Juan Carlos Cordoba
Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
E-mail: cordoba[at]iastate[dot]edu
Research Interests
Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Economic Development, Urban Economics, Market Frictions, Inequality (within countries and across countries); Demographics, Fertility, Mortality.
Bio
Juan Carlos Cordoba is a professor of economics at Iowa State University. Dr. Cordoba has also held positions at Rice University and Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are in the areas of macroeconomics, economic growth and development, urban economics, labor economics, demographic and population economics, and labor economics. He presents his research at universities and conferences in the U.S. as well as overseas, and he has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the IMF. His articles have been published, or are forthcoming, in the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, European Economic Review, Theoretical Economics, among others.
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Working papers
Endogenous Bargaining Power and Declining Labor Compensation Share, with Anni Isojarvi and Haoran Li, Finance and Economics Discussion Series May 2023. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
A Unified Theory of Value: Oligopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity, with Xiying Liu, Working Paper, March 2023, Iowa State University.
Equilibrium Unemployment: the Role of Discrimination, with Anni Isojarvi and Haoran Li, Finance and Economics Discussion Series Dec 2021. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Accounting for the International Quantity-Quality Trade-off, with X. Liu and M. Ripoll, Mimeo, January 2019. (R&R, Journal of Political Economy).
Growing like Google: Endogenous Growth with Global Network Externalities, with Sicheng He, Working Paper Number 21019, July 2021, Iowa State University.
Altruism, Fertility, and Risk, with Xiying Liu, Staff General Research Papers 37481, 2014, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Fertility, with Marla Ripoll, Staff General Research Papers 33899, 2011, Iowa State University, Department of Economics. This paper sets the foundations for a number of publications. Some key material remains to be published.
Malthus to Romer: On the Colonial Origins of the Industrial Revolution, MPRA Paper 4466, 2007, University Library of Munich, Germany.
Wage Gaps and Cross-Country Income Differences, with Marla Ripoll, Working Papers 372, 2006, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics.
Work in progress
Optimal Population on a Finite Planet, with Xiying Liu and Marla Ripoll
Gender Imbalances in General Equilibrium, with Huanping Fan
Efficient Immigration, with Xiying Liu.
From income distribution to firm size distribution under oligopolistic competition, with Xiying Liu.
Publications
The Full Recession: Private Versus Social Costs of Covid-19, with Marla Ripoll and Siquian Yang, International Economic Review (accepted).
Utilitarianism versus the Repugnant Conclusion, Indian Economic Review, 2023 (online). Here is the working paper version.
Malthusian Stagnation is Efficient, with Xiying Liu, Theoretical Economics, Vol 17, January 2022: 415–460. There are two working papers versions of the paper: (i) Efficiency with Endogenous Population and Fixed Resources. Working Paper Number 18017, Nov 2018, Iowa State University; (ii) Malthusian Stagnation is Efficient, Economics Working Papers 16010, 2016, Iowa State University.
The Elasticity of Intergenerational Substitution, Parental Altruism, and Fertility Choice, with Marla Ripoll, Review of Economic Studies, Vol 86 (5), October 2019: 1935-1972. Working paper.
Beyond GDP: Is There a Law of One Shadow Price? With R. Boarini, F. Murtin and M. Ripoll, European Economic Review, Volume 100, Nov 2017:390-411. Working paper.
Risk Aversion and the Value of Life, with Marla Ripoll. Review of Economic Studies, Vol 84(4), October 2017: 1472-1509. Working paper. An earlier working paper titled Life, Death and World Inequality.
Intergenerational Transfers and the Fertility-Income Relationship, with Marla Ripoll, Economic Journal, Volume 126, Issue 593, June 2016:949-977. Working paper. An earlier working paper titled Barro-Becker with Credit Frictions.
Stochastic Dominance and Demographic Policies: A Critique, with Xiying Liu. Journal of Demographic Economics, 82, 2016: 111-138. Working paper.
Fertility, Social Mobility and Long Run Inequality, with X. Liu and M. Ripoll. Journal of Monetary Economics Volume 63:1, January 2016. Working paper.
Children, Dynastic Altruism and the Wealth of Nations, Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 18:4, October 2015: 774-791. Working paper.
What Explains Schooling Differences Across Countries? with Marla Ripoll, Journal of Monetary Economics, March 2013. Working paper. Early version titled "The Role of Education in Development"
Supply Side Structural Change, Eurasian Economic Review, invited paper, 3(1), 2013. Working paper.
Agriculture and Aggregation, with Marla Ripoll, Economic Letters, October 2009. Working paper.
A Generalized Gibrat’s law, International Economic Review, 49(4), 1463-1468. Jstor. Working paper.
Endogenous TFP and Cross-Country Income Differences, with Marla Ripoll, Journal of Monetary Economics, September 2008, 1158-1170. Working paper.
Inequality and Growth: Some Welfare Calculations, with Genevieve Verdier, Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control 32(6), June 2008, 1812-1829. Working Paper. Earlier Working Paper Version titled Lucas vs Lucas: On Inequality and Growth .
U.S. Inequality: Debt-Constraints or Incomplete Asset Markets? Journal of Monetary Economics 55(2), March 2008, 350-364. Working paper.
On the Distribution of City Sizes, Journal of Urban Economics 63(1), January 2008, 177-197. Working paper.
Credit Cycles Redux, with M. Ripoll, International Economic Review 45(4), November, 2004. Jstor. Working paper.
Collateral Constraints in a Monetary Economy, with M. Ripoll, Journal of the European Economic Association 2(6), December, 2004. In Liquidity and Crises, Edited by Franklin. Allen, Elena Carletti, Jan Pieter Krahnen and Marcel Tyrell, 1172-1205. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Jstor. Working paper.
Measuring Core Inflation in Colombia, Banca y Finanzas, Asobancaria, No. 37 p. 63 07-09/1995. Reproduced in Boletín CEMLA; nov/dic1995, Vol. 41 Issue 6, p302-320.
Other publications
Ensayos sobre inflation no estacionaria, Master Thesis, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1995..
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