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Faculty specializations include development economics, econometrics, international economics, industrial organization, labor economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public finance and transportation. Research by the faculty appears in top journals (link to faculty research) and acclaimed books. Research has been funded by such agencies as the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, the American Enterprise Institute, the Kansas Department of Transportation and the Kansas Department of Revenue. In addition, faculty members have won many teaching awards at the college and university levels.

Recent Faculty Publications

Blankenau, William and Cassou, Steven P. “Industry Differences in the Elasticity of Substitution and the Rate of Biased Technological Change Between Skilled and Unskilled Labor,” Applied Economics. forthcoming.

Neymotin, Florence (2009), “Immigration and Its Effect on the College-Going Outcomes of Natives,” “Editors Choice Article in the Category of Education,” Science Magazine, forthcoming.

Sanders, Shane and Kuester, Daniel (2009), “Regional Informational and  Market Efficiency: The Case of Spread Betting in United States College Football,” Journal of Economics and Finance, forthcoming.

Cassou, Steven P. and Gorostiaga, Arantza (2009), “Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Multisector Model: The Price Consequences of Government Spending,” Journal of Public Economic Theory,” Vol.11, No.2, 177-201.

Blankenau, William and Cassou, Steven P. (2008), “Industrial Dynamics and the Neoclassical Growth Model,” Economic Inquiry, October 2009, Vol. 47, pp. 815-837

James F. Ragan, Dong Li, and Horacio Matos-Díaz, "Using Admission Tests to Predict Success in College—Evidence from the University of Puerto Rico," Eastern Economic Journal, forthcoming.

Dong Li and Qi Li, "Nonparametric/Semiparametric Estimation and Testing of Econometric Models with Data Dependent Smoothing Parameters,"Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.

Horacio Matos-Diaz and James F. Ragan, Jr., “Do Student Evaluations of Teaching Depend on the Distributions of Expected Grade?” Education Economics, forthcoming

James F. Ragan, Jr., and Bhavneet Walia, “Differences in Student Evaluations of Principles and Non-Principles Economics Courses and the Allocation of Faculty across these Courses,” Journal of Economic Education, forthcoming

Ashraf El-Araby and James F. Ragan, Jr., “Arab Immigrants in the United States: How and Why do Returns to Education Vary by Country of Origin?” Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming

Yang-Ming Chang and Kyle Ross “Biodiversity, Intellectual Property Rights and North-South Trade,” Economics Bulletin, 2009 forthcoming

Turner, Tracy and Heather M. Luea, "Homeownership, Wealth Accumulation and Income Status," Journal of Housing Economics, forthcoming.

Yang-Ming Chang and Shane Sanders “Corruption on the Court: The Causes and Consequences of Point-Shaving in NCAA Basketball,” Review of Law and Economics, 2009 forthcoming

Dennis L. Weisman and Glen O. Robinson “Lessons for Modern Regulators from Hippocrates, Schumpeter and Kahn” In New Directions in Communications Policy, ed. by Randolph J. May, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009 forthcoming

Yang-Ming Chang and Shane Sanders “Pool Revenue Sharing, Team Investments, and Competitive Balance in Professional Sports: A Theoretical Analysis,” Journal of Sports Economics, forthcoming

Yang-Ming Chang and Philip G. Gayle “Exports vs. FDI: Do Firms use FDI as a Mechanism to Smooth Demand Volatility?” Review of World Economics, forthcoming

Bernt Bratsberg, James F. Ragan, and John Warren, “Does Raiding Explain the Negative Returns to Faculty Seniority?,” Economic Inquiry, forthcoming

Canh Le and Dong Li, “Double-Length Regression Tests for Testing Functional Forms and Spatial Error Dependence,” Economics Letters, 2008, forthcoming

Dennis L. Weisman and T. Tardiff, “The Dominant Firm Revisited,” Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2008, forthcoming

Blankenau, William and Steve Cassou, “Industrial Dynamics and the Neoclassical Growth Model,” Economic Inquiry, October 2009, Vol. 47, pp. 815-837

Blankenau, William and Gabriele Camera, “Public Spending on Education and Incentives to Student Achievement,”Economica, July 2009, Vol. 76, pp. 505-527.

Tracy M. Turner and Marc T. Smith, “Exits from Homeownership: The Effects of Race, Ethnicity and Income.” Journal of Regional Science, forthcoming, February 2009

Philip G. Gayle and Thitima Puttitanun, “Has the Byrd Amendment Affected U.S. Imports?” The World Economy, forthcoming

Glen O. Robinson and Dennis L. Weisman, “Designing Competition Policy for Telecommunications,” The Review of Netwrok Economics, 2008 forthcoming

Yang-Ming Chang, “Strategic Altruistic Transfers and Rent Seeking within the Family,” Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming

Yang-Ming Chang and Shane Sanders, “Raising the Cost of Rebellion: The Role of Third-Party Intervention in Intrastate Conflict,” Defence and Peace Economics, forthcoming

Philip G. Gayle, “An Empirical Analysis of Competitive Effects of the Delta/Continental/Northwest Codeshare Alliance,” Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming

Tracy M. Turner, “Homeownership,” Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Editor, Ray Hutchison. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, forthcoming.

