Fidel Pérez-Sebastián's Research

   Publications in Refereed Journals

    A Unified Theory of Structural Change (joint with Lola Guilló and Chris Papageorgiou). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 35(9), 1393-1404, leading article, September 2011.
 
    Diseases, Infection Dynamics, and Development (joint with Chris Papageorgiou and Shankha Chakraborty). Journal of Monetary Economics 57(7), 859-872, October 2010.
 
    Patents, R&D and Lag Effects: Evidence from Flexible Methods for Count Panel Data on Manufacturing Firms (joint with Shif Gurmu). Empirical Economics. 35(3), 507-526, November 2008.
 
   Sovereign Risk, FDI Spillovers, and Growth (joint with Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar). Review of International Economics, 16(3), 463-477, 2008.
 
   Public Support to Innovation and Imitation in a Non-Scale R&D Growth Model. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 31(12), 3791-3821, December 2007.
 

   Is the Asymptotic Speed of Convergence a Good Proxy for the Transitional Growth Path? (joint with Chris Papageorgiou). Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, pp. 1-24, leading article, February 2007.
 

   The Curse and Blessing of Fixed Specific Factors in Small-Open Economies (joint with Mª Dolores Guilló). Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 82, 58-78, 2007.
 

   Dynamics in a Non-Scale R&D Growth Model with Human Capital: Explaining the Japanese and South Korean development experiences (joint with Chris Papageorgiou). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 30, 901-930, 2006.
 

    Matching up the data on education with economic growth models (joint with Chris Papageorgiou). Topics in Macroeconomics, Vol. 5(1), Article 8, http://www.bepress.com/bejm/topics/vol5/iss1/art8, 2005.
 

    Capital Skill Complementarity? Evidece from a Panel of Countries (joint with John Duffy and Chris Papageorgiou). Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 86(1), 327-344, February 2004.
 

    Can Transition Dynamics Explain the International Output Data? (joint with Chris Papageorgiou). Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 8(4), September 2004.
 

    Transitional Dynamics in an R&D-Based Growth Model with Imitation: Comparing its Predictions to the Data. Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 45:437-461, April 2000.
 

    The Adoption and Adaptation of Externally Originated Ideas. Spanish Economic Review, Vol. 2:249-266, 2000.
 

   Working Papers

    Neoclassical Growth and the Natural Resource Curse Puzzle (joint with Lola Guilló).
 
    Battling Infection, Fighting Stagnation (joint with Chris Papageorgiou and Shankha Chakraborty).
 
    Undertanding R&D Policy: Efficiency or Politics?
 
    The Natural Resource Curse, Fiscal Decentralization, and Agglomeration Economics (joint with Ohad Raveh).
 
    The Public and Private Marginal Product of Capital (joint with Matt Lowe and Chris Papageorgiou.
 
    Market Failure, Government Inefficiency, and Optimal R&D Policy.
 
    Capital-Skill Complementarity and Biased Technical Change Across Sectors and Countries (joint with Álex Pérez Laborda).
 
    Mortality Declines, Bequests, and the Transition from Physical to Human Capital (joint with Shankha Chakraborty).
 
    Immigration, Aging, Skill Accumulation, and Social Security (joint with Lola Guillo and Álex Pérez Laborda).
 

   Books

 
  Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Aging Society (joint with Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Alexia Prskawetz, and Holger Strulik).
 

   Last Modified: April 2012