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Economic Theory

Konishi, Hideo, "Existence of Stationary Equilibrium in the Markets for New and Used Durable Goods," with Michael T. Sandfort, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 26, 1029-1052, 2002.
_____, "Coalition Formation as a Dynamic Process," with Debraj Ray, Journal of Economic Theory, 110, 1-41, 2002.
_____, "Uniqueness of User Equilibrium in Transportation Networks with Heterogeneous Commuters," Transportation Science, 38, 315-330, 2004.
_____, "Games of Capacity Manipulations in HospitalIntern Markets," with M. Utku Ünver, Social Choice and Welfare, 27, 3-24, (2006).
_____, "Credible Group-Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems," with M. Utku Ünver, Journal of Economic Theory, 129, 57-80 (2006).
_____, "Decentralized Matching Markets with Endogenous Salaries," with Margarita Sapozhnikov, forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior, 64, 193-218, (2008).

Kraus, Marvin, "A Generalized Envelope Theorem with an Application to Congestion-Prone Facilities," Economics Bulletin, 3, 1-4, 2002.

Segal, Uzi, "On the Economic Meaning of Machina's Frechet Differentiability Assumption," with Zvi Safra, Journal of Economic Theory, 104, 450-461, 2002.
_____, "Min, Max and Sum," with Joel Sobel, Journal of Economic Theory, 106, 126-150, 2002.
_____, "Ex-Post Egalitarianism and Legal Justice," with Alon Harel and Zvi Safra, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 21, 57-75, 2005.
_____, "Democratically Elected Aristocracies," with David Heid, Social Choice & Welfare, 27, 103-127, 2006.
_____, "Ambiguity Aversion and the Criminal Process," with Alex Stein, Notre Dame Law Review, 81, 1495-1551, 2006.
_____, "Fair Bias," Economics and Philosophy, 22, 213229, 2006.
_____, "Tit for Tat: Foundations of Preferences for Reciprocity in Strategic Settings," with Joel Sobel, Journal of Economic Theory, 136:1(2007), 197-216.
_____, "Calibration Results for Non-Expected Untility Theories" with Zvi Safra, Econometrica, 76:5(2008), 11431166.

Sönmez, Tayfun, "Improving Efficiency of On-Campus Housing: An Experimental Study," with Yan Chen, American Economic Review, 92, 1669-1686, 2002.
_____, "Ordinal Efficiency and Dominated Sets of Assignments," with Atila Abdulkardiroglu, Journal of Economic Theory, 112, 157-172, 2003.
_____, "School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach," with Atila Abdulkardiroglu, American Economic Review, 93, 729-747, 2003.
_____, "An Experimental Study of House Allocation Mechanisms," with Yan Chen, Economics Letters, 83, 137-140, 2004.
_____, "Room Assignment-Rent Division: A Market Approach," with Atila Abdulkardiroglu and Utku Ünver, Social Choice and Welfare, 22, 515-538, 2004.
_____, "Kidney Exchange," with Alvin Roth and Utku Ünver, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119, 457-488, 2004.
_____, "House Allocation with Existing Tenants: An Equivalence," with Utku Ünver, Games and Economic Behavior, 52, 153-185, 2005.
_____, "A Kidney Exchange Clearinghouse in New England," with Alvin Roth and Utku Ünver, American Economic Review, 95, 376-380, 2005.
_____, "The Boston Public School Match," with Parag Pathak, Atila Abdulkardiroglu and Alvin Roth, American Economic Review, 95, 368-371, 2005.
_____, "Pairwise Kidney Exchange," with Alvin Roth and Utku Ünver, Journal of Economic Theory, 125, 151-188, 2005.
_____, "Games of School Choice under the Boston Mechanism," with Haluk Ergin, Journal of Public Economics, 90, 215-237, 2006.
_____, "School Choice: An Experimental Study," with Yan Chen, Journal of Economic Theory, 127, 202-231, 2006.
_____, "Increasing the Opportunity of Live Kidney Donation by Matching for Two and Three Way Exchanges," with Susan Saidman, Alvin Roth, Utku Ünver and Francis Delmonico, Transplantation, 81, 773-782, 2006.
_____, "Utilizing List Exchange and Non-Directed Donation through 'Chain' Paired Kidney Donations," with Alvin Roth, Utku Ünver, Francis Delmonico and Susan Saidman, American Journal of Transplantation, 6, 2694-2705, 2006.

