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David Brasington - James C. and Caroline Kautz Chair in Political Economy

• David M. Brasington, Mika Kato and Willi Semmler, “Transitioning Out of Poverty,” Metroeconomica 61(1), 2010, p. 68-95.
• David M. Brasington and Donald R. Haurin. “Parents, Peers, or School Inputs: Which Components of School Outcomes Are Capitalized into House Value?” Regional Science and Urban Economics 39(5), September 2009, p. 523-529.
• Bhattarai, Gandhi, Diane Hite and David M. Brasington. “Complements and Substitutes in Public Service Provision: A Two-Stage Hedonic Model for Demand for School Quality, Neighborhood Safety and Environmental Quality.” International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, 15(F09), Fall 2009,
• David M. Brasington and Robert F. Sarama. “Deed Types, House Prices, and Mortgage Interest Rates,” Real Estate Economics 36(3), Fall 2008, p. 587-610.
• David M. Brasington and Diane Hite. “A Mixed Index Approach to Identifying Hedonic Price Models,” Regional Science and Urban Economics 38(3), May 2008, p. 271-284.
• “Private Schools and the Willingness to Pay for Public Schooling,” Education Finance and Policy 2(2), Spring 2007, p. 152-174.
• “Public and Private School Competition: The Spatial Education Production Function,” in T. Asada and T. Ishikawa (eds.) Time and Space in Economics, Tokyo: Springer, 2007, p. 175-203.
• David M. Brasington and Donald R. Haurin. “Educational Outcomes and House Values: A Test of the Value-Added Approach,” Journal of Regional Science 46(2), May 2006, p.245-268.
• David M. Brasington and Diane Hite. “Demand for Environmental Quality: A Spatial Hedonic Analysis,” Regional Science and Urban Economics 35(1), January 2005, p. 57-82.
• David M. Brasington. “House Prices and the Structure of Local Government: An Application of Spatial Statistics,” Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 29(2), September 2004, p. 211-232.
• David M. Brasington. “Snobbery, Racism, or Mutual Distaste: What Promotes and Hinders Cooperation in Local Public Good Provision?” Review of Economics and Statistics 85(4), November 2003, p. 874-883.
• David M. Brasington. “Size and School District Consolidation: Do Opposites Attract?” Economica 70(280), November 2003, p. 673-690.
• David M. Brasington - James C. and Caroline Kautz Chair in Political Economy
• David M. Brasington. “The Supply of Public School Quality,” Economics of Education Review 22(4), August 2003, p. 367-377.
• David M. Brasington. “Edge Versus Center: Finding Common Ground in the Capitalization Debate,” Journal of Urban Economics 52(3), November 2002, p. 524-541.
• David M. Brasington. “The Demand for Local Public Goods: The Case of Public School Quality,” Public Finance Review 30(3), May 2002, p. 163-187.
• David M. Brasington. “Differences in the Production of Education Across Regions and Urban and Rural Areas,” Regional Studies 36(2), April 2002, p. 137-145.
• David M. Brasington. “Capitalization and Community Size,” Journal of Urban Economics 50(3), November 2001, p. 385-395.
• David M. Brasington. “A Model of Urban Growth with Endogenous Suburban Production Centers,” The Annals of Regional Science 35(3), October 2001, p. 411-430.
• David M. Brasington. “Demand and Supply of Public School Quality in Metropolitan Areas: The Role of Private Schools,” Journal of Regional Science 40(3), August 2000, p.583-605.
• David M. Brasington. “Which Measures of School Quality Does the Housing Market Value?” Journal of Real Estate Research 18(3), November-December 1999, p. 395-413.
• David M. Brasington. “Joint Provision of Public Goods: The Consolidation of School Districts,” Journal of Public Economics 73(3), September 1999, p.373-393.
• David M. Brasington. “Central City School Administrative Policy: Systematically Passing Undeserving Students,” Economics of Education Review 18(2), April 1999, p. 201-212.
• David M. Brasington. “School District Consolidation, Student Performance, and Housing Values,” The Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 27(2), 1997, p. 43-54.
• Donald R. Haurin and David M. Brasington. “The Impact of School Quality on Real House Prices: Interjurisdictional Effects,”Journal of Housing Economics 5(4), December 1996, p. 351-368.

