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Economics Department Faculty

Mark Bils

Professor of Economics
Office: Harkness 221
Phone: (585) 275-0488
Email: bils@troi.cc.rochester.edu

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985

Research Interests: Macroeconomics

Selected Papers and Publications:

• "Real Wages over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Panel Data," Journal of Political Economy, 1985.
• "The Cyclical Behavior of Marginal Cost and Price," American Economic Review, 1987.
• "Cyclical Factor Utilization" (with Jang-Ok Cho), Journal of Monetary Economics, 1994.
• "Using Consumer Theory to Test Competing Business Cycle Models" (with Pete Klenow), Journal of Political Economy, 1998.
• "What inventory Behavior Tells Us about Business Cycles" (with James Kahn), American Economic Review, June 2000, PDF version.
• "Does Schooling Cause Growth" (with Pete Klenow), American Economic Review, September 2001, PDF version.
• "Quantifying Quality Growth" (with Pete Klenow), American Economic Review, September 2001, PDF version.
• "Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Prices" (with Pete Klenow), Journal of Political Economy, October 2004, PDF version.
• "Measuring Growth from Better and Better Goods", draft November 2005, PDF version.
• "Studying Price Markups from Stockout Behavior", draft December 2004, PDF version.
• "Comparative Advantage in Cyclical Unemployment" (with Yongsung Chang and Sun-Bin Kim), draft June 2007, PDF version

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