About me

    I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Lakehead University.

    My research interests are the economics of national defence, natural resource economics, and economic history.

    I co-organize a yearly workshop on the subject of Defence and Security Economics.  

CV

    Here is my current CV.

Research

    Published/Forthcoming Papers

• • A Half-Century of Stagnation: Labour Productivity in Ontario's Gold Mining Industry - Forthcoming in the International Journal of the Economics of Business  (with Robert J. Petrunia)

  • The Project Supply Chain – A Model of the Recent Disruption Brought on by the Covid-19 Pandemic and the War in Ukraine - 2023 in Przegląd Geopolityczny (with Marcin Halicki and Andreas Uphaus).

  • The Impact of COVID-19 on the Economy of Northern Ontario - 2022 Northern Policy Institute (with Derek Patterson, Robert J. Petrunia, and James Townsend).

  • Canadian Military Expenditure and Defence Policy  - 2022 in Defence and Peace Economics (with Ryan A. Compton) .

  • Designing an Efficient Subsidy: Evidence from the Emergency Gold Mining Assistance Act - 2021 in Resources Policy.

  • The Impact of Labour Policies on Canadian Gold Mines - 2019 in Cliometrica (with Robert J. Petrunia).

  • The Effectiveness of Canada's Navy on Escort Duty - 2017 in the European Review of Economic History.

    • An online appendix for this paper can be found here:    Online Appendix.

  • The Mining Industry in Northwestern Ontario - 2016 Northern Policy Institute (with Ayman Alahmar).

  • Defence Budgets in the Post-Cold War Era: A Spatial Econometrics Approach - 2016 in Defence and Peace Economics.

    Working Papers

• Origin Country Conflict and Immigrant Physical Health (with Ryan A. Compton, Andrea N. Craig, and Dörte Heger)

• Civil War and State Capacity (with Ryan A. Compton and Bryan Paterson)

• Committed to the Cause?  NATO Disarmament Following the Cold War

• Defence Spending Behaviour of Arms Producers and Arms Importers 

    Consultant Work

In-Service Support Best Practices of Selected Countries

Defence Industrial Policy Approaches and Instruments

Teaching

Current

        Lakehead University

     ECON 3114 - International Finance

     ECON 4110/5110 - Economics of Defence

 Previous

        Lakehead University

            ECON 1100 - Principles of Economics

            ECON 2203 - Macroeconomics

            ECON 3114 - International Finance

            ECON 3211 - Economic Development

            ECON 4111 - International Trade

            ECON 4531/5257 - Natural Resources

     ECON 4611/5411- Special Topics: Defence Economics

            ECON 5411- Special Topics: Economics of International Affairs

            BUSI 5017 - Managerial Economics 

        Royal Military College of Canada

ECE 326 - Microeconomics II

ECE 417 - International Economics

MBA 521 - Economics

MPA 531 - Economics

MPA 539 - Economics of Defence

MPA 549 - Economics of National Security