Publications and Work in Progress
In Progress
"Search and the dynamics of house
prices and construction" with Allen Head and Amy Sun, September
2010.
Under Review
"Housing
Liquidity, Mobility and the Labour Market" with Allen Head, October
2010. Revised and resubmitted to the Review
of Economic Studies
"Implementation
Cycles,
Growth and the Labour Market" with Patrick
Francois, April 2010. Submitted to the Journal
of Economic Growth.
Publications
"Schumpeterian
Business
Cycles
with
Pro-Cyclical R&D" with Patrick Francois, Review
of Economic
Dynamics, vol 12 (4), October 2009, pp. 567-591.
"Implementation
Cycles, Investment and Growth" with Patrick Francois, International
Economic Review, vol 49 (3), August 2008,
pp.
901-942.
"Using
Financial
Market
Information
to Enhance Canadian Fiscal Policy"
with
Xiaodong Zhu, Public Finance and
Management, vol. 6 (2), August 2006.
"Tax
Smoothing
with
Stochastic
Interest Rates: A Re-assessment of Clinton's
Fiscal Legacy," with Shiqiang Zhan and Xiaodong Zhu, Journal of
Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 37 (4), August 2005, pp. 699-724.
"Endogenous
Insecurity
and
Economic
Development" with Nicolas Marceau, Journal
of Development Economics, vol. 72 (1), October 2003, pp. 1-29.
"Animal
Spirits Through Creative Destruction" with Patrick Francois,
American
Economic Review, vol. 93 (3), June 2003, pp. 530-550.
You can find the unpuplished appendix to this paper here.
"On the Impacts of Inequality on Growth in the Short and Long Run:
A Synthesis", Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 29, supplement 1,
March
2003.
"Twin Engines of Growth: Technology and Skills as Equal Partners in
Balanced Growth" with Joanne Roberts, Journal of Economic Growth, vol.
7
(2),
June
2002, pp. 87-115
"Fiscal Shocks and Fiscal Risk Management'' with Xiaodong Zhu, Journal
of
Monetary
Economics,
vol. 48 (2), October 2001, pp. 309-338. The
Not-For-Publication Appendix can be obtained here.
"Enterprise, Inequality and Economic Development'' with Dan Bernhardt,
Review
of Economic Studies, Vol. 67, January 2000, pp. 147-168.
"Public
Education,
Occupational
Choice
and the Growth-Inequality Relationship'',
International
Economic Review, Vol. 41 (1), February 2000, pp. 171-201.
"Endogenous
Technological Change and Wage-Inequality'', American Economic
Review,
Vol.
89 (1), March 1999, pp. 47-77.
"Inequality, Growth and the Role of the Government", with David R.
F. Love, in Equality and Prosperity: Finding Common Ground, C.D.
Howe
Institute,
June
1997.
"Predicting the quantity of LDC debt rescheduling'' with George
McKenzie
and Steve Thomas, Economic Letters, Vol. 32 (1), 1990, pp.
67-73.
"Using country balance sheet data to predict debt rescheduling'' with
George McKenzie and Steve Thomas, Economic Letters, Vol. 31
(2),
1989, pp. 173-7.
Other Papers
"The
Impacts
of
Inequality
on Productivity Growth: A Primer," HRDC
Applied
Research Branch, Strategic Policy Research Paper No. R-00-3E, May 2000.
"On
the
Role
of
Embodied and Investment-Specific Technological Change in
the
New Economy: A Survey," Bank of Canada Research Report, November
2001.