boston college

graduate school of arts and sciences

graduate program

ECONOMICS
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welcome to graduate economics

he Boston College economics faculty comprises 32

full time positions at present, with plans to grow by
several positions. They allocate their time between
research and teaching in undergraduate (900 majors
and minors) and doctoral (70 students) programs as well
as participating in the wider intellectual life of the
University, the Boston area and the world.
Boston College provides considerable intellectual
leadership to the economics profession. Members
of the Department hold 34 editorial board positions
on some of the leading journals of the profession.
Department members include two editors and five
co-editors of journals and one NIH review panel
member. Two members of the Department are
Fellows of the Econometric Society. Four members of
the Department are NBER Research Associates and
one is an NBER Research Fellow. The Boston College
Economics Department ranks between 24th and 26th
among U.S. economics departments in the Combes
Linnemer worldwide rankings appearing in the
December, 2003 Journal of the European Economic
Association. The economics Ph.D. Program is ranked 31
in the U.S. News and World Report 2009 peer assessment survey. With University approval and support, we
are on a growth path aimed at achieving and maintaining top 25 status among U.S. economics departments.
Recent hires include distinguished econometricians
and economic theorists, adding to the established
strength of the Department in applied economics.

The graduate program in economics is dedicated to full

time Ph.D. students. The doctoral program is designed
to train economists for careers in teaching and research
by providing a strong foundation in economic theory,
quantitative research methods and applied fields. The
Ph.D. program admits about 16 new students per year.
The size of the program permits the Department to offer
a broad range of courses while at the same time enabling
students to receive a good deal of individual attention. In
addition to core courses in economic theory and quantitative methods, the program offers courses in advanced
micro and macro theory, econometric theory, applied
econometrics, international trade, empirical international
finance, topics in international macro, topics in international economic policy, economic development, public
sector economics, monetary economics, labor economics,
industrial organization and finance.
Boston Colleges proximity to Cambridge and Boston
make it part of the areas lively intellectual community.
The Ph.D. program draws upon the rich academic
resources of the area in addition to those available within
the Economics Department and other departments and
schools at Boston College.
Students will find additional information about the
Department at http://www.bc.edu/economics/.

graduate faculty
Professors

Associate Professors

james anderson

christopher f. baum

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1969

International Economics and Economic History

susanto basu

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992

Macroeconomics

david belsley, EMERITUS

Ph.D., M.I.T., 1965

Econometrics and Economic Theory

Financial Economics and Applied Econometrics

fabio ghironi

Ph.D., University of CaliforniaBerkeley, 1999

International Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics, and

Monetary Economics

stefan hoderlein

Ph.D., Bonn University and London School of Economics, 2002

donald cox

Econometrics

Economics of Intergenerational Transfers and Labor Economics

Ph.D., M.I.T., 1964

Ph.D., Brown University, 1980

francis m. mclaughlin

frank m. gollop

Labor Economics

Industrial Organization

Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 2001

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974

Julie Mortimer

peter gottschalk

Industrial Organization

Labor Economics and Applied Econometrics

Ph.D., M.I.T., 1984

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1973

robert murphy

peter n. ireland

Macroeconomics and International Economics

Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Ph.D., Brown University, 1963

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1991

hideo konishi

Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1994

Public Economics and Urban Economics

harold petersen

Capital Theory and Finance and Statistics

Assistant Professors

marvin kraus

andrew beauchamp

Urban Economics and Transportation Economics

Labor Economics and Industrial Organization

arthur lewbel

Ryan Chahrour

Econometrics

Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

joseph quinn

karim chalak

Microeconomics, Public Policy, and Economics of Aging

Econometrics

fabio schiantarelli

Sanjay Chugh

Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics

Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

uzi segal

eyal dvir

Decision Theory and Social Choice

International Finance and International Trade

tayfun snmez

scott l. fulford

Microeconomic Theory, Market Design

Economic Development

richard w. tresch

Ph.D. candidate, University of Colorado, 2011

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1973

Ph.D., M.I.T., 1984

Ph.D., M.I.T., 1975

Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1981

Ph.D., Hebrew University, 1984

Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1995

Ph.D., M.I.T., 1973

Ph.D., Duke University, 2009

Ph.D Candidate, Columbia University

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2007

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2004

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2008

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2009

ben li

Fiscal Economics

International Economics, Development Economics, Economic

Geography

m. utku nver

georg strasser

Microeconomic Theory, Mechanism Design

International Finance, International Macroeconomics, and

Applied Econometrics

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2000

zhijie xiao

Ph.D., Yale University, 1997

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1977

Econometrics

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2008

mathis wagner

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2009

Labor

the ph.d. program

T

he requirements for the Ph.D. degree fall into

four basic categories. These are course work,
comprehensive examinations, the dissertation and a
residence requirement. The Department does not have
a foreign language requirement.

Course Work

Year 1
Spring
EC741
Microeconomic Theory II
EC751
Macroeconomic Theory II
EC772
Econometric Methods

Year 2
Fall
4 Elective courses

"Economics studies the efficient allocation of scarce resources."

