John Bailey Jones

Associate Professor

Addresses
Department of Economics, BA 110
University at Albany
State University of New York
Albany, NY 12222

Office Location: BA 113B (Business Administration Building)
Telephone: (518) 442-4926
Fax: (518) 442-4736
E-mail: jbjones@albany.edu
Web Address: http://www.albany.edu/~jbjones/

Education
Ph.D. (Economics), University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1998
M.S. (Economics), University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1995
B.A. (Interdisciplinary Studies), Phi Beta Kappa, College of William and Mary, May 1987
Previous Positions
1998-2005: Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Albany.
1987-1993: Analyst, Associate Analyst, Research Associate and Research Assistant, National Economic Research Associates (NERA), Cambridge, MA and White Plains, NY.
Fields of Concentration
Primary: Macroeconomics, Econometrics
Secondary: Computational Economics
Publications

"Financial Liberalization and Banking Crises" (joint with Betty Daniel), Journal of International Economics 72(1) (May 2007), pp. 202-221.

"Optimal Investment with Lumpy Costs," (joint with Duc T. Le), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29(7) (July 2005), pp. 1211-1236.

“On the Distribution and Dynamics of Health Care Costs,” (joint with Eric French), Journal of Applied Econometrics 19(6) (special issue on Social Insurance and Pension Research, 2004), pp. 705-721.

"Finite Mixture Distributions, Sequential Likelihood and the EM Algorithm" (joint with Peter Arcidiacono), Econometrica 71(3) (May 2003), pp. 933-946.

"The Dynamic Effects of Firm-level Borrowing Constraints," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 35(5) (October 2003), pp. 743-762.

"Has Fiscal Policy Helped Stabilize the Postwar U.S. Economy?" Journal of Monetary Economics 49(4) (May 2002), pp. 709-746.

Work in Progress

"Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles”, (joint with Mariacristina De Nardi and Eric French), manuscript, State University of New York at Albany and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, November 2006.

"The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior," (joint with Eric French), manuscript, State University of New York at Albany and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, December 2004; also Center for Retirement Research Working Paper WP 2004-12, April 2004.

"Multiple Equilibria and Endogenous Persistence in a Dynamic Model of Employment," manuscript, July 1998; also SUNY at Albany Discussion Paper 04-02.

Teaching Experience
Undergraduate: Macroeconomics; Money and Banking
Graduate: Macroeconomics (First-year and Advanced)
Other Professional Activities
Referee: American Economic Review; Econometrica; Economic Inquiry; The Economic Journal; Empirical Economics European Economic Review; International Journal of Forecasting; Journal of Econometrics; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Journal of Economics and Business; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Human Resources; Journal of Macroeconomics; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of Monetary Economics Macroeconomic Dynamics; Review of Economic Dynamics; National Institutes of Health grant proposal; National Science Foundation grant proposal;
Member: American Economic Association, Econometric Society

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