Edward J. Lopez
Associate Professor of Law and Economics, San Jose State University
One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0114 Fax: 408-924-5406
Email: edward.lopez "at" sjsu.edu

RESEARCH PAGE
Updated 06/18/2009

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PUBLICATIONS:
Some download links are to my profile at RePEc.org or SSRN.com. Some links are to the publishers' original versions. I acknowledge the publishers for their permission to post/distribute articles.

BOOKS

Law Without Romance: Public Choice and the Legal System (forthcoming from The Independent Institute)
   Chapter 1 Introduction
   Description and contents
     The Earhart Foundation and The Independent Institute are generously supporting this project.

JOURNAL ARTICLES (refereed)

Articles Published or forthcoming

Who Will Deregulate the Deregulators? [download here] [or from the publisher]
Comment on "Deregulation Redux" by Richard Higgins and Arijit Mukherjee
Forthcoming in Public Choice, Festschrift for Robert D. Tollison

Incumbent Deviations from Constituents: Further Tests
with Noel D. Campbell and Tammy Rogers, University of Central Arkansas, Economics
Forthcoming in The Journal of Political Science

Pass a Law, Any Law, Fast! State Legislative Response to the Kelo Backlash [download from publisher][or from SSRN]
with R. Todd Jewell and Noel D. Campbell
Review of Law & Economics vol.5, no.1, article 5, pp.101-35

Paying Teachers for Advanced Degrees: Student Performance Evidence from Georgia [download here]
with Noel D. Campbell, University of Central Arkansas, Economics
Journal of Private Enterprise vol.29, no.1, Fall 2008, pp.33-49

Mr. Smith and the Economy: Inflation, Unemployment, and Individual Legislator Voting [download here] [or from the publisher]
with Carlos D. Ramírez, George Mason University, Economics
Public Choice, vol.136, nos.1-2, July 2008, pp.1-17  (lead article).

Allocating Lobbying Resources Between Collective and Private Rents [download from publisher]
with R. Kenneth Godwin (UNCC, Political Science) and Barry J. Seldon (UT-Dallas, Economics)
Political Research Quarterly, vol.59, no.2, June 2008, pp.345-359.

Congressional Trends to Tax and Spend: Examining Fiscal Voting Across Time and Chamber [download here] [download from RePEc]
The Open Journal of Political Science, Winter 2008, pp.38-43.

Strategic Institutional Choice: Voters, States and Congressional Term Limits [download from RePEc] [or from the publisher]
with Todd Jewell, University of North Texas, Economics
Public Choice vol.132, nos.1-2, July 2007, pp.137-57

Kelo and its Discontents: The Worst (or Best?) Thing to Happen to Property Rights [download from publisher]
with Sasha M. Totah, SJSU Economics graduate student
The Independent Review vol. XI, no.3, Winter 2007, pp.397-416

Incorporating Policymaker Costs and Political Competition into Rent-Seeking Games [download here]
with R. Kenneth Godwin (UNCC, Political Science) and Barry J. Seldon (UT-Dallas)
Southern Economic Journal vol.73, no.1 (July) 2006, pp.37-54

Party Polarization and the Business Cycle in the United States [download from RePEc]
with Carlos D. Ramírez, George Mason University, Economics
Public Choice vol.121, nos.3-4 (December) 2004, pp.413-430

Ignorance in Congressional Voting? Evidence from Policy Reversal on the Endangered Species Act [download from RePEc]
with Daniel Sutter, University of Oklahoma, Economics
Social Science Quarterly vol.85, no.4 (December) 2004, pp.891-912)

Do Legislators Pay to Deviate from Constituents? [download here]
with Noel D. Campbell, North Georgia College and State University
Eastern Economic Journal Summer 2004 (lead article)

Term Limits: Causes and Consequences [download from RePEc]
Public Choice, vol.114, nos.1-2 (January 2003), pp.1-56 (lead article). 
This article will be reprinted in New Directions in Public Choice, Charles K. Rowley, William F. Shughart and Robert D. Tollison (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing.

