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15-18: The Political Economy of the Essential Air Service Program

Joshua Hall, Amanda Ross and Christopher Yencha

15-17: Economic Freedom and Participation in Physical Activity

Joshua Hall, Brad Humphreys and Jane Ruseski

15-16: Economic Freedom and Public, Non-Market Institutions: Evidence from Criminal Prosecution

Claudio Detotto and Bryan McCannon

15-15: Contracts and Trust

Bryan McCannon, Colleen Tokar Asaad and Mark Wilson

15-14: The Volatility of School District Income Tax Revenues: Is Tax Base Diversification a Good Idea?

Joshua Hall and Antonios Koumpias

15-13: Can State Tax Policies Be Used to Grow Small and Large Businesses?

Eric Borchers, John Deskins and Amanda Ross

15-12: An Ordinal Ranking of Economic Institutions

Scott Beaulier, Robert Elder, Cheryl Han and Joshua Hall

15-11: Production of Wind Energy and Agricultural Land Values: Evidence from Pennsylvania

Chris Shultz, Joshua Hall and Michael Strager

15-10: Teaching the Economic Way of Thinking Through Op-eds

Joshua Hall and Marta Podemska-Mikluch

15-09: Visigothic Retinues: Roving Bandits that Succeeded Rome

Andrew Young

15-08: Would a Free Banking System Target NGDP Growth?

Alexander Salter and Andrew Young

15-07: Economic Freedom Studies at the State Level: A Survey

Joshua Hall, Dean Stansel and Danko Tarabar

15-06: Professional Sports Facilities, Teams and Property Values: Evidence from Seattle's Key Arena

Brad Humphreys and Adam Nowak

15-05: Corruption and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Random Audit Program

Jamie Bologna and Amanda Ross

15-04: The Quantity and Quality Adjustment of Births when Having More is Not Subsidized: the Effect of the TANF Family Cap on Fertility and Birth Weight

Ho-Po Crystal Wong

15-03: Spatial interaction of Renewable Portfolio Standards and their effect on renewable generation within NERC regions

Eric Bowen and Donald Lacombe

15-02: Hackerspaces: A Case Study in the Creation and Management of a Common Pool Resource

Michael Williams and Joshua Hall

15-01: Creating the Environment for Entrepreneurship through Economic Freedom

Joshua Hall, Robert Lawson and Saurav Roychoudhury

14-40: Remittances and Governance: Does the Government Free Ride?

Durga Gautam

14-39: The Myth of Sports-Led Economic Development

Brad Humphreys

14-38: The Relationship Between Stock Returns and Investor Sentiment: Evidence from Social Media

Zachary McGurk and Adam Nowak

14-37: From Caesar to Tacitus: Changes in Early Germanic Governance circa 50 BC-50 AD

Andrew Young

14-36: Crises and Government: Some Empirical Evidence

Jamie Bologna and Andrew Young

14-35: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

Andrew Young, Matthew Higgins, Donald Lacombe and Briana Sell

14-34: Economic Freedom and Recidivism: Evidence from US States

Joshua Hall, Kaitlyn Harger and Dean Stansel

14-33: Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated?

Russell Sobel and Joshua Hall

14-32: The Importance of Credible Commitments in Marriage: The Effect of Recognizing Homemakers’ Contribution in Property Division at Divorce in Law on Marital Formation and Dissolution

Ho-Po Crystal Wong

14-31: The Effects of Endogamous Marriage on Family Outcomes: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Immigrant Flows During 1900-1930 in the United States

Ho-Po Crystal Wong

14-30: But Who Will Get Billy? The Effect of Child Custody Laws on Marriage

Elaina Rose and Ho-Po Crystal Wong

14-29: The NCAA Athletics Arms Race: Theory and Evidence

Adam Hoffer, Brad Humphreys, Donald Lacombe and Jane Ruseski

14-28: The Seventeenth Amendment, Senate Ideology, and the Growth of Government

Danko Tarabar and Joshua Hall

14-27: A Review and Analysis of the Effectiveness of Alternative Teaching Methods on Student Learning in Economics

Ninos Malek, Joshua Hall and Collin Hodges

14-26: The Effect of Informal Employment and Corruption on Income Levels in Brazil

Jamie Bologna

14-25: Adolescent Steroid Use and Intercollegiate Athletic Incentives

Brad Humphreys and Jane Ruseski

14-24: Peer Enforcement in Teams: Evidence from High-Skill Professional Workers with Repeated Interactions

