Ph.D. Alumni - Selected Publications
Many of our alumni have gone on to successful careers in academia. This page lists a small sample of their publications.
Prasad Bhattacharya
"Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Relative Prices: An Industry-Level Empirical Investigation" (with C. Karyalcin and D. Thomakos), Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming.
Monica Escaleras
"Earthquake Fatalities: The Interaction of Nature and Political Economy" (with N. Anbarci and C. Register), Journal of Public Economics, 89:1907-33 (2005).
“Traffic Fatalities and Public Sector Corruption” (with N. Anbarci and C. Register), Kyklos, 59:327-44 (2006).
"Political Determinants of U.S. State Fiscal Performance: An Analysis of Party Alternation and Divided Government" Economics of Governance, 8, February 2007, 111-128 (with Peter Calcagno).
"Mitigating Natural Disasters Through Collective Action: The Effectiveness of Tsunami Early Warnings" (with Charles A. Register), Southern Economic Journal, forthcoming.
"Public Sector Corruption and major Earthquakes: A potentially deadly interaction" (with Nejat Anbarci and Charles A. Register), Public Choice, forthcoming.
Mehmet Ali Ulubasoglu
"Can we Obtain Realistic Parameter Estimates for the ‘Protection for Sale’ Model?" (with D. Mitra and D. Thomakos), Canadian Journal of Economics, 39(1):187-210 (2006).
"Protection for Sale' In A Developing Country: Democracy vs. Dictatorship" (with D. Mitra and D. Thomakos), Review of Economics and Statistics, 84(3):497-508 (2002).
Kathryn McCollister
“Infrastructure, Returns to Scale, and Sovereign Debt” (with C. Karayalcin and D. Mitra), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 11(3):267-79 (2002).
“Income distribution, sovereign debt and public investment” (with C. Karayalcin), Economics and Politics, 17:351-65 (2005).
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Diego Mendez-Carbajo
“Economic (Dis)integration in the Presence of Evolutionary Learning” (with C. Karayalcin and D. Mitra), Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 14(4):463-81 (2004).
“Economic Integration, Market Discipline and Productivity Growth in Spain,” (with D. Thomakos), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 12(4):359-75 (2003).
Pierre Alexander
“Illicit Drug Use, Employment, and Labor Force Participation” (with M. French and M. Roebuck), Southern Economic Journal, 68(2):349-68 (2001).
“Further Evidence on the Labor Market Effects of Addiction: Chronic Drug Use and Labor Supply in Metropolitan Miami” (with M. French), Contemporary Economic Policy, 22(3): 382-93 (2004).
Ekanayake Ekanayake
“Exports and Economic Growth in Asian Developing Countries: Cointegration and Error-Correction Models”, Journal of Economic Development, 24(2):43-56 (1999).
“Effects of Exchange Rate Volatility on Sri Lanka’s Exports to Industrial Countries” (with A. Weliwita and H. Tsujii), Journal of Economic Development, 24(1):121-141(1999).
Carlos Moslares
“An Analysis of the Determinants of Intra-Industry Trade: The Case of Spanish Foreign Trade” (with J. Turmo and H. Hervitz), International Business & Economics Research Journal, 4(1):53-61 (2005).
“Failure of the Exchange Rate Base Stabilization Plan in Turkey” (with G. Gökkent and R. Amiel) Journal of Eastern European Economies, 41(1):35-67 (2003).