Work in Progress
"The Cyclical Properties of Disaggregated Capital Flows" (with Silvio Contessi)


Working Papers
"Life Cycle Saving and Capitalist Spirit Preferences"

"Understanding Aggregate Capital Formation through Entrepreneurial Savings Decisions"

"Wealth, Entrepreneurship and Occupational Experience"

Publications
Feldman, M.P. and J. Francis (2005). “Creating a Cluster While Building a Firm: Entrepreneurs and the Formation of Industrial Clusters” Regional Studies 39: 129-141.

Feldman, M. P. and J. Francis (2004). "Home Grown Solutions: Fostering Cluster Formation through Entrepreneurship" Economic Development Quarterly 18: 127-137.

Feldman, M. P. and J. Francis (2003). "Fortune Favors the Prepared Region: The Case of Entrepreneurship and the Capitol Region Biotechnology Cluster" European Planning Studies11(7): 765-788

Francis, J.L. (2002). “Knowledge Spillovers and Endogenous Growth at the Regional Level: Some Evidence from the Biotechnology Industry”.  Discussion paper German Institute for Economic Research. Presented in Berlin, August 2002.

Francis, J.L., Kubik, A. and F. Ubeda de Torres (2001). “Locality in Competing Heterogeneous Learning Agents”  Prepared for XVI European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austria, 2002.  Presented at Complex Systems Summer School.

Feldman, M. and J.L. Francis (2001). “The Entrepreneurial Spark: Individual Agents and the Formation of Innovative Clusters” Prepared for the conference on Complexity and Industrial Clusters - Dynamics, Models, National Cases, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Milan, Italy June 2001.

Francis, J. and T. Kompas (1998). "Uzawa's Transformation and Optimal Control Problems with Variable Rates of Time Preference." Australia National University working paper series.