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David Greenstreet
 Assistant Professor of Economics and Social Science Ph.D., Economics University of Michigan 2006 Office: BP 219A Phone: (412) 268-8364 Fax: (412) 268-6938 View curriculum vitae Centers Strategy Entrepreneurship and Technological Change (SETChange) Center for Product Strategy and Innovation View list of all SDS faculty |
Research Interests My central research interests are structural modeling and empirical estimation of firm productivity dynamics, innovation effort and R&D, and strategic behaviors such as entry/exit, investment, exporting, product mix, and product design. Industry structure and dynamics are both a context and a consequence of such firm-level behaviors. Therefore industry-level productivity, innovation, and structural characteristics such as concentration and turnover can be studied as co-evolving outcomes of dynamic strategic interactions among firms. From this core my interests spread into several connected fields. Other aspects of industrial organization, such as market power, competition and collusion, and theory of the firm, have many links to the behaviors and phenomena listed in the previous paragraph. From a macroeconomic perspective, firm productivity growth, turnover, and innovation together with endogenous incentives for these are ingredients of endogenous economic growth. Since firms' activities take place in specific places, their successes, failures, and location choices have implications for economic geography and regional economic development. Likewise, at a global scale firm location and international sales can be analyzed with the tools of modern trade theory. Finally, as with most modern empirical industrial organization, some of my research depends upon developments in applied econometrics. Selected publications Exploiting Sequential Learning to Estimate Establishment-Level Productivity Dynamics and Decision Rules. 2007. Oxford University, Department of Economics, Discussion Paper 345. Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol on West Virginia's Economy. West Virginia University, Bureau of Business and Economic Research. December 1999. Impacts of Phase II SO2 Emission Restrictions on West Virginia's Economy. West Virginia University, Bureau of Business and Economic Research. December 1999. WVU Electric Industry Restructuring Research Group, Electric Industry Restructuring: Opportunities and Risks for West Virginia. Set of five reports. July 1997 - September 1998. Overview of Economic Aspects of the Polymer Alliance Zone. West Virginia University, Bureau of Business and Economic Research. March 1996. "The Effect of Government Incentives and Assistance on Location and Job Growth in Manufacturing." With Robert Walker. 1991. Regional Studies. 25(1):13-30. "A Conceptual Framework for Construction of Hybrid Regional Input-Output Models." 1989. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 23(5):283-289. |