Education

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, 1981
• M.A., Economics, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, 1978

Current Research

• Games on networks
• Organizational structure, corporate culture, and innovation
• On the timing of updates

Classes

• Principles of Microeconomics
• Principles of Macroeconomics
• Managerial Economics and Technology

Selected Publications

book:

articles:

• "Crime, Protection, and Incarceration,"  (2008).  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) with David Allen.
• "Protection and Social Order:  An Agent-based Computational Study,"   Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 61, Issue 4, (December) 2006.
• "Economic Activity on Fixed Networks," in Handbook of Computational Economics, Vol. II; ed. by LTesfatsion and K. Judd (Elsevier-North Holland: Amsterdam) 2006.
• "Self-Organizing Production and Exchange"  Computational Economics, Vol. 21, No. 1-2 (April) 2003.
• "Bilateral Trade and Small-world Networks" Computational Economics,  Vol.18, No.1, (August) 2001 (abstract)
• "Campaign Tactics and the Decision to Attack" in The Journal of Politics, Vol. 60, No. 4, (November) 1998: 1050-1062. with J. Theilmann
• "Political Campaign as Rent-Seeking Games: Take the Money and Run," in Public Finance Review, Vol. 25, No.5, (September) 1997: 509-521. with J. Burnett and C. Paul
• "On the Economic Case Against Drug Prohibition" in The Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 10, N0. 3 (Summer) 1996: 196-198. with C. Paul
• "Search Duration of the Unemployed: Geographic Mobility and Selectivity Bias" Review of Regional Research, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1994: 127-142. with E. Goss and C. Paul
• "Illegal Markets and the Social Costs of Rent Seeking" Public Choice, Vol. 79, 1994: 105-115. with C. Paul
• "The Influence of Current and Past Alcohol Use on Earnings: Three Approaches to Estimation" The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 29 No. 1 (March) 1993: 9-31. with R. Bryant and V. Samarayanake
• "The Effect of Military Service on the Subsequant Civilian Wage of the Post-Vietnam Veteran: The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 33, No. 1, (February) 1993. with R. Bryant
• "Rent-seeking, Rent-defending and Rent Dissipation: Public Choice, Vol. 71, No. 1-2 (August) 1991. with C. Paul
• "The Prime: More Myth and Reality" The Journal of Commercial Bank Lending, Vol. 73, No. 12, (August), 1991. with S. Forbes
• "Efficient Rent-seeking Under Varying Cost Structures" Public Choice, Vol. 64, No. 3, 1990.
• "The Determinants of Individuals Campaign Contributions to Congressional Campaigns" American Politics Quarterly, July, 1989. with J. Theilmann
• "Union PAC Contributions and Legislative Voting" Journal of Labor Research, Vol. IX, No. 1, (Winter) 1989: 79-90.