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Debashis Pal - Professor

• On the Performance of Linear Contracts (in collaboration with Arup Bose and David Sappington), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Forthcoming.
• Pareto Improving Inefficiency (in collaboration with Arup Bose and David Sappington). Oxford Economic Papers, 2010.
• Asymmetric Treatment of Identical Agents in Teams (in collaboration with Arup Bose and David Sappington), European Economic Review, 2010, 54, 947 - 961.
• Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams (in collaboration with Arup Bose and David Sappington), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2010, 19(1), 25-53.
• On the Design of Piece-Rate Contracts (in collaboration with Arup Bose and David Sappington). Economics Letters, 2010, 107, 330 - 332.
• Endogenous Average Cost based Access Pricing (in collaboration with Kenneth Fjell and Oystein Foros), Review of Industrial Organization, 2010, 36(2), 149 - 162.
• Third Degree Price Discrimination in Linear-Demand Markets: Effects on Number of Markets Served and Social Welfare (coauthored with Victor Kaftal), Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75(2), 558 - 573.
• Managerial Incentives in a Two Period Cournot Duopoly (coauthored with Sudesh Mujumdar), Games and Economic Behavior, 2007, 58 (2), 338-353.
• Spatial Competition among Multi-plant Firms in a Circular City (coauthored with Jyotirmoy Sarkar), Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 73, 246 - 258.
• Product Differentiation and Location Choice in a Circular City (coauthored with Barnali Gupta and Jyotirmoy Sarkar), Journal of Regional Science, 2006, 46 (2), 313 - 331.
• Do Price Ceilings Abroad Increase U.S. Drug Prices? (coauthored with Sudesh Mujumdar), Economics Letters, 87, 2005, 9 - 13.
• Successive Monopolies and Regulation in a Spatial Model (coauthored with John Heywood), The Manchester School, 72 (2), 2004, 167-178.
• Where to Locate in a Circular City (coauthored with Gupta et al), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 22, 2004, 759 - 782.
• Intra-industry Trade and Strategic Trade Policy in the Presence of Public Firms (coauthored with Mark White), International Economic Journal, 17, 2003, 29 - 41.
• Spatial Competition among Multi-store Firms (coauthored with Jyotirmoy Sarkar), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 20, 2002, 163 - 190.
• A Stackelberg Oligopoly with Non-identical Firms (coauthored with Jyotirmoy Sarkar), Bulletin of Economic Research, 53, 2001, 127 - 134.
• Strategic Choice of Location and Transport Mode in a Successive Monopoly Model (coauthored with Barnali Gupta and John Heywood), Journal of Regional Science, 39, 1999, 525 - 537.
• Endogenous Timing in a Mixed Oligopoly, Economics Letters 61, 1998, 181 - 185.
• A Geometric Solution to Cournot Oligopoly with Non identical Firms (coauthored with Barnali Gupta and Jyotirmoy Sarkar), Journal of Economic Education, 29, 1998, 118 - 126.
• Mixed Oligopoly, Privatization and Strategic Trade Policy (coauthored with Mark White), Southern Economic Journal, 65, 1998, 264 - 282.
• Does Cournot Competition Yield Spatial Agglomeration? Economics Letters 60, 1998, 49 - 53.
• Effects of Indirect Taxation in a Mixed Oligopoly (coauthored with Sudesh Mujumdar), Economics Letters 58, 1998, 199 - 204.
• Spatial Cournot Competition and Agglomeration in A Model of Location Choice (coauthored with Barnali Gupta and Jyotirmoy Sarkar), Regional Science and Urban Economics 27, 1997, 261 - 282.
• Duopoly, Delivered Pricing and Horizontal Merger (coauthored with Barnali Gupta and John Heywood), Southern Economic Journal, 63, 1997, 585 - 593.
• Location and Market Equilibrium in Cournot Oligopoly for Spatially Separated Markets (coauthored with Barnali Gupta and Jyotirmoy Sarkar), Journal of Regional Science, 37, 1997, 195 - 212.
• Convex Costs and the Incentive for Vertical Control (coauthored with John Heywood), Economic Record, 72, 1996, 130 - 137.
• A Mixed Oligopoly in the Presence of Foreign Private Firms (coauthored with Kenneth Fjell), Canadian Journal of Economics, 29, 1996, 737 - 743.
• How to tax a Spatial Monopolist (coauthored with John Heywood), Journal of Public Economics 61, 1996, 107 - 118.
• Endogenous Stackelberg Equilibria With Identical Firms, Games and Economic Behavior 12, 1996, 81 - 94.
• Strategic Behavior Downstream and the Incentive to Integrate: A Spatial Model with Delivered Pricing (coauthored with Barnali Gupta and John Heywood), International Journal of Industrial Organization 13, 1995, 327 - 334.
• Upstream Monopoly, Downstream Competition and Spatial Price Discrimination (coauthored with Amoz Kats and Barnali Gupta), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 24, 1994, 529 - 54.
• Regulating A Monopolist With Unknown Demand: An Alternative Approach, Information Economics and Policy, 5, 1993, 253 - 267.
• Contestability and Two Part Pricing (coauthored with John Heywood), Review of Industrial Organization, 8, 1993, 557 - 565.
• Cournot Duopoly with Two Production Periods and Cost Differentials, Journal of Economic Theory, 55, 1991, pages 441 - 448.