It follows almost immediately from this definition that while verbal
and graphical analyses are often helpful too, economists derive
their sharpest and most powerful results by setting up and solving
constrained (because resources are "scarce") optimization (because
allocations are "efficient") problems. Hence, this course introduces
first-year graduate students to variety of techniques for doing just
that: setting up and solving constrained optimization problems.
Specific methods covered include those based on the Kuhn-Tucker
and envelope theorems, the maximum principle, and dynamic
programming.
Department

The course requirements consist of a seven-course core

curriculum and eight electives. The standard program
for meeting these requirements is:

Fall
EC740
Microeconomic Theory I
EC750
Macroeconomic Theory I
EC720
Math for Economists
EC770
Statistics

EC 720 Mathematics for Economists

Spring
4 Elective courses

In addition to electives offered by the Economics

Department, students may choose electives from
courses offered in the Finance Departments Ph.D.
program in the Carroll School of Management at Boston
College. Students may also enroll in selected graduate
courses at Boston University, Brandeis University and
Tufts University if those courses are in fields that are not
available at Boston College. One course per semester
may be taken through this consortium arrangement
with the approval of the Director of Graduate Studies.
A limited number of courses are sometimes waived
for students who have done previous graduate work in
economics or have otherwise done the equivalent of
certain core courses. Students to whom this applies
should meet with the Director of Graduate Studies to
work out a program.
The courses regularly offered by the Department of
Economics are as follows. Seven-hundred level courses
are core courses; eight-hundred level courses are
electives.

EC 740 Microeconomic Theory I

This course covers basic consumer and producer theory, expected
utility maximization, and the theory of general equilibrium. Also
covered are special topics in consumer theory such as welfare
change measures, revealed preference theory, and the theory of
second best.
Marvin Kraus/Hideo Konishi

EC 741 Microeconomic Theory II

The first half of this course covers two topics: Social choice theory
and decision theory. The former deals with the aggregation of
individual preferences into social preferences. The latter discusses
situations where decision makers cannot be certain about the
consequences of their actions. We'll talk about portfolio selection and about insurance markets, and will also see how theory is
influenced by experimental data. The second half comprises three
modules. The first treats pure and applied aspects of general
equilibrium theory. The second is an introduction to non-cooperative game theory. The third covers topics in information economics.
Uzi Segal/M. Utku nver

EC 750 Macroeconomic Theory I

The first part of the course covers the Solow growth model,
infinite horizon and overlapping generation models without and
with altruism. The effect of fiscal policy in the various models is also
discussed. The second part of the course covers new growth theory.
Considerable time is devoted to the empirics of growth. In the final
part of the course basic theories of investment and consumption
under uncertainty are discussed.
Fabio Schiantarelli

EC 751 Macroeconomic Theory II

The first third of this course covers models of consumer behavior
under uncertainty, and studies their asset-pricing implications. The
next unit introduces dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE)
models of the business cycle, and studies flexible-price models with
and without imperfect competition. The final part of the course incorporates money and nominal rigidities into the DSGE framework,
and addresses the role of monetary policy.
Susanto Basu

EC 770 Statistics
The first part of this course deals with topics in probability theory, including random variables, expectation, conditional distributions and
multivariate distributions. The second part presents topics in mathematical statistics, including moment estimation, hypothesis testing,
asymptotic theory and maximum likelihood estimation.
Zhijie Xiao

EC 772 Econometric Methods

This course provides an understanding of the econometric theory
that underlies common econometric models. The focus is on
regression models and their many extensions. Topics include finite
and asymptotic properties of estimators, consistency and limiting
distributions, specification issues, heteroskedasticity, autocorrelation, endogeneity and simultaneity, and nonlinear model estimators
including maximum likelihood and the generalized method of
moments.
Arthur Lewbel

EC 802 Advanced Microeconomic Theory

In recent years, auction theory and matching theory have found
applications in many interesting real-life problems from a market/
mechanism design perspective. Topics of this course include the
theory of matching markets, multi-object auctions, school choice
and kidney exchange, matching with contracts, and cadet-branch
matching.
Tayfun Snmez

EC 812 Modern Decision Theory

The course will cover the major developments in division theory
of the last 25 years. The three main topics will be: experiments
and psychological theories; axiomatic models; and ambiguity
(uncertainty) aversion.
Uzi Segal

EC 821 Time Series Econometrics

This course covers major advances in time series analysis. In
addition to univariate and multivariate models for stationary time
series, it addresses the issues of unit roots and cointegration. The
Kalman Filter and time series models of heteroskedasticity are also
discussed. The course stresses the application of technical tools to
economic issues, including testing money-income causality, stock
market efficiency, the life-cycle model and the sources of business
cycle fluctuations.

that underlies common econometric models. The focus is on the

regression model and its many extensions. Topics include asymptotic
properties of estimators, classical regression, specification issues,
maximum likelihood estimation, generalized least squares, endogeneity and instrumental variables, nonlinear models, and the generalized
method of moments.
Arthur Lewbel

EC 828 Econometric Theory II

This is a course in asymptotic theory for econometric estimation and
inference with emphasis on nonlinear, cross section models. Topics
include forms of convergence, consistency and limiting distribution
theory, maximum likelihood, linear and nonlinear least squares, generalized method of moments, extremum estimators, nonparametric
kernel estimators and semiparametric estimators.
Karim Chalak

EC 853 Industrial Organization I

This course is an introduction to modern industrial organization theory. Topics will include, as time permits, the game theoretic approach
to oligopoly theory, theories of barriers to entry, predatory pricing, R&D
competition and applications to trade theory.
Hideo Konishi

EC 854 Empirical Industrial Organization

This course studies imperfect competition among firms, with an
emphasis on empirical work including how to implement empirical
methods commonly used in Industrial Organization (IO), and how
to read, and ultimately write, papers in empirical IO. Topics covered
include demand estimation, two-period games (such as entry), singleagent dynamic models, auctions, price discrimination, bundling,
asymmetric information and adverse selection, vertical control and
contractual arrangements, and others as time allows. Each topic will
be organized around recent empirical work, and will emphasize the
importance of identification in empirical work.
Julie Mortimer

Zhijie Xiao

EC 861 Monetary Economics I

EC 822 Cross Section and Panel Econometrics

This course covers models of money demand, recent developments in

the foundation of a role for monetary policy in affecting the real economy, and issues in the formulation and conduct of monetary policy for
closed and open economies.

