1. 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.

2. 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