Professor of
517
I received my bachelor's degree in mathematics and
economics from
Most of my research is on industrial sector problems in developing countries. My recent publications include “Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity and Export Dynamics” (co-authored with Mita Das and Mark Roberts, forthcoming in Econometrica), “Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses: Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence” (co-authored with Erkan Erdem, in Brookings Trade Forum 2003) “Plant- and Firm-Level Evidence on the ‘New’ Trade Theories” (in Handbook of International Trade, Oxford: Basil-Blackwell, 2003), "Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries: How Well do They do and Why?" (Journal of Economic Literature, March 2000), "Is Learning by Exporting Important? Micro-dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico and Morocco (co-authored with Sofronis Clerides and Saul Lach, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1998), "Sunk Costs and the Decision to Export in Colombia" (co-authored with Mark Roberts, American Economic Review, September 1997), and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries (a co-edited volume with Mark Roberts, Oxford University Press, 1996).
“The Margins of Entry
into Export Markets: Evidence from Colombia,” with Jonathan Eaton, Marcela Eslava
and Maurice Kugler, in Elhanan Helpman,
Dalia Marin and Thieery Verdier,
eds., The Organization of Firms in a
Global Economy, forthcoming, Harvard University Press. (figures and tables)
“Openness and
Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World: A Case Study of Mexican Soaps,
Detergents and Surfactant Producers” (draft) co-authored with Beata Javorcik and Wolfgang
Keller. (NBER working
paper 12457)
" Credit
rationing, Macro Volatility and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries"
co-authored with Rick Bond and Hale Utar.
"Market
Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity and Export Dynamics," co-authored
with Mita Das and Mark Roberts, in Econometrica, May, 2007. (Previous version appeared as NBER Working Paper 8629)
"Firm-Level
Productivity Studies: Illusions and a Solution," with Hajime Katayama
and Shihua Lu. (Previous version appeared as NBER
Working Paper No. 9617)
"Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses: Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence," with Erkan Erdem (Brookings Trade Forum 2003, NBER Working Paper No. 9947)
"Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries: How Well do They do and Why?" (in Journal of Economic Literature, March, 2000)
"A Firm's-Eye View of Commercial Policy and Fiscal Reforms in Cameroon" with Bernard Gauthier and Isidro Soloaga (in World Bank Economic Review 16(3), 2002)
"Product Quality, Productive Efficiency, and International Technology Diffusion," co-authored with Aart Kraay and Isidro Soloaga
"Plant-
and Firm-level Evidence on the 'New' Trade Theories"
( in E. Kwan Choi and James Harrigan, ed., Handbook of International Trade,
"Does
Promoting High Tech Products Spur Development?" with
Julie Hunt (appeared as “Es la promoción de industrias de alta tecnología un motor para el desarrollo?” with Julie Hunt, in Competitividad
de las Exportaciones en
· Economic Development (undergraduate and graduate)
· International Trade (graduate, undergraduate)
· Econ 404W (undergraduate writing-intensive course)
· Econometrics (undergraduate)
· Honors Seminar (undergraduate)
E-Mail:
jxt32@psu.edu
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Mailing address:
James R. Tybout
Professor of Economics
517
Phone/fax:
phone
(V-mail): (814) 865-4259
department fax: (814) 863-4775