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Joao Ricardo Faria

Joao Ricardo Faria

Professor
Economics Department
Office: Office Depot Center - Room 201H (Boca Raton)

Biography

Dr. Joao Ricardo has published more than 130 articles, primarily in macroeconomics, development economics, and in the economics of terrorism. Originally from Brazil, he is now a US Citizen, and he earned his PhD from the University of Kent in England. Dr. Faria’s work has recently appeared in academic journals of economics, political science, operational research, including Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Oxford Economic Papers, Economics Letters, Research Policy, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Public Choice and European Journal of Operational Research. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and the European Central Bank, and has taught in Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, France and Portugal.

Education

  • PhD (1998) Economics, University of Kent at Canterbury
  • MA (1991) Economics, University of Brasilia
  • BA (1988) Economics, University of Brasilia
  • BA (1987) Geography, University of Brasilia

Research Interests

  • Macroeconomics; Entrepreneurship; Development and International Economics; Economics of Education; Economics of Conflict and Terrorism

Intellectual Contributions

  • Moraes, Ricardo; Wanke, Peter; Tan, Yong; Faria, Joao Ricardo; Caudill, Steven. Evaluating Inter-Sectorial Efficiency of State-Owned Bank Financing: A Hierarchical Game with a Two-Stage Malmquist Approach (forthcoming), International Journal of Public Policy
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Caudill, Steven; Mixon, Franklin; Young, E.. Expropriation, Money, and Happiness: The Impact of State Theft in Russia (forthcoming), Emperial Economics
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.. Human Capital, Networks, and Clubs in Academe (forthcoming), Economies
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Lauro, A.; Figueiredo, O.; Mixon, F.. The impact of school infrastructure and teachers’ human capital on academic performance in Brazil (forthcoming), Evaluation Review
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.. The mass production of the Lumpen Intelligentsia: An economic model of the ‘Woke’ movement in U.S. higher education 2023 (forthcoming), Theoretical Economics Letters
  • Antunes, Jorge; Wanke, Peter; Azad, Md. Abul; Tan, Yong; Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mamede, Antonio. (2024). Estimating Japanese bank performance: Stochastic Entropic Analysis on the basis of Ideal Solutions, Expert Systems with Applications, 242, Article: 122762
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Goel, Rajeev; Nelson, Michael. (2024). Does capacity utilization crowd‐out research activity? Cross‐national evidence from firm‐level data, Managerial and Decision Economics, 45(1), 161-173
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Prado, Mauricio; Ogura, Laudo; Boudreaux, Christopher. (2023). Government investments and entrepreneurship, Small Business Economics, 61(4), 1657-1670
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; McAdam, P.; Viscolani, B.. (2023). Monetary policy, neutrality and the environment, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 55(7), 1889-1906
  • Attilio, L.; Faria, Joao Ricardo; Rodrigues, M.. (2023). Does Monetary Policy Impact CO2 Emissions? A GVAR Analysis (forthcoming), Energy Economics, 119, Article: 106559
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Boyer, Eric. (2022). Examining contract modifications in purchasing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): A bargaining approach, Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, 6(3-4), 179-196
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, Franklin. (2022). Do Professors' Wages Depend on Students' Earnings?, Applied Economics, 54(58), 6703-6715
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Caudill, Steven; Mixon, Franklin; Santoyo, J.. (2022). Gender discrimination in the Business School’s C-Suite? Evidence from aggregate decomposition approaches, Frontiers in Education, 7(1), 1-9
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Prado, M.; Ferreira, J.J.. (2022). Informality, infrastructure investments and new firms' creation: The location strategy, Journal of Knowledge Economy, 13(1), 321-331
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, Franklin. (2022). Opportunism vs. excellence in academia: Quality accreditation of collegiate business schools, American Business Review, 25(1), 4-24
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Caudill, Steven; Gropper, Daniel; Mixon, Franklin. (2022). Negotiation and bargaining power in the determination of administrative wages in academe, Managerial and Decision Economics, 43(7), 2935-2940
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Tindall, Greg; Terjesen, Siri. (2022). The green Tobin’s q: Theory and evidence, Energy Economics, 110, Article: 106033
