Curriculum Vitae
Peter J. Klenow
Contact Information
Department
of Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6072
Klenow@stanford.edu
Education
Ph.D in Economics, Stanford University, 1991.
Bachelor
of Science, University of California at Berkeley, 1986.
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
Refereed Publications
"Development
Accounting" with Chang-Tai Hsieh, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2,
January 2010, 207-223.
"Misallocation
and Manufacturing TFP in China and India," with Chang-Tai Hsieh, Quarterly
Journal of Economics 124, November 2009, 1403-1448.
"State-Dependent
vs. Time-Dependent Pricing: Does It Matter for Recent U.S. Inflation?"
with Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Quarterly
Journal of Economics 123, August 2008, 863-904.
"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.
"The
Variety and Quality of a Nation's Exports" with David Hummels,
American Economic
Review 95, June 2005, 704-723.
"Some
Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Prices" with Mark Bils,
Journal of Political Economy 112, October
2004, 947-985.
"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.
"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.
"High-Tech R&D Subsidies: Estimating the Effects of Sematech" with Douglas A. Irwin, Journal of International Economics 40, May 1996,
323-344.
"Learning by Doing Spillovers in the Semiconductor Industry," with
Douglas A. Irwin, Journal of Political
Economy 102, December 1994, 1200-1227.
Other Publications
"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, 444-450.
"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.
"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).
"Sticky
Prices and Monetary Policy Shocks" with Mark Bils
and Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Winter
2003, 2-9.
"Measuring
Consumption Growth: The Impact of New and Better Products," Federal
Reserve Bank of
"The
Acceleration in Variety Growth" with Mark Bils, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 91, May 2001, 274-280.
"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.
"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
"The
Importance of Federal Reserve Credibility: Evidence from the Taylor
Model,"
in Evaluating Policy Regimes, R. Bryant,
P. Hooper, and C. Mann ed.
Comments
On "Why Doesn’t Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries” by Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch, in
the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2009, 326-329.
On
"Big Answers for Big Questions: The Presumption of Growth Policy,” by Abhijit Banerjee, in What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small,
J. Cohen and W. Easterly ed. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2009,
222-226.
"Income
Differences Across Countries", July 2006 (plenary
talk at the Society for Economic Dynamics annual meeting in Vancouver, British
Columbia).
On "It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models," by Easterly and Levine, World Bank Economic Review 15, 2001, 221-224.
On "Stronger Protection or Technological Revolution: What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?” by Kortum and Lerner, Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy 48, June 1998, 305-309.
On "Measuring Inflation and Real Growth" by Jack Triplett, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 79, May/June 1997, 43-46.
Working Papers
“Beyond
GDP?
Welfare Across Countries and Time” with Chad Jones,
September 2010.
"Microeconomic
Evidence on Price-Setting" with Benjamin Malin,
forthcoming in the Handbook of Monetary
Economics, September 2010 draft.
“India’s
Mysterious Manufacturing Miracle,” with Albert Bollard and Gunjan
Sharma, September 2010.
"Reset
Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks" with Mark Bils and Benjamin Malin, February
2009. Under revision for the American Economic
Review.
"Real
Rigidities and Nominal Price Changes" with Jon 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, 2006-2007.
Visiting
Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 1994-1999, 2003-2004, 2006, 2009,
2010.
Visiting
Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2005-present.
Visiting
Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2004-2006.
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, February 2004, and February 2009 NBER EFG
meetings.
Research
Associate, Center for the Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency, 2010-present.
Associate
Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008-present
Associate
Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008-present.
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.
Macroeconomics
Programme Director, International Growth Centre in
London, 2009.
Visiting
Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Fall
2008.
Grants and Awards
Ralph Landau
Chair, Department of Economics, Stanford University, 2003-present
Faculty
Teaching Award, Department of Economics, Stanford University, 2010
Kauffman
Foundation Grant, 2007-2009
MBA Teaching
Award, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1999
National
Science Foundation grant for "Innovation and Business Cycles,” 1993-1995
Executive
MBA Teaching Award, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1993
Sloan
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1990-1991
Graduate
Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Economics, Stanford University, 1989
September 2010