M. Utku Ünver, "On Determination of Optimal Reserve Prices in Auctions with Common Knowledge about the Ranking of Valuations," with A. Alexander Elbittar, Murat R. Sertel and Semih Koray (Eds.) Advances in Economic Design, Springer-Verlag Berlin 79 - 94, 2003.
________, "Kidney Exchange," with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119, 457488, 2004.
________, "Room Assignment-Rent Division: A Market Approach," with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Tayfun Sönmez, Social Choice and Welfare, 22, 515-538, 2004.
________, "On the Survival of Some Unstable Two-Sided Matching Mechanisms," International Journal of Game Theory, 33, 239-254, 2005.
________, "House Allocation with Existing Tenants: An Equivalence," with Tayfun Sönmez, Games and Economic Behavior, 52: 153-185, 2005.
________, "A Kidney Exchange Clearinghouse in New England," with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 95, 376-380, 2005.
________, "Pairwise Kidney Exchange," with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez, Journal of Economic Theory, 125: 151-188, 2005.
________,"Increasing the Opportunity of Live Kidney Donation by Matching for Two and Three Way Exchanges," with Susan Saidman, Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez, and Francis L. Delmonico, Transplantation, 81, 773-782, 2006.
________, "The Dynamics of Law Clerk Matching: An Experimental and Computational Investigation of Proposals for Reform of the Market," with Ernan Haruvy and Alvin E. Roth, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 30, 457-486, 2006.
________, "Asset Price Bubbles and Crashes with NearZero-Intelligence Traders," with John Duffy, Economic Theory, 27, 537-563, 2006.
________, "Credible Group Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems," with Hideo Konishi, Journal of Economic Theory, 129, 57-80, 2006.
________, "Games of Capacity Manipulation in HospitalIntern Markets," with Hideo Konishi, Social Choice and Welfare, 27, 3-24, 2006.
________, "Utilizing List Exchange and Non-directed Donation through "Chain" Paired Kidney Donations" with Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez, Francis L. Delmonico, and Susan L. Saidman, American Journal of Transplantation, 6, 2694-2705, 2006.
________, "Equilibrium Selection and the Role of Information in Repeated Matching Markets," with Ernan Haruvy, Economics Letters, 94, 284-289, 2007.
________, "Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences," with Tayfun Sönmez and Alvin E. Roth, American Economic Review, 97, 828-851, 2007.
________, "Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matching: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls," with Guillaume Frechette and Alvin E. Roth, 38, 967-982, 2007.
________, "Random Paths to Pairwise Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems: A Study on Market Equilibration," with Fuhito Kojima, International Journal of Game Theory, 36, 473-488 in the Special Issue Honoring David Gale's 85th Birthday, 2008.
________, "Improving the Efficiency of Course Bidding at Business Schools: Field and Laboratory Studies," with Aradhna Krishna, Marketing Science, 27, 262-282, 2008.
________, "Internet Auctions with Artificial Adaptive Agents: A Study on Market Design," with John Duffy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 67, 394417, 2008.
________, "A Non-simultaneous Extended Altruistic Donor Chain," with Michael Rees et al., The New England Journal of Medicine, 360, 1096-1101, 2009.
________, "Course Bidding at Business Schools," with Tayfun Sönmez, International Economic Review, forthcoming in 2010.
________, "Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources" with Tayfun Sönmez, Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, and Matthew Jackson (eds.) Handbook of Social Economics, Elsevier, forthcoming.
________, "Dynamic Exchange Mechanisms," Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.


Macroeconomics

Basu, Susanto, "Aggregate Productivity and Aggregate Technology," with J.G. Fernald, European Economic Review, 46, 963-991, 2002.
______, "The Case of the Missing Productivity Growth," with J.G. Fernald, N. Oulton and S. Srinivasan, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2003.
______, "Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?" with M.S. Kimball and J.G. Fernald, American Economic Review, 96, 1418-1448, 2006.
______, "Information and Communications Technology as a General-Purpose Technology: Evidence from U.S. Industry Data," German Economic Review, 8, 146-173, 2007.

Baum, Christopher F., "On the Sensitivity of Firms' Investment to Cash Flow and Uncertainty," with Mustafa Caglayan and Oleksandr Talavera, Oxford Economic Papers, forthcoming.

Iacoviello, Matteo, "Household Debt and Income Inequality," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming.
_____, "An Equilibrium Model of Lumpy Housing Investment", (2007) Rivista di Politica Economica (invited essay), Vol. II, March-April.
_____, "Consumption, House Prices and Collateral Constraints: a Structural Econometric Analysis," Journal of Housing Economics, 305-321, 2004.
_____, "House Prices, Borrowing Constraints and Monetary Policy in the Business Cycle," American Economic Review, 95, 739-764, 2005.