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, Franklin. (2022). Labor Markets and Sustainability: Short-Run Dynamics and Long-Run Equilibrium , Sustainability, 14(7), 4307; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074307
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.. (2021). Mirror, mirror on the wall...Modeling in U.S. Congress as an internal labor market, Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 36(2), 163-187
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Moraes, R.; Wanke, P.. (2021). Unveiling the endogeneity between social-welfare and labor efficiency: Two-stage NDEA neural network approach, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 77, Article: 101026
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.. (2021). The marginal impact of a publication on citations, and its effect on academic pay, Scientometrics, 126(9), 8217-8226
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Cuestas, J.C.; Gil-Alana, L.; Mourelle, E.. (2021). Self-employment by gender in the EU: convergence and clusters, Empirica, 48(3), 717-741
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Arce, D.. (2021). The path of terror attacks, Games, 12(2), 35
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Caudill, Steven; Mixon, F.; Upadhyaya, K.. (2021). Cooperation and Spillovers in Healthcare R&D; Theory and Evidence, Economic Modelling, 95, 68-75
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Ferreira, J.; Johnson, Ken; Mixon, F.; Wanke, P.F.. (2020). Agglomeration Economies and University Program Creation in the Knowledge Economy, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 72, Article: 100800
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Silva, E.. (2020). Leadership delegation in rotten kid families, Journal of Population Economics, 33(2), 441-460
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.. (2020). The Peter and Dilbert principles applied to academe, Economics of Governance, 21, 115-132
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Novak, A.; Bagchi, A.; Mathews, T.. (2020). The refugee game: The relationship between individual security expenditures and Collective security, Games, 11(2), 24; doi.org/10.3390/g11020024
  • Caudill, Steven; Crofton, Stephanie; Faria, Joao Ricardo; Manage, Neela; Mixon, Franklin; Simonton, Mary. (2020). Property Confiscation and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Post-1948 Eastern Europe, Public Choice, 184(1), 1-41
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Bagchi, A.; Matthews, T.. (2019). A model of a multilateral proxy war with spillovers, Public Choice, 179, 229-248
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.; Upadhyaya, K.. (2019). Alumni donations and university reputation, Education Economics, 27, 155-165
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.; Upadhyaya, A.; Upadhyaya, K.. (2019). Gang Rivalry and Crime: A Differential Game Approach, Review of Law & Economics, 15(2)
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.; Upadhyaya, K.. (2019). Public policy and the university-industry R&D nexus, Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 17(4), 499-506
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Matthews, T.; Bagchi, A.. (2019). Simple analytics of the impact of terror generation on attacker-defender interactions, Public Choice, 179, 287-299
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Gropper, Daniel; Mixon, F.; Santoyo, J.. (2019). Academic scholarship, organization prestige and the earnings of U.S. business school deans, Managerial and Decision Economics, 40(7), 823-837
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.. (2018). Entrepreneurial philanthropy and university creation, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 9, 1067-1086
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Arce, D.. (2018). On the Samaritan's dilemma, foreign aid and freedom, Economies, 6(4), 53; https://doi.org/10.3390/economies6040053
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Wanke, P.; Ferreira, J.; Mixon, F.. (2018). Research and innovation in higher education: Emperical evidence from research and patenting in Brazil, Scientometrics, 116, 487-504
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; McAdam, P.. (2018). The green golden rule: Habits and anticipation of future consumption, Economics Letters, 172, 131-133
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Oliveira, A.; Silva, E.. (2018). Transnational terrorism: Externalities and coalition formation, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 62, 496-528
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.; Upadhyaya, K.. (2018). Editor reputation and journal quality: The case of regional association journals, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 18(1), Article number: 20170099
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Besancenot, D.; Mixon, F.. (2017). Academic research and the strategic interaction of scholars and editors: A two-stage game, International Game Theory Review, 19(1)
