Articles
Civilization and the Evolution of Short Sighted Agents (with Troy Siemers and Sam Allen), Working Paper (2008)
We model an assurance game played within a population with two types of individuals --...
Hiding in plain sight – using signals to detect terrorists (with Laura Razzolini), Public Choice (2007)
This paper studies the interaction between a governmental security agency, as the Transportation Security Agency,...
US Aid or US Trade? – Relative Effect on Worldwide Human Development (with Tinni Sen), Proceedings of the International Business and Economics Research Conference (2006)
The effect of aid on economic growth is unclear. It may be more plausible to...
Titan Agonistes: The Wealth Effects of the Standard Oil (N.J.) Case (with Michael Reksulak, Bill Shughart, and Bob Tollison), Research in Law and Economics (2004)
This paper explores the puzzling wealth effects of the Standard Oil (N.J.) case. Contrary to...
Are People Sometimes Too Honest? Increasing, Decreasing, and Negative Returns to Honesty (with John Conlon), Southern Economic Journal (2000)
We show that sender honesty can hurt receivers in simple signaling games. The receiver faces...
Unpublished Papers
A Decision Analysis Approach To Solving the Signaling Game (with Barry Cobb), Not Published -- Working Paper (2009)
Decision analysis has traditionally been applied to choices under uncertainty involving a single decision maker....
A Control Theory Model of Pricing For a Firm Facing A Stochastic Environment – A Firm’s Dynamic Pricing Strategy When Faced With the Threat Of Antitrust Action (with Manak Gupta) (2007)
Asymmetric Information, Communication, and Cartel Instability (with John Conlon) (2007)
This paper studies the effect of asymmetric information about demand on cartel stability. In this...
On the Ethnic Origins of Terrorism (with William F. Shughart II) (2007)
Using the ITERATE dataset, we explore the origins of transnational terrorist activity in 118 countries...
Reducing the Impact of Ethnic Tensions on Economic Growth – Economic or Political Institutions? (with Michael Reksulak and Geoffrey Parker) (2007)
We use a standard growth accounting model and show that ethnic tensions reduce per capita...
Other
Losing the Edge at the Final Frontier: A Relative Decline in Scientific Inputs and its Consequences (with Michael Reksulak) (2008)
This paper proposes a model of scientific output utilizing a Cobb-Douglas production function. We employ...
Price Discrimination and Resale: A Classroom Experiment (with David Reilly, Christian Rojas, and et al) (2008)
This paper presents a classroom experiment designed to illustrate key concepts of third-degree price discrimination....