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Thomas Holmes

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First Name:Thomas
Middle Name:J.
Last Name:Holmes
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RePEc Short-ID:pho45
http://www.thomas-holmes.com
Department of Economics University of Minnesota 4-101 Hanson Hall 1925 Fourth Street South Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-625-4512
Terminal Degree:1985 Department of Economics; Northwestern University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(50%) Department of Economics
University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
http://www.econ.umn.edu/
RePEc:edi:deumnus (more details at EDIRC)

(50%) Research Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
http://minneapolisfed.org/research/
RePEc:edi:rfrbmus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Thomas J. Holmes & Ethan Singer, 2018. "Indivisibilities in Distribution," NBER Working Papers 24525, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Thomas J. Holmes & Ethan Singer, 2017. "Container Imports and the Advantage of Size," Economic Policy Paper 17-2, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  3. Thomas J. Holmes & Ellen R. McGrattan & Edward C. Prescott, 2015. "The Costs of Quid Pro Quo," Economic Policy Paper 15-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  4. Thomas J. Holmes & Lee E. Ohanian, 2014. "Pay with Promises or Pay as You Go? Lessons from the Death Spiral of Detroit," Staff Report 501, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  5. Thomas J. Holmes & Lee E. Ohanian, 2014. "Paychecks or Promises? Lessons from the Death Spiral of Detroit," Economic Policy Paper 14-4, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  6. Thomas J. Holmes, 2013. "New manufacturing investment and unions," Economic Policy Paper 13-2, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  7. Thomas J. Holmes & Ellen R. McGrattan & Edward C. Prescott, 2013. "Technical appendix for quid pro quo: Technology capital transfers for market access in China," Staff Report 487, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  8. Thomas J. Holmes & Ellen R. McGrattan & Edward C. Prescott, 2013. "Patent data appendix for quid pro quo: Technology capital transfers for market access in China," Staff Report 488, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  9. Thomas J. Holmes & Ellen R. McGrattan & Edward C. Prescott, 2013. "Quid Pro Quo: Technology Capital Transfers for Market Access in China," NBER Working Papers 19249, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  10. Thomas J. Holmes & Wen-Tai Hsu & Sanghoon Lee, 2013. "Allocative Efficiency, Mark-ups, and the Welfare Gains from Trade," NBER Working Papers 19273, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Thomas J. Holmes & Ellen R. McGrattan & Edward C. Prescott, 2011. "Technology capital transfer," Working Papers 687, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  12. Thomas J. Holmes, 2011. "The case of the disappearing large-employer manufacturing plants: not much of a mystery after all," Economic Policy Paper 11-4, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  13. Thomas J. Holmes & James A. Schmitz, 2010. "Competition and productivity: a review of evidence," Staff Report 439, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  14. Thomas J. Holmes & John J. Stevens, 2010. "An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade," NBER Working Papers 15957, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  15. Thomas J. Holmes & John J. Stevens, 2010. "Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size," NBER Working Papers 16046, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  16. Thomas J. Holmes & Julia Thornton Snider, 2009. "A Theory of Outsourcing and Wage Decline," NBER Working Papers 14856, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  17. Thomas J. Holmes & Sanghoon Lee, 2009. "Economies of Density versus Natural Advantage: Crop Choice on the Back Forty," NBER Working Papers 14704, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  18. Thomas J. Holmes & David K. Levine & James A. Schmitz, Jr., 2008. "Monopoly and the Incentive to Innovate When Adoption Involves Switchover Disruptions," NBER Working Papers 13864, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  19. Thomas J. Holmes, 2008. "The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density," NBER Working Papers 13783, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  20. Thomas J. Holmes & Michael Walrath, 2007. "Dynamics of Union Organizations: A Look at Gross Flows in the LORS Files," NBER Working Papers 13212, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  21. Thomas J. Holmes, 2006. "Geographic Spillover of Unionism," NBER Working Papers 12025, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  22. Thomas J. Holmes, 2004. "The Dynamics of Unionizing Establishments: A Learning Theory and Some Evidence," 2004 Meeting Papers 109, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  23. Thomas J. Holmes & Matthew F. Mitchell, 2003. "A Theory of Factor Allocation and Plant Size," NBER Working Papers 10079, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  24. Thomas J. Holmes & John J. Stevens, 2002. "Geographic concentration and establishment size: analysis in an alternative economic geography model," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2002-17, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  25. Thomas J. Holmes & John J. Stevens, 2002. "The home market and the pattern of trade: round three," Staff Report 304, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  26. Thomas J. Holmes, 2002. "The role of cities: evidence from the placement of sales offices," Staff Report 298, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  27. Gautam Gowrisankaran & Thomas J. Holmes, 2000. "Do mergers lead to monopoly in the long run? Results from the dominant firm model," Staff Report 264, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  28. Thomas J. Holmes, 1999. "Bar codes lead to frequent deliveries and superstores," Staff Report 261, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  29. Thomas J. Holmes & James A. Schmitz, 1998. "A gain from trade: more research, less obstruction," Staff Report 245, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  30. Thomas J. Holmes, 1996. "How industries migrate when agglomeration economies are important," Staff Report 219, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  31. Thomas J. Holmes, 1996. "The effects of state policies on the location of industry: evidence from state borders," Staff Report 205, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  32. Thomas J. Holmes, 1996. "Step-by-step migration to efficient agglomerations," Staff Report 221, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  33. Thomas J. Holmes, 1995. "Analyzing a proposal to ban state tax breaks to businesses," Working Papers 544, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  34. Thomas J. Holmes, 1995. "Localization of industry and vertical disintegration," Staff Report 190, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  35. Thomas J. Holmes & James A. Schmitz, 1994. "Resistance to technology and trade between areas," Staff Report 184, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  36. Holmes, T.J., 1993. "The Effect of temporary Import Protection on Future Prices," Working papers 9316, Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems.
  37. James A Schmitz & Thomas J Holmes, 1992. "Managerial Tenure, Business Age And Small Business Dynamics," Working Papers 92-11, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
  38. Holmes, T.J. & Schmitz, J.A., 1992. "On the Turnover of Business Firms and Business Managers," Working papers 9211, Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems.
  39. Holmes, T.J. & Schmitz Jr., J.A., 1991. "Measuring Small Business Dynamics when Business Age and Managerial Tenure can be Separately Identified," Working papers 9124, Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems.
  40. Gale, I.L. & Holmes, T.J., 1990. "Advance-Purchase Discounts And Monopoly Allocation Of Capacity," Working papers 9005, Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems.
  41. Gale, I.L. & Holmes, T.J., 1990. "The Efficiency Of Advance-Purshase Discounts In The Presence Of Inflexible Prices," Working papers 90-11, Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems.
  42. Holmes, T.J., 1989. "Price Floors: A Welfare Analysis In A Model Of Dominant- Firm Pricing," Working papers 8906, Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems.
  43. Holmes, T.J. & Schmitz, J.A., 1988. "A Theory Of Enterpreneurship And Its Application To The Study Of Business Transfers," Working papers 8827, Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems.
  44. Thomas J. Holmes, 1984. "Monopoly Bundling of Warranty and Quality When Quality is Unobservable," Discussion Papers 612, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science.

