Department of Economics

 

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James R. Tybout

Professor of Economics

Joined the faculty in 1999

Ph.D., 1980, 

   University of Wisconsin - Madison

517 Kern Graduate Building

Phone: (814) 865 - 4259

Fax: (814) 863 - 4775

E-mail: jxt32@psu.edu

Personal Homepage: http://econ.la.psu.edu/~jtybout/tyboutj.html

Office Hours for Fall 2008: by appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest:

  • International Economics 
  • Development Economics
  • Applied Micro Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Econometrics

Recent Publications:

"Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity and Export Dynamics," (with Mita Das and Mark Roberts), forthcoming in Econometrica.

"Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses in the Developing World: Interpreting the Evidence," (with Erkan Erdem, in S. Collins and D. Rodrik, eds., Brookings Trade Forum 2003. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2004.

"Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries: How Well do They do, and Why?" Journal of Economic Literature, 38 (1), March 2000, pp. 11-44.

"Is Learning by Exporting Important? Micro-dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico, and Morocco" (with S. Clerides and S. Lach), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1998, pp. 903-947.

"The Decision to Export in Colombia: An Empirical Model of Entry with Sunk Costs" (with M.J. Roberts), American Economic Review, 87 (4), September 1997, pp. 545-563.

Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries: Micro Patterns of Turnover, Productivity and Market Structure, co-edited with M.J. Roberts, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

"Trade Liberalization and Dimensions of Efficiency Change in Mexican Manufacturing Industries" (with M.D. Westbrook), Journal of International Economics, 39, August 1996, pp. 53-78.

Research in Progress:

  • Micro Foundations of International Technology Diffusion
  • Plant-Level Export Dynamics
  • Trade and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries

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