This course covers major tools used to analyze cross-sectional and

longitudinal data. The course presents developments in estimating
models with limited dependent variables, selection on observables
and unobservables, random and fixed effects models and duration
models. Parametric and non-parametric models are covered. The
focus is on identification as well as estimation.
Stefan Hoderlein

EC 823 Applied Econometrics

This course presents a number of econometric estimation techniques relevant for applied research in economics and finance and
addresses the computational issues related to their implementation.
Topics will be drawn from instrumental variables (IV-GMM) estimation and diagnostics; panel data estimators, including dynamic
panel data techniques; reduced-form and structural vector autoregressions; ARFIMA (long memory) models; general linear models;
limited dependent variable techniques; structural equation modeling; propensity score matching; state-space and dynamic factor
models; simulation and bootstrapping.
Christopher F. Baum

EC 827 Econometric Theory I

This course provides an understanding of the econometric theory

Department

EC 862 Monetary Economics II

This course considers the consequences of financial frictions for firm
behavior, business cycle fluctuations and growth. Included among the
topics covered are: investment decisions under financial constraints,
aggregate implications for the transmission mechanism of money,
financial and real shocks, and the effect of financial development and
financial reform on growth. The micro and macro evidence on these
issues is discussed. The course includes a section on dynamic panel
data econometrics.
Fabio Schiantarelli

EC 865 Public Sector Economics I

This course provides a foundation for the study of the public sector
within a market economy, covering the firstbest analysis of public expenditures, transfer payments, taxation, and fiscal federalism:
the interrelationships between the different levels of government.
A selection of secondbest informational problems in these areas is
also considered.
Richard Tresch

EC 866 Public Sector Economics II

EC884 Distributive Justice

This course covers pure and local public goods, externalities, voting
theory, and political economic models. We use general equilibrium
theory, and cooperative and non-cooperative games to analyze these
topics.

The course deals with the following question: How should society
act when its members disagree about its optimal conduct? Utilitarianism and its alternatives will be discussed. Special attention will be
given to the use of randomization in conflicts, and to the difficulties
created by our inability to compare individuals' well being.

Hideo Konishi

EC 871 International Trade

This course is an introduction to the theory of international trade, as
well as an examination of available empirical evidence. We will cover
the evolution of theory and empirics from basic Ricardian models to
the most recent research in the field. Topics include: the sources of
comparative advantage, the role of increasing returns, trade costs,
and heterogeneous firms. We will also explore connections with the
growth and development literatures.
Ben Li

EC 874 Topics in International Macroeconomics

This course focuses on the construction of models for understanding the international business cycle and analysis of macroeconomic
policy in open economies. The first part studies the transmission of
macroeconomic shocks across countries, from the international real
business cycle literature to models with nominal rigidity and financial
imperfections. The second part covers the recent literature on macroeconomic policy in open economies. The third part of the course
returns to model building and shock transmission and focuses on
the recent literature at the intersection between international trade
and macroeconomic theory. The fourth part of the course reviews recent developments in the analysis of international portfolio problems
and capital flows. The course is concluded by a discussion of the
crisis that started in 2007 and its implications for research in international macroeconomics.

Uzi Segal

EC 885 Analysis of Labor Markets

A comprehensive approach to the analysis of labor markets focusing
on education, minimum wages, discrimination, household and
demographic decisions such as marriage and child bearing, joint
labor supply, and household production. Heavy emphasis is placed
on specification and estimation of empirical models.
Andrew Beauchamp

EC 886 Current Topics in Labor Economics

This course covers the main econometric and conceptual tools for
understanding a wide-range of topical issues in labor economics
and applied microeconomics. The topics discussed in class include:
inequality, returns to schooling, female labor market participation,
discrimination, immigration, migration, and the incentive effects of
unemployment and disability insurance.
Mathis Wagner

Comprehensive Exams
All students are required to pass written comprehensive
examinations in microeconomic theory, macroeconomic
theory and two of the following fields:

Advanced Macro Theory

Fabio Ghironi

Advanced Micro Theory

EC 875 Political Economy of Trade and Development

This course will consider economy-wide models of endogenous

growth as well as the sector-specific issues which arise from missing
markets and asymmetric information. The perspectives of neoclassical political economy will be emphasized.

Econometric Theory

Applied Econometrics

International Economics

International Trade and Economic Development

James E. Anderson

International Finance and Macroeconomics

EC876 Topics in International Economic Policy

Monetary Economics

This course will cover trade policy and its political economy (Anderson), and financial crises, treating causes and policies both pre- and
post-crisis (Dvir). A common theme is what makes a good paper?.

Industrial Organization

Labor Economics

Public Sector Economics

Finance

James E. Anderson/Eyal Dvir

EC 877 Empirical International Finance

This course covers selected topics of current research in international finance, designed for Ph.D. students in their second year or
later. The focus is on empirical work, and on tools for conducting
research in this field. Topics include: nominal and real exchange rate
dynamics, foreign-exchange market efficiency, the microstructure of
the foreign exchange markets, international finance and trade, as well
as international financial integration and portfolio choice. as international financial integration and portfolio choice.

Each exam is built around a two-course sequence on the

subject matter and is offered at least annually. No single
course can satisfy two field prerequisites.

