Dr. Clark’s research interests include the determinants of migration behavior, and the role of local site characteristics on residential property markets. In addition, he recently completed studies evaluating the impact of state sales below cost laws on retail gasoline markets, and also the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on passenger airline travel. He is a consultant to the Wisconsin Realtors Association, preparing their quarterly activity reports. Dr. Clark has also served as a consultant to private industry and he was a co-principal investigator on a three year study for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency evaluating flood and ecological risk in an urban watershed. He has also been a consultant to Argonne National Laboratory, the Federal Railroad Administration, and he was as a Senior Research Associate at Marquette University's Center for Applied Economic Analysis.
Articles
Valuing Environmental Quality: A Space-Based Strategy (forthcoming) (with John I. Carruthers), Journal of Regional Science (2009)
This paper develops and applies a space-based strategy for overcoming the general problem of getting...
Externality Effects of Residential Property Values: The Example of Noise Disamenities, Growth and Change (2006)
Studies conducted by the Federal Railroad Administration in the 1990s reveal that train whistle bans...
Evaluating the Long-Run Impacts of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Airline Travel (with Scott S. Blunk and James M. McGibany), Applied Economics (2006)
Although the US airline industry began 2001 with 24 consecutive profitable quarters, including net profits...
Incomplete Compensation and Migration Behavior: Has Anything Changed Between 1990 and 2000? (with William E. Herrin, Thomas A. Knapp, and Nancy E. White), The Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy (2006)
Spatial equilibrium models rely on migration to arbitrage away differences in utility across locations net...