Journal Articles

• “Symbiosis emergence and abandonment in nature: a coordination game approach,” with Simon Levin, Theoretical Ecology 19:3 (2026) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-025-00631-w (2026) 

• “Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Cities,” with Hasan Dudu, Charl Jooste, and James Robert Sampi Bravo, under revision, Environmental and Resource Economics, Policy Research working paper no. WPS 10236, World Bank Group, (2025) http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099812111182231939/IDU0251d91b00d0ca04c220a7a904e8be83b193d  

• “Electricity grids and geopolitical coercion: a game theoretic analysis of the synchronization of the Baltic States’ networks with continental Europe,” with Songying Fang, Amy Jaffe, and Chiara Lo Prete, Energy Policy 188 114068 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114068  

• “Renewable Technology Adoption Costs and Economic Growth,” with Bernardino Adao and Borghan Narajabad, Energy Economics, 129 107255 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2023.107255  

• “Balancing Economic and Epidemiological Interventions in the Early Stages of Pathogen Emergence,” with Raouf Boucekkine, Giorgio Fabbri, Fausto Gozzi, Andrew P. Dobson, Mercedes Pascual, and Cristiano Ricci, Science Advances Vol. 9 (21) (2023) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade6169 

• “The Costs and Benefits of Primary Prevention of Zoonotic Pandemics,” with Aaron Bernstein, Amy W. Ando, Mariana M. Vale, Binbin V. Li, Hongying Li, Jonah Busch, Colin Chapman, Margaret Kinnaird, Katarzyna Nowak, Marcia C. Castro, Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio, Jorge A. Ahumada, Lingyun Xiao, Les Kaufman, Lee Hannah, Peter Daszak, Stuart L. Pimm, and Andrew P. Dobson, Science Advances Vol. 8 (5) (2022) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abl4183  

• “Race, Local Pollution, and COVID-19 Deaths in Texas,” with A. Xu, C. Adiole, N. Botton, S. Dee, C. Masiello, M. Torres, and members of the Rice COVID-19 environmental project, Scientific Reports 12:1002 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04507-x 

• “On Fixed Points of Locally and Pointwise Contractive Set-Valued Maps with an Application to the Existence of Nash Equilibrium in Games,” Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications 24:80 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11784-022-00998-x 

• “Walrasian Equilibrium in Nature,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (27) e2020961118 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020961118  

• “Conservation, Risk Aversion, and Livestock Insurance: the Case of the Snow Leopard,” (2021) Conservation Letters e12793, https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12793 

• “Mercantilism’s Groundhog Day: A Trade War, the Trump Administration and Northeast Asia,” with Ken Medlock and Wootung Chae, Energy Strategy Reviews, 38 100741 (2021) DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2021.100741 

• “A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Jones Act: The Case of Product Tankers,” with Igor Hernandez, Ken Medlock, and Anna Mikulska, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 55(1), pp. 65-84(20) (2021) https://doi.org/10.3828/jtep.2021.55.1.65 

• “A Double-Slit Experiment with Human Subjects,” with John Duffy, PLOS ONE 16(2): e0246526 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246526  

• “COVID-19 and the Value of Safe Transport,” with Ken Medlock and Elsie Hung, Scientific Reports, 11:21707 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01202-9  

• “Ecology and Economics for Pandemic Prevention,” with Andrew P. Dobson, Stuart Pimm, Lee Hannah, Les Kauffman, Jorge A. Ahumada, Amy W. Ando, Aaron Bernstein, Jonah Busch, Peter Daszak, Jens Engelman, Margaret Kinnaird, Binbin Li, Thomas Lovejoy, Katarzyna Nowak, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, and Mariana M. Vale, Science 24 Vol. 369, Issue 6502, pp. 379-381 (2020) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc3189  

• “Hurricane Surge Risk Assessment of Petroleum Infrastructure under Changing Climate Conditions,” with Majid Ebad Sichani, Katherine A. Anarde, Kendall Capshaw, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Rachel A. Meidl , Jamie E. Padgett, and Philip B. Bedient, Frontiers in Built Environment: Wind Engineering and Science (2020) https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2020.00104  

• “Employment Impacts of Upstream Oil and Gas Investment in the United States,” with Mark Agerton, Peter Hartley, and Kenneth B. Medlock III, International Monetary Fund WP/15/28 (2015), Energy Economics 62 (2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2016.12.012 

• “Robust Dynamic Energy Use and Climate Change,” with Xin Li and Borghan Narajabad, Quantitative Economics 7 (2016) https://doi.org/10.3982/QE463 

• “Monetary Emissions Trading Mechanisms,” with Cyril Monnet, International Journal of Economic Theory 12(1) (2016) https://doi.org/10.1111/ijet.12075 

• “Energy Sector Innovation and Growth,” with Peter Hartley, Kenneth B. Medlock III, and Xinya Zhang, The Energy Journal 37(1) (2016) https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.37.1.phar 

• “Local Employment Impact from Competing Energy Sources: Shale Gas versus Wind Generation in Texas,” with Peter Hartley, Kenneth B. Medlock III, and Xinya Zhang, Energy Economics 49 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2015.02.023 

• “New Alignments? The Geopolitics of Gas and Oil Cartels and the Changing Middle East,” with Songying Fang and Amy Jaffe, Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy 3 (1) (2014) DOI: 10.5547/2160-5890.3.1.sfan

• “Money Talks,” with Marie Hoerova and Cyril Monnet, Economics Letters 116 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.06.017 

• “Optimal Clearing Arrangements for Financial Trades,” with Thorsten Koeppl and Cyril Monnet, Journal of Financial Economics 103 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2011.08.008 

• “Competitive Behavior in Market Games: Evidence and Theory,” with John Duffy and Alexander Matros, Journal of Economic Theory 146 (4) (2011) DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2011.05.013

