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Working Papers

2013

1. What is a civil war ? a critical review of its definition and (econometric) consequences
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
   See also Journal Article What Is a Civil War?A Critical Review of Its Definition and (Econometric) Consequences, The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank (2013) View citations (12) (2013)

2001

2. The economic control of infectious diseases
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article The Economical Control of Infectious Diseases, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2004) View citations (175) (2004)

1991

3. Agricultural pricing systems and transportation policy in Africa
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

1990

4. THE ECONOMIES OF AFRICA AND THE PRICES OF THEIR EXPORTS
   Princeton Studies in International Economics, International Economics Section, Departement of Economics Princeton University, View citations (14)

1987

5. Country Risk and the Organization of International Capital Transfer
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (16)

1986

6. The Pure Theory of Country Risk
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (236)
   See also Chapter The Pure Theory of Country Risk, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1991) (1991)
   Journal Article The pure theory of country risk, European Economic Review, Elsevier (1986) View citations (235) (1986)

1982

7. A Theory of Expropriation and Deviations From Perfect Capital Mobility
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (46)
   See also Journal Article A Theory of Expropriation and Deviations from Perfect Capital Mobility, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (1984) View citations (109) (1984)

1981

8. Issues in Controllability and the Theory of Economic Policy
   NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
   See also Journal Article Issues in controllability and the theory of economic policy, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (1981) View citations (9) (1981)

1980

9. Economic Consequences of Unfunded Vested Pension Benefits
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Economic consequences of unfunded vested pension benefits, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (1982) View citations (1) (1982)

1978

10. The Employment Contract, Corporate Financial Structure and the Regulation of Private Pension Plan Funding
    Working Paper, Economics Department, Queen's University

1977

11. Seasonality in Regression: An Application of Smoothness Priors
    Working Paper, Economics Department, Queen's University View citations (4)

1975

12. Cyclical and Equilibrium Relations among Variables in Dynamic Models: The Phillips Curve and the Real Wage
    University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics
13. Land Reform: Some Theoretical Considerations
    University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics
14. U.S. Commercial Banks and the Eurodollar Market
    University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2018

1. The allocation of health (and other professional) personnel to rural areas of poor countries
   Health Economics, 2018, 27, (2), 390-403

2016

2. Sectoral asymmetries and a social-welfare interpretation of Hukou
   China Economic Review, 2016, 38, (C), 108-115 View citations (4)

2013

3. What Is a Civil War?A Critical Review of Its Definition and (Econometric) Consequences
   The World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28, (2), 159-190 View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper What is a civil war ? a critical review of its definition and (econometric) consequences, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2013) View citations (13) (2013)

2011

4. HIV Testing: Principles and Practice
   The World Bank Research Observer, 2011, 26, (1), 1-41 View citations (3)
5. The Economics of Infection Control
   Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2011, 3, (1), 277-296 View citations (22)

2010

6. Taxation of profits when there are profits
   Economics Letters, 2010, 107, (2), 145-147

2009

7. A Review of Michael Tomz's Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries
   Journal of Economic Literature, 2009, 47, (2), 475-81 View citations (1)

2005

8. Tax/subsidy policies toward vector-borne infectious diseases
   Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (4), 647-674 View citations (45)
9. The HIV Epidemic in Four African Countries Seen through the Demographic and Health Surveys
   Journal of African Economies, 2005, 14, (2), 191-246 View citations (20)

2004

10. The Economical Control of Infectious Diseases
    Economic Journal, 2004, 114, (492), 1-27 View citations (175)
    See also Working Paper The economic control of infectious diseases, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2001) View citations (4) (2001)

2003

11. Infectious Diseases, Public Policy, and the Marriage of Economics and Epidemiology
    The World Bank Research Observer, 2003, 18, (2), 129-157 View citations (57)

2000

12. A Preface to the Economic Analysis of Disease Transmission
    Australian Economic Papers, 2000, 39, (1), 68-83 View citations (2)
13. Development Economics and Policy: Edited by David Sapsford and John-ren Chen, 1998, MacMillan (Houndmills and London) and St. Martin's (New York), pp. 1-569, i-xiii, US price $79.95
    Journal of Development Economics, 2000, 62, (1), 277-280

1997

14. Revenue erosion through exemption and evasion in Cameroon, 1993
    Journal of Public Economics, 1997, 64, (3), 407-424 View citations (42)