Bachmeier, Lance, “Monetary Policy and the Transmission of Oil Shocks”, Journal of Macroeconomics, forthcoming.

Bachmeier, Lance Dandan Liu, and Qi Li, “Why do oil prices recieve so much attention? An evaluation of the predictive power of oil prices for the US economy”, Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.

Yanbing Zheng, Jun Zhu, and Dong Li, “Analyzing Spatial Panel Data of Cigarette Demand: A Bayesian hierachical modeling approach”,Journal of Data Science, forthcoming.

Dong Li , “Transaction Taxes” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd ed.), Edited by William A. Darity, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Phillip Costanzo, Patrick L. Mason, Paula D. McClain, David Scott, and Theresa Singleton. Macmillan, forthcoming.

Wayne Nafziger, “Entrepreneurship and Development,” International Handbook of Development Studies, 2008, forthcoming

Lloyd B. Thomas and Danhua Wu, “Long-Term Interest Rates and Expected Future Budget Deficits:  Evidence from the Term Structure,” Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 1, Issue 16, Vol. 16, March/April 2009.

Dennis L. Weisman, “Guest Editors Forward,” Symposium Commemorating the Contributions of Alfred E. Kahn The Review of Network Economics, Vol. 7(4) December 2008, pp. 448-459 (with T Tardiff).

Mike Babcock (with Thomas Zlatoper and Andrew Welki), “Determinants of Motor Vehicle Fatalities: A Kansas Case Study,” Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Spring 2008.

Shane Sanders, Dennis Weisman, and Dong Li, “Child Safety Seats On Commercial Airliners: A Demonstration of Cross-Price Elasticities,” The Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 39(2), Spring 2008, pp. 135-144

Leah J. Tsoodle and Tracy M. Turner, “Property Taxes and Residential Rents,” Real Estate Economics, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2008, pp. 63-80

Lloyd B. Thomas and Alan O. Grant, “The Accuracy and Rationality of U.S. and Australian Household Inflation Forecasts: A comparative Study of Michigan and Melbourne Institute Surveys” The Economic RecordJune 2008, pp. 237-252

Inung Jung, Philip Gayle, and Dale Lehman, "Competition & Investment in Telecommunications," Applied Economics, Vol. 40, Issue 3, pp. 303-313, February 2008

Yang-Ming Chang, “Risk Avoidance and Risk Taking under Uncertainty,” The American Economist, Volume LII, No. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 73-85

Philip G. Gayle, “Airline Code-share Alliances and their Competitive Effects,” The Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 50, pp. 781-819, November 2007

Philip G. Gayle, “Is Virtual Codesharing A Market Segmenting Mechanism Employed by Airlines?” Economics Letters, Vol. 95, No. 1, pp. 17-24, April 2007

Dennis L. Weisman, "An Instructional Excercise in Cost-Raising Strategies and Perfect Complements Production." The Journal of Economic Education, 2007.

Mike Babcock and James Bunch, “Energy Use and Pollutant Emissions Impacts of Shortline Railroad Abandonment,” Railroad Economics, July 2007.

Yongmin Chen and Philip G. Gayle, “Vertical Contracting Between Airlines: An Equilibrium Analysis of Codeshare Alliances,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 25, pp. 1046-1060, October 2007

Yang-Ming Chang, Joel Potter, and Shane Sanders, “War and Peace: Third-Party Intervention in Conflict,” European Journal of Political Economy, 23(4), December 2007, pp. 954-974.

Yang-Ming Chang, “Transfers and Bequests: A Portfolio Analysis in a Nash Game,” Annals of Finance, 3, Spring 2007, pp. 277-295

Philip G. Gayle and Dennis L. Weisman, “Are Input Prices Irrelevant for Make-or-Buy Decisions?” Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 32(2), Oct. 2007, pp. 195-207

Mike Babcock and Steve Fuller, “A Model of Corn and Soybean Shipments on the Ohio River,” Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Summer 2007.

Yang-Ming Chang and Bhavneet Walia, “Wage Discrimination and Partial Compliance with the Minimum Wage Law,” Economics Bulletin, 10(4), 2007, pp.1-7.

Dennis L. Weisman, “Market Power Measurement for Multi-Market Dominant Firms,” The Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 52(2), Summer 2007 pp. 169-178.i.

Tracy M. Turner, and Daigyo Seo, “Investment Risk and the Transition into Homeownership,” Journal of Regional Science, 47(2), May 2007, pp. 229-253.