• “Modeling the Experimental Process in the Social Sciences,” Journal of Mathematical Economics 46 (4) (2010) DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2010.05.003

• “Self-Organized Criticality in a Dynamic Entry Game,” with Andreas Blume and John Duffy, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34 (2010) DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2010.04.002

• “Fashion Statement,” Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (4) (2009) DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2009.02.005

• “A Dynamic Model of Settlement,” with Thorsten Koeppl and Cyril Monnet, Journal of Economic Theory  142 (1) (2008) DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2006.10.005

• “Liquidity, Money Creation and Destruction, and the Returns to Banking,” with Ricardo Cavalcanti and Andres Erosa, International Economic Review, 46 (2) (2005) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2005.00341.x 

• “A Model of Bureaucracy and Corruption,” with Shouyong Shi, International Economic Review 45 (3) (2004) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0020-6598.2004.00290.x 

• “Lack-of-Recall and Centralized Monetary Trade,” with Jialin Yu, International Economic Review, 45 (4) (2004) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0020-6598.2004.00303.x 

• “On the Local Interaction of Money and Credit,” with Yi Jin, Review of Economic Dynamics, 7 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1016/S1094-2025(03)00055-3 

• “Directed Matching and Monetary Exchange,” with Dean Corbae and Randall Wright, Econometrica 71 (3) (2003) https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0262.00424 

• “On the Geography of Conventions,” with Andreas Blume, Economic Theory 22 (4) (2003) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-002-0350-3 

• “Matching and Money,” with Dean Corbae and Randall Wright, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 92 (2) (2002) https://doi.org/10.1145/3465456.3467587 

• “Discrete Time Dynamics in a Random Matching Monetary Model,” with Hector Lomeli, Economic Theory 20 (2) (2002) https://doi.org/10.1007/s001990100215 

• “Private Money, Settlement, and Discounts,” with Steve Williamson, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 54 (2001) https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-2231(01)00041-0 

• “Payments Systems Design in Deterministic and Private Information Environments,” with Steve Williamson, Journal of Economic Theory 99 (1/2) (2001) DOI: 10.1006/jeth.2000.2769

• “Private Money and Reserve Management in a Random Matching Model,” with Ricardo Cavalcanti and Andres Erosa, Journal of Political Economy 107 (5) (1999) https://doi.org/10.1086/250085 

• “Sequential Equilibrium and Competition in a Diamond-Dybvig Model,” with Bernardino Adao, Review of Economic Dynamics 1 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1006/redy.1998.0029 

• “Evolution, Coordination, and Banking Panics,” Journal of Monetary Economics 40 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3932(97)00033-0

Articles and Issue Briefs

• “European energy narratives emerging with Iran war,” Oil&Gas Journal (2026)

• “The Promise and Compromise of the WHO Pandemic Agreement for Spillover Prevention and One Health,” with Alexandra Finch, Neil M. Vora, Latiffah Hassan, Chris Walzer, Raina K. Plowright, Robyn Alders, Chyna Yong Suit-B, John H. Amuasi, Moses Mulumba, Sergio Guerrero-Sanchez, and Lawrence O. Gostin, Lancet (London, England) 405 10492 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00632-4 (2025)

• “Reflect on Germany’s Energy Transition for Future US Strategies,” Policy Brief, Election 2024: Policy Playbook, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy (2025) https://doi.org/10.25613/MFXR-1Q80   

• “So Much for German Efficiency: A Warning for Green Policy Aspirations?” Energy Insights, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy (2024)

• “Draft of WHO Pandemic Agreement plays down primary prevention,” with The Lancet-PPATS Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover, Thomas C Mettenleiter, and Andrea S Winkler, Lancet (London, England) 403 10426 (2024) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00066-7 

• “Introduction to the Special Issue on Mathematical Economic Epidemiology Models,” with Raouf Boucekkine, Economic Theory 77 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-023-01541-w 

• “The future of ESG: the past may not be the best guide,” Policy Brief, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy (2024)

• “Working from Home? Commuting Beyond COVID-19,” with Kenneth B. Medlock III and Shih Yu (Elsie) Hung, Public Health Post (2022)

• “Pandemics, the Economy, Nature, and the Energy Sector,” Policy Brief, Recommendations for the Biden Administration, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy (2021)

• “Keeping Up with The Jones Act! Changes a Pandemic and Price War Could Bring!” with Igor Hernandez, Michelle Michot Foss, Anna Mikulska, and Ted Loch-Temzelides, Forbes (April 8, 2020)

• “Needed: Robustness in Climate Economics,” Chapter Six in: Coping with the Climate Crisis: Mitigation Policies and Global Coordination, R. Arezki, P. Bolton, K. El Aynaoui, and M. Obstfeld, Eds., Columbia University Press (2018) 

• “California’s Solar Rooftop Mandate Doesn’t Make Economic Sense,” with Lee Ohanian, San Francisco Chronicle (2018)

• “Needed: A Cost‐​Benefit Analysis of the Jones Act,” Cato Online Forum (2018)

• “My Kingdom for a Renewable Energy Source,” with Lee Ohanian, The Wall Street Journal (2017)

• “The Jones Act: Friend or Foe?,” Forbes.com (2017)

• “Paris, the Environment, and Economic Growth,” Forbes.com (2015)

• “What’s next for Greece?” Forbes.com (2015)

• “Let the Greek Games End,” Forbes.com (2015)

• “Kurdish Oil and U.S. Leverage in Iraq,” with Jim Krane, Forbes.com (2014)

• “Money Talks: Information and Monetary Policy,” with Marie Hoerova and Cyril Monnet. Yale Economic Review (2010)

• “Are Bank Runs Contagious?” Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Business Review (1997)