Klaus Desmet
Associate Professor
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
 

 

 

Department of Economics

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

28903 Getafe (Madrid)

Spain

+ 34 91 624 9845 (phone)

+ 34 91 624 9875 (fax)

klaus.desmet at uc3m dot es

 

Classes/Docencia

Economía Internacional (licenciatura)

International Economics (licenciatura)

International Trade (doctorado)

 

Estudiantes Erasmus

 

  

CV

 

 

Papers published in refereed academic journals

 

1.       A Perfect Foresight Model of Regional Development and Skill Specialization,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2000, 30, 221-242.

 

2.       Accounting for the Mexican Banking Crisis,” Emerging Markets Review, 2000, 1, 165-181.

 

3.       A Simple Model of Uneven Development and Overtaking,” Economic Journal, 2002, 112, 894-918.

 

4.       Endogenous Policy Leads to Incomplete Risk Sharing,” Review of Economic Dynamics, 7, 2004, 758-787 (with Marco Celentani and J. Ignacio Conde).

 

5.       Implementing R&D Policies: An Analysis of Spain's Pharmaceutical Research Program,” Research Policy, 2004, 33, 1493-1507 (with Praveen Kujal and Félix Lobo).

 

6.       Changes in the Spatial Concentration of Employment across U.S. Counties: A Sectoral Analysis 1972-2000?,Journal of Economic Geography, 2005, 5(3), 261-284 (with Marcel Fafchamps).

 

7.       Employment Concentration across U.S. Counties,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36, 482-509 (with Marcel Fafchamps).

 

8.       Inflation in Open Economies with Complete Markets,” Economic Theory, 2007, 31, 271-291 (with Marco Celentani and J. Ignacio Conde).

 

9.       Rational Underdevelopment,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109, 1-24 (with Ignacio Ortuño).

 

10.    Foreign Direct Investment and Spillovers: Gradualism May Be Better,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 2008, 41, 926-953 (with Felipe Meza and Juan Rojas).

 

11.    Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution,” Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, 1291-1318 (with Ignacio Ortuño and Shlomo Weber). Linguistic heterogeneity data (accounting for distances)

 

12.    Spatial Growth and Industry Age,” Journal of Economic Theory, 2009, 144, 2477-2502 (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg).

 

13.    Bigger is Better: Market Size, Demand Elasticity and Innovation,” International Economic Review, forthcoming (with Stephen Parente).

 

14.    On Spatial Dynamics,” Journal of Regional Science, forthcoming (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg).

 

 

 

Completed working papers

 

 

15.    The Stability and Breakup of Nations: A Quantitative Analysis,” mimeo, May 2009 (with Michel Le Breton, Ignacio Ortuño and Shlomo Weber).

 

16.    Hub-and-Spoke Free Trade Areas,” CEPR Discussion Paper 5960, 2007 (with Giovanni Facchini and George Deltas).

 

17.    The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry: A Unified Theory of Growth,” CEPR Discussion Paper 7290, October 2009 (with Stephen Parente).

 

18.    Spatial Development,” NBER Working Paper #15349, September 2009, (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg).

 

19.    The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages,” NBER Working Paper #15360, September 2009 (with Ignacio Ortuño and Romain Wacziarg). ELF and Polarization Data (different levels of aggregation)  

 

 

 

Work in progress

 

 

20.    Why England First? The End of Resistance and the Start of the Revolution,” mimeo, October 2007 (with Stephen Parente).

 

 

 

Other published work 

 

 

1.       Discussion of The Bank Lending Channel: Evidence from Emerging Economies,” Moneda y Crédito, 2003, 216, 201-203.