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Silva, E.; Arce, D.. (2017). Intertemporal versus Spatial Externalities in Counterterror Policy Games, Dynamic Games and Applications, 7, 402-442
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Veiga, P.; Ferreira, J.. (2017). The impact of the financial crisis and financial assistance in Portugal: Micro and macro foundations, Global Business and Economics Review, 19(1), 70-88
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Fernandes, C.; Raposo, M.; Ferreira, J.; Thurik, R.. (2016). Entrepreneur location decisions across industries, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 12(4), 985-1006
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.; Upadhyaya, K.. (2016). Human capital, collegiality and stardom in economics: Empirical analysis, Scientometrics, 106(3), 917-943
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2016). Location clusters, FDI and local entrepreneurs: Consistent public policy, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 7(4), 858-868
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Loureiro, P.; Mixon, F.; Sachsida, A.. (2016). Minority faculty hiring power in Academe: An economic mode, Review of Black Political Economy, 43(3-4), 273-288
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; McAdam, P.. (2015). Academic productivity before and after tenure: The case of the "Specialist", Oxford Economic Papers, 67, 291-309
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Hassan, G.. (2015). Do remittances diminish social violence?, Journal of Development Studies, 51, 1309-1325
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2015). Entrepreneurship and business cycles: Technological innovations and unemployment, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 11(2), 253-265
  • Wanke, P.; Barros, C.; Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2015). Financial distress drivers in Brazilian banks: A dynamic slacks approach, European Journal of Operational Research, 240(1), 258-268
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; McAdam, P.. (2015). Macroeconomic adjustment under regime change: From Social Contract to Arab Spring, Journal of International Money and Finance, 56, 1-22
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Barros, C.; Gil-Alana, L.. (2015). The macroeconomy of Angola: Breaks and persistence in Angolan macro data, Applied Economics, 47, 2783-2802
  • Barros, C.; Faria, Joao Ricardo; Araujo, A.. (2014). Brazilian Land Tenure Conflicts: A Spatial Analysis, Journal of International Development, 26, 409-421
  • Besancenot, D.; Faria, Joao Ricardo; Hyuhn, K.. (2014). Congestion of academic Journals under papers’ imperfect selection, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 14, 1145-1167
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Barros, C.; Gil-Alana, L.. (2014). Inflation in Mozambique: Empirical facts based on persistence, seasonality and breaks, Applied Economics, 46, 2545-2555
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Barros, C.; Damasio, B.. (2014). Reverse FDI in Europe: An analysis of Angola's FDI in Portugal, African Development Review, 26, 160-171
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2014). The economics of technology in terrorist organizations, Brown Journal of World Affairs, 20, 285-296
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, Jr., Franklin; Caudill, Steven; Wineke, Samantha. (2014). Two-Dimensional Effort in Patent-Race Games and Rent-Seeking Contests: The Case of Telephony, Games, 5, 116-126
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; McAdam, P.. (2013). Anticipation of future consumption: A monetary perspective, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 45, 423-447
  • Barros, C.; Araujo, A.; Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2013). Brazilian land tenure and conflicts: The landless peasants’ movement, Cato Journal, 33(1), 47-75
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Ogura, L.; Sachsida, A.. (2013). Crime in a planned city: The case of Brasilia, Cities, 32, 80-87
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2013). Entrepreneurship and unemployment cycles: A delay differential equation approach, Frontiers of Economics in China, 8, 290-294
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Loureiro, P.; Mixon, F.; Sachsida, A.. (2013). Faculty promotion in Academe: Theory and evidence from U.S. Economics Departments, Journal of Economics and Econometrics, 56(1), 1-27
  • Bausch, A.; Faria, Joao Ricardo; Zeitzoff, T.. (2013). Warnings, terrorist threats and resilience: A laboratory experiment, Conflict Management and Peace Science, 30(5), 433-451
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; McAdam, P.. (2012). A new perspective on the Gold Standard: Inflation as a population phenomenon, Journal of International Money and Finance, 31, 1358-1370
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Arce, D.. (2012). A vintage model of terrorist organizations, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 56, 629-650
