Faculty Publications

Dr. Cecil E. Bohanon

• Bohanon, C. E., (2012). A Pedagogical Note on Bastiat’s Restraint of Trade. Journal of Private Enterprise Education 27 (2): 144-150.  
• Bohanon, C. E., Vachris, M., (2012). Using Illustrations from American Novels to Teach about Labor Markets. Journal of Economic Education 43 (1): 72-82.
• Bohanon, C. E., Hutson, W. A., (2009). The Economics of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Laissez-Faire 30-31: 23-30.
• Bohanon, C. E., (2008). Persistent Themes in Colleges of Business. The Journal of Education for Business 83 (4): 239-245.
• Bohanon, C. E., (2007). Prudence, Passion and Persuasion in Moby Dick. Laissez- Faire 26-27: 23-31.
• Bohanon, C. E., (2005). The Economics of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Laissez- Faire 22-23: 35-49.
• Bohanon, C. E., Van Cott, T. N., (2005). Tariffs, Immigration, and Economic Insulation: A New View of the U.S. Post-Civil War Era. Independent Review 9 (4): 529-542, Independent Institute, Oakland CA.
• Bohanon, C. E., Van Cott, T. N., (2003). More on Voting. Independent Review 7 (4): 603-605.
• Bohanon, C. E., Van Cott, T. N., (2002). Now More than Ever, Your Vote Doesn't Matter. Independent Review 6 (4): 591-596.
• Bohanon, C. E., Keil, S. R., (2000). The Impact of Property Tax Rate Changes in a Small Open Economy. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 30 (2): 39-53.

Dr. Philip R. P. Coelho

• McGuire, R. A., Coelho, P. R.P., (2011). Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development. MIT Press, 343.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2011). Lotta Lemmata: A Sour Harvest. Social Science History 35(2): 213-236.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2009). Inframarginal values and demand: Contra Dwight Lee. Journal of Bioeconomics, 11 (3), 283-288.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2008). The Market for Lemmas: Evidence that Complex Models Rarely Operate in Our World. Econ Journal Watch 5 (1): 78-90.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2006). Ethics Education in Marketing: Are Stakeholders’ Interests Overshadowing Shareholders’? Journal for Advancement of Marketing Education 9: 18-25.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McGuire, R. A., (2006). Racial Differences in Disease Susceptibilities: Intestinal Worm Infections in the Early Twentieth-Century American South. Social History of Medicine 19 (3): 461-82.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2006). Why Has Critical Commentary Been Curtailed at Top Economics Journals? A Reply to Robert Whaples. Econ Journal Watch 3 (2): 283-291.
• Coelho, P. R. P., Worken-Eley III, F. D., McClure, J.E., (2005). Decline in Critical Commentary: 1963-2004. Econ Journal Watch 2 (2): 355-361.
• Coelho, P. R. P., Klein, D. B., McClure, J. E., (2005). Rejoinder to Pesendorfer. Econ Journal Watch 2 (1): 32-41.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2005). Learning from Failure. Mid-American Journal of Business 1 (20): 13-20.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2005). Theory vs. Application: Does Theory Crowd Out Evidence? Southern Economic Journal 3 (71): 556-565.
• Coelho, P. R. P., Klein, D. B., McClure, J. E., (2004). Fashion Cycles in Economics. Econ Journal Watch 3 (1): 437-454.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., Tunc, E., (2004). Managing Homo Sapiens. Total Quality Management 15 (2): 190-204.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., Spry, J., (2003). The Social Responsibility of Corporate Management: A Classic Critique. Mid-American Journal of Business 18 (1): 15-24.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., Spry, J., (2003). The Social Responsibility of Management: Reprise. Mid-American Journal of Business 18 (2): 51-55.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McGuire, R. A., (2000). Diets Versus Diseases: The Anthropometrics of Slave Children. The Journal of Economic History 60 (1): 232-246.

Dr. Maoyong Fan

• Fan, M., (Forthcoming). Do Neighborhood Parks and Playgrounds Reduce Childhood Obesity? American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
• Fan, M., (2010). Do Food Stamps Contribute to Obesity in Low-Income Women? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 92 (3): 1165-1180.
• Fan, M., Firestone, S., (2010). Firm Market Value and Production Technology. International Journal of Industrial Organization 28 (5): 434-440.
• Lee, M., Wu, S., Fan, M., (2008). Balancing Grower Protection Against Agency Concerns: An Economic Analysis of Contract Termination Damages. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 33(2), 154-168. 

