Selva Baziki - Uppsala

>From: Selva Bahar Baziki <selva.baziki_at_nek.uu.se>
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>Dear Sir/Madam,
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>I am writing in response to the Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program you
>have advertised on the JOE website. Given my interests in the
>effects of technological change on the labor force, I would like to
>be considered for the Digitization program in particular.
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>I am currently a female Ph.D. candidate from Uppsala University with
>an expected date of graduation in May, 2015. My dissertation focuses
>on the micro foundations of macroeconomics and labor; and
>international economics. My job market paper titled "Import
>Competition and Technological Changes: Mobility of Workers and
>Firms" studies the effect of Information and Communications
>Technology revolution and rising import competition from low wage
>countries on the mobility and distribution of manufacturing workers
>using a unique and rich matched employer- employee database from Sweden.
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>Currently I am working on developing a model with heterogeneous
>firms for the theoretical part of the paper, and in future work I
>aim to investigate further the combined effect of changes in
>technology and imports on the transition of workers in and out of
>the labor force, as well as across industries. In related ongoing
>research, I investigate the dynamic response of return to skill for
>college educated workers in the face of tougher competition from
>China. The study aims to establish import penetration as a
>contributing factor to the widening wage gap in manufacturing
>industries, and also contribute to a better understanding of the
>relationship between imports, wages, and compositional changes in
>the workforce in developed economies.
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>Other chapters of my dissertation provide a theoretical framework on
>how financial conditions, risk premium, and trade openness affect
>the presence of financial type buyers in cross-border buyouts; and
>test some of the predictions empirically using a comprehensive
>database on all global cross-border investments. Finally, our model
>also allows us to explore the policy dimension. In the policy debate
>there has been a concern that private equity buyouts, in particular
>buyouts by foreign private equity firms, are driven by short run
>gains resulting in long run inefficiencies. Performing a welfare
>analysis on the effects of restricting foreign private equity
>buyouts, we underscore that restricting buyouts can be
>counterproductive since private equity buyouts may prevent a
>concentration of the market. In particular, we show that the
>probability of concentration is higher in times when the risk
>premium in the economy is high, which would put multinational
>enterprises at a comparative advantage over financial type buyers
>due to their retained earnings.
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>I am including a copy of my curriculum vitae with further details on
>my current research projects, my job market paper, and two
>additional research papers in support of my application. Letters
>from my three referees will be sent to you directly. Please let me
>know if I can provide any additional information.
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>I will be available for interviews at the American Economic
>Association annual meeting on January 3-5, 2015 in Boston, MA, and
>look forward to hearing from you.
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>Sincerely yours,
>Selva Bahar Baziki
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