• The Missouri-Wide Effects of City Earnings Taxes, Missouri Policy Journal, 9, Spring/Summer 2020, 59-63.

• Sex and the Business Cycle, MPRA Paper No. 102334, November 2019, R&R requested. 

• Forecasting National Recessions Using State-Level Data, with Michael T. Owyang and Jeremy M. Piger, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 47(5), August 2015, 847-866.

• Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: The Employment Effects of the Missouri Quality Jobs Program, MPRA Paper No. 50605, September 2013.

• Where is an Oil Shock? with Kristie M. Engemann and Michael T. Owyang, Journal of Regional Science, 54(2), March 2014, 169-185.

• Discordant City Employment Cycles, with Michael T. Owyang and Jeremy Piger, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 43(2), March 2013, 367–384.

• The Employment Cycles of Neighboring Cities, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 43(1), January 2013, 177-185.

• Regional VARs and the Channels of Monetary Policy, with Michael T. Owyang, Applied Economics Letters, 16(12), August 2009, 1191-94.

• States and the Business Cycle, with David Rapach and Michael Owyang, Journal of Urban Economics, 65(2), March 2009, 181-194.

• The Economic Performance of Cities: A Markov-Switching Approach, with Michael T. Owyang, Jeremy Piger, and Christopher Wheeler, Journal of Urban Economics, 64(3), November 2008, 538-550.

• A State-Level Analysis of the Great Moderation, with Michael T. Owyang and Jeremy Piger, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38(6), November 2008, 578-579.

• Regional Business Cycle Phases in Japan, FRB St. Louis Review, 89(1), January/February 2007, 61-76.

• Controlling for Geographic Dispersion When Estimating the Japanese Phillips Curve, with Hiroshi Fujiki, FRB St. Louis WP No. 2006-057A, October 2006.

• Business Cycle Phases in U.S. States, with Michael T. Owyang and Jeremy Piger, Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(4), November 2005, 604-616.

• Structural Breaks and Regional Disparities in the Transmission of Monetary Policy, with Michael T. Owyang, FRB St. Louis WP No. 2003-008C, February 2005.

• The 2001 Recession and the States of the Eighth Federal Reserve District, with Michael T. Owyang and Jeremy M. Piger, FRB St. Louis Regional Economic Development, 2005, 1(1), 3-16.

• U.S. Regional Business Cycles and the Natural Rate of Unemployment, with Gylfi Zoega, FRB St. Louis Review, 86(1), January/February 2004, 23-31.

• NAFTA and the Changing Pattern of State Exports, with Cletus C. Coughlin, Papers in Regional Science, 82(4), 2003, 427-450.

• NAFTA and the Geography of North American Trade, FRB St. Louis Review, 85(2), March/April 2003, 13-26.

• The British Beveridge Curve: A Tale of Ten Regions, with Gylfi Zoega, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 64, July 2002, 257-276.

• Voting with Your Feet in the United Kingdom: Using Cross-Migration Rates to Estimate Relative Living Standards, Papers in Regional Science, 80(1), 2001, 1-23.

• What Makes a Region Entrepreneurial? Evidence from Britain, with Yannis Georgellis, Annals of Regional Science, 34:3, 2000, 385-403.

• The Revealed Cost of Unemployment, with Stratford Douglas, FRB St. Louis Review, 82(2), March/April 2000, 1-10.

• Measuring Relative Quality of Life from a Cross-Migration Regression, With an Application to Canadian Provinces, with Stratford Douglas, Research in Labor Economics, 19, 2000, 191-214.

• Voting with Your Feet‘ and the Quality of Life Index: A Simple Non-Parametric Approach Applied to Canada, with Stratford Douglas, Economics Letters, 42(2-3), 1993, 229-236.

International Economics Research

• Biofuel Subsidies and International Trade, with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Sumon Bhaumik, Economics and Politics, 25(2), July 2013, 181-199.

• Cross-Border Lobbying in Preferential Trading Agreements: Implications for External Tariffs, with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Sajal Lahiri, Review of International Economics, 20(5), November 2012, 1034-1045..

• Ethnic Networks and Trade: Intensive vs. Extensive Margins, with Cletus C. Coughlin, Economics Letters, 113, October 2011, 73-75.

• Oligopoly and Outsourcing: A General Equilibrium Approach, with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Review of Development Economics, 14(3), August 2010, 433-446.

• Is There Too Little Immigration?: An Analysis of Temporary Skilled Migrants, with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 17(2), 2008, 197-211.

• Ethnic Networks and U.S. Exports, with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Cletus Coughlin, Review of International Economics, 16(1), 2008, 199-213.

• Policy Evaluation in the Presence of Outsourcing: Global Competitiveness versus Political Feasibility, with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Economics and Politics, 19(2), July 2007, 219-234.

