Research

Papers, projects, and working ideas.

This page is designed as a stable landing point for research output and unfinished ideas alike. It can grow into a fuller archive without needing a structural rewrite.

Sports Economics Scholarship

Core sports economics publications

Efficient markets, fair bets, and profitability in NBA totals 1995–96 to 2001–02
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (2004)
Using betting market odds to measure the uncertainty of outcome in Major League Baseball
International Journal of Sport Finance (2009)
Political correctness, selection bias, and the NCAA basketball tournament
Journal of Sports Economics (2015)
Bettor habits when point spreads and money lines are offered on the same game: The NFL
Journal of Prediction Markets (2014)
Betting market-based expectations and NFL coach retention and dismissal
Journal of Gambling Business and Economics (2023)
NBA Coaching Changes: The Role of Market Expectations, Race, and Former Players
New York Economic Review (2023)

Additional Research

Selected work outside sports economics

Financial competence, overconfidence, and trusting investments: Results from an experiment
Journal of Economics and Finance (2016)
Contracts and trust: complements or substitutes?
Journal of Institutional Economics (2018)
“A million dollars in free advertising”: politics and sex offense prosecution in the wake of Duke lacrosse
Supreme Court Economic Review (2019)
Mask Mandates Increased COVID-19 Deaths in Kansas
Journal of Private Enterprise (2023)
The Taylor Law, the Triborough Amendment and Western New York's Fiscal Crisis
Business Research Consortium of WNY (2010)

Source

Google Scholar profile

This list is being expanded into full entries with abstracts and direct publication links. In the meantime, the full publication history is available on Google Scholar.

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