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Olivier Parent - Assistant Professor

• Parent O. and J.P LeSage. “Determinants of Knowledge Production and Their Effects on Regional Economic Growth”, Journal of Regional Science, forthcoming
• Parent O. “A Space-Time Analysis of Knowledge Production”, Journal of Geographical Systems, forthcoming
• Parent O. and J.P LeSage (2011). “A space-time filter for panel data models containing random effects”,Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 55, 475-490.
• Parent O. and J.P. LeSage (2010). “Spatial econometric model averaging”, Handbook of Applied Spatial Analysis (Springer, Edited by Manfred M. Fischer and Arthur Getis), 435-460.
• Parent O. and J. LeSage (2010). “A Spatial Dynamic Panel Model with Random Effects Applied to Commuting Times”, Transportation Research - Part B, 44, 633-645.
• Chakir R. and O. Parent (2009). “Determinants of land use changes: a spatial multinomial probit approach”, Papers in Regional Science, 88, 327-344 .
• Parent O. (2008). “Proximite technologique, infrastructures de communication et activites innovantesen Europe”, revue de l'OFCE, 104, 219-240.
• Parent O. and J. LeSage (2008). “Using Constraints on the Variance Structure in the Conditional Autoregressive Specification to Model Knowledge Spillovers”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 23,235-256.
• Autant C., Parent O. and J.P. LeSage (2007). “Firm innovation strategies: a spatial cohort multinomial probit approach”, Annals of Economics and Statistics , (Annales d'Economie et de Statistique),87, 63-80.
• LeSage J.P. and O. Parent (2007). “Bayesian Model Averaging for Spatial Econometric Models ”, Geographical Analysis, 39, 241-267.
• Parent O. and S. Riou (2005). “Bayesian analysis of knowledge spillovers in European Regions”, Journal of Regional Science, 45, 747-775.