Ireland, Peter, "A Method for Taking Models to the Data," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 28, 1205-1226, 2004.
_____, "Productivity and US Macroeconomic Performance: Interpreting the Past and Predicting the Future with a Two-Sector Real Business Cycle Model," with Scott Schuh, Review of Economic Dynamics, 11, 473-492, 2008.

Murphy, Robert, Instructor's Resources to accompany the sixth edition of Macroeconomics by N.G. Mankiw. Worth Publishers, 2010.

Schiantarelli, Fabio, "Fiscal Policy, Profitability and Investment," with A. Alesina, S. Ardagna, and R. Perotti, American Economic Review, 92, 571-589, 2002.
_____, "Zeroes and Lumps in Investment: Empirical Evidence on Irreversibilities and Non-Convexities," with O. Nilsen, Review of Economics and Statistics, 85, 1021-1037, 2003.
_____, "Regulation and Investment," with A. Alesina, S. Ardagna and G. Nicoletti, Journal of the European Economic Association, 3, 1-35, 2005.
_____, "Inventory, Employment and Hours," with M. Galeotti and L. Maccini, Journal of Monetary Economics, 52, 575-600, 2005.

Econometrics

Baum, Christopher F., "Instrumental Variables and GMM: Estimation and Testing," with Mark E. Schaffer and Steven Stillman, Stata Journal, 3, 1-31, 2003.
_____, "Stata: The Language of Choice for Time Series Analysis?" Stata Journal, 5, 46-63, 2005.
_____, An Introduction to Modern Econometrics using Stata, College Station, TX: Stata Press, 2006.
_____, "Enhanced Routines for Instrumental Variables/ Generalized Method of Moments Estimation and Testing," with Mark E. Schaffer and Steven Stillman, Stata Journal, 7, 465-506, 2007.
_____, "Evaluating Concavity for Production and Cost Functions," with Teresa Linz, Stata Journal, 9, 161-165, 2009.
_____, An Introduction to Stata Programming, College Station, TX: Stata Press, 2009.

Belsley, David, "An Investigation of an Unbiased Correction for Heteroskedasticity and the Effects of Misspecifying the Skedastic Function," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 26, 1379-1396, 2002.
_____, "A Comparative Study of Algorithms for Solving Seemingly Unrelated Regression Models," with Paolo Foschi and Erricos Kontoghiorghes, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 44, 1/2, 3-35, 2003.
_____, "Test for Harmful Collinearity among Predictor Variables Used in Modelling Global Temperature," with David H. Douglas, B. David Clader, John R. Christy and Patrick J. Michaels, Climate Research, 24, 15-18, 2003.

Lewbel, Arthur, "Demand Systems With and Without Errors," American Economic Review, 91, 611-618, 2001.
_____, "Nonparametric Censored and Truncated Regression," with Oliver Linton, Econometrica, 70, 765-779, 2002.
_____, "Semiparametric Binary Choice Panel Data Models Without Strictly Exogeneous Regressors," with Bo Honore, Econometrica, 70, 2053-2063, 2002.
_____, "A Rational Rank Four Demand System," Journal of Applied Econometrics, 18, 127-136, 2003.
_____, "Calculating Compensation in Cases of Wrongful Death," Journal of Econometrics, 113, 115-128, 2003.
_____, "Demand Systems with Nonstationary Prices," with Serena Ng, Review of Economics and Statistics, 87, 479-494, 2005.
_____, "A Simple Ordered Data Estimator for Inverse Density Weighted Functions," with Susanne Schennach, Journal of Econometrics, 186, 189-211, 2007.
_____, "Weighted and Two Stage Least Squares Estimation of Semiparametric Truncated Regresion Models," with Shakeeb Khan, Econometric Theory, 23, 309-347, 2007.
_____, "Estimation of Average Treatment Effects with Misclassification," Econometrica, 2007, 75, 537-551.
_____, "Coherence and Completeness of Structural Models Containing a Dummy Endogenous Variable," International Economic Review, forthcoming.
_____, "Nonparametric Matching and Efficient Estimators of Homothetically Separable Functions," with Oliver Linton, Econometrica, 2007, 75, 1209-1227.
_____, "Endogenous Selection or Treatment Model Estimation," Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 141, 777-806.

