Recent Publications

• Howitt, Peter, and Robert Clower, The Emergence of Economic Organization, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 41 (January 2000): 55-84. (Source code for the C++ program used in the paper.)



• Howitt, Peter, Endogenous Growth and Cross-Country Income Differences, American Economic Review 90 (September 2000): 829-46.



• Howitt, Peter, The Economics of Science and the Future of Universities, The 16th Timlin Lecture, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 2000.



• Aghion, Philippe, Christopher Harris, Peter Howitt and John Vickers, Competition, Imitation and Growth with Step-by-step Innovation, Review of Economic Studies 68 (July 2001):467-92.



• Howitt, Peter, Looking Inside the Labor Market: A Review Article, Journal of Economic Literature 40 (March 2002): 125-38.



• Howitt, Peter, Axel Leijonhufvud - On Keynesian Economics and the Economics of Keynes: A Study in Monetary Theory, In dictionaire des grandes oeuvres économiques .edited by Xavier Greffe, Jérome Lallement and Michel De Vroey. Paris: Dalloz, 2002, 280-88.



• Peter Howitt on Schumpeterian Growth Theory, Economic Dynamics Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 2, April 2002.



• Aghion, Philippe, Peter Howitt and Gianluca Violante, General Purpose Technology and Wage Inequality, Journal of Economic Growth 7 (December 2002): 315-45.



• Howitt, Peter, Coordination Failures, In An Encyclopedia of Macroeconomics, edited by Brian Snowdon and Howard R. Vane. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003, 140-44.



• Howitt, Peter, Comment on Search, Money and Capital: A Neoclassical Dichotomy, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 35 (December 2003, Part 2): 1107-10.



• Howitt, Peter, Endogenous Growth, Productivity and Economic Policy: A Progress Report, International Productivity Monitor 8 (Spring 2004): 3-15



• Aghion, Philippe, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith, Peter Howitt and Susanne Prantl, Entry and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Microlevel Panel Data, Journal of the European Economic Association 2 (April-May 2004): 265-76.



• Howitt, Peter and David Mayer-Foulkes, R&D, Implementation and Stagnation: A Schumpeterian Theory of Convergence Clubs, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 37 (February 2005): 147-77.



• Aghion, Philippe, Peter Howitt and David Mayer-Foulkes, The Effect of Financial Development on Convergence: Theory and Evidence, Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (February 2005): 173-222. (Stata data file used in the paper.)



• Howitt, Peter, Beyond Search: Fiat Money in Organized Exchange, International Economic Review (May 2005): 405-29.



• Aghion, Philippe, Nick Bloom, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and Peter Howitt, Competition and Innovation: An Inverted-U Relationship, Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (May 2005): 701-28.



• Howitt, Peter Health, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Schumpeterian Perspective, In Health and Economic Growth: Findings and Policy Implications, edited by Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera and Luis Currais. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005, 19-40.



• Aghion, Philippe and Peter Howitt, Growth with Quality-Improving Innovations: An Integrated Framework, Handbook of Economic Growth, Volume 1A, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf. Amsterdam, North-Holland, 2005, 67-110.



• Peter Howitt, Coordination Issues in Long-Run Growth In Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume II: Agent-Based Computational Economics edited by Leigh Tesfatsion and Kenneth Judd. Amsterdam, North-Holland, 2006, 1605-24.



• Aghion, Philippe and Peter Howitt, Appropriate Growth Policy: A Unifying Framework, Journal of the European Economic Association 4 (April-May 2006): 269-314.



• Howitt, Peter, The Microfoundations of the Keynesian Multiplier Process, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 1 (May 2006): 33-44. (Source code for the C++ program used in the paper.) The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.



• Howitt, Peter, Monetary Policy and the Limitations of Economic Knowledge , In Post Walrasian Macroeconomics: Beyond the Dyanamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model, edited by David Colander. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 347-67.



• Aghion, Philippe, Rachel Griffith and Peter Howitt, U-shaped relationship between competition and vertical integration: Theory and evidence, International Journal of Economic Theory 2 (September/December 2006): 351-63.



• Howitt, Peter, Issues in Inflation Targeting: Panel Discussion, In Issues in Inflation Targeting: Proceedings of a Conference held by the Bank of Canada, April 2005 , Ottawa: Bank of Canada, 2006, 359-66.



• Aghion, Philippe and Peter Howitt, Capital, Innovation and Growth Accounting, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 23 (March 2007): 79-93.



• Howitt, Peter, Innovation, Competition and Growth: A Schumpeterian Perspective on Canada's Economy, Commentary, Toronto: CD Howe Insitute, April 2007.



• Ha, Joonkyung and Peter Howitt, Accounting for Trends in Productivity and R&D: A Schumpeterian Critique of Semi-Endogenous Growth Theory, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 33 (June 2007): 733-74.



• Howitt, Peter, Edmund Phelps: Macroeconomist and Social Scientist, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 109 (July 2007): 203-24.



• Peter Howitt, Endogenous Growth, In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.



• Peter Howitt and David N. Weil, Economic Growth, In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.