School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications
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Submissions from 2026
Do Monetary Policy Shocks Affect CO2 Emissions? Evidence from Brazil, Luccas Assis Attílio, João Ricardo Faria, and Andre V. Mollick
Oil price shocks and interest rates in major economies, Luccas Assis Attílio and André Varella Mollick
Crime, economic forces and trucks crossings in the US–Mexico border region, René Cabral, André Varella Mollick, and Eduardo Saucedo
Decision tree-augmented stochastic frontier analysis, Ming-Yu Deng, Levent Kutlu, and Xi Mao
CEO overconfidence and corporate misconduct: Evidence from federal law violations, Md Ismail Haidar and Saha Iqbal Hossain
Agency Cost and Debt Financing: Evidence From Developing Countries, Incheol Kim, Aram Lee, and Bina Sharma
Estimating exact efficiency in multi-weight spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models, Levent Kutlu
A machine learning approach to stochastic frontier modeling, Levent Kutlu, Xi Mao, and Xuelei Sherry Ni
Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias From Spontaneous Speech Using Foundation Speech and Language Models: Comparative Evaluation, Jingyu Li, Lingchao Mao, Xi Mao, Hairong Wang, Zhendong Wang, and Xuelei Sherry Ni
Submissions from 2025
Oil Price Shocks and Macroeconomic Fluctuations: A GVAR Approach, Luccas Assis Attílio and André Varella Mollick
Female politicians and corruption in rural India, Somdeep Chatterjee, Shiv Hastawala, and Elisa Taveras
Managerial focus and investment efficiency:- Evidence from spin-offs, Yoon K. Choi, Yong H. Kim, Suin Lee, and Jung Chul Park
Geopolitical risk and corporate capital structure, Md Shahedur R. Chowdhury, Mohsen Aram, Siamak Javadi, and Ali Nejadmalayeri
Are Environmentally Sensitive Firms More Likely to Release Corporate Environmental Disclosures? Evidence From Environmental Risk Management, Chune Young Chung, Incheol Kim, and Rong Yang
Are Environmentally Sensitive Firms More Likely to Release Corporate Environmental Disclosures? Evidence From Environmental Risk Management, Chune Young Chung, Incheol Kim, and Rong Yang
Consolidation of Banks and Its Impact on Minority-Income Dynamics, Salvador Contreras and Amit Ghosh
Goodness of fit tests in spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models, Ming-Yu Deng, Yue Fu, Levent Kutlu, and Minxian Wang
Spatial stochastic frontier model with stochastic weighting matrix, Ming-Yu Deng and Levent Kutlu
Hospital efficiency in Türkiye via spatial Stochastic Frontier Analysis, Ramazan Ekinci, Levent Kutlu, Filiz Yeşilyurtc, and M. Ensar Yeşilyurt
The dark side of CEO inside debt: Evidence from stock price crash risk, Amir Gholami and Ahmed M. Elnahas
Local banking market structure and employment dynamics: evidence from US counties, Amit Ghosh and Salvador Contreras
Does digital finance foster corporate innovation? Evidence from China, Ning Gu, Ye Wang, Yu Liu, and Chengbo Fu
Does Societal Trust Reduce Greenwashing? International Evidence, Md Ismail Haidar
Board Gender Diversity and Workplace Safety: Evidence From Quasi-Natural Experiments, Md Ismail Haidar and Saha Iqbal Hossain
The dark side of competition in developing economies: Evidence from closely held SMEs, Siamak Javadi, Mark Kroll, and Yu Liu
Unravelling the effects of knowledge-sharing dynamics on crowdsourcing contest participation, Hanieh Javadi Khasraghi, Xuan Wang, Yaojie Li, and Xi Mao
The use (and misuse) of tariffs in North America: A new trade war?, Maroula Khraiche, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Can Correction Messages Reduce the Spread of Fake News on Social Media? The Impact of Information Updates on the Effectiveness of Corrections, Kelvin K. King and Diego Escobari
An OLG model with endogenous but distinct power-laws in earnings and wealth, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
On the design of an optimal immigration policy, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
Risk, uncertainty, world business cycles, and the U.S. stock-oil relationship, André Varella Mollick
CEO cultural heritage and corporate social responsibility, Md Showaib Rahman Sarker and Ahmed M. Elnahas
The effect of necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship and SME financing on sustainable development, Lu Sui, André Varella Mollick, and Sibin Wu
An unintended effect of school entrance age: pushing children ahead through private school, Elisa Taveras Pena
