Joseph Kaboski

David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Associate Professor of Economics
(PhD, University of Chicago)
campus address: 717 Flanner Hall
phone: 631-9906
E-mail: jkaboski@nd.edu
Campus webpage: http://economics.nd.edu/the-faculty/joseph-kaboski/
Research page: http://www.nd.edu/~jkaboski/

Geographic focus
Thailand, Mexico, East Africa

Thematic interests
Growth and development, specifically, structural transformation, finance including microfinance, trade, and education

Current research
Three areas: (i) a macroeconomic analysis of large-scale microfinance programs, (ii) an empirical evaluation of a microfinance initiative, (iii) assessing the cause of recent trade collapses

Selected publications

“Trade Wedges, Inventories, and International Business Cycles” (with G. Alessandria and V. Midrigan), Journal of Monetary Economics 60, 1 (January 2013)

“The Rise of the Service Economy” (with F. Buera), American Economic Review 102 (October 2012)
“The Impact of Credit on Village Economies” (with R. Townsend), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4 (April 2012)
“Scale and the Origins of Structural Change” (with F. Buera), Journal of Economic Theory 147 (March 2012)
“A Structural Evaluation of a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Microfinance Initiative” (with R. Townsend), Econometrica 79 (September 2011)
“Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors” (with F. Buera and Y. Shin), American Economic Review 101 (August 2011)
“Technological Endowments and the Returns to Skill: New Evidence from the American Past” (with T. Logan), Journal of Human Capital, 5 (Summer 2011)
“U.S. Trade and Inventory Dynamics” (with G. Alessandria and V. Midrigan), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 101(May 2011)
“Pricing to Market and the Failure of Absolute PPP” (with G. Alessandria), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 3 (January 2011)
“Inventories, Lumpy Trade and Large Devaluations” (with G. Alessandria & V. Midrigan), American Economic Review 100 (December 2010)
“The Great Trade Collapse of 2008-09: An Inventory Adjustment?” (with G. Alessandria and V. Midrigan), IMF Economic Review 58 (September 2010)
“Can Traditional Theories of Structural Change Fit the Data?” (with F. Buera), Journal of the European Economic Association 7 (April 2009)
“Education, Sectoral Composition, and Growth, ” Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (January 2009)
“Policies and Impacts: An Analysis of Village-Level Microfinance Institutions.” with Robert M. Townsend, Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (March 2005): 1-50
“Factor Price Uncertainty, Technology Choice and Investment Delay,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29 (March 2005)

Recent press releases:

"Kellogg Fellow Joseph Kaboski Receives 2012 Frisch Medal" - July 11, 2012