A collection of published articles from members of the Department of Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis at Kennesaw State University.
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Submissions from 2023
Jail Conditions And Mortality: Death Rates Associated With Turnover, Jail Size, And Population Characteristics, Jessica L. Adler and Weiwei Chen
Estimating the Fiscal Impact of Stadium Developments: Evaluating a Pro Forma Model, Robert W. Baumann and John Charles Bradbury
Public policy toward professional sports stadiums: A review, John Charles Bradbury, Dennis Coates, and Brad R. Humphreys
Free and reduced-price meal enrollment does not measure student poverty: Evidence and policy significance, Ishtiaque Fazlul, Cory Koedel, and Eric Parsons
Strategies for implementing the interRAI home care frailty scale with home-delivered meal clients, Lisa A. Juckett, Haley V. Oliver, Govind Hariharan, Leah E. Bunck, and Andrea L. Devier
Currency Carry Trade by Trucks: The Curious Case of China's Massive Imports from Itself, Xuepeng Liu, Heiwai Tang, Zhi Wang, and Shang Jin Wei
Crash Frequency Minimization with Severity Mitigation in Road Geometric Design Using Chance Constraint Programming Optimization, Wei Li, Minjiao Zhang, and Anuj Sharma
A risk analytics model for strategic workforce planning: readiness of enlisted military personnel, Leo MacDonald and Jomon Aliyas Paul
The Impact of Organizer Market Structure on Participant Entry Behavior in a Multi-Tournament Environment, Timothy Mathews, Soiliou Daw Namoro, and James W. Boudreau
Dynamic responses of energy prices to oil price shocks, Tom W. Miller
Immigration, terrorism, and the economy, Jomon A. Paul and Aniruddha Bagchi
A generic decision support framework for identification of societal impact themes and its measurement in a B-school, Jomon A. Paul and Prachi Gala
Simpson's aggregation paradox in nonparametric statistical analysis: Theory, computation, and susceptibility in public health data, Shane Sanders, Justin Ehrlich, and James Boudreau
Submissions from 2022
An experimental examination of the flow of irrelevant information across markets, Lucy F. Ackert, Brian D. Kluger, Li Qi, and Lijia Wei
Do Tobin taxes help stop stock price bubbles?, Lucy F. Ackert, Li Qi, and Wenbo Zou
Evolution, uncertainty, and the asymptotic efficiency of policy, Brian C. Albrecht, Joshua R. Hendrickson, and Alexander William Salter
Testing the Hayek hypothesis: Recent theoretical and experimental evidence, Omar Al-Ubaydli, Peter Boettke, and Brian C. Albrecht
Can social recognition for teachers and principals improve student performance? Evidence from India, Puneet Arora, Ishtiaque Fazlul, Tareena Musaddiq, and Abhinav Vats
User Privacy, Surveillance and Public Health during COVID-19 – An Examination of Twitterverse, Paras Bhatt, Naga Vemprala, Rohit Valecha, and Govind Hariharan
Conflicts with Momentum, James W. Boudreau, Timothy Mathews, Shane D. Sanders, and Aniruddha Bagchi
Does hosting a professional sports team benefit the local community? Evidence from property assessments, John Charles Bradbury
Sports stadiums and local economic activity: Evidence from sales tax collections, John Charles Bradbury
The impact of sports stadiums on localized commercial activity: Evidence from a Business Improvement District, John Charles Bradbury
Bankruptcy filings, flooding, real estate prices and Leading Index, Billie Ann Brotman
Game of Thrones and Tourism Impacts on Croatian Housing Prices, Billie Ann Brotman
Insurance losses caused by residential housing flood events, Billie Ann Brotman
Property investor decisions using income and rental ratio signals, Billie Ann Brotman
Floridian bankruptcies and local property damage in the United States, Billie Ann Brotman and Brett Katzman
Seasoned equity issuers’ prospectus filings: How informative is their tone?, Rongbing Huang, Hong Qian, and Santhosh Ramalingegowda
The Puzzle of Frequent and Large Issues of Debt and Equity, Rongbing Huang and Jay R. Ritter
Implementing a Community-Based Initiative to Improve Nutritional Intake among Home-Delivered Meal Recipients, Lisa A. Juckett, Govind Hariharan, Dimitri Camargo Dodonova, and Jared Klaus
