Link to my Google Scholar profile.
PUBLICATIONS:
49) "Winner's Curse and Entry in Highway Procurement" (with Benjamin V. Rosa.) Accepted by the RAND Journal of Economics.
48) "Bond Losses in Post-Auction Resale Markets: Causes and Consequences" (with Klenio Barbosa, Liyu Yang, and Hisayuki Yoshimoto.) International Journal of Finance and Economics. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.3068
47) "Tiebout Sorting and Toxic Releases" (with Anita Schiller, Aurelie Slechten, and Leonard Wolk.) Environmental and Resource Economics. 2024, 87: 2487–2520. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-024-00893-8
46) “Agglomeration and its mechanisms on exporting directly,” (with Hojin Jung and Qianqian Wang.) The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2024, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638199.2024.2417210
45) "Ecological Footprint and Willingness to Pay for Green Goods: Evidence from the Netherlands," (with Tiffany Head, Rachel Pownall, and Anita R. Schiller.) The Energy Journal. 2024, 45(1): 257-285. https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.45.1.ddes
44) "Surviving in the Marketplace: The Importance of Network Connectivity for Art Dealers," (Georgia Kosmopoulou, Rachel Pownall, and Robert Press). Accepted by Economics Letters. 2023. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176523003373
43) “Estimating Outcomes in the Presence of Endogeneity and Measurement Error with an Application to R&D,” (with Timothy P. Hubbard, Anita R. Schiller, and Mike G. Tsionas.) The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2023, 88: 278-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2023.01.010
42) “Auction Mechanisms and Treasury Revenue: Evidence from the Chinese Experiment,” (with Klenio Barbosa, Liyu Yang, and Hisayuki Yoshimoto). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022, 14(4): 394–419. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20200216&&from=f
41) “Evolution of a Dealer Network and its Effects on Art Auction Prices,” (with Marina Gertsberg, Georgia Kosmopoulou, and Rachel Pownall.) European Economic Review, 2022, 144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104083
40) “Posthumous Trading Patterns Affecting Artwork Prices,” (with Georgia Kosmopoulou, Rachel Pownall, Robert Press). Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (2): 453–472. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpab024
39) “Firm Behavior and Pollution in Small Geographies” (with Robert P. McComb, Anita R. Schiller, and Aurelie Slechten.) European Economic Review, 2021, 136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103742
38) “Effects of Oil Boom on Local Environment,” (with Jingjing Cai and Aurelie Slechten.) Energy Economics, 2021, 101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105365
37) “Do Localities Benefit from Extraction of Local Natural Resources?” (with Robert P. McComb and Anita R. Schiller.) The Energy Journal, 2020, 41(5): 163-189.
Recipient of The Energy Journal’s Campbell Watkins Best Paper Award for 2020.
36) “An Evaluation of a Bidder Training Program,” (with Timothy Hubbard and Georgia Kosmopoulou.) International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020, 72 (C). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2020.102661
35) “Spatial Persistence of Agglomeration in Software Publishing,” (with George Deltas and Robert McComb.) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 166: 544-565.
34) “Explaining Time Variation in Geographic Price Dispersion,” (with Inkoo Lee and Soon-Cheul Lee.) Applied Economics, 2019, 51(42): 4629-4641.
33) “The Impact of Regional Competition on the Health Care Industry,” (with Hojin Jung and Georgia Kosmopoulou). Applied Economics, 2018, 50(48): 5135-5141.
32) “Does the Role of Observer Countries in the Regional Trade Agreement matter for Intra-Regional Trade?” (with Soon-Cheul Lee.) Applied Economics, 2018, 50(20): 2219-2228.
31) “Subcontracting and the Survival of Plants in the Road Construction Industry: A Panel Quantile Regression Analysis,” (with Georgia Kosmopoulou and Carlos Lamarche.) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 137: 113-131.
30) “Entry, Growth, and Survival in the Green Industry,” (with Timothy Hubbard, Robert McComb, and Anita R. Schiller.) Regional Studies, 2017, 51(2): 1774-1785.
29) “Entry and Exit Patterns of ‘Toxic’ Firms,” (with Timothy Hubbard and Anita R. Schiller.) The American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016, 98 (3): 881-909.
28) “What Blows in with the Wind?” (with Robert McComb and Anita R. Schiller.) The Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 82 (3): 826–858.
