School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications
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Submissions from 2022
Residual State Ownership, Foreign Ownership and Firms' Financing Patterns, Yu Liu and Jian Xu
Social Security as Markov Equilibrium in OLG Models: Clarifications and New Insights, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
Stable Allocations of Vaccines in a Political Economy, Zephirin Nganmeni, Roland Pongou, Bertrand Tchantcho, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Vaccine and inclusion, Zephirin Nganmeni, Roland Pongou, Bertrand Tchantcho, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Stock and oil price returns in international markets: Identifying short and long-run effects, Theophilus T. Osah and Andre V. Mollick
Laissez-Faire, Social Networks, and Race in a Pandemic, Roland Pongou, Guy Tchuente, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Unintended Consequences of the Dodd–Frank Act on Credit Rating Risk and Corporate Finance, Bina Sharma, Binay K. Adhikari, Anup Agrawal, Bruno R. Arthur, and Monika K. Rabarison
Overconfidence and welfare in a differentiated duopoly, Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides, André Varella Mollick, Rene Cabral, and Eduardo Saucedo
Foreign ownership and productivity, Jian Xu, Yu Liu, and Hussein Abdoh
Submissions from 2021
Executive risk incentives, product market competition, and R&D, Hussein Abdoh and Yu Liu
Local religiosity, workplace safety, and firm value, Md Ruhul Amin, Incheol Kim, and Suin Lee
Business Strategy and Cost of Bank Loans, Md Ruhul Amin and Abdullah Al Masum
Stock Returns, Oil Prices, and Leverage: Evidence from U.S. Firms, Md Ruhul Amin and André Varella Mollick
The Impact of Stronger Shareholder Control on Bondholders, Sadra Amiri-Moghadam, Siamak Javadi, and Mahdi Rastad
The racial/ethnic gap in financial literacy in the population and by income, Marco Angrisani, Sergio Barrera, Luisa R. Blanco, and Salvador Contreras
Information processing costs and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from the SEC’s XBRL mandate, Jeff Z. Chen, Hyun Hong, Jeong-Bon Kim, and Ji Woo Ryou
Independent directors’ dissensions and firm value, Wonseok Choi, Monika K. Rabarison, and Bin Wang
COVID-19 countermeasures, sporting events, and the financial impacts to the North American leagues, Justin Andrew Ehrlich, Shankar Ghimire, Maroula Khraiche, and Mian Farrrukh Raza
Mixed-signal stock splits, Ahmed M. Elnahas, Pankaj K. Jain, and Thomas H. McInish
Financial Contagion During Stock Market Bubbles, Diego Escobari and Shahil Sharma
India’s calorie consumption puzzle: insights from the stochastic cost frontier analysis of calorie purchases, Gautam Hazarika and Sourabh Bikas Paul
Political, economic, financial uncertainty, and real earnings management, Ajeet Jain, Dave Jackson, and Hamid Sakaki
The impact of climate change on the cost of bank loans, Siamak Javadi and Abdullah Al Masum
Corporate cash holdings, agency problems, and economic policy uncertainty, Siamak Javadi, Mohsen Mollagholamali, Ali Nejadmalayeri, and Saud Al-Thaqeb
Strategically Rational Risk Taking by Age in COVID-19, and the Heterogeneous Agent Behavioral SIR Model, Siamak Javadi, Elena Quercioli, and Lones Smith
The Behavioral SI* Model, with Applications to the Swine Flu and COVID-19 Pandemics, Jussi Keppo, Marianna Kudlyak, Elena Quercioli, Lones Smith, and Andrea Wilson
The impact of the yield curve on bank equity returns: Evidence from Canada, Robert N. Killins, Peter V. Egly, and Sourav Batabyal
Multinationality and the value of green innovation, Incheol Kim, Christos Pantzalis, and Zhengyi Zhang
Greenhouse Gas Emission Inefficiency Spillover Effects in European Countries, Levent Kutlu and Ran Wang
The dark side of transparency in developing countries: The link between financial reporting practices and corruption, Tingting Liu, Yu Liu, Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei, and Lixin Colin Xu
Organizational Resources, Country Institutions, and National Culture behind Firm Survival and Growth during COVID-19, Yu Liu, Mike W. Peng, Zuobao Wei, Jian Xu, and Lixin Colin Xu
COVID-19 and Women-Led Businesses around the World, Yu Liu, Siqi Wei, and Jian Xu
