• Regional house price co-movement in the USA: the medium cycle is not the business cycle 

  Miles, William (Springer Nature, 2022-08-02)

  Co-movement in different regional housing markets has implications for portfolio management, as well as the effectiveness of monetary and other policies. Such co-movement has thus been the subject of several previous ...

• The Northern Ireland housing market: would unification with the south be problematic? 

  Miles, William R. (AccessEcon LLC, 2022-02-20)

  Recent political events such as Brexit, as well as changing demographics have made the unification of Northern Ireland and the Republic likelier than recently thought possible. Unification would require addressing many ...

• FinTech and capital allocation efficiency: Another equity-efficiency dilemma? 

  Xie, Xueyan; Zhu, Xiaoyang (Elsevier, 2022-05-22)

  The emergence of financial technology (FinTech) introduces new tools and solutions to lending and equity markets, and has significantly increased the accessibility of marginal firms to funds, a property known as financial ...

• Complex and entangled public policy: Here be dragons in Emergence, Entanglement, and Political Economy 

  Devereaux, Abigail (Springer, Cham, 2020-12-05)

  The tools and concepts of the emerging field of complexity science—like agent-based modeling, network theory, and machine learning—can offer powerful insights to economists and crafters of public policy. Complexity science ...

• Scottish home prices: Compatible with Euro membership? 

  Miles, William (Universita Carlo Cattaneo, 2021)

  Although the Scottish electorate voted down independence in 2014, Brexit has led to renewed calls from Scottish political leaders for a second referendum. Scottish independence would likely lead to joining the European ...

• The impact of parental migration on social identity - A framed field experiment with left-behind children in China 

  Wang, Siyu; Xu, Hui (Elsevier, 2021-07-01)

  Recent studies suggest that an estimated 61 million rural migrants in China were living outside their hometowns with their children left behind. We examine the impact of parental migration on the social identity among ...

• Intention or request: The impact of message structures 

  Wang, Siyu; Flannery, Timothy (MDPI, 2021-02)

  This paper investigates how different message structures impact communication strategy as well as sender and receiver behavior. Specifically, we focus on comparing communication games with messages stating an intention ...

• The dynamics of house prices and income in the UK 

  Miles, William (Global Social Science Institute, 2020)

  Asset prices and fundamentals can move apart, as is the case during bubble episodes. However, they should exhibit a stable relationship in the long run. For UK housing, previous studies have investigated whether house ...

• Convergence in the Eurozone: Progress Towards the Goal? 

  Miles, William (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020-09-23)

  Convergence in per capita income across member countries is a stated goal of the European Union. This goal applies, of course, to all eurozone nations. The impact of a common currency on income convergence is both theoretically ...

• House price convergence in the euro zone: a pairwise approach 

  William, Miles (Elsevier, 2020-07-29)

  The adoption of the euro common currency was expected to lead to convergence for a number of economic and financial variables across national borders, including house prices. We apply a probabilistic pairwise approach to ...

• The digital Wild West: on social entrepreneurship in extended reality 

  Devereaux, Abigail N. (Emerald, 2020-07-10)

  Purpose: Our central thesis is that the dynamic, immersive and agile nature of extended reality (XR) both provides an unusually fertile ground for the development of alternative forms of governance and essentially necessitates ...

• Energy efficiency: Indicator, estimation, and a new idea 

  Chen, Ku Hsieh; Cheng, Jen-Chi; Lee, Joe Ming; Li, Liou Yuan; Peng, Sheng Yu (MDPI AG, 2020-06-17)

  Energy efficiency has long been an important issue to the global economic and political theaters; however, searching for an effective and concise measure for efficiency remains a contentious and intriguing topic. There are ...

• Being present: determinants of trustee attendance at public university board meetings 

  Hersch, Philip L.; Pelkowski, Jodi E. (John Wiley & Sons, 2020-04-17)

  Using a unique data set, we analyze board meeting attendance records of a cross‐section of trustees representing 134 US public universities. Attendance at board meetings is essential for trustees to fulfill their fiduciary ...

• Gains from Integration? An empirical hint from the eurozone 

  Chen, Ku Hsieh; Cheng, Jen-Chi; Lee, Joe Ming; Chen, Chihchun (European Review, 2020-03-26)

  Has the eurozone (EZ) really gained from integration? This study applied two econometric frameworks, mGARCH and gMMPI, to test this hypothesis, using panel data that span 1996-2014, a total of 19 years, involving the EZ, ...

• Analysis of environmental productivity on fossil fuel power plants in the U.S. 

  Lu, Yunghsiang; Chen, Ku Hsieh; Cheng, Jen-Chi; Chen, Chihchun; Li, Sian Yuan (MDPI AG, 2019-12-04)

  In 2007, the Clean Air Act officially included greenhouse gases, making fossil fuel power plants the first of key industries regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency. How do we measure the impact of the regulations ...

• Regional convergence and structural change in US housing markets 

  Miles, William (Routledge, 2019-10-24)

  If house prices are convergent at the national level, monetary policy is easier to implement, and labour has an easier time achieving mobility across regions. Accordingly there have been several studies on home price ...

• Home prices and fundamentals: solving the mystery for the G-7 by accounting for nonlinearities 

  Miles, William (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-07-08)

  Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether house prices and income share a stable, stationary relationship in the G-7 countries. This stable relationship has been clearly implied by theory but has been ...

• Has the euro sustainably increased home price co-movement? 

  Miles, William (John Wiley and Sons, 2019-02-22)

  A low level of co‐movement between different euro country housing markets creates difficulties for the ECB in setting monetary policy. Such co‐movement across eurozone countries has been the subject of a number of studies, ...

• Direct medical costs and their predictors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A three-year study of 7,527 patients 

  Michaud, Kaleb; Pelkowski, Jodi E.; Choi, Hyon K.; Wolfe, Frederick (American College of Rheumatology, 2003-10-07)

  OBJECTIVE. To estimate total direct medical costs in persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to characterize predictors of these costs. METHODS. Patients (n = 7,527) participating in a longitudinal study of outcome in ...

• The consequences (and nonconsequences) of ownership change: the case of major league baseball 

  Hersch, Philip L.; Pelkowski, Jodi E. (SAGE Publications, 2019-01)

  Although ultimate responsibility for a professional sports team lies with the owner, little is known about the repercussions of having a new owner at the helm. This article investigates ownership change in Major League ...

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