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Unpublished papers:

1. "Middlemen in Limit-Order Markets" (w/Menkveld)

2. "Extensive and Intensive Investment over the Business Cycle" (w/Rousseau)

3. "Dynamic Contracts when Agent's Quality is Unknown" (w/Prat) NBER  w16649 Dec. 10

4. "Learning and Discovery"

5.  "Misallocation and Growth" 


Refereed papers published/forthcoming
:

1. “Job-Matching & the Theory of Turnover.” JPE  Oct. 79 (Suppl.)

2. “Firm-Specific Capital & Turnover.” JPE  Dec. 79

3. “Transactions & Precautionary Demand for Money.” (w/Frenkel) QJE  Aug. 80

4. “Optimal International Reserves.” (w/Frenkel) Econ. J.  Jun. 81

5. “Entry with Private Information.” Bell J.  Fall 81

6. “Selection & Evolution of Industry.” Econometrica  May 82

7. “Inflation & Welfare in the Steady State.” JPE  Jun. 82

8. “Truthful Disclosure of Information.” Bell J.  Spr. 82

9. “Favorable Selection with Asymmetric Information.” QJE  Aug. 84

10. “Matching, Turnover, & Unemployment.” JPE  Feb. 84

11. “Assumptions in Matching Models.” (w/Dagsvik & Shepard) J. Lab. Econ.  Oct. 85

12. “Efficiency of Search under Competition & Monopsony.” (w/Albrecht) JPE  Dec. 86

13. “Demand-Driven Innovation.” (w/Rob) R. E. Stud  Jan. 87

14. “Work, Rest, & Search.” J. Lab. Econ  Apr. 87

15. “Micro Shocks & Aggregate Risk.” QJE  May 87

16. “The Role of Matching & Relative Demand Shocks ...” (w/Bull) R.E. Stud  Jan. 88

17. “Anonymous Sequential Games.” (w/Rosenthal) J. Math Econ  88

18. “Entrepreneurial Choice & Liquidity Constraints.” (w/Evans) JPE  Aug. 89 -- Appendix with Lik. Func.

19. “Entry, Exit, & Diffusion with Learning by Doing.” (w/Lach) AER  Sep. 89

20. “The Growth & Diffusion of Knowledge.” (w/Rob) R.E. Stud  Oct. 89

21. “Observ. Impl. of Models with Multiple Equilibria.” Econometrica  Nov. 89  WP version Sept 86

22. “A Sectoral Model of Labor Mobility.” (w/Moffitt) JPE  Aug. 90

23. “Financial Development, Growth...” (w/Greenwood) JPE  Oct. 90

24. “Long Waves & Short Waves...” (w/Rob) Econometrica  Nov. 90

25. “Externalities & Growth Accounting.” (w/Benhabib) AER  Mar. 91

26. “Stock Markets & Development.” (w/Atje) EER  Apr. 93

27. “Competitive Diffusion.” (w/MacDonald) JPE  Feb. 94   WP 1990 with Existence and Uniqueness Proof

28. “Asymmetric Information & Excess Volatility...” (w/Eden) Econ Inq  Apr. 94

28A. "Firm Formation with Heterogeneous...Skills." Small Business  Econ. 94

29. “The Life Cycle of a Competitive Industry.” (w/MacDonald) JPE  Apr. 94

30. “Was the Great Depression a Low-Level Equilibrium?” (w/Dagsvik) EER  Dec. 94

31. “The Transfer of Human Capital.” (w/Nyarko) JEDC  Jun. 95

32. “Learning by Doing & the Choice of Technology.” (w/Nyarko) Econometrica  Nov. 96

33. “Product Innovation & the Business Cycle.” (w/Lach) IER  Feb. 97  NBER w4455 Sep. 93

34. “Contracts & Money.” (w/Ueda) JPE Aug. 97

34A  "Stepping-Stone Mobility." (w/Nyarko) CR Conf Public Policy  97

35. “Inequality & Stability.” (w/Barbosa & Spiegel) Ann. d'Econ. & Stat  Oct. 97

36. “Vintage Capital & Inequality.” RED  May 98

37. “Stock-Returns & Inflation in a Principal-Agent Economy.” (w/Ueda) JET  Sep. 98

38. “Optimal Adoption of Complementary Technologies.” (w/Stolyarov) AER  Mar. 00

39. “IT Revolution & the Stock Mkt: Evidence.” (w/Hobijn) AER  Dec. 01

40. “Moore's Law & Learning by Doing.” (w/Rousseau) RED  May 02

41. “Spillovers & Inequality." (w/Eeckhout) AER  Dec. 02

42. “Bidder Discounts and Target Premia in Takeovers” (w/Braguinsky) AER  Mar. 04

43. “Asymmetric Cycles” R.E.Stud  Jan. 06

44. “Shakeouts & Market Crashes” (w/Barbarino) IER  May 07

45. “Mergers as Rellocation.” (w/Rousseau) Rev. Econ. Stat  Nov. 08

46. “Specific Capital & Technol. Variety.” (w/Rousseau) J. Human Capital  Summer 08

47. “When Should Firms Invest in Old Capital?” Int.JET  Mar. 09

48. “The Technology Cycle and Inequality.” R.E.Stud  Apr. 09

49. “Investment Options and the Business Cycle.” JET Nov. 09

50. “Entry and Exit Echoes.” (w/Tse) RED  Jul. 10

51. “Investment in Vintage Capital.” (w/Yatsenko) JET  Mar. 12

52. “Occupational Choice and Development.” (w/Eeckhout) JET  Mar. 12

53. “Optimal Migration: A World Perspective.” (w/Benhabib) IER  Apr. 12

54. “Bubbles in Prices of Exhaustible Resources.”  IER Feb. ‘13  NBER w13320 Aug. 07

55. “On the Market for Venture Capital.” (w/Szentes)  JPE  Jun. 13 forthc.




Unrefereed papers in print:

1. “Labor Mobility & Wages” in Studies in Labor Mkts, (w/Mincer), 80

2. “The Diversification of Production” Brookings Pap. (Micro.) 1, 93

3. “Empirical Learning Curves...” (w/Nyarko) Brookings Pap. (Micro.) 1. 95

4. “Learning & Growth” Advances in Economics  97

5. “Michael Gort's Contribution to Economics” RED May  98

6. “The IT Revolution & the Stock Market” (w/Greenwood) AEA Proc. May 99

7. “Accounting for Growth” (w/Greenwood) NBER CRIW volume

8. “Economic Growth: Theory” Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

9. “Why Wait? A Century of Life Before IPO” (w/Rousseau) AEA Proc. May 01 NBER w8081

10. “The Q-Theory of Mergers” (w/Rousseau) AEA Proc. May 02

11. “Fitness & Age” J.Econ. Literature Mar. 01

12. “New Technology & the Small Firm” Small BusinessEcon.  Feb. 01

13. “Liquidity Effects in the Bond Market” (w/Rousseau) Econ. Perspectives 01/4

14. “Stock Mkt & New Economy” (w/Rousseau) Techn.&New Economy MIT Press 02

15. “Two Technological Revolutions” (w/Rousseau) J. Eur. Econ. Assoc. Apr. 03

16. “General Purpose Technologies” Hndbk of Econ Grwth (Aghion&Durlauf Eds.) 06

17. “On Bradford De Long’s ‘Productivity in the 2000’s” NBER Macro Annual 02

18. “Interest Rates & the Timing of New Production” (w/Rousseau) Econ. Persp. 04/4

19. “The Small Entrepreneur” Essays in Honor of William Baumol (w/Rousseau) 06