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23-05: Measuring Persistent Global Economic Factors with Output, Commodity Price, and Commodity Currency Data

Arabinda Basistha and Richard Startz

23-04: Political Regimes and Firms' Decisions to Pay Bribes: Theory and Evidence from Firm-level Surveys

Shuichiro Nishioka, Sumi Sharma and Tuan Le

23-03: Now You Can Take It with You: Effects of Occupational Credential Recognition on Labor Market Outcomes

Kihwan Bae and Edward Timmons

23-02: Certifiably employable?: The effects of occupational regulation on unemployment duration

Ilya Kukaev and Edward Timmons

23-01: The Scope of Variable Inputs and Markup Estimates

Shuichiro Nishioka and Mari Tanaka

22-08: The effect of monitoring and crowds on crime and law enforcement: A natural experiment from European football

Brad Humphreys, Alexander Marsella and Levi Pérez

22-07: Vertical Integration and Competitive Balance in Professional Sports: Evidence from Minor League Baseball

Qi Ge, Brad Humphreys and Alexander Eisert

22-06: Willingness to pay for policies to reduce health risks from COVID-19: Evidence from U.S. professional sports

Brad Humphreys, Gary Wagner, John Whitehead and Pamela Wicker

22-05: The Growth of Firms, Markets and Rents: Evidence from China

Daniel Daniel Berkowitz and Shuichiro Nishioka

22-04: The Political Effects of Trade with Japan in the 1980s

Shuichiro Nishioka and Eric Olson

22-03: Are West Virginia Banks Unique?

Eduardo Minuci and Scott Schuh

22-02: Public interest or policy diffusion: Analyzing the effects of massage therapist municipal licensing

Darwyyn Deyo, Kofi Ampaabeng, Conor Norris and Edward Timmons

22-01: Regression Discontinuity Evidence on the Effectiveness of the Minimum Legal E-Cigarette Purchasing Age

Jeff Desimone, Daniel Grossman and Nicolas Ziebarth

21-05: Is the Taylor Rule Still an Adequate Representation of Monetary Policy in Macroeconomic Models?

James Dean and Scott Schuh

21-04: Information Avoidance and Celebrity Exposure: The Effect of "Magic" Johnson on AIDS Diagnoses and Mortality in the U.S

Alexander Cardazzi, Joshua Martin and Zachary Rodriguez

21-03: Occupational Licensing and Intra-MSA Effects: Massage Therapists in the US

Noah Trudeau

21-02: Employee satisfaction and stock returns during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mary Becker, Alexander Cardazzi and Zachary McGurk

21-01: A Varying Coefficient Model with Two-way Fixed Effects and Different Smoothing Variables

Taining Wang and Feng Yao

20-12: Revolving versus Convenience Use of Credit Cards: Evidence from U.S. Credit Bureau Data

Scott Fulford and Scott Schuh

20-11: Blaming The Ref: Understanding the Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Family Violence

Alexander Cardazzi, Brad Humphreys, Bryan McCannon and Zachary Rodriguez

20-10: Inventor Mobility, Human Capital, and the Propensity to Patent

David Youngberg and Joshua Hall

20-09: Localization Economies and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Football Teams in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Brad Humphreys and Amir Borges Ferreira Neto

20-08: Professional Sporting Events Increase Seasonal Influenza Mortality in US Cities

Alexander Cardazzi, Brad Humphreys, Jane Ruseski, Brian Soebbing and Nicholas Watanabe

20-07: Disamenity or a Signal of Competence? The Empirical Political Economy of Local Road Maintenance

Ben Blemings and Margaret Bock

20-06: Legalized Sports Betting, VLT Gambling, and State Gambling Revenues: Evidence From West Virginia

Brad Humphreys

20-05: State Exit Exams and Graduation Rates: A Hierarchical SLX Modelling Approach

Joshua Hall, Donald Lacombe and Shree Pokharel

20-04: This Is What's in Your Wallet...and Here's How You Use It

Tamás Briglevics and Scott Schuh

20-03: Academia in Anarchy: 50 Years On

Joshua Hall

20-02: The Effect of Transparency, Independence and Accountability of Central Banks on Disinflation Costs

Golnaz Motie and Joshua Hall

20-01: Economic Activity, International Intervention, and Transitional Governance: A Comparative Case Study of Somalia

Daniel Bonneau and Joshua Hall

19-07: Credit Cards, Credit Utilization, and Consumption

Scott Fulford and Scott Schuh

19-06: Geographic Determinants of Infant Health: The Impact of Sports Facility Construction Projects

Brad Humphreys and Jane Ruseski

19-05: Keeping College Pricey: The Bootlegger and Baptist Story of Higher Education Accreditation

Mary Smith and Joshua Hall

19-04: The Efficient Corruption Hypothesis and the Dynamics between Economic Freedom, Corruption, and National Income

Joshua Hall, John Levendis and Alexandre Scarcioffolo

19-03: Stock Returns and Investor Sentiment: Textual Analysis and Social Media

Zachary McGurk, Adam Nowak and Joshua Hall

19-02: Federal Regulations and U.S. Energy Sector Output

Joshua Hall and Shishir Shakya

19-01: Attractive or Aggressive? A Face Recognition and Machine Learning Approach for Estimating Returns to Visual Appearance

Guodong Guo, Brad Humphreys, Mohammad Nouyed and Yang Zhou

18-10: Sports Arenas, Teams and Property Values: Temporary and Permanent Shocks to Local Amenity Flows

Yulia Chikish, Brad Humphreys and Adam Nowak

18-09: Toward a Rule-Based Model of Human Choice: On the Nature of Homo Constitutionalus

Roger Congleton

18-08: Rent-Seeking in the Classroom and Textbooks: Where are we after 50 Years

Joshua Hall, Josh Matti and Yang Zhou

18-07: Costs and Benefits of Building Faster Payment Systems: The UK Experience

Claire Greene, Marc Rysman, Scott Schuh and Oz Shy

18-06: Does the Asset Pricing Premium Reflect Asymmetric or Incomplete Information?

Crocker Liu, Adam Nowak and Patrick Smith

18-05: Estimation of a Partially Linear Regression in Triangular Systems

Xin Geng, Carlos Martins-Filho and Feng Yao

18-04: Confucius Institute's Effects on China's Higher Education Exports: A Perspective from Cultural Difference and Institutional Quality

Donald Lien, Feng Yao and Fan Zhang

18-03: The Spatial Distribution of Urban Consumer Service Firms: Evidence from Yelp Reviews

Brad Humphreys and Josh Matti

18-02: A Test of the Institutionally Induced Equilibrium Hypothesis: On the Limited Fiscal Impact of Two Celebrity Governors

Roger Congleton and Yang Zhou

18-01: Evaluating Crime as a Negative Externality of Hosting Mega-Events: Econometric Analysis of the 2012 London Summer Olympics

Nicholas Le

17-32: Professional Sports Events, Concerts, and Urban Place Based Policy: Evidence from the Staples Center

Yulia Chikish, Brad Humphreys, Crocker Liu and Adam Nowak

17-31: An Overview of Sports Betting Regulation in the United States

Brad Humphreys

17-30: Loss Aversion, Upset Preference, and Sports Television Viewing Audience Size

Brad Humphreys and Levi Pérez