Childhood trauma among Chinese inmates, Han Liu, Lucy F. Ackert, Fang Chang, and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
The trade impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Xuepeng Liu, Emanuel Ornelas, and Huimin Shi
A closer look at two conjectures about irregular marginal revenue, Alexander Maslov, Luc Noiset, and Jesse A. Schwartz
Imperfect competition in online auctions, Alexander Maslov and Jesse A. Schwartz
Natural disasters and their impact on cooperation against a common enemy, Timothy Mathews and Jomon A. Paul
Immigration narrative sentiment from TV news and the stock market, Stefano Mazzotta
On price stability with a job guarantee, Jackson Mejia and Brian C. Albrecht
Disparities in Emergency Department Visits for Opioid and Stimulant Overdoses in Florida During COVID-19, Timothy F. Page, Weiwei Chen, Julie A. Jacko, and François Sainfort
New Evidence on Teacher Pay, Krishna Regmi
Submissions from 2021
Transitions in "Privatized" Prison Health Systems: Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Among Incarcerated People in Florida, 2011-2018, Jessica L. Adler, Weiwei Chen, and Timothy F. Page
Financial Returns in Major League Soccer, John Charles Bradbury
What explains labor’s declining share of revenue in major league baseball?, John Charles Bradbury
Portland ordinances: Tiny home and short-term rental permits, Billie Ann Brotman
Gulf property damage, housing price trends and US bankruptcy filings, Billie Ann Brotman and Brett Katzman
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Opioid Use Disorder and Poisoning Emergency Department Visits in Florida, Weiwei Chen, Timothy F. Page, and Wenjie Sun
The Role of Multilateralism of the WTO in International Trade Stability, Abdur Chowdhury, Xuepeng Liu, Miao Wang, and M. C.S. Wong
The Affordable Care Act’s Coverage Impacts in the Trump Era, Charles Courtemanche, Ishtiaque Fazlul, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, and Daniela Zapata
The Effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on Student Achievement and College Entrance, Heidi H. Erickson, Jonathan N. Mills, and Patrick J. Wolf
International free riding on institutions, Robert Gmeiner
Central place theory and tax revenue from tourism, Robert J. Gmeiner
Social Welfare and ISIS Foreign Fighters, Moamen Gouda and Marcus Marktanner
Corporate Cash Shortfalls and Financing Decisions, Rongbing Huang and Jay R. Ritter
Local Composite Quantile Regression Smoothing: A Flexible Data Structure and Cross-Validation, Xiao Huang and Zhongjian Lin
Local Composite Quantile Regression for Regression Discontinuity, Xiao Huang and Zhaoguo Zhan
Teacher Retirement Pension or 401(k) Alternative?, Ladd Kochman and David Bray
The Holdover Effect: Fact or Fantasy?, Ladd Kochman and David Bray
Social division, trust, and reciprocity among Chinese inmates, Han Liu, Lucy F. Ackert, Fang Chang, Li Qi, and Yaojiang Shi
Decision support model for cybersecurity risk planning: A two-stage stochastic programming framework featuring firms, government, and attacker, Jomon A. Paul and Minjiao Zhang
Media Capture and Bias in the Market for News, Abhra Roy
This Time Really Is Different: The Effect of COVID-19 on Independent K-12 School Enrollments, Benjamin Scafidi, Roger Tutterow, and Damian Kavanagh
This Time Really Is Different: The Effect of COVID-19 on Independent K-12 School Enrollments, Benjamin Scafidi, Roger Tutterow, and Damian Kavanagh
American Populist Support for Choice in K-12 Education, Benjamin Scafidi and Eric Wearne
American Populist Support for Choice in K-12 Education, Benjamin Scafidi and Eric Wearne
Hybrid homeschools: Organization, regulatory environments and reactions to COVID-19, Eric Wearne
A generalized ordinal finite mixture regression model for market segmentation, Yifan Zhang, Duncan K.H. Fong, and Wayne S. DeSarbo
Submissions from 2020
Valuing disaster risk reduction neighborhood interventions in informal settlements of Latin American and the Caribbean, Alejandro Arrieta, Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Meenakshi Chabba, and Weiwei Chen
