Raaj Sah, Professor at University of Chicago
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SOME PUBLISHED PAPERS OF RAAJ SAH

  • ​​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.