SOME PUBLISHED PAPERS

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• ​Who gets to the top? Generalists versus specialists in managerial organizations.
  Rand Journal of Economics, 2012.
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• Corruption across countries and regions: Some consequences of local osmosis. 
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2007.
  
  
• Some empirical regularities in market shares.​Management Science, 2006.​
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• Can government collect resources without hurting investors? Taxation of returns from assets.
  In: Economics for an imperfect world. MIT Press, 2003.
  
  
• Mood fluctuations, projection bias, and volatility of equity prices.
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2002.
  
  
• Some results for the comparative statistics of steady states of higher-order discrete dynamic systems.
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2000.
  
  
• Some envelope theorems for integer and discrete choice variables.
  International Economic Review, 1998.
  
  
• The quality of managers in centralized versus decentralized organizations.
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1991.
  
  
• The effects of child mortality changes on fertility choice and parental welfare.
  Journal of Political Economy, 1991.
  
  
• Social osmosis and patterns of crime.
  Journal of Political Economy, 1991.
  
  
• Fallibility in human organizations and political systems.
  Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1991.
  
  
• A useful statement of some Schur-Cohn stability criteria for higher order discrete dynamic systems.
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1991.
  
  
• A proposal for using incentive precommitments in public enterprise funding.
  World Development, 1991.
  
  
• An explicit closed-form formula for profit-maximizing k-out-of-n systems subject to two kinds of failures.
  Microelectronics Reliability, 1990.
  
  
• Technological learning, social learning and technological change.
  In: The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development. Macmillan Press, 1989.
  
  
• Sources of technological divergence between developed and less developed countries.
  In: Debt, Stabilization and Development. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
  
  
• Comparative properties of sums of independent binomials with different parameters.
  Economics Letters, 1989.
  
  
• Qualitative properties of profit-making k-out-of-n systems subject to two kinds of failures.
  IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 1988.
  
  
• Distributional consequences of rural food levy and subsidized urban rations.
  European Economic Review, 1988.
  
  
• Committees, hierarchies and polyarchies.
  Economic Journal, 1988.
  
  
• Tropical economies and weather information.
  In: Monsoons. Wiley, 1987.
  
  
• The taxation and pricing of agricultural and industrial goods in developing economies.
  In: The theory of taxation for developing countries. Oxford University Press, 1987.
  
  
• The invariance of market innovation to the number of firms.
  Rand Journal of Economics, 1987.
  
  
• Queues, rations and market: Comparisons of outcomes for the poor and the rich.
  American Economic Review, 1987.
  
  
• Price scissors and the structure of the economy.
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1987.
  
  
• The economics of price scissors: Reply.
  American Economic Review, 1986.
  
  
• The architecture of economic systems: Hierarchies and polyarchies.
  American Economic Review, 1986.
  
  
• Size, supervision, and patterns of labor transactions.
  Journal of Philippine Development, 1986.
  
  
• The social cost of labor and project evaluation: A general approach.
  Journal of Public Economics, 1985.
  
  
• Human fallibility and economic organization.
  American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 1985.
  
  
• What role does equity play in the international distribution of development aid?
  In: Economic structure and performance. Academic Press, 1984.
  
  
• The economics of price scissors.
  American Economic Review, 1984.
  
  
• How much redistribution is possible through commodity taxes?
  Journal of Public Economics, 1983.
  
  
• Features of British indigo in India.
  Social Scientist, 1980.
  
  
• Priorities of developing countries in weather and climate.
  World Development, 1979.