Articles

  1. Thomas J. Holmes, 2010. "Structural, Experimentalist, And Descriptive Approaches To Empirical Work In Regional Economics," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 50(1), pages 5-22, February.
  2. Thomas J. Holmes & Matthew F. Mitchell, 2008. "A theory of factor allocation and plant size," RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation, vol. 39(2), pages 329-351, June.
  3. Holmes, Thomas J. & Stevens, John J., 2005. "Does home market size matter for the pattern of trade?," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(2), pages 489-505, March.
  4. Thomas J. Holmes, 2005. "The Location of Sales Offices and the Attraction of Cities," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 113(3), pages 551-581, June.
  5. Thomas J. Holmes & John J. Stevens, 2004. "Geographic concentration and establishment size: analysis in an alternative economic geography model," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 4(3), pages 227-250, June.
  6. Gautam Gowrisankaran & Thomas J. Holmes, 2004. "Mergers and the Evolution of Industry Concentration: Results from the Dominant-Firm Model," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 35(3), pages 561-582, Autumn.
  7. Thomas J. Holmes, 2004. "Step-by-step Migrations," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 7(1), pages 52-68, January.
  8. Thomas Holmes, 2004. "EconomicDynamics Interviews Thomas Holmes on Dynamic Economic Geography," EconomicDynamics Newsletter, Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 6(1), November.
  9. Thomas J. Holmes & John J. Stevens, 2002. "Geographic Concentration and Establishment Scale," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 84(4), pages 682-690, November.
  10. Holmes, Thomas J, 2001. "Bar Codes Lead to Frequent Deliveries and Superstores," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 32(4), pages 708-725, Winter.
  11. Thomas J. Holmes & James A. Schmitz, 2001. "Competition at work : railroads vs. monopoly in the U.S. shipping industry," Quarterly Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, vol. 25(Spr), pages 3-29.
  12. Holmes, Thomas J. & Jr., James A. Schmitz, 2001. "A gain from trade: From unproductive to productive entrepreneurship," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 47(2), pages 417-446, April.
  13. Holmes, Thomas J., 1999. "How Industries Migrate When Agglomeration Economies Are Important," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 45(2), pages 240-263, March.
  14. Thomas J. Holmes, 1999. "Localization Of Industry And Vertical Disintegration," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 81(2), pages 314-325, May.
  15. Thomas J. Holmes, 1999. "Scale of Local Production and City Size," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 89(2), pages 317-320, May.
  16. Holmes, Thomas J., 1998. "Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology. By Robert Pool. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 358. $30.00," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 58(3), pages 920-921, September.
  17. Thomas J. Holmes, 1998. "The Effect of State Policies on the Location of Manufacturing: Evidence from State Borders," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 106(4), pages 667-705, August.
  18. Holmes, Thomas J & Schmitz, James A, Jr, 1996. "Managerial Tenure, Business Age, and Small Business Turnover," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 14(1), pages 79-99, January.
  19. Holmes, Thomas J., 1996. "Can consumers benefit from a policy limiting the market share of a dominant firm?," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 14(3), pages 365-387, May.
  20. Holmes, Thomas J & Schmitz, James A, Jr, 1996. "Nonresponse Bias and Business Turnover Rates: The Case of the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, American Statistical Association, vol. 14(2), pages 231-241, April.
  21. Thomas J. Holmes, 1995. "Analyzing a proposal to ban state tax breaks to businesses," Quarterly Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, vol. 19(Spr), pages 29-39.
  22. Thomas J. Holmes & James A. Schmitz, 1995. "Resistance to new technology and trade between areas," Quarterly Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, vol. 19(Win), pages 2-17.
  23. Holmes, Thomas J & Schmitz, James A, Jr, 1995. "On the Turnover of Business Firms and Business Managers," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 103(5), pages 1005-1038, October.
  24. Gale, Ian L & Holmes, Thomas J, 1993. "Advance-Purchase Discounts and Monopoly Allocation of Capacity," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(1), pages 135-146, March.
  25. Gale, Ian L. & Holmes, Thomas J., 1992. "The efficiency of advance-purchase discounts in the presence of aggregate demand uncertainty," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 10(3), pages 413-437, September.
  26. Holmes, Thomas J & Schmitz, James A, Jr, 1990. "A Theory of Entrepreneurship and Its Application to the Study of Business Transfers," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 98(2), pages 265-294, April.
  27. Holmes, Thomas J, 1989. "The Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination in Oligopoly," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 79(1), pages 244-250, March.

