I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University. My research covers topics in environmental economics, industrial organization, and applied microeconomics.

Contact: wesley.blundell@wsu.edu

Published and Forthcoming Papers:

Enforcing Regulation when Violations are Heterogeneous: Evidence from U.S. Stationary Emissions Policy (with Almira Salimgarieva), Accepted at the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on Food Quality (with Stephen Devadoss and Jeff Luckstead), Economics Letters, 244, November 2024

Acquisitions, Product Variety, and Distribution in the U.S. Craft Beer Industry (with Kyle Wilson), Economic Inquiry, 61(4), October 2023

Natural Gas Flaring, Respiratory Health, and Distributional Effects (with Anatolii Kokoza), Journal of Public Economics, 208, April 2022

Regulating Hazardous Wastes under U.S. Environmental Federalism: The Role of State Resources (with Mary F. Evans and Sarah L. Stafford), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 108, July 2021

Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations (with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Ashley Langer), American Economic Review, Vol. 110(8), August 2020

 When Threats Become Credible: A Natural Experiment of Environmental Enforcement from Florida, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 101, May 2020