Dr. Jeffrey J. Green

• Green, J. J., Stone, C. C., Zegeye, A., (Forthcoming). The Major Field Test in Business: A Solution to the Problem of Assurance of Learning Assessment? Journal of Education for Business.
• Green, J. J., Stone, C. C., Zegeye, A., Charles, T. A., (2009). How Much Math Do Students Need to Succeed in Business and Economics Statistics? An Ordered Probit Analysis. Journal of Statistics Education 17 (3).  
• Green, J. J., Stone, C. C., Zegeye, A., Charles, T. A., (2007). Changes in Math Prerequisites and Student Performance in Business Statistics: Do Math Prerequisites Really Matter? The Journal of Economics and Finance Education 6 (2): 27-38.

 Dr. John B. Horowitz

• Horowitz, J. B., Van Cott, T. N., Karls, M. A., (Forthcoming). Innovation, Parallel Shifts of Supply, and Welfare. Agricultural Economics Review.
• Horowitz, J. B., Begum, M., (Forthcoming). Low Dose Risk Assessment for Arsenic -A Meta-Analysis Approach. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health.
• Dowd, T., Horowitz, J. B.. (2011). Income Mobility and the Earned Income Tax Credit: Short-Term Safety Net or Long-Term Income Support. Public Finance Review 39 (5): 619-652.
• Spector, L. C., Keil, S. R., Horowitz, J. B., (2009). The Impact of Charter Schools on Property Values. Review of Regional Studies, 39 (3), 297-316.
• Horowitz, J. B., Spector, L. C., (2005). Is There a Difference between Private and Public Education on College Performance? Economics of Education Review 24 (2): 189-195.
• Horowitz, J. B., Moehring, B., (2004). How Property Rights and Patents Affect Antibiotic Resistance. Health Economics 13 (6): 575-583.
• Colburn, C., Horowitz, J. B., (2003). Local Politics and the Demand for Public Education. Urban Studies 40 (4): 797-807.
• Horowitz, J. B., (2002). Income Mobility and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Economic Inquiry 40 (3): 334-347.
• Horowitz, J. B., (2002). Why Higher Real Wages May Reduce Altruism for the Poor. Eastern Economic Journal 28 (3): 351-362.

Dr. Stanley R. Keil

• Hicks, M. J., Keil, S. R., Spector, L. C., (2012). Mom-and-Pops or Big Box Stores: Some Evidence of WalMart Impact on Retail Trade. Economic Development Quarterly 26 (4): 311-320.
• Spector, L. C., Keil, S. R., Horowitz, J. B., (2009). The Impact of Charter Schools on Property Values. Review of Regional Studies, 39 (3), 297-316.
• Keil, S. R., (2006). Did Proximity to Ports Have Any Bearing on Urban Growth between 1970 and 2000? Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 36 (1): 68-75.
• Keil, S. R., Spector, L. C., (2006). The Impact of Wal-Mart on Income and Unemployment Differentials in Alabama. The Review of Regional Studies 35 (3): 336-355.
• Bohanon, C. E., Keil, S. R., (2000). The Impact of Property Tax Rate Changes in a Small Open Economy. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 30 (2): 39-53.

