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1310: Total Offset and Medical Net Discount Rates: 1981–2012

David Schap, Lauren Guest and Andrew Kraynak

1309: Using truck-inventory-cost to obtain solutions to multi-period logistics models

Iqbal Agha and Debra O'Connor

1308: Evidence of Earnings Management and Managers’ Choice of Actuarial Assumptions for the Accounting of Retiree Health Care Costs

Susan Machuga, Karen Teitel and A. Costello

1307: Endogenous Voting Weights for Elected Representatives and Redistricting

Justin Svec and James Hamilton

1306: The Impact of Political Uncertainty: A Robust Control Approach

Robert Baumann and Justin Svec

1305: Infrastructure Investments and Mega-Sports Events: Comparing the Experience of Developing and Industrialized Countries

Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson

1304: Workers' Responses to Incentives: The Case of Pending MLB Free Agents

Joshua Congdon-Hohman and Jonathan Lanning

1303: Should Gambling Markets be Privatized? An Examination of State Lotteries in the United States

Kent Grote and Victor Matheson

1302: The Impact of State Lotteries and Casinos on State Bankruptcy Filings

Kent Grote and Victor Matheson

1301: Student Uncertainty and Major Choice

Joshua Congdon-Hohman, Anil Nathan and Justin Svec

1207: Historical Net Discount Rates: Amended and Reinterpreted

David Schap and Andrew Kraynak

1206: Crime and the Decline of Unions

Robert Baumann and Bryan Engelhardt

1205: The Role of Expectations: An Application to Internal Migration

Robert Baumann, Justin Svec and Francis Sanzari

1204: Political Contributions and Insurance

Bryan Engelhardt and Justin Svec

1203: Assessing the infrastructure impact of mega-events in emerging economies

Victor Matheson

1202: A Model of Tradeable Capital Tax Permits

Timothy Hubbard and Justin Svec

1201: Potential Effects of the Affordable Care Act on the Award of Life Care Expenses

Joshua Congdon-Hohman and Victor Matheson

1118: Conflict Datasets: A Primer For Academics, Policymakers, And Practitioners

Charles Anderton and John Carter

1117: Economic development and food production–consumption balance: A growing global challenge

Kolleen Rask and Norman Rask

1116: Explaining the Surprising Performance of Whisper Forecasts of Earnings

Susan Machuga, Karen Teitel, R. Pfeiffer and E. Wu

1115: Love, Toil, and Health Insurance: Why American Husbands Retire When They Do

Joshua Congdon-Hohman

1114: The Lasting Effects of Crime: The Relationship of Discovered Methamphetamine Laboratories and Home Values

Joshua Congdon-Hohman

1113: Prison Work Programs with Unemployment Insurance: Generating Tax Revenue and Less Crime

Robert Baumann, Bryan Engelhardt and Megan Morgano

1112: An Evaluation of the Economic Impact of National Football League Mega-events

Robert Baade and Victor Matheson

1111: Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance: Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion

Melissa Boyle and Joanna Lahey

1110: The Economics of Lotteries: An Annotated Bibliography

Kent Grote and Victor Matheson

1109: The Economics of Lotteries: A Survey of the Literature

Kent Grote and Victor Matheson

1108: Optimal Capital Taxation and Consumer Uncertainty

Justin Svec and Ryan Chahrour

1107: International Women's Soccer and Gender Inequality: Revisited

Joshua Congdon-Hohman and Victor Matheson

1106: Gender Differences in Competitive Balance in Intercollegiate Basketball

Jaret Treber, Rachel Levy and Victor Matheson

1105: Stealing History: How does Provenance Affect the Price of Antiquities?

Katherine Kiel and Katherine Tedesco

1104: Labor Market Effects of the World Cup: A Sectoral Analysis

Robert Baumann, Bryan Engelhardt and Victor Matheson

1103: Estimating economic impact using ex post econometric analysis: Cautionary tales

Robert Baumann and Victor Matheson

1102: Financing Professional Sports Facilities

Robert Baade and Victor Matheson

1101: The Bottom Line: Accounting for Revenues and Expenditures in Intercollegiate Athletics

Victor Matheson, Debra O’Connor and Joseph Herberger

1010: Legal Requirements in the Practice of Forensic Economics in the Northeast States

David Schap

1009: Forensic Economics: An Overview

David Schap

1008: Differences Among State Court Jurisdictions in Damages Calculations

David Schap

1007: Vietnam’s Economy in Transition: Successes and Challenges

Thomas Gottschang

1006: Choosing Genocide: Economic Perspectives On The Disturbing Rationality Of Race Murder

Charles Anderton

1005: The Interaction of Audit Firm Quality and the Mexican Code of Best Corporate Practices on Earnings Quality

Susan Machuga and Karen Teitel

1004: Optimal Fiscal Policy with Robust Control

Justin Svec

1003: Booms, Busts, and Gambling: Can Gaming Revenues Reduce Budget Volatility?

Brad Humphreys and Victor Matheson

1002: The Labor Market Effects of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics

Robert Baumann, Bryan Engelhardt and Victor Matheson

1001: The Effect of Sports Franchises on Property Values: The Role of Owners versus Renters

Katherine Kiel, Victor Matheson and Christopher Sullivan

0916: Religious penalty in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings

Robert Baumann, David Chu and Charles Anderton

0915: Board of director characteristics and earnings quality surrounding implementation of a corporate governance code in Mexico

Susan Machuga and Karen Teitel

0914: Economics of the Super Bowl

Victor Matheson

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