Klaus Desmet
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

 

My home town now and then

My other home town

 

Classes/Docencia 2011-2012

 

Semestre 2 (Spring)

Comercio Internacional  (Grado Economía)

International Trade (Bachelor Economics)

Economía Internacional  (Licenciatura Economía)

 

 

Semestre 1 (Fall)

Comercio Internacional  (Grado ADE)

International Trade (Bachelor ADE)

International Economics (Master in Economic Development)

 

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.   On Spatial Dynamics,” Journal of Regional Science, 2010, 50, 43-63 (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg).

 

14.   Bigger is Better: Market Size, Demand Elasticity and Innovation,” International Economic Review, 2010, 51, 319-333 (with Stephen Parente).

 

15.   The Stability and Breakup of Nations: A Quantitative Analysis,” Journal of Economic Growth, 2011, 16, 183-213 (with Michel Le Breton, Ignacio Ortuño and Shlomo Weber).

 

16.   The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages,” Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97, 322-332 (with Ignacio Ortuño and Romain Wacziarg). ELF and Polarization Data (different levels of aggregation)

 

17.   Hub-and-Spoke Free Trade Areas,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 2012, forthcoming (with Giovanni Facchini and George Deltas).

 

18.   Innovation in Space,” American Economic Review P&P, 2012, forthcoming (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg).

 

 

 

Completed working papers

 

 

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

 

20.   Spatial Development,” July 2011 (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg).

 

21.   Urban Accounting and Welfare,” NBER Working Paper #6615, September 2010 (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg).

 

22.   Resistance to Technology Adoption: The Rise and Decline of Guilds,” May 2011 (with Stephen Parente).

 

 

 

Other published work 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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