Dr. Tung Liu

• Liu, T., Li, K-W., (2012). Analyzing China's Productivity Growth: Evidence from Manufacturing Industries. Economic Systems 36 (4): 531-551.
• Li, K-W., Liu, T., (2011). Economic and Productivity Growth Decomposition: An Application to Post-reform China. Economic Modelling 28 (1-2): 366-373.
• Liu, T., Santoni, G. J., Stone, C. C., (2009). Federal Securities Regulations and Stock Market Returns. Journal of Financial and Economic Practice, Fall 2009, 15-34.   
• Bask, M., Liu, T., Widerberg, A., (2007). The Stability of Electricity Prices: Estimation and Inference of the Lyapunov Exponents. Physica A  376: 565-572.
• Liu, T., Li, K-W., (2006). Disparity in Factor Contributions between Coastal and Inner Provinces in Post-reform China. China Economic Review 17 (4): 449-470.
• Liu, T., Spector, L. C., (2005). Dynamic Employment Adjustments Over Business Cycles. Empirical Economics 30 (1): 151-169.
• Chu, C-S. J., Liu, T., Rathinasamy, R. S., (2004). Robust Test of the January Effect in Stock Markets Using Markov-Switching Model. Journal of Financial Management and Analysis 17 (1): 22-33.
• Li, K-W., Liu, T., (2004). Performance of Financial Resources in China's Provinces. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 9 (1): 32-48.
• Liu, T., Li, K-W., (2001). Impact of liberalization of financial resources in China's economic growth: Evidence from Provinces. Journal of Asian Economics 12 (2): 245-262.
• Li, K-W., Liu, T., (2001). Financial Liberalization and Growth in China's Economic Reform. World Economy 24 (5): 673-687.

Dr. James E. McClure

• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2011). Lotta Lemmata: A Sour Harvest. Social Science History 35(2): 213-236.
• McClure, J. E., (Forthcoming). Murders, He Wrote: A Note on Declining Deadly Violence. Journal of Bioeconomics. 
• Kumcu, E., McClure, J. E., (Forthcoming). The Common Agricultural Policy v. Turkish Admission to the EU. Istanbul University Journal of the School of Business Administration.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (Forthcoming). Lotta Lemmata: A Sour Harvest. Social Science History.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2009). Inframarginal values and demand: Contra Dwight Lee. Journal of Bioeconomics, 11 (3), 283-288.
• Gisser, M., McClure, J. E., Okten, G., Santoni, G. J., (2009). Some anomalies arising from bandwagons that impart upward-sloping segments to market demand. Econ Journal Watch 6 (1): 21-34.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2008). The Market for Lemmas: Evidence that Complex Models Rarely Operate in Our World. Econ Journal Watch 5 (1): 78-90.
• McClure, J. E., Kumcu., E., (2008). Promotions and Product Pricing: Parsimony Versus Veblenesque Demand. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 65 (1): 105-117.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2006). Ethics Education in Marketing: Are Stakeholders’ Interests Overshadowing Shareholders’? Journal for Advancement of Marketing Education 9: 18-25.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2006). Why Has Critical Commentary Been Curtailed at Top Economics Journals? A Reply to Robert Whaples. Econ Journal Watch 3 (2): 283-291.
• Coelho, P. R. P., Worken-Eley III, F. D., McClure, J. E., (2005). Decline in Critical Commentary: 1963-2004. Econ Journal Watch 2 (2): 355-361.
• Coelho P. R. P., Klein, D. B., McClure, J. E., (2005). Rejoinder to Pesendorfer. Econ Journal Watch 2 (1): 32-41.
• McClure, J. E., Spector, L. C., (2005). Plus/Minus Grading and Motivation: An Empirical Study of Student Choice and Performance. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, University of Bath; Bath, UK. 30 (6): 571-579.
• McClure, J. E., (2005). Reply to Stearns and Borna: Are the Partially Upward Sloping Demand Models Plausible? Marketing Education Review 15 (3): 73-75.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2005). Learning from Failure. Mid-American Journal of Business, Ball State University, Muncie, IN. 20 (1): 13-20.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., (2005). Theory versus Application: Does Complexity Crowd out Evidence? Southern Economic Journal 71 (3): 556-565.
• Coelho, P. R. P., Klein, D. B., McClure, J. E., (2004). Fashion Cycles in Economics. Econ Journal Watch, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA. 3 (1): 437-454.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., Tunc, E., (2004). Managing Homo Sapiens. Total Quality Management 15 (2): 190-204.
• Kumcu, E., McClure, J. E., (2003). Explaining Prestige Pricing: An Alternative to Back-Bending Demand. Marketing Education Review 13 (1): 49-57.
• McClure, J. E., Spector, L. C., (2003). Behavior and Performance in the Economics Classroom. Educational Research Quarterly 27 (1): 15-23.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., Spry, J., (2003). The Social Responsibility of Management: Reprise. Mid-American Journal of Business 18 (2): 51-55.
• Coelho, P. R. P., McClure, J. E., Spry, J., (2003). The Social Responsibility of Corporate Management: A Classic Critique. Mid-American Journal of Business 18 (1): 15-24.
• McClure, J. E., Van Cott, T. N., (2000). Teaching Note: Let's Stop Professing that the Legal Incidence of the Social Security Tax is Irrelevant. Eastern Economic Journal 26 (4): 483-486.

