• State-Based Heterogeneity in Right-to-Work’s Effects 

  Whitaker, Nicholas (Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-03)

  The role of unions in the US labor market has been a highly contested political issue, leading states to pass Right-to-Work (RTW) laws. As of 2023, 27 states in the US have active RTW laws, legislation that makes it illegal ...
• From Preference to Policy: Wealth, Institutions of Government, and the Search for Democracy 

  Siegel, Nolan (UCL Journal of Economics, 2022-08-25)

  What is the nature of substantive representation within American institutions of government, and to what extent do constituents’ preferences turn into adopted policy? To answer these questions, I analyze data on federal ...
• Transition Economy Readjustment: A Trade-Shock Perspective 

  Stefanov, Janet (Vanderbilt University, 2022)

  To what extent is Hungary’s recession between 1991 and 1996 driven by the costs of institutional adjustment following the collapse of the planned economy? Using a dynamic general equilibrium model with trade policy, price ...
• Understanding Effects of Pharmaceutical Price Control on Firms’ R&D Expenditure and Impacts on Social Welfare 

  Huang, Shijia (Vanderbilt University, 2022-05-11)

  Many studies have examined price regulations in the pharmaceutical industry in developed countries and found a negative relation between price control and pharmaceutical research and development (R&D). Nevertheless, the ...
• Design and Predicted Effects of a Carbon Tax with Border Carbon Adjustment in the United States 

  Vest, Jacob (Vanderbilt University, 2020-04)

  With Climate Change at the center of many global political and policy debates, a Pigouvian tax on carbon dioxide emissions remains a favorite solution among economists and other policy experts. However, asymmetric ...
• Price and Advertisement Targeting in the Online Marketplace 

  Ose, Tim (Vanderbilt University, 2017)
• The Many Roads to Recovery: Assessing the Recoveries of US Metropolitan Housing Markets Following the Housing Bubble 

  Rezabek, John (Vanderbilt University, 2017)
• Understanding the Difference in Export Prices through Trade Data between China and Various Countries 

  Dai, Ao (Vanderbilt University, 2017)
• The Dynamics of Interest Rates and Housing Prices at the National and Regional Level 

  Eagle, Max (Vanderbilt University, 2017)
• Intra-city Income Inequality and the Role of Transportation Infrastructure: What can Nashville Learn from Similar Cities? 

  Chen, Marc (Vanderbilt University, 2017)
• Security, Social Capital, and Child Health in Kyrgyzstan, 2010-2013. 

  Monken, Anderson (Vanderbilt University, 2017)
• Immigration and the Welfare State 

  Cary, John (Vanderbilt University, 2017)
• Direct Investment vs Mergers and Acquistions in Asia 

  Xiao, Wenye (Vanessa) (Vanderbilt University, 2016)
• The Effect of Government Spending on Quality of Health Services 

  Greaves, Kathryn (Vanderbilt University, 2016)
• Understanding the Block-Level Price Elasticity of On-Street Parking Demand 

  Shriver, Adam (Vanderbilt University, 2016)
• The Interwar U.S.-Cuban Sugar Trade and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff 

  Reasner, Mason (Vanderbilt University, 2016)
• Central Bank Balance Sheets and Inflation Expectations 

  Zhong, Yiling (Irene) (Vanderbilt University, 2015)
• Two-Sided Uncertainty in a Sequential Auction: A Model of Farmer-Intermediary Coffee Trade in Rural Guatemala 

  Muir, Macauley C. (Vanderbilt University, 2015)
• Differences in Learning: A Study of Learning-by-Exporting Across Heterogeneous Firms 

  Nederhood, Spencer M. (Vanderbilt University, 2015)
• The Lucas Paradox Revisited: Tracking the Returns to Capital across the Development Spectrum 

  McQueary, Richard A. (Vanderbilt University, 2015)

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