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Faculty's Recent Publications

Lee Alston

Lee Alston
“Payment for Environmental Services: Hypotheses and Evidence.”(with Krister Andersson and Steven M. Smith), Annual Review of Resource Economics, forthcoming Volume 5 (2013) .

"The Development of Property Rights on Frontiers: Endowments, Norms and Politics," (with Edwyna Harris, and Bernardo Mueller), Journal of Economic History (forthcoming September 2012). Earlier version published as NBER Working Paper No. # 15264 (September 2009).

"Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of Implementing REDD," (with Krister Andersson) Climate Law 3 (2011): 1-9. Earlier version published as NBER Working Paper No. 16756.

Fancisca Antman

Francisca Antman
"Gender, Educational Attainment and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind," Journal of Population Economics, 25(4): 1187-1214, October 2012. (Lead Article)

"Elderly Care and Intrafamily Resource Allocation when Children Migrate," Journal of Human Resources, 47(2): 331-63, March 2012.

"The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind," January 2012. Forthcoming in: A. Constant and K. F. Zimmermann eds., International Handbook on the Economics of Migration.

"The Intergenerational Effects of Paternal Migration on Schooling and Work: What Can We Learn from Children's Time Allocations?" Journal of Development Economics, 96(2): 200-208, November 2011.

Tania Barham

Tania Barham
“Development Effects of Electrification: Evidence from the Topographic Placement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil,” (with Molly Lipscomb and Mushfiq Mobarak) forthcoming American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

"Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a health and Family Planning Program in Matlab" American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4 (1): 245-273, January 2012.

Martin Boileau

Martin Boileau
"Do Tax Cuts Generate Twin Deficits? A Multi-Country Analysis" (with Michel Normandin) Canadian Journal of Economics, 43: 1161-1174

“Inventories, Sticky Prices, and the Propagation of Nominal Shocks,” (with Marc-André Letendre), Applied Economics. 45: 1667-1699.

Tania Barham

Brian Cadena
"Native Competition and Low-Skilled Immigrant Inflows" Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.

"Can Self-Control Explain Avoiding Free Money? Evidence from Interest-Free Student Loans," Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

Ann Carlos

Ann Carlos
"Small pox and Native American Mortality: the 1780s Epidemic in the Hudson Bay Region"
(with Frank Lewis) Explorations in Economic History, forthcoming in 2012.

Yongmin Chen

Yongmin Chen
“Profitability of Product Bundling”
(with Michael Riordan), International Economic Review, forthcoming.

"Product Innovation Incentives: Monopoly vs. Competition", Journal of Economics and management Strategy, forthcoming.

“Ex ante Investment, Ex post Remedy, and Product Liability” (with Xinyu Hua), International Economic Review, Vol. 53: 845-866, 2012.

“Paid-Placement: Advertising and Search on the Internet” (with Chuan He), Economic Journal, Vol. 121, F309-F328, Nov 2011.

“Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice between FDI and Outsourcing” (with Ig Horstmann and James Markusen), Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

“Equilibrium Price Dispersion with Heterogeneous Searchers” (with Tianle Zhang), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 29: 645-654, Nov 2011.

Ufuk Devrim Demirel

Ufuk Devrim Demirel
“On the Cyclicality of Credit”, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Forthcoming

“The Value of Monetary Policy Commitment under Imperfect Fiscal Credibility", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 36: 813-829. (Lead Article), 2012.

“On the Identification of Technology Shocks: An Alternative to the Standard Long-Run Method”, Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol. 2 (5), 2012.

"The Value of Monetary Policy Commitment under Imperfect Fiscal Credibility," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 36: 813-829, 2012.

Thibault Fally

Thibault Fally
“Foreign Entry and Spillovers with Technological Incompatibilities in the Supply Chain”( with Juan Carluccio), Journal of International Economics, forthcoming.

"Measuring the Upstreamness of Production and Trade Flows," (with Antràs, Pol, Davin Chor, and Russell Hillberry) American Economic Review (Papers & Proceedings), 102(3): 412–16, 2012.

"Global Sourcing under Imperfect Capital Markets" (with Juan Carluccio), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

Philip Graves

Philip Graves
"An Implementable Institutional Reform that Transfers Control of Governmental Spending Levels from Politicians to Voters," The IUP Journal of Governance and Public Policy, Vol. VI, no. 4, p. 14, December 2011.

"Linking Regional Science and Urban Economics: Long-Run Interactions Among Preferences for Amenities and Public Goods, Modern Economy," Vol 3, no. 3: 253-262, May 2012.

"Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Projects: A Plethora of Biases Understating Net Benefits," Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, in press.

"Spatial Equilibrium in the Labor Market," The Handbook of Regional Science, Chapter 19, Peter Nijkamp and Manfred Fisher (eds), section editors Alessandra Faggian and Mark Partridge, Springer, New York, in press, 2013.

"The Hedonic Method of Valuing Environmental Policies and Quality," The Handbook of Regional Science, Chapter 6, Peter Nijkamp and Manfred Fisher (eds), section editor, Amit Batabyal, Springer, New York, in press, 2013.

“A Note on the Design of Experiments Involving Public Goods”, Environmental Economics, in press.

Michael Greenwood

Michael Greenwood
“USA Immigration Policy, Source-Country Social Programs, and the Skill Composition of Legal USA Immigration,”
(with J.M. McDowell), Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.