Occupancy, oil prices, and stock returns: Evidence from the U.S. airline industry, Andre V. Mollick and Md Ruhul Amin
Shareholder litigation rights and stock price crash risk, Ivan Obaydin, Ralf Zurbruegg, Md Noman Hossain, Binay K. Adhikari, and Ahmed Elnahas
A Political Reciprocity Mechanism, Roland Pongou and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
The US financial crisis, market volatility, credit risk and stock returns in the Americas, Juan Andres Rodriguez-Nieto and André V. Mollick
Institutional Investors’ Ownership Stability and Their Investee Firms’ Equity Mispricing, Hamid Sakaki, Surendranath Jory, and Dave Jackson
Threshold Effects of Terms of Trade on Latin American Growth, Andre C. Vianna and Andre V. Mollick
Submissions from 2020
Know thy neighbor: Political uncertainty and the informational advantage of local institutional investors, Tom Aabo, Suin Lee, Christos Pantzalis, and Jung Chul Park
Total Factor Productivity and Idiosyncratic Volatility Trends, Hussein Abdoh and Yu Liu
Derivative use, ownership structure and lending activities of US banks, Benjamin A. Abugri and Theophilus T. Osah
Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Volatility in Emerging Markets, Rene Cabral, Francisco G. Carneiro, and Andre V. Mollick
Shareholder Litigation Rights and Corporate Acquisitions, Chune Young Chung, Incheol Kim, Monika K. Rabarison, Thomas Y. To, and Eliza Wu
Webinar with Dr. Contreras: COVID-19's Toll on Texas, Salvador Contreras
The Business of Language: Latino Entrepreneurs, Language Use, and Firm Performance, Alberto Dávila, Michael Jack Pisani, and Gerardo Miranda
Islamic labeled firms: Revisiting Dow Jones measure of compliance, Ahmed Elnahas, Ghada Ismail, Rwan El-Khatib, and M. Kabir Hassan
Evo Morales and Electoral Fraud in Bolivia: A Natural Experiment and Discontinuity Evidence, Diego Escobari and Gary A. Hoover
Explaining the nonlinear response of stock markets to oil price shocks, Diego Escobari and Shahil Sharma
Environmental Regulation and the Cost of Bank Loans: International Evidence, Amirhossein Fard, Siamak Javadi, and Incheol Kim
Midair Refueling for Sensation Seeking? Pilot CEOs and Corporate Debt Contracting, Steven Freund, Tunde Kovacs, Nam H. Nguyen, and Hieu V. Phan
Market Structures in Production Economics, Devin Garcia, Levent Kutlu, and Robin C. Sickles
CEO political ideology and management earnings forecast, Md Noman Hossain, Ahmed Elnahas, and Lei Gao
Brand Equity, Earnings Management, and Financial Reporting Irregularities, Ghada M. Ismail, Fariz Huseynov, Pankaj K. Jain, and Thomas H. McInish
A solution to log of dependent variables with negative observations, Mustafa U. Karakaplan, Levent Kutlu, and Mike G. Tsionas
Can lower remittance costs improve human capital accumulation in Africa?, Maroula Khraiche and James Boudreau
The color of shareholders' money: Institutional shareholders' political values and corporate environmental disclosure, Incheol Kim, Ji Woo Ryou, and Rong Yang
Greenhouse Gas Emission Efficiencies of World Countries, Levent Kutlu
A Spatial Stochastic Frontier Model with Endogenous Frontier and Environmental Variables, Levent Kutlu, Kien C. Tran, and Mike G. Tsionas
Unknown Latent Structure and Inefficiency in Panel Stochastic Frontier Models, Levent Kutlu, Kien C. Tran, and Mike G. Tsionas
Financing patterns in transition economies: Privatized former SOEs versus ab initio private firms, Yu Liu, Nilesh Sah, Barkat Ullah, and Zuobao Wei
Voting over redistribution in the Meltzer–Richard model under interdependent labor inputs, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
Student Loans and their effect on Parental Views of Education Financing, Terrance K. Martin Jr., Lua Augustin, Laura C. Ricaldi, and Jose Nunez
Democracy in Emerging Markets: A New Perspective on the Natural Resources Curse, André V. Mollick, Andre Vianna, and Gautam Hazarika
US COMMUNITY BANK PROFITABILITY: A CROSSSECTIONAL AND DYNAMIC PANEL ANALYSIS OF RURAL AND METROPOLITAN BANKS, Robert D. Morrison and Diego Escobari
Shareholder Litigation Rights and Capital Structure Decisions, Nam H. Nguyen, Hieu V. Phan, and Eunju Lee
