Available now at our website: Gutmann, J., Sarel, R. & Voigt, S. Measuring constitutional loyalty. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

Available now at the Public Choice website: Fleck, R.K., Hanssen, F.A. The emergence of democratic constitutions: comparing the modern world to ancient Greece. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

A paper I finished in the beginning of my PhD is out on Public Choice. The paper is simple: it tests Piketty's hypothesis of r-g => inequality for a set of developed countries (that have better data). I find no empirical support for Piketty’s predictions.

Pleased to share that the husband and I (along with GMU PhD student, Ben Bauer) have an economics of religion paper forthcoming in Kyklos! We use novel data on liturgies to investigate the spread of traditional Catholicism in the US... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ky…

Now available online at Public Choice: Bastos, J.P. Colonial rule and economic freedom. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

Demain, sur Amazon, ce livre sortira.

This result is sadly unsurprising. As caseybmulligan showed in a recent Public Choice paper (link below), minimum wages affect the mix of employer and employee provided inputs. Higher minimum wages shift the provision of safety measures from employers to employees.

Yesterday, Marian L Tupy and Peter Boettke published an excellent op-ed in Wall Street Journal Opinion making a simple but powerful point: AI can’t replace markets ⚖️🤖 🔗 wsj.com/opinion/algori… One of the most misguided ideas I’ve seen in the past decade is that central planning is (or soon

“The simple test is whether an economist's views tend to diverge from those of his ideological allies when the ideology clashes with the economics. If they do he is a real economist. If they do not, he is only an economist in working hours.” daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/economic-met…

Now the WSJ has at least

.Louis Rouanet of UTEP and Alexander William Salter of Rawls College examine mission creep at the Federal Reserve. #FederalReserve #BankingPolicy #MonetaryPolicy doi.org/10.1002/soej.1…

Very pleased -- I have never been more pleased! -- to share a new working paper (link below). Ennio and I investigate the origins of spousal consent, arguing that the medieval Church developed this rule to mitigate against the costs of indissoluble marriage contracts. We develop

My working paper with Giovanni Peri of UC Davis Economics is featured by NBER in the NBER Digest. We examine how the forced removal of Japanese Americans during WWII affected U.S. farm productivity — finding significant losses.

Matthew E. Kahn Excellent and provocative essay, in your usual fashion! Two comments. One: Louis Rouanet and Alex Salter have a very nice article on the general topic at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/so…

Knowledge, Decisions, and Incentives. An essay on Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions grumpy-economist.com/p/knowledge-de…

Great to be back on Macro Musings to discuss supply driven deflation with the great David Beckworth. We talked a lot about my paper (link below) with Casey Joe Pender on the effects of supply driven deflation on financial intermediation and nominal interest rates. Check it out!

Our paper is now forthcoming at the JPE! doi.org/10.1086/739821 Full thread on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/victor…