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Recent Publications of Current Faculty

"Learning from a teacher who has stopped learning is like drinking from a stagnant pool."
~ Indonesian proverb

Cynthia A. Bansak and Chris McLaren, “Parental Eligibility for Public Health Insurance: A Study of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and Child Coverage Rates” Applied Economic Letters, forthcoming.

Jeffrey T. Young, “Law and Economics in the Protestant Natural Law Tradition: Samuel Pufendorf, Francis Hutcheson, and Adam Smith,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Minisymposium on the History of Law and Economics, forthcoming.

Steven Horwitz and Peter Lewin, “Heterogeneous Human Capital, Uncertainty, and the Structure of Plans: A Market Process Approach to Marriage and Divorce,” Review of Austrian Economics 21, forthcoming.

Michael Jenkins and Petya Madzharova, “Real Interest Rate Parity in the European Union”  Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming.

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Cynthia A. Bansak, “How do Mexican Migrants Affect Public Coffers? Changes in the Utilization and Contribution to Public Benefits in U.S. Border States ” in Labor Market Issues Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: Economic and Demographic Analyses, edited by Marie T. Mora and Alberto Dávila (The University of Texas —Pan American, forthcoming).

Steven Horwitz, “Analogous Models of Complexity: The Austrian Theory of Capital and Hayek’s Theory of Cognition as Adaptive Classifying Systems,” Advances in Austrian Economics 15, forthcoming.

Jeffrey T. Young, “The Humean Foundations of Adam Smith’s Theory of Property,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, forthcoming.

Alison F. Del Rossi and Joni Hersch, “Double Your Major, Double Your Return?” Economics of Education Review, forthcoming.

Jeffrey T. Young, Editor, The Elgar Companion to Adam Smith (Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishers), forthcoming.

Alan Lockard, "The Mischief of Faction: Before and After Madison,” Flinders Journal of History and Politics, forthcoming.  

Cynthia A. Bansak, Norman Morin, and Martha Starr,“Technology, Capital Spending, and Capital Utilization” Economic Inquiry 45 (July 2007): 631-45.

Jeffrey T. Young, “Adam Smith and New Institutional Theories of Property Rights,” Adam Smith Review, 2, 2007.

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cynthia A. Bansak, and Steven Raphael, "Gender Differences in the Labor Market: Impact of IRCA's Amnesty Provisions” American Economic Review 97 (May 2007): 412-16.

Cynthia A. Bansak and Steven Raphael,“The Effects of State Policy Design Features on Take Up and Crowd Rates for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 26 (Winter 2007): 149-75.

Alan Lockard, “Note on Rent-Seeking and Committees using a Proportionate-Sharing Rule,” Public Choice, 126 (3-4) December 2006, 315-9.

Cynthia A. Bansak,“Money Transfers among Banked and Unbanked Mexican Immigrants” (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes), Southern Economic Journal 73 (October 2006): 374-401.

Amos Witztum and Jeffrey T. Young, “The Neglected Agent: Justice, Power and Distribution in Adam Smith,” History of Political Economy, Fall 2006.

Cynthia A. Bansak and Steven Raphael,“Have Employment Relationships in the United States Become Less Stable?” International Advances in Economic Research 12 (August 2006): 342-357.

Bradley S. Wimmer and Brian Chezum, "Adverse Selection, Seller Effort, and Selection Bias," Southern Economic Journal, July 2006.

Alan Lockard, “Another Consideration in Vote Dilution Remedies: Rent-seeking,” Review of Law & Economics, 2(3) article 5, 2006.

Jeffrey T. Young, “A Review of Leonidas Montes’s, Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought,” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 2006.

Cynthia A. Bansak,“The Differential Wage Impact of Employer Sanctions on Latino Ethnic Subgroups”, Social Science Quarterly 86 (December 2005): 1279-1297.

Peter J. Boettke and Steven Horwitz, “The Limits of Economic Expertise: Prophets, Engineers, and the State in the History of Development Economics,” History of Political Economy, annual conference volume supplement, 2005.

