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Department of Economics

 

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Kala M. Krishna

Professor of Economics

Joined the faculty in 1993    

Ph.D., 1984, 

 Princeton University    

523 Kern Graduate Building

Phone: (814) 865 - 1106

Fax: (814) 863 - 4775

E-mail: kmk4@psu.edu

Personal Homepage: http://econ.la.psu.edu/~kkrishna/index.html

Office Hours for Summer 2009:  by appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest:

  • International Economics 
  • Industrial Organization 
  • Game Theory
  • Development Economics
  • Applied Micro Economics

Recent Publications:

"Protection for Sale or Surge Protection?" (with Susumu Imai and Hajime Katayama). Forthcoming European Economic Reivew.

"Is Protection Really for Sale? A Critique of the Common Approach in Testing the G-H Model," with S. Imai and H. Katayama. Forthcoming in International Review of Economics and Finance.

"The Inside Scoop: Acceptance and Rejection at the Journal of International Economics".  (With Ivan Cherkashin, Susumu Imai, and Svetlana Demidova). Journal of International Economics, February, 2009.

"Firm Level Heterogeneous Productivity and Demand Shocks: Evidence from Bangladesh". With Hiau Looi Kee. American Economic Review, May, 2008, pp.457-462.

"Firm Heterogeneity and Firm Behavior with Conditional Policies," with Svetlana Demidova. Economics Letters. 98(2), February 2008, pp. 122-128.

"Trade and Trade Policy with Differentiated Products: A Chamberlinian-Ricardian Model," with Svetlana Demidova. Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Volume 16(3) pp. 435-441. September 2007.

"Understanding Rules of Origin." O. Cadot, A. Estevadeordal, A. Suwa-Eisenmann and T. Verdier (eds.), The Origin of Goods: Rules of Origin in Regional Trade Agreements, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 19-34.

"When Trade Hurts: Consumption, Indivisibilities and Labor Market Distortions," with C. Yavas. Journal of International Economics, Vol. 67(2) (2005), pp. 413-427.

“Trade with Labor Market Distortions and Heterogeneous Labor: Why Trade Can Hurt,” (with C. Yavas and A. Mukhopadhyay), G.S. Heiduk and K.-Y. Wong (eds.), WTO and World Trade: Challenges in a New Era, Heidelburg, Germany: Physica-Verlag, 2005.

“Unbalanced Growth,” (with C. Perez), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 38(3), (2005), pp. 832-851.

“Firm Behavior and Market Access in a Free Trade Area with Rules of Origin,” (with J. Ju), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2005, 38(1), pp. 290-308.

"Employment, Deterrence, and Crime in a Dynamic Model," (with S. Imai), International Economic Review, 2004, 45(3), pp. 845-872.

"Quantity Controls, License Transferability, and the Level of Investment," (with L. H. Tan and R. Ranjan), Berkeley Electronic Press: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 2004, 3(1), Article 8.

"Immiserizing Growth in a Closed Economy," (with C. Yavas), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106(1), pp. 143-158.

"Lumpy Consumer Durables, Market Power, and Endogenous Business Cycles," (with C. Yavas), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2004, 37(2), pp. 375-391.

"Transferability of Migration Licenses and the Distribution of Potential Rents," (with L. Bivins), Economics Letters, 2003, 80(3), pp. 323-328.

"Trade, Investment and Growth: Nexus, Analysis and Prognosis," (with A. Ozyildirim and N. Swanson), Journal of Development Economics, 2003, 70(2), pp. 479-499.

"If at First You Don’t Succeed...: Profits, Prices, and Market Structure in a Model of Quality with Unknowable Consumer Heterogeneity," (with T. Winston), International Economic Review, 2003, 44(2), pp. 573-597.

"Regulations, Regime Switches and Non-Monotonicity when Non-Compliance is an Option: An Application to Content Protection and Preference," (with J. Ju), Economics Letters, 2002, 77, pp. 315-321.

"Allocating Multiple Units," (with T. Tranaes), Economic Theory, 2002, 20(4), pp. 733-750.

"Can Subsidies for MARs be Procompetitive?" (with S. Roy and M. Thursby), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2001, 34(1), pp. 212-224.

"Evaluating Trade Reform with Many Consumers," (with J. Ju), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2000, 33(3), pp. 787-798.

"Welfare and Market Access Effects of Piecemeal Tariff Reform," (with J. Ju), Journal of International Economics, 2000, 51, pp. 305-316.

"Necessary Conditions for Welfare Improving Reform," (with J. Ju), Economic Letters, 2000, 67, pp. 173-178.

"Free Entry into the Indian Automobile Industry: A Calibration Model," (with P. Jensen), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2000, 8(4), pp. 437-455.

"Auctions with Endogenous Valuations: The Snowball Effect Revisited," Economic Theory, 1999, 13(2), pp. 377-391.

"Transferable Licenses vs. Nontransferable Licenses: What is the Difference?" (with L.H. Tan), International Economic Review, 1999, 40(3), pp. 785-800.

Rags and Riches: Implementing Apparel Quotas under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement, (with L.H. Tan), University of Michigan Press, 1998.

"Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies: The Case of the U.S.-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute," (with J. Morgan), European Economic Review, October 1998, 42(8), pp. 1443-1467.

"The Adding Up Problem: A Targeting Approach," Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, June 1998, 7(2), pp. 151-174.

"Implementing Market Access," (with M. Thursby and S. Roy), Review of International Economics, 1998, 6(4), pp. 529-544.

"Notes on India's MFA Quota Allocation System: The Effect of Rules on Outcomes," Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, July/September 1997, 47, pp. 39-50.

"Imputing License Prices: The Limitations of a Cost Based Approach," (with L.H. Tan and W. Martin), Journal of Development Economics, 1997, 52(2), pp. 355-374.

"Entry Policy in an Open Economy," (with P. Jensen), Indian Economic Review, January-June 1996, 31(1), pp. 41-56.

"The Dynamic Behavior of License Price Paths," (with L.H. Tan), Journal of Development Economics, 1996, 48(2), pp. 301-321.

Research in Progress:

  • Rules of Origin and Firm Heterogeneity
  • Political Economy and Trade
  • Crime and Punishment
  • The Determinants of Protection
  • Trade and Industrial Organization with Indivisible Goods
  • Credit Constraints, Education and Trade

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