Edward J. Balistreri, Asst. Professor Division of Economics and Business Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois Street Golden, CO 80401-1887 USA Phone: (303) 384-2156 email: ebalistr@mines.edu Curriculum Vitae

Working Papers (PDF files):

"Mercury: the good, the bad, and the export ban," with Christopher M. Worley (August 2008).

"A note on the local and global consistency of Anderson and van Wincoop's gravity model" (September 2008).

"Diseconomies of Money and Optimal Inflation" (April 2006). Zip archive containing the simulation programs inf_dist.zip

"TSCAPE: A time series of consistent accounts for policy evaluation" with Alan K. Fox (May 2003). The DOS batch files and GAMS programs for constructing and balancing the accounts are available in the following zip archive: tscapedist.zip

"Assessing the state-level burden of carbon emissions abatement" with Thomas F. Rutherford, and here are the slides from my presentation of the paper at the GTAP conference (June 2001).

"Playing the Bertrand Game in the Corner: A Mixed Complementarity Formulation with Endogenous Entry" (December 1999)

Electronic resources for published and forthcoming papers :

Edward J. Balistreri and Russell H. Hillberry (2007) "Structural Estimation and the Border Puzzle" Journal of International Economics 72/2: 451-463. Zip archive with the data and GAMS code: com_prog.zip.

"An estimation of US industry-level capital-labor substitution elasticities: support for Cobb-Douglas," with Christine A. McDaniel and Eina V. Wong (2003) The North American Journal of Economics and Finance 14/3: 343-356. MSExcel spreadsheet with the detailed industry-level capital-labor substitution elasticities (including standard errors).

Edward J. Balistreri (2002) "Operationalizing equilibrium unemployment: a general equilibrium external economies approach" Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control 26/3: 347-374. GAMS programs.

Dynamic Calibration:

A few toy models illustrating calibration of the Ramsey growth model in GAMS/MPSGE.