Xiao, Zhijie, "A Partial Linear Model of General Asymmetric Volatility," with G. Wu, Journal of Empirical Finance, 9, 287-319, 2002.
_____, "Inference on the Quantile Regression Process," with Roger Koenker, Econometrica, 70, 1583-1612, 2002.
_____, "Higher Order Expansion for Time Series Regressions with Integrated Processes," with P.C.B. Phillips, Journal of Econometrics, 108, 157-198, 2002.
_____, "A CUSUM test for Cointegration using Regression Residuals," with P.C.B. Phillips, Journal of Econometrics, 108, 43-61, 2002.
_____, "A Nonparametrically Prewhitened Covariance Matrix Estimator," with O. Linton, Journal of Time Series Analysis, 23, 215-250, 2002.
_____, "Bandwidth Selection in Testing for Long Range Dependence," Economics Letters, 78, 33-39, 2003.
_____, "Power Functions and Envelopes for Unit Root Tests," with Ted Juhl, Econometric Theory, 19, 240-253, 2003.
_____, "More Efficient Kernel Estimation in Nonparametric Regression with Autocorrelated Errors," with O. Linton, R. Carroll and E. Mammen, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98, 980-992, 2003.
_____, "Unit Root Quantile Regression Inference," with Roger Koenker, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99, 775-787, 2004.
_____, "Testing for Cointegration Using Partially Linear Models," with Ted Juhl, Journal of Econometrics, 124, 363-394, 2005.
_____, "A Nonparametric Test for Trend Breaks," with Ted Juhl, Journal of Econometrics, 127, 179-199, 2005.
_____, "Partial Linear Regression with Unit Roots," with Ted Juhl, Econometric Theory, 21, 877-906, 2005.
_____, "Quantile Auto Regression," with Roger Koenker, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 980-990, 2006.
_____, "A Rejoinder: Quantile Auto Regression," with Roger Koenker, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 1002-1006, 2006.
_____, "A Nonparametric Regresion Estimator that Adapts to Error Distribution of Unknown Form," with Oliver Linton, Econometric Theory, 23, 1-36, 2007.
_____, "Estimating Value at Risk for Defaultable Bond Portfolios by Regression Quantile," with H. Guo and G. Wu, Journal of Risk Finance, forthcoming.
_____, "Testing Covariance Stationarity," with Luiz R. Lima, Econometric Reviews, 26(6), 643-667, 2007.
_____, "Quantile Cointegrating Regression," Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.
_____, Comments on Unit Root Testing in Practice, Econometric Theory, 2009.
_____, "Functional-Coefficient Cointegrating Regression," Journal of Econometrics, 2009.
_____, "Tests for Structural Change with Monotonic Power," with T. Juhl, Journal of Econometrics, 2009.


Development Economics


Anderson, James, "Private Enforcement and Social Efficiency," with Oriana Bandiera, Journal of Development Economics, 77,341-366, 2005.

Baum, Christopher F., "Political Patronage in Ukranian Banking," with Mustafa Caglayan, Dorothea Schäfer and Oleksandr Talavera, Economics of Transition, 16, 537-557, 2008.

Cox, Donald, "Private Interhousehold Transfers in Vietnam in the Early and Late 1990s," in Economic Growth and Household Welfare: Policy Lessons for Vietnam, P. Glewwe and D. Dollar, eds., Washington DC: The World Bank, 2004.
_____, "How Responsive are Private Transfers to Income? Evidence from a Laissez-Faire Economy," with Bruce Hansen and Emmanuel Jimenez, Journal of Public Economics, 88, 2193-2219, 2004.
_____, "Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions," with Marcel Fafchamps, in Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 4, T.P. Schultz and J. Strauss, eds. 2008.

Schiantarelli, Fabio, "Does Financial Reform Improve the Allocation of Investment? Micro Evidence from Developing Countries," with A. Galindo and A. Weiss, Journal of Development Economics, 83, 562-587, 2007.


