Research

Publications

• Dean, J., and M. Roy. (2026). “The Spillover of United States Monetary Policy on Six European Agricultural Commodity Prices.” International Economics, 187, 100732.
• Dean, J. (2026). “Estimating the Federal Reserve’s Inflation Target Through the Average Inflation Targeting Era.” Applied Economics Letters. Published online.
• Dean, J. (2026). “Unconventional U.S. Monetary Policy and International Financial Market Stability.” Economics Bulletin, 46(1), 250–259.
• Dean, J. (2026). “Better on Average? Average Inflation Targeting with an Unclear Averaging Window.” Southern Economic Journal. Published online.
  • WCU Ideas with Impact
• Dean, J., and S. Schuh. (2026). “From Conventional to Unconventional Monetary Policy: Is the Taylor Rule an Adequate Representation in Macro Models?” Empirical Economics, 70, Article 35.
• Dean, J., and V. Geloso. (2024). “Poverty Spells and Economic Freedom: Canadian Evidence.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 224, 282–296.
• Dean, J., and J. Hall. (2024). “On the Long-Run Properties of Income and Stock Prices: The Stability of the ‘Golden Ratios’.” Journal of Financial Economic Policy, 16(3), 315–329.
• Dean, J., and V. Geloso. (2022). “Economic Freedom Improves Income Mobility: Evidence from Canadian Provinces, 1982–2018.” Journal of Institutional Economics, 18(5), 807–826.
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• Lawson, R., and J. Dean. (2021). “Who Gains from Economic Freedom? A Panel Analysis on Decile Income Levels.” Economics and Business Letters, 10(2), 102–106.

Italicized author names indicate student co-authors.

Book Chapters

• Dean, J. (2025). “The Racial Political Economy of Bank Entry Restrictions.” In J. Hall and K. Starr (eds.), Empirical Applications of the Median Voter Model (pp. 105–114). Springer.

Book Reviews

• Dean, J. (2026). “Review of: Inflation Is About More than Money: Economics, Politics, and the Social Fabric.” Faith & Economics, 86 (Spring).

Working Papers and Works in Progress

• “Does the Minimum Wage Improve Upward Mobility? Evidence from Canada” (with V. Geloso).
• “COVID Inflation Whodunit? Potential Output, with Money, in the United States” (with S. Schuh).
• “Does Fiscal Stress Shape Monetary Policy?”