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2023
Araki, Michael E., Daniel L. Bennett, and Gary A. Wagner. “Regional Innovation Networks & High Growth Entrepreneurship.” Research Policy.
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Wagner, Gary A. and Hyun Ji Lee. “Does Broadband Affect Local Economic Outcomes Less Than We Thought? Micro Evidence from Louisiana.” Contemporary Economic Policy.
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Wagner, Gary A. and Jonathan C. Rork. “Does State Tax Reciprocity Affect Interstate Commuting? Evidence from a Natural Experiment.” Regional Science & Urban Economics.
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2022
Wagner, Gary A. and Timothy M. Komarek. “How Does Municipal Governance Structure Affect Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion? Evidence from U.S. Metro Areas.” Economics of Governance.
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Humphreys, Brad, Gary A. Wagner, John C. Whitehead, and Pamela Wicker. “Willingness to Pay for Policies to Reduce Health Risks from COVID-19: Evidence from U.S. Professional Sports.” Health Economics.
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Komarek, Timothy M., Kyle Butts, and Gary A. Wagner. “Government Contracting, Labor Intensity, and the Local Effects of Fiscal Consolidation: Evidence from the Budget Control Act of 2011.” Journal of Urban Economics.
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Sobel, Russell S., Gary A. Wagner, and Peter T. Calcagno. Forthcoming. “The Political Economy of State Economic Development Incentives: A Case of Rent Extraction.” Economics & Politics.
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2021
Wagner, Gary A. and Douglas E. Walker. “Did Video Gaming Expansion Boost Municipal Revenues in Illinois?.” Southern Economic Journal, 88, 649-679.
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Portillo, Javier E. and Gary A. Wagner. “Do Cultural Districts Spur Urban Revitalization: Evidence from Louisiana.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 188, 651-673.
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Wagner, Gary A. and Erick M. Elder. “Campaigning For Retirement: State Teacher Union Campaign Contributions and Pension Generosity.” European Journal of Political Economy, 68, 101991.
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Komarek, Timothy and Gary A. Wagner. “Local Fiscal Adjustments from Depopulation: Evidence from the Post-Cold War Defense Contraction.” National Tax Journal 74(1), 9-43.
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2020
Komarek, Timothy and Gary A. Wagner. “The Distributional Effects of Job Loss From Fiscal Consolidation: Evidence from The Budget Control Act of 2011.” Economics Letters 106, 109515.
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Wagner, Gary A. and Jamie Bolgona Pavlik. “Patent Intensity and Concentration: The Effect of Institutional Quality on MSA Patent Activity.” Papers in Regional Science, 99(4), 857-898.
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