Chapters

  1. Thomas J. Holmes & Sanghoon Lee, 2010. "Cities as Six-by-Six-Mile Squares: Zipf's Law?," NBER Chapters, in: Agglomeration Economics, pages 105-131, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Thomas J. Holmes, 2009. "Comment on "Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Non-employer Universes"," NBER Chapters, in: Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, pages 366-368, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Holmes, Thomas J. & Stevens, John J., 2004. "Spatial distribution of economic activities in North America," Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, in: J. V. Henderson & J. F. Thisse (ed.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, edition 1, volume 4, chapter 63, pages 2797-2843, Elsevier.

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  1. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (6) 2006-02-26 2006-03-18 2007-07-07 2009-04-05 2009-04-13 2012-03-21. Author is listed
  2. NEP-INT: International Trade (6) 2010-05-08 2010-05-15 2010-05-29 2010-06-04 2010-07-24 2013-08-05. Author is listed
  3. NEP-IND: Industrial Organization (5) 1999-06-28 2000-08-07 2008-02-09 2008-03-08 2008-03-25. Author is listed
  4. NEP-DEV: Development (4) 2013-07-15 2013-07-15 2013-07-15 2013-07-28
  5. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (4) 2011-05-30 2013-07-15 2013-07-15 2013-07-28
  6. NEP-EFF: Efficiency and Productivity (4) 2010-04-11 2010-05-08 2010-05-15 2013-08-05
  7. NEP-INO: Innovation (4) 2008-03-08 2008-03-25 2008-04-29 2013-07-15
  8. NEP-TRA: Transition Economics (4) 2013-07-15 2013-07-15 2013-07-15 2015-02-16
  9. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (3) 2008-03-25 2008-04-29 2010-04-11
  10. NEP-CWA: Central and Western Asia (3) 2013-07-15 2013-07-15 2013-07-15
  11. NEP-GEO: Economic Geography (3) 2002-03-14 2006-02-26 2006-03-18
  12. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (3) 2002-10-07 2008-03-25 2008-04-29
  13. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (3) 2008-02-09 2014-07-21 2014-10-22
  14. NEP-ENT: Entrepreneurship (2) 2002-05-03 2002-08-29
  15. NEP-IPR: Intellectual Property Rights (2) 2011-05-30 2013-07-15
  16. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (2) 2009-04-05 2009-04-13
  17. NEP-TID: Technology and Industrial Dynamics (2) 2008-03-25 2008-04-29
  18. NEP-TRE: Transport Economics (2) 2017-04-02 2018-05-21
  19. NEP-AGE: Economics of Ageing (1) 2014-07-21
  20. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2009-03-22
  21. NEP-CBA: Central Banking (1) 2010-04-11
  22. NEP-CNA: China (1) 2015-02-16
  23. NEP-CSE: Economics of Strategic Management (1) 2011-05-30
  24. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (1) 2014-10-22
  25. NEP-OPM: Open Economy Macroeconomics (1) 2010-07-24
  26. NEP-SEA: South East Asia (1) 2017-04-02

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