Economics of the Family

Cox, Donald, "Private Transfers within the Family: Mothers, Fathers, Sons and Daughters," in Death and Dollars: The Role of Gifts and Bequests in America, A. Munnell and A. Sunden, eds., Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
_____, "Intergenerational Linkages in Consumption Behavior," with Serena Ng and Andreas Waldkirch, Journal of Human Resources, 39, 355-381, 2004.
_____, "On the Demand for Grandchildren: Tied Transfers, Liquidity Constraints and the 'Demonstration Effect'," with Oded Stark, Journal of Public Economics, 89, 1665-1697, 2005.
____, "Intergenerational Caregiving and Exchange: Economic and Evolutionary Approaches," in Caring and Exchange Within and Across Generations , A. Booth, A.C. Crouter, S. Bianchi and A. Seltzer, eds., Washington DC: Urban Institute Press, 2008.
_____, "Biological Basics and the Economics of the Family," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21, 91-108, 2007.
_____, "Intergenerational Transfers." In the Encyclopedia of Life Course and Human Development, M. E. Hughes, A. Pienta, and R. Crosnoe, eds. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, forthcoming, 2009.


Industrial Organization

Gollop, Frank M., "The Effect of Ground Water Regulation on Productivity Growth in the Farm Sector," with Kelly Chaston, in Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth, George Norton and Eldon Ball, eds., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

Konishi, Hideo, "Expanding Demand through Price Advertisement," with Michael Sandfort, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 20, 965-994, 2002.
_____, "The Unilateral Incentives for Technology Transfers: Predation by Proxy (and deterrence)," with Anthony Creane, forthcoming in International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Schiantarelli, Fabio, "Productivity, Innovation Creation and Absorption, and R&D: Micro Evidence for Italy," with M.L. Parisi and A. Sembenelli, European Economic Review, 50, 2037-2061, 2006.


International Economics

Anderson, James, "Borders, Trade and Welfare," with Eric van Wincoop, in Brookings Trade Forum 2001, "Globalization: Issues and Implications", edited by Susan Collins and Dani Rodrik, Washington: Brookings Institution, 2002.
______, "Insecurity and the Pattern of Trade: An Empirical Investigation," with Douglas Marcouiller, Review of Economics and Statistics, 84, 342-352, 2002.
_____, "Trade Reform Diagnostics with Many Households, Quotas and Tariffs," Review of International Economics, 10, 215-236, 2002.
_____, "The Mercantilist Index of Trade Policy," with Peter Neary, International Economic Review, 44, 627-649, 2003.
_____, "Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle," with Eric van Wincoop, American Economic Review, 93, 170-92, 2003.
_____, "Trade and Informal Institutions," in Handbook of International Trade: Economic and Legal Analysis of Laws and Institutions, James Hartigan, ed., Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2004.
_____, "Trade Costs," with Eric van Wincoop, Journal of Economic Literature, 42, 691-751, 2004.
_____, "Anarchy and Autarky: Endogenous Predation as a Barrier to Trade," with Douglas Marcouiller, International Economic Review, 46, 189-213, 2005.
_____, Measuring the Restrictiveness of International Trade Policy, with J. Peter Neary, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.
_____, "Traders, Cops and Robbers," with Oriana Bandiera, Journal of International Economics, 70, 197-215, 2006.
_____, "Trade and Contract Enforcement," with Leslie Young, Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 5, 1:30, 2006.
_____, "Welfare v. Market Access: Implications of Tariff Structure for Tariff Reform," with J. Peter Neary, Journal of International Economics, 71, 187-205, 2007.
_____, "Economic Integration and the Civilizing Commerce Hypothesis," World Economy, 31, 141-57, 2008.
_____, "Consistent Trade Policy Aggregation"," International Economic Review, forthcoming.
_____, "Does Trade Foster Contract Enforcement?", Economic Theory, forthcoming.
_____, "Political Pressure Deflection", with Maurizio Zanardi, Public Choice, forthcoming.
_____, "The Incidence of Gravity", The Gravity Model in International Trade: Advances and Applications, Steven Brakman and Peter Bergeijk, eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Ghironi, Fabio, "Net Foreign Assets and the Exchange Rate: Redux Revived," with Michele Cavallo, Journal of Monetary Economics, 49, 1057-1097, 2002.
_____, "Transatlantic Trade-Offs in the Age of Balanced Budgets and European Monetary Union," with Barry Eichengreen, Open Economies Review, 13, 381-411, 2002.
_____, "International Trade and Macroeconomic Dynamics with Heterogeneous Firms," with Marc J. Melitz, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120, 865-915, 2005.
_____, "Macroeconomic Interdependence under Incomplete Markets," Journal of International Economics, 70, 428-450, 2006.
_____, "Trade Flow Dynamics with Heterogenous Firms," with Marc J. Melitz, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 97, 356-361, 2007.
_____, "Interest Rate Rules for Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes," with Gianluca Benigno and Pierpaolo Benigno, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 31, 2196-2211, 2007.
_____, "The Role of Net Foreign Assets in a New Keynesian Small Open Economy Model," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 32, 1780-1811, 2008.
_____, "Net Foreign Asset Positions and Consumption Dynamics in the International Economy," with Talan B. can and Alessandro Rebucci, Journal of International Money and Finance, 27, 1337-1359, 2008.