The factor/style index investing: Midcap growth has been the winner in 1995–2024, Damir Tokic, Dave Jackson, and Karlo Tokic
The Fundamental Justification of the Bubble-Like Gen AI Stock Valuations, Karlo Tokic and Luka Tokic
Re-evaluating causal inference: Bias reduction in confounder-effect modifier scenarios, Xuan Wang, Tamer Oraby, Xi Mao, Geng Sun, and Helmut Schneider
House divided: executive political heterogeneity and corporate social responsibility, Yongdong Wang and Ahmed M. Elnahas
Which institutions impose more sanctions? Formal vs. informal CEO non-duality institutions and stock price crash risk of CEO duality firms, Tingting Zhang, Incheol Kim, Jingyu Gracy Yang, and Zhengyi Zhang
Submissions from 2024
Price Exuberance and Contagion across Housing Markets: Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas, Md Shahedur R. Chowdhury, Damian S. Damianov, and Diego Escobari
Local environmental organizations and long-term investor value appropriation, Chune Young Chung, Gia Han Doan, and Kainan Wang
The Effects of Antitrust Laws on Horizontal Mergers: International Evidence, Chune Young Chung, Iftekhar Hasan, JiHoon Hwang, and Incheol Kim
Justice, inclusion, and incentives, Ghislain Herman Demeze-Jouatsa, Roland Pongou, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Skewness-based test diagnosis of technical inefficiency in spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models, Ming-Yu Deng, Levent Kutlu, and Mingxi Wang
Metabolic syndrome traits exhibit genotype-by-environment interaction in relation to socioeconomic status in the Mexican American family heart study, Vincent P. Diego, Eron G. Manusov, Xi Mao, Marcio A. Almeida, Juan M. Peralta, Joanne E. Curran, Michael C. Mahaney, Harald H. H. Goring, John Blangero, and Sarah Williams-Blangero
CEO marital status and corporate cash holdings, Ahmed M. Elnahas, Md Noman Hossain, and Siamak Javadi
Analysing efficiency in the medical laboratory industry using stochastic frontier analysis, Sinan Ertemel and Levent Kutlu
Late-Arriving Votes and Electoral Fraud: A Natural Experiment and Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Bolivia, Diego Escobari and Gary A. Hoover
Bundling in Advance Sales: Theory and Evidence from Round-Trip versus Two One-Way Tickets*, Diego Escobari, Paan Jindapon, and Nicholas G. Rupp
The cultural role of rice cultivation in female workforce participation in India, Gautam Hazarika
Gender Equity in Labor Market Opportunities and Aggregate Technical Efficiency: A Case of Equity Promoting Efficiency, Gautam Hazarika, Maroula Khraiche, and Levent Kutlu
Corporate culture and investment inefficiency, Md Noman Hossain, Monika K. Rabarison, and Chiquan Guo
Awe of the blue minds: Location, corporate social responsibility, and firm value, Ghada M. Ismail
Credit risk correlation and the cost of bank loans, Siamak Javadi and Theophilus T. Osah
How to Make Everything About Sanctions? Review of “How Sanctions Work, Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare” by Bajoghli, Nasr, Salehi-Isfahani, and Vaez (2024), Siamak Javadi, Alborz Pakravan, Ojan Bahadori, and Alireza Akhondi
The Impact of Board Reforms on Audit Fees: International Evidence, Incheol Kim, Joon Ho Kong, and Rong Yang
Does climate risk influence analyst forecast accuracy?, Incheol Kim, Suin Lee, and Ji Woo Ryou
Interstate migration-based social networks and M&A decisions, Suin Lee, Christos Pantzalis, and Jung Chul Park
Interstate migration networks and stock return comovement, Suin Lee, Christos Pantzalis, and Jung Chul Park
Endogenous Immigration Policy in a Stylized Political Economy, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
Markov equilibrium of social security: An analytic solution under CRRA utility and the future of social security, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
Neoclassical production, scarcity of skills and Pareto distributions, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
Robust contracts in common agency, Keler Marku, Sergio Ocampo, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Carbon emissions, fracking, and firm value of U.S. oil and gas firms, André Varella Mollick and Md Ismail Haidar
Entrepreneurship, Resource Rents and Institutions, André Varella Mollick and Lu Sui
Economic growth before and after the fiscal stimulus of 2008–2009: the role of institutional quality and government size, André Varella Mollick and Andre Coelho Vianna
The reciprocity set, Roland Pongou and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Environmental policy and audit pricing, Monika K. Rabarison, Ibrajim Siraj, and Bin Wang