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mixon, F.; Salter, S.. (2012). An economic model of workplace mobbing in academe, Economics of Education Review, 31, 720-726
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Arce, D.. (2012). Counterterrorism and its impact on terror support and recruitment: Accounting for backlash, Defence and Peace Economics, 23, 431-445
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Wang, L.; Wu, Z.. (2012). Debts on debts, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 23, 203-219
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Sachsida, A.. (2012). Demographic dynamics in poor countries: Labor market conditions and gender inequalities, Journal of Development Studies, 48, 99-114
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mollick, A.; Sachsida, A.; Wang, L.. (2012). Do Central Banks affect Tobin's q?, International Review of Economics and Finance, 22, 1-10
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Wu, Z.. (2012). From unemployed to entrepreneur: The role of absolute bequest motive, Economic Letters, 114, 120-123
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Besancenot, D.; Hyuhn, K.. (2012). Search and research: The influence of editorial board on journals' quality, Theory and Decision, 73, 687-702
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2011). An integro-differential approach to terrorism dynamics, Defence and Peace Economics, 22, 595-605
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Besancenot, D.; Novak, A.. (2011). Paradigm depletion, knowledge production and research effort, Metroeconomica, 62, 587-604
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Cabral, R.; Mollick, A.. (2010). Capital and labor mobility and their impacts on Mexico's regional labor markets, Journal of Development Studies, 46, 1523-1542
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Cuestas, J.C.; Mourelle, E.. (2010). Entrepreneurship and unemployment: A nonlineaer bidirectional causality?, Economic Modelling, 27, 1282-1291
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Besancenot, D.. (2010). Good research and bad teaching? A business school tale, Research in Economics, 64, 67-72
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Barros, C.; Gil-Alana, L.. (2010). Persistence in airline accidents, Disasters, 34, 1123-1138
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Goel, R.. (2010). Returns to networking in academia, Netnomics, 11, 103-117
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mollick, A.. (2010). Tobin's q and the US inflation, Journal of Economics and Business, 62, 401-418
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mollick, A.; Albuquerque, P.; Leon-Ledesma, M.. (2009). The effect of oil price on China's exports, China Economic Review, 20, 793-805
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Cuestas, J.C.; Gil-Alana, L.. (2009). Unemployment and entrepreneurship: A cyclical relation?, Economic Letters, 105(3), 318-320
  • Besancenot, D.; Faria, Joao Ricardo; Vranceanu, R.. (2009). Why Business Schools do so much research: A signaling explanation, Research Policy, 38(7), 1093-1101
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Leon-Ledesma, M.. (2008). A simple nonlinear dynamic model for unemployment: Explaining the Spanish case, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 11 pages; doi:10.1155/2008/981952
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mollick, A.; Albuquerque, P.; Leon-Ledesma, M.. (2008). Can globalization stop the decline in commodities' terms of trade? The Prebisch-Singer hypothesis revisted, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 32, 683-701
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2008). Demographic and technological growth in tourism market, Tourism Economics, 14, 115-121
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Levy, A.. (2008). Persistent high ambition and substance abuse: A rationalization of a vicious circle, Journal of Economics, 94, 261-274
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Barros, C.; Gil-Alana, L.. (2008). Terrorism in Africa: Persistence and poverty, Journal of Policy Modeling, 30, 55-69
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Monteiro, G.. (2008). The tenure game: Building up academic habits, Japanese Economic Review, 59, 370-380
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Barros, C.; Proenca, I.; Gil-Alana, L.. (2007). Are U.S. citizens at risk of terrorism in Europe?, Defence and Peace Economics, 18, 495-507
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Wang, L.. (2007). Employment and fertility choice: A differential game approach, Economics Bulletin, 10(9), 1-8
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Goel, R.. (2007). Proliferation of academic journals: Effects on research quantity and quality, Metroeconomica, 58, 536-549
