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Levon Barseghyan

 

RESEARCH

 

Working Papers

1.   Institutions and Growth in Limited Access Societies, with A. Guerdjikova, August 2009. Revised and resubmitted to Journal of Economic Theory.

 

2.   Are Risk Preferences Stable Across Contexts? Evidence from Insurance Data, with J. Prince and J. Teitelbaum, June 2009. Revised and resubmitted to American Economic Review.

 

3.   Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences, with R. DiCecio, St. Louis FED Working Paper #2009-005A, February 2009. Revised and resubmitted to Journal of Economic Theory.

 

4.   Non Performing Loans, Prospective Bailouts, and Japan’s Slowdown, October 2008. Revised and resubmitted to Journal of Monetary Economics.

 

5.   Endogenous Productivity and Multiple Steady States, with R. DiCecio, St. Louis FED Working Paper #2008-023A, July 2008. Under revision for Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

 

6.   Institutional Causes of Macroeconomic Volatility, with R. DiCecio, St. Louis FED Working Paper #2008-021A, June 2008.

 

Publications

1.   Entry Costs and Cross-Country Differences in Productivity and Output, Journal of Economic Growth, Vol 13: Number 2, June 2008.

 

2.   Optimal Monetary Policy, Endogenous Sticky Prices and Multiplicity of Equilibria, with R. DiCecio, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: 2007, Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 8.

 

3.   Japan’s Government Debt and Interest Rates, Japan and the World Economy, Volume 18, Issue 3, August 2006, Pages 278-297.

 

4.   Robert E. Lucas, Jr., New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition.