Research

My primary research interests are in the areas of environmental economics and economic education. With regard to environmental economics, I am particularly interested in the effect of environmental regulatory policies on environmental outcomes. In economic education, my main interest is in the effect of active learning pedagogies on student learning. Additionally, I have research interests in international trade, trade and the environment, and business ethics. The following is a list of some of my papers and projects.

Environmental Economics

· “Income, Environmental Disamenity, and Toxic Releases” with Linwood Pendleton, Economic Inquiry (download paper)

· “Presidential Politics and Dirty Firms” with Charles North, revise and resubmit at Social Science Quarterly (download working paper)

· “Public Disclosure Programs and Firm Environmental Performance: Is there an Information Echo Effect?” with Arthur Caplan

· “Valuing the Environment: A Comparison of the US and EU”

· “A Consumption-side Approach to the Environmental Kuznet’s Curve”

International Trade

· “Capital Market Inefficiencies: Signaling Through Trade Policy, A Second Best Solution” with Peter Rosendorff and Linwood Pendleton (download working paper)

Economic Education

· “Comparing Student Achievement Across Experimental and Lecture-Oriented Sections of a Principles of Microeconomics Course” with Beck Taylor, Southern Economic Journal (download paper)

· “Interactions Between Personality Type and the Experimental Methodology in Determining Student Achievement in Principles of Microeconomics” with Beck Taylor (in the Journal of Economic Education) (download paper)

· “Do Classroom Experiments Affect the Number of Economics Enrollments and Majors?” with Beck Taylor, forthcoming at International Review of Economic Education (download paper)

· “Homework: To Grade or Not to Grade? The Effect of Graded Online Homework on Student Achievement” with Kimberly Mencken, under review at PEER (download working paper)

· “In-Class vs. Out-of-Class Experiments in Microeconomic Principles: Is there a Difference in Student Learning?” (download working paper)

· “Student Achievement and Classroom Experiments Revisited” with Kimberly Mencken

· “Trading Coalitions in Experimental Classroom Games” with Beck Taylor

Business Ethics

· “Have Ethical Attitudes Changed?: An Intertemporal Comparison of Ethical Perceptions of College Students in 1985 and 2001” with Steve Conroy, Journal of Business Ethics (download paper)

· “Business Ethics and Religion: The Role of Religiosity in Response to Ethical Scenarios” with Steve Conroy, Journal of Business Ethics (download paper)

· “Changing Ethical Attitudes: The Case of Enron and ImClone Scandals” with Steve Conroy, Social Science Quarterly (download paper)

· “Ethical Attitudes of Accountants: Recent Evidence from a Practitioners’ Survey” with Steve Conroy and Charles Stanley, Journal of Business Ethics, (download paper)

· “Ethical Cycles and Trends: Implications for Research Methodologies” with Steve Conroy, Journal of Business Ethics (download paper)

· “Ethical Attitudes of Accounting Practitioners: Are Rank and Ethical Attitudes Related?” with Steve Conroy and Frank Pons, forthcoming at Journal of Business Ethics (download paper)

· “To Codify or Not to Codify: The Effects of Ethical Codes on Ethical Perceptions” with Joe McKinney and Mitch Neubert, under review at the Journal of Business Ethics (download working paper)

· “Importance of Religious Faith and Ethical Attitudes in Business” with Joe McKinney (download working paper)

· “Exposure to Ethically Questionable Situations: The Numbing Effect” with Joe McKinney and Mitch Neubert

Updated July 2009