Browsing ECO Faculty Research by Title
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Complex and entangled public policy: Here be dragons in Emergence, Entanglement, and Political Economy
(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 ... -
The consequences (and nonconsequences) of ownership change: the case of major league baseball
(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 ... -
The cost of Federal Reserve membership for Kansas banks
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1970)The purpose of this paper is to suggest a method soundly based in theory by which costs of meeting the most restrictive reserve requirements prescribed by the Federal Reserve may be approximated by the use of readily ... -
The deficient treatment of money in basic undergraduate texts, a comment by Samuel C. Webb
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Did the classical gold standard lead to greater business cycle synchronization? Evidence from new measures
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014-02)Previous studies have presented findings suggesting that the gold standard may have led to an increase in business cycle synchronization among its member countries. This follows a growing literature which posits that ... -
Did the classical gold standard lead to greater price level convergence? A new approach
(Springer International Publishing AG, 2015-04)Some previous research has indicated that the classical gold standard led to greater price level co-movement among member countries than would be observed in later Bretton Woods and floating exchange rate regimes. This ... -
The digital Wild West: on social entrepreneurship in extended reality
(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 ... -
Direct medical costs and their predictors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A three-year study of 7,527 patients
(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 ... -
Does general manager networking affect choice of trade partners in major league baseball?
(SAGE Publications, 2014-12)It is not unusual for baseball general managers (GMs) to have network ties to their potential trading partners, either to the other teams' GMs or to the teams themselves. This article investigates whether these connections ... -
Does the NCAA coaching carousel hamper the professional prospects of college football recruits?
(SAGE Publications, 2010-12-02)College football recruits choose their schools partly for the opportunity to play for a specific coach. It is not unusual for the coach who recruited the player to leave before the end of the player’s career. This article ... -
Energy efficiency: Indicator, estimation, and a new idea
(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 ... -
The foreclosure-house price nexus: a panel VAR model for US states, 1981-2009
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-07-19)Despite housing's economic importance, little has been written on how foreclosures and home prices interact in a framework that includes macroeconomic and housing variables such as employment, permits or sales. Panel VAR ... -
Formal targets, central bank independence and inflation dynamics in the UK: A Markov-Switching approach
(Elsevier, 2011-12)We examine inflation and uncertainty in the UK with a version of the Markov Switching model, which allows for changes in the variance as well as in the mean and persistence of a series. We find that the UK's attempts at ... -
Gains from Integration? An empirical hint from the eurozone
(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, ... -
Has there actually been a sustained increase in the synchronization of house price (and business) cycles across countries?
(Elsevier B.V., 2017-06)Housing has been demonstrated to affect the macroeconomy, particularly business cycle fluctuations. Given the more globalized nature of financial and economic activity in comparison to past decades, there has been much ... -
The housing bubble: how much blame does the fed really deserve?
(American Real Estate Society, 2014)Two recent empirical papers have blamed the Fed for the latest boom and bust in housing. Neither study includes long-term interest rates, which are more affected by global factors than the federal funds rate (FFR). In this ... -
The impact of parental migration on social identity - A framed field experiment with left-behind children in China
(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
(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 ... -
Inter-board pay differentials for directors with multiple appointments
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)We analyse uniformity in the market's valuation of director human capital by comparing director compensation across firms with and without director overlaps. We find that although there is less variation in director ... -
Is full efficiency achievable? An empirical study of the banking industry in Taiwan
(Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2018-11-10)This paper aims to propose a feasible framework for estimating the efficiency of input factors for banks and the adjustment of these factors necessary to achieve full efficiency in the short and long term. Based on a sample ...