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Working papers

2025

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Parro, Fernando, 2025, "Spatial Dynamics," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19931, Feb.
  2. Desmet, Klaus & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio & Wacziarg, Romain, 2025, "On the Measurement of Social Heterogeneity," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20337, Jun.
  3. Desmet, Klaus & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio & Wacziarg, Romain, 2025, "Latent Polarization," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20644, Sep.
  4. Desmet, Klaus & Nagy, Dávid Krisztián & Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban, 2025, "Human Capital Accumulation Across Space," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20671, Sep.

2024

  1. Esteban Rossi-Hansberg & Klaus Desmet & Bruno Conte, 2024, "On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes," Working Papers, Barcelona School of Economics, number 1464, Oct.
  2. Desmet, Klaus & Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban, 2024, "Climate Change Economics over Time and Space," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 18924, Mar.

2023

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Özak, Ömer & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio, 2023, "Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 17894, Feb.
  2. Desmet, Klaus & Gomes, Joseph Flavian, 2023, "Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 17895, Feb.
  3. Ali, Omer & Desmet, Klaus & Wacziarg, Romain, 2023, "Does Anger Drive Populism?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 18266, Jul.

2022

  1. Choi, Jung Ho & Pacelli, Joseph & Rennekamp, Kristina M. & Tomar, Sorabh, 2022, "Do Jobseekers Value Diversity Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment," Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, number 4010, Feb.

2021

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Cuberes, David & Rappaport, Jordan, 2021, "Urban Growth Shadows," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 15807, Feb.
  2. Desmet, Klaus & Cuevas Rumin, Angel & Cuevas Rumin, Ruben & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio, 2021, "The Gender Gap in Preferences: Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 16740, Nov.

2020

  1. Benjamin H. Strauss & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg & Michael Oppenheimer & Scott A. Kulp & Robert E. Kopp & Klaus Desmet & Dávid Nagy & Dávid Krisztián Nagy, 2020, "Evaluating the Economic Cost of Coastal Flooding," Working Papers, Barcelona School of Economics, number 1161, Mar.
  2. Esteban Rossi-Hansberg & Klaus Desmet & Dávid Nagy & Dávid Krisztián Nagy, 2020, "Local Sectoral Specialization in a Warming World," Working Papers, Barcelona School of Economics, number 1221, Dec.
  3. Desmet, Klaus & Wacziarg, Romain, 2020, "Understanding Spatial Variation in COVID-19 across the United States," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 14842, Jun.
  4. Desmet, Klaus & Obradovich, Nick & Martín, Ignacio & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio & Awad, Edmond & Cebrían, Manuel & Cuevas Rumin, Ruben & Rahwan, Iyad & Cuevas Rumin, Angel, 2020, "Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 15315, Sep.

2019

  1. Brülhart, Marius & Desmet, Klaus & Klinke, Gian-Paolo, 2019, "The Shrinking Advantage of Market Potential," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 14157, Nov.
  2. Berger, Philip G. & Choi, Jung Ho & Tomar, Sorabh, 2019, "Breaking it Down: Competitive Costs of Cost Disclosures," Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, number 3774, Mar.

2018

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Wacziarg, Romain, 2018, "The Cultural Divide," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 12947, May.

2017

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Greif, Avner & Parente, Stephen, 2017, "Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 11976, Apr.

2016

  1. Klaus Desmet & Joseph Gomes & Ignacio Ortuno-Ortín, 2016, "The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 6238.
  2. Desmet, Klaus & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio & Weber, Shlomo, 2016, "Peripheral Diversity: Transfers versus Public Goods," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 11348, Jun.

2015

  1. Wacziarg, Romain & Desmet, Klaus & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio, 2015, "Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 10451, Mar.
  2. Desmet, Klaus & Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban & Nagy, Dávid Krisztián, 2015, "The Geography of Development," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 10544, Apr.
  3. Klaus Desmet & Dávid Krisztián Nagy & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, 2015, "The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 21087, Apr.
  4. Joshua C. Hall & Robert A. Lawson & Saurav Roychoudhury, 2015, "Creating the Environment for Entrepreneurship through Economic Freedom," Working Papers, Department of Economics, West Virginia University, number 15-01, May.

2014

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Henderson, J. Vernon, 2014, "The Geography of Development within Countries," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 10150, Sep.