Georg Strasser

Dissertation
The third year of study is devoted to the formulation
and development of a thesis topic. Third and fourth year
students are required to regularly attend and actively
participate in the Department's Thesis Workshop, which
meets weekly during the academic year. Students are required to make presentations in the second semester of
the third year, each semester of the fourth year and the
first semester of the fifth year. Each Ph.D. student must
have a dissertation abstract and a dissertation proposal
on file with the Department. Both the abstract and the
proposal must be signed by two faculty members. The
approved abstract must be on file no later than April 1 of
the third year. The approved proposal must be on file no
later than October 1 of the fourth year.
The thesis is written under the supervision of a committee of three faculty members: a director chosen by
the student and two readers agreed upon by the student
and the director. The thesis is approved when it is successfully defended before the committee in an oral
examination. As in any Ph.D. program, the ultimate
time to completion varies considerably. The Department
expects every student to be well-prepared to enter the
job market in January of the fifth year of full-time study.
Although there are exceptions, students should expect
to spend a minimum of four years of full-time study in
order to complete the degree.

Residence Requirement
Each Ph.D. student must spend at least one academic
year as a full-time student at Boston College.

Research Facilities
Graduate students in the Department of Economics are
given accounts on one of the Unix servers managed by
the Department, which provide support for computationally intensive applications such as Stata, MATLAB,
Ox, and RATS as well as the Fortran-90, C, C++ and perl
programming languages. The Department also participates in the University's High Performance Computing
initiative, which provides a powerful multiprocessor
facility for computationally demanding faculty and student research.
Graduate students in economics may utilize the Department's Apple Macintosh OS X workstations, a dozen of
which are located in departmental facilities dedicated
to graduate student use. These Intel-based Unix workstations run Mathematica, MATLAB, Stata, TeXShop
and Microsoft Office applications and provide access to
Internet resources. Several locations in the computing
labs and graduate lounge are equipped with Internet
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connections for students' laptops, and the entire campus

supports WiFi wireless networking.
The Department of Economics, like many departments
at Boston College, does not provide support for Microsoft Windows-based personal computers. Software
which is only available for the Windows platform is not
supported. Although most up-to-date personal computers may be used to connect to the University's systems
from off campus, on-campus support in Departmental
facilities is limited to Apple Macintosh hardware and
Mac OS X software. The resources of the Boston College network and the Department's xServe fileserver are
accessible to students' appropriately configured laptops
and home computers, either Mac or PC. Prospective
students should evaluate the suitability of Macintosh
systems for their needs (and consult with the Department's Faculty Technology Coordinator) before investing
in personal systems.
A number of important data resources are also available
to students through Information Technology and the
University Libraries. On-line access to the DRI Basic
Economics, International Financial Statistics, and World
Development Indicators economic databases and the
COMPUSTAT and CRSP financial databases is provided.
Boston College is a member of the InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which
makes a number of large economic databases available
without charge.
The ONeill Library houses a comprehensive collection
of economics volumes and leading journals in economics and related fields. Boston College participates in the
JSTOR project, giving on-line access to the entire runs
of leading economics journals. A number of online databases (such as EconLit) may be used to assist research.
Boston College is a member of the Boston Library Consortium which enables graduate students to use library
facilities at MIT, Boston University, Brandeis, Northeastern, Tufts, Wellesley, University of Massachusetts, and
the Boston Public Library.
The department plays a prominent role in the RePEc
(Research Papers in Economics) initiative, which provides free access to working papers, journal citations,
software and contact information. The Boston College
Working Papers in Economics are downloadable and
searchable via RePEc's user services (http://repec.org).

Seminars
Department faculty organize active seminar series in
microeconomic theory, macroeconomics and financial

economics, and econometrics / applied microeconomics with weekly presentations by noted economists in
every field offered in the Ph.D. program. Students present their own work in the Department's weekly Thesis
Workshop. The schedule of Departmental seminars
and other events is posted on the Departments website.
Please visit the Economics Departments home page,
http://www.bc.edu/economics/, for a comprehensive account of the program and faculty.

Application Procedure
Applicants are required to submit college transcripts,
three letters of recommendation, a statement of purpose
and scores from the Graduate Record Examinations
verbal, quantitative and analytic tests and TOEFL scores
if applicable. Please see the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences website at www.bc.edu/gsas for information
on how to apply. The Graduate Programs Assistant may
also be contacted by e-mail from the Department website at www.bc.edu/economics. The application deadline
is January 2. All application materials (including test
scores) must be received by that date. Information on
how to apply can be found at www.bc.edu/gsas.
Only applicants seeking the Ph.D. are considered;
Boston College does not offer the terminal M.A. degree
in economics.

Scholarly Publications
Our recent graduates have been successful in terms of scholarly output. Their papers have appeared in journals such as:
American Economic Review
Applied Economics Letters
Contributions to Macroeconomics
Economics Letters
Empirica
Energy Economics
Environmental Modelling and Software
Games and Economic Behavior
International Economic Review
Journal of Applied Econometrics
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
Journal of Comparative Economics
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Journal of Economic Literature
Journal of Finance
Journal of Financial Risk Management
Journal of International Economics
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
Journal of Political Economy
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Review of Economics and Statistics
Review of International Economics

Financial Aid

Southern Economic Journal

Each year the Economics Department awards approximately 25 Graduate Assistantships to first- and
second-year Ph.D. students, and 20 teaching positions
to third-, fourth- and fifth-year students. Graduate Assistants are exempted from tuition and receive stipends
of $17,000. Assistants are responsible for up to 10 hours
per week of research assistance or grading for individual
faculty members while carrying full academic loads.
Teaching Assistants are paid $17,400 and supervise discussion sessions in introductory undergraduate courses
and undergraduate econometrics. Teaching Fellows
receive $19,500 for teaching their own sections of introductory undergraduate courses. In addition, Teaching
Assistants and Teaching Fellows are exempted from the
Universitys doctoral continuation fee.

Recent Publications

An appointment as a Teaching Assistant or Teaching

Fellow requires fluency in English. Subject to this qualification, students who enter the program with a financial
award can expect continued assistance through five years
of study, provided their work in the program is satisfactory. Satisfactory performance is generally defined as
a B+ average in course work and appropriate progress
toward the degree.

