Economics
Faculty Spotlight
What are the factors that cause more or less (or no) weight gain in young adults in college? That is question Olga Yakusheva, assistant professor of Economics, along with Kandice Kapinos of the University of Michigan examined in an article titled “Environmental Influences on Young Adult Weight Gain: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”
Recent Economics Faculty Publications
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- Recent and Forthcoming Books
- Recent and Forthcoming Book Chapters
- Refereed Proceedings and Forthcoming Proceedings and other articles
Recent and Forthcoming Refereed Articles
Charles Breeden and Brian Brush, “Prudent Investing and Economic Damages: A Reply to Comments” Journal of Legal Economics, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2009, pp. 45-53.
Clark, David and John Carruthers, “Valuing Environmental Quality: A Space-Based Strategy” Journal of Regional Science, forthcoming.
Daniels, Joseph and Marc von der Ruhr, “Trust in Others: Does Religion Matter?” Review of Social Economy, forthcoming.
Daniels, Joseph and David VanHoose, “Trade Openness, Capital Mobility, and the Sacrifice Ratio” Open Economies Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2009, pp. 473-487.
Daniels, Joseph and David VanHoose, “Openness, Income-Tax Progressivity, and Inflation” Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2009, pp. 485-491.
Davis, John B., “Neuroeconomics: Constructing Identity” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, forthcoming.
Davis, John B., “The Capabilities Conception of the Individual” Review of Social Economy, Vol. 67, (December 2009), pp. 413-429.
Davis, John B. and Solang Marin, “Identity and Democracy: Linking Individual and Social Reasoning” Development, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 500-508.
Davis, John B. and Zohreh Emami, “Democracy, Education, and Economics” International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, May 2009, pp. 37-45.
Davis, John B., “Peter Danner 1921-2008” Review of Social Economy, Vol. 67, p. 263.
Davis, John B., “Justifying Human Rights: Economics and the Individual” Forum for Social Economics, Vol. 38 (Spring 2009), pp. 78-89.
Davis, John B., “Identity and individual economic agents: A narrative approach” Review of Social Economy, Vol. 67, (March 2009), pp. 71-94; reprinted in Ethics and Economics: New Perspectives, Mark White and Irene van Staveren, eds., London: Routledge, 2009.
Davis, John B., “Two Relational Conceptions of Individuals: Teams and Neuroeconomics” in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 27, 2009, pp. 1-21.
Kohls, Heather and Russ Kashian, “Committee Size and Smart Growth: An Optimal Solution” Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Vol. 9, No. 2, February 2009, forthcoming.
Garrett, Dennis and Peter Toumanoff, “Do Disadvantaged Consumers Complain to the Better Business Bureau?” Journal of Consumer Affairs, forthcoming, Vol. 44, No. 1, Spring 2010, forthcoming.
Wang, Miao, “FDI and human capital in the U.S.: Is FDI in different industries created equal?” Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming.
Wang, Miao, “Manufacturing FDI and Economic Growth: Evidence from Asian Economies,” Applied Economics, Vol. 41, 2009, pp. 991-1002.
Wang, Miao and M. C. Sunny Wong, “Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: The Growth Accounting Perspective” Economic Inquiry, Vol. 47, 2009, pp. 701-710.
Wang, Miao and M.C. Sunny Wong, “What Drives Economic Growth? The Case of Cross-Border M&A and Greenfield FDI Activities” Kyklos, Vol. 62, 2009, pp. 316-330.
Yakusheva, Olga, “In high school and pregnant: the importance of educational and fertility expectations for subsequent outcomes” Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.
Yakusheva, Olga, Marianne Wess and Kathy Bobay, “Nurse and patient perceptions of discharge readiness in relation to post-discharge utilization” Medical Care, forthcoming.
Recent and Forthcoming Books
Davis, John B., Individuals and Identity in Economics, [Cambridge University Press] forthcoming, 2010.
Davis, John B. and M. Boumans, Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science, [Palgrave], 2009.
Davis, John B., Global Social Economy: Development, Work and Policy, J. Davis, ed., [Routledge], 2009.
Recent and Forthcoming Book Chapters
Clark David, James McGibany and Adam Myers, “The Effects of 9/11 on the Airline Travel Industry” in The Impact of 9-11: The Day that Changed Everything? Matthew Morgan, ed., [Palgrave MacMillan], Chapter 6, pp. 75-86.
Davis, John B., “Competing Conceptions of the Individual in Recent Economics,” in Harold Kincaid and Don Ross, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Economic Science, [Oxford University Press], 2009: pp. 223-244.
Davis, John B., “Kollektive Intentionalität, komplexes ökonomisches Verhalten und Bewerten, ” previously “Collective Intentionality, Complex Economic Behavior, and Valuation,” Protosociology, vol. 18 (2003), trans. and eds., Hans Bernhard Schmid and David Schweikard, in Kollektive Intentionalität – Eine Debatte über die Grundlagen des Sozialen, [Suhrkamp Verlag], 2009: pp. 672-696.
Davis, John B., “identity” in J. Peil and I. van Staveren, eds., Handbook of Economics and Ethics, [Edward Elgar], 2009: pp. 246-251.
Davis, John B., “individualism” in J. Peil and I. van Staveren, eds., Handbook of Economics and Ethics, [Edward Elgar], 2009: pp. 261-266.
Refereed Proceedings and Forthcoming Proceedings and other articles
Davis, John B., “Global Social Economy: An Introduction,” in Global Social Economy: Development, Work and Policy, J. Davis, ed., [Routledge], pp. 1-10, 2009.