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)

• The Tyranny of the Ribbon: The Effects of Prioritizing New Infrastructure Over Maintenance Public Finance and Management 23 3 (2024), John Gibson, Felix Rioja.
• 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 Role of Increasing Life Expectancy in Explaining Declining Labor Force Participation (2024), Volume New Orleans, Manoj Atolia, John Gibson, Felix Rioja.
• Climate Policy, Job Reallocation, and Unemployment Fluctuations in a Multi-Sector Economy (2024), Volume Singapore, John Gibson, Garth Heutel, Lilia Karnizova.
• Climate Policy, Job Reallocation, and Unemployment Fluctuations in a Mult-Sector Economy (2024), Volume Washington DC, John Gibson, Garth Heutel, Lilia Karnizova.
• 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.

• US-Mexico Border Management Study: Consensus Building to Unlock Transformation (01/01/2022 - ) US Department of State Through Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)