Congressional Voting on Term Limits [download from RePEc]
Public Choice, vol.112, nos.3-4 (September 2002), pp.405-431.
NOTE: For unpublished results referenced in endnotes 15, 18, and 19 of the published paper, please email me for the Stata™ log files.

The Legislator as Political Entrepreneur: Investment in Political Capital [download from RePEc]
Review of Austrian Economics, vol.15, no.2-3 (Summer 2002), pp.211-28

Committee Assignments and the Cost of Party Loyalty [download here]
with Wayne A. Leighton, FCC Wireless Bureau
Political Research Quarterly, vol.55, no.1 (March 2002), pp.59-90

New Anti-Merger Theories: A Critique [download from RePEc]
Cato Journal, vol.20, no.3, Winter 2001

Articles Under Review

Third Degree Price Discrimination: Apology Not Necessary
with David J. Molina, University of North Texas, Economics

The Endowment Effect in a Public Good Experiment [download from RePEc]
with William Robert Nelson Jr.

Articles in Progress

Of Human Action and Human Design: Adaptive Entrepreneurship and the Marketization of Fashion
Email me for a draft.

Divided We Vote
with Peter Calcagno

Ranking Terminal Masters Programs in Economics
with R. Todd Jewell

CHAPTERS and OTHER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:

The Law and Economics of Property and Contract [download from publisher (chapter 7)]
in Russell S. Sobel and Joshua C. Hall (eds.) The Rule of Law, Spring 2009

Below-Market Housing Mandates as Takings: Measuring their Impact
with Edward P. Stringham and Tom Means
1. Independent Institute Policy Report November 2007 [download from publisher]
2. in Bruce Benson (ed.), The Uses and Abuses of Eminent Domain and Land-Use Regulation, forthcoming

Make Property Rights More Secure: Limit Eminent Domain  [download here]
in Russell S. Sobel and Joshua C. Hall (eds.) Unleashing Capitalism: Why Prosperity Ends at the West Virginia Border and How to Stop It, 2007. with Carrie B. Kerekes and George D. Johnson

"Term Limits" chapter in The Encyclopedia of Public Choice edited by Charles Rowley and Friedrich Schneider, Kluwer Academic Press, 2003. [download here]

"Campaign Finance"  chapter in The Encyclopedia of Public Choice edited by Charles Rowley and Friedrich Schneider, Kluwer Academic Press, 2003. [download here]

Introduction: Austrian and Virginia Political Economy [download from RePEc]
with Peter J. Boettke, George Mason University
Special issue of Review of Austrian Economics vol.15, no.2-3 (Summer 2002), pp.111-19

BOOK REVIEWS:

Economic Policy Under Uncertainty: The Role of Truth and Accountability in Policy Advice by Peter Mooslechner, Helene Schuberth, and Martin Schurz (eds.), Edward Elgar 2004 (reviewed for Journal of Markets and Morality)

Understanding Democracy: An Introduction to Public Choice by J. Patrick Gunning, Nomad Press, 2003 (reviewed for Public Choice) 

The Political Economy of Democratic Institutions by Peter Moser, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2000 (reviewed for Public Choice)

Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives edited by Bernard Grofman, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996

REFEREE:

Journals:
Berkeley Electronic Journal in Economic Analysis & Policy
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Electoral Studies
Environmental and Resource Economics
The Independent Review
International Tax and Public Finance
The Journal of Economics and Finance Education
The Journal of Politics
The Journal of Private Enterprise
The Journal of Theoretical Politics
Managerial and Decision Economics
Political Research Quarterly
Public Choice
Review of Austrian Economics
State Politics and Policy Quarterly

