Professor
Contact Information
Office: GCS 349
email: bcater@trentu.ca
phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7392
Selected Publications
“Employment, Wage, and Accommodation Patterns of Permanently Impaired Workers”, Journal of Labor Economics 18(1) (2000): 74-97.
“The Telegraph, Co-ordination of Tramp Shipping, and Growth in World Trade, 1870-1910”, European Review of Economic History 10(2) (2006): 147-173 (with B. Lew).
“A Theory of Tenure-Track Contracts”, Education Economics 16(2) (2008): 203-218 (with B. Lew and B. Smith).
“The Efficiency of Tenure Contracts in Academic Employment” Journal of Public Economic Theory 19(2) (2017): 331-61 (with B. Lew and M. Pivato).
“Farm Mechanization on an Otherwise ‘Featureless’ Plain: Tractors on the Northern Great Plains and Immigration Policy of the 1920s”, Cliometrica 12(2) (2018): 181-218. (with B. Lew)
“The Impact of Climate on the Law of One Price: A Test Using North American Food Prices from the 1920s”, Canadian Journal of Economics 51(4) (2018). (with B. Lew)