James Anderson, Efficient Policy in a Predatory

Economy: To him who hath shall be given, International
Economic Review, (2012), 53, 157-74.
_____, The Specific Factors Continuum Model with
Implications for Globalization and Income Risk (2011),
Journal of International Economics, 85, 174-185.
_____, Welfare v. Market Access: Implications of Tariff
Structure for Tariff Reform, with J. Peter Neary, Journal
ofInternational Economics, 71, 187205, 2007.
_____, Economic Integration and the Civilizing Commerce Hypothesis, World Economy, 31, 141-57, 2008.
_____, "Consistent Trade Policy Aggregation", International Economic Review, 50 (3), 903-27 (2009).
_____, "Does Trade Foster Contract Enforcement?, Economic Theory, 41 (1), 105-31 (2009).
_____, "Political Pressure Deflection, with Maurizio
Zanardi, Public Choice, 141: 129-50 (2009).
_____, "The Incidence of Gravity, The Gravity Model in
International Trade: Advances and Applications, Steven7

Brakman and Peter Bergeijk, eds., Cambridge University

Press, forthcoming.
_____, The Changing Incidence of Geography, with
Yoto Yotov, American Economic Review, (2010) 100, 215786.
_____, "The Gravity Model", Annual Review of Economics,
3, 133-60,(2011).
_____, Costs of Taxation and Benefits of Public Goods
with Multiple Taxes and Goods, with Will Martin, Journal
of Public Economic Theory, (2011), 13, 289-309.
Susanto Basu, Information and Communications
Technology as a General-Purpose Technology: Evidence
from U.S. Industry Data, German Economic Review, 8,
146173, 2007.
_____, A General-Equilibrium, Asset-Pricing Approach
to the Measurement of Nominal and Real Bank Output with J. C. Wang and J. G. Fernald. In E. Diewert, J.
Greenlees and C. Hulten, eds., Price Index Concepts and
Measurement (Chicago: University of Chicago Press),
2009.
Christopher Baum, On the Sensitivity of Firms Investment to Cash Flow and Uncertainty, with Mustafa
Caglayan and Oleksandr Talavera, Oxford Economic
Papers, 62, 286-306, 2010.

_____, 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, 161165,
2009.
An Introduction to Stata Programming, College Station,
TX: Stata Press, 2009.
"Using Stata for Applied Research: Reviewing its Capabilities", with Mark E. Schaffer and Steven Stillman. Journal
of Economic Surveys, 25:2, 380-394, 2011.
_____, Political Patronage in Ukranian Banking, with
Mustafa Caglayan, Dorothea Schfer and Oleksandr Talavera, Economics of Transition, 16, 537557, 2008.
_____, "Parliamentary Election Cycles and the Turkish
Banking Sector", with Mustafa Caglayan and Oleksandr
Talavera. Journal of Banking and Finance, 34, 2709-2719,
2010.

_____, The contextual effects of social capital on health:

A cross-national instrumental variable analysis, with
Daniel Kim, Michael Ganz, S V Subramanian and Ichiro
Kawachi. Social Science & Medicine, 73, 1689-1697, 2011.

_____, 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, 29, 79-93, 2010.
_____, 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, 282287, 2008.
_____, Uncertainty Determinants of Corporate Liquidity, with Mustafa Caglayan, Andreas Stephan and
Oleksandr Talavera, Economic Modelling, 25, 833849,
2008.
_____, The Second Moments Matter: The Response of
Bank Lending Behavior to Macroeconomic Uncertainty,
with Mustafa Caglayan and Neslihan Ozkan, Economics
Letters, 102, 8789, 2009.
_____, The Effects of Uncertainty on the Leverage of
Non-Financial Firms, with Andreas Stephan and Oleksandr Talavera, Economic Inquiry, 47, 216-225, 2009.
_____, "The Impact of Macroeconomic Uncertainty
on Firms' Changes in Financial Leverage," with Atreya
Chakraborty and Boyan Liu, International Journal of
Finance & Economics, 15, 22-30, 2010.
_____, "On the Investment Sensitivity of Debt under
Uncertainty." With Mustafa Caglayan and Oleksandr
Talavera, Economics Letters, 106, 25-27, 2010.
_____, "Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Credit Default
Swap Spreads," with Chi Wan, Applied Financial Economics, 20, 1163-1171, 2010.
_____, The Impact of the Financial System's Structure
on Firms' Financial Constraints", with Dorothea Schfer
and Oleksandr Talavera. Journal of International Moneyand Finance, 30, 678-691, 2011.
_____, "The Effects of Uncertainty and Corporate Governance on Firms' Demand for Liquidity", with Atreya
Chakraborty, Liyan Han and Boyan Liu. Applied Economics, 44, 515-525, 2012.
_____, The Role of Uncertainty in the Transmission ofMonetary Policy Effects on Bank Lending, with Mustafa
Caglayan and Neslihan Ozkan, The Manchester School,
forthcoming.
Karim Chalak Settable Systems: An Extension of Pearl's
Causal Model with Optimization, Equilibrium, and
Learning, with H. White, Journal of Machine Learning
Research, 10, 1759-1799, 2009.

