Nino Sitchinava

Curriculum Vita
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Nino Sitchinava received her BA in Economics from Whitworth University in Spokane, WA in 2002. Sitchinava completed her MA in Economics at the University of Oregon in 2005 and expects to complete her Ph.D. at UO during the 2007-2008 academic year. Prior to starting graduate school, Sitchinava worked as a Program Coordinator at the Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation, in Seattle, WA from 2002 to 2003.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sitchinava specializes in applied microeconomics and econometrics with applications to international trade and industrial organization. Current research focuses on differences in trade in intermediate and final goods, their determinants and effects on the U.S. economy. Sitchinava has wider interests in globalization and its effects on developed economies.

DISSERTATION

Title: Trade in Intermediate and Finished Goods: Trends, Determinants, and Effects
Committee: Bruce A. Blonigen, (co-chair), Ronald B. Davies (co-chair), Glen R. Waddell.

PAPERS

"Heterogeneous Products, Demanders, and Elasticities," revise and resubmit, Transportation Research Part E, with Wesley W. Wilson and Mark Burton.
Paper

"Trade, Technology, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing, 1989-2004," University of Oregon Working Paper.
Job Market Paper

"Structure of U.S. Imports of Intermediate and Finished Goods," University of Oregon Working Paper.

"Market Structure Index of Manufacturing Imports," University of Oregon Technical Working Paper.

"The Determinants of Patterns of Trade: Intermediate vs. Finished Goods," in progress.

TEACHING

Sitchinava has independently taught UO's upper-division undergraduate courses in Introduction to Econometrics (EC 421) and Issues in Industrial Organization (EC 460) and lower-division undergraduate courses in Introduction to Microeconomics (EC 201). She has also been a teaching assistant for Contemporary Economic Issues (EC 101), Principles to Microeconomics (EC 201), Money and Banking (EC 370), Problems and Issues in the Developing Economies (EC 380), Introduction to Econometrics (EC 421). In the future, she looks forward to teaching International Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Econometrics at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Also, Sitchinava hopes to develop a course that focuses on multinational corporations and arm's length outsourcing, their effects and determinants.

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