Dr. Kerry Anne McGeary

• Asgeirsdottir, T. and McGeary, K.A., (2009) Labor/Leisure Choices and the Impact of Alcohol Problems: An Analysis of Labor supply in Iceland. European Journal of Health Economics 10 (4): 455-465.
• McGeary, K. A., (2009). How Do Health Shocks Influence Retirement Decisions. Review of Economics of the Household 7(3): 307-321.
• McCullough, B., McGeary, K. A., and Harrison, T. D., (2008). Do Economics Journal Archives Promote Replicable Research? Canadian Journal of Economics 41 (4): 1406-1420.
• Katzman, B., McGeary, K. A., (2008). Will Competitive Bidding Decrease Medicare Expenditures? Southern Economic Journal 74(3): 839-856. Winner of the Georgesqu-Roegen Prize for Best Paper in 2008.
• Katzman, B., Markowitz, S.  and McGeary, K. A., (2007). An Empirical Investigation of the Social Market for Cigarettes. Health Economics 16, 1025-1039. This publication appeared as: "A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Teenage Smoking Decisions," NBER Working Paper# 8844.
• McCullough, B., McGeary, K. A. , and Harrison, T. D., (2006). Lessons from the JMCB Archive. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 38(4): 1093-1107.
• Koch, S., McGeary, K. A., (2005). The Effect of Alcohol Use and Abuse on School Leaving. Economic Inquiry 43 (4): 750-765.

Dr. Erik T. Nesson

• Markowitz, S., Nesson, E. T., Poe-Yamagata, E., Florence, C., Deb, P., Andrews, T., & Barnett, S. B. L., (2012). Estimating the Relationship between Alcohol Policies and Criminal Violence and Victimization. German Economic Review 13 (4): 416-435.

Dr. Lee C. Spector

• Hicks, M. J., Keil, S. R., & Spector, L. C., (2012). Mom-and-Pops or Big Box Stores: Some Evidence of WalMart Impact on Retail Trade. Economic Development Quarterly 26 (4): 311-320.
• Spector, L. C., Stone, C. C., (2012). Unlikely Estimates of the Ex Ante Real Interest Rate: Another Dismal Performance from the Dismal Science. Journal of Financial and Economic Practice 12 (2): 80-102.
• Spector, L. C., Keil, S. R., Horowitz, J. B., (2009). The Impact of Charter Schools on Property Values. Review of Regional Studies, 39 (3), 297-316.
• Spector, L. C., Van Cott, T. N., (2007). Textbooks and Pure Fiscal Policy: The Neglect of Monetary Basics, Econ Journal Watch 4 (1): 60-70.
• Keil, S. R., Spector, L. C., (2006). The Impact of Wal-Mart on Income and Unemployment Differentials in Alabama. Review of Regional Studies 35 (3): 336-355.
• Spector, L. C., (2005). Macroeconomic Models and the Determination of Crowding Out. Public Finance/Finance Publiques 54: 84-98, Germany.
• McClure, J. E., Spector, L. C., (2005). Plus/Minus Grading and Motivation: An Empirical Study of Student Choice and Performance. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 30 (6): 571-579.
• Horowitz, J. B., Spector, L. C., (2005). Is There a Difference between Private and Public Education on College Performance? Economics of Education Review 24 (2): 189-195.
• Liu, T., Spector, L. C., (2005). Dynamic Employment Adjustments Over Business Cycles. Empirical Economics 30 (1): 151-169.
• McClure, J. E., Spector, L. C., (2003). Behavior and Performance in the Economics Classroom. Educational Research Quarterly 27 (1): 15-23.

