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Gavin Roberts

• Publications

  Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. "How price-gouging regulation undermined COVID-19 mitigation: county-level evidence of unintended consequences," Public Choice, 196. July 2023 91¶ÌÊÓƵ. With Rik Chakraborti.
  2. "Other people's money: preferences for equality in groups," European Journal of Political Economy, 73. June 2022. With Joy Buchanan.
  3. "Learning to hoard: the effects of preexisting and surprise price-gouging regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic," Journal of Consumer Policy, 44. August 2021. With Rik Chakraborti.
  4. "Anti-price gouging laws, shortages, and COVID-19: big data insights from consumer searches," Journal of Private Enterprise. Winter 2020. With Rik Chakraborti.
  5. "Drill-bit parity: supply-side links in oil and gas markets," Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 7(4). July 2020. With Benjamin Gilbert.
  6. "Global emissions from crude oil: The effect of oil deposit heterogeneity," Energy Policy, 132. September 2019. With Edward Barbier and Klaas van ‘t Veld.
  7. "Revisiting the drivers of natural gas prices," International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, 3. February 2019.
  8. "Social capital and the voluntary provision of public goods," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 77, 196-208. December 2018. With Rik Chakraborti, Matt Maloney, and Jason Shogren.
  9. "Price elasticity of supply and productivity: an analysis of natural gas wells in Wyoming," Energy Journal, 39(SI). 2018. With Charles F. Mason.
  10. "Should all of Europe share a currency? A multi-country analysis," The Journal of World Economic Review, 6, 55-74. 2011. With Kishore Kulkarni and Juan Dempere.

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  Non-Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Book Chapter: "Private and Public Economic Impacts of Fracking in Wyoming," In When Fracking Comes to Town: Governance, Planning, and Economic Impacts of the US Shale Boom. Cornell University Press, 2021. With Sandeep Kumar Rangaraju.
  2. Editorial: "Rush to Anti-Gouging Laws Fueled COVID Surge," Tribune News Service. Published in Minneapolis Star Tribune on 03/04/2021 among other periodicals. 
  3. "The cost of lawsuit abuse: an economic analysis of Louisiana's coastal litigation," Pelican Institute Report, October 2019. 
  4. "Quantitative analysis shows natural gas projects’ benefits outweigh costs," Oil & Gas Journal, December 2017. With Joel Zipp.
  5. Book Review: "The Price of Oil," Economic History Association: EH.net, September 2017.

• Presentations

  1. "How price-gouging regulation undermined COVID-19 mitigation: evidence of unintended consequences," Annual Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April 2021 Fort Lauderdale, FL.
  2. "How price-gouging regulation undermined COVID-19 mitigation: evidence of unintended consequences," Invited presentation at Creighton University, February 2021, Virtual.
  3. "The Positive Economics of Climate Change," Climate Change and Culture Shift Seminar Series at 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, November 2020, Ogden, UT.
  4. "Other people’s money: preferences for equality in groups," 2020 Utah Experimental Economics Conference, May 2020, Logan, UT.
  5. "Rotary-rig parity: The drilling rate augmented relationship between oil and gas prices," 37^th USAEE/IAEE North American Conference, November 2019, Denver, CO.
  6. "Drill-bit parity: supply-side links in oil and gas markets," 36^th USAEE/IAEE North American Conference, September 2018, Washington, D.C.
  7. "The endogenous risk of avalanches," Western Economic Association International 93^rd Annual Conference, June 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  8. "The beginning of the end of the age of oil," 6^th Symposium on Environment and Energy Finance Issues, May 2018, Paris, France.
  9. "A piece for justice? Willingness to pay for equality," 55^th Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society, March 2018, Charleston, SC.
  10. "Kirznerian oilmen," The American Institute of Economic Research, August 2017, Great Barrington, MA.
  11. "Drill-bit parity: The increasing importance of supply-side links in oil and gas markets," AERE Sessions of the 2016 Meetings of the Southern Economics Association, November 2016, Washington, D.C.
  12. "Drill-bit parity: The increasing importance of supply-side links in oil and gas markets," Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Seminar, Colorado State University, November 2016, Fort Collins, CO.
  13. "The beginning of the end of the age of oil," NCSU Camp Resources, August 2016, Wilmington, NC.
  14. "Texas tea or swamp gas: A supply-side link in oil and gas markets," {New title: Drill-bit parity: The increasing importance of supply-side links in oil and gas markets.} AERE Summer Conference, July 2016, Breckenridge, CO. 
  15. "Drill-bit hydrocarbons: Recent history and thoughts about the future," 2016 Wyoming Energy Summit, May 2016, Cheyenne, WY.
  16. "Social and the voluntary provision of public goods," Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, March 2016, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
  17. "Decline curves in natural gas production: implications of new technologies," UW Economics and Finance Dept. Graduate Student Group, November 2015, Laramie, WY.
  18. "Supply-side cointegration of natural gas and oil prices," (Research sketch) Front Range Energy Camp, May 2015, Boulder, CO.
  19. "The vigilante game," The Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Meeting, April 2015, Cancun, Mexico.
  20. "The vigilante game," Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, March 2015, San Antonio, TX.
  21. "Oil market dynamics incorporating geological decline," UW Economics and Finance Dept. Graduate Student Group, February 2015, Laramie, WY.
  22. "Optimizing Storage Injections and Withdrawals," Platts Webinar, June 2012, Evergreen, CO.