Recent Publications

2009-2010

"The Emerging Global Financial Architecture: Tracing and Evaluating New Patterns of the Trilemma Configurations" , Forthcoming, Journal of International Money and Finance.

Rossitza B. Wooster and David S. Diebel. "Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: A Meta Analysis." Forthcoming, Review of Development Economics.

Donna L. Paul & Rossitza B. Wooster. "An Empirical Analysis of Motives for Offshore Outsourcing by U.S. Firms." Forthcoming, International Trade Journal.

Rossitza B. Wooster and Joshua W. Lehner. "Reexamining the Border Tax Effect: A Case Study of Washington State." Forthcoming, Contemporary Economic Policy.

Carrie L. Cobb, Mary C. King and Leopoldo Rodriguez. “Betwixt and Between: The Spectrum of Formality Revealed in the Labor Market Experiences of Mexican Migrant Workers in the U.S.” 2009. The Review of Radical Political Economics 41 (3) 365-371.

Mary C. King “Occupational Segregation by Race and Sex in Brazil, 1989-2001.” 2009. The Review of Black Political Economy. 36(2): 113-125.

2008-2009

Ervin, Dave, Steve Buccola and Hui Yang "Research Choice and Finance in University Bioscience", Southern Economic Journal.

Ito, Hiro U.S. Current Account Debate with Japan then, with China Now" Journal of Asian Economics.

Rossitza B. Wooster. "Foreign Direct Investment Patterns in Transition Economies: An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Perspective of the 1990s." Journal of CENTRUM Cathedra, 2(2), September 2009, 79-89.

Ma, Alyson and Rossitza B. Wooster. “The Effects of U.S.-China Trade on Employment and Wages in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region.” Contemporary Economic Policy.

Wooster, Rossitza B., Banda, Tepa M., and Smile Dube "The Contribution of Intra-Regional and Extra-Regional Trade to Growth: Evidence from the European Union.” Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 23(1), 161-182.

Paul, Donna L. and Rossitza B. Wooster (2008). "Strategic Investments by U.S. Firms in Transition Economies.” Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 39(2), 249-266.

King, Mary with Jesse Dillard and Veronica Dujon (eds.) Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability. New York: Routledge.

King, Mary “What Sustainability Really Means.” 2008. Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs. 51 (2): 27-39.

King, Mary “Even Gary Becker Wouldn’t Call Them Altruists! The Case of Mexican Migration. A Reply to Sana and Massey, SSQ, June 2005.” 2007. Social Science Quarterly 88 (3): 898-907.

King, Mary and “Defining Social Sustainability: The Political Economy of Social Reproduction” in John T. Harvey and Robert F. Garnett, Jr. (eds.) Future Directions for Heterodox Economics. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Randall A. Bluffstone, “Child Labor and Improved Common Forest Management in Bolivia,” Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability, Mary King and Veronica Dujon, eds, Routledge Press, 2008.

Randall Bluffstone, Marco Boscolo and Ramiro Molina “Does Better Common Property Forest Management Promote Behavioral Change? On-Farm Tree Planting in the Bolivian Andes” Environment and Development Economics. Vol. 13: pp. 137 – 170.

Randall A. Bluffstone, Granville Braman, Linda Fernandez, Tom Scott and Pei-Yi Lee. “Housing, Sprawl and the Use of Development Impact Fees: The Case of the Inland Empire,” Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 26, pp. 433-447.

Menale Kassie, John Pender, Mahmud Yesuf, Gunnar Kohlin, Randall A. Bluffstone and Elias Mulugeta, “Estimating Returns to Soil Conservation Adoption in the Northern Ethiopian Highlands,” Agricultural Economics Journal. Vol. 38: pp. 213 – 232

2007-2008

Khanna, M., P. Koss, C. Jones and D. Ervin. 2007. "Motivations for voluntary envirionmental management." The Policy Studies Journal, 35(4): 751-772

Sharma R, Stano M, Gehring R. Short-term fluctuations in hospital demand: Implications for admission, discharge and discriminatory behavior. RAND Journal of Economics Summer 2008, v. 39, iss. 2, pp. 586-606.

Castle, E. and David E. Ervin. 2008. “Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics: A Synthesis.” in Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics: Human-Nature, Rural-Urban Interdependencies, edited by J. Wu, P. Barkley and B. Weber . Washington, DC: Resources for the Future.

2006-2007

King, Mary “Women’s Work: Using U.S. History to Explain Mexican Women’s Differential Work Strategies in Mexico and in the U.S.” 2006. The Review of Radical Political Economics 38 (3): 405-412.

Randall A. Bluffstone, “Privatization and Contaminated Site Remediation in Central and Eastern Europe: Do Environmental Liability Policies Matter?” Ecological Economics, 63 (1), 2007, pp. 31-41.

Randall A. Bluffstone and Brad Ouderkirk, “Warehouses, Trucks and PM2.5: Human Health and Logistics Industry Growth in the Eastern Inland Empire.” Contemporary Economic Policy, 25 (1), 2007, pp. 79 - 91.