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Discrimination patterns through mortgage loan originations in the U.S.
(Wichita State University, 2021-04-02)Are there any discrimination patterns in mortgage lending based on race and ethnicity across the U.S.? The main objective of this study is to examine whether the probability of loan application rejection differs across ... -
Do frontier equity markets exhibit common trends and still provide diversification opportunities?
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-08-19)Many small, frontier equity markets in regions such as Africa and Eastern Europe have opened in recent years. As in other larger emerging markets, important issues for investors are the extent of financial integration with ... -
Do inflation targeting handcuffs restrain leviathan? Hard pegs vs. inflation targets for fiscal discipline in emerging markets
(Taylor & Francis, 7/1/2007)Inflation targeting has been increasingly adopted in emerging markets as fixed exchange rates have fallen in popularity. An important question is whether inflation targeting provides the same level of fiscal discipline as ... -
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 ... -
Does the use of interest rate swaps matter?
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2010-04-23)This project analyzes the effectiveness of employing interest rate swaps to weather U.S. monetary announcement effects. This study presents the evidence that there are benefits for fixed-rate payers when the Fed tightens ... -
The dynamics of Chinese purchases of U.S. securities
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2012-04-18)A significant amount of academic literature exits on the United States’ trade deficit, and its financing through foreigners’ purchases of U.S. securities. Over the last several years, the trade relationship between The ... -
The dynamics of house prices and income in the UK
(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 ... -
Effectiveness of capital controls: the Case of Brazil
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-02)The emerging market crises of the past decade have led some observers to question the wisdom of a completely open capital account. But even if capital controls are desirable, empirical evidence is needed to demonstrate ... -
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 ... -
Exchange rates, inflation and growth in small, open economies: a difference-in-differences approach
(Taylor & Francis, 4/11/2011)Financial crises in emerging markets have led many observers to recommend abandoning fixed exchange rates and adopting more flexible regimes. Moreover, some recent research suggests that the correct exchange rate regime ... -
Financial development and declining market dynamics: Another dark side of “too much finance”?
(Springer, 2022-11-06)This paper empirically investigates whether financial development has played a role in the rise of market concentration over the past decades. Using an industry-level panel of 41 countries over the period 1989–2010, we ... -
FinTech and capital allocation efficiency: Another equity-efficiency dilemma?
(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 ... -
Fixed exchange rates and disinflation in emerging markets: how large is the effect?
(Springer, 2008-10)We examine developing countries which have institutional quality ratings for the effects of exchange rate rigidity on inflation. The level of institutional development exerts no effect on the impact of currency regimes. ... -
Fixed exchange rates and sticky Prices in emerging markets
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2003-06-23)In the wake of financial crises in emerging markets, firmly fixed exchange rates and even dollarization have been advocated as a means to decrease vulnerability. There are many important new issues related to fixing the ... -
Forecasting the sales of light trucks in the United States
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2008-04-25)The motor vehicles and parts industry in the United States employed as much as 7.4% of the labour force in the manufacturing industry in 2006. The purpose of this paper is to canvass various forecasting models, determine ... -
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, ... -
The Gap Between Rich and Poor Grows in China -- restricted access to full text
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)With the 30 years of reform and opening up, China has made lots of remarkable achievements. The national economy has a continued, rapid and healthy development, the average annual GDP growth rate remains at around 9%. ...