Ownership form has strong implications for firm performance and the nature of competition in a market. Whereas there are differences across ownership forms on high levels of aggregation, the most obvious effects of ownership become visible when samples of establishments are observed at a more...

This dissertation considers the determinants of countries' real income per capita, controlling for the effects of their physical location. We use meta-analysis to summarize the results of previous research, and then apply a new estimator to control for spatial effects in a system of simultaneous...

We use disaggregated data on the components of private fixed investment (PFI) to estimate industry-level responses of real investment and capital prices to unanticipated monetary policy. The response functions derive from a restricted large-scale VAR estimated over 1959-2007. Our results point...