Working Papers

• Left in the Dust? Pecuniary and Environmental Externalities in Water Markets

with Eric C. Edwards, Muyang Ge, and Reza Oladi

Reject & Resubmit at Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics

• Rural Water Transfer and Urban Growth

with Arpita Nehra, Reza Oladi, and Arthur J. Caplan

• Public Lands and Urban Quality of Life

with Paul M. Jakus

Revise & Resubmit at American Journal of Agricultural Economics

• Mixture Models for U.S. Agricultural Land and Its Growth Rate

with Till Massing and Arturo Ramos

Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Applied Statistics

Refereed Journal Articles

• A Note on the Size Distribution of Government Debt

with Behzod B. Ahundjanov and Botir B. Okhunjanov

Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2025, 29(e101): 1-10.

• Industry Compliance Costs under the Renewable Fuel Standard: Evidence from Compliance Credits

with Arthur R. Wardle

Review of Industrial Organization, 2025, 67(1): 1-34. [Lead article]

[CGO working paper]

• Inference on Learning upon Repeated Compliance Issues

with Veronica F. Pozo and Briana Thomas

Economics Letters, 2024, 242(September): 111871.

• Path Dependence as a Path to Consumer Surplus and Loyalty

with Ben O. Smith and Max St. Brown

Review of Industrial Organization, 2023, 63(1): 1-20. [Lead article]

• The COVID-19 Pandemic and Trade in Agricultural Products

with William Ridley and Stephen Devadoss

The World Economy, 2023, 46(8): 2432-2455.

Recognition: Top downloaded article in 2022, Top viewed article in 2023

• A Changing Landscape: Tracking and Analysis of the International HDV Epidemiology 1999-2020

with Braden S. Fallon, Elaine M. Cooke, Matthew C. Hesterman, Jared S. Norseth, and Melodie L. Weller

PLOS Global Public Health, 2023, 3(4): e0000790.

[medRxiv working paper]

• Power Law in COVID-19 Cases in China

with Behzod B. Ahundjanov and Botir B. Okhunjanov

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2022, 185(2): 699-719.

[medRxiv working paper]

• On the Growth Process of U.S. Agricultural Land

with Tatiana Drugova

Empirical Economics, 2022, 63(3): 1727-1740.

• Measuring Heterogeneous Preferences for Residential Amenities

with Arthur J. Caplan and Kristopher Toll

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021, 87: 103646.

• Risk Perception and Oil and Gasoline Markets under COVID-19

with Behzod B. Ahundjanov and Botir B. Okhunjanov

Journal of Economics and Business, 2021, 115(May-June): 105979.

Recognition: The most cited articles of the journal published since 2020

• Monitoring a Bivariate INAR(1) Process with Application to Hepatitis A

with Francis Pascual

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2021, 50(5): 1036-1058. [Lead article]

• Is Gibrat's 'Economic Inequality' Lognormal?

with Alexis Akira Toda

Empirical Economics, 2020, 59(5): 2071-2091.

• Are Multiple Labels on Food Products Beneficial or Simply Ignored?

with Tatiana Drugova and Kynda R. Curtis

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 68(4): 411-427.

• Irrigation Investment on an American Indian Reservation

with Muyang Ge and Eric C. Edwards

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102(4): 1083-1104.

Awards: The AAEA 2021 Quality of Research Discovery Award, Honorable Mention, The AARES 2022 Quality of Research Discovery Award, Early/Mid-Career Researchers

• Information Search and Financial Markets under COVID-19

with Behzod B. Ahundjanov and Botir B. Okhunjanov

Entropy, 2020, 22(7): 791.

• Organic Wheat Products and Consumer Choice: A Market Segmentation Analysis

with Tatiana Drugova and Kynda R. Curtis

British Food Journal, 2020, 122(7): 2341-2358.

• FDI and Civil Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

with Ahsan Kibria and Reza Oladi

The World Economy, 2020, 43(4): 948-981.

• Copula-Based Control Charts for Monitoring Multivariate Poisson Processes with Application to Hepatitis C Counts

with Francis Pascual

Journal of Quality Technology, 2020, 52(2): 128-144. 