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Levy, A.. (2007). Ramsey in dual-population lands: Internal conflict and utility-maximizing consumption, Defence and Peace Economics, 18, 339-352
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Leon-Ledesma, M.; Sachsida, A.. (2006). Population and growth: is there a puzzle?, Journal of Development Studies, 42, 909-917
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2006). Terrorist innovations and anti-terrorist policies, Terrorism and Political Violence, 18, 47-56
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Arce, D.; Rossi de Oliveira, A.. (2005). Leading by example and international collective action, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 7, 51-63
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2005). Profitability, investment and efficiency wages, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 4, 201-211
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Leon-Ledesma, M.. (2005). Real exchange rate and employment performance in an open economy, Research in Economics, 59, 67-80
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Arce, D.. (2005). Terror support and recruitment, Defence and Peace Economics, 16, 263-273
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2005). The game academics play: Editors versus authors, Bulletin of Economic Research, 57, 1-12
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Yildiz, H.. (2005). Trade liberalization, nature of mergers and employment, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 14, 43-63
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Leon-Ledesma, M.. (2004). Habit formation, working habits and technological progress, Manchester School, 72, 403-413
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2004). The effects of taxes on labor in a dynamic efficiency wage model, Japanese Economic Review, 55, 286-297
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2003). Limit cycles in an optimal control problem of Diabetes, Applied Mathematics Letters, 16, 127-130
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2003). Terror cycles, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, 7(1), Article 3
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Leon-Ledesma, M.. (2003). Testing the Balassa-Samuelson effect: Implications for growth and PPP, Journal of Macroeconomics, 25, 241-253
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2002). Growth and labor supply in the presence of habit formation in consumption, Economics Bulletin, 4, 1-5
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2002). Scientific, business and political networks in academia, Research in Economics, 56, 187-198
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2001). Habit formation in a monetary growth model, Economics Letters, 73, 51-55
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2001). Markup, indexation and inflation: A bargaining approach, Economic Modeling, 18, 313-323
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2001). The dynamic efficiency of the Ramsey model with endogenous labour participation rate, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 22, 145-149
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Carneiro, F.. (2001). The macroeconomic determinants of equilibrium unemployment insurance, Labour, 15, 487-500
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2000). A two-class fiscal and monetary growth model, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 11, 355-364
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2000). Supervision and effort in an intertemporal efficiency wage model: The role of the Solow condition, Economic Letters, 67, 93-98
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (2000). What happened to the Neanderthals? The survival trap, Kyklos, 53, 161-172
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Teixeira, J.R.. (1999). Growth and stability in a model with Pasinettian saving behaviour and neoclassical technology, Manchester School, 67, 111-121
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (1999). Is there an optimal constitution?, Constitutional Political Economy, 10, 177-184
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (1999). The readmission of the Jews to England: The Mercantilist view, The European Journal of History of Economic Thought, 6, 513-522
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (1998). Environment, growth and fiscal and monetary policies, Economic Modelling, 15, 113-123
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Andrade, J.P.. (1998). Investment, credit and endogenous cycles, Journal of Economics, 67, 135-143
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo. (1998). The economics of Witchcraft and the big eye effect, Kyklos, 51, 537-546
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Carneiro, F.G.. (1997). The indexation of wages and bonds in Brazil, Applied Economics, 29, 1459-1464
  • Faria, Joao Ricardo; Mollick, A.. (1996). Urbanization, economic growth, and welfare, Economic Letters, 52, 109-115
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