Here‘s my RePEc page. It contains most of my working papers and links to journal websites for published articles.
And here’s some other recent work.
Recent Publications
Risk Aversion and Favorite-Longshot Bias in a Competitive Fixed-Odds Betting Market, forthcoming in Economica.
On Prices and Returns in Commercial Prediction Markets, forthcoming in Quantitative Finance.
Did Raising Doing Business Scores Boost GDP?, (with Tamanna Adhikari), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023.
A Model of QE, Reserve Demand and the Money Multiplier, (with Ellen Ryan), Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 2023.
US Taxation of Gambling Winnings and Incentives to Bet, Journal of Gambling Studies, 2023
Where Do We Stand With “Whatever It Takes”?, Economic and Social Review, Winter 2022
The Past, Present and Future of Euro Area Monetary-Fiscal Interactions, International Economics and Economic Policy, 2022.
Central Banks and Inflation: Where Do We Stand and How Did We Get Here?, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, 2021 (link).
Quantitative Easing and the Hot Potato Effect: Evidence from Euro Area Banks (with Ellen Ryan), Journal of International Money and Finance, 2021 (link).
The Euro at 20: Successes, Problems, Progress and Threats, Economic and Social Review, December 2019.
Working Papers
How Does Inside Information Affect Sports Betting Odds? July 2023.
Disagreement and Market Structure in Betting Markets: Theory and Evidence from European Soccer (with Tadgh Hegarty). May 2023.
Do Gamblers Understand Complex Bets? Evidence From Asian Handicap Betting on Soccer (with Tadgh Hegarty). May 2023.
Fortune’s Formula or the Road to Ruin? The Generalized Kelly Criterion With Multiple Outcomes, April 2023. Software programmes for this paper
- Smoczynski and Tomkins replication 1. (Matlab)
- Smoczynski and Tomkins replication 2. (Matlab)
- Python Jupyter notebook
Forecasting Soccer Matches With Betting Odds: A Tale of Two Markets (with Tadgh Hegarty). February 2023.
Calculating The Bookmaker’s Margin: Why Bets Lose More On Average Than You Are Warned (with Tadgh Hegarty). February 2023.
The Wisdom of No Crowds: The Reaction of Betting Markets to Lockdown Soccer Games (with Tadgh Hegarty). April 2022.
Other Papers
Europe’s Long-Term Growth Prospects: With and Without Structural Reforms (with Kieran McQuinn). Published in The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe. Edited by Nauro F. Campos, Paul De Grauwe, and Yuemei Ji, Oxford University Press, 2018.
Banking Union and the ECB as Lender of Last Resort, August 2016. Published in Filling the Gaps in Governance: the Case of Europe edited by Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti, Joanna Gray and Mitu Gulati.
Changes in Bank Leverage: Evidence from US Bank Holding Companies (with Martin O’Brien). March 2015.
People sometimes ask about my TARGET2 paper. I recommend this working paper version TARGET2 and Central Bank Balance Sheets (March 2013) to the revised (but not better) draft published in Economic Policy.