Economics and Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Submissions from 2020
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
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
The impact of financial regulation policy uncertainty on bank profits and risk, Robert N. Killins, David W. Johnk, and Peter V. Egly
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
Tax smoothing with immigration in an overlapping generations economy, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
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
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
Institutional Development and Foreign Banks in Chile, Brian Du, Alejandro Serrano, and Andre Vianna
Bank net interest margins, the yield curve, and the 2007–2009 financial crisis, Peter V. Egly, David W. Johnk, and Andre V. Mollick
Natural Disaster Risk and Corporate Leverage, Ahmed Elnahas, Dongnyoung kim, and Incheol Kim
Separating between unobserved consumer types: evidence from airlines, Diego Escobari and Manuel A. Hernandez
An Analysis of Dynamic Price Discrimination in Airlines, Diego Escobari, Nicholas G. Rupp, and Joseph Meskey
Price Discrimination and Focal Points for Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the Airline Industry, Diego Escobari, Nicholas G. Rupp, and Joseph Meskey
Labor law and innovation revisited, Bill B. Francis, Incheol Kim, Bin Wang, and Zhengyi Zhang
Ideological Positions of Hispanic College Students in the Rio Grande Valley: Using a Two-Dimensional Model to Account for Domestic Policy Preference, William Greene and Mi-Son Kim
The plough, gender roles, and corruption, Gautam Hazarika
Managerial incentives and changes in corporate investments following the inception of credit default swap trade, Hyun A. Hong, Ji Woo Ryou, and Anup Srivastava
Changes in sentiment on REIT industry excess returns and volatility, Daniel Huerta-Sanchez and Diego Escobari
Disentangling the impacts of industrial and global diversification on firm risk, Mohammad Jafarinejad, Thanh Ngo, and Diego Escobari
Debt market illiquidity and correlated default risk, Siamak Javadi and Mohsen Mollagholamali
Corporate Political Strategies and Return Predictability, Chansog Kim, Incheol Kim, Christos Pantzalis, and Jung Chul Park
A distribution-free stochastic frontier model with endogenous regressors, Levent Kutlu
Estimating efficiency in a spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier model, Levent Kutlu
Estimation of cost efficiency without cost data, Levent Kutlu and Ran Wang
Deconstructing the Corporate Psychopath: An Examination of Deceptive Behavior, Corey A. Shank
Identifying price bubble periods in the energy sector, Shahil Sharma and Diego Escobari
Government size and openness: Evidence from the commodity boom in Latin America, Andre Vianna and Andre V. Mollick
Institutions: Key variable for economic development in Latin America, Andre Vianna and Andre V. Mollick
Submissions from 2017
Female Executives and Corporate Cash Holdings, Binay K. Adhikari
Stock Returns and Interest Rates around the World: A Panel Data Approach, Tibebe A. Assefa, Omar A. Esqueda, and Andre V. Mollick
Immigration and demographics: can high immigrant fertility explain voter support for immigration?, Henning Bohn and Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
Airport, airline and departure time choice and substitution patterns: An empirical analysis, Diego Escobari
Identifying bubbles in Latin American equity markets: Phillips-Perron-based tests and linkages, Diego Escobari, Sergio Garcia, and Cristhian Mellado
Do FOMC Actions Speak Loudly? Evidence from Corporate Bond Credit Spreads, Siamak Javadi, Ali Nejadmalayeri, and Tim Krehbiel
Endogeneity in Panel Stochastic Frontier Models: An Application to the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry, Mustafa U. Karakaplan and Levent Kutlu
School district consolidation policies: endogenous cost inefficiency and saving reversals, Mustafa U. Karakaplan and Levent Kutlu
The long-run performance of U.S. firms pursuing IPOs in foreign markets, Robert N. Killins and Peter V. Egly
The Impact of Oil Shocks on the Housing Market: Evidence from Canada and U.S., Robert N. Killins, Peter V. Egly, and Diego Escobari
Student Loans and their effect on Parental Views of Education Financing, Terrance K. Martin Jr., Jose Nunez, and Lua Augustin
Oil Price Shocks and American Depositary Receipt Stock Returns, Shahil Sharma
Effects of Bush Tax Cut and Obama Tax Increase on corporate payout policy and stock returns, Andre Vianna
