Curriculum Vitae
Peter J. Klenow
Contact Information
Department of
Klenow at stanford.edu
Education
Ph.D in Economics,
Bachelor of
Science,
Employment
2003-present: Professor,
Department of Economics,
2000-2003: Senior
Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of
1995-2000: Associate
Professor, Graduate
1991-1995: Assistant
Professor, Graduate
Publications
"State-Dependent vs. Time-Dependent Pricing: Does It Matter
for Recent U.S. Inflation?" with Oleksiy Kryvtsov, February 2008, forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of
Economics.
"Endogenous Variety
and the Gains from Trade" with Costas Arkolakis,
Svetlana Demidova, and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare,
American Economic
Review Papers and Proceedings 98, May 2008, forthcoming.
"Sticky Information
and Sticky Prices" with Jonathan Willis, Journal of Monetary Economics 54,
September 2007, 79-99.
"Relative Prices and
Relative Prosperity" with Chang-Tai Hsieh, American Economic Review 97, June
2007, 562-585.
"Valuing Consumer
Products by the Time Spent Using Them: An Application to the Internet"
with Austan Goolsbee, American Economic
Review Papers and Proceedings 96, May 2006, 108-113.
"The Variety and
Quality of a Nation's Exports" with David Hummels,
American Economic
Review 95, June 2005, 704-723.
"Externalities and
Growth" Externalities and Growth" with Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Handbook of Economic
Growth, volume 1A, P. Aghion and S. Durlauf, eds., 2005, 817-861 (chapter 11).
"Some Evidence on the
Importance of Sticky Prices" with Mark Bils, Journal of Political Economy 112, October 2004,
947-985.
"Sticky
Prices and Monetary Policy Shocks" with Mark Bils
and Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Federal Reserve Bank of
"Measuring
Consumption Growth: The Impact of New and Better Products," Federal Reserve Bank of
"Evidence
on Learning and Network Externalities in the Diffusion of Home Computers" with Austan
Goolsbee, Journal of Law
& Economics 45, October 2002, 317-344.
"Quantifying
Quality Growth"
with Mark Bils, American
Economic Review 91, September 2001,
1006-1030.
"The
Acceleration in Variety Growth" with Mark Bils, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 91, May 2001,
274-280.
"Does
Schooling Cause Growth?" with Mark Bils,
American Economic Review 90,
December 2000, 1160-1183.Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment, Bureau
of Labor Statistics, 2001-present.
"Ideas vs.
Rival Human Capital: Industry Evidence on Growth Models," Journal of Monetary Economics 42, August 1998, 3-24.
"Using
Consumer Theory to Test Competing Business Cycle Models" with Mark Bils, Journal of Political Economy 106, April 1998,
233-261.
"Learning
Curves and the Cyclical Behavior of Manufacturing Industries," Review of Economic
Dynamics
1, April 1998, 531-550.
"The Neoclassical Revival in Growth Economics: Has It Gone Too Far?"
with Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1997, B. Bernanke and
J. Rotemberg ed., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 73-102.
"Economic Growth: A Review Essay" with Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Journal of
Monetary Economics 40, December 1997, 597-618.
"High-Tech R&D Subsidies: Estimating the Effects of Sematech" with Douglas A. Irwin, Journal of International Economics 40, May 1996,
323-344.
"Industry Innovation: Where and Why," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 44, June 1996, 125-150.
"Sematech: Purpose and Performance," with Douglas A.
Irwin, Proceedings
of the
"Learning
by Doing Spillovers in the Semiconductor Industry," with Douglas A. Irwin,
Journal of
Political Economy 102, December 1994, 1200-1227.
"The
Importance of Federal Reserve Credibility: Evidence from the Taylor
Model," in Evaluating Policy Regimes, R. Bryant, P. Hooper,
and C. Mann ed.
Comments
"Income Differences Across Countries", July
2006 (plenary talk at the Society for Economic Dynamics annual meeting in
"It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models," World Bank Economic Review 15, 2001, 221-224.
"Stronger Protection or Technological Revolution: What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?," Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy 48, June 1998, 305-309.
"Measuring Inflation
and Real Growth," Federal Reserve Bank of
Working Papers
“Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in
“Real Rigidities and Nominal Price Changes” with Jonathan Willis, March 2006.
Professional Activities
Gordon
and Betty Moore Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research,
2006-present.
Intergovernmental
Personnel Assignment, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2001-present.
Microeconomics
of Growth Advisory Board, World Bank, 2006-present.
Visiting
Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2005-present.
Visiting
Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2004-2006.
Visiting
Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of
NBER Research Associate
2003-present (Faculty Research Fellow, 1997-2003).
Co-organizer with Chad
Jones of the NBER group on Economic Growth, 2000-present.
Co-organizer
of October 1995, October 2000, and February 2004 NBER EFG meetings.
Associate Editor, Review of
Economic Dynamics, 2000-2005.
Associate Editor, The B.E. Journal in Macroeconomics, 2000-2005.
Board of Editors, American
Economic Review, 2000-2006.
Associate Editor, Journal
of Economic Perspectives, 2008-present.
Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008-present
Grants and Awards
2007-2009 Kauffman
Foundation Grant
2003-2006: Ralph Landau
Chair, Department of Economics, Stanford University.
1999 MBA
Teaching Award, Graduate
1993-1995: National Science
Foundation grant for "Innovation and Business Cycles."
1993
Executive MBA Teaching Award, Graduate
1990-1991
Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
1988-1989 Graduate
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award.
February 2008