Research

Research Interests

• Public Choice

• Political Economy

• Public Economics

• Experimental Economics

• Industrial Organization and Regulation

• Managerial Economics

Published Research

1. "Signaling for access to high-demand markets: evidence from the US motion picture industry" (with Amanda S. King and John T. King). Journal of Cultural Economics, 41(4), 2017: 441-465.

2. "Tarring the Trust: The Political Economy of Standard Oil" (with William F. Shughart II). Southern California Law Review Postscript, 85(5), 2012: 23-32.

3. "What Should Government Do? Externalities, Social Costs and All That" (with William F. Shughart II). Public Choice, 152(1-2), 2012: 103-114.

4. "Of Rebates and Drawbacks: The Standard Oil Company (N.J.) and the Railroads" (with William F. Shughart II). Review of Industrial Organization, 38(3), 2011: 267-283.

5. "Antitrust Public Choice(s)." Public Choice, 142(3-4), 2010: 423-428.

6. "Your Place in Space: A Classroom Experiment on Spatial Location Theory" (with Margo Bergman, Dirk Mateer, Jon Rork, Rick Wilson, and David Zirkle). Journal of Economic Education, 40(4), 2009: 405-421.

7. "Innovation and the Opportunity Cost of Monopoly" (with William F. Shughart II and Robert D. Tollison). Managerial and Decision Economics, 29(8), 2008: 619-627.

8. "Inhibiting Institutional Inertia: Squaring iron triangles while reforming welfare." Public Finance and Management, 8(2), 2008: 204-233.

9. "Taxonomy: Racism versus Fiscal Conservatism in Voting on Segregationist Provisions in Alabama's Constitution" (with William F. Shughart II). Constitutional Political Economy, 19(1), 2008: 61-80.

10. "Losing the Edge at the Final Frontier: A Relative Decline in Scientific Inputs and its Consequences" (with Atin Basuchoudhary). Applied Econometrics and International Development, 7(2), 2007: 23-36.

11. "An Experimental Evaluation of the Serial Cost Sharing Rule" (with Laura Razzolini and Robert Dorsey). Theory and Decision, 63(3), 2007: 283-314.

12. "Flags of Our Fathers: Voting on Confederate Symbols in the State of Georgia" (with Gökhan Karahan and William F. Shughart II). Public Choice, 131(1-2), 2007: 83-99.

13. "A Multivariate Methodology for the Selection of Accreditation Peers" (with Jacob V. Simons). The Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education, 1(1-2), Spring-Fall 2006: 37-41.

14. "Economics and English: Language Growth in Economic Perspective" (with William F. Shughart II and Robert D. Tollison). Southern Economic Journal, 71(2), 2004: pp. 232-259. [Mentioned in: Bernard Saffran, "Recommendations for Further Reading," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19(1), Winter 2005, p. 235.]

15. "Titan Agonistes: The Wealth Effects of the Standard Oil (N.J.) Case" (with William F. Shughart II, Robert D. Tollison, and Atin Basu Choudhary). Research in Law and Economics, 21, 2004: 63-84.

16. "The Political Economy of the IRS" (with Marilyn Young and William F. Shughart II). Economics and Politics, 13(July), 2001: 201-220. [Quoted in: "A Different Kind of Tax Break", The Washington Post, 16 September 2001, p. B5.]

Collective Volume Articles

• "Reducing the Impact of Ethnic Tensions on Economic Growth: Economic or Political Institutions?" (with Atin Basuchoudhary), in: Joshua C. Hall and Sara Harper (eds.), Economic and Political Institutions and Development, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 167-182.

• "Competition Policy in Public Choice Perspective" (with Fred S. McChesney and William F. Shughart II), in: Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol (eds.), Oxford Handbook on International Antitrust Economics, Volume 1, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 147-171.

• "Individual Choice and Collective Choice: An Overview" (with Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II), in: Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, 2nd ed., Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2013, pp. 3-11.

• "Checks and Balances at the OK Corral: Restraining Leviathan" (with Atin Basuchoudhary and William F. Shughart II), in: Alain Marciano (ed.), Constitutional Mythologies: New Perspectives on Controlling the State, Springer Science Series: Studies in Public Choice, Vol. 23, Chapter 6. Berlin: Springer, 2011, pp. 71-80.

• "Enron" (with William F. Shughart II), in: Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003, pp. 219-224.

Book Reviews

• Review of After Enron: Lessons for Public Policy, ed. by William A. Niskanen (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). In Managerial and Decision Economics, 27(5), July-August, 2006: 394-396.

• Review of The Economic Effects of Constitutions, by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini (Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2003). In Public Choice, 127(1-2), 2006: 235-240.

• Review of The Economics of Football, by Stephen Dobson and John Goddard (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001). In Managerial and Decision Economics, 23, 2002: 487-488.

Research in Progress/Working Papers

• “Logrolling on a Large Scale"

• “Reducing the Impact of Ethnic Tensions on Economic Growth - Economic or Political Institutions?” (with Atin B. Choudhary).

• “Advertising as an Entry Fee into High Demand Markets” (with John T. King).

• “Barrier to Entry: The Political Economy of H-1B Visas” (with Gökhan Karahan and William F. Shughart II).

• “An Experimental Comparison of Three Cost-Sharing Mechanisms” (with Laura Razzolini).

Research Awards

• Eugene M. Bishop Award for Sustained Excellence, College of Business Administration, Georgia Southern University, 2010

• T.J. Morris, Jr., Faculty Award for Outstanding Research, College of Business Administration, Georgia Southern University, 2007