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. 97–114, 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-‐77, 2013
The Cyclicality of Skill Acquisition: Evidence from Panel Data (with Facundo Sepúlveda). American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 128-‐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-‐235, 2012
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Corruption? (With Facundo Sepúlveda). Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 493-‐ 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-‐743, December 2009
Professional Memberships
American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association