Joseph KaboskiJoseph Kaboski

David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Associate Professor of Economics
(PhD, University of Chicago)
(On leave AY 2011-2012)
campus address:  717 Flanner Hall
phone:   631-9906
E-mail:  jkaboski@nd.edu
Campus webpage: http://economics.nd.edu/the-faculty/joseph-kaboski/

Geographic focus:  Thailand, Mexico, East Africa

Thematic interests:  Growth and development, specifically, structural transformation, finance including microfinance, trade, and education

Current research:  Three areas: (i) a macroeconomic analysis of large-scale microfinance programs, (ii) an empirical evaluation of a microfinance initiative, (iii) assessing the cause of recent trade collapses

Selected publications: “A Structural Evaluation of a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Microfinance Initiative” (with R. Townsend), Econometrica (forthcoming);  “Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors” (with Francisco J. Buera and Yongs Shin), American Economic Review (forthcoming); “Inventories, Lumpy Trade and Large Devaluations” (with G. Alessandria and V. Midrigan), American Economic Review (forthcoming); “Pricing to Market and the Failure of Absolute PPP” (with G. Alessandria), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (forthcoming); “Can Traditional Theories of Structural Change Fit the Data?” (with Francisco J. Buera), Journal of the European Economic Association 7  (April 2009);  “Education, Sectoral Composition, and Growth,” Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (January 2009); “Policies and Impacts: An Analysis of Village Level Microfinance Institutions” (with Robert M. Townsend), Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (March 2005).