Blankenau, William, Steve Cassou and Beth Ingram, “Allocating Government Education Expenditures Across K-12 and College Education,” Economic Theory, April 2007, Vol. 31, No. 1, 85-112

Gayle, Phillip G. and Weisman, Dennis, ‥Efficiency Trade-Offs in the Design of Competition Policy for the Telecommunications Industry”, Review of Nertwork Economics,Vol. 6, Issue 3, September 2007

Yang-Ming Chang, Joel Potter, and Shane Sanders, “The Fate of Disputed Territories: An Economic Analysis,” Defence and Peace Economics, 18(2), April 2007, pp. 183-200

Wayne Nafziger, “Economic Development, Inequality and War,” Indian Journal of Human Development, December 2007, 1(2): 349-73

Bachmeier, Lance, Sittisaj Leelahanon and Qi Li, “Money Growth and Inflation in the United States”, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2007, 11, 113-127.

Phillip G. Gayle and Dennis L. Weisman. “Are Input Prices Irrelevant for Make-or-Buy Decisions?” Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 32(2), October 2007, pp. 195-207.

Blankenau, William and Ayhan Kose, “How Different is the Cyclical Behavior of Home Production Across Countries?” Macroeconomic Dynamics, February 2007, Vol. 11, pp. 56-78

Blankenau, William, Nicole Simpson, and Marc Tomljanovich, “Public Education Expenditures, Taxation and Growth: Linking Data to Theory,” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2007, Vol. 97, pp. 393-397.

E. Wayne Nafziger, "From Seers to Sen: The Meaning of Economic Development." To be published as a chapter in a volume for United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research, Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan for UNU-WIDER, 2007, pp. 50-62

E. Wayne Nafziger, "Entrepreneurship and Development." To be published in International Handbook of Development Studies, by London: Edward Elgar Publishing. Edited by Amitava Dutt and Jaime Ros. 2007

Emizet Kisangani and E. Wayne Nafziger, “The Political Economy of State Terror,” Defence and Peace Economics, 18(5) (2007): 405-414.

E. Wayne Nafziger, “Capitalism and Commercialization: Privatization,” New Encyclopedia of Africa, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007.

E. Wayne Nafziger, “Debt Crisis,” Encyclopedia of the Modern World, edited by Peter N. Stearns (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Dennis L. Weisman, "Market Concentration, Multi-Market Participation and Antitrust," Research In Law and Economics: A Journal of Policy, Vol. 22, 2007, pp. 233-257.

Blankenau, William and Steve Cassou, Labor Market Trends With Balanced Growth, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2006, Vol. 30, pp. 807-842.

Dennis L. Weisman, Principles of Regulation and Competition Policy for the Telecommunications Industry - A Guide For Policymakers. The Center for Applied Economics, KU School of Business, Technical Report 06-0525, May 2006.

Cassou, Steven P. and Kevin J. Lansing, “Tax Reform with Useful Public Expenditures,” Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2006 Vol. 8, No. 4, 631-676

Blankenau, William and Gabriele Camera, A Simple Economic Theory of Skill Accumulation and Schooling Decisions, Review of Economic Dynamics, January 2006, Vol.9, pp. 93-115.

Dennis L. Weisman, "When Can Regulation Defer to Competition for Constraining Market Power?: Complements and Critical Elasticities,"Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 2006.

Badi Baltagi and Dong Li, “Prediction in the Panel Data Model with Spatial Correlation: The Case of Liquor,” Spatial Economic Analysis,1 (2006), 2: 175-185

Lloyd B. Thomas and Danhua Wu, “ Expected Future Budget Deficits and the U.S. Yield Curve,” Business Economics, October 2006.

Desheng Ouyang, Dong Li, and Qi Li, “Cross-Validation and Nonparametric K nearest neighbor Estimation,” Econometrics Journal, 9 (2006): 448-471

Babcock, Michael W. and James Sanderson, "Should Shortline Railroads Upgrade Their Systems to Handle Heavy Axle Load Cars?:  A Kansas Case Study," Logistics and Transportation Review, 2006.

Yang-Ming Chang and Philip Gayle, "The Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act: An Economic Analysis,"Southern Economic Journal, 73(2), October 2006 pp. 530-545

Hung-Yi Chen and Yang-Ming Chang, "Trade Verticality and Structural Changes in Industries: The Cases of Taiwan and South Korea," Open Economies Review, 17(3), July 2006, pp. 321-340

E. Wayne Nafziger, “Development, Inequality, and War in Africa,” The Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1(1) (2006): 13-19.

E. Wayne Nafziger, “Meiji Japan as a Model for Africa's Economic Development.” In Japam, a Model and a Partner: Views and Issues in African Development, edited by Seifudein Adem. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2006, pp. 1-22.

Li Gan, Dong Li, and Shunfeng Song, “Is the Zipf Law Spurious in Explaining City-Size Distributions?,” 92 (2006), 2: 256-262, Economics Letters

Lloyd B. Thomas, Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, (Thomson, 2006)

Badi Baltagi, Dong Li, and Qi Li, “Transaction Tax and Stock Market Behavior: Evidence from an Emerging Market,” Empirical Economics., 31 (2006), 2: 393-408

Dan Kuester “Betting on Prosperity: Revisiting the Effects of Corporate and Native American Gaming on the Tourism Industry and Overall Economic Health of Arid States” Forum of the Association of Arid Land Studies volume XXII. April 2006.

Theophle Azomahou and Dong Li, “ A Consistent Nonparametric Estimation of Spatial Autocovariances,” Economics Bulletin, 3 (2005), 29: 1/10

Chang, Yang-Ming and Dennis Weisman, "Sibling Rivalry and Strategic Parental Transfers,"  Southern Economic Journal, 71(4), April 2005, pp. 821-836

Théophile Azomahou and Dong Li, “A Consistent Nonparametric Estimation of Spatial Autocovariance,” Economics Bulletin, 3 (2005), 29: 1-10

Weisman, Dennis L., "Assessing Market Power: Market Concentration and Multi-Market Participation," Journal of Competition Law & Economics, Vol. 1(2), 2005, pp. 339-354.

E. Wayne Nafziger, Economic Development. 4th edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

E. Wayne Nafziger, “Meiji Japan as a Model for Africa’s Economic Development,“ Special Issue on “Japan and Africa: Past, Present and Future,” African and Asian Studies, 4(3-4) (Fall 2005).

E. Wayne Nafziger and Juha Auvinen, “Economic Development, Inequality, and War,” in Sisay Asefa, editor, The Economics of Sustainable Development: The Werner Sichel Lectures. Kalamazoo: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2005, pp. 31-64.

Yang-Ming Chang and Hung-Yi Chen, “Cross-Licensing, R&D Spillovers, and Welfare,” International Journal of Information and Management Sciences, 16(3), September 2005, pp. 37-56.

Weisman, Dennis L., "Market Concentration, Multi-Market Participation and Mergers in Network Industries." The Review of Network Economics, Volume 4(2), June 2005, pp. 129-141.

Blankenau, William, Public Schooling, College Subsidies and Growth, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 29, March 2005, pp. 487-507.

Sappington, David E. M., and Dennis L. Weisman, Self-Sabotage, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 27(2), March 2005, pp. 155-175.

Weisman, Dennis L., "Price Regulation and Quality." Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 17(2), March 2005, pp. 165-174.

Cassou, Steven P. and Kevin J. Lansing, "Growth Effects of Shifting from a Graduated-Rate Tax System to a Flat Tax." Economic Inquiry, Vol. 42, No.2, 2004 p. 194.

Cassou, Steven P. and Stephen F. Hamilton, "The Transistion from Dirty to Clean Industries: Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Two-Sector Model of Endogenous Growth." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 48(3), 2004, pp. 1050-1077.

David E. M. Sappington and Dennis L. Weisman., "Competition Policy, Parity Regulation and Self-Sabotage."Info, Volume 6(1), 2004, pp. 52-56.

Michael W. Babcock and Jose Davalos, "Case Studies of the Economic Impact of Highway Bypasses in Kansas," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 43, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 55-75.

Yanqin Fan, Dong Li, and Qi Li, "Nonlinearity in Medical Expenditures: A New Semiparametric Approach." Applied Economics, 2004.

Blankenau, William and Nicole Simpson, Public Education Expenditures and Growth, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 73, April 2004, pp. 583-605.

Blankenau, William and Mark Skidmore School Finance Litigation, Tax and Expenditure Limitations, and Education Spending: An Empirical Analysis, Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 22, January 2003, pp. 127-143.

Aloyce R. Kaliba, David W. Norman, and Yang-Ming Chang, "Willingness to Pay to Imporove Domestic Water Supply in Rural Areas of Central Tanzania: Implications for Policy," International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 10(2), June 2003, pp. 119-132

Weisman, Dennis L., "Guest Editor's Foreword." Symposium on Incentive Regulation. The Review of Network Economics, Vol. 2(4), December 2003, pp. 287-288.

Babcock, Michael W., and James L. Bunch, "Structural Change in Grain Transportation: A Kansas Case Study," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum., Vol. 41, No. 4, Fall 2003, pp. 93-105.

Babcock, Michael W., James L. Bunch, James Sanderson, and Jay Witt, "Impact of Shortline Railroad Abandonment on Wheat Transportation and Handling Costs: A Kansas Case Study." Journal of the Transportation Research Forum., Vol. 42, No. 4, Winter 2003, pp. 87-103.

Babcock, Michael W., James L. Bunch, James Sanderson, and Jay Witt, "Impact of Shortline Railroad Abandonment on Highway Damage Costs: A Kansas Case Study," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum., Vol. 42, No. 4, Fall 2003, pp. 105-121.

Krishna Akkina and Hamed Al-Hoshan, "Independence of Monetary Policy under Fixed Exchange Rates: The Case of Saudi Arabia," Applied Economics, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2003.

