Dr. Gibson joined the faculty at UTEP in Fall 2019. Prior to UTEP, Dr. Gibson served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgia State University and he is currently a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and a consultant to the GMF Latin American Division of the World Bank. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Florida State University and his B.A. in economics with mathematics from the University of Southern Mississippi. His research interests include measuring the economic impact of public policies, such as infrastructure investment, and investigating the important role played by real-world frictions related to labor and credit markets. Dr. Gibson’s work has been published in leading economic journals including Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and Economic Inquiry, among others.

• Ph D in Economics, Florida State University (2013)

• Pollution and Labor Market Search Externalities Over the Business Cycle Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 151 (2023), John Gibson, Garth Heutel.
• A Synthetic Control Analysis of U.S. State Level COVID-19 Stay-At-Home Orders on New Jobless Claims Journal of Economics and Finance (2023), John Gibson, Xiaojin Sun.
• The Effect of Corruption on Firm Investment in the Presence of Missing Data American Journal of Economics and Sociology 82 1 (2023), Seyedmasood Dastan, John Gibson.
• Breaking Bad: When Being Disadvantaged Incentivizes (Seemingly) Risky Behavior Eastern Economic Journal 47 (2021), John Gibson, David Johnson.
• The Welfare Effects of Infrastructure Investment in a Heterogeneous Agents Economy B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics 20 1 (2020), John Gibson, Felix Rioja.
• The Backward Hustle: An Experimental Investigation of Tax Code Notches and Labor Supply Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 166 (2019), John Gibson, Douglas Norton, Robert White.
• Are Online Samples Credible? Evidence from Risk Elicitation Tests Atlantic Economic Journal 43 3 (2019), John Gibson, David Johnson.
• Moral Hazard in Lending and Labor Market Volatility Journal of Money Credit and Banking 51 1 (2019), Manoj Atolia, John Gibson, Milton Marquis.

• The Tyranny of the Ribbon: The Effects of Prioritizing New Infrastructure Over Maintenance (2023), Volume New Orleans, John Gibson, Felix Rioja.
• The Role of Demographic Change in Explaining Declining Labor Force Participation (2023), Volume Houston, Texas, Manoj Atolia, John Gibson, Felix Rioja.
• Assessing the Impact of Informal Sector Employment on Young Less-Educated Workers (2023), Volume Clemson, South Carolina, Javier Cano-Urbina, John Gibson.
• The Role of Demographic Change in Explaining Declining Labor Force Participation (2022), Volume Logan, Utah, Manoj Atolia, John Gibson, Felix Rioja.
• After COVID-19: Public Debt Stabalization and its Impacts (2021), Volume Houston, Texas, John Gibson, Felix Rioja.
• Close Encounters of a Heterogeneous Kind: Understanding the Differential Impact of Social Distancing Policy on COVID-19 Infections and Deaths (2021), Volume Houston, Texas, John Gibson, David Johnson, Alexi Thompson.
• After COVID-19: Public Debt Stabalization and its Impact (2021), Volume Atlanta, GA (Virtual), John Gibson, Felix Rioja.
• Assessing the Impact of Informal Sector Employment on Young Less-Educated Workers (2020), Volume New Orleans (Virtual), John Gibson, Javier Cano-Urbina.
• The Participation Rate and the Effects of Changes in Mortality and Health Costs (2020), Volume New Orleans (Virtual), John Gibson, Manoj Atolia, Felix Rioja.
• General Purpose Technology (GPT) and Economic Activity (2020), Volume New Orleans (Virtual), John Gibson, Manoj , Milton Marquis.
• Accessing the Impact of Informal Sector Employment on Young Less Educated Workers (2020), Volume Eastern Economic Association, Boston MA, John Gibson, Javier Cano-Urbina.
• Labor Market Search, Congestion Externalities, and Optimal Environmental Policy (2019), Volume Southern Economic Association, Fort Lauderdale, FL , John Gibson, Garth Heutel.
• Changes in Mortality and Health Cost: Impact on Human Capital and Retirement Decisions (2019), Volume Arizona State University, Economics Department, Tempe, AZ , Manoj Atolia, John Gibson, Felix Rioja.
• Pollution and Unemployment over the Business Cycle (2019), Volume North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Seattle, WA, John Gibson, Garth Heutel.
• Pollution and Unemployment over the Business Cycle (2019), Volume Midwest Macro Spring Meetings, Athens, GA, John Gibson, Garth Heutel.
• The Welfare Effects of Infrastructure Investment in a Heterogeneous Agent Economy (2019), Volume UMBC, Baltimore, MD, John Gibson, Felix Rioja.
• Pollution and Unemployment over the Business Cycle (2019), Volume American Economic Association Meetings, Atlanta, GA, John Gibson, Garth Heutel.
• The Welfare Effects of Infrastructure Investment in a Heterogeneous Agent Economy (2019), Volume St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, John Gibson, Felix Rioja.
• The Welfare Effects of Infrastructure Investment in a Heterogeneous Agent Economy (2019), Volume UTEP, El Paso, TX, John Gibson, Felix Rioja.

• US-Mexico Border Management Study: Consensus Building to Unlock Transformation