Publications
"Superfund cleanup time and community characteristics: A survival analysis." With Leili Solatyavari and Jeremy Groves, 2022. Journal of Environmental Management, 320: 115705. Keywords: Superfund, minorities, hazardous waste, ArcGIS. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115705
"Citizen Carbon Fund: Harmonized International Carbon Taxes and Transfers to Increase Treaty Size." With Matthew McGinty, 2022. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 22(2): 269-280. Keywords: IEAs, public goods, stable coalitions, climate change, pollution abatement, asymmetry, transfers. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2021-0072
"Estimating dynamic adjustment in commercial fisheries." With Richard "Max" Melstrom, 2021. Land Economics, 97(3): 562-576. Keywords: fishing effort, overexploitation, Great Lakes, two-stage estimation. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3368/wple.97.3.072519-0103R1
"Strategic behavior and dynamic externalities in commercial fisheries." With Richard "Max" Melstrom, 2020. Ecological Economics, 169: 106503 (March). Keywords: bioeconomics, game theory, cooperation, overfishing. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106503.
"Identity and Equal Treatment in Negative Externality Agreements." 2019. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics, 19(6): 615-630. Keywords: agreements, equal treatment, exclusive coalition, minilateralism, minimum participation, negative externality. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-019-09456-5.
"On the Openness of Unique Pure-Strategy Nash Equilibrium." 2019. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 19(1):1-9. Keywords: unique Nash equilibrium, pure strategies, open condition, differentiable strict concavity, transversal, game theory, univalence.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/bejte-2017-0065
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/bejte-2017-0065
Working Papers
"When is Bad "Bad Enough"? A Framework for Analyzing Benefits of Coordination Under Externalities." Keywords: game theory, international policy, dynamic externalities, public good provision, Taylor expansion.
Research in Progress
"Understanding Biodiversity in Environmental Agreements." Keywords: agreements, biodiversity, bliss point, coalitions.
"Information's Role in Fish Harvest Treaties." Keywords: agreements, information, fisheries management, unraveling.
"Water Table Management and Greener Crop Growth." Keywords: agreements, game theory, timing, starches.
"Non-parametric Density Estimation with Asymptotic Variance." Keywords: econometrics, non-parametric, one-sided kernel, asymptotic, combination estimator.
Just for Fun
For the 9th Carroll Round conference for undergraduate research in international economics:
"Early Participants of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Their Effect on Later Membership." Honors Thesis for International Economics at Georgetown University. May 2010. Published in the Carroll Round Proceedings, Volume 6 (2011): 238-251.
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For classes: (N.B. These papers were co-written with other students during my graduate and undergraduate education. They won't be published anywhere, but I'll mention them here anyway because they were useful and fun exercises.)
Experimental Economics Final Report and Statistical Inferences. Co-written with Swagata Bhattacharjee, Umut Dur, Shan Jang, Rajiv Mukherjee, Xi Qin, and Tom Roderick for Professor Stahl's course in Experimental Economics. December 2011. (Paper is unavailable, but it was fun to write!)
"The Game of Blackjack and Analysis of Counting Cards." Co-written with Ariell Zimran, Alejandra Fuster, and Christopher Rivelli for Professor Catilina's undergraduate course in Game Theory. December 2009. (Sorry, C++ code is not available.)
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