Nafziger, E. Wayne and Juha Auvinen, Economic Development, Inequality and War: Humanitarian Emergencies in Developing Countries. Houndsmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Collier, Nafziger, E. Wayne, Neil Cooper, et al. Conflict or Development? Pearl River, NY: Economists Allied for Arms Reduction, 2003.

Weisman, Dennis L., "A Generalized Pricing Rule For Multi-Market Cournot Oligopoly." Economics Letters, Vol. 81(1), October 2003, pp. 95-99.

Turner, Tracy M., "Does Investment Risk Affect the Housing Decisions of Families?" Economic Inquiry, October 2003.

Weisman, Dennis and M. Kolesar, "Accommodative Competitive Entry Policies and Telecommunications Regulation," Info, Vol. 5(1), Spring 2003, pp. 34-40.

Hung-Yi Chen and Yang-Ming Chang, "Information Sharing, R&D Collaboration, and R&D Subsidies in International Markets," PanPacific Management Review, 6(2), July 2003, pp. 135-157

Weisman, Dennis and J. Pfeifenberger, "Efficiency as a Discovery Process:  Why Enhanced Incentives Outperform Regulatory Mandates." The Electricity Journal, Vol. 16(1), January/February 2003, pp. 55-62.

Weisman, Dennis L., and Irina Kondaurova, "Incentives for Non-Price Discrimination." Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 15(2), June 2003, pp. 147-171.

Weisman, Dennis L., "Vertical Integration in Telecommunications" The International Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, ed. by Gary Madden and Scott J. Savage, Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003, pp. 232-255.

Bratsberg, Bernt, James F. Ragan, and John T. Warren, "Negative Returns to Seniority--New Evidence in Academic Markets," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 2003, pp. 306-323.

Blankenau, William and Mark Skidmore, The Interrelatedness of Tax and Expenditure Limitations and Education Finance Reform, Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, December 2002, Vol. 32, pp. 49-65.

Bratsberg, Bernt, and James F. Ragan, "Changes in the Union Wage Premium by Industry," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 2002, pp. 65-83.

Krishna Akkina and Mehmet Celebi, "The Determinants of Private Fixed Investment and the Relationship Between Public and Private Capital Accumulation in Turkey," Pakistan Development Review, 2002.

Bratsberg, Bernt, James F. Ragan, and Zafar M. Nasir, "The Effect of Naturalization on Wage Growth-A Panel Study of Young Male Immigrants," Journal of Labor Economics, July 2002, pp. 568-597.

Blankenau, William and Beth Ingram The Welfare Implications of Factor Taxation With Rising Wage Inequality, Macroeconomic Dynamics, June 2002, Vol 6, pp. 408-428.

Michael W. Babcock, Richard Beilock and James Dunn "General Overview and Evaluation of the Transportation Network Critical to the Agricultural Sector," Proceeding of the National Forum on Agriculture and Transportation Linkages, May 2002, Fargo, North Dakota.

Nafziger, E. Wayne and Raimo Vyrynen, eds. The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies, United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) Studies in Development Economics, Houndmills, UK:  Palgrave, 2002.

Qi, Li, Cliff J. Huang, Dong Li and Tsu-Tan Fu, "Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Models," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2002, pp. 412-422.

Wen, Mei, Dong Li and Peter Lloyd, "Ownership and Technical Efficiency:  A Cross-Section Study on the Third Industrial Census of China," Economic Development and Cultural Changes, Vol. 50, No. 3, 2002, pp. 709-733.

Badi, Baltagi and Dong Li, "Series Estimation of Partially Linear Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects," Annals of Economics and Finance, Vol. 3, 2002, pp. 103-116.

Weisman, Dennis, "Did the High Court Reach an Economic Low in Verizon v. FCC?" Review of Network Economics, Vol. 1, Issue 2, September 2002, pp. 90-105.

Weisman, Dennis L., "Is There 'Hope' For Price Cap Regulation?" Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 14, No. 3, September 2002, pp.349-370.

Bratsberg, Bernt, and James F. Ragan, "The Impact of Host-Country Schooling on Earnings- A Study of Male Immigrants in the United States," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 37, No. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 63-105.

Babcock, Michael W., and Xiaohua Lu, "Forecasting Inland Waterway Grain Traffic," Transportation Research Part E:  Logistics and Transportation Review, 2002, pp. 65-74.

Blankenau, William, Ayhan Kose and Kei-Mu Yi Can Real World Interest Rates Explain Business Cycles in Small Open Economies? Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. June 2001, Vol. 25, pp. 867-889.

Thomas, Lloyd B., and Alan Grant, "Supply Shocks and The Rationality of Inflation Forecasts," Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2001, (41) pp. 515-532.

Oldfather, Michael and Bryan Schurle,  "Macroeconomics and Undergraduate Agricultural Economics," Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 23, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2001, pp. 459-472.

Nafziger, E. Wayne, and Juha Auvinen, "Economic Development, Inequality, War and State Violence," World Development, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 2002, pp. 153-163.

