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Recent Submissions

  • Tests of the uncovered interest parity 

    Shrestha, Aseem (Wichita State University, 2014-05)
    This paper carries out empirical testing of the Uncovered Interest Parity for US-Mexico, US-Brazil and US-Japan using general OLS and GARCH from monthly data. Similar to numerous other studies UIP failed to hold empirically. ...

  • Competition and home prices: measuring the supply effect 

    Maness, Andrew S. (Wichita State University, 2012-07)
    Hedonic models measure the impact that various physical characteristics have on the sale price of a home. Due to data limitations, however, these models usually do not take into account the number of homes on the market ...

  • Have delayed independence and poor initial institutions been economically costly for Latin Americans? 

    Saloga, Clinton W. (Wichita State University, 2011-05)
    This paper tests the hypothesis that the timing of independence in Latin America and the institutions in place at the time of independence had a joint effect on the developmental paths of the countries. A new variable ...