Research

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Below is a list of my published and forthcoming papers:

Peer-reviewed research articles:

“On the nature and structure of externalities” (with Pablo Paniagua),Public Choice, forthcoming.

“Max-U? Considering Humanomics in Public Policy” (with Ryan Yonk, Robertas Bakula, and Ray March),Public Choice, forthcoming.

“Shock me like a hurricane: How Hurricane Katrina changed Louisiana’s formal and informal institutions” (with Raymond March and Corbin Clark), Journal of Institutional Economics. Appendix

“Impacts of Climate Change on Food Utilization in Nepal” (with Wenmei Guo and Alok K. Bohara), Review of Development Economics, 2023.

“The tragedy of the nurdles: Governing global externalities” (with Ilia Murtazashvili and Keith Taylor), Sustainability, 2023.

“Cloudy with a Chance of Munchies: Assessing the Impact of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Obesity” (with Raymond March and Glenn Furton), Health Economics, 2022. Media coverage: WebMD Leafly MarijuanaMoment Medscape

“Coproduction and the Crafting of Cognitive Institutions during the COVID-19 Pandemic” (with Pablo Paniagua), Journal of Institutional Economics, 2022.

“A Polycentric Approach for Pandemic Governance: Nested Externalities and Coproduction Challenges” (with Pablo Paniagua), Journal of Institutional Economics, 2022.

“Social entrepreneurship, co-production, and post-disaster recovery” (with Virgil H. Storr and Alok K. Bohara), Disasters, 2022.

“Perception of Climate Change and the Demand for Weather-Index Microinsurance: Evidence from a Contingent Valuation Survey in Nepal” (with Wenmei Guo and Alok K. Bohara), Climate and Development, 2022.

“Does social capital help in post-disaster recovery? Evidence from the Gorkha earthquake of Nepal” (with M-Adnan Shahid and Alok K. Bohara), International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022.

“Governing nested externalities during a pandemic: Social distancing as a co-production problem” (with Shikhar Shrestha and Pablo Paniagua), Cosmos+Taxis, 2021.

“Social Capital, Trust, and Collective Action in Post-earthquake Nepal” (with Alok K. Bohara), Natural Hazards, 2021.

“The Ostroms and the contestable nature of goods: Beyond taxonomies and towards institutional polycentricity” (with Pablo Paniagua), Journal of Institutional Economics, 2021.

“The impact of climate change on rice production in Nepal” (with Wenmei Guo and Alok K. Bohara), Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 2021.

“Ex-post Coping responses and Post-disaster Resilience: A case from the 2015 Nepal earthquake” (with Alok K. Bohara and Virgil H. Storr), Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 2020.

“Do voluntary associations reduce hunger? An empirical exploration of the social capital- food security nexus among food impoverished households in western Nepal” (with Alok K. Bohara),Food Security, 2019.

“Natural disaster damages and their link to coping strategy choices: Field survey findings from post- earthquake Nepal” (with Alok K. Bohara), Journal of International Development, 2019.

“An Iron Triangle ROI Model for Healthcare” (with D. van der Goes, N. Edwardson, C. Hollis, & D. Hunter), ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research, 2019.

“Economic trade-offs between hydroelectricity production and environmental externalities: A case for local externality mitigation fund” (with Aakrit Joshi), Renewable Energy, 2018.

Contributions to Edited Volumes:

“On the Dynamic Nature of Goods: Applications in Post-Disaster Contexts” in Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, 2020.

Policy Reports:

“The State of Federalism in Nepal: An assessment” (with Jennifer Murtazashvili and Aditi Upadhyaya), Center for International Private Enterprise, 2022.