Donald R. Davis

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Zeitraum

1927 - 2009

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115

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First report of the old world genus Pelecystola in North America, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Tineidae) (2009)

Steve R. Davis, Donald R. Davis

The tineid genus Pelecystola, which was previously represented by six widely scattered species known only from the Palearctic, Indomalayan, and Ethiopian regions, is reported for the first time from...

Systematics, host plants, and life histories of three new Phyllocnistis species from the central highlands of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Phyllocnistinae) (2009)

Akito Y. Kawahara, Kenji Nishida, Donald R. Davis

Three new species of Phyllocnistis Zeller are described from the central highlands of Costa Rica: Phyllocnistis drimiphaga sp. n., P. maxberryi sp. n., and P. tropaeolicola sp. n. Larvae of all three...

HUMAN CAPITAL, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND RELATIVE WAGES IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY (2007)

Donald R. Davis, Donald R. Davis, Trevor A. Reeve, Trevor A. Reeve

NOTE: International Finance Discussion Papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment. References in publications to International Finance Discussion Papers...

Hinduism as a Legal Tradition (2007)

Davis, Donald R.

The role of law in Hinduism and the value of law as a category of Hindu studies have been underestimated. After making an initial case for the connection of dharma and law in the treatises on...

Good jobs, bad jobs, and trade liberalization (2007)

Davis, Donald R., Harrigan, James

Globalization threatens "good jobs at good wages", according to overwhelming public sentiment. Yet professional discussion often rules out such concerns a priori. We instead offer a framework to...

Good jobs, bad jobs, and trade liberalization (2007)

Davis, Donald R., Harrigan, James

Globalization threatens "good jobs at good wages", according to overwhelming public sentiment. Yet professional discussion often rules out such concerns a priori. We instead offer a framework to...

Formation and Collisional Evolution of Kuiper Belt Objects (2007)

Kenyon, Scott J., Bromley, Benjamin C., O'Brien, David P., Davis, Donald R.

This chapter summarizes analytic theory and numerical calculations for the formation and collisional evolution of KBOs at 20--150 AU. We describe the main predictions of a baseline self-stirring...

Technology Superiority and the Losses from Migration (2005)

Davis, Donald R.

Two facts motivate this study. (1) The United States is the world's most productive economy. (2) The US is the destination for a broad range of net factor inflows: unskilled labor, skilled labor, and...

A search for multiple equilibria in urban industrial structure (2004)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

Theories featuring multiple equilibria are now widespread across many fields of economics. Yet little empirical work has asked if such multiple equilibria are salient features of real economies. We...

A search for multiple equilibria in urban industrial structure (2004)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

Theories featuring multiple equilibria are now widespread across many fields of economics. Yet little empirical work has asked if such multiple equilibria are salient features of real economies. We...

A search for multiple equilibria in urban industrial structure (2004)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

Theories featuring multiple equilibria are now widespread across many fields of economics. Yet little empirical work has asked if such multiple equilibria are salient features of real economies. We...

A search for multiple equilibria in urban industrial structure (2004)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

Theories featuring multiple equilibria are now widespread across many fields of economics. Yet little empirical work has asked if such multiple equilibria are salient features of real economies. We...

Technological superiority and the losses from migration (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

Two facts motivate this study. (1) The United States is the world's most productive economy. (2) The US is the destination for a broad range of net factor inflows: unskilled labor, skilled labor, and...

Technological superiority and the losses from migration (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

Two facts motivate this study. (1) The United States is the world's most productive economy. (2) The US is the destination for a broad range of net factor inflows: unskilled labor, skilled labor, and...

Technological superiority and the losses from migration (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

Two facts motivate this study. (1) The United States is the world's most productive economy. (2) The US is the destination for a broad range of net factor inflows: unskilled labor, skilled labor, and...

Technological superiority and the losses from migration (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

Two facts motivate this study. (1) The United States is the world's most productive economy. (2) The US is the destination for a broad range of net factor inflows: unskilled labor, skilled labor, and...

What role for empirics in international trade? (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

In the field of international trade, data analysis has traditionally had quite modest influence relative to that of pure theory. At one time, this might have been rationalized by the paucity of...

Market size, linkages, and productivity: A study of Japanese regions (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

One account of spatial concentration focuses on productivity advantages arising from market size. We investigate this for forty regions of Japan. Our results identify important effects of a region's...

