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Rubén Hernández-Murillo

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Published Papers

"Spatial Dependence in Models of State Fiscal Policy Convergence"
with Cletus C. Coughlin and Thomas A. Garrett
Public Finance Review, May 2007, 35(3), pp. 361-84.

"The Information Content of Regional Employment Data for Forecasting Aggregate Conditions"
with Michael T. Owyang
Economics Letters, March 2006, 90(3), pp. 335-9.

"Patent Licensing Revisited: Heterogeneous Firms and Product Differentiation"
with Gerard Llobet
International Journal of Industrial Organization, January 2006, 24(1), pp. 149-75.

"Racial Profiling or Racist Policing? Bounds Tests in Aggregate Data"
with John Knowles
International Economic Review, August 2004, 45(3), pp. 959-89.

"Tax Competition and Tax Harmonization with Evasion"
with Néstor Gándelman
Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2004, 4(1), Article 13.

Review Articles

"Experiments in Financial Liberalization: The Mexican Banking Sector"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, September/October 2007, 89(5), pp. 415-32.

"The Geography, Economics, and Politics of Lottery Adoption"
with Cletus C. Coughlin and Thomas A. Garrett
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June 2006, 88(3), pp. 165-80.

"Does Consumer Sentiment Predict Regional Consumption?"
with Thomas A. Garrett and Michael T. Owyang
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, March/April 2005, 87(2, Part 1), pp. 123-35.

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The Regional Economist Articles

"Which Came First—Democracy or Growth?"
with Christopher J. Martinek
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, April 2008, pp. 4-6.

"U.S. Exporters: Rare but Beneficial"
with Christopher J. Martinek
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, October 2007, pp. 12-13.

"Employment Growth Slows in the Eighth District"
with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Elizabeth La Jeunesse, and Christopher J. Martinek
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, October 2007, pp. 16-17.

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Working Papers

2007-010B "Measuring the Information Content of the Beige Book: A Mixed Data Sampling Approach" - March 2007, Revised May 2008
with Michelle T. Armesto, Michael T. Owyang, and Jeremy M. Piger
Abstract | Full Text (PDF 304K)

2006-058C "Strategic Online-Banking Adoption" - October 2006, Revised January 2008
with Roberto Fuentes and Gerard Llobet
Abstract | Full Text (PDF)

2005-072C "Information and Drug Prices: Evidence from the Medicare Discount Drug Card Program" - November 2005, Revised December 2006
with Emin M. Dinlersoz, Han Li, and Roger Sherman
Abstract | Full Text (PDF)

2003-042B "Spatial Probit and the Geographic Patterns of State Lotteries" - December 2003, Revised July 2004
with Cletus C. Coughlin and Thomas A. Garrett
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2003-039C "Nonlinear Hedonics and the Search for School District Quality" - November 2003, Revised March 2004
with Abbigail J. Chiodo and Michael T. Owyang
Abstract | Full Text (PDF)

Commentary

"U.S. Exporters: A Rare Breed"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, August 2007.

"New Views on Immigration"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, June 2006.

"The Economics of Giving"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, October 2005.

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Education

Degree	Institution	Major	Date
Ph.D.	University of Rochester	Economics	2001
M.A.	University of Rochester	Economics	1998
B.A.	ITAM, Mexico	Economics	1995