2013

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Rappaport, Jordan, 2013, "The Settlement of the United States, 1800 to 2000: The Long Transition towards Gibrat's Law," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 9353, Feb.
  2. Desmet, Klaus & Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban & Ghani, Ejaz & O'Connell, Stephen, 2013, "The Spatial Development of India," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 9433, Apr.
  3. Parente, Stephen & Desmet, Klaus, 2013, "Resistance to Technology Adoption: The Rise and Decline of Guilds," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 9439, Apr.
  4. Klaus Desmet & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, 2013, "Analyzing Urban Systems : Have Megacities Become Too Large?," World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group, number 17590, Nov.
  5. Klaus Desmet & Ejaz Ghani & Stephen O'Connell & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, 2013, "India's Spatial Development," World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group, number 22615, Sep.

2012

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban, 2012, "On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 9220, Nov.
  2. George Deltas & Klaus Desmet & Giovanni Facchini, 2012, "Hub-and-spoke free trade areas: Theory and evidence from Israel," Working Papers, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA) Ciencias Sociales, number 2012-01, Jan.

2011

  1. Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín & Romain Wacziarg, 2011, "The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages," Working Papers of VIVES - Research Centre for Regional Economics, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), VIVES - Research Centre for Regional Economics, number 20.

2010

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban, 2010, "Urban Accounting and Welfare," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 8168, Dec.

2009

  1. Parente, Stephen & Desmet, Klaus, 2009, "The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry: A Quantitative Model of England's Development, 1300-2000," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 7290, May.
  2. Wacziarg, Romain & Desmet, Klaus & Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio, 2009, "The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 7478, Sep.
  3. Desmet, Klaus & Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban, 2009, "Spatial Development," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 7479, Sep.
  4. Klaus Desmet & Stephen L. Parente, 2009, "The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry: A Unified Theory of Growth," Development Working Papers, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano, number 284, Nov.
  5. Klaus Desmet & Michel Le Breton & Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin & Shlomo Weber, 2009, "The Stability and Breakup of Nations: A Quantitative Analysis," Working Papers of VIVES - Research Centre for Regional Economics, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), VIVES - Research Centre for Regional Economics, number 10.

2008

  1. Klaus Desmet & Stephen L. Parente, 2008, "Bigger is better: Market size, demand elasticity and innovation," Working Papers, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA) Ciencias Sociales, number 2008-10, Oct.
  2. Stephen L. Parente & Klaus Desmet, 2008, "The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry," 2008 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics, number 688.
  3. Klaus Desmet & Michel Le Breton & Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin & Shlomo Weber, 2008, "Stability of Nations and Genetic Diversity," Working Papers, International School of Economics at TSU, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, number 003-08, Jul.
  4. Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin & Shlomo Weber, 2008, "Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution," Working Papers, International School of Economics at TSU, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, number 004-08, Jul.

2007

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban, 2007, "Spatial Growth and Industry Age," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 6421, Aug.

2006

  1. DESMET, Klaus & LE BRETON, Michel & ORTUNO-ORTIN, Ignacio & WEBER, Shlomo, 2006, "Nation formation and genetic diversity," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), number 2006095, Oct.
  2. Parente, Stephen & Desmet, Klaus, 2006, "Bigger is Better: Market Size, Demand Elasticity and Resistance to Technology Adoption," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 5825, Sep.
  3. Desmet, Klaus & Facchini, Giovanni & Deltas, George, 2006, "Hub-and-Spoke Free Trade Areas," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 5960, Nov.
  4. Klaus Desmet & Stephen L. Parente, 2006, "Market Size, Trade, and the Resistance to the Adoption of Better Technology," 2006 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics, number 264.

2005

  1. DESMET, Klaus & ORTUNO-ORTIN, Ignacio & WEBER, Shlomo, 2005, "Peripheral diversity and redistribution," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), number 2005044, Jun.

2004

  1. Celentani, Marco & Desmet, Klaus & Conde-Ruiz, José Ignacio, 2004, "Inflation in Open Economies with Complete Markets," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 4385, May.
  2. Desmet, Klaus & Rojas, Juan A, 2004, "Foreign Direct Investment and Spillovers: Gradualism May Be Better," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 4660, Oct.
  3. Fafchamps, Marcel & Desmet, Klaus, 2004, "Employment Concentration Across US Counties," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 4689, Oct.