Iacoviello, Matteo, "International Business Cycles with Domestic and Froeign Lenders," with Raoul Minetti, Journal of Monetary Economics, 53, 2267-2282, 2006.

Konishi, Hideo, "A Welfare Decomposition in Quasi-Linear Economies," with Taiji Furusawa, Economics Letters, 85, 29-34, 2004.
_____, "Free Trade Networks with Transfers," with Taiji Furusawa, Japanese Economic Review, 56, 144-164, 2005.
_____, "Free Trade Networks," with Taiji Furusawa, Journal of International Economics, 72, 310-335, (2007).
_____, "Global Free Trade is in the Core of Customs Union Formation Game," with Carsten Kowalczyk and Tomas Sjöström, Review of International Economics 17, 304-309, (2009), (special issue in memory of Koji Shimomura).


Labor Economics

Gottschalk, Peter, "On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility," with Enrico Spolaore, Review of Economic Studies, 69, 191-208, 2002.
______, "Trends in the Transitory Variance of Earnings in the U.S.," with Robert Moffitt, Economic Journal, 112:478, C68-C73, 2002.
______, "Is the Proportion of College Workers in `NonCollege' Jobs Increasing?," with Michael Hansen, Journal of Labor Economics, 21, 449-472, 2003, reprinted in Modern Classics in the Economics of Education, 2005.
______, "Diverging Fortunes: Trends in Poverty and Inequality," with Sheldon Danziger, in The American People-Census 2000, Reynolds Farley and John Haaga, eds. Russell Sage Foundation and Population Reference Bureau, 2005.
______, "Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?" Review of Economics and Statistics, 87, 556-568, 2005.
______, "Can Work Alter Welfare Recipients' Beliefs about How They Will Fare in the Labor Market?" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 24, 485-498, 2005.
______, "Inequality of Wage Rates, Earnings and Family Income in the United States, 1975-2002," Review of Income and Wealth, 51, 2005.
______, Review of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, by Glenn Loury, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2006.
______, "The National Picture," with Helen Connolly and Katherine Newman, in Chutes and Ladders, Katherine Newman, ed. Harvard University Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.
______, "Wage Cuts as Investment in Future Wage Growth," with Helen Connolly, LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, February, 2008.
______, "Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? - The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error" with Minh Hyunh, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
______, "Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice? The Impact of SSP Subsidies on Job Turnover and Wage Growth" with Helen Connolly, Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

Quinn, Joseph, "Retirement Trends and Patterns among Older American Workers," in Policies for an Aging Society, Stuart H. Altman and David Shactman, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 293-315, 2002.
______, "Social Security Reform: Options for the Future," Journal of Applied Gerontology, 257-272, 2002.
______, The Economics of an Aging Society, with Robert L. Clark, Richard V. Burkhauser, Marilyn Moon and Timothy Smeeding. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2004.
______, "Can Americans Work Longer?" in In Search of Retirement Security, Teresa Ghilarducci, Van Doorn Ooms, John L. Palmer and Catherine Hill, eds., New York: Century Foundation Press, 2004.
______, "The Effects of Pensions on Labor Markets and Retirement," with Robert L. Clark, in The Evolving Pension System: Trends, Effects and Proposals for Reform, William Gale, David Warshawsky and John Shoven, eds., Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2005.
______, "Modeling the Retirement Decision," in Social Structures, Aging and the Self-Regulation of the Elderly, K. Warner Schaie and Laura L. Carstensen, eds., New York: Springer, 2006.
______, "Retirement Patterns from Career Employment," with Kevin E. Cahill and Michael D. Giandrea, The Gerontologist, 514-523, 2006.
______, "Bridge Jobs: A Comparison across Cohorts," with Kevin E. Cahill and Michael D. Giandrea, Research on Aging, September, 2009.

Schiantarelli, Fabio, "Employment Changes, the Structure of Adjustment Costs and Plant Size," with O. Nilsen and K. Salvanes, European Economic Review, 51, 577-598, 2007.