_____, Testing a Conditional Form of Exogeneity, with

Halbert White, Economics Letters, 109, 88-90, 2010.
_____, Book Review: Statistical Models and Causal Inference: A Dialogue with the Social Sciences, by David
A. Freedman, Journal of Economic Literature, 48, 10331035, 2010.
_____, An Extended Class of Instrumental Variables for
the Estimation of Causal Effects, with Halbert White,
Canadian Journal of Economics, 44, 1-51, 2011.
_____, Linking Granger Causality and the Pearl Causal
Model with Settable Systems, with Halbert White and
Xun Lu, Journal of Machine Learning Research Workshop and Conference Proceedings, 12, 1-29, 2011.
_____, Schennach, S. M., H. White, and K. Chalak
(2012), Local Indirect Least Squares and Average
Marginal Effects in Nonseparable Structural Systems,
Journal of Econometrics, 166, 282-302.
_____, White, H. and K. Chalak, Identification and Identification Failure for Treatment Effects using Structural
Systems, Econometric Reviews, forthcoming.
_____, Chalak, K. and H. White, Causality, Conditional
Independence, and Graphical Separation in Settable Systems, Neural Computation, forthcoming.
_____, Chalak, K., Identification without Exogeneity
under Equiconfounding in Linear Recursive Structural
Systems, in X. Chen and N. Swanson (eds.), Causality,
Prediction, and Specification Analysis: Recent Advances
and Future Directions - Essays in Honor of Halbert L.
White, Jr., Springer, forthcoming.
Sanjay Chugh Settable Systems: An Extension of Pearl's
Causal Model with Optimization, Equilibrium, and
Learning, with H. White, Journal of Machine Learning
Research, 10, 1759-1799, 2009
________, Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy when
Money is Essential (with S. Boragan Aruoba). 2010.
Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 145, p. 1618-1647.
________, Does the Timing of the Cash-in-Advance
Constraint Matter for Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy? 2009. Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol 13, p. 133-150.
________, Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy with
Costly Wage Bargaining (with David M. Arseneau).
2008. Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 55, p. 14011414.
________, Relative Consumption Benchmarks. 2008.
Economics Letters. Vol. 100, p. 204-207.
________, Optimal Inflation Persistence: Ramsey Taxation with Capital and Habits. 2007. Journal of Monetary

Economics, Vol. 54, p. 1809-1836.

Donald Cox 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.
________, 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, 2009.
________, Integrating Evolutionary and Social Science
Approaches to the Family. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 20-21, 2010.
Eyal Dvir Does Short-Term Debt Increase Vulnerability
to Crisis? Evidence from the East Asian Financial Crisis,
with Efraim Benmelech, Journal of International Economics, forthcoming.
Fabio Ghironi 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, 21962211, 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 InternationalMoney and Finance, 27, 1337-1359, 2008.
________, Endogenous Entry, Product Variety, and Business Cycles, with Florin O. Bilbiie and Marc J. Melitz,
Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming, 2012.
________, 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.
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Peter Gottschalk Wage Cuts as Investment in Future

Wage Growth," with Helen Connolly, Review of Labour
Economics and Industrial Relations, February, 2008.

Transfers: Predation by Proxy (and deterrence), with

Anthony Creane, International Journal of Industrial
Organization 27, 379-389, (2009).

________, "Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?

The Impact of SSP Subsidies on Job Turnover and Wage
Growth "with Helen Connolly, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2009.

________, Free Trade Networks, with Taiji Furusawa,

Journal of International Economics, 72, 310-335, (2007).

________, The Rising Instability of U.S. Earnings

(with Robert Moffitt), Journal of Economic PerspectivesVol. 23, N0. 4, Fall 2009.
________, Review of Staircases or Treadmills? Labor
Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a
Changing Economy by Chris Benner, Laura Leete and
Manual Pastor for the Journal of Economic Literature,
2009.
________, "Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement
Error with Minh Hyunh, Review of Economics and
Statistics 2010.
________, Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male
Earnings: Methods and Evidence" (with Robert Moffitt)
Journal of Human Resources 47(1) p204-236, 2012.
Peter Ireland 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.
________, Changes in the Federal Reserves Inflation
Target: Causes and Consequences. Journal of Money,
Credit, and Banking, 39, 1851-1882, 2007.
________, On The Welfare Cost of Inflation and the Recent Behavior of Money Demand. American Economic
Review, 99, 1040-1052, 2009.
________, A New Keynesian Perspective on the Great
Recession. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 43,
31-54, 2011.

________, "Voluntary Participation and the Provision of

Public Goods in Large Finite Economies," (with Ryusuke
Shinohara), forthcoming in Journal of Public Economic
Theory.
________, Efficient Mixed Clubs: Nonlinear-Pricing
Equilibria with Entreprenerial Managers, Japanese Economic Review 61, 35-63, 2010 (the 2009 JEA Nakahara
Prize Lecture).
________, 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.
________, Carpooling and Congestion Pricing: HOV
and HOT Lanes, with Se-il Mun, Regional Science and
Urban Economics 40, 173-186, 2010.
Marvin Kraus 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 The
Economics of Traffic Congestion, Erik T. Verhoef, ed.,
Edward Elgar, 2010.

Hideo Konishi "Profit-Maximizing Matchmaker," (with

Chiu-Yu Ko), Games and Economic Behavior 75, 217-232
(2012).

_____, When Are Anonymous Congestion Charges

Consistent with Marginal Cost Pricing? with Richard
Arnott, in The Economics of Traffic Congestion, Erik T.
Verhoef, ed., Edward Elgar, 2010.

________, "Contributing or Free-Riding? Voluntary

Participation in a Public Good Economy, with Taiji Furusawa, Theoretical Economics 219-256 (2011).

_____, Scale Economies Analysis for Urban Highway

Networks in The Economics of Traffic Congestion, Erik
T. Verhoef, ed., Edward Elgar, 2010.

________, Decentralized Matching Markets with Endogenous Salaries, with Margarita Sapozhnikov, Games
and Economic Behavior, 64, 193-218, (2008).

