Department of Economics

Faculty Research

2024

  • ARTICLE: Cardazzi, Alexander, and Zachary Rodriguez. "Demand for offense: designated hitters and MLB attendance." Applied Economics (2024): 1-14.
  • ARTICLE: Dong Cheng & Xunpeng Shi, "The Power Crunch and Firms’ Anticipatory Investment: Evidence from Manufacturing SMEs in China." The Energy Journal - May 2024
  • ARTICLE: Davis, Lewis and Zachary Rodriguez “Do Religious Beliefs Matter for Economic Values?” Journal of Institutional Economics 20, e34, Oct. 2024, 1-20.
  • ARTICLE: Davis, Lewis, Astghik Mavisakalyan, and Clas Weber, “Gendered Language and Gendered Violence,” Journal of Comparative Economics, forthcoming, August 12, 2024.
  • ARTICLE: Davis, Lewis “Patriarchy, Development, and the Divergence of Women’s Empowerment,” Kyklos 77(4), November, 2024, 895-921.
  • ARTICLE: Davis, Lewis and Astghik Mavisakalyan, “Individualism and the Legal Status of Prostitution,” Journal of Comparative Economics 52(3), September, 2024, 714-732.

2023

  • ARTICLE: Ana Espinola-Arredondo, Felix Munoz-Garcia, & Dolores Garrido, “Measuring regulatory errors from environmental policy uncertainty”, Journal of Regulatory Economics, August 2023
  • ARTICLE: Prateek Arora, Nirvikar Singh & Abhijit Visaria, "Healthcare Costs, Choice of Providers and Patient Satisfaction: Survey Evidence from India", Journal of Quantitative Economics, June 2023
  • ARTICLE: Alexander Cardazzi, Joshua C. Martin, & Zachary Rodriguez, "Information shocks and celebrity exposure: The effect of “Magic” Johnson on AIDS diagnoses and mortality in the US", Health Economics, May 2023
  • ARTICLE: Lewis Davis, Stephen J. Schmidt, & Sophia Zacher, "COVID on campus: An empirical analysis of COVID infection rates at U.S. colleges and universities", Southern Economic Journal, March 2023
  • ARTICLE: Lewis Davis & Justin Esposito, "Social Disparities and Social Distancing During the Covid Pandemic", Eastern Economic Journal, March 2023
  • ARTICLE: Zachary Rodriguez, "Trading Futures: A Theological Critique of Finanicalized Capitalism", Journal of Economics, Management and Religion, Feb 2023
  • ARTICLE: Lewis Davis, Dolores Garrido, & Carolina Missura, "Inherited Patience and the Taste for Environmental Quality", Sustainability Journal, February 2023
  • ARTICLE: Younghwan Song & Jia Gao, "Do fathers have son preference in the United States? Evidence from paternal subjective well-being", Review of Economics of the Household, January 2023

2022

  • ARTICLE: Kaywana Raeburn, Sonia Laszlo & Jim Warnick, "Resolving ambiguity as a public good: experimental evidence from Guyana", Theory and Decision, October 2022
  • ARTICLE: Younghwan Song, and others, "Cost-utility and cost-benefit analysis of TAVR availability in the US severe symptomatic aortic stenosis patient population", Journal of Medical Economics, August 2022
  • ARTICLE: Alicia Dang and Robert Samaniego, "R&D, Industrial Policy and Growth", Journal of Risk and Financial Management, August 2022
  • ARTICLE: Zachary Rodriguez, Alexander Cardazzi, Bryan C McCannon, and Brad R Humphreys, "Emotional Cues and Violent Behavior: Unexpected Basketball Losses Increase Incidents of Family Violence", The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, July 2022
  • ARTICLE: Lewis Davis and Claudia Williamson, "Individualism and women's economic rights" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 198, Pages 579-597 - June 2022
  • ARTICLE: Mehmet Fuat Sener and Michael A. Klein, "Product innovation, diffusion and endogenous growth", Review of Economic Dynamics, May 2022
  • ARTICLE: Dolores Garrido and Rosa Karina Gallardo, "Are improvements in convenience good enough for consumers to prefer new food processing technologies?", Agribusiness: An International Journal, January 2022

2021

2020

2019

  • ARTICLE: Dong Cheng, Yong Tan & Jian Yu, "Credit Rationing and Firm Exports: Microeconomic Evidence from Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in China." The World Economy - December 2019
  • ARTICLE: Lewis Davis & K.R. White, "Is Justice Blind? Evidence From Federal Corruption Convictions." Public Choice - November 2019
  • ARTICLE: Lewis Davis, Claudia Williamson, "Does Individualism Promote Gender Equality?" World Development - November 2019
  • ARTICLE: Dong Cheng, Xuepeng Shi, Jian Yu & Dayong Zhang, "How Does the Chinese Economy React to Uncertainty in International Crude Oil Prices?" International Review of Economics & Finance - November 2019
  • ARTICLE: Dong Cheng, Mario Crucini, Hyunseung Oh & Hakan Yilmazkuday, "Early 20th Century American Exceptionalism: Production, Trade and Diffusion of the Automobile." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series - November 2019
  • ARTICLE: Tomas Dvorak, Simon Halliday, Michael O'Hara & Aaron Swoboda, "Efficient Empiricism: Streamlining Teaching, Research, and Learning in Empirical Courses." Journal of Economic Education - June 2019
  • ARTICLE: Zachary Rodriguez, Bryan C McCannon, "Microfinance and Prosocial Behaviors: Experimental Evidence of Public-Good Contributions in Uganda." Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics - June 2019
  • ARTICLE: Stephen Schmidt, "Resources and the Acceptability of the Repugnant Conclusion." Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science - April 2019
  • ARTICLE: Lewis Davis, "Growth, Inequality and Tunnel Effects: A Formal Mode." Journal of Happiness Studies - April 2019
  • ARTICLE: Zachary Rodriguez and Bryan C. McCannon, "Orphans and Pro-social Behaviour: Evidence from Uganda", Wiley Online Library - April 2019

2018

2017

  • ARTICLE: Younghwan Song, "Rotation Group Bias in Current Smoking Prevalence Estimates Using TUS-CPS." Journal of the European Survey Research Association - December 2017
  • ARTICLE: Mehmet Sener & Wolf-Heimo Grieben, "Wage Bargaining, Trade and Growth." Research in Economics - September 2017
  • ARTICLE: Younghwan Song, "A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Selective Wellbeing." International Journal of Wellbeing - June 2017

2016

2015

  • ARTICLE: Stephen Schmidt, "Examining Theories of Distributive Justice with an Asymmetric Public Goods Game." The Journal of Economic Education - June 2015
  • ARTICLE: Tomas Dvorak, "Do 401k Plan Advisors Take Their Own Advice?" Journal of Pension Economics and Finance - 2015

2014

2013

  • ARTICLE: Younghwan Song & Sabrina Pabilonia, "Single Mothers' Time Preference, Smoking, and Enriching Childcare: Evidence from Time Diaries." Eastern Economic Journal - April 2013
  • ARTICLE: Lewis Davis & Matthew Knauss, "The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation." The Journal of Socio-Economics - February 2013
  • ARTICLE: Tomas Dvorak & Jigme Norbu, "Do Mutual Fund Companies Eat Their Own Cooking?" Journal of Retirement - 2013
  • ARTICLE: Tomas Dvorak & Shayna Toubman, "Are Women More Generous than Men? Evidence from Alumni Donations." Eastern Economic Journal - 2013

2012

2011

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