2003

  1. Fafchamps, Marcel & Desmet, Klaus, 2003, "What are Falling Transport Costs doing to Spatial Concentration Across US Counties?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 3853, Mar.
  2. Celentani, Marco & Desmet, Klaus & Conde-Ruiz, José Ignacio, 2003, "Endogenous Policy Leads to Inefficient Risk-Sharing," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 3866, Apr.

2002

  1. Klaus Desmet, 2002, "Asymmetric Shocks, Risk Sharing, and the Latter Mundell," Working Papers, Banco de España, number 0222, Oct.

2001

  1. Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, 2001, "Rational Underdevelopment," Working Papers, Banco de España, number 0114.

2000

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Fafchamps, Marcel, 2000, "The changing spatial distribution of economic activity across U.S. counties," UC3M Working papers. Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, number 7252, Dec.

1999

  1. Desmet, Klaus, 1999, "A perfect foresight model of regional development and skill specialization," UC3M Working papers. Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, number 6129, Feb.
  2. Desmet, Klaus, 1999, "A simple dynamic model of uneven development and overtaking," UC3M Working papers. Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, number 6130, Feb.

Journal articles

2025

  1. Cuevas, Ángel & Cuevas, Rubén & Desmet, Klaus & Ortín, Ignacio Ortuño, 2025, "The gender gap in preferences: Evidence from 45,397 Facebook interests," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, volume 238, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107165.
  2. Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuño Ortín & Ömer Özak, 2025, "Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,153 Subnational Regions," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, volume 135, issue 668, pages 1261-1299.
  3. Robert Lawson & Matt E. Ryan, 2025, "Do profitable wagering strategies indicate an inefficient market? An investigation into simple wagering strategies in Major League Baseball moneyline markets," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 57, issue 34, pages 5096-5102, July, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2024.2364115.

2024

  1. Klaus Desmet & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, 2024, "Climate Change Economics over Time and Space," Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews, volume 16, issue 1, pages 271-304, August, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-072123-04.
  2. Omer Ali & Klaus Desmet & Romain Wacziarg, 2024, "Does anger drive populism?," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, volume 44, issue 4, pages 1513-1527.
  3. Robert Lawson & Vincent Miozzi & Meg Tuszynski, 2024, "Economic freedom and growth, income, investment, and inequality: A quantitative summary of the literature," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, volume 90, issue 4, pages 1099-1135, April, DOI: 10.1002/soej.12680.

2023

  1. Alexander Cardazzi & Robert A. Lawson, 2023, "Economic freedom and one‐way truck rental prices: An empirical note," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, volume 82, issue 4, pages 313-318, July, DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12508.
  2. Sorabh Tomar, 2023, "Greenhouse Gas Disclosure and Emissions Benchmarking," Journal of Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., volume 61, issue 2, pages 451-492, May, DOI: 10.1111/1475-679X.12473.
  3. Jung Ho Choi & Joseph Pacelli & Kristina M. Rennekamp & Sorabh Tomar, 2023, "Do Jobseekers Value Diversity Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment and Human Capital Disclosures," Journal of Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., volume 61, issue 3, pages 695-735, June, DOI: 10.1111/1475-679X.12474.

2022

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Wacziarg, Romain, 2022, "JUE Insight: Understanding spatial variation in COVID-19 across the United States," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, volume 127, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2021.103332.

2021

  1. Klaus Desmet & Robert E. Kopp & Scott A. Kulp & Dávid Krisztián Nagy & Michael Oppenheimer & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg & Benjamin H. Strauss, 2021, "Evaluating the Economic Cost of Coastal Flooding," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, volume 13, issue 2, pages 444-486, April, DOI: 10.1257/mac.20180366.
  2. Cuberes, David & Desmet, Klaus & Rappaport, Jordan, 2021, "Urban growth shadows," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, volume 123, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2021.103334.
  3. Klaus Desmet & Romain Wacziarg, 2021, "The Cultural Divide," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, volume 131, issue 637, pages 2058-2088.
  4. Bruno Conte & Klaus Desmet & Dávid Krisztián Nagy & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, 2021, "Local sectoral specialization in a warming world," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, volume 21, issue 4, pages 493-530.
  5. Robert Lawson & James Dean, 2021, "Who gains from economic freedom? A panel analysis on decile income levels," Economics and Business Letters, Oviedo University Press, volume 10, issue 2, pages 102-106.