Seitz, Shannon, "Search Friction in the U.S. Labor Market: Equilibrium Estimates from the PSID," with Audra Bowlus, in Panel Data and Structural Labour Market Models, H. Bunzel, B.J. Christensen, P. Jensen, N.M. Kiefer and D.T. Mortensen, eds. New York: North Holland, 2000.
______, "Domestic Violence, Employment and Divorce," with Audra Bowlus, International Economic Review, 47, 1113-1150, 2006.
______, "Accounting for Racial Differences in Marriage and Employment," Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming.


Monetary Economics and Finance

Baum, Christopher F., "Nonlinear Effects of Exchange Rate Volatility on the Volume of Bilateral Exports," with Mustafa Caglayan and Neslihan Ozkan, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 19, 1-23, 2004.
______, "Dynamics of Intra-EMS Exchange Rate Linkages", with John Barkoulas, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 38, 469-482, 2006.
______, "Long-Memory Forecasting of U.S. Monetary Indices," with John Barkoulas, Journal of Forecasting, 25, 291-302, 2006.
______, "The Impact of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Non-Financial Firms' Demand for Liquidity", with Mustafa Caglayan, Neslihan Ozkan and Oleksandr Talavera, Review of Financial Economics, 15, 289-304, 2006.
____, "Monetary Policy in the Transition to a Zero Federal Deficit," with Meral Karasulu, in Inflation, Fiscal Policy and Central Banks, Leo N. Bartolotti, ed., 161-178. Hauppage: Nova Science Publishers, 2007.
____, "Uncertainty Determinants of Corporate Investment," with Mustafa Caglayan and Oleksandr Talavera, Economics Letters, 98, 282-287, 2008.
____, "Uncertainty Determinants of Corporate Liquidity," with Mustafa Caglayan, Andreas Stephan and Oleksandr Talavera, Economic Modelling, 25, 833-849, 2008.
____, "The Second Moments Matter: The Response of Bank Lending Behavior to Macroeconomic Uncertainty," with Mustafa Caglayan and Neslihan Ozkan, Economics Letters, 102, 87-89, 2009.
____, "The Effects of Uncertainty on the Leverage of NonFinancial Firms," with Andreas Stephan and Oleksandr Talavera, Economic Inquiry, 47, 216-225, 2009.
____, "On the Sensitivity of the Volume and Volatility of Bilateral Trade Flows to Exchange Rate Uncertainty," with Mustafa Caglayan, Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming.

Ghironi, Fabio, "Does It Matter (for Equilibrium Determinacy) What Price Index the Central Bank Targets?," with Charles T. Carlstrom and Timothy S. Fuerst, Journal of Economic Theory, 128, 214-231, 2006.
____, "Monetary Policy and Business Cycles with Endogenous Entry and Product Variety," with Florin O. Bilbiie and Marc J. Melitz, in Acemoglu, D., K. S. Rogoff, and M. Woodford, eds., NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2007, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 299-353, 2008.

Iacoviello, Matteo, "Hedging Housing Risk in London," with François Ortalo-Magnè, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 27, 191-209, 2003.
_____, "Financial Liberalisation and the Sensitivity of House Prices to Monetary Policy: Theory and Evidence," with Raoul Minetti, The Manchester School, 71, 20-34, 2003.
_____, "Consumption, House Prices and Collateral Constraints: A Structural Econometric Analysis," Journal of Housing Economics, 13, 305-321, 2004.
_____, "House Prices, Borrowing Constraints and Monetary Policy in the Business Cycle," American Economic Review, 95, 739-764, 2005.
_____, "The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Housing Market," with Raoul Minetti, Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 30, No. 1 (March), pp. 69-96.

Ireland, Peter, "Implementing the Friedman Rule," Review of Economic Dynamics, 6, 120-134, 2003.
_____, "Endogenous Money or Sticky Prices?," Journal of Monetary Economics, 50, 1623-1648, 2003.
_____, "Technology Shocks in the New Keynesian Model," Review of Economics and Statistics, 86, 923-936, 2004.
_____, "Money's Role in the Monetary Business Cycle," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 36, 969-983, 2004.
_____, "The Liquidity Trap, the Real Balance Effect, and the Friedman Rule," International Economic Review, 46, 1271-1301, 2005.
_____, "The Own-Price of Money and the Channels of Monetary Transmission," with Michael T. Belongia, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 38, 429-445, 2006.
_____,"Changes in the Federal Reserve's Inflation Target: Causes and Consequences." Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 39, 1851-1882, 2007.

