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Financing Local Public Projects, with S. Coate, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 103, November 2023. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.

Risk preference types, limited consideration, and welfare, with F. Molinari, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, with comments and rejoinder, Volume 41, Issue 4, October 2023.

Community Development with Externalities and Corrective Taxation, with S. Coate, Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 22, Issue 3, pp. 499-545, May 2022. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.

Heterogeneous Choice Sets and Preferences, with M. Coughlin, F. Molinari, and J. Teitelbaum, Econometrica, Volume 89, Issue 5, pp. 2015-2048, September 2021. Lead Article. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.**

Discrete Choice under Risk with Limited Consideration, with F. Molinari and M. Thirkettle, American Economic Review, Volume 111, No. 6, pp. 1972-2006. June 2021. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.**

Community Development by Public Wealth Accumulation, with S. Coate, Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 121, January 2021. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.

The Cost of Legal Restrictions on Experience Rating, with F. Molinari, D. Steeg Morris and J. Teitelbaum, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1, pp. 38-70, March 2020.*

Peer Preferences, School Competition, and the Effects of Public School Choice, with D. Clark and S. Coate, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Volume 11, Number 4, pp. 124-58, November 2019. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.

Estimating Risk Preferences in the Field, with F. Molinari, T. O'Donoghue and Josh Teitelbaum, Journal of Economic Literature, Volume 56, No. 2: pp. 501-564, June 2018.

Political Economy of Debt and Growth, with M. Battaglini, Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 82, pp. 36–51, September 2016. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.

Inference under Stability of Risk Preferences, with F. Molinari and J. Teitelbaum, Quantitative Economics, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 367-409, August 2016.*

Property Taxation, Zoning and Efficiency in A Dynamic Tiebout Model, with S. Coate, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 3, Number 2, pp. 1-38, August 2016. Lead Article.

Externalities, Endogenous Productivity, and Poverty Traps, with R. DiCecio, European Economic Review, Volume 85, pp. 112-126, June 2016.

Bureaucrats, Voters, and Public Investment, with S. Coate, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 119, pp. 34-48, November 2014. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.

Fiscal Policy Over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory, with M. Battaglini and S. Coate, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 148, Issue 6, pp. 2223-2265, November 2013.

The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices, with F. Molinari, T. O'Donoghue and J. Teitelbaum, American Economic Review, Volume 103, Number 6, pp. 2499-2529, October 2013.*

Distinguishing Probability Weighting from Risk Misperceptions in Field Data, with F. Molinari, T. O'Donoghue and J. Teitelbaum, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Volume 103, Number 3, pp. 580-585, May 2013.*

Cross Country Income Convergence Revisited, with R. DiCecio, Economics Letters, Volume 113, Issue 3, pp. 244-247, December 2011.

Entry Costs, Industry Structure, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences, with R. DiCecio, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 106, Issue 5, pp. 1828-1851, September 2011. The Preprint can be downloaded here.

Are Risk Preferences Stable Across Contexts? Evidence from Insurance Data, with J. Prince and J. Teitelbaum, American Economic Review, Volume 101, Issue 2, pp. 591-631, April 2011. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.

Institutions and Growth in Limited Access Societies, with A. Guerdjikova, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 14, Issue 2, pp. 528-568, March 2011. The Preprint can be downloaded here.

Non Performing Loans, Prospective Bailouts, and Japan's Slowdown, Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 57, Issue 7, pp. 873-890, October 2010. The Online Appendix can be downloaded here.

Institutional Causes of Output Volatility, with R. DiCecio, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Volume 92, Issue 3, pp. 205-224, May/June 2010.

Entry Costs and Cross-Country Differences in Productivity and Output , Journal of Economic Growth, Volume 13, Number 2, pp. 145-167, June 2008.

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

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




Financial support from the National Science Foundation through grant SES-1031136 for research marked by a "*" is gratefully acknowledged.

Financial support from the National Science Foundation through grant SES-1824448 for research marked by a "**" is gratefully acknowledged.

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Levon Barseghyan
Professor
456 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

E-mail: lb247@cornell.edu
Phone: (607) 255-6284
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