Murat Iyigun

Murat Iyigun
"Social Organizations, Risk-Sharing Institutions and Industrialization" (with Avner Greif and Diego Sasson), American Economic Review, P & P, May 2013.

"Lessons from the Ottoman Harem on Ethnicity, Religion and War," Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming, July 2013.

"Social Organizations, Risk-Sharing Institutions and Economic Development," (with Avner Greif and Diego Sasson) International Economic Association, Conference Volume, Oxford University Press, May 2012.

Jin-Hyuk Kim

Jin-Hyuk Kim
“A Simple Model of Copyright Levies: Implications for Harmonization,”
International Tax and Public Finance, forthcoming.

 “Does Competition Affect Evolutionary Dynamics? Evidence from a Collegiate University,” Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming.

William Kaempfer

William Kaempfer
“Baseball Salaries and Income Taxes: The ‘Home Field Advantage’ of Income Taxes on Free Agent Salaries,” (with James R. Alm and Edward B. Sennoga), Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 13, No. 6, December 2012: 619-634.

Wolfgang Keller

Wolfgang Keller
"The Gravity of Knowledge"
(with Stephen Yeaple), American Economic Review, forthcoming.

"The Transfer of Knowledge across Countries," NBER Reporter, No. 1, 2012

"China’s Foreign Trade: Perspectives from the Past 150 Years" (with Ben Li and Carol H. Shiue), The World Economy, 2011: 853 - 892

"The Evolution of Domestic Trade Flows when Foreign Trade is Liberalized: Evidence from the Chinese Maritime Customs Service," (with M. Aoki, T. Kuran, and G. Roland (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan), Institutions and Comparative Economic Development, 2012.

"International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers", chapter19 in Handbook of Innovation and Technical Change, Vol. 2, B. Hall and N. Rosenberg (eds.), Elsevier. North-Holland, 2010.

Xiaodong Liu

Xiaodong Liu
“Estimation of a Local-Aggregate Network Model with Sampled Networks”,
Economics Letters 118, 243-246, 2013.

“Learning from Peers in Signaling Game Experiments” (with John H. Kagel and Lung-fei Lee), Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol 27 (7): 1037-1058.

"On the Consistency of the LIML Estimator of a Spatial Autoregressive Model with Many Instruments," Economics Letters 116: 472-475, 2012. 

“Two Stage Least Squares Estimation of Spatial Autoregressive Models with Endogenous Regressors and Many Instruments” (with Lung-fei Lee), Econometric Reviews, forthcoming.

Carlos Martins-Filho

Carlos Martins-Filho
"Semiparametric stochastic frontier estimation via profile likelihood,"
(with F. Yao), Econometric Reviews, forthcoming.

"Kernel based estimation of semiparametric regression in triangular systems," (with F. Yao) Economics Letters, 115: 24-27, 2012.

"On asymptotic normality of the local polynomial regression estimator with stochastic bandwidths," (with P. Saraiva) Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 41: 1052-1068, 2012.

Keith Maskus

Keith Maskus
“Skilled Immigration and Innovation: Evidence from Enrolment Fluctuations in U.S. Doctoral Programmes”
(with Eric Stuen and, Ahmed Mobarak) Economic Journal, Vol.122, No. 565, December 2012: 1143-1372 [lead article].

“Preferential Trade and Welfare with Differentiated Products” (with Denise Eby Konan), Review of International Economics, Vol. 20, No. 5, November 2012: 884-892.

“Knowledge Capital, International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: A Sectoral Analysis” (with Titus O. Awukose, and Yiting), An Economic Inquiry, Vol. 50, No. 3, July 2012: 707-723.

“Southern Innovation and Backward Knowledge Spillovers: A Dynamic FDI Model,” (with Yin He), International Economic Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, February 2012: 281-304.

“How National and International Financial Development Affect Industrial R&D” (with Rebecca Neumann and Tobias Seidel), European Economic Review, Vol. 56, No. 1, January 2012: 72-83.

Private Rights and Public Problems: the Global Economics of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century (Washington DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics), 2012.

 

James Markusen

James Markusen
“Foreign Firms, Domestic Wages” (with Moeller, Nicholaj, and Bertel Schjerning), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, forthcoming.

"Expansion of Trade at the Extensive Margin: A General Gains-from-Trade Result and Illustrative Examples", Journal of International Economics 89, 2012: 262-270.

"International Welfare and Employment Linkages arising from Minimum Wages" (with Egger, Hartmut and Peter Egger), International Economic Review 53, 2012: 771-789.

“Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice between FDI and Outsourcing” (with Ig Horstmann and Y. Chen), Canadian Journal of Economics 45, 2012: 1-15.

Terra McKinnish

Terra McKinnish
“Who Marries Differently-Aged Spouses? Education, Occupation, Earnings, Ability and Appearance” (with Hani Mansour), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

Edward Morey

Edward Morey
“A Joint Latent-Class Model: Combining Likert-Scale Preference Statements with Choice Data to Harvest Preference Heterogeneity”
(with Bill Breffle and Jennifer Thacher), Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming.

Jeffrey Zax

Jeffrey Zax
Introductory Econometrics: Intuition, Proof and Practice
, Stanford University Press, 2011.