Recent faculty publications

Thomas Barnay and François-Olivier Baudot’s paper Work Accident Effect on the Use of Psychotropic Drugs: The Case of Benzodiazepines was published in Health Economics Review, Volume 13, Article Number 48 (2023).

In the September issue of LABOUR, Thomas Barnay and  Éric Defebvre‘s paper “Work strains and disabilities in French workers: A career-long retrospective study” was published.

Thomas Barnay, Visiting Professor in Economics, and Éric Defebvre of Sorbonne University have published an issue brief, “The First COVID Wave: Comparing Experiences of Adults Age 50 and Older in the U.S. and Europe” in The Commonwealth Fund in April 2023.

Syrian Refugee Inflows, Health Care Access, and Childhood Vaccination in Turkey by Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin, Miray Omurtak, Ilhan Can Ozen, and Yusuf Emre Akgündüz

World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (1): 127–146.

NEW BOOK

“ANTITRUST ECONOMICS AT A TIME OF UPHEAVAL: Recent Competition Policy Cases on Two Continents” by Northeastern University’s John Kwoka (Finnegan Professor of Economics), Professor Tommaso M. Valletti (Imperial College London) and Professor Lawrence J. White (New York University) has been published by Competition Policy International.

Closing the Gap in Merger Enforcement

John Kwoka

ProMarket, June 22, 2023

Identifying exchange rate effects and spillovers of US monetary policy shocks in the presence of time-varying instrument relevance
Wenting Liao, Jun Ma, Chengsi Zhang

Journal of Applied Econometrics
First published: 09 July 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.2998

International Housing Markets and the U.S. Subprime Crisis, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking
SHIKONG (SCOTT) LUO, JUN MA
First published: 07 February 2023

Is there a national housing market bubble brewing in the United States?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2023

Rangan Gupta, Jun Ma, Konstantinos Theodoridis and Mark E. Wohar

School’s Out: How Summer Youth Employment Programs Impact Academic Outcomes

Alicia Sasser Modestino, and Richard Paulsen

Education Finance and Policy (2023) 18 (1): 97–126.

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Small business lending and the bank-branch network
by Ivan Petkov

Journal of Financial Stability

Volume 64, February 2023, 101097

With novel data of within county lending, this paper is the first to confirm that exposure to oil and residential booms impacts supply of credit to small businesses in other markets.

“Can a mobile-app-based behavioral intervention teach financial skills to youth? Experimental evidence from a financial diaries study”
Veronica Frisancho, Alejandro Herrera, Silvia Prina

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Volume 214, October 2023, Pages 595-614

“C-Sections, Obesity, and Healthcare Specialization: Evidence from Mexico” 

Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, Silvia Prina

The World Bank Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhad022

Published: 01 September 2023

“The Interplay Among Savings Accounts and Network-Based Financial Arrangements: Evidence from a Field Experiment”

Margherita Comola, Silvia Prina

The Economic Journal, Volume 133, Issue 649, January 2023, Pages 516–535

“Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project” by Imke Reimers and Abhishek Nagaraj

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming

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Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling

by Jesse J. Kalinowski, Matthew B. Ross and Stephen L. Ross.

J. Human Resources, January 9, 2023 0822- 12513R1

“Socially Responsible Consumption and Marketing in Practice” by Madhavi Venkatesan and Martina Yorde Rincon (BS Economics/Business 2023) has been published as a chapter in the recently published book, Dealing with Socially Responsible Consumers – Studies in Marketing

by Madhavi Venkatesan, Martina Yorde Rincon, Kathleen Grevers, Shannon M. Welch & Elizabeth L. Cline

Contemporary Justice Review published a special issue on bell hooks. Two papers by Dr. Madhavi Venkatesan and students in her Economics of Crime class were featured.

–Designing engagement: A student-based perspective of the Economics of Crime.

Authors: Madhavi Venkatesan, Noah Alper, Alexis Baker, Stephen Bernard, Paolo Lichtenthal, Katherine Murphy, Jacklyn Peterson, Rayana Radueva, Anthea Simon.

This paper, developed by participants in an Economics of Crime course at Northeastern University in conjunction with their professor, Dr. Madhavi Venkatesan, highlights student perspectives of the relationship between the economic system, its operations and institutions, and the marginalization and victimization of Black people. 

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–Addressing race in economics: Teaching to transgress by Madhavi Venkatesan and 4 NU Department of Economics undergraduates.

Authors: Madhavi Venkatesan, Wenchunyan Liang, Emre Muftu,
Ira Sharma, Darlene Rumenser

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In the recently released book Educating the Sustainability Leaders of the Future, a chapter by Madhavi Venkatesan and students from Sustainable U. Productions (Radhika Barot, Amani Chinni, Adam Regenstrief, Priyasha Singh, Julia Sucov, and John Sun) was published. The paper, “Documentary Film and Institutional Behavior Change: A Student-Driven Mobilization for Sustainability” describes the importance of film to address sustainability issues. The authors tell the story of producing their own documentary, Plastic Linings. The film addresses the issue of convenience waste from the perspective of the cost of convenience.

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Dr. Madhavi Venkatesan’s paper Aligning Economic Measurement with Well-Being: Sustainability has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change.

Multi-Objective Q-Learning-Based Brain Storm Optimization for Integrated Distributed Flow Shop and Distribution Scheduling Problems
by Shuo Zhang, Jianyou Xu and Yingli Qiao
Mathematics 2023, 11(20), 4306; https://doi.org/10.3390/math11204306
Published: 16 October 2023

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