27) “Going Green: Does it Depend on Education, Gender, or Income?” (with Rachel Pownall.) Applied Economics, special issue on Environmental & Natural Resource Economics Policy and Management, 2014, 46(5): 573-586.
Also included in The Economics of Gender (Published on 18 November 2014 http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/bes/the- economics-of/gender)
26) “Government Spending and Job Creation at Highway Construction Firms: Evidence from Texas,” (with Viplav Saini.) Economics Bulletin, 2014, 35(1): 204-213.
25) “The Impact of Timing on Bidding Behavior in Procurement Auctions of Contracts with Private Costs,” (with Georgia Kosmopoulou, Beatrice Pagel, and Ronald Peeters.) Review of Industrial Organization, 2013, 42 (3): 321-343.
24) “Do Production Subsidies Have a Wage Incidence in Wind Power?” (with Robert McComb and Anita R. Schiller.) Applied Economics, 2013, 45(28): 3963-3972.
23) “A Hedonic Price Analysis of Hearing Aid Technology,” (with Nidhi Thakur and Mengzhi Xie), Applied Economics, 2013, 45(16): 2315-2323.
22) “Geographic Concentration and High-Tech Firm Survival,” (with Robert McComb.) Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42(4): 691-701.
21) “Research Universities and Regional High-Tech Firm Start-up and Exit,” (with Robert McComb.) Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50(1): 112–130.
20) “Does the Sun ‘Shine’ on Art Prices?” (with Rachel Pownall and Leonard Wolk.) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 82(1): 167-178.
19) “Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Goals in Government Procurement Contracting: An Analysis of Bidding Behavior and Costs,” (with Timothy Dunne, Georgia Kosmopoulou, and Carlos Lamarche.) International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2012, 30(4) 377-388.
18) “Survival of Contractors with Previous Subcontracting Experience,” (with Georgia Kosmopoulou and Carlos Lamarche.) Economics Letters, 2012, 117(1): 7-9.
17) “The Effect of Migration on Wages: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” (with Robert McComb, Young Kyu Moh, Anita R. Schiller, and Andrés J. Vargas.) American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 2010, 100 (2): 321-326.
16) “The Effect of Information on the Bidding and Survival of Entrants in Procurement Auctions,” (with Georgia Kosmopoulou and Carlos Lamarche.) Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93(1-2): 56-72.
15) “Entry and Bidding in Common and Private Value Auctions with an Unknown Number of Rivals,” (with Thomas D. Jeitschko, and Georgia Kosmopoulou.) Review of Industrial Organization, special issue on Public-Private Agreements, Competition, and Institutions, 2009, 35(1): 73-93.
14) “The Impact of Public Information on Bidding in Highway Procurement Auctions,” (with Timothy Dunne, Anuruddha Kankanamge, and Georgia Kosmopoulou.) European Economic Review, 2008, 52: 150-181.
13) “A Change in the Timing of Auctions with Synergies and its Impact on Bidding Behavior,” (with Anuruddha Kankanamge and Georgia Kosmopoulou.) Economics Letters, 2007, 95(1): 60-65.
12) “The Effect of Shill Bidding upon Prices: Experimental Evidence,” (with Georgia Kosmopoulou.) International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2007, 25(2): 291-313.
11) “Synergies in Recurring Procurement Auctions: An Empirical Investigation,” Economic Inquiry, 2005, 43(1): 55-66.
10)“Stochastic Synergies in Sequential Auctions,” (with Thomas D. Jeitschko, and Georgia Kosmopoulou.) International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2005, 23(3-4): 183-201.
9) “Sri Lanka’s Experiment with Devaluation: VAR and ECM Analysis of the Exchange Rate Effects on Trade Balance and GDP,” (with Zhen Zhu.) The International Trade Journal, 2004, 18(4): 269-301.
8) “An Empirical Analysis of Entrant and Incumbent Bidding in Road Construction Auctions,” (with Timothy Dunne and Georgia Kosmopoulou.) Journal of Industrial Economics, 2003, 51(3): 295-316.
7) “Sequential Bidding in Auctions of Construction Contracts,” (with Timothy Dunne and Georgia Kosmopoulou.) Economics Letters, 2002, 76: 239-244.
