Research

I love economics.  There are few aspects of it that I'm not interested in, at least to some degree.  Due to inevitable scarcities of time and attention, of course, my work focus is more narrow, but it seems to expand as I age (there's a joke there somewhere).  Here are some papers I've been involved with.

Refereed Journal Articles

• ``Geopolitical risk and stock market development,'' (2023) with M. Khraiche and M. S. Chowdhury, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 88, 101847.

• ``Corruption and Stock Market Development: Developing vs. Developed Economies,'' (2023) with M. Khraiche and M. S. Chowdhury, International Review of Financial Analysis, 89, 102795 .

• ``Simpson's Aggregation Paradox in Nonparametric Statistical Analysis: Theory, Computation, and Susceptibility in Public Health Data,'' (2023) with S. Sanders and J. Ehrlich, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 9, 1169164.

• ``The Impact of Organizer Market Structure on Participant Entry Behavior in a Multi-Tournament Environment,'' (2023) with T. Mathews and S. Namoro, Games, 14 (1), 4.

• ``Rule Selection Invariance as a Robustness Check in Collective Choice and Nonparametric Statistical Settings,'' (2022) with J. Ehrlich and S. Sanders, Public Choice, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-022-01027-8 .

• ``The Role of Luck in Political and Economic Competition: Noisy All-pay Auctions,'' (2022) with Haikady Nagaraja, L. Rentschler, and S. Sanders, Public Choice, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-022-01023-y .

• ``Conflicts with Momentum,'' (2022) with T. Mathews, S. Sanders, and A. Bagchi, Games, 13 (1), 12.

• ``An Analysis an Alternative Pythagorean Expected Wins Model:  Applications Using Major League Baseball Team Quality Simulations,'' (2021) with C. Boudreaux, J. Ehrlich, and S. Sanders, Mathematics and Sports, 1 (1), 1-5.

• ``Can Lower Remittance Costs Improve Human Capital Accumulation in Africa?'' (2020) with M. Khraiche, Journal of Policy Modeling, 42 (5), 1000-1021.

• ``Stag hunt contests and alliance formation,'' (2019) with L. Rentschler, and S. Sanders, Public Choice, 179 (3-4), 267-285. 

• ``The Role of Noise in Alliance Formation and Collusion in Conflicts,'' (2019) with S. Sanders and N. Shunda, Public Choice, 179 (3-4), 249-266.

• ``The likelihood of social choice violations in rank sum scoring: algorithms and evidence from NCAA cross country running,'' (2018) with J. Ehrlich, Mian Raza, and S. Sanders, Public Choice,174, (3–4), 219–238.

• ``Cycles in Team Tennis and Other Paired-Element Contests,'' (2017) with S. Sanders and J. Ehrlich, Games, 8 (3), 27. (open access)

• ``A Marriage Matching Mechanism Menagerie,'' (2017) with V. Knoblauch, Operations Research Letters, 45 (1), 68-71.

• ``Sequential Auctions with Budget Constraints:  Evidence from Fantasy Basketball Auction Drafts," (2016) with N. Shunda, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 62, 8-22. (Data below.)

• ``Social networks and Black–White differentials in public employment agency usage among mature job seekers,'' (2016) with M. Mora and A. Davila, Annals of Regional Science, 56 (2), 433-448. 

• ``Choosing 'Flawed' Aggregation Rules:  The Benefit of Social Choice Violations in a League that Values Competitive Balance,'' (2015) with S. Sanders, Economics Letters, 137, 106-108.

• ``Social Choice Violations in Rank Sum Scoring: A Formalization of Conditions and Corrective Probability Computations,'' (2014) with J. Ehrlich, S. Sanders, and A. Winn, Mathematical Social Sciences, 71, 20-29.

• ``What Price Stability?  Social Welfare in Matching Markets,'' (2014) with V. Knoblauch, Mathematical Social Sciences, 67 (1), 27-33.

• ``Preferences and the Price of Stability in Matching Markets,'' (2013) with V. Knoblauch, Theory and Decision, 74 (4), 565-589.

• ``On the Evolution of Prize Perceptions in Contests,'' (2012) with N. Shunda, Economics Letters, 116 (3), 498-501.

• ``Dividing Profits Three Ways:  Exactness vs. Consensuality,'' (2011) with V. Knoblauch, Mathematical Social Sciences, 62 (2), 79-86.

• ``A Note on the Efficiency and Fairness of Decentralized Matching,'' (2011) Operations Research Letters, 39 (4), 231-233.

• ``All-Pay Auctions with Discrete Action Spaces,'' (2011) Applied Economics Letters, 18 (2), 161-162.

• ``Stratification and Growth in Agent-Based Matching Markets,'' (2010) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 75 (2), 168-179.

• ``Marriage Matching with Intercorrelated Preferences,'' (2010) with V. Knoblauch, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 12 (3), 587-602.

• ``Preference Structure and Random Paths to Stability in Matching Markets,'' (2008) Economics Bulletin, 3 (67), 1-12.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

• ``An Exploration into Why Some Matchings are More Likely than Others,'' (2012) Proceedings of MATCH-UP 2012:  the Second International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences, 39-50.

Work in Progress

• ``All-Pay Auctions with Regret," with N. Shunda.

• ``Competing Contests with Reimbursements," with N. Shunda and S. Sanders.

• ``Why are some matchings more likely than others?''

• ``Traditional vs. Real-Time Teaching Evaluations:  Truth, Usefulness, and the Incentive Structure for Student Participation,'' with C. Jeffords.