Alex Chernoff

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interest

• Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics

Peer Review Journal Publications

• An Overview of Indigenous Economies in Canada, (with Calista Cheung), Canadian Public Policy, 50(4), 364-390 (2024)

• COVID-19 and Implications for Automation, (with Casey Warman), Applied Economics, 55 (17), 1939-1957 (2023) 

• Distributional and Housing Price Effects from Public Transit Investment: Evidence from Vancouver, (with Andrea Craig), International Economic Review, 63(1) (February 2022): 475-509

• Firm Heterogeneity, Technology Adoption, and the Spatial Distribution of Population: Theory and Measurement, Canadian Journal of Economics, 54(2) (May 2021): 475-521  (Winner of the 2022 Robert Mundell Prize)

• Local Labor Markets in Canada and the United States, (with David Albouy, Chandler Lutz, and Casey Warman), Journal of Labor Economics, 37(S2), (July 2019): S533-S594

• Between a Cap and a Higher Price: Modeling the Price of Dairy Quotas under Price Ceiling Legislation,  Canadian Journal of Economics, 48(4), (November, 2015): 1403-1429 (Winner of the 2015 Robert Mundell Prize)

• 1871 Productivity Differentials and the Decline of the Maritime Manufacturing Sector, Acadiensis, XLII, no. 1, (Winter/Spring 2014): 65-88

Bank of Canada Publications

• Consumer Search, Productivity Heterogeneity, Prices, Markups, and Pass-through: Theory and Estimation, (with Allen Head and Beverly Lapham), (2024) Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper 2024-50

• An Overview of the Indigenous Economy in Canada, (with Calista Cheung), (2023) Bank of Canada Staff Discussion Paper 2023-25 

• Digitalization: Labour Markets, (with Gabriela Galassi), (2023) Bank of Canada Staff Discussion Paper 2023-16 

• COVID-19 and Implications for Automation, (with Casey Warman), (2021) Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper 2021-25

• Exchange Rates, Retailers, and Importing: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence, (with Patrick Alexander), (2019) Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper 2019-34 

• Amazon Effects in Canadian Online Retail Firm-Product-Level Data, (2019) Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper, 2019-42

• The Scale and Scope of Online Retail, (2019) Bank of Canada Staff Analytical Note, 2018-19 

• Local Labor Markets in Canada and the United States, (with David Albouy, Chandler Lutz and Casey Warman), (2019) Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper 2019-12

• Housing Price Network Effects from Public Transit Investment: Evidence from Vancouver, (with Andrea Craig), (2018) Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper 2018-18

• Trading up, (with Stephen Murchison), (2018) The Economy Plain and Simple (September 28, 2018)

• Firm Heterogeneity, Technological Adoption, and Urbanization: Theory and Measurement, (2017) Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper 2017-27