Weisman, Dennis L., "Strategic Sharing in Regulatory Regimes," Economics Letters, Vol. 75, No. 3, May 2002, pp. 361-367

Weisman, Dennis L., "The Law and Economics of Price Floors in Regulated Industries," The Antitrust Bulletin, Spring 2002, pp. 107-131.

Weisman, Dennis L., and Jaesung Kang, "Incentives for Discrimination When Upstream Monopolists Participate in Downstream Markets," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2001, pp. 125-139.

Sheffrin, Steven M., and Tracy M. Turner, "Taxation and House-Price Uncertainty:  Some Empricial Estimates," International Tax and Public Finance, Volume 8, Issue 4, August 2001, pp. 621-636.

Weisman, Dennis L., "Access Pricing and Exclusionary Behavior," Economics Letters, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2001, pp. 121-126.

Babcock, Michael, Joon Park, Kenneth Lemke, and Dennis Weisman, "Simulating The Effects of Railroad Mergers," Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 67, No. 4, 2001, pp. 938-953.

Weisman, Dennis L., and M. Williams, "The Costs and Benefits of Long-Distance Entry: Regulation and Non-Price Discrimination," The Review of Industrial Organization, 18:275-282, 2001.

Ragan, James F., and Bernt Bratsberg, "Un-COLA: Why Have Cost-of-Living Clauses Disappeared From Union Contracts and Will They Return?" Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 67, No. 2, October 2000, pp. 304-324.

Babcock, Michael, "The Economic Significance of General Aviation Airports in Rural Areas," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 39, No. 3, Summer 2000, pp. 141-156.

Weisman, Dennis L., "Regulatory Moral Hazard: Price Caps and Endogenous Entry Under the 1996 Telecommunications Act," in M.A. Crew, ed., Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries,Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 1-21.

Akkina, Krishna, "Convergence and the Role of Infrastructure and Power Shortages on Economic Growth Across States in India," Indian Economic Journal, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2000.

Babcock, Michael W., "A Corporate Planning Model for TOFC/COFC Traffic," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2000.

Nafziger, E. Wayne, Frances Steward, and Raimo Vyrynen, eds., War, Hunger, and Displacement: The Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies, United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER), Oxford University Press, 2 volumes, 2000.

Lehman, Dale E., and Dennis L. Weisman, "The Telecommunications Act of 1996: The 'Costs' of Managed Competition," Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute and New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

Thomas, Lloyd B., and Alan P. Grant, "Forecasting Inflation in the 1980s and 1990s: Surveys versus Other Forecasts," Business Economics, July 2000, pp. 9-18.

Babcock, Michael, and W. German. "A Corporate Planning Model for TOFC/COFC Traffic," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 39, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 133-146.

Kang, Jaesung, Dennis L. Weisman, and Mingyuan Zhang, "Do Consumers Benefit From Tighter Price Cap Regulation?" Economics Letters, Volume 67, 2000, pp. 113-119.

Thomas, Lloyd B., "Survey Measures of Expected U.S. Inflation," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 125-144.

Cassou, Steven P., and Kevin J. Lansing, "Fiscal Policy and Productivity Growth in the OECD," The Canadian Journal of Economics, November 1999, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 1215-1226.

Blankenau, William A Welfare Analysis of Policy Responses to the Skilled Wage Premium, Review of Economic Dynamics, October 1999, Vol.2, pp. 820-849.

Kleit, Andrew, and Dennis L. Weisman, "Will Competitors Be Allowed To Compete? The Regulation of Long-Term Contracts in the Telecommunications Industry," Info, October 1999, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 441-447.

Weisman, Dennis L., "Footprints in Cyberspace: Toward a Theory of Mergers in Network Industries," Info, August 1999, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 305-308.

Babcock, Michael W. , Joon Park and Kenneth Lemke, "The Impact of Railroad Mergers on Grain Transportation Markets: A Kansas Case Study," The Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 35E, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 269-290.

Babcock, Michael W., "The Economic Significance of General Aviation Airports in Rural Areas," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 39, No.2 (forthcoming).

Kahn, Alfred E., Timothy Tardiff, and Dennis L. Weisman, "The 1996 Telecommunications Act at Three Years: An Economic Evaluation of Its Implementation By the FCC," Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 319-65.

Lehman, Dale, and Dennis L. Weisman, "The Political Economy of Price Cap Regulation," Review of Industrial Organization, 16: 343-356, June 2000.

Grant, Alan, and Lloyd B. Thomas, "Inflationary Expectations and Rationality Revisited," Economics Letters, Vol. 62, 1999, pp. 331-38.

Auvinen, Juha, and Nafziger, E. Wayne, "War, Hunger, and Displacement: The Sources of Humanitarian Emergencies," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 43, No. 3, June 1999, pp. 267-90.

