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Robert S. Chirinko is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research spans the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance, with a total of 13 publications addressing various aspects within these disciplines.

Their published work focuses on several subfields, including economics and econometrics, finance, accounting, strategy and management, and gender studies. Key topics covered in their research include fiscal policy and economic growth, financial literacy and retirement analysis, banking stability and regulation, gender and labor dynamics, the global financial crisis and related policies, political influence on corporate strategies, and state capitalism and financial governance.

Some of the frequent coauthors collaborating with Chirinko include Daniel J. Wilson, with whom they have published five papers. Their research output is often presented in specific venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, which includes four of their publications, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper Series with two papers, as well as the National Tax Journal, Journal of Corporate Finance, and CESifo Economic Studies.

Recent papers authored by Chirinko cover a range of economic and fiscal topics. These include:

  • "Job Creation Tax Credits, Fiscal Foresight, and Job Growth: Evidence from US States" (2023, National Tax Journal)
  • "What went wrong? The Puerto Rican debt crisis, the 'Treasury Put,' and the failure of market discipline" (2023, Journal of Corporate Finance)
  • "Is a State Bank A Useful Economic Development Tool in the USA?" (2022, CESifo Economic Studies)
  • "Fiscal Policies for Job Creation and Innovation: The Experiences of US States" (2023, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper Series)
  • "Fiscal Foresight and Perverse Distortions to Firm Behavior: Anticipatory Dips and Compensating Rebounds" (2021, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper Series)

The research topics examined often intersect fiscal policy implications, labor market dynamics, financial regulation, and public institutional roles in economic growth and stability. Chirinko's work contributes to understanding how government policies influence job creation and innovation, financial market behaviors, and state mechanisms in economic governance.

Best Publications

  • Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities are Useful: A Comment on Kaplan and Zingales

    Steven M. Fazzari;R. Glenn Hubbard;Bruce C. Petersen

  • Testing static tradeoff against pecking order models of capital structure: a critical comment

    Robert S Chirinko;Anuja R Singha

  • How responsive is business capital formation to its user cost?: An exploration with micro data

    Robert S. Chirinko;Steven M. Fazzari;Andrew P. Meyer

  • σ: The long and short of it

    Robert S. Chirinko

  • Why Does Liquidity Matter in Investment Equations

    Robert S. Chirinko;Huntley Schaller

  • Business Fixed Investment and "Bubbles": The Japanese Case

    Robert S. Chirinko;Huntley Schaller

  • State Investment Tax Incentives: A Zero-Sum Game?

    Robert S. Chirinko;Robert S. Chirinko;Daniel J. Wilson

  • The Long and Short of it

    Robert S. Chirinko;Robert S. Chirinko

  • Corporate Taxation, Capital Formation , and the Substitution Elasticity between Labor and Capital

    Robert S. Chirinko

  • Tobin's Q and financial policy

    Robert S. Chirinko;Robert S. Chirinko

  • Can Lower Tax Rates Be Bought? Business Rent-Seeking and Tax Competition Among U.S. States

    Robert S. Chirinko;Daniel J. Wilson

  • Finance, control, and profitability: the influence of German banks

    Robert S. Chirinko;Julie Ann Elston

  • The Substitution Elasticity, Factor Shares, and the Low-Frequency Panel Model

    Robert S. Chirinko;Debdulal Mallick

  • Economic fluctuations, market power, and returns to scale: Evidence from firm-level data

    R. S. Chirinko;S. M. Fazzari

  • A New Approach to Estimating Production Function Parameters: The Elusive Capital–Labor Substitution Elasticity

    Robert S. Chirinko;Steven M. Fazzari;Andrew P. Meyer

  • BUCKLE UP OR SLOW DOWN? NEW ESTIMATES OF OFFSETTING BEHAVIOR AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR AUTOMOBILE SAFETY REGULATION

    Robert S. Chirinko;Edward P. Harper

  • Bubbles, fundamentals, and investment: A multiple equation testing strategy

    Robert S. Chirinko;Robert S. Chirinko;Huntley Schaller

  • State Investment Tax Incentives: A Zero-Sum Game?

    Robert S. Chirinko;Robert S. Chirinko;Daniel J. Wilson

  • BUSINESS INVESTMENT AND TAX POLICY: A PERSPECTIVE ON EXISTING MODELS AND EMPIRICAL RESULTS**

    Robert S. Chirinko

  • Tax Competition among U.S. States: Racing to the Bottom or Riding on a Seesaw?

    Robert S. Chirinko;Daniel J. Wilson

  • That elusive elasticity : a long-panel approach to estimating the capital-labor substitution elasticity

    Robert S. Chirinko;Robert S. Chirinko;Steven M. Fazzari;Andrew P. Meyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven M. Fazzari
Steven M. Fazzari Washington University in St. Louis
Harry Garretsen
Harry Garretsen University of Groningen
Jörg Breitung
Jörg Breitung University of Cologne
Bruno S. Frey
Bruno S. Frey University of Basel
Lars P. Feld
Lars P. Feld Walter Eucken Institut
Jakob de Haan
Jakob de Haan University of Groningen
Lorenz Goette
Lorenz Goette National University of Singapore

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