Bentley Coffey's Research
Working Papers
"The Thrill of Victory: Measuring the Incentive to Win"
, with Mike Maloney (Senior Colleague),
Forthcoming at
Journal of Labor Economics
"From Lawyer to Judge: Advancement, Sex, and Name-Calling"
, with Patrick McLaughlin (Former Student),
Forthcoming at
American Law and Economics Review
"'Doing My Part' to Save the Global Commons? Environmental Awareness and Voluntary Fuel Economization in Gasoline Markets"
, with Patrick McLaughlin (Former Student),
Submitted to
The Economic Journal
"Regulators and Redskins"
, with Bob Tollison (Senior Colleague) and Patrick McLaughlin (Former Student),
Under Review at
Economic Inquiry
"Trade Flow Consequences of the European Union’s Regionalization of Environmental Regulations"
, with Patrick McLaughlin (Former Student)
"Embedding a Hydrogeologic Groundwater Transport Model in a Hedonic Framework to Test Information Levels in Housing Markets"
, with Patrick McLaughlin (Former Student)
"Identifying the Multimodal Spatial Structure of a Polycentric City’s Density"
"In Search of a Monocentric City"
"Beating a Live Horse: Effort's Marginal Cost Revealed in a Tournament"
, with Mike Maloney (Senior Colleague)
"A Reexamination of Air Pollution's Effects on Infant Health: Does Mobility Matter"
"Reconsidering the Experimental Evidence for Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting"
, with Gregory Besharov (Former PhD Advisory Committee Member)
Projects in Progress
"The Curse of the Billable Hour", with Patrick Warren (Junior Colleague)
"Sexual Orientation and Latent Homosexuality: Costs and Consequences Revealed by Locational Choice", with J. Devin Shippey (Student)
"Who's Your Daddy? The Nominal and Real Importance of Parentage to a Successful Career", with Patrick McLaughlin (Former Student)
"A Monocentric City Model with Tiebout Sorting", with Phil Benvenuto (Student)
"A Fair Game? Perception and Measurement of Bias in Officiating", with Raymond (Skip) Sauer (Senior Colleague)
"Court-appointed Cases in South Carolina: A Problematic Case for the Coase Theorem?", with Nick Laurence (Student)
"Should Court-Awarded Damages be Denominated in Nominal or Real Dollars?", with Bobby McCormick (Senior Colleague) and Kathleen Warthen (Spouse)
"A Macroeconomic Estimation of the Net Cost of Government Regulations Revealed by Daily Market Reactions", with Patrick McLaughlin (Former Student)
"Nearer to Treatment: Evidence of the Spatial Clustering of Illness Generated by Locational Choice"