Jeffrey T. Young, “Unintended Order and Intervention: Adam Smith’s Theory of the Role of the State,” History of Political Economy, annual conference volume supplement, 2005.

Steven Horwitz, “The Functions of the Family in the Great Society,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, September 2005.

Natalia Ovchinnikova, “Development Patterns of the Samara Region (Russia),” Conference Proceedings of the Sixth International Young Scholars’ Forum of the Asia-Pacific Region Countries, September 2005.

Michael Jenkins and Sean Snaith, “Tests of Purchasing Power Parity via Cointegration Analysis of Heterogeneous Panels with Consumer Price Indices,” Journal of Macroeconomics, June 2005.

Steven Horwitz, “Two Worlds at Once: Rand, Hayek, and the Ethics of the Micro and Macro-cosmos,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Spring 2005.

Alan Lockard, “Review of Samuel Kerner (ed.), James Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican Government,” Public Choice, April 2005.

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cynthia A. Bansak, and Susan Pozo, “On the Remitting Pattern of Immigrants: Evidence from Mexican Survey Data” Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review 90 (First Quarter, 2005): 37-58.

Steven Horwitz, “Monetary Calculation and the Unintended Extended Order: The Misesian Microfoundations of the Hayekian Great Society,” Review of Austrian Economics, December 2004.

Alan Lockard, “Common Economic Principles Illustrated in Ordinary Classroom Activities,” Journal of Private Enterprise, Fall 2004.

Steven Horwitz, “Money and the Interpretive Turn: Some Considerations,” Symposium, Summer 2004.

Alison F. Del Rossi, Joni Hersch and W. Kip Viscusi, “Voter Preferences and State Regulation of Smoking,” Economic Inquiry, July 2004.

Michael Jenkins, “Purchasing Power Parity Under the Euro” in Current Issues in European Integration edited by Y. Stivachtis (Athens: Atiner 2004).

Alan Lockard, “Sortition,” The Encyclopedia of Public Choice edited by Charles Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004).

Natalia Ovchinnikova, “Attraction of Foreign Direct Investment and a Model of Capital Repatriation,” in Decision Making edited by V.I. Tcherniak (Moscow: MAKS Press, 2004). [in Russian]Michael Jenkins, “Purchasing Power Parity and the Role of Traded Goods: Evidence from EU States” Applied Economics, July 2004.

Natalia Ovchinnikova, “Mental Accounting Principles in Metaeconomics: Consumer’s Decisions with Others-Interest,” Conference proceedings: Cross Fertilization of Economics and Psychology, July 2004.

Steven Horwitz, “Rand, Rush, and De-totalizing the Utopianism of Progressive Rock,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Fall 2003.

Alan Lockard, “Sortition: A Means to Reduce Rent-seeking,” Public Choice, September 2003.

Brian Chezum and Bradley S. Wimmer, “An Empirical Examination of Quality Certification in a Lemons Market,” Economic Inquiry, April, 2003.

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Cynthia A. Bansak,“The Role of Contingent Work in the War Against Poverty” Chicago Policy Review 7 (Spring 2003): 77-98. 

Steven Horwitz, “The Costs of Inflation Revisited,” Review of Austrian Economics, March 2003.

Alan Lockard, "Review of Mark Pennington, Planning and the Political Market," Liberty Guide, (http://libertyguide.com/Book_Reviews/id.3176/review_detail.asp), September 2002.

Jeffrey T. Young, “Adam Smith and the Physiocrats: Contrasting Views of The Law of Nature,” History of Economic Ideas, X/2002/3.

J.P. Amigues, Catherine Boulatoff, J. Keith, C. Gauthier, and B. Desaigues. “The Benefits and Costs of Riparian Analysis Habitat Preservation: A Willingness to Accept/Willingness to Pay Contingent Valuation Approach,” Ecological Economics, 2002.

Alan Lockard, “Why Constitutional Protection of Property Rights becomes Less Certain over Time.” Journal of Private Enterprise, Spring 2002.

