Lisa D. Cook

By appointment

• Not teaching Spring semester.

• Patents and intellectual property rights
• Financial institutions, markets, and internationl crises
• Manufactured exports from developing countries
• African American inventors
• Economic development in Eastern and Central Europe, Africa

• Metals or Management? Explaining Recent Economic Growth in Africa, (with Laura N. Beny) American Economic Review, Vol.99, No. 2 (May), 268- 74, 2009.

• Patents and Knowledge Spillovers to Developing Countries, 44th Annual Werner-Sichel Lecture Series, W.E. Upjohn Lecture Series, W.E.Upjohn Institute, 2010.

• The End of Serfdom in Russia - Lessons for Sudan, chapter in Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl, eds., The Ethics and Economics of Slavery, Princeton University Press, 2007.

• Regional Public Goods in International Assistance (with Jeffrey Sachs), Global Public Goods, Kaul, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999.

• Trade Credit and Bank Finance: Financing Small Firms in Russia, Journal of Business Venturing, Volume 14, Numbers 5-6, pp. 493 - 518, 1999.

Please see the faculty member's web site for a copy of the paper in pdf format.

• The Idea Gap in Pink and Black, with Chaleampong Kongchareon, NBER Working Paper No. 16331, September 2010, under review.

• Coase Conquers Consumer-Side Discrimination: Evidence from the Age of Segregation, 2009, revise and resubmit.

• Inventing Social Capital: Evidence from African American Inventors, 1821-1930, 2007, revise and resubmit.

• Were the Nigerian Banking Reforms of 2005 a Success? And for the Poor?, July 2010, NBER African Development Successes Project.

• A Green Light for Red Patents: New Evidence from Soviet Innovation Abroad, 1933 to 1991, Michigan State University, 2010.

Please see the faculty member's web site for a copy of the paper in pdf format.