_____, Road Pricing with Optimal Mass Transit, Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming.

________, The Unilateral Incentives for Technology

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________, Global Free Trade is in the Core of Customs

Union Formation Game, with Carsten Kowalczyk and
Tomas Sjostrom, Review of International Economics 17,
304-309, (2009), (special issue in memory of Koji Shimomura).

Arthur Lewbel Estimation of Average Treatment Effects with Misclassification, Econometrica, 2007, 75,
537-551.

_____, Nonparametric Matching and Efficient Estimators of Homothetically Separable Functions, with Oliver
Linton, Econometrica, 2007, 75, 1209-1227.
_____, A Simple Ordered Data Estimator for Inverse
Density Weighted Functions, with Susanne Schennach,
Journal of Econometrics, 186, 189211, 2007.
_____, Weighted and Two Stage Least Squares Estimation Semiparametric Truncated Regresion Models, with
Shakeeb Khan, Econometric Theory, 23, 309347, 2007.

_____, Multinational Production and Choice of Technologies,Economics Letters, 2010.

Julie Mortimer Analyzing the Welfare Impacts of Full-line
Forcing Contracts," with Ho, J., Ho, K. (forthcoming), Journal
of Industrial Economics.
_____, The Use of Full-line Forcing Contracts in the Video
Rental Industry," with Ho, J., Ho, K. (2012), American Economic Review, Vol. 102(2), pp. 686-719.

_____,"Coherence and Completeness of Structural

Models Containing a Dummy Endogenous Variable, International Economic Review, 2007, 48, 1379-1392.

_____, Supply Responses to Digital Distribution: Recorded

Music and Live Performances," with Nosko, C., and Sorensen,
A. (2012), Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 24(1), pp.
3-14.

_____, Endogenous Selection or Treatment Model

Estimation, Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 141, 777806.

_____, The E_ects of Capacity on Sales Under Alternative

Vertical Contracts" with Ioannou, I. and Mortimer R. (2011),
Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 59(1), pp. 117-154.

_____, Estimation of Collective Household Models With

Engel Curves, with Krishna Pendakur, Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 147, 350-358.

_____, Vertical Contracts in the Video Rental Industry," The

Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 75(1), pp 165-199.

_____, Tricks With Hicks: The EASI Demand System,

with Krishna Pendakur, American Economic Review,
2009, 99, 827-863.
_____, Why is Consumption More Log Normal Than
Income? Gibrat's Law Revisited, with Erich Battistin and
Richard Blundell, Journal of Political Economy, 2009,
117, 1140-1154.
_____, Identification and Nonparametric Estimation of
a Transformed Additively Separable Model, with David
Jacho-Chavez and Oliver Linton, Journal of Econometrics,
2010, 156, 392-407.
_____, Shape Invariant Demand Functions, Review of
Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92, 549556.
_____,"Estimating Features of a Distribution From Binomial Data, with Oliver Linton, and Daniel McFadden,
Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 162, 170-188.
_____, Nonparametric Identification of a Binary Random Factor in Cross Section Data, with Yingying Dong,
Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 163, 163-171.
_____, Using Heteroscedasticity to Identify and Estimate
Mismeasured and Endogenous Regressor Models, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, 30, 67-80.
_____, Children's Resources in Collective Households:
Identification, Estimation and an Application to Child
Poverty in Malawi, with Geoffrey Dunbar and Krishna
Pendakur, forthcoming, American Economic Review.
Ben Li Geographic Concentration and Vertical Disintegration: Evidence from China,Journal of Urban
Economics, 2009(with Yi Lu)

_____, Price Discrimination, Copyright Law and Technological Innovation: Evidence from the Introduction of DVDs,"
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 122(3), pp 1307-1350.
Robert Murphy Instructor's Resources to accompany the 8th
edition of Macroeconomics by N.G. Mankiw. Worth Publishers, 2012.
Joseph Quinn Bridge Jobs: A Comparison across Cohorts,
with Kevin E. Cahill and Michael D. Giandrea, Research on
Aging, September, 549-576, 2009.
_____, Work, Retirement, and the Encore Career: Elders and
the Future of the American Workforce, Generations: the Journal of the American Society on Aging, 45-55, Fall, 2010.
_____, Bridge Jobs, with Kevin Cahill and Michael Giandrea,
in The Oxford Handbook of Retirement, Mo Wang, ed. Oxford
UK: Oxford University Press, 2011, forthcoming.
_____, Early Retirement: The Dawn of a New Era? with Kevin Cahill and Michael Giandrea, TIAA-CREF Institute Policy
Brief, 2011, forthcoming.
Fabio Schiantarelli Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence
in The Microeconomic Underpinning of Growth, N. Loayza
and L. Serven (eds), The World Bank, 2010.
_____, Input and Output Inventories in General Equilibrium, with M. Iacoviello, S. Schuh , International Economic
Review, Vol. 52(4), November 2011, pp. 1179-1213.
_____, Employment Effects of Product and Labor Market
Reforms; Are There Synergies?", with G. Fiori, G. Nicoletti,
S. Scarpetta, Economic Journal, 22(558), February 2012, pp.
F79-F104
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Uzi Segal On the likelihood of cyclic comparisons (with A.

