Publications

2008

Desperate Housewives? Communication Difficulties and the Dynamics of Marital (un)Happiness, The Economic Journal. 118 (October). In press.

2007

How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Forget?, Management Science, 53(6):908-918 (June).

Technological Complexity and Economic Growth [with Mihaela Pintea], Review of Economic Dynamics, 10(2):276-293 (April).

Submarkets and the Evolution of Market Structure [with Steven Klepper], RAND Journal of Economics, 37(4):862-888 (March).

Founder Quality and Firm Performance: Implications for Local Development Strategies, Australian Economic Review, 40(1):97-105 (March).

Spinoff Entry in High-Tech Industries: Motives and Consequences [with Steven Klepper]. In Franco Malerba and Stefano Brusoni (eds.) Perspectives on Innovation, Chapter 6, pp. 187-218. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (March).

2006

Collective Equipoise, Disappointment and the Therapeutic Misconception: On the Consequences of  Selection for Clinical Research [with Margaret Byrne], Medical Decision Making, 26(5):467-479 (September/October).

Technical Change and the Demand for Skills During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1891-1912 [with Aimee Chin and Chinhui Juhn], Review of Economics and Statistics, 88(3):572-578 (August).

Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Inventor- and Examiner-Added Citations, Review of Economics and Statistics, 88(2):383-389 (May).

2005

Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment [with Melanie Fox Kean], American Economic Review, 95(1): 450-460 (March).

Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment: Reply [with Melanie Fox Kean], American Economic Review, 95(1): 465-466 (March).

Selection and Firm Survival. Evidence from the Shipbuilding Industry, 1825-1914, Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(1):26-36, February 2005.

2004

A Positive Analysis of Financial Incentives for Cadaveric Organ Donation: Reply to Tabarrok [with Margaret Byrne], Econ Journal Watch (March).

2003

Technological Change and the Age-Earnings Profile: Evidence from the International Merchant Marine, 1861-1912. Review of Economic Dynamics6(3):578-601 (July).

2001

Learning from Experience and Learning From Others. An exploration of learning and spillovers in wartime shipbuilding, [with Rebecca Achee Thornton], American Economic Review, 91(5):1350-1368 (December).

The Microeconomics of an R&D-Based Model of Endogenous Growth, Journal of Economic Growth, 6(4):263-283 (December).

Screening and Preventable Illness, [with Margaret Byrne], Journal of Health Economics, 20(6): 1077-1088 (November).

How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn? New Evidence for an Old Case StudyJournal of Political Economy, 109(1):103-137 (February).

Reprinted in Daniel F. Spulber, (ed)., Famous Fables of Economics, Basil Blackwell, 2001, pp. 262-292.

A Positive Analysis of Financial Incentives for Cadaveric Organ Donation [with Margaret Byrne], Journal of Health Economics, 20(1):69-83 (January). 

2000

Learning from the Experience of Others. Parameter Uncertainty and Economic Growth in a Model of Creative Destruction, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 24(9):1285-1314 (August).

Endogenous Growth in a Cross-Section of Countries, [with Elias Dinopoulos], Journal of International Economics, 51(2):335-362 (August).

Process versus Product Innovation: Do Consumption Data Contain Any Information? [with Doug Waldo], Southern Economic Journal, 67(1):155-170 (July).

Death and Dignity: Terminal Illness and the Market for Non-Treatment, [with Margaret Byrne], Journal of Public Economics, 76(2):263-94 (May).

1999

Rationality, Rules of Thumb and R&D, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 10(3-4):321-40 (December).

Scale Effects in Schumpeterian Models of Economic Growth, [with Elias Dinopoulos], Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 9(2):157-186 (May).

Reassessing the Empirical Validity of the Human Capital Augmented Neoclassical Growth Model, [with Elias Dinopoulos], Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 9(1):135-154 (February).

Reprinted in U. Cantner, H. Hanusch and S. Klepper (eds.), Economic Evolution, Learning, and Complexity, Amsterdam: Springer/Physica, 2000, pp. 245-264.

1998

Schumpeterian Growth without Scale Effects [with Elias Dinopoulos], Journal of Economic Growth, 3(4):313-337 (December).

1996

Physical Linkages between Trade and Environmental Quality: A Review of the Evidence, [with Laura Strohm], Journal of Environment and Development, 5(4):365-390 (December).

A Contribution to the Empirics of Endogenous Growth, [with Elias Dinopoulos], Eastern Economic Journal, 22:389-400 (November).

Technological Opportunity and the Growth of Knowledge: A Schumpeterian Approach to Measurement. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 6(1):77-98 (March).

1995

The Capital-Energy Substitutability Debate: A New Look [with Timothy Taylor], Review of Economics and Statistics, 77(3):565-569 (August).

Cyclical Technological Evolution and Comparative Economic Growth, [with Elias Dinopoulos], Estudios de Economia, 22(2):133-157 (December).

1994

Growth and Trustified Capitalism, [with Doug Waldo], Journal of Monetary Economics, 34:445-462 (December).

Policy Drought. The Case of South Florida, [with Gary D. Lynne], Water Resources Bulletin, 30(1):19-26 (February).

1987

Marketing Margins and Losses in Bolivia [with E. Cardona], Tropical Science, 27(1):91-99 (February).