Rich Ryan
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
California State University, Bakersfield
Research
Working Papers
Employment, Input-Output Linkages, and the Energy Transition in California’s Top Oil-Producing Region, with Nyakundi Michieka.
On the Tension between Maximum Sustainable Yield and Maximum Economic Yield. Appendix. Slides
Tracking Earnings Ability over the Business Cycle
Published Papers
Not All Oil Price Shocks Are Alike. A Replication Study of Kilian (American Economic Review, 2009)., with Nyakundi Michieka. Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, 4(2025-8), 2025. https://doi.org/10.18718/81781.47.
- Replication materials: https://doi.org/10.15456/j1.2024244.2317598695
- GitHub repository with replication materials
Unemployment Volatility: When Workers Pay Costs upon Accepting Jobs. International Journal of Economic Theory, 20(3): 303–333, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijet.12405.
- Working-paper version at arXiv and SSRN
- GitHub repository with replication materials
Responses of Unemployment to Productivity Changes for a General Matching Technology. Economics Bulletin, 43(4): 1749–1958, 2023.
- GitHub repository with replication materials
Discretionary Extensions to Unemployment Insurance Compensation and Some Potential Costs for a McCall Worker. Risks, 11(10), 2023.
- GitHub repository with replication materials
Labor-Market Polarization over the Business Cycle, with Christopher L. Foote. In NBER Macroeconomics Annual, vol. 29, edited by Jonathan Parker and Michael Woodford, 371–413, 2014. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 21030.
Ecosystem Externalities in Fisheries, with Daniel S. Holland and Guillermo E. Herrera. Marine Resource Economics, 29(1): 39–53, 2014.
Bioeconomic Equilibrium in a Bait-Constrained Fishery, with Daniel S. Holland and Guillermo E. Herrera. Marine Resource Economics, 25(3): 281–293, 2010.
Robust Population Management under Uncertainty for Structured Population Models, with A. Deines, E. Peterson, D. Boeckner, J. Boyle, A. Keighley, J. Kogut, J. Lubben, R. Rebarber, B. Tenhumberg, S. Townly, and A. J. Tyre. Ecological Applications, 17(8): 2,175–2,183, 2007.