Publications

2009

Learning by Doing. In Bronwyn Hall and Nathan Rosenberg (eds.) Handbook of Economics of Technical Change, Elsevier/North-Holland. Forthcoming.

Sorting, Selection, and Industry Shakeouts, Review of Industrial Organization. Forthcoming.

2008

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