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2012-3: Native Students and the Gains from Exporting Higher Education: Evidence from Australia

Li Zhou

2012-2: The Overpricing Problem: Moral Hazard and Franchises

Heather Eckert, Henry van Egteren and Troy Hannweber

2012-1: Institutional Factors, Sport Policy, and Individual Sport Participation: An International Comparison

Brad Humphreys, Katerina Maresova and Jane Ruseski

2011-23: The Supply and Demand Factors Behind the Relative Earnings Increases in Urban China at the Turn of the 21st Century

Hang Gao, Joseph Marchand and Tao Song

2011-22: Tariff Pass-Through and the Distributional Effects of Trade Liberalization

Beyza Ural Marchand

2011-21: The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling: Evidence from Trade Liberalization in India

Beyza Ural Marchand, Ray Rees and Raymond Riezman

2011-20: Estimating the Value of Medal Success at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Brad Humphreys, Bruce Johnson, Daniel Mason and John Whitehead

2011-19: Riding the Yield Curve: A Spanning Analysis

Valentina Galvani and Stuart Landon

2011-18: The Effect of Gambling on Health: Evidence from Canada

Brad Humphreys, John Nyman and Jane Ruseski

2011-17: Lottery Participants and Revenues: An International Survey of Economic Research on Lotteries

Brad Humphreys and Levi Pérez

2011-16: The Belief in the "Hot Hand" in the NFL: Evidence from Betting Volume Data

Rodney Paul, Andrew Weinbach and Brad Humphreys

2011-15: From Housing Bust to Credit Crunch: Evidence from Small Business Loans

Haifang Huang and Eric Stephens

2011-14: CEO Turnover: More Evidence on the Role of Performance Expectations

Brad Humphreys, Rodney Paul and Andrew Weinbach

2011-13: External Balance Adjustment: An Intra-National and International Comparison

Constance Smith

2011-12: Prize Structure and Performance: Evidence from NASCAR

Bernd Frick and Brad Humphreys

2011-11: Spatial Efficiency of Genetically Modified and Organic Crops

Stefan Ambec, Corinne Langinier and Philippe Marcoul

2011-10: Unit Root Testing with Stationary Covariates and a Structural Break in the Trend Function

Sebastian Fossati

2011-9: CDS as Insurance: Leaky Lifeboats in Stormy Seas

Eric Stephens and James Thompson

2011-8: Game Attendance and Competitive Balance in the National Hockey League

Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys

2011-7: Rationalization in the Canadian Retail Gasoline Industry: The Role of Environmental Regulations

Heather Eckert and Andrew Eckert

2011-6: Physical Activity and Health Outcome: Evidence from Canada

Brad Humphreys, Logan McLeod and Jane Ruseski

2011-5: Dating U.S. Business Cycles with Macro Factors

Sebastian Fossati

2011-4: Covariate Unit Root Tests with Good Size and Power

Sebastian Fossati

2011-3: New measures of the costs of unemployment: Evidence from the subjective well-being of 2.3 million Americans

John Helliwell and Haifang Huang

2011-2: Childhood Determinants of Risk Aversion: The Long Shadow of Compulsory Education

Dmytro Hryshko, Maria Luengo-Prado and Bent Sorensen

2011-1: Will Biofuel Mandates Raise Food Prices?

Ujjayant Chakravorty, Marie-Helene Hubert, Michel Moreaux and Linda Nøstbakken

2010-20: Does the Retirement Consumption Puzzle Differ Across the Distribution?

Jonathan Fisher and Joseph Marchand

2010-19: A Test of Monopoly Price Dispersion Under Demand Uncertainty

Brad Humphreys and Brian Soebbing

2010-18: Split Incentives and Energy Efficiency in Canadian Multi-Family Dwellings

Denise Young and Lucie Maruejols

2010-17: Local Labor Market Impacts of Energy Boom-Bust-Boom in Western Canada

Joseph Marchand

2010-16: House Prices and Risk Sharing

Dmytro Hryshko, Maria Luengo-Prado and Bent Sorensen

2010-15: Teach a Man to Fish? Education vs. Optimal Taxation

Eric Stephens

2010-14: The Economic Choice of Participation and Time Spent in Physical Activity and Sport in Canada

Brad Humphreys and Jane Ruseski

2010-13: Do Gamblers Think That Teams Tank? Evidence from the NBA

Brian Soebbing and Brad Humphreys

2010-12: Would Hotelling Kill the Electric Car?