2020

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Gomes, Joseph Flavian & Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio, 2020, "The geography of linguistic diversity and the provision of public goods," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, volume 143, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102384.
  2. Brülhart, Marius & Desmet, Klaus & Klinke, Gian-Paolo, 2020, "The shrinking advantage of market potential," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, volume 147, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102529.
  3. Klaus Desmet & Avner Greif & Stephen L. Parente, 2020, "Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, volume 25, issue 1, pages 1-35, March, DOI: 10.1007/s10887-019-09173-3.
  4. Robert A. Lawson & Ryan Murphy & Benjamin Powell, 2020, "The Determinants Of Economic Freedom: A Survey," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, volume 38, issue 4, pages 622-642, October, DOI: 10.1111/coep.12471.
  5. Ryan H Murphy, 2020, "Does democracy die in recessions? A descriptive analysis of aggregate demand shortfalls and regime transition," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, volume 40, issue 1, pages 63-76, February, DOI: 10.1111/ecaf.12387.

2019

  1. Robert Lawson & Kevin Grier & Samuel Absher, 2019, "You say you want a (Rose) Revolution? The effects of Georgia's 2004 market reforms," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, volume 27, issue 1, pages 301-323, January, DOI: 10.1111/ecot.12205.
  2. Robert A. Lawson & J. R. Clark, 2019, "Taxation in the Liberal Tradition," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, volume 32, issue 2, pages 131-137, June, DOI: 10.1007/s11138-017-0399-7.
  3. Ryan H. Murphy, 2019, "The state economic modernity index: an index of state building, state size and scope, and state economic power," Economics of Governance, Springer, volume 20, issue 1, pages 73-101, March, DOI: 10.1007/s10101-018-00220-0.
  4. Ryan H. Murphy, 2019, "The rationality of literal Tide Pod consumption," Journal of Bioeconomics, Springer, volume 21, issue 2, pages 111-122, July, DOI: 10.1007/s10818-019-09285-1.
  5. Ryan H. Murphy & Colin O’Reilly, 2019, "Applying panel vector autoregression to institutions, human capital, and output," Empirical Economics, Springer, volume 57, issue 5, pages 1633-1652, November, DOI: 10.1007/s00181-018-1562-0.
  6. Murphy, Ryan H., 2019, "Liberalizing, state building, and getting to Denmark: analyzing 21st-century institutional change," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, volume 15, issue 6, pages 933-950, December.
  7. Ryan H. Murphy, 2019, "The long‐run effect of government ideology on economic freedom," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, volume 39, issue 1, pages 101-114, February, DOI: 10.1111/ecaf.12327.
  8. Ryan H. Murphy, 2019, "Governance and the dimensions of autocracy," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, volume 30, issue 2, pages 131-148, June, DOI: 10.1007/s10602-018-9270-5.

2018

  1. Desmet, Klaus, 2018, "A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. By Joel Mokyr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 400. $20.65, hardcover," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, volume 78, issue 4, pages 1261-1263, December.
  2. Klaus Desmet & Dávid Krisztián Nagy & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, 2018, "The Geography of Development," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, volume 126, issue 3, pages 903-983, DOI: 10.1086/697084.
  3. Robert Lawson & Ryan Murphy, 2018, "Economic freedom and growth specification debate: a retrospective," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 25, issue 15, pages 1038-1040, September, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1391997.
  4. Lauren R. Heller & Robert A. Lawson & Ryan H. Murphy & Claudia R. Williamson, 2018, "Is human trafficking the dark side of economic freedom?," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 29, issue 4, pages 355-382, June, DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2016.1160604.
  5. Ryan H. Murphy & Alex Nowrasteh, 2018, "The deep roots of economic development in the U.S. states: an application of Putterman and Weil (2010)," Journal of Bioeconomics, Springer, volume 20, issue 2, pages 227-242, July, DOI: 10.1007/s10818-017-9255-x.
  6. Ryan H. Murphy & Taylor Leland Smith, 2018, "Aggregate demand shortfalls and economic freedom," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, volume 31, issue 1, pages 111-122, March, DOI: 10.1007/s11138-017-0377-0.

