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0807: The Impact of Distribution System Characteristics on Computational Tractability

Iqbal Agha and O'Connor, Debra

0806: Determinants of the Distribution of Congressional Earmarks Across States

Melissa Boyle and Victor Matheson

0805: The Effect of Employment Frictions on Crime: Theory and Estimation

Bryan Engelhardt

0804: Rejecting “Conventional” Wisdom: Estimating the Economic Impact of National Political Conventions

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson

0803: Costs and Benefits of Elderly Prescription Drug Coverage: Evidence from Veterans’ Health Care

Melissa Boyle

0802: U.S. Lotto Markets

Victor Matheson and Kent Grote

0801: Health Insurance and the Labor Supply Decisions of Older Workers: Evidence from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Melissa Boyle and Joanna Lahey

0707: The Impact of Wetlands Rules on the Prices of Regulated and Proximate Houses: A Case Study

Katherine Kiel

0706: Sports and the Law: Using Court Cases to Teach Sports Economics

Victor Matheson

0705: Differences in the College Enrollment Decision Across Race

Robert Baumann

0704: Big Men on Campus: Estimating the Economic Impact of College Sports on Local Economies

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson

0703: NFL Governance and the Fate of the New Orleans Saints: Some Observations

Robert Baade and Victor Matheson

0702: Down, Set, Hike: The Economic Impact of College Football Games on Local Economies

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson

0701: Alternative Methods of Calculating Optimal Timber Rotations: A Critique of the Stokey/Lucas/Prescott Tree-Cutting Problem

Victor Matheson

0611: Research Note: Assessing Household Service Losses with Joint Survival Probabilities

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

0610: Mega-Events: The effect of the world’s biggest sporting events on local, regional, and national economies

Victor Matheson

0609: Gamblers’ Love for Variety and Substitution among Lotto Games

Victor Matheson and Kent Grote

0608: A Tale of Two Stadiums: Comparing the Economic Impact of Chicago’s Wrigley Field and U.S. Cellular Field

Victor Matheson, Robert Baade and Mimi Nikolova

0607: Environmental Contamination and House Values: A Study of Market Adjustment

Katherine Kiel

0606: The Collateral Source Rule: A Common Law Norm Under Special Interest Attack

David Schap and Andrew Feeley

0605: (Much) More on the Collateral Source Rule

David Schap and Andrew Feeley

0604: The Economic Consequences of Professional Sports Strikes and Lockouts: Revisited

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson

0603: Can New Orleans Play Its Way Past Katrina? The Role of Professional Sports in the Redevelopment of New Orleans

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

0602: Estimating key macroeconomic relationships at the undergraduate level: Taylor rule and Okun’s Law examples

Miles Cahill

0601: Environmental Contamination and House Values

Katherine Kiel

0515: Predicting the Path to Recovery from Hurricane Katrina through the Lens of Hurricane Andrew and the Rodney King Riots

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson

0514: Economic Development and Food Demand Changes: Production and Management Implications

Norman Rask and Kolleen Joanne Rask

0513: Examining the Halo Effect in Lotto Games

Victor Matheson and Kent Grote

0512: Conflicts in Development: Tourism and the Cattle Industry in Brazil

Nicholas Sanchez and O'Connell, John

0511: Have Public Finance Principles Been Shut Out in Financing New Sports Stadiums for the NFL in the United States?

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

0510: Selling the Big Game: Estimating the Economic Impact of Mega-Events through Taxable Sales

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson

0509: Rationality, Tort Reform and Contingent Valuation: A Classroom Experiment in Starting Point Bias

Victor Matheson

0508: Comparing the Socio-Economic Determinants of Men's and Women's International Soccer Performance

Victor Matheson, Robert Hoffmann, Lee Chew Ging and Bala Ramasamy

0507: Striking Out? The Economic Impact of Major League Baseball Work Stoppages on Host Communities

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

0506: Research Note: Athletic Graduation Rates and Simpson’s Paradox

Victor Matheson

0505: An Analysis of the Impact of Multiple Environmental Goods on House Prices

Katherine Kiel and Michael Williams

0504: The Paradox of Championships: Be Careful What You Wish For, Sports Fans

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

0503: Educational Spillovers: Does One Size Fit All?

Robert Baumann and Raphael Solomon

0502: Changes in the Appalachian Wage Gap, 1970 to 2000

Robert Baumann

0501: A Fall Classic? Assessing the Economic Impact of the World Series

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

0413: The Earnings Quality Consequences of Announcements to Voluntarily Adopt the Fair Value Method of Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation

Shilpa Manaktala, John Phillips and Karen Teitel

0412: Applying Intermediate Microeconomics to Terrorism

Charles Anderton and John Carter

0411: Vulnerable Trade: The Dark Side of an Edgeworth Box

Charles Anderton and John Carter

0410: Transition Economies and Globalization: Food System Asymmetries on the Path to Free Markets

Kolleen Joanne Rask and Norman Rask

0409: Currencies, Identities, Free Banking, and Growth in Early Twentieth Century Manchuria

Thomas Gottschang

0408: Do Policy-Makers Earmark to Constrain their Successors? The Case of Environmental Earmarking

Neva Novarro

0407: Is Smaller Better? A Comment on "Comparative Economic Impact Analyses" by Michael Mondello and Patrick Rishe

Victor Matheson

0406: Dueling Jackpots: Are Competing Lotto Games Complements or Substitutes?

Victor Matheson and Kent Grote

0405: The Effects of Labor Strikes on Consumer Demand: A Re-examination of Major League Baseball

Victor Matheson

0404: Mega-Sporting Events in Developing Nations: Playing the Way to Prosperity?

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade