RECENT PUBLICATIONS

"Quantifying Non-tariff trade barriers:What difference did the post 9/11 Security Arrangements make to Canadian Cross-Border Shopping?" Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 36, No. 4, (December 2010), 487-501.

"Does the expectation or realization of a Federal Election precipate Canadian output growth?" Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 44, No. 1, (February 2011), 107-132, with Marcel Voia.

"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

"Fiscal Policy from a Public Choice Perspective", for the Handbook for Public Choice

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

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

"Do business cycle peaks cause federal elections?", paper for the Public Choice Society meetings in San Antonio, March 2011.