My research focuses on the macroeconomic aspects of trade and growth. In particular, I explore (i) U.S. regional growth, (ii) returns to U.S. schooling, (iii) impact of regional trading arrangements on international trade and development and other areas. Although well-grounded in growth and trade theory, my research is largely empirical with use of panel data, time-series and Bayesian econometric techniques.

I have made available my state-level capital stock, bilateral regional trading arrangements and cross-country conflict data.

U.S. Regional Growth

• Can Tax Policy Help Explain State-Level Macroeconomic Growth?
  Economics Letters, 68 (August 2000): 211-215.
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• Regional Convergence: Evidence from a New State-by-State Capital Stock Series (with Gasper Garofalo)
  The Review of Economics and Statistics 84 (May 2002): 316-323.
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• Solow and the States: New Evidence Regional Studies (August 2006): 571-582.
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• Corruption is Bad for Growth (Even in the United States) (with Noel Johnson and Courtney LaFountain) Public Choice (forthcoming).
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• State-Level Capital and Investment: Updates and Implications Contemporary Economic Policy (forthcoming).
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• Tax Policy and State Economic Development (with Andrew Ojede).
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Returns to U.S. Schooling

• Estimating Returns to Schooling from State-Level Data: A Macro-Mincerian Approach Contributions in Macroeconomics 8:1 (2008), Article 23.
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• Human Capital and State-Level Economic Growth: What is the Contribution of Schooling? Annals of Regional Science (forthcoming).

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• Private and Social Returns to Education: Evidence from the Current Population Survey (with Kristen Monaco).

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Impact of Regional Trading Arrangements

• Are Regional Trading Arrangements Trade Creating? An Application of Extreme Bounds Analysis (with Sucharita Ghosh)
  Journal of International Economics, 63 (July 2004): 369-395.
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• Does Trade Creation Measure Up? A Reexamination of the Effects of Regional Trading Arrangements (with Sucharita Ghosh)
  Economics Letters, 82 (February 2004): 213-219.
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• A Sensitivity Analysis of the Gravity Model (with Sucharita Ghosh)
  The International Trade Journal, 19 (Spring 2005): 83-126.
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• Do Regional Trading Arrangements Harm the Environment? An Analysis of 162 Countries in 1990 (with Sucharita Ghosh) Applied Econometrics and International Development, 6-2 (April-June 2006): 83-126.
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• Is Natural Openness or Trade-Policy Openness Good for the Environment? (with Sucharita Ghosh) Environment and Development Economics (forthcoming).
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• Unilateral versus Regional Integration: What Matters More for Economic Development? (with Sucharita Ghosh)
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Other Research

• Nonlinear Tax Structures and Endogenous Growth The Manchester School 69 (January 2001): 16-30.
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• International Trade, Technology and Wage Inequalities: Evidence from Granger Causality Tests (with Sucharita Ghosh) Review of International Economics 15 (May 2007), 321-346.
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• Does Collaborative Learning Improve Student Learning Outcomes? Journal of Economic Education 38 (Summer 2007), 259-277.
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• War! What is it Good for? A Deep Determinants Study of the Cost of Interstate Conflict (with Noel Johnson and Ryan Compton) Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 16: 1 (2010), Article 8.
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• Partisan Policies, Fiscal Constraints, and the Growth of Regulation (with Noel Johnson and Matt Mitchell)
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Data: State-Level Capital Stock and Investment Data

• Data for 1947-01 and 1990-07

Data: Regional Trading Arrangements Membership

• RTA membership list
• RTA dates for bilateral data 1
• RTA dates for bilateral data2
• RTA Stata program

Data: Interstate Conflict Data

• Data description
• Cross-country data for 1960-00

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