Research

 

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

“Robust Adversarial Risk Analysis: A level-k approach”, Decision Analysis, 9, 41-54. (2012) (with Laura McLay and Seth Guikema).

“Adversarial Risk Analysis with Imperfect Information: A Level-k Approach”, Risk Analysis: an International Journal 32(7), 1219-1231. (2012). (with Laura McLay and Seth Guikema)

“Oil, Islam, Women, and Geography: A Comment On Ross (2008)”, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 7(1), 69-87. (2012). (With Matthew Groh)

“The Efficiency of Categorical Discrimination in Insurance Markets”, Journal of Risk and Insurance, 78(2), 267-285 (2011).

“Enhancing retirement security through the tax code: The efficacy of tax-based subsidies in life annuity markets,” Journal of Pension Economics and Finance 9(2), 185-218 (2010). (With William Gentry)

“Adverse selection in annuity markets: evidence from the British life annuity act of 1808,” Journal of Public Economics, 93, 776-784 (2009).

“The evolution of reciprocity in sizable human groups,” Journal of Theoretical Biology 257(4), 609-617 (2009).

“Redistribution by insurance market regulation: Analyzing a ban on gender-based retirement annuities”, Journal of Financial Economics, 91(1), 38-58 (2009). (With Amy Finkelstein and James Poterba.)

“The Welfare Cost of Market Restrictions,” Southern Economic Journal 77(1) (2010). (With David Colander and Sieuwerd Gaastra)

“Sins of the Sons of Samuelson: Vision, Pedagogy, and the Zigzag windings of Complex Dynamics.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 74(3) (2010). (With David Colander)

“Payoff continuity in incomplete information games: a comment.” Journal of Economic Theory, 120, 270-274 (2005).

“Antineutrino geophysics with liquid scintillator detectors”, Geophysical Research Letters 25 (7), 1083-1086, (1998). (With Mark Chen and Frank Calaprice.) 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

"Neuroeconomics: A cautionary primer" in The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain. Melissa Littlefield and Janelle Johnson, Eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2012). (With J. Niels Rosenquist.) 

“A Guide for “JEE Content” Submissions.” Journal of Economic Education 40 (3), 262-271 (2009). (With David Colander, Jessica Holmes, and Mark Setterfield.)

“Economy Update: 2009.” Supplement for Economics 7th edition, David Colander, McGraw-Hill (2009).

“Complexity and Macro Pedagogy,” in Macroeconomic Theory and Macroeconomic Pedagogy, Guiseppe Fontana and Mark Setterfield, eds., Basingstoke (UK) and New York (USA): Palgrave Macmillan. (2009). (With David Colander.)

“Mineral physics constraints on the interior structure and composition of Jupiter’s Galilean satellites,” EOS Trans. American Geophysical Union F1139, (1999). (With Thomas Duffy.)

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW AND WORKING PAPERS:

“Optimal Income Taxation with Rent-Seeking” (w/ Florian Scheuer). Older version available as NBER Working Paper 17035 (2011).

“Non-exclusivity, Linear Pricing and Insurance Market Efficiency.”  

"Optimal Taxation in the Roy Model" (w/ Florian Scheuer). Available as NBER Working Paper 18228

“Risk Classification and Health Insurance” (w/ Georges Dionne). Available through SSRN.

“Adolescent Addiction with Affinity Preferences” (w/ Niels Rosenquist).