• The Determinants of Aid in the Post-Cold War Era, with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, In S. Lahiri (Ed.), Theory and Practice of Foreign Aid, Elsevier, May 2007.

• Controlling for Heterogeneity in Gravity Models of Trade and Integration, with I-Hui Cheng, FRB St. Louis Review, 87(1), January/February 2005, 49-63.

• Endogenous Export Subsidies and Welfare Under Domestic Cost Heterogeneity, with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Eun-Soo Park, Economics and Politics, 16, 2004, 347-366.

• NAFTA and the Changing Pattern of State Exports, with Cletus C. Coughlin, Papers in Regional Science, 82(4), 2003, 427-450. 

• NAFTA and the Geography of North American Trade, FRB St. Louis Review, 85(2), March/April 2003, 13-26.

• Has Japan Been Left Out In the Cold by Regional Integration? Bank of Japan, Monetary and Economic Studies, 20, April 2002, 117-134. Reprinted in FRB St. Louis Review, 84(5), September/October 2002, 25-36.

• Reconsidering the Trade-Creating Effects of a Currency Union, with Michael R. Pakko, FRB St. Louis Review, 83(5), September/October, 2001, 37-46.

• Gravity-Model Specification and the Effect of the Canada-US Border, FRB St. Louis WP No. 2000-024A.

• Customs Union or Free Trade Area? The Role of Political Asymmetries, with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Review of International Economics, 7(4), November 1999, 665-672. 

• Using the Gravity Model to Estimate the Costs of Protection, FRB St. Louis Review, 81(1), January/February 1999, 33-40.

• Human Development and Income Growth in Developing Countries, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10, Spring 1996, 207-210.

• Pro-Competitive Tariffs, with Ivette Jans, Birkbeck College Discussion Paper 96-07. 

• Is a Military Really a Luxury Good? An International Panel Study of LDCs, Applied Economics, 28, January 1996, 41-44.

• The Allocation of Official Development Assistance, Journal of Policy Modeling, 17, June 1995, 307-314.

• Protectionist Reputations and the Threat of Voluntary Export Restraint, with Ivette Jans and Govind Hariharan, Review of International Economics, 3(2), June 1995, 199-208.

• Estimating Aid-Allocation Criteria with Panel Data, with William N. Trumbull, The Economic Journal, 104, July 1994, 876-882. 

• An Evaluation of the United Nations‘ Human Development Index, with Arnab Acharya, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 20, April 1994, 51-65. 

• The Non-Equivalence of Specific and Ad Valorem Tariffs with Quality-Differentiated Goods, Journal of Economic Integration, 9, March 1994, 80-93.

• Protection and the Product Line: A Comment, International Economic Review, 33, November 1992, 973-976.

• Intertemporal Optimization under Threat of VER, with Govind Hariharan, Journal of Economic Integration, 7, Spring 1992, 45-57.

• Strategic Export Policy for a Duopoly with Endogenous Quality, West Virginia University WP No. 91-02.

• Consistent Conjectures and 'Voluntary‘ Export Restraints, with Xiangqun Chen, West Virginia University WP No. 91-22.

• Efficient Quality Specialization and Tariffs in General Equilibrium, International Economic Journal, 4, Winter 1990, 21-34.

• Personal-Bankruptcy Cycles, with Thomas A. Garrett, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 18(7), October 2014, 1488-1507.

• Don't Get Skewed Over by Journal Rankings, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 9: Iss. 1 (Topics), 2009, Article 34.

• A Journal Ranking for the Ambitious Economist, with Kristie M. Engemann, FRB St. Louis Review, 91(3), May/June 2009, 127-139.

• Creating a Policy Environment for Entrepreneurs, with Thomas Garrett, Cato Journal, 26(3), Fall 2006, 525-552. 

• Entrepreneurship and the Policy Environment, with Yannis Georgellis, FRB St. Louis Review, 88(2), March/April 2006, 95-111.

• Passive Policies for Entrepreneurs, with Thomas A. Garrett, FRB St. Louis Community Affairs Research Report, October 2005.

• Gender Differences in Self-Employment, with Yannis Georgellis, International Review of Applied Economics, 19:3, July 2005, 321-342.

• Entrepreneurship and the Deregulation of Banking, Economics Letters, 82:3, 2004, 333-339.

• Who Are the Self-Employed? with Yannis Georgellis, FRB St. Louis Review, 82(6), November/December 2000, 15-23.

• What Makes a Region Entrepreneurial? Evidence from Britain, with Yannis Georgellis, Annals of Regional Science, 34:3, 2000, 385-403.

• Cricket vs. Baseball as an Engine of Growth, Royal Economic Society Newsletter, 90, July 1995, 2-3.

• The Fertility Effect of Dependent Tax Exemptions: Estimates for the United States, with Yannis Georgellis, Applied Economics, 24, October 1992, 1139-1145.