Economic Research
Economic ResearchTopic - Economic Development
Explaining Growth
Economist Erzo Luttmer blends two competing theories to generate a model that helps account for patterns of employment growth in U.S. companies.
Douglas Clement
September 2010 - The Region
The Bitter Effect of Cartels
In a case study of the U.S. sugar industry, James Schmitz and co-authors demonstrate that cartels can lead to big reductions in productivity
Joe Mahon
June 2010 - The Region
Models of Growth and Firm Heterogeneity
Erzo G.J. Luttmer
April 2010 - Working Paper
Technology Diffusion and Growth
Erzo G.J. Luttmer
March 2010 - Working Paper
On the Mechanics of Firm Growth
Erzo G.J. Luttmer
March 2010 - Staff Report
Technical Appendix: Unmeasured Investment and the Puzzling U.S. Boom in the 1990s
Edward C. Prescott, Ellen R. McGrattan
September 2009 - Staff Report
International Trade and Income Differences
Michael E. Waugh
September 2009 - Staff Report
Superstores or Mom and Pops? Technology Adoption and Productivity Differences in Retail Trade
David P. Lagakos
June 2009 - Staff Report
Public-Private Partnerships: For Whom the Road Tolls?
PPPS are popping up worldwide, and increasingly in the United States. Are they a way forward for crumbling infrastructure?
Ronald A. Wirtz
June 2009 - The Region
Transportation and Development: Insights from the U.S., 1840–1860
James A. Schmitz, Jr., Arilton Teixeira, Berthold Herrendorf
May 2009 - Staff Report
Trade, Growth, and Convergence in a Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Model
Timothy J. Kehoe, Claustre Bajona
October 2008 - Staff Report
Prizes and Patents: Using Market Signals to Provide Incentives for Innovations
V. V. Chari, Aleh Tsyvinski, Mikhail Golosov
September 2008 - Working Paper
Ideas on Growth
A summary of Robert Lucas’ conference keynote address
September 2008 - The Region
Moving the Middle Forward
A conference at the Minneapolis Fed looks to the economic future of the Midwest
Joe Mahon
September 2008 - The Region
Openness, Technology Capital, and Development
Edward C. Prescott, Ellen R. McGrattan
July 2008 - Staff Report