1996

15. The Revenues and Expenditures of African Governments: Modalities and Consequences
    Journal of African Economies, 1996, 5, (2), 199-227 View citations (2)

1995

16. Some curious properties of a familiar model of debt and default
    Economics Letters, 1995, 48, (3-4), 367-371 View citations (6)

1992

17. Institutional and Intertemporal Influences on the Trade of Developing Countries
    American Economic Review, 1992, 82, (2), 180-85 View citations (1)
18. Transportation Policy and Panterritorial Pricing in Africa
    The World Bank Economic Review, 1992, 6, (2), 213-31 View citations (2)
19. Tropical Tree Crops, Credit and Moral Hazard
    Oxford Economic Papers, 1992, 44, (3), 480-93 View citations (1)

1989

20. Transportation, State Marketing, and the Taxation of the Agricultural Hinterland
    Journal of Political Economy, 1989, 97, (5), 1113-37 View citations (13)

1986

21. Agro-Industrial Processing and Agricultural Pricing Under Uncertainty
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1986, 53, (1), 153-169
22. Social Welfare Underpinnings of Urban Bias and Unemployment
    Economic Journal, 1986, 96, (382), 413-24 View citations (10)
23. The pure theory of country risk
    European Economic Review, 1986, 30, (3), 481-513 View citations (235)
    See also Working Paper The Pure Theory of Country Risk, NBER Working Papers (1986) View citations (236) (1986)
    Chapter The Pure Theory of Country Risk, NBER Chapters, 1991, 391-435 (1991) (1991)

1985

24. Economic stabilization, conditionality, and political stability
    International Organization, 1985, 39, (4), 729-754 View citations (16)

1984

25. A Theory of Expropriation and Deviations from Perfect Capital Mobility
    Economic Journal, 1984, 94, (373), 16-40 View citations (109)
    See also Working Paper A Theory of Expropriation and Deviations From Perfect Capital Mobility, NBER Working Papers (1982) View citations (46) (1982)
26. Controllability and the theory of economic policy: A further note
    Journal of Public Economics, 1984, 24, (1), 127-129 View citations (3)
27. IMF conditionality: John Williamson, ed., (Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., 1983) pp. xvi. +679, $30.00
    Journal of International Economics, 1984, 17, (3-4), 387-389

1983

28. Savings and Nutrition at Low Incomes
    Journal of Political Economy, 1983, 91, (5), 841-55 View citations (40)

1982

29. Economic consequences of unfunded vested pension benefits
    Journal of Public Economics, 1982, 19, (2), 171-186 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Economic Consequences of Unfunded Vested Pension Benefits, NBER Working Papers (1980) View citations (4) (1980)
30. The estimation of the two-gap model
    Journal of International Economics, 1982, 12, (1-2), 111-124 View citations (5)

1981

31. Debt with Potential Repudiation: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1981, 48, (2), 289-309 View citations (1723)
32. Issues in controllability and the theory of economic policy
    Journal of Public Economics, 1981, 15, (1), 33-43 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper Issues in Controllability and the Theory of Economic Policy, NBER Technical Working Papers (1981) View citations (9) (1981)

1980

33. Classification probabilities for the disequilibrium model
    Journal of Econometrics, 1980, 14, (2), 239-246 View citations (27)
34. Corporate financial structure and the funding of private pension plans
    Journal of Public Economics, 1980, 13, (2), 231-247 View citations (10)
35. LDC participation in international financial markets: Debt and reserves
    Journal of Development Economics, 1980, 7, (1), 3-21 View citations (50)

1974

36. Aggregate demand, the wage gap and unemployment in LDC's
    Journal of Development Economics, 1974, 1, (3), 235-246 View citations (2)

Chapters

2011

1. Infectious Diseases: Responses to the Security Threat Without Borders
   Chapter 9 in Security and Development, 2011

1991

2. The Pure Theory of Country Risk
   A chapter in International Volatility and Economic Growth: The First Ten Years of The International Seminar on Macroeconomics, 1991, pp 391-435
   See also Working Paper The Pure Theory of Country Risk, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1986) View citations (236) (1986)
   Journal Article The pure theory of country risk, Elsevier (1986) View citations (235) (1986)

1988

3. Saving and development
   Chapter 10 in Handbook of Development Economics, 1988, vol. 1, pp 381-424 View citations (80)