Research

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Journal Articles

  • On the Effect of Prior Assumptions in Bayesian Model Averaging with Applications to Growth Regression with Mark F.J. Steel
    Journal of Applied Econometrics 24(4): 651-674, 2009 [PDF]

  • On the Probabilistic Approach to Debt Sustainability: Structural Breaks and Non-Normality with Nathaniel Frank
    IMF Staff Papers 56(4): 742-757, 2009 [PDF]

  •  Comments on Jointness of Growth Determinantswith Mark F.J. Steel
    Journal of Applied Econometrics  24(2): 248-51, 2009
  •  A Tax-Based Approach to Slowing Climate Changewith Joseph E. Aldy and Ian W.H. Parry
    National Tax Journal 61: 493-517 2008 [PDF]
  •  Jointness in Bayesian Variable Selection with Applications to Growth Regression with Mark F.J. Steel
    Journal of Macroeconomics 29(3): 476-493, 2007 [PDF]
  • Statistical Inference as a Barganing Game
    Economics Letters 93: 142-49, 2006 [PDF]
  • Whose Inflation? A Characterization of the CPI Plutocratic-Democratic Gap
    Oxford Economic Papers 57(2): 637-646, 2005 [Abstract] [PDF@OEP]
  • The Plutocratic Gap in the CPI: Evidence from Spain with Mario Izquierdo and Javier Ruiz-Castillo
    IMF Staff Papers 50(1): 136-155, 2003 [IMFSP]
  • The Laspeyres Bias in the Spanish CPI with Mario Izquierdo and Javier Ruiz-Castillo
    Applied Economics 34(18): 2267-76, 2002 [PDF]
  • Tax Incentives for Business Investment: A Primer for Policymakers in Developing Countries with Howell Zee and Janet Stotsky
    World Development 30(9): 1497-1516, 2002 [WD]
  • Bayesian Modeling of Catch in a Northwest Atlantic Fishery with Carmen Fernández and Mark F.J. Steel
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C 51(3): 257-280, 2002 [PDF]
  • Distributional Aspects of the Quality Change Bias in the CPI: Evidence from Spain with Mario Izquierdo and Javier Ruiz-Castillo
    Economics Letters 76(1): 137-144, 2002 [PDF]
  • Spatially and Intertemporally Efficient Solid Waste Management with Molly K. Macauley and Stephen W. Salant
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 43(2): 188-218, 2002 [PDF]
  • On Democratic and Plutocratic CPIs
    Economics Bulletin 4(3): 1-5, 2002 [PDF]
  • Model Uncertainty in Cross-Country Growth Regressions with Carmen Fernández and Mark F.J. Steel
    Journal of Applied Econometrics 16(5): 563-576, 2001 [PDF] [JAE]
  • Benchmark Priors for Bayesian Model Averaging with Carmen Fernández and Mark F.J. Steel
    Journal of Econometrics 100(2): 381-427, 2001 [PDF]
  • Restricting the Trash Trade with Molly K. Macauley and Stephen W. Salant
    American Economic Review 90(2): 243-246, 2000 [PDF]
  • A Model of Management Teams with Mark F.J. Steel
    Managerial and Decision Economics 19: 355-363, 1998 [PDF]
  • Non-Cooperative Public Good Provision and Productivity Differentials
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics 100(3): 565-574, 1998 [PDF]
  • Optimal Provision of Public Goods with Altruistic Individuals
    Economics Letters 54(1): 23-28, 1997 [PDF]
  • Bayesian Analysis of Long Memory and Persistency using ARFIMA Models with Gary Koop, Jacek Osiewalski and Mark F.J. Steel
    Journal of Econometrics 76:(1/2): 149-170, 1997 [PDF]
  • On the Peculiar Distribution of the US Stock Indices First Digits
    The American Statistician 50(4): 311-314, 1996 [PDF]
  • On the Estimation of Demand Systems through Consumption Efficiency with Mark F.J. Steel
    The Review of Economics and Statistics 78(3): 539-543, 1996 [PDF]
  • A Frontier Model for Landscape Ecology: The Tapir in Honduras with Kevin Flesher
    Environmental and Ecological Statistics 3(2): 119-125, 1996 [PDF]
  • On The Private Provision of Public Goods: A Diagrammatic Exposition
    Investigaciones Económicas 20(1): 105-123, 1996 [PDF]
  • Implications of Existing Tax Policy for Cross-Border Activity between the U.S. and Mexico after NAFTA with Roger H. Gordon
    National Tax Journal 47(2): 435-445, 1994
  • Are There Psychological Barriers in the Dow-Jones index? with Hal R. Varian
    Applied Financial Economics 4: 217-224, 1992 [PDF]
  • Switching Regressions and Activity Analysis: A New Approach to Frontier Estimation
    Economics Letters 40(4):407-412, 1992
  • Eficiencia Productiva: Un Estudio Aplicado al Sector Hospitalario
    Investigaciones Económicas 15(1): 71-88, 1991 [PDF]

Other Publications

  • "Frontier Models," in The Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, (London: Wiley), 2001. [PDF]
  • "La Medición de la Inflación en España," with Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Mario Izquierdo, Barcelona: la Caixa, 1999.
  • "Carbon Policy: Some Conceptual Issues;" with Roger Sedjo, in The Economics of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration, R. Sedjo et al. (editors) pp. S185-S192, Boca Raton FL: Lewis Publishers, Inc, 1997.
  • "Carbon and Tree Plantations: A Case Study in Argentina;" with Roger Sedjo, in The Economics of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration, R. Sedjo et al. (editors) pp. S177-S184, Boca Raton FL: Lewis Publishers, Inc, 1997.
  • "Conceptual Issues related to Carbon Sequestration: Uncertainty and Time;" with Cornelis van Kooten, Alan Graiger, Gregg Marland, and Birger Solberg, in The Economics of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration, R. Sedjo et al. (editors) , Boca Raton FL: Lewis Publishers, Inc, 1997.
  • "Data Envelopment Analysis and Data Screening," in Computational Economics and Finance: Modelling and Analysis with Mathematica, Hal Varian (editor), Santa Clara CA: Springer-Verlag, 1996.
  • "Instruments for Global Warming Mitigation: The Potential Role of Large-Scale Projects in Argentina;" with Roger Sedjo, in Climate Change Mitigation and European Land Use, Centro di Ecologia Alpina, Viote del Monte Bondone, Trento (Italy), 1996.
  • 'Technical Efficiency,' 'Confidence Intervals,' and 'Maximin criterion,' entries in the The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Managerial Economics, London: Basil Blackwell, 1996.
  • "Discussion of `Linear Programming Approaches to the Measurement and Analysis of Productive Efficiency' by C.A.K. Lovell," and `Discussion of `Validation and Generalization of DEA and its uses' by R.D. Banker and W.W. Cooper;"TOP, 2:2, 230-234, and 308-309, 1994.
  • "Bayesian Econometrics: Conjugate Analysis and Rejection Sampling;" with Mark Steel in Economic and Financial modeling with Mathematica, Hal Varian (editor), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993.
  • "Comentarios sobre `Eficiencia y Competitividad: La Asistencia Sanitaria'," (Comments on `Efficiency and Competitiviness: Health Services' by G. López and A. Wagstaff), Moneda y Crédito,196, 224-229; 1993.

With deepest appreciation to coauthors, colleagues and teachers.