Ragan, James F., Jack T. Warren, and Bernt Bratsberg, "How Similar Are Pay Structures in 'Similar' Departments of Economics?" Economics of Education Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, June 1999, pp. 347-60.

Babcock, Michael W., Xiaohua Lu, and Jerry Norton. "Time Series Forecasting of Quarterly Railroad Grain Carloadings," Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 35E, No. 1, March 1999, pp. 43-57.

Weisman, Dennis L., "The (In)efficiency of the 'Efficient-Firm' Cost Standard," Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. XLV, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 195-211.

Cassou, Steven P., and John C. Hause, "Uniform Two-Part Tariffs and Pricing Below Marginal Cost: Disneyland Revisited," Economic Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 74-85.

Sibley, David, and Dennis L. Weisman, "Raising Rivals' Costs: Entry of an Upstream Monopolist into Downstream Markets," Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 10, No. 4, December 1998, pp. 551-570.

Nafziger, E. Wayne, Fathers, Sons, and Daughters: Industrial Entrepreneurs During India's Liberalization," Greenwich, JAI Press, 1998.

Weisman, Dennis L., "The Incentive to Discriminate by a Vertically-Integrated Regulated Firm: A Reply," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 14, No. 1, July 1998, pp. 87-91.

Babcock, Michael W., and Bernt Bratsberg, "Measurement of Economic Impacts of Highway and Bridge Construction," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 37, No. 2 (1998) pp. 52-66.

Prater, Marvin and Michael W. Babcock, "Grain-Dependent Short Line Railroad Profitability," Journal of the Transportation Review, Vol. 37, No. 2 (1998) pp. 1-16.

Prater, Marvin and Michael W. Babcock, "Grain-Dependent Short Line Railroad Profitability: An Operating Cash Flow Approach," Transportation Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2, Winter 1998, pp. 18-31.

Cassou, Steven P., and Kevin J. Lansing, "Optimal Fiscal Policy, Public Capital, and the Productivity Slowdown," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 22, June 1998, pp. 911-935.

Lehman, Dale, and Dennis L. Weisman, "A Yardstick Approach to Optimal Access Pricing," in Telecommunications Transformation: Technology, Strategy, and Policy, ed. by Erik Bohlin and Stanford L. Levin, The Netherlands: IOS Press, 1998, pp. 175-188.

Larson, Alexander, and Dennis L. Weisman, "The Economics of Access Pricing, Imputation, and Essential Facilities with Application to Telecommunications," Communications Law and Policy, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1998, pp. 1-33.

Sibley, David, and Dennis L.Weisman, "The Competitive Incentives of Vertically Integrated Local Exchange Carriers: An Economic and Policy Analysis," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 17, No. 1, Winter 1998, pp. 74-93.

Chang, Yang-Ming, and J. Ram Pillarisetti, "Debt for Nature Swaps: A Simple Economic-Ecological Approach," Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali (International Review of Economics and Business), Vol. 44, No. 4, December 1997, pp. 793-806.

Marvin Prater and Michael W. Babcock, "Determinants of Profitability of Grain-Dependent Short Line Railroads," Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol 34E, No. 3, September 1998, pp. 187-200.

Cassou, Steven P., "A Panel Study of the Link Between Tax Rates and Foreign Direct Investment," Applied Economics, Vol. 29, October 1997, pp. 1295-1301.

Ai, Chunrong, and Steven P. Cassou, "On Public Capital Analysis with State Data," Economics Letters, Vol. 57, December 1997, pp. 209-212.

Babcock, Michael W., Jarvin Emerson, and Marvin Prater, "A Model-Procedure for Estimating Economic Impacts of Alternative Types of Highway Improvement," Transportation Journal, Summer 1997, pp. 30-43.

Babcock, Michael W., Jarvin Emerson, Marvin Prater, and Eugene Russell, "Estimating Economic Impacts of Alternative Types of Highway Improvement," Proceedings of the XIIIth International Roads Federation World Meeting, June 1997.

Babcock, Michael W., Marvin Prater, John Morrill, and Eugene Russell, "Economic Viability of Short Line Railroads," Proceedings of the XIIIth International Roads Federation World Meeting, June 1997.

Weisman, Dennis L., and Ming-Yuan Zhang, "Opportunities vs. Incentives to Discriminate in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry," Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 21, No. 4, May 1997: 309-316.

Bratsberg, Bernt, and James F. Ragan, "Have Unions Impeded Growing Wage Dispersion among Young Workers?" Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 18, No. 4, Fall 1997: 593-612.

Chang, Yang-Ming, and John T. Warren, "Allocative Efficiency and Diversification under Price-cap Regulation," Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1997: 3-17.

Cassou, Steven P., and Kevin J. Lansing, "Welfare, Stabilization or Growth: A Comparison of Different Fiscal Objectives," in J. Hairault, P. Henin, and F. Portier, eds., Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Stability: Should We Rebuild Built-in Stabilizers?, Kluwer Academic Publishers: 1997.

