Education

Brandeis University, 1975-1979, B.A., Magna Cum Laude

Major Fields: Economics and Mathematics

Brown University, 1979-1981, M.A.

Major Field: Economics

University of Rochester, 1981-1985, Ph.D.

Major Field: Economics

Dissertation: "The Process of Creative Destruction and Stochastic Games"

Supervisor: James W. Friedman

Fields of Specialization

Economic Growth

International Trade

Publications

"Demons and Repentance," Journal of Economic Theory, June 1988, pp. 32-52.

"Moral Efficiency: A New Criterion for Social Choice," Social Choice and Welfare,

April 1990, pp. 109-129.

"A Schumpeterian Model of the Product Life Cycle," (with T.C.A. Anant and Elias

Dinopoulos), American Economic Review, December 1990, pp. 1077-1091.

[Reprinted in Gene M. Grossman (ed.) Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence,

1996, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, U.K.]

"On the Feasibility of Maximal Collusion," Journal of Economic Theory,

June 1991, pp. 234-238.

"Innovation, Imitation and Economic Growth," Journal of Political Economy,

August 1991, pp. 807-827.

"High-Technology-Industry Trade and Investment," (with Elias Dinopoulos and

James Oehmke), Journal of International Economics, February 1993, pp. 49-71.

"R&D Subsidies and Economic Growth," (with Carl Davidson),

The RAND Journal of Economics, Autumn 1998, pp. 548-577. PDF (824 KB)

"Endogenous Growth Without Scale Effects," American Economic Review,

December 1998, pp. 1290-1310. PDF (836 KB).

"The Dynamic Effects of Contingent Tariffs," (with Elias Dinopoulos),

Journal of International Economics, February 1999, pp. 191-222.

PDF (864 KB) includes unpubished appendix.

"A Schumpeterian Model of Protection and Relative Wages," (with Elias Dinopoulos),

American Economic Review, June 1999, pp. 450-472. PDF

"The R&D Incentives of Industry Leaders," (with James Zolnierek),

International Economic Review, August 1999, pp. 745-766. PDF (816 KB).

"The Long-Run Growth Effects of R&D Subsidies," Journal of Economic Growth,

September 2000, pp. 277-305. PDF (700 KB).

"International Migration and Growth in Developed Countries: A Theoretical Analysis"

(with Per Lundborg), Economica, November 2000, pp. 579-604.

"The Growth and Welfare Effects of International Mass Migration," (with Per Lundborg),

Journal of International Economics, January 2002, pp. 177-204. PDF (140 KB).

"Naomi Klein and the Anti-Globalization Movement,"

in Mats Lundahl, ed. Globalization and Its Enemies. 2003, Stockholm: Economic Research Institute.

[Updated June 2010. PDF.]

"Intel Economics," International Economic Review, February 2007, pp. 247-280. PDF

"Intellectual Property Rights, Multinational Firms and Economic Growth" (with Elias Dinopoulos),

Journal of Development Economics, May 2010, pp. 13-27. PDF.

"Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth," (with Peter Gustafsson),

Review of International Economics, May 2010, pp. 207-228. PDF.

"North-South Trade with Increasing Product Variety" (with Peter Gustafsson),

Journal of Development Economics, July 2010, pp. 97-106. PDF. (Unpublished Appendix PDF).

"Trade and Economic Growth", chapter in Palgrave Handbook of International Trade, 2011,

Palgrave Macmillan. PDF.

"North-South Trade with Multinational Firms and Increasing Product Variety" (with Peter Gustafsson),

International Economic Review, November 2011, pp.1123-1155. PDF. (Unpublished Appendix PDF).

"A Schumpeterian Growth Model with Random Quality Improvements" (with Antonio Minniti

and Carmelo Parello), Economic Theory, March 2013, pp.755-791, PDF.

"The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Industrial Productivity" (with Yoichi Sugita),

Journal of the European Economic Association, November 2015, pp. 1167-1179. Old PDF. New PDF.

"Learning How to Export" (with Ignat Stepanok), forthcoming,

Scandinavian Journal of Economics. PDF.

Research in Progress

"What does the Bible teach about economics?" PDF.

"Economic History and Trade" PDF.

"In Support of the TRIPs Agreement" (with Amanda Jakobsson). PDF.

"Export-Learning and FDI with Heterogeneous Firms" (with Amanda Jakobsson). PDF.

"A New Way of Solving the Melitz Model using Simple and Intuitive Diagrams" (with Yoichi Sugita). PDF.

"A Solution to the Melitz-Trefler Puzzle" (with Yoichi Sugita). PDF.

Lectures for a master-level course on International Trade

Lecture 1: Integrals and Differential Equations PDF.

Lecture 2: Optimal Control Theory PDF.

Lecture 3: Endogenous Growth PDF.

Lecture 4: Endogenous Growth and Trade PDF.

Lecture 5: Intellectual Property Rights and Trade PDF.

Lecture 6: The Melitz Model and Trade PDF.

Lecture 7: Economic History and Trade PDF.

Last revised August 10, 2017