Natalia Ovchinnikova, “The Role of Foreign Investment in the Model of a Small Open Economy,” in Modelling of Economic Processes edited by M.V. Gracheva (Moscow: TEIS, 2002). [in Russian]

Steven Horwitz, “Comment on Boettke & Subrick and Faulkner,” Journal of Economic Methodology, March 2002.

Steven Horwitz, “Entrepreneurship, Exogenous Change, and the Flexibility of Capital,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, March 2002.

Jeffrey T. Young, “From Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill: Samuel Hollander and the Classical Economists,” in Historians of Economic Thought: The Construction of Disciplinary Memory edited by Steven Medema and Warren Samuels (New York: Routledge, 2001).

Steven Horwitz, “From Smith to Menger to Hayek: Liberalism in the Spontaneous Order Tradition,” The Independent Review, Summer 2001.

Cynthia A. Bansak and Steven Raphael, “Immigration Reform and the Earnings of Latino Workers: Do Employer Sanctions Cause Discrimination?” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54 (January 2001): 275-295. Reprinted in Immigration and Nationality Law Review, Volume 22, the University of Cincinnati College of Law, 2003.

Brian Chezum, Bradley S. Wimmer, and Anthony M. Townsend, "Information Technologies and the Middleman: The Changing Role of Information Intermediaries in and Information-Rich Economy," Journal of Labor Research, Summer, 2000.

Michael Jenkins and Christopher Tsoukis, “Nominal Inertia and Shock Persistence in UK Business Cycles” Applied Economics, June 2000.

Jeffrey T. Young, “Adam Smith’s Two Views of the Market,” in Knowledge, Division of Labour and Social Institutions edited by Pier Luigi Porta, Roberto Scazzieri, and Andrew Skinner (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publisher, 2000).

Alan Lockard and Gordon Tullock, editors. Efficient Rent Seeking: Chronicle of an Intellectual Quagmire (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000).

Alan Lockard, “Gordon Tullock: Master of the Muck and Mire,” in Efficient Rent Seeking: Chronicle of an Intellectual Quagmire edited by Alan Lockard and Gordon Tullock, (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000).

Jeffrey T. Young, “The Economics of Thomas Robert Malthus, by Samuel Hollander,” in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Volume 19A, edited by Warren Samuels (Elsevier Science, Inc. 2000).

Steven Horwitz, Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective (New York: Routledge, 2000). [Co-winner of the 2001 Smith Prize in Austrian Economics, for the best contribution to Austrian economics in the previous three years.]

Jeffrey T. Young, “Justice Versus Expediency: The Wealth of Nations as an Anti-Political Economy,” in Reflecting on the Canon, Essays in Honor of Samuel Hollander edited by Evelyn Forget and Sandra Peart (New York: Routledge, 2000).

Steven Horwitz, “From The Sensory Order to the Liberal Order: Hayek’s Non-rationalist Liberalism,” Review of Austrian Economics, March 2000.

Brian Chezum and Bradley S. Wimmer, “Evidence of Adverse Selection From Thoroughbred Wagering,” Southern Economic Journal, January, 2000.

Alison F. Del Rossi and Owen R. Phillips, “Pretrial Bargaining in the Face of a Random Court Decision: Evidence from Laboratory Games,” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, October 1999.

Michael Jenkins, “Real Exchange Rates and Hysteresis: Does Nominal Exchange Rate Volatility Matter?” Applied Economics Letters, June 1999

Alison F. Del Rossi and Robert P. Inman, “Changing the Price of Pork: The Impact of Local Cost Sharing on Legislators’ Demands for Distributive Public Goods,” Journal of Public Economics, 1999.

Steven Horwitz, “Monetary Calculation and Mises’s Critique of Planning,” History of Political Economy, Fall 1998.

Robert A. Blewett and Michael F. Farley, “Institutional Constraints on Entrepreneurship in Kenya’s Popular Music Industry” in African Entrepreneurship: Theory and Reality edited by Anita Spring and Barbara E. McDade (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1998).

Brian Chezum and John Garen, “Are Union Productivity Effects Overestimated?: Evidence from Eastern Kentucky Coal Mines,” Applied Economics, 1998.

