CSIP Research
Papers and Publications

Working Papers

2006-2008

previous years

"Trend Breaks, Long-Run Restrictions, and the Contractionary Effects of Technology Improvements." 2005. Fernald. WP2005-21

"The Value of Knowledge Spillovers." 2005. Deng. WP2005-14

"Beggar Thy Neighbor? The In-State, Out-of-State, and Aggregate Effects of R&D Tax Credits." 2005. Wilson. WP2005-08

"North-South Technological Diffusion and Dynamic Gains from Trade." 2004. Valderrama · Connolly. WP2004-24

"Implications of Intellectual Property Rights for Dynamic Gains from Trade." 2004. Valderrama · Connolly. WP2004-23

"Investment Behavior of U.S. Firms over Heterogeneous Capital Goods: A Snapshot." 2004. Wilson. WP2004-21

"Transition Dynamics in Vintage Capital Models: Explaining the Postwar Catch-Up of Germany and Japan." 2004. Williams · Gilchrist. WP2004-14

"IT and Beyond: The Contribution of Heterogeneous Capital to Productivity." 2004. Wilson. WP2004-13

"Productivity, Tradability, and the Long-Run Price Puzzle." 2004. Glick · Bergin · Taylor. WP2004-08

"The Responses of Wages and Prices to Technology Shocks." 2003. Edge · Laubach · Williams. WP2003-21.

"How Fast Do Personal Computers Depreciate? Concepts and New Estimates." 2003. Doms · Dunn · Oliner · Sichel. WP2003-20.

"IT Investment and Firm Performance in U.S. Retail Trade." 2003. Doms · Jarmin · Klimek. WP2003-19.

"What's Driving the New Economy? The Benefits of Workplace Innovation." 2003. Black and Lynch. WP2003-23.

"Prices for Local Area Network Equipment." 2003. Doms · Forman. WP2003-13.

"How Workers Fare When Employers Innovate." 2003. Black · Lynch · Krivelyova. WP2003-22.

"Human Capital and Technology Diffusion." 2002. Benhabib · Spiegel. WP03-02.

"Network Externalities and Technology Adoption: Lessons from Electronic Payments." 2002. Gowrisankaran · Stavins. WP2002-16.

"Investment, Capacity, and Uncertainty: A Putty-Clay Approach." 2002. Gilchrist · Williams. WP2002-03.

"Small Business and Computers: Adoption and Performance." 2001. Bitler. WP2001-15.

"Some Implications of Using Prices to Measure Productivity in a Two-Sector Growth Model." 2001. Marquis · Trehan. WP2001-10.

"The Federal Reserve Banks' Imputed Cost of Equity Capital." 2001. Green · Lopez · Wang. WP2001-01.

Publications

2003-2006

"Importing Technology." 2004. Francesco Caselli and Daniel Wilson. Journal of Monetary Economics 51(1), (January), prepared for April 2003 Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy.

"Quantifying Embodied Technological Change." 2004. Plutarchos Sakellaris and Daniel Wilson. Review of Economic Dynamics 7(1) (January) pp. 1-26.

"Productivity Shocks and the Unemployment Rate." Trehan. FRBSF Economic Review 2003, pp. 13-27.

"The Long Shadow of Patent Expiration: Do Rx to OTC Switches Provide an Afterlife?" 2003. Ernst R. Berndt, Margaret Kyle, and Davina Ling. In NBER Conference Volume on Scanner Data and Price Indexes, eds. Robert Feenstra and Matthew Shapiro. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

"Population and Ideas: A Theory of Endogenous Growth." 2003. Charles I. Jones. In Knowledge, Information, and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics: In Honor of Edmund S. Phelps, eds. Aghion, Frydman, Stiglitz, and Woodford. Princeton University Press.

"Communications Equipment: What Has Happened to Prices?" Forthcoming. Mark Doms. WP2003-15 (June). Forthcoming in Measuring Capital in the New Economy, NBER/CRIW, University of Chicago Press.

"Embodying Embodiment in a Structural, Macroeconomic Input-Output Model." 2003. Daniel Wilson. Economic Systems Research 15(3) (September) pp. 371-398.

previous years

"Is Embodied Technological Change the Result of Upstream R&D? Industry-Level Evidence." 2002. Daniel Wilson. Review of Economic Dynamics 5 (April), pp. 285-317.

