I am the Burchfield Presidential Chair of Political Economy at the Wake Forest University Department of Economics. My research interests are in applied microeconomics, particularly public economics and industrial organization. My papers have been published in American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and elsewhere. Quick access to my research is listed below, with additional details available via the menu at the top of the page.

Overview

• Curriculum Vitae and Google Scholar page and SSRN page (more current working papers)
• Co-Organizer, Virtual Digital Economy (VIDE) Seminar
• Associate Editor, The Journal of Prediction Markets
• Actor: Tang ad (2 April 1974, 20 December 1974). See last five seconds.

Papers

• Industrial Organization
  • Intellectual property: file sharing and music (JPE, 2007), file sharing and music, revisited (IEP,2016), file sharing and movies (working paper), file sharing and copyright (NBER IPE, 2009)
  • Organization of illegal enterprises: illegal sports bookmaking (working paper)
  • Pricing of addictive goods: cigarette prices (ReStat, 2007)


• Public Economics
  • Tax evasion: tax flights (working paper)
  • Prediction markets: manipulating political stock markets (working paper), corporate prediction markets (JPM, 2009)
  • Historical political stock markets: U.S. (JEP, 2004), International (OUP, 2013)
  • Decentralization: Tiebout sorting (AER, 2003), policy innovation (JPET, 2002), public good provision (JDS, 2005)
  • Political institutions: endogenous institutions (JPE, 2002)
  • Political economics: WWII spending allocation (JPubE, 2018), sequential elections (PubChoice, 2002), estimating election outcomes (EandP, 1999)
  • Local government policy choice: government credibility (JPubE, 2001), flypaper effect (JPubE, 1999), property assessment (JUrbanEcon, 1999)


• Health economics
  • Smoking: addiction (JHR, 2005), mortality (IER, 2018)