Dr. Courtenay C. Stone

• Green, J. J., Stone, C. C., Zegeye, A., (Forthcoming). The Major Field Test in Business: A Solution to the Problem of Assurance of Learning Assessment? Journal of Education for Business.
• Spector, L. C., Stone, C. C., (2012). Unlikely Estimates of the Ex Ante Real Interest Rate: Another Dismal Performance from the Dismal Science. Journal of Financial and Economic Practice 12 (2): 80-102.
• Liu, T., Santoni, G. J., Stone, C. C., (2009). Federal Securities Regulations and Stock Market Returns. Journal of Financial and Economic Practice, Fall 2009, 15-34. 
• Green, J. J., Stone, C. C., Zegeye, A., Charles, T. A., (2009). How Much Math Do Students Need to Succeed in Business and Economics Statistics? An Ordered Probit Analysis. Journal of Statistics Education 17 (3).  
• Green, J. J., Stone, C. C., Zegeye, A., Charles, T. A., (2007). Changes in Math Prerequisites and Student Performance in Business Statistics: Do Math Prerequisites Really Matter? The Journal of Economics and Finance Education 6 (2): 27-38.

Dr. T. Norman Van Cott

• Horowitz, J. B., Van Cott, T. N., Karls, M. A., (Forthcoming). Innovation, Parallel Shifts of Supply, and Welfare. Agricultural Economics Review.
• Van Cott, T. N., (2012). Milton Friedman and the Genesis of Inflation Tax Analysis. International Advances in Economic Research  18 (3): 315-319.
• Baack, B., McGuire, R. A., Van Cott, T. N., (2009). Constitutional Agreement During The Drafting of the Constitution: A New Interpretation. Journal of Legal Studies 38 (2): 533-567.
• Van Cott, T. N., (2007). Doomsters, Evil I's, and Tunnel Vision Economics. Independent Review 11 (4): 595-599.
• Spector, L. C., Van Cott, T. N., (2007). Textbooks and Pure Fiscal Policy: The Neglect of Monetary Basics, Econ Journal Watch 4 (1): 60-70.
• Bohanon, C. E., Van Cott, T. N., (2005). Tariffs, Immigration, and Economic Insulation: A New View of the U.S. Post-Civil War Era. Independent Review 9 (4): 529-542. Independent Institute, Oakland CA.
• Bohanon, C. E., Van Cott, T. N., (2003). More on Voting. Independent Review 7 (4): 603-605.
• McGuire, R. A., Van Cott, T. N., (2003). A Supply and Demand Exposition of a Constitutional Tax Loophole. Constitutional Political Economy 14 (1): 39-45.
• Bohanon, C. E., Van Cott, T. N., (2002). Now More than Ever, Your Vote Doesn't Matter. Independent Review 6 (4): 591-596.
• McGuire, R. A., Van Cott, T. N., (2002). The Confederate Constitution, Tariffs, and the Laffer Relationship. Economic Inquiry 40 (3): 428-438.
• McClure, J. E., Van Cott, T. N., (2000). Teaching Note: Let's Stop Professing that the Legal Incidence of the Social Security Tax is Irrelevant. Eastern Economic Journal 26 (4): 483-486.

Tyler A. Watts

• Watts, T. A., (2011). The Dollar Quiz: A Hands-On Approach to Monetary Debasement and Inflation. The Journal of Private Enterprise 27(1) Fall: 145-158.
• Watts,T., Barton, J., (2011). "I Can’t Drive 55”: The Economics of the CB Radio Phenomenon. The Independent Review 15 (3): 383-397.
• Watts, T. (2010). Arbitrage and Knowledge. Review of Austrian Economics 23(1): 79-96.

Dr. Abera Zegeye

• Green, J. J., Stone, C. C., Zegeye, A., (Forthcoming). The Major Field Test in Business: A Solution to the Problem of Assurance of Learning Assessment? Journal of Education for Business.
• Green, J. J., Stone, C. C., Zegeye, A., Charles, T. A., (2009). How Much Math Do Students Need to Succeed in Business and Economics Statistics? An Ordered Probit Analysis. Journal of Statistics Education 17 (3).  
• Green, J. J., Stone, C. C., Zegeye, A., Charles, T. A., (2007). Changes in Math Prerequisites and Student Performance in Business Statistics: Do Math Prerequisites Really Matter? The Journal of Economics and Finance Education 6 (2): 27-38.