"Sources of U.S. Economic Growth in a World of Ideas." 2002. Charles I. Jones. American Economic Review 92(1) (March) pp. 220-239.

"Deregulating Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Prescription Drugs: Effects on Prescription and Over-the-Counter Sales." Ernst R. Berndt, Margaret Kyle, and Davina Ling. 2002. Journal of Law and Economics 44(3), pp. 691-723.

Introduction to Economic Growth. 2002. Charles I Jones. W.W. Norton and Company, second edition.

"Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth over the Very Long Run." 2001. Charles I. Jones. Advances in Macroeconomics 1(2), article 1 (August).

"Putty-Clay and Investment: A Business Cycle Analysis." 2000. Journal of Political Economy (October) pp. 928-960. (With S.  Gilchrist.)

"Understanding Productivity: Lessons from Longitudinal Microdata." 2000. Erik Bartelsman and Mark Doms. Journal of Economic Literature 38(3) (September) pp. 569-594.

"Too Much of a Good Thing? The Economics of Investment in R&D." 2000. Charles I Jones and John C. Williams. Journal of Economic Growth 5(1) (March) pp. 65-85.

"Growth: With or Without Scale Effects?" 1999. Charles I. Jones. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 89 (May) pp. 139-144.

"Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others?" 1999. Robert E. Hall and Charles I. Jones. Quarterly Journal of Economics 114 (February) pp. 83-116.

"Measuring the Social Return to R&D." 1998. Charles I. Jones and John C. Williams. Quarterly Journal of Economics 113 (November) pp. 1119-1135.

"Capital Adjustment Patterns in Manufacturing Plants." 1998. Mark Doms and Timothy Dunne. Review of Economic Dynamics 1(2) (April) pp. 409-429.

"The Effect of Technology Use on Productivity Growth." 1998. Mark Doms, Robert McGuckin, and Mary Streitwieser. Economics of Innovation and New Technology 7(1) pp. 1-26.

"Workers, Wages, and Technology." 1997. Mark Doms, Timothy Dunne, and Kenneth Troske. Quarterly Journal of Economics 112(1) (February) pp. 253-290.

"Estimating Capital Efficiency Schedules within Production Functions." 1996. Mark Doms. Economic Inquiry 34(1) (January) pp. 78-92.

"The Role of Technology Use in the Survival and Growth of Manufacturing Plants." 1995. Mark Doms, Timothy Dunne, and Mark Roberts. International Journal of Industrial Organization 13(4) (December) pp. 523-42. Reprinted in Innovation, Evolution of Industry and Economic Growth, eds. Audretsch and Klepperer. 2000. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, series editor, Mark Blaug.

"Energy Intensity, Electricity Consumption, and Advanced Manufacturing Technology Usage." 1995. Mark Doms and Timothy Dunne. Technological Forecasting and Social Change (October).
Events and Program

Past Events

Conferences

Recent Trends In Economic Volatility: Sources And Implications
November 2-3, 2007
program and papers

Financial Innovation and the Real Economy
November 16-17, 2006
program and papers • summary

Productivity Growth: Causes and Consequences
November 18-19, 2005
program and papers • summary

Technology, Productivity, and Public Policy
November 7-8, 2003
program and papers • summary

Technological Change
November 14-15, 2002
program and papers • summary

Seminars/Symposiums

Symposium on: Research on the Effects of Fiscal Stimulus
papers & presentations »

Symposium on: The Economics of Private Equity Investments
papers & presentations »

Claudia Olivett (BU) • Gender Role and Technological Progress

Michelle Alexopoulos (Toronto) • "The 1930s was a Technologically Progressive Decade"

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CSIP Visiting Scholar Program

Each year CSIP hosts a number of visiting scholars from academic institutions around the country. These visitors participate in seminars and conferences, contribute to the FRBSF working paper series and to CSIP Notes.

CSIP News

CSIP Year in Review and Future Plans

The 2004 issue of the Economic Review includes a special focus on the work of the Department's new Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity (CSIP). Read the Economic Review

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