Submissions from 2016
Does Globalization Affect Top Income Inequality?, Rene Cabral, Rocio Garcia-Diaz, and Andre V. Mollick
Violence in Mexico and its Effects on Labor Productivity, Rene Cabral, Andre V. Mollick, and Eduardo Saucedo
Long-run Equilibrium Shift and Short-run Dynamics of U.S. Home Price Tiers During the Housing Bubble, Damian S. Damianov and Diego Escobari
LEP Language Disability, Immigration Reform, and English-Language Acquisition, Alberto Dávila and Marie T. Mora
The impact of government intervention on the stabilization of domestic financial markets and on U.S. banks’ asset composition, Peter V. Egly, Diego Escobari, and David W. Johnk
Date stamping bubbles in Real Estate Investment Trusts, Diego Escobari and Mohammad Jafarinejad
Reducing asymmetric information in venture capital backed IPOs, Diego Escobari and Alejandro Serrano
The Liquidity Crisis, Investor Sentiment, and REIT Returns and Volatility, Daniel Huerta, Peter V. Egly, and Diego Escobari
Do U.S. firms fly higher when bypassing the U.S. capital markets? An investigation of the short-term performance of foreign IPOs, Robert N. Killins and Peter V. Egly
Drivers behind the monitoring effectiveness of global institutional investors: Evidence from earnings management, Incheol Kim, Steve Miller, Hong Wan, and Bin Wang
US airport ownership, efficiency, and heterogeneity, Levent Kutlu and Patrick McCarthy
Social networks and Black–White differentials in public employment agency usage among mature job seekers, Marie T. Mora, Alberto Davila, and James Boudreau
Institutional ownership stability and real earnings management, Hamid Sakaki, Dave Jackson, and Surendranath Jory
Are US-Dollar-Hedged-ETF Investors Aggressive on Exchange Rates? A Panel VAR Approach, Corey A. Shank and Andre C. Vianna
The impact of exports to China on Latin American growth, Andre C. Vianna
Submissions from 2015
The Impact of Securitization and Bank Liquidity Shocks on Bank Lending: Evidence from the U.S., Peter V. Egly, Dave Jackson, and David W. Johnk
Expectations and the Dynamic Feedback between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth, Diego Escobari and Diego E. Vacaflores
Cross-listing performance and insider ownership: The experience of U.S. investors, Omar A. Esqueda and Dave Jackson
Virtual integration of financial markets: a dynamic correlation analysis of the creation of the Latin American Integrated Market, Cristhian Mellado and Diego Escobari
The Growing Importance of Educational Attainment and Retirement Security of Mexican-Origin Adults in the U.S. and in Mexico, Marie T. Mora
The Economics of Counterfeiting, Elena Quercioli and Lones Smith
Submissions from 2014
An Alternative View to the Cause of Market Failures: A Dynamic Approach, Salvador Contreras
Trading Income and Bank Charter Value during the Financial Crisis: Does Derivatives Dealer Designation Matter?, Peter V. Egly and Jun Sun
Estimating dynamic demand for airlines, Diego Escobari
Price discrimination through refund contracts in airlines, Diego Escobari and Paan Jindapon
Demand uncertainty and capacity utilization in airlines, Diego Escobari and Jim Lee
The choice of airport, airline, and departure date and time: Estimating the demand for flights, Diego Escobari and Cristhian Mellado
CEO Networks and Bank Risk Taking, Dave Jackson and Fang Fang
Gender and Business Outcomes of Black and Hispanic New Entrepreneurs in the United States, Marie T. Mora and Alberto Davila
Submissions from 2013
Asymmetric Price Adjustments in Airlines, Diego Escobari
A time series test to identify housing bubbles, Diego Escobari, Damian S. Damianov, and Andres Bello
Output Growth and Unexpected Government Expenditures, Diego Escobari and Andre V. Mollick
Submissions from 2012
Did the U.S. Treasury’s capital purchase program (CPP) help bank lending and business activity?, Peter V. Egly and Andre V. Mollick
Dynamic Pricing, Advance Sales and Aggregate Demand Learning in Airlines†, Diego Escobari
Imperfect detection of tax evasion in a corrupt tax administration, Diego Escobari
Imperfect detection of tax evasion in a corrupt tax administration, Diego Escobari
Demand shifting across flights and airports in a spatial competition model, Diego Escobari and Sang-Yeob Lee
The impact of higher education on Texas population and employment growth, André Varella Mollick and Marie T. Mora
The “Price Puzzle” under Changing Monetary Policy Regimes, Andre V. Mollick and Adolfo Sachsida
