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0913: Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and City Livability: An Examination of Professional Sports and Crime Rates

Robert Baumann, Bryan Engelhardt, Victor Matheson and Taylor Ciavarra

0912: Anomalies in Tournament Design: The Madness of March Madness

Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson and Cara Howe

0911: Fiscal Policy Cyclicality and Growth within the U.S. States

Ayako Kondo and Justin Svec

0910: The Great Macroeconomic Experiment: Assessing the Effects of Fiscal Stimulus Spending on Employment Growth

Robert Baumann, Bryan Engelhardt and Victor Matheson

0909: Efficient Labor Force Participation with Search and Bargaining

Bryan Engelhardt and David Fuller

0908: Luck or Skill? An Examination of the Ehrlich - Simon Bet

Katherine Kiel, Victor Matheson and Kevin Golembiewski

0907: The Non-Linear Effect of Wealth on Crime

Chihiro Muroi and Robert Baumann

0906: Drawing Conclusions from Non-Random Samples: A Comment on “Race and Art: Prices for African American Painters and their Contemporaries” by Richard Agnello

Melissa Boyle and Victor Matheson

0905: Sorting and Statistical Discrimination in Schools: An Analysis Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

Anil Nathan

0904: Spreading the Fortune: The Distribution of Lottery Prizes across Countries

Victor Matheson and Kent Grote

0903: Mega-Events and Housing Costs: Raising the Rent while Raising the Roof?

Dennis Coates and Victor Matheson

0902: Health and Utilization Effects of Increased Access to Publicly Provided Health Care: Evidence from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Melissa Boyle

0901: Hail to the Chief: Assessing the Economic Impact of Presidential Inaugurations on the Washington, D.C. Local Economy

Robert Baumann, Bryan Engelhardt and Victor Matheson

0817: PILOTs and Public Policy: Steering through the Economic Ramifications

Brad Humphreys and Victor Matheson

0816: The Effects of Racial and Extracurricular Friendship Diversity on Achievement

Anil Nathan

0815: Slippery Slope? Assessing the Economic Impact of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson

0814: The Effect of Managed and Traditional Care Insurance Plans on Horizontal Inequity in Access to Health Care in the United States

Frank Puffer and Elizabeth Seidler

0813: Crime Networks with Bargaining and Build Frictions

Bryan Engelhardt

0812: Employment-Based Health Insurance and the Minimum Wage

Laura Bucila

0811: Measuring Tax Incidence: A Natural Experiment in the Hybrid Vehicle Market

Melissa Boyle and Victor Matheson

0810: Estimating the Speed of Convergence in the Neoclassical Growth Model: An MLE Estimation of Structural Parameters Using the Stochastic Neoclassical Growth Model, Time-Series Data, and the Kalman Filter

Daniel Swaine

0809: Moral Rights Protection for the Visual Arts

Melissa Boyle, O'Connor, Debra and Stacy Nazzaro

0808: Bowling in Hawaii: Examining the Effectiveness of Sports-Based Tourism Strategies

Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson and Chihiro Muroi

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