2017

  1. Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín & Romain Wacziarg, 2017, "Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, volume 107, issue 9, pages 2479-2513, September.
  2. Desmet, Klaus & Rappaport, Jordan, 2017, "The settlement of the United States, 1800–2000: The long transition towards Gibrat’s law," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, volume 98, issue C, pages 50-68, DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2015.03.004.
  3. Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín & Shlomo Weber, 2017, "Peripheral diversity: transfers versus public goods," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, volume 49, issue 3, pages 787-823, December, DOI: 10.1007/s00355-016-1017-5.
  4. Klaus Desmet & Dávid Krisztián Nagy & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, 2017, "Asia's Geographic Development," Asian Development Review, MIT Press, volume 34, issue 2, pages 1-24, September.
  5. Klaus Desmet & Jesus Felipe, 2017, "Special Issue on Urban and Regional Development in Asia," Asian Development Review, MIT Press, volume 34, issue 2, pages 1-1, September.
  6. Robert A. Lawson, 2017, "Branko Milanovic: Global inequality: a new approach for the age of globalization," Public Choice, Springer, volume 170, issue 1, pages 175-176, January, DOI: 10.1007/s11127-016-0390-z.
  7. Dwight R. Lee & Ryan H. Murphy, 2017, "An expressive voting model of anger, hatred, harm and shame," Public Choice, Springer, volume 173, issue 3, pages 307-323, December, DOI: 10.1007/s11127-017-0480-6.
  8. Colin O'Reilly & Ryan H. Murphy, 2017, "Do Institutions Mitigate The Risk Of Natural Resource Conflicts?," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, volume 35, issue 3, pages 532-541, July.
  9. Ryan H. Murphy & Jiawen Chen, 2017, "A simple empirical investigation into the optimal size of the NGDP Target and Level targeting," Journal of Economics and Finance, Springer;Academy of Economics and Finance, volume 41, issue 2, pages 354-369, April, DOI: 10.1007/s12197-016-9357-7.
  10. Ryan H. Murphy & Alex Nowrasteh, 2017, "US Immigration Levels, Urban Housing Values, and their Implications for Capital Share," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, volume 37, issue 3, pages 411-421, October.
  11. Colin O’Reilly & Ryan H. Murphy, 2017, "Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, volume 59, issue 3, pages 243-260, September, DOI: 10.1057/s41294-017-0028-2.

2016

  1. Lawson, Robert A., 2016, "Can two observations confirm a theory? A comment on Max U versus Humanomics," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, volume 12, issue 1, pages 49-51, March.
  2. Robert A. Lawson & Saurav Roychoudhury, 2016, "Do travel visa requirements impede tourist travel?," Journal of Economics and Finance, Springer;Academy of Economics and Finance, volume 40, issue 4, pages 817-828, October, DOI: 10.1007/s12197-015-9343-5.
  3. Robert Lawson & Ryan Murphy, 2016, "Does antitrust policy promote competition?," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 23, issue 14, pages 1034-1036, September, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1130784.
  4. Ryan H Murphy, 2016, "Minimum wages and appropriation of quasi-rents," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, volume 36, issue 4, pages 2298-2300.
  5. Ryan H. Murphy, 2016, "Intergovernmental Organisations and Economic Freedom: Wise Technocrats or Black Helicopters?," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, volume 36, issue 2, pages 145-154, June.
  6. Murphy, Ryan H., 2016, "Economic freedom of North America at state borders 1," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, volume 12, issue 4, pages 885-893, December.
  7. Ryan H. Murphy, 2016, "Beggaring thy neighbor at the state and local level," Journal of Financial Economic Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, volume 8, issue 4, pages 532-539, November, DOI: 10.1108/JFEP-07-2016-0045.
  8. Ryan H Murphy & Rick Weber, 2016, "Immigration causes American businesses to fail and that is a good thing," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, volume 5, issue 1, pages 63-72, April, DOI: 10.1108/JEPP-01-2015-0002.
  9. Ryan H Murphy, 2016, "The willingness-to-pay for Caplanian irrationality," Rationality and Society, , volume 28, issue 1, pages 52-82, February, DOI: 10.1177/1043463115605478.