Ujjayant Chakravorty, Andrew Leach and Michel Moreaux

2010-11: Residential Land Use Regulation and the US Housing Price Cycle Between 2000 and 2009

Haifang Huang and Yao Tang

2010-10: Government Revenue Volatility in Alberta

Constance Smith and Stuart Landon

2010-9: Sports Participation and Happiness: Evidence from U.S. Micro Data

Haifang Huang and Brad Humphreys

2010-8: Does Financial and Goods Market Integration Matter for the External Balance? A Comparison of OECD Countries and Canadian Provinces

Constance Smith

2010-7: Consumption Benefits and Gambling: Evidence From the NCAA Basketball Betting Market

Brad Humphreys, Rodney Paul and Andrew Weinbach

2010-6: On Properties of Royalty and Tax Regimes in Alberta's Oil Sands

Andre Plourde

2010-5: Prices, Point Spreads and Profits: Evidence from the National Football League

Brad Humphreys

2010-4: State-dependent congestion pricing with reference-dependent preferences

Charles Lindsey

2010-3: Nonlinear Pricing on Private Roads with Congestion and Toll Collection Costs

Charles Lindsey, Judith Wang and Hai Yang

2010-2: The Effect of Local and Global Pollution Mandates on a Nonrenewable Resource

Jean-Pierre Amigues, Ujjayant Chakravorty and Michel Moreaux

2010-1: Oil and Gas in the Canadian Federation

Andre Plourde

2009-27: Consumer Behaviour in Lotto Markets: The Double Hurdle Approach and Zeros in Gambling Survey Data

Brad Humphreys, Yang Seung Lee and Brian Soebbing

2009-26: Constructing Consumer Sentiment Index for U.S. Using Google Searches

Nicolás Della Penna and Haifang Huang

2009-25: The perceived framework of a classical statistic: Is the non-invariance of a Wald statistic much ado about null thing?

Noxy Dastoor

2009-24: Tit-for-tat Strategies in Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Games: Evidence from NCAA Football

Brad Humphreys and Jane Ruseski

2009-23: Modeling Internal Decision Making Process: An Explanation of Conflicting Empirical Results on Behavior of Nonprofit and For-Profit Hospitals

Kathleen Carroll and Jane Ruseski

2009-22: Monetary and Implicit Incentives of Patent Examiners

Corinne Langinier and Philippe Marcoul

2009-21: Search of Prior Art and Revelation of Information by Patent Applicants

Corinne Langinier and Philippe Marcoul

2009-20: Fuel versus Food

Ujjayant Chakravorty, Marie-Helene Hubert and Linda Nøstbakken

2009-19: Endogenous Resource Substitution under a Climate Stabilization Policy: Can Nuclear Power Provide Clean Energy?

Ujjayant Chakravorty, Bertrand Magne and Michel Moreaux

2009-18: Too Many Municipalities?

Bev Dahlby

2009-17: The Marginal Cost of Public Funds and the Flypaper Effect

Bev Dahlby

2009-16: The Optimal Taxation Approach to Intergovernmental Grants

Bev Dahlby

2009-15: Adverse Selection and Risk Aversion in Capital Markets

Luis Braido, Carlos Eugênio da Costa and Bev Dahlby

2009-14: A Median Voter Model of the Vertical Fiscal Gap

Bev Dahlby, Jonathan Rodden and Leonard Wilson

2009-13: A New Look at Copper Markets: A Regime-Switching Jump Model

Wing Chan and Denise Young

2009-12: Tort Reform, Disputes and Belief Formation

Claudia Landeo

2009-11: The Role of the Real Exchange Rate Adjustment in Expanding Service Employment in China

Yingfeng Xu and Xiaoyi Yan

2009-10: "Twin Peaks" in Energy Prices: A Hotelling Model with Pollution Learning

Ujjayant Chakravorty, Andrew Leach and Michel Moreaux

2009-9: The Economics of Participation and Time Spent in Physical Activity

Brad Humphreys and Jane Ruseski

2009-8: Water Allocation Under Distribution Losses: Comparing Alternative Institutions

Ujjayant Chakravorty, Eithan Hochman, Chieko Umetsu and David Zilberman

2009-7: A Comparative Analysis of the Returns on Provincial and Federal Canadian Bonds

Valentina Galvani and Aslan Behnamian

2009-6: Portfolio Diversification in Energy Markets

Valentina Galvani and Andre Plourde

2009-5: Spanning with Zero-Price Investment Assets

Valentina Galvani and Andre Plourde

2009-4: Options and Efficiency in Spaces of Bounded Claims

Valentina Galvani and Vladimir Troitsky

2009-3: Identifying the Poorest Older Americans

Johathan Fisher, David Johnson, Joseph Marchand, Timothy Smeeding and B. Boyle Torrey

2009-2: Time-Saving Innovations, Time Allocation, and Energy Use: Evidence from Canadian Households

Vera Brencic and Denise Young

2009-1: Trigger Happy or Gun Shy? Dissolving Common-Value Partnerships with Texas Shootouts

Richard Brooks, Claudia Landeo and Kathryn Spier