Publications

Publications in Refereed Journals

1.  Oil Discoveries and Protectionism: Role of News Effects (with Ohad Raveh and Frederick van der Ploeg). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 107, May 2021, 102425.

2.  The Role of Ethnic Characteristics in the Effect of Income Shocks on African Conflict (with Beatriz Manotas-Hidalgo and Miguel Angel Campo-Bescos). World Development, 137, January 2021, 105153.

3.  Capital-Skill Complementarity and Biased Technical Change Across US Sectors (with Álex Pérez Laborda). Journal of Macroeconomics, 66, December 2020, 103255.

4.  Heterogeneous Vertical Tax Externalities and Macroeconomic Effects of Federal Tax Changes: The Role of Fiscal Advantage (with Ohad Raveh and Yaniv Reingewertz). Journal of Urban Economics, 112, 85-110, 2019.

5.  Federal Tax Policies, Congressional Voting, and Natural Resources (with Ohad Raveh). Canadian Journal of Economics, 52(3), 1112-1164, 2019.

6.  The Public and Private Marginal Product of Capital (with Matt Lowe and Chris Papageorgiou). Economica, 86(342), 336-361, April 2019.

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7.  What Drives Vertical Fiscal Interactions? Evidence from the 1980 Crude Oil Windfall Act (with Ohad Raveh). Regional Science and Urban Economics, 73, 251-268, November 2018.

8.  Natural Resources, Decentralization, and Risk Sharing: Can Resource Booms Unify Nations? (with Ohad Raveh). Journal of Development Economics, 121, 38-55, July 2016.

9.  The Natural Resource Curse and Fiscal Decentralization (with Ohad Raveh). American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 98(1), 212-230, January 2016.

10.  Health Cycles and Health Transitions (with Chris Papageorgiou and Shankha Chakraborty). Macroeconomic Dynamics, 20(1), 189-213, January 2016.

11.  Neoclassical Growth and the Natural Resource Curse Puzzle (with Mª Dolores Guilló). Journal of International Economics, 97(2), 423--435, November 2015.

12.  Convergence in a Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Model with Land (with Mª Dolores Guilló). Review of Development Economics, 19(3), 725--734, August 2015.

13.  Market Failure, Government Inefficiency, and Optimal R&D Policy. Economics Letters 128, 43-47, March 2015.

14.  A Unified Theory of Structural Change (joint with Lola Guilló and Chris Papageorgiou). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 35(9), 1393-1404, leading article, September 2011.

15.  Diseases, Infection Dynamics, and Development (joint with Chris Papageorgiou and Shankha Chakraborty). Journal of Monetary Economics 57(7), 859-872, October 2010.

16.  Patents, R&D and Lag Effects: Evidence from Flexible Methods for Count Panel Data on Manufacturing Firms (joint with Shif Gurmu). Empirical Economics. 35(3), 507-526, November 2008.

17.  Sovereign Risk, FDI Spillovers, and Growth (joint with Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar). Review of International Economics, 16(3), 463-477, 2008.

18.  Public Support to Innovation and Imitation in a Non-Scale R&D Growth Model. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 31(12), 3791-3821, December 2007.

19.  Is the Asymptotic Speed of Convergence a Good Proxy for the Transitional Growth Path? (joint with Chris Papageorgiou). Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, pp. 1-24, leading article, February 2007.

20.  The Curse and Blessing of Fixed Specific Factors in Small-Open Economies (joint with Mª Dolores Guilló). Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 82, 58-78, 2007.

21.  Dynamics in a Non-Scale R&D Growth Model with Human Capital: Explaining the Japanese and South Korean development experiences (joint with Chris Papageorgiou). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 30, 901-930, 2006.

22.  Matching up the data on education with economic growth models (joint with Chris Papageorgiou). Topics in Macroeconomics, Vol. 5(1), Article 8, 2005.

23.  Capital Skill Complementarity? Evidece from a Panel of Countries (joint with John Duffy and Chris Papageorgiou). Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 86(1), 327-344, February 2004.

24.  Can Transition Dynamics Explain the International Output Data? (joint with Chris Papageorgiou). Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 8(4), September 2004.

25.  Transitional Dynamics in an R&D-Based Growth Model with Imitation: Comparing its Predictions to the Data. Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 45:437-461, April 2000.

26.  The Adoption and Adaptation of Externally Originated Ideas. Spanish Economic Review, Vol. 2:249-266, 2000.

Other Publications

27.  Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Aging Society (joint with Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Alexia Prskawetz, and Holger Strulik). Forschungsbericht 34, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna), 2012.

28.  Understanding R&D Policy: Efficiency or Politics? Review of Economics and Institutions 3(3), Article 2, Fall 2012.