Do factor endowments matter for north-north trade? (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

The dominant paradigm of world trade patterns posits two principal features. Trade between North and South arises due to traditional comparative advantage, largely determined by differences in...

Bones, bombs and break points: The geography of economic activity (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

We consider the distribution of economic activity within a country in light of three leading theories - increasing returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the...

The factor content of trade (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

Study of the factor content of trade has become a laboratory to test our ideas about how the key elements of endowments, production, absorption and trade fit together within a general equilibrium...

What role for empirics in international trade? (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

In the field of international trade, data analysis has traditionally had quite modest influence relative to that of pure theory. At one time, this might have been rationalized by the paucity of...

Market size, linkages, and productivity: A study of Japanese regions (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

One account of spatial concentration focuses on productivity advantages arising from market size. We investigate this for forty regions of Japan. Our results identify important effects of a region's...

Do factor endowments matter for north-north trade? (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

The dominant paradigm of world trade patterns posits two principal features. Trade between North and South arises due to traditional comparative advantage, largely determined by differences in...

Bones, bombs and break points: The geography of economic activity (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

We consider the distribution of economic activity within a country in light of three leading theories - increasing returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the...

The factor content of trade (2002)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

Study of the factor content of trade has become a laboratory to test our ideas about how the key elements of endowments, production, absorption and trade fit together within a general equilibrium...

Bones, bombs and break points: The geography of economic activity (2001)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

We consider the distribution of economic activity within a country in light of three leading theories - increasing returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the...

Bones, bombs and break points: The geography of economic activity (2001)

Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.

We consider the distribution of economic activity within a country in light of three leading theories - increasing returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the...

The Factor Content of Trade (2001)

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein, Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein, Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein, ...

JEL No. F1 Study of the factor content of trade has become a laboratory to test our ideas about how the key elements of endowments, production, absorption and trade fit together within a general...

notice, is given to the source. What Role for Empirics in International Trade? (2001)

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein, Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein, Jel No. F, Donald R. Davis, ...

In the field of international trade, data analysis has traditionally had quite modest influence relative to that of pure theory. At one time, this might have been rationalized by the paucity of...

A Hidden Past: the Hypermetamorphic Development of Marmara arbutiella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) (2000)

David L. Wagner, Jennifer L. Loose, T. D. Fitzgerald, Donald R. Davis

Development in Marmara arbutiella Busck is hypermetamorphic, with 3 behaviorally and morphologically distinct larval forms. There are 6–8 sap-feeding and 2 nonfeeding, structurally differentiated...

HUMAN CAPITAL, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND RELATIVE WAGES IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY (2000)

Donald R. Davis, Trevor A. Reeve, Donald R. Davis, Trevor A. Reeve

NOTE: International Finance Discussion Papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment. References in publications to International Finance Discussion Papers...

Glass Lead Seal Test Apparatus. (1998)

White,James W., Ruwe,Victor W., Davis,Donald R.

Glass lead seal test apparatus in which a multiplicity of microcircuit packages with the leads sealed relative thereto by glass are checked for leakage between the glass seals and the microcircuit...

Wantoat paragraph structure (1973)

Davis, Donald R.

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_work.asp?id=10502

Wantoat paragraph structure (1973)

Davis, Donald R

Includes bibliographical references

Axis-relator phrases in Wantoat (1972)

Davis, Donald R.

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_work.asp?id=10501

Axis-relator phrases in Wantoat (1972)

Davis, Donald R

Includes bibliographical references

The distinctive features of Wantoat phonemes (1969)

Davis, Donald R.

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_work.asp?id=10500

Wantoat verb stem classes and affixation (1964)

Davis, Donald R.

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_work.asp?id=10499

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy: Abnormal splitting of ethyl groups due to molecular asymmetry (1961)

Shafer, Paul R., Davis, Donald R., Vogel, Martin, Nagarajan, K., Roberts, John D.

Nuclear magnetic resonance (n.m.r.) spectroscopy provides an excellent means for qualitative identification of ethyl groups by use of the familiar three-four pattern of spin-spin splitting (1). It...

Bombs and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity (1927)

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

We consider the distribution of economic activity within a country in light of three leading theories – increasing returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the...

Bombs and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity,” NBER Working Paper 8517 (Oct.), online at http://www.nber.org/papers/w8517 (1927)

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

We consider the distribution of economic activity within a country in light of three leading theories – increasing returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the...

