2024 - Is Deflation Cause for Panic? Evidence from the National Banking Era. Journal of Macroeconomics. 82: 1-25.

2023 - The Myth of Wartime Prosperity: Evidence from the Canadian Experience. (with Vincent Geloso.)  Social Science Quarterly. 104(4): 377–394.

2022 - Preferential Attachment and Carl Menger’s Theory of the Endogenous Emergence of a Medium of Exchange. Cosmos and Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization. 10(5+6): 47–60.

Reexamining the “Wheat Boom”: The Nature of Canadian Economic Growth, 1870–1913. (with Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Vincent Geloso.)

The Potlatch as Memory: Ceremony and Gift-Giving along the Pacific Northwest. (with Till Gross.) 

Rethinking Deflation and Its Effects: A Cross-Country Analysis of Supply-Driven Deflation. (with Bryan Cutsinger.)

A Historical Exploration of Indigenous Access to Banks in Canada.  (with Angela Redish and Lawrence Schembri.)  

Abstract: We build a novel dataset of the locations of charted bank branches in Canada between 1840 and 1920. We then use this dataset to explore Indigenous communities’ access to financial services along two dimensions. First, as the branch network expanded, we aim to test whether the location of new branches relative to Indigenous communities was correlated with the community’s size and affluence. Here, we are looking to determine if chartered banks saw Indigenous communities as a potential source of customers or if they were disregarded in the location decision (possibly due to ignorance or bias). Second, we investigate whether an Indigenous community’s historical proximity to a bank branch predicts the use of financial services and participation in related programs aimed at promoting financial inclusion today. The proposed mechanism suggests that geographic proximity to banks increases familiarity and awareness of financial institutions, thereby helping to build trust and financial acumen—a predictor of overall access to finance—that can be passed down through generations over time.

Other works in progress are listed on my CV