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Donald Siegel (Ph.D., Columbia) is Professor of Economics and
Chair of the Department of Economics at RPI. He received his bachelor's,
master's, and doctoral degrees from Columbia University
and served as a post-doctoral fellow at the NBER. He was an
assistant professor at SUNY-Stony Brook, a full professor at Arizona State University,
and held a chair in industrial economics at the University of Nottingham
(U.K.). He has also been a
Faculty Research Fellow of the NBER and an ASA/NSF/BLS Senior Research
Fellow. Professor Siegel is editor of the Journal of Technology
Transfer and President of the Technology Transfer Society (T2S). The T2S is a non-profit
organization dedicated to the scholarly analysis of technology transfer
and developing and sharing best practices in technology transfer from
universities and federal laboratories to firms. He is also an associate editor of
the Journal of Productivity Analysis and an editorial board member
of the Journal of Management Studies and Academy of Management
Learning and Education. He
recently co-edited special issues of Small Business Economics on
"Policies to Promote Entrepreneurship in a Knowledge-Based
Economy," International Journal of Industrial Organization on
the “Economics of Intellectual Property at Universities," and
the Journal of Business Venturing on “Science Parks and
Incubators.” In
2005-2008, he will be co-editing special issues of Research Policy
on “The Creation of Start-Up Firms at Public Research
Institutions” and “University-Based Technology
Initiatives,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy on “Intellectual
Property,” Industrial and Corporate Change on “The
Rise of Entrepreneurial Activity at Universities: Organizational and
Societal Implications,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering
Management on “University Technology Transfer,” Journal
of International Business Studies on “Political Strategies,
Corruption, and Corporate Social Responsibility,” Structural
Change and Economic Dynamics on the “Economics of Corporate
Social Responsibility,” Journal of Management Studies on
“Corporate Social Responsibility,” and Journal of Productivity
Analysis on “Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic
Performance,” Dr.
Siegel is a member of a National Academy of Sciences research team that
is conducting a three-year study of the Small Business Innovation
Research Program across federal agencies. His primary research interests are
the economics of technological change, university technology transfer,
productivity analysis, and corporate social responsibility.
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His research
has appeared in such journals as the American Economic Review, Economic
Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law
and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Economic
Inquiry, National Tax Journal, American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, International Journal of Industrial
Organization, Southern Economic Journal, Oxford Review of
Economic Policy, Research Policy, Academy of Management
Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management
Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies,
Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business
Studies, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
He has also authored or co-authored three books: Skill-Biased
Technological Change: Evidence From a Firm-Level Survey, The
Economics of Science and Technology: An Overview of Recent Initiatives to
Foster Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth, and Technological
Change and Economic Performance.
He is currently working on two books for Oxford University Press: Innovation,
Entrepreneurship, and Technical Change, and the Handbook of
Corporate Social Responsibility. He has also recently undertaken
several projects involving the use of matched employer-employee data. Dr.
Siegel has received grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National
Science Foundation, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, and the
U.S. Department of Labor. His research has been cited by columnists
in the Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Times, Fortune, Arizona Republic, San Jose
Mercury News, and National Journal. He has also served as a
consultant or advisor to the United Nations, National Research Council,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise,
Chase Manhattan, the Securities Industry Association, Morgan Stanley,
Goldman Sachs & Co, Deloitte and Touche, and the National Association
of Manufacturers.
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Links to Working Papers and Some
Published Works
Selected Recent
Publications and Current Projects
(please click on cover for additional
details)
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“Assessing
the Impact of Management Buyouts on Economic Efficiency:
Plant-Level Evidence from the United Kingdom,”
The Review of Economics and Statistics,
forthcoming
(with Richard Harris and Mike Wright)
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Skill-Biased Technological Change:
Evidence From a Firm-Level Survey,
(W.E. Upjohn Institute Press)
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”Scale Economies and
Industry Agglomeration
Externalities: A Dynamic Cost Function Approach,"
American Economic Review,
Vol. 89, No. 1, March 1999, pp. 272-290.
(with Catherine J. Morrison Paul)
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“A Policy Response to the E-Commerce Revolution:
The Case of Betting Taxation in the U.K.,”
Economic Journal,
Vol. 111, Issue 480, June 2002, forthcoming
(with David Paton and Leighton Vaughan Williams).
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”An Analysis of Policy Initatives to Promote
Strategic Research Partnerships,”
Research Policy, forthcoming
(with Albert Link and David Paton).
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“The Impact of Investments
in Computers on
Manufacturing Productivity Growth:
A Multiple-Indicators, Multiple-Causes Approach,"
Review of Economics and Statistics,
Vol. 79, No. 1, February 1997, pp. 68-78.
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“External Capital Factors
and Increasing Returns
in U.S.
Manufacturing,"
Review of Economics and Statistics,
Vol. 79, No. 4, November 1997, pp. 647-654.
(with Catherine J. Morrison)
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"Universities and Fundamental
Research: Reflections on
the Growth of University-Industry Partnerships,"
Oxford
Review of Economic Policy,
Vol. 18, No. 1, 2002, pp. 10-21
(with Joanna Poyago-Theotoky and John Beath)
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"Assessing the Impact of
Organizational Practices on the
Productivity of University Technology Transfer Offices:
An Exploratory Study,"
NBER Working Paper #7256, July 1999
and forthcoming in Research Policy
(with Albert Link and David Waldman)
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“Corporate Social Responsibility:
A Theory of the Firm Perspective,"
Academy
of Management Review,
Vol. 26, No, 1, January 2001, pp. 117-127
(with Abagail McWilliams)
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