Joe
Kaboski’s Research Page
Contact:
717
Flanner Hall
Notre
Dame, IN 46556
574-631-9906
jkaboski-at-nd-dot-edu
Papers:
1. Finance, Entrepreneurship, and
Development
“The Impact of Credit on Village
Economies.” with Robert M. Townsend, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics,
(April 2012): 98-133
“A Structural Evaluation of a
Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Microfinance Initiative.” with Robert M. Townsend, Econometrica,
79 (September 2011): 1357-1406
“Finance and
Development: A Tale of Two Sectors”, with Francisco J. Buera
and Yongseok Shin, American Economic Review, 101 (August 2011): 1964-2002
“Policies and Impacts: An Analysis of Village-Level
Microfinance Institutions.” with Robert M.
Townsend, Journal of the European
Economic Association 3 (March 2005): 1-50
“The Macroeconomics of
Microfinance.” with Francisco J. Buera and Yongseok Shin, 2012
2. Structural Change and Development
“The
Rise of the Service Economy.” with
Francisco J. Buera, American Economic Review, 102 (October 2012): 2540-69
“Scale
and the Origins of Structural Change.” with
Francisco J. Buera, Journal of Economic Theory, 147 (March 2012): 684-712
“Can Traditional Theories of Structural Change
Fit the Data?” with Francisco J. Buera, Journal of the European Economic Association
7 (April 2009): 469-477
“Services
and the Dynamics of Female Labor Supply.’’ with Francisco J. Buera and Kent Zhao, 2012
3. International Trade: Trade Flows
and Pricing
“Inventories, Lumpy Trade and Large Devaluations.” with George Alessandria & Virgiliu
Midrigan, American
Economic Review, 100 (December 2010): 2304–39
“Pricing to Market and the Failure of Absolute PPP.” with George Alessandria, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 3 (January 2011): 91-127
“The Great Trade Collapse of 2008-09: An
Inventory Adjustment?” with George Alessandria and
Virgiliu Midrigan, IMF Economic Review, 58 (September
2010): 254-294
“U.S. Trade and Inventory
Dynamics.” with George Alessandria and Virgiliu Midrigan, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 101 (May 2011): 303-307
“Trade Wedges, Inventories, and
International Business Cycles.” with George
Alessandria and Virgiliu Midrigan,
forthcoming, Journal of Monetary
Economics
4. Education, Technological Change,
and Development:
“Education, Sectoral Composition,
and Growth. ” Review
of Economic Dynamics, 12 (January
2009) 168-182
“Factor Price Uncertainty, Technology Choice and Investment
Delay. ”
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 29 (March 2005): 509-527
“Technological Endowments and the Returns
to Skill: New Evidence from the American Past.” with
Trevon Logan, Journal
of Human Capital, 5 (Summer 2011): 111-152
“Explaining Returns to Schooling and Output Across
Countries.”, 2007
“Supply Factors and the Mid-Century Fall in the Skill
Premium.”, 2005