Other urban economics
“How wide is the Hudson River? The effect of the state border on the New York-New Jersey metropolitan region.” In Wei Shan and Lijun Wang, eds., Metropolitan Circles Development and the Future of Urbanization, pp. 35-60. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2020.
“What happens when you give money to panhandlers,” with Gwen Dordick, Jakob Brounstein, Srishti Sinha, and Jungsoo Yoo, 2018, Journal of Urban Economics (108): 107-123.
“Good panhandling and bad: How to encourage the good and discourage the bad,” with Gwen Dordick, Jakob Brounstein, and Srishti Sinha, 2018, European Journal of Homelessness 12(1): 67-92.
“Give and take: Credentials could aid panhandling,” with Gwen Dordick, 2017, The Conversation, July 11, at https://theconversation.com/give-and-take-credentials-could-aid-panhandling-80297#comment_1338795.
City Economics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Chinese translation: Beijing, Renmin University Press, 2015.
“Sprawl in New Jersey: A comprehensive approach,” 2005, Hall Institute for Public Policy white paper. Reprinted in Michael P. Riccards, editor, The State of the Garden State. Trenton: Hall Institute.
“Land assembly and urban renewal,” 1994, Regional Science and Urban Economics 24: 287-300.
“Abandoned buildings: A stochastic analysis,” 1993, Journal of Urban Economics 34: 43-74.
“The option value of tax delinquency: Theory,” 1990, Journal of Urban Economics 28: 287-317.
Political economy
“Representatives and districts,” 2000, Social Choice and Welfare 17: 157-78.
“Special districts: Federalism as soap opera,” 1999. In Eamon O’Shea and Michael Keane, editors, Core Issues in European Integration, 227-44. Dublin: Oak Tree Press.
“Does free trade with political science put normative economists out of work?” with Jagdish Bhagwati, 1997, Economics and Politics 9(3): 207-219. Reprinted in Kaushik Basu, editor, Readings in Political Economy. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Review of Of Time and Power, 1992. In Economics and Politics 4(1): 109-115.
“Why are there democracies? A principal-agent answer,” 1990, Economics and Politics 2(2): 133-155.
“The care and handling of monetary authorities,” 1990, Economics and Politics 2(1): 25-44.
Labor
“Turnover reflects specific training better than wages do,” with Lalith Munasinghe, 2005, Journal of Labor Economics 23 (2): 213-233.
“Up-or-out rules in the market for lawyers,” with Aloysius Siow, 1995, Journal of Labor Economics 13(4): 709-735.
“On-the-job screening, up-or-out rules, and firm growth,” with Aloysius Siow, 1992, Canadian Journal of Economics 25: 346-68.
“Promotion lotteries,” with Aloysius Siow, 1991, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 7: 401-09.
Other topics
“Preserving liberal arts education: A futile endeavor,” 2009, pp. 157-162 in David Colander and KimMarie McGoldrick, eds., Educating Economists: The Teagle Discussion on Re-Evaluating the Undergraduate Economics Major. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
“Needle sharing and HIV transmission: A model with markets and purposive behavior,” with David Bloom and Ajay Mahal, National Bureau of Economic Research working paper 14823, 2009.
“Economic perspectives on injecting drug use,” 2005, with David Bloom and Ajay Mahal. In Bjorn Lindgren and Michael Grossman, editors, Substance Use: Individual Behaviour, Social Interactions, Markets and Politics. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
“Professors who defend tenure: Are they hypocrites?” with Jagdish Bhagwati, 2001, Chronicle of Higher Education (October 5): B24.
“Technical progress, globalization, and speed of change: What track and field records show,” with Lalith Munasinghe and Stephen Danninger, 2001, Journal of Political Economy 109: 1132-49.
“Queens ultra endurance street tour,” 1996, Ultrarunning: March.
“Comment on chapter 7,” 1994. In Michael A.S. Guth, Speculative Behavior and the Operation of Competitive Markets under Uncertainty. Aldershot, U.K.: Avebury.
“A game-theoretic rendering of threats and promises,” with Daniel Klein, 1993, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 21: 295-314.
“Going beyond with Bayesian updating,” with Judith Komaki, 1992, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 25(3): 585-97.
“The Brooklyn-Queens experience,” 1989, Ultrarunning: December.
“Some results on two-armed bandits when both projects vary,” 1989, Journal of Applied Probability 26: 655-58.
“Potential Pareto optimality of risky projects,” 1986, Quarterly Journal of Economics 51: 648-52.
Rational Commitment: A Foundation for Macroeconomics. Durham: Duke University Press, 1985.