Research

                                                         Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

1.  “Independent Regulators and Financial Stability: Evidence from Gubernatorial Campaigns and a Progressive Era Policy Experiment (with Gary Richardson).  NBER Working Paper No. 29938. Journal of Financial Economics, 2024, Vol.152


2.     Stock Returns and the Spanish flu, 1918-1920” (with Caroline Fohlin and Marc Weidenmier). Explorations in Economic History, 2023, Vol. 90


3.     Statistical Inference for Assessing Disparate Impact in Fair Housing Cases” (with Dennis Aigner and Joel Wiles). Statistics and Public Policy, 2024, Vol. 11.


BOOK CHAPTERS

Chinese Import Exposure and U.S. Occupational Employment with Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez and Sanjana Goswami In World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity and Employment, edited by L. Ing and M. Yu, London: Routledge, 2019.

Working Papers


2. Bank Failures and Economic Activity: Evidence from the Progressive Era”   (with Gary Richardson and Michael Gou). NBER Working Paper 32345.

3. Mineral Price Shocks and Native American Conflict (with Gregory Hess and Marc Weidenmier).

4. Outsourcing Child Labor.


Work in Progress

1. “Does Framing of  Macroeconomic Announcements Matter for Asset Prices ?” (with Jeffrey Frankel).                               

2.Political Uncertainty during the Great Depression (with Gary Richardson and Kinda Hachem).                                              

3. Regional Exchanges and the 1929 Crash (with Marc Weidenmier).

4. The effect of the SEC on Corporate Governance (with Marc Weidenmier and Henrik Cronqvist)


Grants

National Science Foundation Grant 2214557 2022. “Should Regulators Have Independence from Political Pressures? Politics, Banking, and Bankruptcies During the Progressive Era”