Research Areas
Economics Development, Macroeconomics
Academic Degrees
Ph.D., Michigan State University
M.A., Michigan State University
Representative Publications
A Samuel, A Farmer, F Mendez-Optimal regulation under imperfect enforcement: Permits, tickets, or both? (with Amy Farmer and Andrew Samuel). Scottish Journal of Political Economy, vol. 67, issue 4, 420-441, September 2020.
Training opportunities in monopsonistic labor markets. Applied Economics, vol. 51, issue 43, pp 4757-4768, June 2019.
Monopsony power in occupational labor markets (with Facundo Sepulveda). Journal of Labor Research,vol. 40, issue 4, 387-411, December 2019.
Regulatory Systems under Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Enforcement (with Amy Farmer and Andrew Samuel). Scottish Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
A note on licenses in the presence of corruption (with Amy Farmer and Andrew Samuel).Review of Law and Economics, vol. 14, issue 3, November 2018.
Socio-Economic Mobility and Air Passenger Demand in the U.S. (with C. Hoffer and R. Kali). Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol. 112, pp: 85-94, June 2018.
A note on licenses in the presence of corruption (with Amy Farmer and Andrew Samuel). Review of Law and Economics, accepted for publication June 23, 2017
A new approach to the study of Jobless Recoveries (with Jeremy Schwartz and Jared D. Reber). Southern Economic Journal, vol. 83, issue 2, pp. 573-589, October 2016
Legalization and Human Capital Accumulation (with Facundo Sepulveda and Nieves Valdes). Journal of Population Economics, vol. 29, no. 3, pp.721-756, July 2016
A comparative study of training in the private and public sectors: Evidence from the UK and the USA (with Facundo Sepulveda). Contemporary Economic Policy, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 107-118, January 2016
The impact of Gulf carrier competition on US airlines (with M. Dresner, C. Eroglu, C. Hoffer and K. Tan). Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol. 79, pp: 31-41, September 2015
On the advantages and disadvantages of subjective measures (with Salar Jahedi). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 98, pp. 97鈥�114, February 2014
Can Corruption Foster Regulatory Compliance? Public Choice, vol.158, no.1-2, pp.189-207, 2014
Optimal Government Regulations and Red Tape in an Economy with Corruption (with Facundo Sepulveda). Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, vol. 54, pp. 51-颅鈥�77, 2013
The Cyclicality of Skill Acquisition: Evidence from Panel Data (with Facundo Sep煤lveda). American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 128-颅鈥�152, July 2012
An Axiomatic Approach to the Measurement of Corruption: Theory and Applications (With James E. Foster and Andrew Horowitz). World Bank Economic Review, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 217-颅鈥�235, 2012
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Corruption? (With Facundo Sep煤lveda). Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 493-颅鈥� 514, December 2010
Hierarchical Human Capital and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence (With Andrew Horowitz and Robert Driskill). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 165, no. 4, pp.723-颅鈥�743, December 2009
Professional Memberships
American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association