Contact Info

• Email: parente@illinois.edu
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Associate Professor of Economics

Research Interests

Macroeconomics, Economic growth

PhD

Economics, University of Minnesota, 1990

Selected Publications

• “The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Incomes,” with Douglas Gollin and Richard Rogerson, Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 54 (2007), 1230-1255.
• Barriers to Riches, with Edward C. Prescott, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2000.
• “Monopoly Rights: A Barrier to Riches,” with Edward C. Prescott, The American Economic Review, vol. 89 (1999), pages 1216-1233.
• “Barriers to Technology Adoption and Development,” with Edward C. Prescott, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 102 (1994), 298-321.
• “Technology Adoption, Learning-by-Doing and Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 63 (1994), 346-369

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