Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles
All are indexed in one or more of EconLit, the Gale group of academic databases, or ProQuest.

Claar, Victor V., Christine Cain, and Ross D. Poll. Forthcoming. "Spreading Academic Pay over Nine or Twelve Months: Economists Are Supposed to Know Better, but Do They Act Better?" Applied Economics.

Claar, Victor V. 2012. "Can Competitive Forces Reinforce Nominal Wage Rigidities?" Southwestern Economic Review 39: 55-63.

Claar, Victor V., Robert Frey, Marek Szarucki, and Vicki R. TenHaken. 2012. "Hope for the East: entrepreneurial attitudes of MBA students in two transition economies relative to those in the USA." International Journal of Business Excellence 5: 220-37.

Claar, Victor V., and Jane E. Finn. 2011. "Using Prior Knowledge, Scaffolding, and Modelling to Teach in Economics: Three Examples from Across the Curriculum." International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2: 398-407.

Claar, Victor V., Vicki R. TenHaken, and Robert Frey. 2009. "Entrepreneurial Attitudes Of MBA Students In The United States Relative To The CIS: The Case Of Armenia." International Business & Economics Research Journal 8.2: 67-75.

Claar, Victor V.  2006.  "Is the NAIRU More Useful in Forecasting Inflation than the Natural Rate of Unemployment?" Applied Economics 38:  2179-89.

Claar, Victor V., and John N. Oswalt. 2006. "Can Neoclassical Economics Handle a Scriptural View of Forgiveness?" Journal of Markets & Morality 9:  71-89.

Claar, Victor V. 2005. "A Kalman-Filter Approach to Estimating the Natural Rate of Unemployment." Proceedings of Rijeka School of Economics: Journal of Economics and Business 23: 1-24.

Claar, Victor V. 1998. "An Incentive-Compatibility Approach to the Problem of Monitoring a Bureau." Public Finance Review 26: 599-610.

Selected Other Book Chapters, Working Papers, & Research in Progress

Invited Book Chapter

"Ethics and Economics."  2010.  In Rhona Free, ed., 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.

Under Review



In Progress

"Ranking the Rankings of Journals in Economics by Quantifying Journal Demand."  With Ruth A. Arevalo.

"Grieving the Good of Others: Greed, Envy, and Economics." With Jordan J. Ballor.

"The Effects of Revenue-Earning Athletic Programs on Graduation Rates at Division I-A Schools."  With Kellee Nelson.

"Chadwick on Crime, in Light of Becker and Stigler."

"Will Fair-trade Coffee Stunt Your Growth?"