2015

  1. Klaus Desmet & Ejaz Ghani & Stephen O'Connell & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, 2015, "The Spatial Development Of India," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, volume 55, issue 1, pages 10-30, January.
  2. Desmet, Klaus & Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban, 2015, "On the spatial economic impact of global warming," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, volume 88, issue C, pages 16-37, DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2015.04.004.
  3. J. Clark & Robert Lawson & Alex Nowrasteh & Benjamin Powell & Ryan Murphy, 2015, "Does immigration impact institutions?," Public Choice, Springer, volume 163, issue 3, pages 321-335, June, DOI: 10.1007/s11127-015-0254-y.
  4. Ryan H. Murphy, 2015, "What Do Recent Trends in Economic Freedom of the World Really Tell Us?," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, volume 35, issue 1, pages 138-150, February.
  5. Murphy Ryan H., 2015, "Rational Irrationality Across Institutional Contexts," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, De Gruyter, volume 21, issue 1-2, pages 67-78, December, DOI: 10.1515/jeeh-2015-0005.
  6. Benjamin Powell & Ryan Murphy, 2015, "Nutritional Efficiency Wages and Unemployment: Where's the Beef?," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, volume 97, issue 2, pages 405-413.
  7. Ryan Murphy, 2015, "The Impact of Economic Inequality on Economic Freedom," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, volume 35, issue 1, pages 117-131, Winter.

2014

  1. Klaus Desmet & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, 2014, "Spatial Development," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, volume 104, issue 4, pages 1211-1243, April.
  2. Klaus Desmet & Stephen Parente, 2014, "Resistance to Technology Adoption: The Rise and Decline of Guilds," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, volume 17, issue 3, pages 437-458, July, DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2013.09.005.
  3. Joshua C. Hall & Robert A. Lawson, 2014, "Economic Freedom Of The World: An Accounting Of The Literature," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, volume 32, issue 1, pages 1-19, January.
  4. Young, Andrew T. & Lawson, Robert A., 2014, "Capitalism and labor shares: A cross-country panel study," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, volume 33, issue C, pages 20-36, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2013.11.006.
  5. Toby Huskinson & Robert Lawson, 2014, "Clusters of economic freedom," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 21, issue 15, pages 1070-1074, October, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2014.909565.

2013

  1. Klaus Desmet & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, 2013, "Urban Accounting and Welfare," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, volume 103, issue 6, pages 2296-2327, October.
  2. Desmet, Klaus & Ghani, Ejaz & O'Connell, Stephen, 2013, "India’s Spatial Development," World Bank - Economic Premise, The World Bank, issue 124, pages 1-5, September.
  3. Robert Lawson & Todd Nesbit, 2013, "Alchian and Allen Revisited: Law Enforcement and the Price of Weed," Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, volume 41, issue 4, pages 363-370, December, DOI: 10.1007/s11293-013-9392-0.

2012

  1. Klaus Desmet & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, 2012, "Innovation in Space," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, volume 102, issue 3, pages 447-452, May.
  2. George Deltas & Klaus Desmet & Giovanni Facchini, 2012, "Hub-and-spoke free trade areas: theory and evidence from Israel," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, volume 45, issue 3, pages 942-977, August, DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2012.01722.x.
  3. Desmet, Klaus & Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio & Wacziarg, Romain, 2012, "The political economy of linguistic cleavages," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, volume 97, issue 2, pages 322-338, DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.02.003.
  4. Klaus Desmet & Stephen Parente, 2012, "The evolution of markets and the revolution of industry: a unified theory of growth," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, volume 17, issue 3, pages 205-234, September, DOI: 10.1007/s10887-012-9080-y.
  5. Robert Lawson, 2012, "Bo Rothstein: The quality of government: corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective," Public Choice, Springer, volume 150, issue 3, pages 793-795, March, DOI: 10.1007/s11127-011-9903-y.
  6. Robert Lawson & Jayme Lemke, 2012, "Travel visas," Public Choice, Springer, volume 153, issue 1, pages 17-36, October, DOI: 10.1007/s11127-011-9771-5.

2011

  1. Klaus Desmet & Michel Breton & Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín & Shlomo Weber, 2011, "The stability and breakup of nations: a quantitative analysis," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, volume 16, issue 3, pages 183-213, September, DOI: 10.1007/s10887-011-9068-z.
  2. Hall Joshua C. & Lawson Robert A. & Wogsland Rachael, 2011, "The European Union and Economic Freedom," Global Economy Journal, De Gruyter, volume 11, issue 3, pages 1-16, September, DOI: 10.2202/1524-5861.1731.
  3. Daniel M. Gropper, Robert A. Lawson, and Jere T. Thorne Jr., 2011, "Economic Freedom and Happiness," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, volume 31, issue 2, pages 237-255, Spring/Su.
  4. Joshua C Hall & Robert Lawson & Chuck Skipton, 2011, "Estimating the size of the trade sector in the Economic Freedom of the World index," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, volume 31, issue 1, pages 466-472.

