Ryan A Compton

I am a Professor of Economics and hold a PhD from Washington University. I am also an executive member of the Canadian Development Economics Study Group and the Defence and Security Economics Workshop.

CV

Interests: Macro / Development / Conflict / Defence / Institutions

Copies of Some of My Papers

Origin Country Conflict and Immigrant Physical Health (with Andrea Craig, Dorte Heger, and Karl Skogstad). Defence and Peace Economics (Forthcoming). Paper (Coming Soon)

Disentangling Customer and Employer Discrimination Using State Variation in the Tipped Minimum Wage (with Janice Compton). Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy. Vol. 7(2): 65-81, 2024. Paper

Oil Shocks and the US Economy in a Data-rich Model (with Kuhelika De and Dan Giedeman). Economic Modelling. Vol 108, 105755, 2022. Paper.

Country Survey: Canadian Military Expenditure and Defence Policy (with Karl Skogstad). Defence and Peace Economics. Vol 33 (5): 616-636, 2022. Paper.

Macroeconomic Shocks and Racial Labour Market Differences (with Kuhelika De, Dan Giedeman, and Gary Hoover). Southern Economic Journal. Vol. 88 (2): 680-704, 2021. Paper.

Paying for Freedom: Indentured Labour and Strategic Default (with Pinaki Bose and Arnab Basu). Economic Modelling. Vol. 89: 502-511, 2020. Paper.

Racial Differentials in the Wealth Effects of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession (with Leslie Muller and Dan Giedeman). Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy. Vol.1 (2): 126-141, 2018. Paper

Banking and Inequality: US State Evidence (with Chen Xu, Daniel Giedeman, and Gary Hoover). The Social Science Journal. Vol. 55(4): 396-403, 2018. Paper

Steam Engines of Credit: The Role of Banks in Switzerland’s Economic Development (With Dan Giedeman). Essays in Economic and Business History. Vol.36(1): 121-158, 2018. Paper

More on the Impact of Economic Freedom on the Black-White Income Gap (with Gary Hoover and Dan Giedeman). Public Finance Review. Vol.46(2), 205-223, 2018. Paper

A Note on Economic Freedom and Political Ideology (with Ji Gu, Gary Hoover and Dan Giedeman). Applied Economics Letters. Vol.24(13), 928-931, 2017. Paper

Military Spending and Growth: The Role of Institutions (with Bryan Paterson). Defence and Peace Economics. Vol. 27(3), 301-322, 2016. Paper

The Impact of Economic Freedom on the Black/White Income Gap (with Gary Hoover and Daniel Giedeman). American Economic Review. Vol. 105(5) P&P, 587-92, 2015. Paper

Economic Freedom and Social Capital. (with Art Carden and Jeremy Jackson). Applied Economics. Vol.47(54), 5853-5867, 2015. Paper

A Distributional Analysis of the Benefits of Economic Freedom. (With Dan Giedeman and Gary Hoover). European Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 33 (March), 121-133, 2014. Paper

Panel Evidence on Economic Freedom and Growth in the United States. (With Dan Giedeman and Gary Hoover). European Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 27(3), 423-435, 2011. Paper

Panel Evidence on Finance, Institutions, and Economic Growth. (With Dan Giedeman). Applied Economics. Vol. 43(25), 3523-3547, 2011. Paper

War! What is it Good For? A Deep Determinants Analysis of the Cost of Interstate Conflict. (with Steve Yamarik and Noel Johnson). Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy. Vol. 16(1), Article 8, 1-33, 2010. Paper

Investing in Institutions. (with Noel Johnson and Dan Giedeman). Economics and Politics. Vol. 22(3),419-445, 2010. Paper