Brad Humphreys and Jie Yang

14-23: Economic Freedom Research: Some Comments and Suggestions

Jamie Bologna and Joshua Hall

14-22: The Louis-Schmelling Paradox and the League Standing Effect Reconsidered

Brad Humphreys and Li Zhou

14-21: Obedience and Income Levels

Joshua Hall and Kaitlyn Harger

14-20: Repeat Sales Methods for Growing Cities and Short Horizons

Karl Guntermann, Crocker Liu and Adam Nowak

14-19: Contests with a Prize Externality and Stochastic Entry

XiaoGang Che and Brad Humphreys

14-18: Bubbles, Post-Crash Dynamics, and the Housing Market

Crocker Liu, Adam Nowak and Stuart Rosenthal

14-17: Loss Aversion, Team Relocations, and Major League Expansion

Brad Humphreys and Li Zhou

14-16: Teaching Students to "Do" Public Choice in an Undergraduate Public Sector Course

Joshua Hall and Kaitlyn Harger

14-15: Housing Vouchers and the Price of Rental Housing

Michael Eriksen and Amanda Ross

14-14: Do Capital Tax Incentives Attract New Businesses? Evidence across Industries from the New Markets Tax Credit

Kaitlyn Harger and Amanda Ross

14-13: Local Government Border Congruence and the Fiscal Commons: Evidence from Ohio School Districts

Joshua Hall

14-12: State Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Border Analysis

Shawn Rohlin and Amanda Ross

14-11: A Spatial Analysis of Incomes and Institutional Quality: Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas

Jamie Bologna, Donald Lacombe and Andrew Young

14-10: Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows

Maryam Naghsh Nejad and Andrew Young

14-09: Religion and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Unbundling Religious Institutions

Amanda Mandzik and Andrew Young

14-08: How Global is Globalization?

Jac Heckelman and Andrew Young

14-07: Globalization and Income Convergence

Kaitlyn Wolf and Andrew Young

14-06: Low Priority Laws and the Allocation of Police Resources

Amanda Ross and Anne Walker

14-05: Revisiting the Question "More Guns, Less Crime?" New Estimates Using Spatial Econometric Techniques

Donald Lacombe and Amanda Ross

14-04: Is the Internet an Effective Mechanism for Reducing Corruption Experience? Evidence from a Cross-Section of Countries

Jamie Bologna

14-03: A Replication of "The Political Determinants of Federal Expenditure at the State Level" (Public Choice, 2005)

Stratford Douglas and W. Reed

14-02: Trade Frictions and Market Access of Developing Countries: A Product-Level Empirical Investigation

Eugene Bempong-Nyantakyi, Steven Husted and Shuichiro Nishioka

14-01: Coal Mining and the Resource Curse in the Eastern United States

Stratford Douglas and Anne Walker

13-13: Patent Protection as a Tax on Competition and Innovation

Pedro Bento

13-12: Some Brief Syllabus Advice for the Young Economist

Emily Chamlee-Wright and Joshua Hall

13-11: Niche Firms, Mass Markets, and Income Across Countries: Accounting for the Impact of Entry Costs

Pedro Bento

13-10: Competition as a Discovery Procedure: Schumpeter Meets Hayek in a Model of Innovation

Pedro Bento

13-09: The Debt-Equity Choice of Japanese Firms

Daniel Tak Yan Law and Feng Yao

13-08: The Contractarian Constitutional Political Economy of James Buchanan

Roger Congleton

13-07: Sentiment Bias and Asset Prices: Evidence from Sports Betting Markets and Social Media

Arne Feddersen, Brad Humphreys and Brian Soebbing

13-06: Data Envelopment Analysis of Relative Efficiencies of Public Institutions of Higher Learning

Joseph Calhoun and Joshua Hall

13-05: Nonparametric estimation of conditional value-at-risk and expected shortfall based on extreme value theory

Carlos Martins-Filho, Feng Yao and Maximo Torero

13-04: On the Inevitability of Divided Government and Improbability of a Complete Separation of Powers

Roger Congleton

13-03: Sentiment Bias in National Basketball Association Betting

Arne Feddersen, Brad Humphreys and Brian Soebbing

13-02: Does School District and Municipality Border Congruence Matter? A Spatial Hedonic Approach

Joshua Hall

13-01: Efficient Kernel-Based Semiparametric IV Estimation with an Application to Resolving a Puzzle on the Estimates of the Return to Schooling

Feng Yao and Junsen Zhang

12-02: News about Aggregate Demand and the Business Cycle

Jang-Ting Guo, Anca-Ioana Sirbu and Mark Weder