Steven Horwitz, “Keynes and Capitalism One More Time: A Further Reply to Hill,” Critical Review, Winter-Spring 1998.

Jeffrey T. Young, Economics as a Moral Science: The Political Economy of Adam Smith (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publisher, 1997).

Brian Chezum and Bradley S. Wimmer, “Roses or Lemons: Adverse Selection in the Market for Thoroughbred Yearlings,” Review of Economics and Statistics, August, 1997.

Peter J. Boettke and Steven Horwitz, editors, Advances in Austrian Economics, volume 4, (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997).

Michael Jenkins, "Cities, Borders, Distances, Non-Traded Goods and Purchasing Power Parity" Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, May 1997.

Steven Horwitz, “Labor Market Coordination and Monetary Equilibrium: W. H. Hutt’s Place in ‘Pre-Keynesian’ Macro,” Journal of Labor Research, Spring 1997.

Jeffrey T. Young, “Justice and Price: Reply to John Salter,” History of Political Economy, Winter, 1997.

Brian Chezum and John Garen, “Market Power and Price: Theory and Evidence on Labor Unions,” Eastern Economic Journal, Winter, 1997.

Jeffrey T. Young, “Classical Economics” in Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics edited by T. Cate (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publisher, 1997).

Steven Horwitz, “Capital Theory, Inflation, and Deflation: The Austrians and Monetary Disequilibrium Theory Compared,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Fall 1996. Reprinted in The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek, Vol III: Economics, edited by Peter J. Boettke (Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2000).

Steven Horwitz, “Reply to Cottrell,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Fall 1996.

Michael Jenkins, "Central Bank Independence and Inflation Performance: Panacea or Placebo?" Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, June 1996. Reprinted as “Autonomia della banca centrale e inflazione: panacea o placebo?” Moneta E Credito, September 1996.

Brian Chezum and John Garen, “A Model of Monopoly and 'Efficient' Unions With Endogenous Coverage: Positive and Normative Implications,” Journal of Labor Research, Summer, 1996.

Steven Horwitz, “Money, Money Prices, and the Socialist Calculation Debate,” Advances in Austrian Economics, 1996. Reprinted in Socialism and the Market: The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited, Vol. IX, edited by Peter J. Boettke (New York: Routledge, 2000).

Barry Gordon and Jeffrey T. Young, “Distributive Justice as a Normative Criterion in Adam Smith’s Political Economy,” History of Political Economy, 1996.

Steven Horwitz, “Keynes on Capitalism: Reply to Hill,” Critical Review, Summer 1996.

Michael Jenkins, "Global Intermediation and International Finance" in Investment Banking: Theory and Practice, edited by E.P.M. Gardener and P. Molyneux (London: Euromoney Books, 1996).

Michael Jenkins, "International Monetary Policy" in Investment Banking: Theory and Practice, edited by E.P.M. Gardener and P. Molyneux (London: Euromoney Books 1996).

Alison F. Del Rossi, “The Politics and Economics of Pork Barrel Spending: The Case of Federal Financing of Water Resources Development,” Public Choice, December 1995.

Steven Horwitz, “Feminist Economics: An Austrian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Methodology, December 1995.

Robert A. Blewett, “Property Rights as a Cause of the Tragedy of the Commons: Institutional Change and the Pastoral Maasai of Kenya,” Eastern Economic Journal, Fall 1995. [Awarded the Eastern Economics Association’s Otto Eckstein Prize for best article in 1995 and 1996.]

Michael Jenkins and John Rogers, "Haircuts or Hysteresis? Sources of Movements in Real Exchange Rates," Journal of International Economics May 1995.

Robert A. Blewett and Jeffrey T. Young, “When Aggregate Demand is not Aggregate Demand: A Pedagogical Note on the Aggregate Demand and Supply Model,” New York Economic Review, 1995.

Jeffrey T. Young, “Natural Jurisprudence and the Theory of Value in Adam Smith,” History of Political Economy, 1995.