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 .

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

December 1998, pp. 1290-1310.  PDF .

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

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

PDF  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 .

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

September 2000, pp. 277-305. PDF .

"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 .

"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), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 

January 2018, 120(1), pp. 63-92.  PDF .

Unpublished writings that are useful for teaching

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

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

Research in Progress

"In Support of the TRIPs Agreement: Patent Protection and Multinational Production" (with Amanda Jakobsson).  PDF .

"A Model of Exporting, Multinational Production and Anti-Trade Sentiment" (with Amanda Jakobsson).  PDF .

Lectures for a 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: Economic History, Trade and Growth  PDF .

Lecture 7: The Melitz Model and Trade  PDF .

Lectures for a course on Microeconomic Theory

Lecture 1: The Consumer PDF .

Lecture 2: The Producer PDF .

Lecture 3: The Market PDF .

Lecture 4: The Competitive Market System PDF .

Lecture 5: Economic History PDF .

Last revised September 1, 2023