Tournament-Based Incentives and Mergers and Acquisitions, Nam H. Nguyen, Hieu V. Phan, Hung V. Phan, Dung T. T. Tran, and Hong Vo
Political corruption and mergers and acquisitions, Nam H. Nguyen, Hieu V. Phan, and Thuy Simpson
Political Design Meets Policy Complexity, Roland Pongou and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Submissions from 2019
Do Women Managers Keep Firms out of Trouble? Evidence from Corporate Litigation and Policies, Binay K. Adhikari, Anup Agrawal, and James Malm
An Index of Unfairness, Victor H. Aguiar, Roland Pongou, Roberto Serrano, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
A Dynamic Stochastic Frontier Model with Threshold Effects: U.S. Bank Size and Efficiency, Pavlos Almanidis, Mustafa U. Karakaplan, and Levent Kutlu
Foreign direct investment in Mexico, crime, and economic forces, René Cabral, André Varella Mollick, and Eduardo Saucedo
Understanding US firm efficiency and its asset pricing implications, Giovanni Calice, Levent Kutlu, and Ming Zeng
Getting on and Moving Up the Property Ladder: Real Hedging in the US Housing Market Before and After the Crisis, Damian S. Damianov and Diego Escobari
Return Predictability: The Dual Signaling Hypothesis of Stock Splits, Ahmed Elnahas, Lei Gao, and Ghada Ismail
Investors’ Uncertainty and Stock Market Risk, Diego Escobari and Mohammad Jafarinejad
Ancestral ecological endowments and missing women, Gautam Hazarika, Chandan Kumar Jha, and Sudipta Sarangi
Searching: On the Cultural and Sociopolitical Implication of Social Media, Siamak Javadi
The impact of financial regulation policy uncertainty on bank profits and risk, Robert N. Killins, David W. Johnk, and Peter V. Egly
Policy Uncertainty and the Dual Role of Corporate Political Strategies, Chansog Francis Kim, Incheol Kim, Christos Pantzalis, and Jung Chul Park
Institutional Investors and Corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance Policies: Evidence from Toxics Release Data, Incheol Kim, Hong Wan, Bin Wang, and Tina Yang
A time-varying true individual effects model with endogenous regressors, Levent Kutlu, Kien C. Tran, and Mike G. Tsionas
Technology directors and firm innovation, Yunhe Li, Yu Liu, and Feixue Xie
Tax smoothing with immigration in an overlapping generations economy, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
Co-Authorship Network Analysis of Prevention Research Centers: An Exploratory Study, Rose A. Marcelin, Kristina M. Rabarison, and Monika K. Rabarison
Exchange rates, oil prices and world stock returns, Andre V. Mollick and Hamid Sakaki
Did the Adoption of IFRS Affect Corporate Tax Avoidance?, Oliver Nnamdi Okafor, Akinloye Akindayomi, and Hussein Warsame
Policy Uncertainty and Firm Cash Holdings, Hieu V. Phan, Nam H. Nguyen, Hien T. Nguyen, and Shantaram Hegde
On the Dynamic Analysis of Cournot-Bertrand Equilibria, Aggey Semenov and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Performance Efficiency Evaluation of U.S. Credit Unions Around the 2009 Global Recession: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach, Lijuan Sun, Xu Sun, and Monika K. Rabarison
Locating an Optimal Site for a Controversial Facility, Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Submissions from 2018
Peer Influence on payout policies, Binay K. Adhikari and Anup Agrawal
Local Investors’ Preferences and Capital Structure, Binay K. Adhikari, David C. Cicero, and Johan Sulaeman
A non-parametric approach to testing the axioms of the Shapley value with limited data, Victor H. Aguiar, Roland Pongou, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
Empirical Evidence On The Relationship Between Audit Probability And Internal Revenue Service Budget Levels, Akinloye Akindayomi, Gideon T. Akileye, and Adeduro A. Ogunmakin
Deposit-Lending Synergies and Bank Profitability, Bruno R. Arthur and Monika K. Rabarison
Intergenerational mobility and the political economy of immigration, Henning Bohn and Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
The Impact of Crime and Other Economic Forces on Mexico's Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, Rene Cabral, Andre V. Mollick, and Eduardo Saucedo
What Do Outside Directors Actually Do? Evidence From Their Voting Activities, Wonseok Choi and Monika K. Rabarison