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH:
6) "A Review of the Levelized Cost of Wave Energy Based on a Techno-Economic Model," (with by Chenglong Guo, Wanan Sheng, and George Aggidis) Energies, 2023, 16(5), 2144
5) “An Economic Analysis of Wind Resistant Construction,” (with Jamie B. Kruse, and Daniel Sutter.) Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. (The Journal of the International Association for Wind Engineering), 2009, 97(3-4): 113-119.
4) “Spatial Dependencies in Wind-related Housing Damage,” (with Jamie B. Kruse, and Yongsheng Wang.) Natural Hazards (Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards), 2008, 47(3): 317-330.
3) “Catastrophe-induced Destruction and Reconstruction,” (with Jamie B. Kruse, and Yongsheng Wang.) Natural Hazards Review, (Journal of the American Society of Civil Engineers), 2006, 7(1): 19-25.
2) “Fujita Scale and Dollar Losses: Evidence from May 1999 Oklahoma City Tornado,” (with Jamie B. Kruse, and Yongsheng Wang.) in Economics and Wind, Eds. B. T. Ewing and J. B. Kruse, Nova Science Publishing, Inc., 2005
1) “Effect of Economy and FDA Intervention on the Hearing Aid Industry,” (with Amyn M. Amlani.) American Journal of Audiology, 2005, 14 (1): 71-79.
WORKING PAPERS:
"Contract Modification and Bidding in Highway Procurement Auctions" (with Timothy Dunne, Georgia Kosmopoulou, and Carlos Lamarche.)
"Financing Climate Change Mitigation Projects: Cost and Environmental Performance of Government Green Bonds" (with Klenio Barbosa, Ali Hortaçsu, Anita R. Schiller, and Liyu Yang.)
"Highway Procurement During the Great Recession and Stimulus" (with Benjamin V. Rosa.) NBER Working paper-w33299: https://www.nber.org/papers/w33299
Summarized in "Highway Construction Costs During the Great Recession: Evidence from Texas" - The Digest (March 2025)
https://www.nber.org/digest/202503/highway-construction-costs-during-great-recession-evidence-texas
"Director appointments, boardroom networks, and firm environmental performance" (with Mingyuan Chen and Aurelie Slechten.)
"Corporate Political Leanings and Environmental Performance" (with Mingyuan Chen, Anita Schiller, and Aurelie Slechten.)
"The Politics of Toxic Releases" (with Anita R. Schiller and Aurelie Slechten.)
"Effect of Third Country Tariffs on Bilateral Trade" (with Inkoo Lee, Soon-Cheul Lee, and Maurizio Zanardi.)
"Information Disclosure and Complementarities: Evidence from Food Hygiene Ratings in the U.K." (with David Rietzke, Anita R. Schiller, and Hisayuki Yoshimoto.)
"Measuring Time Costs of Shopping: Domestic versus Foreign Goods" (with Soon Cheul Lee and Inkoo Lee.)
"Dynamic Oligopoly in Procurement Auction Markets" (with Matthew Gentry and Pasquale Schiraldi.)
"The Cost of Climate Risk in Public Procurement" (with Matthew Gentry, Anita R. Schiller, and Pasquale Schiraldi.)
"Does Gender Matter for Equally Qualified Professionals?" (with Timothy P. Hubbard and Rachel A J Pownall.)
"Entry, Growth, and Exit Patterns in the Home Healthcare Industry" (with Hojin Jung, Robert P. McComb, Anita R. Schiller, and Mike G. Tsionas.)
"Environmental Injustice in the UK" (with Anita R. Schiller and Aurelie Slechten.)
WORK IN PROGRESS:
"Cost of outsourcing green design in procurement projects" (with Matthew Gentry, Anita R. Schiller, and Pasquale Schiraldi.)
"Efficacy of a Bidder Training Program in Procurement Auctions with Selection and Entry" (with Tong Li and Jun Zhao.)
"Tidal Wave Energy and Energy Independence: Evidence from Korea" (with Soon Cheul Lee, Inkoo Lee, Anita R. Schiller, and Aurelie Slechten.)
"Data-Driven Procurement Design and Optimization: Scheduling Texas Road Construction Projects' Auctions" (with Hayri Alper Arslan and Alp Arslan.)
"The Spillover Effects of Regional Trade Agreements on Trade" (with Soon-Cheul Lee, Robert P. McComb, and Maurizio Zanardi.)