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08-05: Hand in the Cookie Jar: An Experimental Investigation of Equity-based Compensation and Managerial Fraud

David Bruner, Michael McKee and Rudy Santore

08-04: Economic Growth and Threatened and Endangered Species Listings: A VAR Analysis

Catherine M. Chambers, Paul E. Chambers and John Whitehead

08-03: Effect of US Policies on Offshore Oil Leasing, 1983-2006: A Random Parameter Logit Regression Analysis

Brett R. Gelso and John Whitehead

08-02: Effects of Information about Invasive Species on Risk Perception and Seafood Demand by Gender and Race

Tim Haab, John Whitehead, George Parsons and Jammie Price

08-01: The Provision Point Mechanism and Scenario Rejection in Contingent Valuation

Peter Groothuis and John Whitehead

07-17: Convergent Validity of Revealed and Stated Recreation Behavior with Quality Change: A Comparison of Multiple and Single Site Demands

John Whitehead, Daniel Phaneuf, Christopher F. Dumas, Jim Herstine, Jeffrey Hill and Bob Buerger

07-16: The Peter Principle: An Experiment

David Dickinson and Marie Claire Villeval

07-15: Costly Enforcement of Voluntary Environmental Agreements with Industries

David McEvoy and John K. Stranlund

07-14: Estimating Environmental Benefits of Natural Hazard Mitigation with Benefit Transfer: Results from a Benefit-Cost Analysis of FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grants

John Whitehead and Adam Rose

07-13: The Empirical Institutions-Growth Literature: Is Something Amiss at the Top?

John Dawson

07-12: Green vs. Green: Measuring the Compensation Required to Site Electrical Generation Windmills in a Viewshed

Peter Groothuis, Jana D. Groothuis and John Whitehead

07-11: Cognitive Dissonance, Pessimism, and Behavioral Spillover Effects

David Dickinson and Robert Oxoby

07-10: Recreational Boater Willingness to Pay for a Dredging and Maintenance Program for the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in North Carolina

John Whitehead, Jim Herstine and Christopher F. Dumas

07-09: Linking Recreation Demand and Willingness to Pay with the Inclusive Value: Valuation of Saginaw Bay Coastal Marsh

John Whitehead, Peter Groothuis and Rob Southwick

07-08: Economic Efficiency and Damage Awards in Personal Injury Torts

George A. Schieren

07-07: Assessing Economic Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation: The State of North Carolina

George A. Schieren and Gary R. Albrecht

07-06: Expected Benefits of Voting and Voter Turnout

Richard Cebula and Garey Durden

07-05: The Impact of Social Conditioning (Internal Motivation) on the Probability of Voting

Garey Durden, Richard Cebula and Patricia Gaynor

07-04: The Empirical Instituions-Growth Literature: Is Something Amiss at the Top?

John Dawson

07-03: Going Home: Evacuation-Migration Decisions of Hurricane Katrina Survivors

Craig Landry, Okmyung Bin, Paul Hindsley, John Whitehead and Kenneth Wilson

07-02: Exit Discrimination in Major League Baseball: 1990-2004

Peter Groothuis and Richard Hill

07-01: The Dilemma of Choosing Talent: Michael Jordans are Hard to Find

Peter Groothuis, Richard Hill and Tim Perri

06-15: Valuing Beach Access and Width with Revealed and Stated Preference Data

John Whitehead, Christopher F. Dumas, Jim Herstine, Jeffery Hill and Bob Buerger

06-14: Willingness to Pay for Amateur Sport and Recreation Programs

Bruce Johnson, John Whitehead, Daniel S. Mason and Gordon J. Walker

06-13: Work effort effects in the classical labor supply model

David Dickinson

06-12: Cash or Credit? The importance of reward medium and experiment timing in classroom preferences for fairness

David Dickinson

06-11: Nepotism or Family Tradition?: A Study of NASCAR Drivers

Peter Groothuis and Jana D. Groothuis

06-10: Economic Values of Saginaw Bay Coastal Marshes

John Whitehead, Peter Groothuis, Rob Southwick and Pat Foster-Turley

06-09: Testing for Hypothetical Bias in Contingent Valuation Using a Latent Choice Multinomial Logit Model

Steven B Caudill, Peter Groothuis and John Whitehead

06-08: Willingness to Pay for Low Probability, Low Loss Hazard Insurance

John Whitehead

06-07: The Economics of US Civil War Conscription

Tim Perri

06-06: The Effects of Total Sleep Deprivation on Bayesian Updating

David Dickinson and Sean P.A. Drummond

06-05: Estimating Peak Demand for Beach Parking Spaces

Christopher F. Dumas, John Whitehead, James H. Herstine, Robert B. Buerger and Jeffery M. Hill

06-04: The Willingness to Pay to Remove Billboards and Improve Mountain Views

Peter Groothuis, Jana D. Groothuis and John Whitehead

06-03: The Economic Value of Marine Recreational Fishing: Analysis of the MRFSS 1998 Pacific Add-on

Tim Haab, Robert L. Hicks and John Whitehead

06-02: Benefit-Cost Analysis of FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grants

Adam Rose, Keith Porter, Nicole Dash, Jawhar Bouabid, Charles Huyck, John Whitehead, Douglass Shaw, Ronald T. Eguchi, Craig Taylor, Thomas R. McLane, L. Thomas Tobin, Philip Ganderton, David Godschalk, Anne S. Kiremidjian, Kathleen Tierney and Carol Taylor West

06-01: Time Series Tests of Income Convergence with Two Structural Breaks: An Update and Extension

John Dawson and Mark C. Strazicich

05-22: New Evidence on the Convergence of International Income from a Group of 29 Countries

John Dawson and Amit Sen

05-21: Raiding and Signaling in the Academic Labor Market

Tim Perri

05-20: Nonrenewable Resource Prices: Deterministic or Stochastic Trends?

Junsoo Lee, John List and Mark C. Strazicich

05-19: Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Data to Estimate the Nonmarket Value of Ecological Services: An Assessment of the State of the Science

John Whitehead, Subhrendu Pattanayak, George L. Van Houtven and Brett R. Gelso

05-18: Sex Discrimination in Faculty Salaries: Evidence from Economics

Todd Cherry, Garey Durden and Patricia Gaynor

05-17: The Effects of Beliefs versus Risk Preferences on Bargaining Outcomes

David Dickinson

05-16: Regulation and the Macroeconomy

John Dawson

05-15: The Potential Economic Benefits of Integrated and Sustainable Ocean Observation Systems: The Southeast Atlantic Region

Christopher F. Dumas and John Whitehead

05-14: Positive Assortative Mating and Spouses as Complementary Factors of Production: A Theory of Labor Augmentation

Paul Gabriel and Peter Groothuis

05-13: Nonbinding Suggestions: The Relative Effects of Focal Points versus Uncertainty Reduction on Bargaining Outcomes

David Dickinson and Lynn Hunnicutt

05-12: Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories

David Dickinson and Marie Claire Villeval

05-11: Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets: An Experimental Analysis

David Dickinson and Ronald Oaxaca

05-10: What is the Value of Public Goods Generated by a National Football League Team: A CVM Approach

Bruce Johnson, Michael J. Mondello and John Whitehead