Rubinstein). Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming.
_____, No externalities: a characterization of efficiency and
incentive compatibility with public goods (with J. Ostroy). Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming.
_____, Transitive regret (with Sushil Bikhchandani). Theoretical Economics, 6 (2011), 95--108.
_____, Risk aversion in the small and in the large: Calibration
results for betweenness functionals (with Zvi Safra). Journal
of Risk & Uncertainty, 38:1 (2009), 27--37.
_____, Calibration results for non-expected utility theories
(with Zvi Safra). Econometrica, 76:5 (2008), 1143--1166.
_____, A Characterization of Intrinsic Reciprocity (with Joel
Sobel). International Journal of Game Theory, 36:3--4 (2008),
571--585.
_____, Unanimous subjective probabilities (with Kim Border
and Paolo Ghirardato), Economic Theory, 34:2 (2008), 383-387.
_____, The ambiguous nature of ambiguity and crime control (with Anat Horowitz). NYU Journal of Law and Liberty
(2007), 542--557.
_____, Tit for tat: Foundations of preferences for reciprocity
in strategic settings (with Joel Sobel), Journal of Economic
Theory, 136:1 (2007), 197--216.
Tayfun Snmez School Admissions Reform in Chicago and
England: Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to
Manipulation with Parag Pathak, American Economic Review, forthcoming.
_____, House Allocation with Existing Tenants: A Characterization, with Utku Unver, Games and Economic Behavior,
69(2): 425-445, July 2010.
_____, Course Bidding at Business Schools, with Utku Unver, International Economic Review, 51(1): 99-123, Feb 2010.
_____, Leveling the Playing Field: Sincere and Strategic Players in the Boston Mechanism, with Parag Pathak, American
Economic Review, 98(4), 1636-1652, 2008.
_____, Ecient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in
Markets with Compatibility- Based Preferences with Alvin
Roth and Utku Unver, American Economic Review, 97-3: 828851, June 2007.
Richard Tresch " Public Sector Economics, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008.
M. Utku nver Equilibrium Selection and the Role of Information in Repeated Matching Markets, with Ernan Haruvy,
Economics Letters, 94, 284-289, 2007.
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_____, Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants

in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences, with
Tayfun Sonmez 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, 967982, 2007.
_____, Random Paths to Pairwise Stability in Manyto-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 Gales 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, 394- 417,
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 Sonmez, International Economic Review, February,
2010, 51 (I): 99-123.
_____, Dynamic Kidney Exchange, Review of EconomicStudies, (Jan., 2010) 77 (1): 372- 414.
_____, House Allocation with Existing Tenants: A Characterization." Games and Economic Behavior, (Jul.,2010)
69 (2): 425-445 (with Tayfun Sonmez)
_____, Ideology and Existence of 50%-Majority Equilibria in Multidimensional Spatial Voting Models. Journal
of Theoretical Politics, (Oct., 2010) 22(4): 431-444 (with
Herve Cres)
_____, Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete
Resources with Tayfun Sonmez, Jess Benhabib, Alberto
Bisin, and Matthew Jackson (eds.) Handbook of Social
Economics, 1A. The Netherlands: North-Holland, (2011)
781-852.
_____, Market Design for Kidney Exchange. In Zvika
Neeman, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and Nir Vulkan
editors: Oxford Handbook of Market Design. Oxford
University Press, (with Tayfun Sonmez).
Zhijie Xiao A Nonparametric Regresion Estimator that
Adapts to

_____, Error Distribution of Unknown Form, with Oliver

Linton, Econometric Theory, 23, 136, 2007.
_____, Quantile Cointegrating Regression, Journal of
Econometrics, 2009.
_____, 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.
_____,"Copula-Based Nonlinear Quantile Autoregression",
with Chen, X. and R. Koenker, The Econometrics Journal,
Volume 12: Issue 1, January, 2009.
_____,"Testing Structural Change in Time Series Nonparametric Regression Models, Statistics and Its Interface,
2009, Volume 1, Number 2. 347-366
_____,"Beyond the central Tendency: Quantile Regression
as a Tool in Quantitative Investing," Journal of Portfolio
Management, 2009 Summer, 106 119.
_____,"Conditional Quantile Estimation and Inference
forGARCH Models, Journal of the American Statistical
Association, Dec 2009, Vol. 104, No. 488: 16961712.
_____,"Semiparametric Quantile Regression Estimation in
Dynamic Models with Partially Varying Coefficients",
withCai, Z., Journal of Econometrics, Volume 167, Issue 2,
April 2012, Pages 413-425.
_____,"A Semiparametric Panel Model with Application
to Climate Change in the United Kingdom", with A. Atak,
and O. Linton, Journal of Econometrics, Volume 164, Issue 1, 1 September 2011, Pages 92-115.
_____,"Robust Inference in Nonstationary Time Series
Models", Journal of Econometrics, 2012, forthcoming.
_____, Unit Roots: A Selective Review of Peter Phillips'
Contribution, Econometric Theory, 2012 (forthcoming).
_____, A Nonparametric Test for Moment Stability,
Econometric Theory, 2012 (with T. Juhl,,forthcoming).
_____, Right Tail Information in Financial Markets,
Econometric Theory, 2012 (forthcoming).
_____, Testing Equality of Distributions Using Neymans
Smooth Test, Econometric Theory, 2012 (with A. Bera, A.,
and A. Ghosh, forthcoming).

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2012

Christopher F. Baum
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Alessandro Barattieri, "Essays in International Economics and

Macroeconomics"
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Tatiana Farina, "Essays in Consumer Behavior"
Aaron Fix, "Essays in Industrial Organization"
Chiu Yu Ko, "Theory of Menu Auction and Applications"
Madhavi Pundit, "Essays on Business Cycle Models"
Meghan Skira, "Essays on Informal Care, Labor Supply and Wages"
Dessislava Slavtcheva, "Financial Development, Exchange Rate Regimes,
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2011

Editorial Board Member, Review of International Economics

Peter Ireland
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Matteo Cacciatore, The Macroeconomics of International Trade, Regulation, and

Labor Markets
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2010

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Giuseppe Fiori, Essays on Investment, Regulation and Labor Market Frictions

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Strohush, Aggregate Shocks, Idiosyncratic Shocks and Global Imbalances
Wei Sun, Three Essays on the Economic Decisions Faced by Elderly Households
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