2010

  1. Klaus Desmet & Esteban Rossi‐Hansberg, 2010, "On Spatial Dynamics," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, volume 50, issue 1, pages 43-63, February, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2009.00648.x.
  2. Klaus Desmet & Stephen L. Parente, 2010, "Bigger Is Better: Market Size, Demand Elasticity, And Innovation," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, volume 51, issue 2, pages 319-333, May.
  3. Carden Art & Lawson Robert A., 2010, "Human Rights and Economic Liberalization," Business and Politics, De Gruyter, volume 12, issue 2, pages 1-20, August, DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1293.
  4. Lawson Robert & Ross Justin, 2010, "Economic Freedom and Beauty Pageant Success in the World," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, De Gruyter, volume 16, issue 1, pages 1-17, October, DOI: 10.2202/1145-6396.1233.
  5. Lawson, Robert A. & Clark, J.R., 2010, "Examining the Hayek-Friedman hypothesis on economic and political freedom," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, volume 74, issue 3, pages 230-239, June.
  6. Calcagno, Peter T. & Hall, Joshua C. & Lawson, Robert A., 2010, "Objectivism versus subjectivism: A market test," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, volume 76, issue 2, pages 445-448, November.
  7. Saurav Roychoudhury & Robert A. Lawson, 2010, "Economic freedom and sovereign credit ratings and default risk," Journal of Financial Economic Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, volume 2, issue 2, pages 149-162, June, DOI: 10.1108/17576381011070201.

2009

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban, 2009, "Spatial growth and industry age," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, volume 144, issue 6, pages 2477-2502, November.
  2. Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín & Shlomo Weber, 2009, "Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution," Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, volume 7, issue 6, pages 1291-1318, December.
  3. Joshua Hall & Robert Lawson, 2009, "Economic Freedom and Peace," Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, volume 37, issue 4, pages 445-446, December, DOI: 10.1007/s11293-009-9196-4.

2008

  1. Klaus Desmet & Felipe Meza & Juan A. Rojas, 2008, "Foreign direct investment and spillovers: gradualism may be better," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, volume 41, issue 3, pages 926-953, August, DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.00491.x.
  2. Joshua Hall & Robert Lawson, 2008, "Theory and evidence on economic freedom and economic growth: A comment," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, volume 15, issue 18, pages 1-6.
  3. Robert A. Lawson & Kathleen Sheehan & E. Frank Stephenson, 2008, "Vend It Like Beckham: David Beckham's Effect on MLS Ticket Sales," International Journal of Sport Finance, Fitness Information Technology, volume 3, issue 4, pages 189-195, November.
  4. Robert Lawson & Joshua Hall & G. Dirk Mateer, 2008, "From Abba to Zeppelin, Led: Using Music to Teach Economics," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 39, issue 1, pages 107-107, January, DOI: 10.3200/JECE.39.1.107.

2007

  1. Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, 2007, "Rational Underdevelopment," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, volume 109, issue 1, pages 1-24, March, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2007.00478.x.
  2. Marco Celentani & J. Conde-Ruiz & Klaus Desmet, 2007, "Inflation in Open Economies with Complete Markets," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), volume 31, issue 2, pages 271-291, May, DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0091-9.
  3. Joshua Hall & Robert Lawson & Lauren Raymer, 2007, "Do Gas Stations Raise Prices on the Weekend or Holidays?," Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, volume 35, issue 1, pages 119-120, March, DOI: 10.1007/s11293-006-9052-8.
  4. Robert Lawson, 2007, "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism," Public Choice, Springer, volume 131, issue 1, pages 249-251, April, DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-9038-8.

2006

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Fafchamps, Marcel, 2006, "Employment concentration across U.S. counties," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, volume 36, issue 4, pages 482-509, July.
  2. Robert Lawson & Lauren Raymer, 2006, "Testing the Alchian-Allen Theorem: A Study of Consumer Behavior in the Gasoline Market," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, volume 4, issue 35, pages 1-6.

2005

  1. Klaus Desmet & Marcel Fafchamps, 2005, "Changes in the spatial concentration of employment across US counties: a sectoral analysis 1972--2000," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, volume 5, issue 3, pages 261-284, June.
  2. Robert Lawson & E. Stephenson, 2005, "Easiness, Attractiveness, and Faculty Evaluations: Evidence from RateMyProfessors.com," Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, volume 33, issue 4, pages 485-486, December, DOI: 10.1007/s11293-005-2873-z.