Schiantarelli, Fabio, "Monetary Instability, the Predictability of Prices and the Allocation of Investment: An Empirical Investigation using UK Panel Data," with P. Beaudry and M. Caglayan, American Economic Review, 91, 648-662, 2001.
_____, "Debt Composition and Balance Sheet Effects of Currency Depreciation: A Summary of the Micro Evidence," with A. Galindo and U. Panizza, Emerging Markets Review, 4, 330-339, 2003.
_____, A. Galindo, eds., Credit Constraints and Investment in Latin America, Washington DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 2003.
_____, "Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms", L. Benfratello, F. Schiantarelli, A. Sembenelli, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming


Public Economics

Konishi, Hideo,"Migration-Proof Tiebout Equilibrium: Existence and Asymptotic Efficiency," with John P. Conley, Journal of Public Economics, 86, 241-260, 2002.
_____, "'Salience': Agenda Choices by Competing Candidates," with Marcus Berliant, Public Choice, 125, 129-149, 2005.

Tresch, Richard W., Public Finance: A Normative Theory, second edition, New York: Academic Press, 2002.
____, Public Sector Economics, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008.


Urban Economics

Konishi, Hideo, "Anchor Stores," with Michael T. Sandfort, Journal of Urban Economics, 53, 413-435, 2003. _____, "Concentration of Competing Retail Stores," Journal of Urban Economics, 58, 488-512, 2005.
_____, "Tiebout's Tale in Spatial Economies: Entrepreneurship, Self-Selection and Efficiency,'' Regional Science and Urban Economics (the special issue in honor of Masa Fujita) 38, 461-471, (2008).

Kraus, Marvin, "The Commuter's Time-of-Use Decision and Optimal Pricing and Service in Urban Mass Transit," with Yuichiro Yoshida, Journal of Urban Economics, 51, 170-195, 2002.
_____, "Principles of Transport Economics," with Richard Arnott, in Handbook of Transportation Science, 2d ed., Randolph W. Hall, ed., Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 689-726, 2003.
_____, "A New Look at the Two-Mode Problem," Journal of Urban Economics, 54, 511-530, 2003.
_____, "Monocentric Cities," in Companion to Urban Economics, Richard Arnott and Daniel McMillen, eds., London: Basil Blackwell, 2006.
_____, "Congestion," with Richard Arnott, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
_____, "Economies of Scale in Networks," Journal of Urban Economics, 64, 171-177, 2008.
_____, "Self-Financing of Congestible Facilities in a Growing Economy," with Richard Arnott, in Economics of Traffic Congestion, Erik T. Verhoef, ed., Edward Elgar, forthcoming.


Professional Affiliations and Editorial Positions

James Anderson

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Associate Editor, Review of International Economics

Susanto Basu

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Associate Editor, Berkeley Electronic Journals in Macroeconomics

Christopher F. Baum

DIW Research Professor, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftforschung
Associate Editor, Computational Economics
Associate Editor, Stata Journal
Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Software
Associate Editor, International Journal of Finance

David Belsley

Fellow, Journal of Econometrics
Co-Editor, Computational Economics
Associate Editor, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Co-Editor, Handbook Series on Computing and Statistics

Fabio Ghironi

Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
Fellow, Euro Area Business Cycle Network
Associate Editor, Journal of International Economics
Associate Editor, International Finance
Associate Editor, economics

Peter Gottschalk

Senior Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center, University of Michigan
Research Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin
Research Associate, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Peter Ireland

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Editorial Board, Economic Inquiry
Editor, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Associate Editor, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking
Editor, Berkeley Electronic Journal of Macroeconomics
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Economic Studies

Hideo Konishi

Associate Editor, Economics Bulletin
Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economic Theory
Associate Editor, Regional Science and Urban Economics
Associate Editor, Social Choice and Welfare

Arthur Lewbel

International Research Fellow, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Fellow, Econometric Society
Fellow, Journal of Econometrics
Co-Editor, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Econometrics
Associate Editor, Econometric Theory

Robert Murphy

Editor for Business Economics, Journal of Asia Business Studies

Fabio Schiantarelli

Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Uzi Segal

Associate Editor, Econometrica
Associate Editor, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
Associate Editor, Theoretical Economics

Shannon Seitz

Co-Editor, LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Tayfun Sönmez

Fellow, Econometric Society

M. Utku Ünver

President, Society for Economic Design
Associate Editor, Berkeley Electronic Press Journals of Theoretical Economics

Zhijie Xiao

Associate Editor, Econometric Theory
Associate Editor, Economics Bulletin
Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association
Associate Editor, Econometrics Journal
Associate Editor, Statistics and its Interface

 



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