Faculty

Borghan Nezami Narajabad
Assistant Professor of Economics

Baker Hall 266C
Ph:  713.348.2354
Fax: 713.348.5278
Email: borghan[AT]rice.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2007

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Macroeconomics; Industrial Organization

 

 

WORKING AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS:

“The Dynamics of Innovation and Horizontal Differentiation,” (with Randal Watson) Journal of  Economic Dynamics and Control, 35 (2011) 825–842. [Online Appendix]

“Information Technology and the Rise of Household Bankruptcy,” Review of Economic Dynamics, 15 (2012) 526-550.

"Why Rent When You can Buy? A Theory of Securities Lending Repurchase Agreements" Aug 2012 (with Cyril Monnet) submitted.

"On the Innovation-Competition Relationship under Endogenous Horizontal Product Differentiation," Nov 2012. (With Randal Watson) submitted.

 

“A Hotelling Model with Money,” (with P. Dean Corbae), July 2007.

"Innovation and hosizontal differentiation in a continuous-time Hotelling model," June 2008. (With Randal Watson)

"Inflation with Random Consumption and Production Timing," Jan. 2009.

"Inflation and Price Competition" [Slides]

"Two-step Mortgage and Home Equity" (with Victor Rios-Rull) [Slides]

"A Model with Spillovers in the Adaptation of Renewable Technologies" (with B. Adao and T. Temzelides)