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Nicolas Williams - Associate Professor, Academic Director MA in Applied Economics

• Seniority, Experience, and Wages in the UK. Labour Economics, 16 (2009): 272-283.
• “Do Wages Rise With Job Seniority? A Reassessment,” with Joseph G. Altonji, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 58, 3 (April 2005): 370-397.
• “Economic Impacts of Sales Taxes on Temporary Employment Services,” with Sourushe Zandvakili, in International Business and Economics Research Journal. Volume 1 (2002), 39-52.
• “The Minimum Wage and Teenage Employment: Evidence From Time Series,” with Jeffrey Mills. Applied Economics 33 (February 2001): 285-300.
• “Recent Minimum Wage Increases and the Minimum Wage Labor Force,” with Jeffrey Mills and Kakoli Roy. Journal of Labor Research 20, 4 (Fall 1999): 479-492.
• “The Effects of Labor Market Experience, Job Seniority and Job Mobility on Wage Growth,” with Joseph G. Altonji. Research in Labor Economics 17 (1998): 233-276.
• “Minimum Wage Effects by Gender,” with Jeffrey Mills. Journal of Labor Research 19, 2 (Spring 1998): 397-414.
• “Employment Growth in the Temporary Help Supply Industry,” with Karylee Laird. Journal of Labor Research 17, 4 (Fall 1996): 663-681.
• “Regional Effects of the Minimum Wage on Teenagers,” Applied Economics 25 (December 1993): 1517-1528.
• “Using Wage Growth Models to Estimate the Returns to Experience, Seniority, and Job Mobility,” with Joseph G. Altonji. In Labor Demand and Equilibrium Wage Formation, ed. J.C. van Ours, G.A. Pfann, and G. Ridder. Amsterdam: North-Holland (January 1993): 327-355.
• “Reexamining the Wage, Tenure and Experience Relationship,” Review of Economics and Statistics (August 1991): 512-517.

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Sourushe Zandvakili, PhD - Head and Professor

• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (2008). Advances in Measurement of Inequality and Role of Statistical Inference. Forum for Social Economics, 37, 135-145.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Wellington, D.C. (2007). Karl Marx and Milton Friedman: Bedfellows in Thought. International Journal of Social Economics, 34, 425-432.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Wellington, D.C. (2006). The Veblen Reply. International Journal of Social Economics, 33, 858-859.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Wellington, D.C. (2006). The Entrepreneurial Myth, Globalization and American Dominance. International Journal of Social Economics, 33, 615-624.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe, Mills, Jeffrey and Gray, D. (2004). An Analysis of Differential Provincial Income Inequality Trends in Canada. Research on Economic Inequality, 12, 449-467.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Wellington, D.C. (2004). Globalization and Inequality according to Veblen. International Journal of Social Economics, 31, 1061-1070.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe, Mills, Jeffrey and Gray, D. (2004). Analysis of Gender Based Family Income Inequality in Canada. Applied Economics Letters, 11, 469-472.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe, Millimet, D.L., Podder, N. and Slottje, D.J. (2003). Bounding Lifetime Income Inequality Using a Cross Section of Data. The Review of Income and Wealth, 49, 205-219.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Mills, Jeffrey. (2003). The Distributional Effects of US Tax and Transfer Policy on the Household. Research on Economic Inequality, 10, 195-212.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe, Millimet, D.L, Slottje, D.J. and Yitzhaki, S. (2003). Educational Impacts and Rising Inequality in the US. Estadistica: Journal of the Inter-American Statistical Institute, 55, 231-256.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe, Gray, D. and Mills, Jeffrey. (2003). Statistical Analysis of Inequality with Decompositions: the Canadian Experience. Empirical Economics, 28, 291–302.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (2002). Trends in Earnings Inequality among Young Adults. Review of Social Economy, 60, 93-107.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Williams, Nicolas. (2002). Economic Impacts of Sales Taxes on Temporary Employment Services. International Business and Economics Research Journal, 1, 39-52. (Reprinted in Proceedings of International Applied Business Research Conference, 1-13. (2002).)
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Mills, Jeffrey. (2001). The Redistributional Implications of Tax and Transfer Programs in US. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 41, 167-181. (Reprinted in Proceedings of the 56th Congress of International Institute of Public Finance, 845-866. (2000).)
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (2001). Analysis of Sex-Based Inequality: Use of Axiomatic Approach in Measurement and Statistical Inference via Bootstrapping. In Cinar, M. (Ed.), Research in Middle East Economics: The Economics of Women and Work in Middle East and North Africa, 4, 75-91.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Wellington, D.C. (2001). The Globalization of Poverty According to Malthus. Forum for Social Economics, 31, 59-71.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (2000). Dynamics of Earnings Inequality among Female Heads of Households in the US. Journal of Socio Economics, 29, 73-89.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Murphy, T.E. (2000). Using Customers to Support Human Resource Practices. Proceedings of International Applied Business Research Conference, 1-4.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Murphy, T.E. (2000). Data and Metrics Driven Approach to Human Resource Practices: Using Customers, Employees, and Financial Metrics, Human Resource Management Journal, 39, 93-105. (Abbrev. version reprinted Human Resource Management International Digest, 8, 13-15. (2000).)
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (2000). Measurement of Inequality: Motivation and Survey. In Shahin, W. and Dibeh G. (Eds.), Contributions in Economics and Economic History: Earnings Inequality, Unemployment and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa, 215, 9-27. London: Greenwood Press.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (1999). Income Inequality among Female Heads of Households: Racial Inequality Reconsidered. Economica, 66, 119-133.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Gustafsson, B. (1999). Dynamic of Income Inequality in Sweden. Journal of Income Distribution, 8, 189-206.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Mills, Jeffrey. (1998). Statistical Inference via Bootstrapping: an Application to the Distributional Implications of Taxes and Transfer Programs in US. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association: Section on Social Statistics, 101-106.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Mills, Jeffrey. (2002). Statistical Inference via Bootstrapping for Measures of Inequality. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12, 133-150. (Reprinted in Cowell, F.A. (ed.), The Economics of Poverty and Inequality: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics.)
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (1997). Inequality and Taxation: Editor's Introduction. Research on Economic Inequality, 7, ix-xiii.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (1997). Distributional Implications of the Income Tax Changes in the Early 1980's. Research on Economic Inequality, 7, 201-217.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (1995). Income Redistribution Through Taxation in Canada and the United States: Implications for NAFTA. (NAFTA) Law and Business Review of the Americas, 1, 94-107.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (1995). Decomposable Measures of Income Tax Progressivity. Applied Economics, 27, 657-660.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (1994). Income Distribution and Redistribution through Taxation: an Information Theoretic Approach. Empirical Economics, 19, 473-491.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (1994). Earnings Inequality among Women: How Important are Human Capital Differences? Research on Economic Inequality, 5, 241-266.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (1994). International Comparison of Household Inequalities Based on Micro Data with Decompositions. In Papadimitriou, D.B. (ed.), Aspects of Distribution of Wealth and Income, 80-100. Comments by Blinder, A.S. Blinder. London: Macmillan Press.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (1992). Generalized Entropy Measures of Long-Run Inequality and Stability among Male Headed Households. Empirical Economics, 17, 565-581.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. (1992). International Comparisons of Income Inequality and Redistribution Effect of Taxes. Economic Development Quarterly, 6, 327-333.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe. International Income Inequality: It Matters. Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, 7, 129.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Maasoumi, E. (1990). Generalized Entropy Measures of Mobility for Different Sexes and Income Levels. Journal of Econometrics, 43, 121-133.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Maasoumi, E. (1989). Mobility Profiles and Time Aggregates of Individual Incomes. Research on Economic Inequality, 1, 195-218.
• Zandvakili, Sourushe and Maasoumi, E. (1986). A Class of Generalized Measures of Mobility with Applications. Economics Letters, 22, 97-102.
• Edited Volume, Zandvakili, Sourushe (Ed.). (1997). Inequality and Taxation. Research on Economic Inequality, 7. Greenwich: JAI Press.

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