2004

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Kujal, Praveen & Lobo, Felix, 2004, "Implementing R&D policies: an analysis of Spain's pharmaceutical research program," Research Policy, Elsevier, volume 33, issue 10, pages 1493-1507, December.
  2. Marco Celentani & J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz & Klaus Desmet, 2004, "Endogenous Policy Leads to Inefficient Risk Sharing," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, volume 7, issue 3, pages 758-787, July, DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2003.12.001.
  3. James D. Gwartney & Randall G. Holcombe & Robert A. Lawson, 2004, "Economic Freedom, Institutional Quality,and Cross-Country Differences in Income and Growth," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, volume 24, issue 3, pages 205-233, Fall.
  4. Robert A. Lawson & Edward Bierhanzl, 2004, "Labor Market Flexibility: An Index Approach to Cross-Country Comparisons," Journal of Labor Research, Transaction Publishers, volume 25, issue 1, pages 117-126, January.

2003

  1. Gwartney, James & Lawson, Robert, 2003, "The concept and measurement of economic freedom," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, volume 19, issue 3, pages 405-430, September.
  2. James Gwartney & Robert Lawson, 2003, "What have we learned from the measurement of economic freedom?," Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, issue Oct, pages 217-238.

2002

  1. Klaus Desmet, 2002, "A Simple Dynamic Model of Uneven Development and Overtaking," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, volume 112, issue 482, pages 894-918, October.

2000

  1. Desmet, Klaus, 2000, "Accounting for the Mexican banking crisis," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, volume 1, issue 2, pages 165-181, September.
  2. Desmet, Klaus, 2000, "A perfect foresight model of regional development and skill specialization," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, volume 30, issue 2, pages 221-242, March.

1999

  1. James D. Gwartney & Robert A. Lawson & Randall G. Holcombe, 1999, "Economic Freedom and the Environment for Economic Growth," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, volume 155, issue 4, pages 643-643, December.

1998

  1. James Gwartney & Randal Holcombe & Robert Lawson, 1998, "The Scope of Government and the Wealth of Nations," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, volume 18, issue 2, pages 163-190, Fall.

1995

  1. Mateer, G Dirk & Lawson, Robert A, 1995, "The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat," Public Choice, Springer, volume 83, issue 3-4, pages 305-312, June.

Undated

  1. Murphy, Ryan H., undated, "A Short Empirical Note on State Misery Indexes," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, volume 46, issue 2, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.262584.

Books

Undated

  1. N/A, undated, "Breaking down the barriers to firmgrowth in Europe The fourth EFIGE policy report," Bruegel Blueprints, Bruegel, number 744.

Chapters

2024

  1. James D. Gwartney & Robert A. Lawson, 2024, "The creation of the Economic Freedom of the World index," Chapters, Edward Elgar Publishing, chapter 2, in: Niclas Berggren, "Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom".

2021

  1. Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban & Nagy, Dávid Krisztián & Desmet, Klaus & Conte, Bruno, 2021, "Trade to adapt: Changing specialisation to cope with climate change," CEPR Press Book Chapters, Centre for Economic Policy Research, chapter 42, in: Weder di Mauro, Beatrice, "Combating Climate Change: A CEPR Collection".

2015

  1. Desmet, Klaus & Henderson, J. Vernon, 2015, "The Geography of Development Within Countries," Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Elsevier, chapter 0, in: Gilles Duranton & J. V. Henderson & William C. Strange, "Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics", DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59531-7.00022-3.

2008

  1. Robert A. Lawson, 2008, "On the Methodology of the Economic Freedom of the World Index," Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 0, in: King Banaian & Bryan Roberts, "The Design and Use of Political Economy Indicators", DOI: 10.1057/9780230616622_9.
  2. Walter Block & Robert A. Lawson, 2008, "Promotion, turnover and preemptive wage offers," World Scientific Book Chapters, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., chapter 1, "Labor Economics From A Free Market Perspective Employing the Unemployable".

Software components

2013

  1. Klaus Desmet & Stephen Parente, 2013, "Code and data files for "Resistance to Technology Adoption: The Rise and Decline of Guilds"," Computer Codes, Review of Economic Dynamics, number 11-151, revised .

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