Diana Weinert Thomas

Creighton University

Associate Professor of Economics

2500 California Plaza

Omaha, NE 68178

United States

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1.

Corporate Lobbying, Political Connections, and the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2011
Benjamin M. Blau, Tyler Brough and Diana Weinert Thomas
Utah State University - Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University and Creighton University
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Lobbying, Corporate Bailouts, Government Policy, Regulation of Financial Institutions

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Regulation and the Cost of Child Care

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Regulation and the Cost of Child Care

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Feb 2015
Devon Gorry and Diana Weinert Thomas
Utah State University and Creighton University
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Economics of Regulation, Regulation and Business Law: General, Child Care

Regulation and the Cost of Child Care

MERCATUS WORKING PAPER
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Jun 2018
Diana Weinert Thomas and Devon Gorry
Creighton University and Utah State University
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Regulating Away Competition: The Effect of Regulation on Entrepreneurship and Employment

MERCATUS WORKING PAPER, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 237-254, December 2017
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Jun 2018
James B. Bailey and Diana Weinert Thomas
Providence College - Economics Department and Creighton University
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Two-Tiered Political Entrepreneurship and the Congressional Committee System

Public Choice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2011
Diana Weinert Thomas and Adam G. Martin
Creighton University and Texas Tech University - Free Market Institute
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Entrepreneurship, Congressional Committee System, Collective Action, Institutions

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Antitrust Enforcement in the Obama Administration's First Term: A Regulatory Approach

Policy Analysis No. 739
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 May 2014
William F. Shughart and Diana Weinert Thomas
Huntsman School of Business and Creighton University
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antitrust, merger, rent seeking, merger law enforcement, Antitrust Remedies, Sherman Act

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Economic Freedom and Financial Market Liquidity: Evidence from ADRs

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2016
Benjamin M. Blau and Diana Weinert Thomas
Utah State University - Huntsman School of Business and Creighton University
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Economic Freedom, Free Trade, Property Rights, Bid-Ask Spreads, Liquidity, Price Impact

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Entrepreneurship: Catallactic and Constitutional Perspectives

Review of Austrian Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 Jul 2011
Diana Weinert Thomas and Michael D. Thomas
Creighton University and Utah State University - Jon M. Huntsman School of Business
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Constitutional Political Economy, Austrian Political Economy, Public Choice

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Economic Freedom and the Stability of Stock Prices: A Cross-Country Analysis

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 May 2013
Benjamin M. Blau, Tyler Brough and Diana Weinert Thomas
Utah State University - Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University and Creighton University
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ADRs, Economic Freedom, Volatility

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In and Out of the Commons: Extractive Public Entrepreneurship and the Aggie Blue Bikes Program

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 29 Nov 2010
Diana Weinert Thomas, Ryan Yonk, Ryan Yonk and Stephen Young
Creighton University, Utah State University - Department of Political ScienceAmerican Institute for Economic Research and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Regressive Effects of Regulation on Wages

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2018
James B. Bailey, Diana Weinert Thomas and Joseph R. Anderson
Providence College - Economics Department, Creighton University and Creighton University - College of Business Administration
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regulation, wages, inequality, employment

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What Did Economists Do? Euvoluntary, Voluntary, and Coercive Institutions for Collective Action

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Nov 2013
William F. Shughart and Diana Weinert Thomas
Huntsman School of Business and Creighton University
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Rational Irrationality and the Micro Foundations of Reform

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Aug 2012
Michael D. Thomas, Diana Weinert Thomas and Nicholas A. Snow
Utah State University - Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Creighton University and Wabash College - Economics
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Economics of Regulation, Regulation US: 1913, Public Health, Public Economics

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Bootleggers, Baptists, and Political Entrepreneurs: Key Players in the Rational Game and Morality Play of Regulatory Politics

The Independent Review, Winter 2011
Posted: 05 Jul 2011
Randy T. Simmons, Diana Weinert Thomas, Ryan Yonk and Ryan Yonk
Utah State University - Department of Economics and Finance, Creighton University and Utah State University - Department of Political ScienceAmerican Institute for Economic Research

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Entrepreneurship, Collective Action, Institutions

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Encouraging a Productive Research Agenda: Peter Boettke and the Devil's Test

Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 103-115, 2010
Posted: 05 Jul 2011
Diana Weinert Thomas and Michael D. Thomas
Creighton University and Utah State University - Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

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Teaching economics, Austria,; Normative, Welfare economics

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Increasing the Supply of Affordable Child Care

NCPA Enterprise Programs Report, 2011
Posted: 05 Jul 2011
Diana Weinert Thomas
Creighton University

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Deregulation Despite Transitional Gains – The Brewers Guild of Cologne 1461

Public Choice, Vol. 140, No. 3, 2009
Posted: 29 Nov 2010
Diana Weinert Thomas
Creighton University

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Regulation, Transitional Gains Trap, Rent Seeking, Economic History, Regulation, Europe

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The Brewer, the Baker, and the Monopoly Maker

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Posted: 14 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2015
Diana Weinert Thomas and Peter T. Leeson
Creighton University and George Mason University - Department of Economics

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