Department of Economics

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest:

• International Economics
• Econometrics

Recent Publications:

“Global Rebalancing with Gravity” (with Robert Dekle and Samuel Kortum) International Monetary Fund Staff Papers 55. (September 2008): 784-795.

“Unbalanced Trade” (with Robert Dekle and Samuel Kortum) American Economic Review Papers and Proceeding, 97. (May 2007): 351-356.

“Dissecting Trade: Firms, Industries and Export Destinations”, (with Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 94. (May 2004): 150-154.

“Plants and Productivity in International Trade”, (with Andrew Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, and Samuel Kortum) American Economic Review, 93 (September 2003): 1268-1290.

“Technology, Geography, and Trade”, (with Samuel Kortum), Econometrica, 70 (September 2002): 1741-1779. Awarded the Frisch Medal, 2004.

“Trade in Capital Goods”, (with Samuel Kortum), European Economic Review, 45 (Proceedings of the International Seminar on Macroeconomics) (June 2001): 1195-1235.

“Agglomeration and Land Rents: Evidence from the Prefectures”, (with Robert Dekle), Journal of Urban Economics, 46 (September 1999): 200-214.

“International Technology Diffusion: Theory and Measurement”. (with Samuel Kortum), International Economic Review, 40 (August 1999): 537-570.

“Sanctions: Some Simple Analytics”, (with Maxim Engers), American Economics Review Papers and Proceedings, 89 (May 1999): 409-414.

“European Technology Policy”, (with Samuel Kortum and Eva Guiterrez), Economic Policy, 27 (October 1998): 405-438.

“Cities and Growth: Theory and Evidence from France and Japan”, (with Zvi Eckstein) Regional Science and Urban Economics, 27 (1997): 443-474.

“Engines of Growth: Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation”, (with Samuel Kortum) Japan and the World Economy, 9 (1997): 235-259.

“Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity in the OECD”, (with Samuel Kortum) Journal of International Economics, 40 (May 1996): 1-28.

“Sovereign Debt, Reputation, and Credit Terms”, International Journal of Finance and Economics, 1 (January 1996): 25-36.

“Sanctions”, (with Maxim Engers) Journal of Political Economy, 100 (October 1992): 899-928.

“Intertemporal Price Competition”, (with Maxim Engers) Econometrica, 58 (May 1990): 637-659.

“Monopoly Wealth and International Debt”, International Economic Review, 30 (February 1989): 33-48.

“Foreign-Owned Land”, American Economic Review, 78 (March 1988): 76-88.

“A Dynamic Specific-Factors Model of International Trade”, Review of Economic Studies, 54 (April 1987): 325-338.

Research in Progress:

• A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics

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