The refugee game: The relationship between individual security expenditures and collective security, João Ricardo Faria, Andreas Novak, Aniruddha Bagchi, and Timothy Mathews
Submissions from 2019
The joint impact of accountability and transparency on managers’ reporting choices and owners’ reaction to those choices, Lucy F. Ackert, Bryan K. Church, Shankar Venkataraman, and Ping Zhang
Are Time Preference and Risk Preference Associated with Cognitive Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence?, Lucy F. Ackert, Richard Deaves, Jennifer Miele, and Quang Nguyen
Implied volatility and investor beliefs in experimental asset markets, Lucy F. Ackert, Brian D. Kluger, and Li Qi
A Model of a Multilateral Proxy War with Spillovers, Aniruddha Bagchi, Joao Ricardo Faria, and Timothy Matthews
Measuring economic freedom: an alternative functional specification and subsequent ranking, Sean Balliew, Timothy Mathews, and Joshua C. Hall
Do Movie Production Incentives Generate Economic Development?, John Charles Bradbury
Robust Inference in Structural Vector Autoregressions With Long-run Restrictions, Guillaume Chevillon, Sophocles Mavroeidis, and Zhaoguo Zhan
Anti‐dumping duty circumvention through trade rerouting: Evidence from Chinese exporters, Xuepeng Liu and Huimin Shi
Conflict and aid dependency – an explorative study motivated by the case of Palestine, Marcus Marktanner and Almuth Merkel
Hunger and Anger in Autocracies and Democracies, Marcus Marktanner and Almuth Merkel
Comparisons of utility inequality and income inequality, Timothy Mathews and Jesse A. Schwartz
Simple analytics of the impact of terror generation on attacker–defender interactions, Timothy Matthews, Aniruddha Bagchi, and Joao Ricardo Faria
A Study of the Effects of Certificate of Need Law on Inpatient Occupancy Rates, Jomon A. Paul, Huan Ni, and Aniruddha Bagchi
Socially Optimal IT Investment for Cybersecurity, Jomon A. Paul and Xinfang Jocelyn Wang
Submissions from 2018
Informed Traders' Performance and the Information Environment: Evidence from Experimental Asset Markets, Lucy F. Ackert, Bryan K. Church, and Ping Zhang
Role of Intelligence Inputs in Defending Against Cyber Warfare and Cyberterrorism, Aniruddha Bagchi and Tridib Bandyopadhyay
A model of a multilateral proxy war with spillovers, Aniruddha Bagchi, Joao Ricardo Faria, and Timothy Matthews
Youth unemployment and terrorism in the MENAP (Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan) region, Aniruddha Bagchi and Jomon A. Paul
Stag hunt contests and alliance formation, James W. Boudreau, Lucas Rentschler, and Shane Sanders
The role of noise in alliance formation and collusion in conflicts, James W. Boudreau, Shane Sanders, and Nicholas Shunda
DETERMINANTS OF REVENUE IN SPORTS LEAGUES: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT, John Charles Bradbury
Improving Physician Schedules by Leveraging Equalization: Cases from Hospitals in U.S., Pelin Damcı-Kurt, Minjiao Zhang, and Brian Marentay
Muslim Youth Unemployment and Expat Jihadism: Bored to Death?.", Moamen Gouda and Marcus Marktanner
Sectoral FDI, absorptive capacity and economic growth – empirical evidence from Egyptian governorates, Shima'A Hanafy and Marcus Marktanner
Lock‐In Effects in Relationship Lending: Evidence from DIP Loans, Iftekhar Hasan, Gabriel G. Ramírez, and Gaiyan Zhang
Relationship Banking and Loan Syndicate Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors, Rongbing Huang, Donghang Zhang, and Yija (Eddie) Zhao
Strategic and experimental analyses of conflict and terrorism, Timothy Mathews and Shane Sanders
Simple analytics of the impact of terror generation on attacker–defender interactions, Timothy Matthews, Aniruddha Bagchi, and Joao Ricardo Faria
Civil Liberties and Terrorism in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Jomon A. Paul and Aniruddha Bagchi
Robust location-allocation network design for earthquake preparedness, Jomon A. Paul and Xinfang (Jocelyn) Wang
Supply location and transportation planning for hurricanes: A two-stage stochastic programming framework, Jomon A. Paul and Minjiao Zhang
Three S’s of Undergraduate Course Architecture: Compatibilities of Setting, Style and Structure, Patricia R. Robertson and Victor Wakeling