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Paul S. Segerstrom


Tore Browaldh Professor of International Economics


 

Address

Stockholm School of Economics
Box 6501
SE-113 83 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: +46 8 736 9203
Fax: +46 8 31 3207
E-mail: paul.segerstrom@hhs.se

Education

Brandeis University, 1975-1979, B.A., Magna Cum Laude
Major Fields: Economics and Mathematics

Brown University, 1979-1981, M.A.
Major Field: Economics

University of Rochester, 1981-1985, Ph.D.
Major Field: Economics
Dissertation: "The Process of Creative Destruction and Stochastic Games"
Supervisor: James W. Friedman

Fields of Specialization

Economic Growth
International Trade

Publications

"Demons and Repentance," Journal of Economic Theory, June 1988, pp. 32-52.

"Moral Efficiency: A New Criterion for Social Choice," Social Choice and Welfare,
April 1990, pp. 109-129.

"A Schumpeterian Model of the Product Life Cycle," (with T.C.A. Anant and Elias
Dinopoulos), American Economic Review, December 1990, pp. 1077-1091.
[Reprinted in Gene M. Grossman (ed.) Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence,
1996, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, U.K.]

"On the Feasibility of Maximal Collusion," Journal of Economic Theory,
June 1991, pp. 234-238.

"Innovation, Imitation and Economic Growth," Journal of Political Economy,
August 1991, pp. 807-827.

"High-Technology-Industry Trade and Investment," (with Elias Dinopoulos and
James Oehmke), Journal of International Economics, February 1993, pp. 49-71.

"R&D Subsidies and Economic Growth," (with Carl Davidson),
The RAND Journal of Economics, Autumn 1998, pp. 548-577. PDF (824 KB)

"Endogenous Growth Without Scale Effects," American Economic Review,
December 1998, pp. 1290-1310. PDF (836 KB).

"The Dynamic Effects of Contingent Tariffs," (with Elias Dinopoulos),
Journal of International Economics, February 1999, pp. 191-222.
PDF (864 KB) includes unpubished appendix.

"A Schumpeterian Model of Protection and Relative Wages," (with Elias Dinopoulos),
American Economic Review, June 1999, pp. 450-472. PDF

"The R&D Incentives of Industry Leaders," (with James Zolnierek),
International Economic Review, August 1999, pp. 745-766. PDF (816 KB).

"The Long-Run Growth Effects of R&D Subsidies," Journal of Economic Growth,
September 2000, pp. 277-305. PDF (700 KB).

"International Migration and Growth in Developed Countries: A Theoretical Analysis"
(with Per Lundborg), Economica, November 2000, pp. 579-604.

"The Growth and Welfare Effects of International Mass Migration," (with Per Lundborg),
Journal of International Economics, January 2002, pp. 177-204. PDF (140 KB).

"Naomi Klein and the Anti-Globalization Movement,"
in Mats Lundahl, ed. Globalization and Its Enemies. 2003, Stockholm: Economic Research Institute.
[Revised August 2008. PDF.]

"Intel Economics," International Economic Review, February 2007, pp. 247-280. PDF

"Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth," (with Peter Gustafsson), forthcoming,
Review of International Economics. PDF.

"Intellectual Property Rights, Multinational Firms and Economic Growth" (with Elias Dinopoulos),
forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics. PDF.

"North-South Trade with Increasing Product Variety" (with Peter Gustafsson), forthcoming,
Journal of Development Economics. PDF. (Appendix PDF).

Research in Progress

"North-South Trade and Economic Growth" (with Elias Dinopoulos). October 2007.
"Revise and resubmit" requested from Economic Journal. PDF.

"North-South Trade with Multinational Firms and Increasing Product Variety" (with Peter Gustafsson).
October 2009. Revised version for the International Economic Review. PDF.

"A Schumpeterian Growth Model with Heterogenous Firms" (with Antonio Minniti and Carmelo Parello).
September 2009. PDF.

"Trade and Economic Growth", June 2009, for the Palgrave Handbook of International Trade. PDF.

Papers Written For The General Public

"Naomi Klein and the Anti-Globalization Movement", revised August 2008. PDF.

"Do trade agreements just benefit multinational firms?"
Speech given at the SSE graduation ceremony on April 4, 2008. PDF.

CV

Last revised November 3, 2009