Economics and Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Submissions from 2025
The use (and misuse) of tariffs in North America: A new trade war?, Maroula Khraiche, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji
On the design of an optimal immigration policy, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Foreign ownership and productivity, Jian Xu, Yu Liu, and Hussein Abdoh
Submissions from 2021
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
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
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
The impact of climate change on the cost of bank loans, Siamak Javadi and Abdullah Al Masum
Corporate Cash Holding, 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
Institutional Investors’ Ownership Stability and Their Investee Firms’ Equity Mispricing, Hamid Sakaki, Surendranath Jory, and Dave Jackson
Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides, André Varella Mollick, Rene Cabral, and Eduardo Saucedo
Threshold Effects of Terms of Trade on Latin American Growth, Andre C. Vianna and Andre V. Mollick
Submissions from 2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
