Below are links to some less technical things I have written over the years.
Blogs and Posts
Libra’s Monetary Economics and Consumer Wealth (Medium, 2019)
Zero or Moon: What’s Up with the Price of Ethereum? (Medium, 2018)
ETFs Rule, Stablecoins Drool: How to Make Cryptocurrencies go Mainstream (Medium 2018)
Publication Lags and Young Economists’ Research Output, (VOX, 24. October 2011)
Papers
Blockchain as a Decentralized Mechanism for Financial Inclusion and Economic Mobility, (John P. Conley, (2019) Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, VUECON-19-00012)
Economic Implications of New Technologies for Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum, (John P. Conley, (2019) Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, VUECON-19-00011)
Encryption, Hashing, PPK, and Blockchain: A Simple Introduction, (John P. Conley (2019) Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, VUECON-19-00013)
The Economics of Crypto-tokens and Initial Coin Offerings, (John P. Conley (2017) Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, VUECON-17-00008)
Blockchain Cryptocurrency Backed with Full Faith and Credit, (John Conley (2017) Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, VUECON-17-00007)
The Research Productivity of New Ph.D.s in Economics: the Surprisingly High Non-Success of the Successful, (John P. Conley and Ali Sina Önder (2014) Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 28, pp. 205–216 (Published version) )
An Empirical Guide to Choosing a Graduate Program and Hiring Assistant Professors in Economics, (John P. Conley and Ali Sina Önder (2014) Working paper (Draft version of the paper above))
Low acceptance rates, commercial publishing, and the future of scholarly communication, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 32 No. 4 p.A37 (Letter to the Editor)
The Economics of Cloud Computing, (Ergin Bayrak, John P. Conley, and Simon Wilkie (2011)Korean Economic Review, Vol. 27, pp. 203-230)
But What Have You Done for Me Lately? Commercial Publishing, Scholarly Communication, and Open-Access, (John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (2009) Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 39, pp. 71–89)
Nonrivalry and Price Discrimination in Copyright Economics, John P. Conley and Christopher Yoo (2009) University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, pp. 101–130)
The Journal of Public Economic Theory at Ten Years Old, (John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (2009) Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 10, pp. 1–5 (Editorial Comment))
Public Economic Theory, (John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders (1999) Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 1, pp. 1–3 (Editorial Comment))
Book review of “Rejected: Leading Economists Ponder the Publication Process”, (John P. Conley (1995)edited by George B. Shepherd, Thomas Horton and Daughters, Sun Lakes, AZ, for International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 6 pp. 441–2)