Textbooks et cetera:
Cowen and Tabarrok, Principles of Macroeconomics, Fall 2007
Gwartney, Stroup, Sobel, and McPherson, Economics, Fall 2006
Tresch, Public Sector Economics, Summer 2006
MyEconLab, Addison-Wesley, Summer 2005
Mateer and Clifford, The Economics Encounter (prospectus) Addison-Wesley, Spring 2005
Roger Arnold, Essentials of Economics, Thompson South-Western, Fall 2004
Jonathan Gruber, Public Finance and Public Policy, (prospectus for Addison-Wesley), Summer 2003
Harvey Rosen, Public Finance 6^th ed., McGraw-Hill, Fall 2002

Other:
Springer Science & Business Books
North Coast Publishers
Earhart Foundation
Harcourt Educational Measurement

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RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS: [up to Spring 2007 only]

Conference Papers Presented

Pass a Law, Any Law, Fast! The States' (Somewhat) Symbolic Response to the Kelo Backlash
Association of Private Enterprise Education, Cancun, April 2007

Design: Efficient Innovation and Social Change in Free Ideas Markets
Southern Economic Association, Charleston SC, November 2006

Mr. Smith and the Economy
Southern Economic Association, Charleston SC, November 2006

Congress’ Trend to Tax and Spend: Examining Fiscal Voting Across Time and Chamber
Southern Economic Association, Washington DC, November 2005

In the Economics Classroom with Tablet PC Technology
Association of Private Enterprise Education, Las Vegas, April 2006
Gulf Coast Economics Association, Houston, October 2005

Strategic Institutional Choice: Voters, States, and Congressional Term Limits
European Public Choice Society, Turku, Finland, April 2006
Public Choice Society, New Orleans, March 2005
Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, November 2004

Influence of Economic Conditions on Individual Legislator Career Voting
Public Choice Society, Baltimore, March 2004

What Endowment Effect? A Public Good Experiment
European Public Choice Society, Turku, Finland, April 2006
Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, November 2003

Incorporating Political Institutions into Rent Seeking Games
Public Choice Society, Baltimore, March 2004
Western Economic Association, Denver, July 2003
Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, November 2002

Policy Reversal: Senate Voting on the Endangered Species Act
Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, November 2002
Public Choice Society, San Diego, March 2002

Austrian and Public Choice Economics: On Common Ground
Association for Private Enterprise Education, Washington, DC, April 2001

Problems in Rent-Seeking Research
Public Choice Society, San Antonio, March 2001

New Anti-Merger Theories
Association for Private Enterprise Education, Las Vegas, April 2000

Is Legislator Ideology Observable?
Public Choice Society, Charleston (SC), March 2000

Committee Assignments and the Cost of Legislative Loyalty,
Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, November 1999
Public Choice Society, New Orleans, March 1999

Term Limits and the Political Entrepreneur
Southern Economic Association, Baltimore, November 1998

Price Theory, Vote Scores and Campaign Expenditures: Signaling or Ideology?
Public Choice Society, New Orleans, 1998

What is the Big Idea? Ideology vs. Self-Interest in Voting with Evidence from Term Limits
Public Choice Society, San Francisco, March 1997

A Critical Review and Extension of the Systems Markets and Path Dependence Literature
Southern Economics Association, Washington, DC, November 1996

A Public Choice Explanation of States Voting on Term Limits
Public Choice Society, Houston, Texas, April 1996

Invited Research Presentations

Empirical Determinants of Eminent Domain Laws
San José State University, March 5, 2007
West Virginia University, October 15, 2006

What is Political Capital?
Francisco Marroquín University, Guatemala, May 19, 2005

Strategic Institutional Choice: Voters, States, and Congressional Term Limits
San José State University, March 7, 2005

What Endowment Effect? A Public Good Experiment
University of Texas at Arlington, November 14, 2003

Policy Reversal: Senate Voting on the Endangered Species Act
University of Texas at Arlington, April 18, 2003

Committee Assignments and the Cost of Legislative Loyalty
University of Oklahoma Department of Economics, November 12, 1999

Term Limits in Congress
Texas Christian University, Department of Economics, October 29, 1998

Economics and Politics of Antitrust Enforcement
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, Summer Fellows Program, June 1998

The Political Economy of Congressional Term Limits
Center for Study of Public Choice, November 5, 1997

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