Yuriy Gorodnichenko is an associate professor at the Department of Economics, University of California – Berkeley. He received his B.A. and MA at EERC/Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. He is broadly interested in macroeconomics and issues related to transition economies (especially, labor markets and firm performance). Yuriy serves on many editorial boards, including Review of Economics & Statistics and VoxUkraine (http://voxukraine.blogspot.com/). He is also affiliated with NBER and IZA.
The recent slowdown in productivity growth in the US, the EU, and in other developed economies has generated a sense of urgency among policymakers to identify impediments to productivity ...