Recognition: A top five most read article of the journal in 2020

• Commercialization of a Demand-Enhancing Innovation: The Release of a New Apple Variety by a Public University

with R. Karina Gallardo, Jill J. McCluskey, and Bradley J. Rickard

Economic Modelling, 2020, 86(March): 88-100.

• The Power Law Distribution of Agricultural Land Size

with Lauren Chamberlain

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2019, 46(16): 3044-3056.

• Gibrat's Law for CO2 Emissions

with Behzod B. Ahundjanov

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019, 526(July): 120944.

• The Antiquities Act, National Monuments, and the Regional Economy

with Paul M. Jakus

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019, 95(May): 102-117. 

Award: The WAEA 2020 Outstanding Published Research Award

Media: The Salt Lake Tribune (2020), Resources Radio of Resources for the Future (2020), Resources Magazine of Resources for the Future (2021), Headwaters Economics (2021), Cache Valley Daily (2020), USU Today (2020)

• Transboundary Natural Resources, Externalities, and Firm Preferences for Regulation

with Félix Muñoz-García

Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019, 73(1): 333-352.

• Fossil Fuel Share in the Energy Mix and Economic Growth

with Ahsan Kibria and Reza Oladi

International Review of Economics and Finance, 2019, 59(January): 253-264.

• Neither Boon nor Bane: The Economic Effects of a Landscape-Scale National Monument

with Paul M. Jakus

Land Economics, 2018, 94(3): 323-339. [Lead article]

Media: The Washington Post (2019), The Salt Lake Tribune (2020), The Salt Lake Tribune (2017), Headwaters Economics (2021), Deseret News (2018)

• Size Distribution of National CO2 Emissions

with Stephen Devadoss and Jeff Luckstead

Energy Economics, 2017, 66(August): 182-193.

• Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Charts for Correlated Multivariate Poisson Processes

with Francis Pascual

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2017, 46(10): 4977-5000.

• Can Polluting Firms Favor Regulation?

with Félix Muñoz-García

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16(4): 1-23.

• Firm Preferences for Environmental Policy: Industry Uniform or Firm Specific?

with Félix Muñoz-García

Strategic Behavior and the Environment, 2016, 6(1-2): 135-180.

• Power Law Distribution for Lower Tail Cities in India

with Stephen Devadoss, Jeff Luckstead, and Diana Danforth

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, 442(January): 193-196.

• Moving Range EWMA Control Charts for Monitoring the Weibull Shape Parameter

with Francis Pascual

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 2015, 85(9): 1864-1882.

Other Publications

• Public Lands and Urban Quality of Life

with Paul M. Jakus

2024 Report to the Governor and Legislature on Utah's Land, Water, and Air, Institute of Land, Water, and Air, 2024.

• Understanding the Potential Costs of Buy-and-Dry

2023 Report to the Governor and Legislature on Utah's Land, Water, and Air, Institute of Land, Water, and Air, 2023.

Media: FOX13 (2023), Utah Public Radio (2023)

• What Is the Most Optimal Licensing-Royalty Fee Scheme for a New Plant Variety Developed by a University Breeding Program?

with R. Karina Gallardo, Jill J. McCluskey, and Bradley J. Rickard

Tree Fruit Extension Economics Research Highlight, Washington State University Extension, 2020.

• Economic Effects of Designating Landscape-Scale National Monuments

with Paul M. Jakus

Western Policy Brief, Western Rural Development Center, 2019.

• Commercialization Mechanisms for New Plant Varieties

with R. Karina Gallardo, Jill J. McCluskey, and Bradley J. Rickard, 

In: Kalaitzandonakes, N., Carayannis, E.G., Grigoroudis, E., and Rozakis, S. (Eds.)

From Agriscience to Agribusiness, Springer, 2018, pp. 379-390.

• Essays on Environmental Regulation and Applied Microeconomics

Dissertation abstract in recognition of AAEA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 100(2): 640-641.

• Firm Preferences for Environmental Regulation

with Félix Muñoz-García

Review of Environment, Energy and Economics, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), 2014, November 27.