Santa Clara University

• Trade and Empire

  (with Marc Weidenmier) NBER Working Paper 13765. Forthcoming Economic Journal. Read about this article and related research on trade at the web portal VoxEU.com Learn More »

• The Baring Crisis and the Great Latin American Meltdown of the 1890s

  (with Marc Mitchener) NBER Working Paper 13403. Forthcoming Journal of Economic History.
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• Capital Market Intergration in Japan

  (with Mari Ohnuki) Published in Monetary and Economic Studies (Volume 25, No. 2, 2007). Learn More »

• Branch Banking as a Devise for Dicipline: Competition and Bank Survivorship during the Great Depression

  (with Mark Carlson) NBER Working Paper 12938 (February 2007).
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• Are Prudential Supervision and Regulation Pillars of Financial Stability? Evidence from the Great Depression

  Published in the Journal of Law and Economics, 2007; NBER Working Paper 12074; and Leavey Business School Working Paper WP 2003/4-06. Learn More »

• Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial Stability

  (with Mark Carlson) Published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; NBER Working Paper 11291; and Federal Reserve Board, Finance and Economics Discussion Series WP 2005-20. Learn More »

• Supersanctions and Sovereign Debt Repyament

  (with Marc Weidenmier) NBER Working Paper 11472 (July 2005). Discussed in NBER Reporter, Fall 2005. Learn More »

• Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary

  (with Marc Weidenmier) Published in the Journal of Economic History; NBER Working Paper 10729 & Leavey Business School Working Paper WP 2003/4-02. Discussed in NBER Reporter, Fall 2005. Learn More »

• The Productivity of U.S. States

  (with Ian McLean) Published in the Journal of Economic Growth; NBER Working Paper 9445. Learn More »

• U.S. Regional Growth and Convergence, 1880 - 1980

  (with Ian McLean) Published in the Journal of Economic History. This paper and the one listed above are discussed in the THE NEW YORK TIMES, "ECONOMICS SCENE". Learn More »

• Bank Supervision, Regulation, and Instability During the Great Depression

  Published Journal of Economic History; NBER Working Paper 10475. Learn More »

• The Great Depression as Credit Boom Gone Wrong

  
  (with Barry Eichengreen) Published in Research in Economic History and as BIS Working Paper No. 137. Learn More »