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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