Thomas, Lloyd B., Money, Banking and Financial Markets, McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Nafziger, E. Wayne, The Economics of Developing Countries, Prentice-Hall, 3rd edition, 1997.

Nafziger, E. Wayne, "Exchange and Market Systems: National and Regional Systems," The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa, John Middleton, ed., Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Sappington, David E. M., and Dennis L. Weisman, "Seven Myths of Price Cap Regulation," in Pricing and Regulatory Innovations Under Increasing Competition and Other Essays, ed. by Michael Crew, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996: 1-19.

Sappington, David E.M., and Dennis L. Weisman, "Revenue Sharing in Incentive Regulation Plans," Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 8, 1996: 229-248.

Pillarisetti, J. Ram, and Yang-Ming Chang, "Secondary Market Value of Debt and Debt-for-Nature Swaps: Analysis of Potential Market in Developing Countries," Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives, Vol. 22, No.1, Spring/Summer 1996: 37-45.

Taylor, Lester D., and Dennis L. Weisman, "A Note on Price Cap Regulation and Competition," Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 11, No. 4, August 1996: 459-479.

Sappington, David E. M., and Dennis L. Weisman, "Potential Pitfalls in Empirical Investigations of the Effects of Incentive Regulation Plans in the Telecommunications Industry," Information Economics and Policy, 8, 1996, pp. 125-140.

Babcock, Michael, Jarvin Emerson, and Marvin Prater, "Estimating Economic Impacts of Highway Improvements: A Kansas Case Study," Proceedings of the 38th Annual Forum of the Transportation Research Forum 1996, Vol. I: 136-155.

Sappington, David E. M., and Dennis L. Weisman, Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry, American Enterprise Institute and MIT Press, 1996.

Nafziger, E. Wayne, and R. Sudarsana Rao, "Industrial Entrepreneurship and Innovation under Licensing and Liberalization in India," Indian Economic Journal, Vol. 44, No. 2, October-December 1996: 90-103.

Lehman, Dale E., and Dennis L. Weisman, "Telephone Pools and Economic Incentives," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 10, September 1996: 123-146.

Kridel, Donald J., David E. M. Sappington, and Dennis L. Weisman, "The Effects of Incentive Regulation in the Telecommunications Industry: A Survey," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol.9(3), May 1996: 269-306.

Nafziger, E. Wayne, and Dek Terrell, "Entrepreneurial Human Capital and the Long-Run Survival of Firms in India," World Development, Vol. 24, No. 4: 1996, pp. 689-96.

Ragan, James F., and Qazi N. Rehman, "Earnings Profiles of Department Heads: Comparing Cross-Section and Panel Models," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 49, No. 2, January 1996: 256-272.

German, H. Wade, and Michael W. Babcock, "The Impact of Anti-Lock Brake Requirements on the Motor Carrier Industry and Motor Carrier Equipment Suppliers," Proceedings of the 37th Annual Forum of the Transportation Research Forum, January 1996: 383-98.

Lehman, D., and Dennis L. Weisman, "Access Charges for Private Networks Interconnecting with Public Systems," in Private Networks and Public Objectives, ed. by Eli Noam, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1996.

Weisman, Dennis L., "Regulation and the Vertically Integrated Firm: The Case of RBOC Entry Into InterLATA Long Distance," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 8(3), November 1995: 249-266.

Ragan, James F., and Bernt Bratsberg, "Earnings Inequality Narrows for Young Workers Despite a Widening Wage Structure," Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 35(4), Fall 1995: 387-395.

Gormely, Patrick J., "The Human Development Index in 1994: Impact of Income on Country Rank," Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Vol. 21, 1995: 253-67.

Babcock, Michael W., and Eugene Russell, and Curtis Mauler, "Study of the Impact of Rail Abandonment on Local Roads and Streets," Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Low Volume Roads, June 1995: 110-119.

Babcock, Michael W., Eugene Russell, Marvin Prater, and John Morrill, "Short-Line Railroads' Performance," Transportation Quarterly, Vol. 49(2), Spring 1995: 73-86.

Babcock, Michael W., and Eugene Russell, "The Case for Supporting Rail Service Due to the Impact of Rail Abandonment on Public Works Infrastructure," Public Works and the Human Environment: Proceedings of the International Symposium of the American Public Works Association, April 1995: 489-493.

Nafziger, E. Wayne, Learning from the Japanese: Japan's Prewar Development and the Third World. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995.

Babcock, Michael W., Eugene Russell, Marvin Prater, and John Morrill, "Competitiveness of Short-Line Railroads," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 34(2), 1995: 13-26.

Babcock, Michael W., Daniel Bortko, and Andrew Barkley, "Where Have All the Jumbo Covered Hopper Cars Gone? An Investment Analysis of the U.S. Rail Grain Car Fleet," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 35(1), 1995: 1-12.

 

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