Joe Kaboski’s Research Page

Contact:

717 Flanner Hall

Notre Dame, IN  46556

574-631-9906

jkaboski-at-nd-dot-edu

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

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