Does Fintech merger and acquisition change a firm's financial statement?, Yongdong Wang
Hubris or Talent? Estimating the Role of Overconfidence in Chinese households’ Investment Decisions, Jing Xu, Maroula Khraiche, Xi Mao, and Xuan Wang
Submissions from 2023
Gender and firm performance around the world: The roles of finance, technology and labor, Lee Allison, Yu Liu, Samuele Murtinu, and Zuobao Wei
CEO Political Ideology and Voluntary Forward-Looking Disclosure, Ahmed Elnahas, Lei Gao, Md Noman Hossain, and Jeong-Bon Kim
CEO tournament incentives and corporate debt contracting, Chinmoy Ghosh, Di Huang, Nam H. Nguyen, and Hieu V. Phan
The Effect of COVID-19 Uncertainty on Corporate Default Risk: International evidence, Md Ismail Haidar, Md Showaib Rahman Sarker, and André Varella Mollick
Climate change and corporate cash holdings: Global evidence, Siamak Javadi, Abdullah Al Masum, Mohsen Aram, and Ramesh P. Rao
Does access to credit alter migration intentions?, Marina-Selini Katsaiti and Maroula Khraiche
Competition law reform and firm performance: Evidence from developing countries, Incheol Kim, Suin Lee, and Bina Sharma
An econometric modeling of price support: The Bitcoin case, Levent Kutlu
Calculating efficiency for spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier model, Levent Kutlu
The effect of corruption control on efficiency spillovers, Levent Kutlu and Xi Mao
A snapshot of Immigration Flows into the US, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
Supermajority politics: Equilibrium range, policy diversity, utilitarian welfare, and political compromise, Aseem Mahajan, Roland Pongou, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Gene-by-Environment Interaction in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Depression: The Role of Hepatic Transaminases, Eron G. Manusov, Vincent P. Diego, Edward Abrego, Kathryn Herklotz, Marcio A. Almeida, Xi Mao, Sandra L. Laston, John Blangero, and Sarah Williams-Blangero
THE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT OF U.S. COMMUNITY BANKING: A NATIONWIDE SURVEY OF RURAL AND METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY BANKERS, Robert D. Morrison, Dave Jackson, and Joo Y. Jung
Optimal interventions in networks during a pandemic, Roland Pongou, Guy Tchuente, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
The effect of spouses' relative education on household time allocation, Elisa Taveras
When a correction turns into a bear market: What explains the depth of the stock market drawdown? A discretionary global macro approach, Damir Tokic and Dave Jackson
Study on the Effectiveness of Environmental Regulations and Its Spatial Spillover in China’s High-Quality Human Habitat Cities, Chuansheng Wu, Weixuan Fan, Lingling Qi, and Levent Kutlu
Submissions from 2022
Systematic and Idiosyncratic Risks of the U.S. Airline Industry, Rafiqul Bhuyan, André Varella Mollick, and Md Ruhul Amin
Impact of Great Recession bank failures on use of financial services among racial/ethnic and income groups, Luisa R. Blanco, Salvador Contreras, and Amit Ghosh
Related party transactions and corporate environmental responsibility, Wonseok Choi, Chune Young Chung, Monika K. Rabarison, and Kainan Wang
Bank failures, local business dynamics, and government policy, Salvador Contreras, Manthos D. Delis, Amit Ghosh, and Iftekhar Hasan
COVID-19 and Its Impact on Minority-Owned Banks, Salvador Contreras and Amit Ghosh
Local Banking Market Frictions and Youth Crime: Evidence from Bank Failures, Amit Ghosh and Salvador Contreras
The effect of foreign institutional ownership on corporate tax avoidance: International evidence, Iftekhar Hasan, Incheol Kim, Haimeng Teng, and Qiang Wu
Dynamic Effects of Falsehoods and Corrections on Social Media: A Theoretical Modeling and Empirical Evidence, Kelvin K. King, Bin Wang, Diego Escobari, and Tamer Oraby
Spatial stochastic frontier model with endogenous weighting matrix, Levent Kutlu
A Principal-Agent Approach for Estimating Firm Efficiency: Revealing Bank Managerial Behavior, Levent Kutlu, Emmanuel Mamatzakis, and Mike G. Tsionas
Executive compensation and the potential for additional efficiency gains: Evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector, Levent Kutlu and Usha Nair-Reichert
Heterogeneous decision-making and market power: an application to Eurozone banks, Levent Kutlu, Robin C. Sickles, Mike G. Tsionas, and Emmanuel Mamatzakis
