research topics in economic growth and international integration
readings for discussion
1. Structural Change and Volatility
Imbs, Jean, and Romain Wacziarg (2003). “Stages of Diversification”, American Economic Review, 93(1): 63-86.
Koren, Miklos, and Silvana Tenreyro (2007). “Volatility and Development”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122 (1): 243-287.
Acemoglu, Daron and Veronica Guerrieri (2008). “Capital Deepening and Non-Balanced Economic Growth”, Journal of Political Economy, 116 (3): 467-498.
Batista, Catia, and Jacques Potin (2007). “Stages of Diversification in a Heckscher-Ohlin World”, Oxford Working Paper No. 356.
Di Giovanni, Julian, and Andrei A. Levchenko (2009). “Trade Openness and Volatility”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(3): 558-585.
2. International Trade and Economic Growth
Ventura, Jaume (1997). “Growth and Interdependence”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112: 57-84.
Acemoglu, Daron, and Jaume Ventura (2002). “The World Income Distribution”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117: 659-94.
Estevadeordal, Antoni and Alan Taylor (2008). “Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s-2000s”, NBER Working Paper 14264.
Romalis, John (2007). "Market Access, Openness and Growth", NBER Working Paper 13048.
Billmeier, Andreas and Tommaso Nannicini (2007). “Trade Openness and Growth: Pursuing Empirical Glasnost”, IMF wp07156.
Feenstra, Robert C., and Hiau Looi Kee (2004). "Export Variety and Country Productivity", NBER Working Paper 10830.
3. Capital Flows and Economic Growth
Capital Flows: Puzzles
Obstfeld, Maurice, and Kenneth Rogoff (2000). “The Six Major Puzzles in International Macroeconomics: Is there a Common Cause?” in Ben Bernanke and Kenneth Rogoff (eds.), NBER Macroeconomics Annual.
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier, and Olivier Jeanne (2007). “Capital Flows to Developing Countries: the Allocation Puzzle”, NBER Working Paper13602.
Caselli, Francesco, and James Feyrer (2007). “The Marginal Product of Capital”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122 (2): 535-568.
Batista, Catia, and Jacques Potin (2007). “International Specialization and the Marginal Product of Capital”, Oxford Working Paper No. 357.
Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych (2008). "Why Doesn’t Capital Flow From Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation", Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(2): 347-368.
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem, Ariell Reshef, Bent E. Sorensen, and Oved Yosha (2005). “Net Capital Flows and Productivity: Evidence from U.S. States”, NBER Working Paper 11301.
Capital Flows and Economic Growth
Prasad, Eswar S., Raghuram G. Rajan and Arvind Subramanian (2007). “Foreign Capital and Economic Growth”, NBER Working Paper 13619.
Alfaro, Laura, and Eliza Hammel (2007). “Capital Flows and Capital Goods”, Journal of International Economics, 72 (1): 128-150.
Alfaro, Laura, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek (2004). "FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets", Journal of International Economics 64(1).
Kugler, Maurice (2006). “Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: Within or Between Industries?”, Journal of Development Economics, 80(2): 444-477.
4. Labor Flows and Economic Growth
Labor Flows: Interactions with Capital Flows
Buch, Claudia, Jörn Kleinert and Farid Toubal (2006). “Where Enterprises Lead, People Follow? Links Between Migration and German FDI”, European Economic Review, 50(8): 2017-2036.
Javorcik, Beata, Çaglar Özden, Mariana Spatareanu and Cristina Neagu (2007). “Migrant Networks and Foreign Direct Investment”, World Bank Working Paper 4046.
Kugler, Maurice and Hillel Rapoport (2007). “International Labor and Capital Flows: Complements or Substitutes?”, Economics Letters 92 (2): 155-162.
Labor Flows: Puzzles and Determinants
Hunt, Jennifer (2007). “Staunching Emigration from East Germany: Age and the Determinants of Migration”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 4(5): 1014-1037.
Batista, Catia (2008). “Why Doesn’t Labor Flow From Poor To Rich Countries? Micro Evidence from the European Integration Experience”, Oxford Working Paper 402.
Labor Flows and Economic Growth
Beine, Michel, Cecily Defoort, and Frederic Docquier (2007). “A Panel Data Analysis of The Brain Gain”, Working Paper, Université Catholique de Louvain.
Batista, Catia, Aitor Lacuesta, and Pedro C. Vicente (forthcoming). “Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Micro Evidence from an African Success Story”, Journal of Development Economics.
Mayr, Karin, and Giovanni Peri (2008). “Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain”, NBER Working Paper 14039.
Batista, Catia, and Pedro C. Vicente (forthcoming). “Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment”, World Bank Economic Review.
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