Alexander Monge-Naranjo
	Assistant Professor of Economics
Joined the faculty in  2008 Ph.D. 1999	502 Kern Graduate Building Phone: (814) 865-2745 Fax: (814) 863-4775 E-mail: aum26@psu.edu Personal Homepage: http://www.econ.psu.edu/~aum26/ Office Hours for Summer 2012: by appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest:

• Macroeconomics
• International Economics
• Development Economics
• Human Resources and Income Distribution

 

Recent Publications:

"Learning and the Wealth of Nations" (with Francisco Buera and Giorgio Primiceri)
Forthcoming Econometrica.

"The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital" (with Lance Lochner)
Forthcoming, American Economic Review. 

"Foreign Know-How, Firm Control and the Income of Developing Countries" (with Ariel Burstein)
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2009, Vol. 124, No. 1: 149--195.

"Entrepreneurship and Firm Heterogeneity under Limited Commitment"
The Annals of Finance, April 2009, Vol. 5, No. 3-4: 465-494.

 

Research in Progress:

• "Foreign Firms, Domestic Entrepreneurial Skills and Development"
•  "Limited Commitment, Creation and Destruction of Firms and the Transmission of Interest Rate Shocks" 
• "Limited Commitment, Firm Heterogeneity and the Transmission of Aggregate Fluctuations."