Ariel Burstein

Ariel Burstein is a Professor of Economics at UCLA, specializing in international trade and macroeconomics with focus on welfare impacts, price dynamics, and labor market effects.

Research Interests: His work examines how trade and immigration affect wage inequality, firm innovation incentives, and consumer welfare, using both theoretical models and empirical analysis of large economic shocks.

Publications: Recent research develops innovative methods for welfare measurement, analyzes input price dispersion effects on productivity, and studies exchange rate pass-through using natural experiments like the 2015 Swiss franc appreciation.