Christian Cox joined the Eller College of Management in fall 2023. Prior to joining Eller, he was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs in the Leitner Program on Effective Democratic Governance. Christian received his PhD in Economics from Michigan State University in 2021. His general research interests include political economy, public economics, industrial organization, and applied econometrics. 

Courses

• ECON 337 Economics of Politics and Policymaking
• Econ 460 Industrial Organization

Publications

• “Lobbying for Government Appropriations”, Forthcoming, The RAND Journal of Economics
• “Dark Money in Congressional House Elections”, Economics Letters, Volume 216, July 2022
• “Campaign Contributions by Nonprofit Executives and Government Grants”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 82 (4) 916-933, 2020