A Search for Multiple Equilibria in Urban Industrial Structure

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

Theories featuring multiple equilibria are now widespread across many fields of economics. Yet little empirical work has asked if such multiple equilibria are salient features of real economies. We...

Empirical Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory: What Do They Tell Us?

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

Beamer and Levinsohn (1995) have recently proposed a formula for empirical work in international macroeconomics summarized by the injunction to "Estimate, Don't Test!" This is based on a perception...

Human Capital, Unemployment and Relative Wages in a Global Economy

Donald R. Davis, Trevor A. Reeve

This paper develops a simple framework for examining human capital accumulation, unemployment, and relative wages in a global economy. It builds on the models of Davis (1997a,b) of trade between a...

Bones, bombs and break points: The geography of economic activity

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

We consider the distribution of economic activity within a country in light of three leading theories - increasing returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the...

Do factor endowments matter for north-north trade?

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

The dominant paradigm of world trade patterns posits two principal features. Trade between North and South arises due to traditional comparative advantage, largely determined by differences in...

Market size, linkages, and productivity: A study of Japanese regions

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

One account of spatial concentration focuses on productivity advantages arising from market size. We investigate this for forty regions of Japan. Our results identify important effects of a region's...

Technological superiority and the losses from migration

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

Two facts motivate this study. (1) The United States is the world's most productive economy. (2) The US is the destination for a broad range of net factor inflows: unskilled labor, skilled labor, and...

The factor content of trade

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

Study of the factor content of trade has become a laboratory to test our ideas about how the key elements of endowments, production, absorption and trade fit together within a general equilibrium...

What role for empirics in international trade?

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

In the field of international trade, data analysis has traditionally had quite modest influence relative to that of pure theory. At one time, this might have been rationalized by the paucity of...

Search for Multiple Equilibria in Urban Industrial Structure

David E. Weinstein, Donald R. Davis

Theories of multiple equilibria (ME) are now widespread across many fields of economics. Yet little empirical work has asked if such multiple equilibria are salient features of real economies. We...

Does European Unemployment Prop Up American Wages? National Labor Markets and Global Trade.

Davis, Donald R

The author considers trade between a flexible-wage America and a rigid-wage Europe. In a benchmark case, a move from autarky to free trade doubles European unemployment. American wages rise to the...

A SEARCH FOR MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIA IN URBAN INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

Theories featuring multiple equilibria are widespread across economics. Yet little empirical work has asked if multiple equilibria are features of real economies. We examine this in the context of...

A search for multiple equilibria in urban industrial structure

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

Theories featuring multiple equilibria are now widespread across many fields of economics. Yet little empirical work has asked if such multiple equilibria are salient features of real economies. We...

Good jobs, bad jobs, and trade liberalization

Donald R. Davis, James Harrigan

Globalization threatens "good jobs at good wages", according to overwhelming public sentiment. Yet professional discussion often rules out such concerns a priori. We instead offer a framework to...

Empirical Tests of the Factor Abundance Theory: What Do They Tell Us?

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

Beamer and Levinsohn (1995) have recently proposed a formula for empirical work in international macroeconomics summarized by the injunction to "Estimate, Don't Test!" This is based on a perception...

Bones, Bombs, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

We consider the distribution of economic activity within a country in light of three leading theories—increasing returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the...

An Account of Global Factor Trade

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

A half century of empirical work attempting to predict the factor content of trade in goods has failed to bring theory and data into congruence. Our study shows how the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek theory,...

The Home Market, Trade, and Industrial Structure.

Davis, Donald R

Does national market size matter for industrial structure? This has been suggested by theoretical work on 'home market' effects. In the present paper, the author shows that what previously was...

Using International and Japanese Regional Data to Determine When the Factor Abundance Theory of Trade Works.

Davis, Donald R., David E. Weinstein, Scott C. Bradford, Kazushige Shimpo

The Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model of factor service trade is a mainstay of international economics. Empirically, though, it is a flop. This warrants a new approach. The authors test the HOV model...

Human capital, unemployment, and relative wages in a global economy

Donald R. Davis, Trevor A. Reeve

This paper develops a simple framework for examining human capital accumulation, unemployment, and relative wages in a global economy. It builds on the models of Davis (1998a, b) of trade between a...

The home market, trade, and industrial structure

Donald R. Davis

Does national market size matter for industrial structure? This has been suggested by theoretical work on "home market" effects, as in Krugman (1980, 1995). In this paper, I show that what previously...

