RECENT PUBLICATIONS

"What determines the length of a typical Canadian Parliamentary Government?" Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol.42, No. 4, (December 2009), 881-910, with Marcel Voia.

"Studying the Role of Political Competition in the evolution of Government Size over long horizons" Public Choice, Vol. 137, Nos.1-2, (October 2008), 369-401, with Soo-Bin Park and Stan Winer.

"Searching for Keynesianism" European Journal of Political Economy, Vol.24, No. 2, (June 2008), 294-316, with Stan Winer.

"Electoral politics and monetary policy: does the Bank of Canada contribute to a political cycle?" Public Choice, Vol.135, No.3-4, (June 2008), 449-468.

"Just how much bigger is government in Canada: A comparative analysis of the size and structure of the public sectors in Canada and the United States, 1929-2003" Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 33, No. 2, (June 2007), 173-206, with Stan Winer.

"School Size and Youth Violence" Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization , Vol.65, No.2, (February 2008), 318-333, with Ambrose Leung.

"On Hayek's Denationalisation of Money, Free Banking, and Inflation Targeting" European Journal of the Histroy of Economic Thought Vol. 13, No. 2, (Summer 2006), 213-31 with Jack Galbraith.

"Matching Candidates with Academic Teams: A Case for Academic Tenure" International Review of Law and Economics , Vol.25, No. 2 (June 2005), 290-310, with Michael McKee.

"Growth in the Size of Government since 1970" in Handbook of Public Finance , 2004, ed. Jurgen Backhaus and Richard Wagner, Boston: Kluwer Academic Press, Chapter 4, pp., 77-108, with Tom Borcherding and Andrea Garzoni.

"Economies of Scale, School Violence, and the Optimal Size of Schools" Applied Economics , Vol. 36, No. 15 (August 2004), 1677-84, with Eddie West.

"Organizing New Product Development: Projects in Strategic Alliances", Organization Science , Vol. 15, No.1 (January-February 2004), 22-37, with Don Gerwin.

"Do Alternative Measures of Government result in Alternative Explanations for Government Size?" Economics Bulletin, Vol. 8, 4, (January 2003), 1-11.

"Private versus Public Charity: Reassessing crowding out from the Supply Side", Public Choice, Vol.116, 3-4, 399-419 (September 2003), with Eddie West.

"Coordination Failures and Government Policy: evidence from emerging countries". Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 39, No. 4 (April, 2003), 83-110 with Kishore Gawande.

"Indirect Convertibility as a Money Rule for Inflation Targeting", Applied Financial Economics, 13 (10), (October 2003), 753-761 with Jack A Galbraith.

"Education Vouchers, the Peer Group Problem and the Question of Dropouts", The Southern Economic Journal, 68 (4) (April 2002), 774-93, with E.G. West.

"The Determinants of Cross Border Shopping: Implications for Tax Revenues and Institutional Change", National Tax Journal 53 (4)(December 2000), 801-823.

WORK IN PROGRESS

"The inflationary effects of stochastic resource revenues in resource rich developing economies with undeveloped financial markets" with Hossein Kavand.

"Quantifying non-tariff trade barriers: What difference did the security precautions following 9/11 make for Canadian cross border shopping?"

"The Implications of the 2007/2008 Liquidity Crisis for Interest Rate Monetary Policy" with Jack Galbraith.

"Does the risk or realization of a Federal Election precipitate Canadian output growth" with Marcel Voia.