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The New Life Market (2013)
Journal Article
Cairns, A. J. G., Blake, D., Dowd, K., Coughlan, G. D., & Khalaf-Allah, M. (2013). The New Life Market. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 80(3), 501-558. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6975.2012.01514.x

Reformation, colonisation, and the conversion of the “heathen”: theology, history, and nature in the writings of John Oxenbridge (1608–1674) (2024)
Journal Article
McGhee, P. S. (online). Reformation, colonisation, and the conversion of the “heathen”: theology, history, and nature in the writings of John Oxenbridge (1608–1674). Atlantic Studies, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2024.2393037

This article examines the idea of the “heathen” in the writing of the English congregationalist minister John Oxenbridge (1608–1674), who travelled in Bermuda, Surinam, and Barbados, before settling in Massachusetts. Etymologically derived from the u... Read More about Reformation, colonisation, and the conversion of the “heathen”: theology, history, and nature in the writings of John Oxenbridge (1608–1674).

Globally significant mass of terrestrial organic carbon efficiently transported by canyon-flushing turbidity currents (2024)
Journal Article
Baker, M. L., Hage, S., Talling, P. J., Acikalin, S., Hilton, R. G., Haghipour, N., Ruffell, S. C., Pope, E. L., Jacinto, R. S., Clare, M. A., & Sahin, S. (2024). Globally significant mass of terrestrial organic carbon efficiently transported by canyon-flushing turbidity currents. Geology, 52(8), 631-636. https://doi.org/10.1130/g51976.1

Burial of organic carbon in marine sediments is a long-term sink of atmospheric CO2, and submarine turbidity currents are volumetrically the most important sediment transport process on Earth. Yet the processes, amounts, and efficiency of organic car... Read More about Globally significant mass of terrestrial organic carbon efficiently transported by canyon-flushing turbidity currents.

Revisiting variance gamma pricing: An application to S&P500 index options (2015)
Journal Article
Mozumder, S., Sorwar, G., & Dowd, K. (2015). Revisiting variance gamma pricing: An application to S&P500 index options. International Journal of Financial Engineering, 02(02), Article 1550022. https://doi.org/10.1142/s242478631550022x

This paper reformulates the Lévy–Kintchine formula to make it suitable for modeling the stochastic time-changing effects of Lévy processes. Using the variance gamma (VG) process as an example, it illustrates the dynamic properties of a Lévy process a... Read More about Revisiting variance gamma pricing: An application to S&P500 index options.

Against Helicopter Money (2018)
Journal Article
Dowd, K. (2018). Against Helicopter Money. The Cato journal, 38(1), 147-169