Economic geography and regional production structure: an empirical investigation

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

There are two principal theories of why countries or regions trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is virtually no empirical work that assesses the relative...

Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence

Amiti, Mary, Davis, Donald R

How does trade liberalization affect wages? This is the first paper to consider in theory and data how the impact of final and intermediate input tariff cuts on workers’ wages varies with the...

Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence

Mary Amiti, Donald R. Davis

How does trade liberalization affect wages? This is the first paper to consider in theory and data how the impact of final and intermediate input tariff cuts on workers' wages varies with the global...

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization

Donald R. Davis, James Harrigan

How do labor markets adjust to trade liberalization? Leading models of intraindustry trade (Krugman (1981), Melitz (2003)) assume homogeneous workers and full employment, and thus predict that all...

Does European Unemployment Prop up American Wages?

Donald R. Davis

We consider trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid real wage Europe. In a benchmark case, a move from autarky to free trade doubles the European unemployment rate, while it raises the...

The Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek Model of Trade: Why Does It Fail? When Does It Work?

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein, Scott C. Bradford, Kazushige Shimpo

The Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek model of factor service trade is a central construct in international economics. Empirically, though, it is a flop. This warrants a new approach. Using Japanese regional...

Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy

Donald R. Davis

Arguably the most important development in recent decades in US factor markets is the decline in the relative wage of the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence...

Trade Liberalization and Income Distribution

Donald R. Davis

Empirical work relating trade liberalization and income distributed has iden- tified an important anomaly. The Stolper-Samuelson theorem predict trade liberalization will shift income toward a...

Does Economic Geography Matter for International Specialization?

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

There are two principal theories of why countries trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is no empirical work that assesses the relative importance of these two...

The Home Market, Trade, and Industrial Structure

Donald R. Davis

Does national market size matter for industrial structure? This has been suggested by theoretical work on home market' effects, as in Krugman (1980, 1995). In this paper, I show that what previously...

Economic Geography and Reginal Production Structure: An Empirical Investigation

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

There are two principal theories of why countries or regions trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is virtually no empirical work that assesses the relative...

Human Capital, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy

Donald R. Davis, Trevor A. Reeve

This paper develops a simple framework for examining human capital accumulation, unemployment, and relative wages in a global economy. It builds on the models of Davis (1997a, b) of trade between a...

An Account of Global Factor Trade

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

A half-century of empirical work on the factor proportions theory has identified devise simple amendments that bring theory and data into reasonable congruence. Our study considers standard and novel...

Market Access, Economic Geography, and Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Assessment

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

The increasing returns revolution in trade is incomplete in an important respect there exists no compelling empirical demonstration of the role of increasing returns in determining production and...

Do Factor Endowments Matter for North-North Trade?

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

The dominant paradigm of world trade patterns posits two principal features. Trade between North and South arises due to traditional comparative advantage, largely determined by differences in...

Bones, Bombs and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

We consider the distribution of economic activity within a country in light of three leading theories - increasing returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the...

Market Size, Linkages, and Productivity: A Study of Japanese Regions

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

One account of spatial concentration focuses on productivity advantages arising from market size. We investigate this for forty regions of Japan. Our results identify important effects of a region's...

What Role for Empirics in International Trade?

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

In the field of international trade, data analysis has traditionally had quite modest influence relative to that of pure theory. At one time, this might have been rationalized by the paucity of...

The Factor Content of Trade

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

Study of the factor content of trade has become a laboratory to test our ideas about how the key elements of endowments, production, absorption and trade fit together within a general equilibrium...

Technological Superiority and the Losses from Migration

Donald R. Davis, David E. Weinstein

Two facts motivate this study. (1) The United States is the world's most productive economy. (2) The US is the destination for a broad range of net factor inflows: unskilled labor, skilled labor, and...

Critical Evidence on Comparative Advantage? North-North Trade in a Multilateral World.

Davis, Donald R

There are two principal theories of why countries trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Which is most important in practice? The large volume of intra-OECD trade is frequently...

What's behind volatile import prices from China?

Mary Amiti, Donald R. Davis

In a sharp departure from earlier trends, the price of U.S. imports from China rose 6 percent in the 2006-08 period. To explore the forces behind this surprising increase, the authors create a new...

Panel 3: Challenges for Europes political institutions and society

Donald R. Davis

Globalisierung, Arbeitsteilung, Arbeitsorganisation, Welt, EU-Staaten, Globalization, Division of labour, Work organization, World, EU countries