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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 ... -
Inflation targeting and monetary policy in Canada: What is the impact on inflation uncertainty?
(Elsevier, 2008-08)Inflation uncertainty has been demonstrated both theoretically and empirically to lower real output. This paper examines the impact of inflation targeting in Canada on inflation uncertainty, as well as persistence. Our ... -
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 ... -
International link of stock markets: New evidence of U.S. impacts on Vietnam
(Wichita State University, 2016-04-29)Vietnam has drawn attention of the world to its fast growing economy in recent years. Its stock market, established in July 2000, is the main target of domestic and international investment. Vietnam's policy in embracing ... -
Irreversibility, uncertainty and housing investment
(Springer, 2009-02)Housing represents a form of "irreversible" investment. Theoretically, increased uncertainty should lower housing investment. Empirically, finding a proxy for uncertainty has proven problematic. Some recent papers have ... -
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 ... -
Is monetary policy non-linear in Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand? A quantile regression analysis.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-11)There is a growing literature on the linearity or otherwise of monetary policy in industrialised countries. The investigations have revealed that the reactions of central banks to economic variables depend on the level of ... -
Is the "smoke-filled room" necessary? An experimental study of the effect of communication networks on collusion
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2023-03-03)We investigate how well firms can collude with partial communication in relation to full communication. We find that firms vary their communication strategies with network structures. In the networks that have either an ... -
Kansas population forecast by age cohort survival method
(Wichita State University, 2016-04-29)Using new data, this paper proposes a method to predict the populations of Kansas counties. The project forecasts the population of all 105 counties of Kansas using an age-cohort survival projection method. The age cohorts ... -
Legislative compensation: An econometric analysis
(Wichita State University, 2016-04-29)In this econometric project I look at legislative compensation across the fifty states to see if market theories hold; market theory would suggest that higher legislative pay would yield better performance. My hypothesis ... -
Long-range dependence in U.S. home price volatility
(Springer, 2011-04)The existence of GARCH effects in a financial price series means that the probability of large losses is much higher than standard mean-variance analysis suggests. Accordingly, several recent papers have investigated whether ... -
Mexico's business cycles and synchronization with the USA in the post-NAFTA Years
(Wiley-blackwell, 2011-11)A number of papers have investigated the increasing macroeconomic ties between Mexico and the USA. These studies have relied on linear models, however, making their results suspect. Other papers have investigated nonlinearity ... -
A model of cocaine supply transformation and the efficiency of U.S. federal interdiction
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2010-04-23)This paper develops a model to illustrate factors that may reduce cocaine supply from its original production level in South American countries to its arrival on U.S. streets for final retail sale. Some of the variables ... -
Monetary shocks, equity returns and volatility: a firm-level panel data analysis
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016)This article studies the impact of monetary policy shocks on equity returns and their volatility among nine industries and their affiliated firms in the United States. We use an extension of the traditional CAPM as the ... -
Net discount rate determination: A reply
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On the effectiveness of devaluation to overcome tariff barriers to trade
(Wichita State University, 2020-05-01)The Sino-American trade war has brought renewed research into the subject of international trade disputes, as well as a display of tactics rarely seen outside of the theoretical. Notably, during the summer of 2019 China ... -
One continent, one currency? Varieties of common currency experience in Europe and Latin America
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006-08)Currency unions have been promoted as a means to increase trade, investment and growth. A crucial issue in giving up the domestic currency is the loss of a mechanism to absorb real external shocks. High real exchange ... -
Physician goals: impact on hospital performance
(Wolters Kluwer Health, 1989-01-01)Controversy prevails concerning the relative superiority of for-profit versus not-for-profit hospitals. Presented here are three variations to each of two basic theoretical models that contrast performance of for-profit ... -
Quantitative goals for monetary policy: a quantile regression approach
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)A recent paper by Fatas et al. (2006 Fatas, A, Mihov, I and Rose, A. 2006. Quantitative goals for monetary policy. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 39: 1163-76. [Google Scholar] ) indicates that formal monetary ...