Trade Liberalization.” Working Paper.

Lechthaler, W., Mileva, M. (2014). “Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality: New Insights from a

Dynamic Trade Model with Heterogeneous Firms and Comparative Advantage.” Working Paper.

Fenig, G., M. Mileva, and L. Petersen (2014) “Asset Trading and Monetary Policy in Production

Economies.” Working Paper.

Haddow, A., Mileva, M. (2013). “Financial factors and the international transmission mechanism.” Bank of

England Working Paper, No. 479.

POLICY PAPERS

Trade with China, inequality, and policy responses (with W. Lechthaler), Intereconomics-Heft, 2015.

Reducing inequality after trade liberalization (with W. Lechthaler), IfW Highlights 2015, 2015.

Compensating the Losers of Free Trade (with Z. Asatryan, S. Braun, W. Lechthaler, and C. Montagna),

WWWforEurope Working Papers Series 63, 2014.

The Effects of Globalization on Wage Inequality: New Insights from a Dynamic Trade Model with

Heterogeneous Firms (with S. Braun and W. Lechthaler, Kiel Policy Brief 70, 2014.

AWARDS, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2014 Alcoa Foundation travel grant for participation in the 2014 Nobel Laureate Meetings in

Lindau, Germany

2012-2014 Research grant through the WWWforEurope research project within the 7th Framework

Program funded by the European Commission.

2012 SIGFIRM Research Grant, Sury Initiative for Global Finance and International Risk

Management (Co-applicant: Luba Petersen), ($5,000)

2008-2010 Merit Based Tuition Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz

2007 Regent’s Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz

2007 Wall Street Journal Award, Lafayette College

2003-2007 Dean’s List, Lafayette College

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

07/2010-08/2010 Instructor, Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz, California,

USA

Introductory Macroeconomics, Econ 2

01/2008-06/2012 Teaching Assistant, Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz,

California, USA

Introduction to Macroeconomics , Econometrics, Intermediate Macroeconomics,

Managerial Economics

PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

2015 – Annual conference of the European Trade Study Group, Paris; Annual conference of the European

Economic Association, Mannheim

2014 – Annual conference of the European Trade Study Group, Munich; Annual conference of the the

Society for Computational Economics, Oslo;

2013 - Annual conference of European Trade Study Group, Birmingham; Annual conference of the

European Economic Association, Gothenburg; WWWforEurope Research Area Workshop,

Mannheim; Workshop in Trade and Macroeconomics, Mainz; WWWforEurope Consortium Meeting,

Vienna;

2012 – Bank of Canada, Ottawa, seminar; Bank of Serbia, Belgrade, seminar; American University of

Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, seminar; University of Leuven, Leuven, seminar; Kiel Institute for the World

Economy, seminar

2011 – Bank of England, London, seminar;

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

2014 – Session at the Global Economic Symposium on „Monetary Policy and Inequality“, Kuala Lumpur

2013 – Session at the Global Economic Symposium on „The Future of Central Banking and Financial

Market Reform“, Kiel

SKILLS

Fluent in Bulgarian (native), English, and French

Dynare, MATLAB, R, STATA, EViews