Recent Publications
Bray, Larry G. with Luke Jones and Dr. Mark Burton (2007). The Regional Importance of Reelfoot Lake. University of Tennessee Center for Transportation Research and the County Technical Assistance Service, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Bray, Larry G. with Chrisman A. Dager, Michael Murphree & Charlotte Ann Leibrock (2005). Elasticity of Demand for Barged Corn Shipments on the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1909-01, pp 1-7.
Bray, Larry G. with Chrisman A. Dager & Dr. Mark Burton (2004). Willingness to Pay for Water Transportation in the Ohio River Basin, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1871-02, pp.5-12.
“Road to Ruin? A Spatial Analysis of State Infrastructure Spending,” with Deborah A. Carroll, John A. Deskins, and Jonathan C. Rork, Public Budgeting and Finance 27(4): 66-85, 2007.
“Maxing Out: An Analysis of Local Option Sales Tax Rate Increases,” with LeAnn Luna and Richard Hawkins, National Tax Journal 60(1): 45-63, 2007.
“Tax Base Elasticities: A Multi-State Analysis of Long-Run and Short-Run Dynamics,” with William F. Fox and M.H. Tuttle, Southern Economic Journal 73(2): 315-341, 2006.
“Understanding Participation in Social Programs: Why Don’t Households Pick up the Lifeline?” with Jeffrey T. Macher, Georgetown University and John W. Mayo, Georgetown University, forthcoming, Berkley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis..
“Network Pricing: Service Differentials, Scale Economies, and Vertical Exclusion in Railroad Markets,” with Wesley W. Wilson, University of Oregon, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, May 2006.
"Modeling Entry and Barriers to Entry: A Test of Alternative Specifications," with David L. Kaserman, Auburn University and John W. Mayo, Georgetown University, The Antitrust Bulletin, Summer, 1999, pp. 387-420.
"An Empirical Assessment of the Impacts of Host Country and Home Country Corporate Tax Rates on FDI in the United States.” (with A. Wijeweera and B. Dollery). Applied Economics, 2007, 39, pp. 109-117.
“Distance, Production, and Trade.” Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, September, 2007, pp. 359-271.
“Distance and Intraindustry Trade.” Journal of Economic Integration, September 2007, pp. 619-636.
Evans, Mary F. and V. Kerry Smith, Complementarity and the Measurement of Individual Risk Tradeoffs: Accounting for Quantity and Quality of Life Effects, Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming.
Evans, Mary F. and V. Kerry Smith, Do We Really Understand the Age-VSL Relationship?, Resource and Energy Economics, 28: 242-261, 2006.
Smith, V. Kerry, Mary F. Evans, Hyun Kim, and Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Do the “Near” Elderly Value Mortality Risks Differently?, Review of Economics and Statistics 86(1): 423-429, 2004.
"Monetary Actions and Sub-Macroeconomic Impacts: Evaluation Across Eras," with Chris Kauffman, Journal of Economics, forthcoming 2008.
“Wealth, Marginal Tax Rates and the Distribution of Income: Permanent and Transitory Effects,” with Mark Tuttle. Review of Income and Wealth 52, December, 2006, 493-508.
"The Threshold Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Trade Volume: Evidence from G-7 Countries," with Yanhong Zhang and Hui Chang. International Economic Journal 20, December, 2006, 461-476.
Booker, Kevin, Scott M. Gilpatric, Timothy Gronberg and Dennis Jansen (2007). The Impact of Charter School Attendance on Student Performance. Journal of Public Economics, 91(5), 849-876.
Gilpatric, Scott M. (Forthcoming). Tournaments, Risk-Taking, and the Role of Carrots and Sticks, Economic Inquiry.
Gilpatric, Scott M. (Forthcoming). Present-Biased Preferences, Self-Awareness, and Shirking. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
“The Dynamic Effects of Tax Policies in a Small Open Economy.” Applied Economics, forthcoming.
“On the Employment, Investment and Current Account Effects of Inflation.” Journal of International Economics, 2006, Vol. 70, pp 296-313. (With A. Mansoorian.)
“Durability in Consumption and the Dynamics of the Current Account.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2006, Vol. 30, pp 143-162.
“Interstate Tax Uniformity and the Multistate Tax Commission” (with David Sjoquist and Bartley Hildreth). National Tax Journal LVIII (2005): 575-590.
“How Should a Subnational Corporate Income Tax on Multistate Businesses Be Structured?” (with William F. Fox and LeAnn Luna), National Tax Journal LVIII (2005): 139-159.
“Do Economic Effects Justify the Use of Fiscal Incentives?” (William F. Fox), Southern Economic Journal 71 (2004): 78-92.
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"Higher-order Generalizations of Arrow-Pratt and Ross Risk Aversion: A Comparative Statics Approach" with Paan Jindapon, Journal of Economic Theory 136, September 2007, 719-728.
"Endogenous Private Safety Investment and the Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions," with Liqun Liu, European Economic Review 50, December 2006, 2063-2074.
"Axiomatic Reference-Dependence in Behavior Toward Others and Toward Risk," Economic Theory 28, August 2006, 681-692.
" Hand in the Cookie Jar: An Experimental Investigation of Equity-based Compensation and Managerial Fraud " with David Bruner and Michael McKee, Southern Economic Journal (forthcoming).
"Contingency Fees, Moral Hazard, and Attorney Rents: A Laboratory Experiment," with Michael McKee and Joel Shelton, Journal of Legal Studies, June 2007, pp. 253-274.
"Strategic State-Level Environmental Policy with Asymmetric Pollution Spillovers," with Yehuda Klein and David Robison, Journal of Public Economics, 80(2), May 2001, pp. 199-224.
Suter, Jordan F., Christian A. Vossler and Gregory L. Poe. Forthcoming. Experiments on Damage-Based Ambient Taxes for Nonpoint Source Polluters. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Vossler, Christian A. and Michael McKee. 2006. Induced-Value Tests of Contingent Valuation Elicitation Mechanisms. Environmental & Resource Economics 35(2): 137-168.
Vossler, Christian A. and Joe Kerkvliet. 2003. A Criterion Validity Test of the Contingent Valuation Method: Comparing Hypothetical and Actual Voting Behavior for a Public Referendum. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45(3): 631-649.
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