Faculty
Paul A. Johnson
Professor of Economics
Paul Johnson joined the Vassar faculty in 1995. He teaches macroeconomics and econometrics. His primary research interests are the empirics of economic growth.
PhD 1989 Economics, Stanford University
BEcon (Hons.) 1982 Economic Statistics, University of Queensland
Paul Johnson joined the Vassar faculty in 1995. He teaches macroeconomics and econometrics. His primary research interests are the empirics of economic growth.
BEcon, University of Queensland; PhD, Stanford University
At Vassar since 1995
Departments and Programs
Selected Publications
- “(In)stability in the Dynamics of the Cross-Country Distribution of Income Per Capita”, with Davide Fiaschi, Empirical Economics, 70, 24 (2026).
- “Lessons from 40 years of cross-country convergence empirics," 2024, with Chris Papageorgiou, Maria Grazia Pittau, and Roberto Zelli, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Income Distribution and Economic Growth.
- “What Remains of Cross-Country Convergence?,” 2020, with Chris Papageorgiou, Journal of Economic Literature, 58:129-75.
- “Parameter variation in the 'log t' convergence test,” 2019, Applied Economics Letters, 27:9, 736-9
- “It's too soon for optimism about convergence,” 2019, with Chris Papageorgiou, VoxEU
- “Hands off the Fed,” 2015, with Robert Rebelein, CNBC
- “Mixture Models, Convergence Clubs and Polarization,” 2010, with Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli, Review of Income and Wealth, 56:102-22.
- “The Solow Residual,” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, online edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke and New York), 2010.
- “The Econometrics of Convergence,” with Steven Durlauf and Jonathan Temple, in The Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics Vol. 2, Applied Econometrics, edited by Terence C. Mills and Kerry Patterson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- “The Methods of Growth Econometrics,” with Steven Durlauf and Jonathan Temple, in The Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics Vol. 2, Applied Econometrics, edited by Terence C. Mills and Kerry Patterson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- “Convergence,” with Steven Durlauf, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke and New York), 2008.
- “Empirical Regularities in Economic Growth,” with Steven Durlauf, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke and New York), 2008.
- “Trevor Swan,” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke and New York), 2008.
- “Is it Really the Fisher Effect?,” 2006, Applied Economics Letters, 13:201-6.
- “A Continuous State Space Approach to ‘Convergence by Parts’,” 2005, Economics Letters, 86:317-21.
- “Growth Econometrics,” 2005, with Steven Durlauf and Jonathan Temple, Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by P. Aghion and S.N. Durlauf, North-Holland: Elsevier.
