Research Interests/Publications*Research Interests: Foreign Aid, NGOs and Economic Development, HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Foreign Direct Investment in Africa.
*Fulbright Scholar (University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2000.)
*In Progress:
(1) "Entreprenurial Capture in Pre-Conflict Liberia" [presented at the UN-WIDER conference on "Entrepreneurship and Conflict," Londonderry, Northern Ireland, March 2009]
(2) "Nature or Nuture: The Firestone Plantations Company in President Tubman's Liberia" [to be presented August 2009]
"When Firestone Entered Liberia: Constructing the American Tropical Capitalist of the 1920's." [Working Paper]
(3) (linked to Journal of Humanitarian Assistance) “NGOs in the Aid Community: Do Funding Source or Economic Conditioning Matter to Decisions of Country Involvement?”
(4) "Monopsony and Fragile Developing Country Labor Markets: A Case Study in Liberia’s Past Development and Current Post-Conflict Reconstruction." [presented at the Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2008.]
(5) "When Firestone Entered Liberia: Constructing the American Tropical Capitalist of the 1920's." presented at the 2008 Economic & Business Historical Society Conference, Montgomery, Alabama; April 17-19, 2008. [Powerpoint Presentation]
(6) "Mr Firestone, what are you up to? W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Harvey Firestone and the race of American capital for Liberia"
*Publications:
(1) Whitehead, J., de Wet, A. and S.K. McCoskey (2004) “An Analysis of Contributing Factors to Deviations in the Law of One Price [US versus South Africa],” Journal of Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 28 (2).
(2) Moolman, E. and S.K. McCoskey (2003) “The Impact of Misdiagnosing a Structural Break on Standard Unit Root Tests: Monte Carlo Results for Small Sample and Size,” Journal of Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 27 (1).(3) McCoskey, S. K. (2002) “Convergence in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Non-Stationary Panel Approach.” Applied Economics, 34 (7).
(4) Moolman, E. and S.K. McCoskey (2002) “On the Long-run Intedependence of Stock Markets: A Tale of Correlations, Autoregressions and Decompositions,” South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 5 (3).
(5) Dutkowsky, D and S.K. McCoskey (2001) “Near Integration, Bank Reluctance and Aggregate Discount Window Borrowing,” Journal of Banking and Finance, 25 (6).
(6) McCoskey S. K. and C. Kao (2001) “Comparing Panel Data Cointegration Tests with an Application to the “Twin Deficits” Problem,” Journal of Propagations in Probability and Statistics, 1 (2).
(7) McCoskey, S. K. and C. Kao (1999) “Testing the Stability of a Production Function with Urbanization as a Shift Factor,” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 61 (Special Issue).
(8) Chen, B., S.K. McCoskey, and C. Kao (1999) “Estimation and Inference of a Cointegrated Regression in Panel Data, American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 19 (1).
(9) McCoskey, S. K. and T. Selden (1998) “Health Care Expenditures and GDP: Panel Data Unit Root Test Results,” Journal of Health Economics, 17 (3).
(10) McCoskey, S.K. and C. Kao (1998) “A Residual-Based Test of the Null of Cointegration in Panel Data,” Econometric Reviews, 17 (1).
(11) McCoskey, S. K. (1998) “What is an Econometrician,” Association for Women in Science Magazine 27 (1). [non-refereed publication]