A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Life Insurance during the 2008 Financial...
Prior research indicates a significant relation between life events and the demand for life insurance. This paper is the first study to relate the demand for life insurance to household portfolio...
View ArticleFinancial Advice, Plan Choice, and Retirement Plan Satisfaction
Most private sector employees have access to defined contribution retirement plans while public sector employees often may choose defined benefit or defined contribution plans. This research utilized...
View ArticleInformed Voters and Electoral Outcomes: A Natural Experiment Stemming from a...
Do informed electorates choose better candidates? While that question is straightforward, its answer often is elusive. Typically, candidate-quality information is neither salient nor subject to...
View ArticleDoes a Salary Premium Exist for Offensive Output in Major League Baseball?
Purpose In baseball, a run scored on offense carries the same on-field (win) value as does a run prevented on defense. Both outcomes bear the same score margin implication. This presumption of unit...
View ArticleIs offense worth more than defense and pitching? Marginal revenue product and...
Purpose Sports economists have consistently found that winning positively impacts team revenue fans prefer to allocate their entertainment dollars to winning teams. Previous research has also found...
View ArticleReference Group Inequality, Positional Goods, and Their Impact on Subjective...
Using the 2013 Turkish Life Satisfaction Survey, we investigate two hypotheses that are novel to the happiness literature. The first of these hypotheses is that income dispersion/inequality within an...
View ArticleProfessional Competence and Business Ethics
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine if the failure of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to persecute Madoff is, in fact, an ethical failure. The authors turn to the extension...
View ArticleDeterminants of Put-Call Disparity: KOSPI 200 Index Options
Many studies find that traditional option pricing models fail to work in practice. The implied volatility smile is one example. In this study, we examine deviations of spot prices from prices implied...
View ArticleDoes Analyst Optimism Fuel Stock Price Momentum?
Researchers have struggled to find rational risk factors that explain momentum profits derived from buying recent winners and shorting recent losers. Behavioral explanations have been offered that...
View ArticleInvestigating the Interaction Between Terms of Trade and Domestic Economy :...
This paper aims to analyze the impact of the terms of trade, export price, and import price on the Korean economy (that is, real GDP, CPI, money market rate, and real effective exchange rate), and...
View ArticleA Choice of an Index under Inefficiency: Tornqvist or Fisher Index? Evidence...
This study addresses a choice of quantity index when inefficiency exists. Performing simulations, we show that 1) the finding from the previous literature that the Fisher index and the Tornqvist index...
View ArticleEconometric Search of Undocumented Workers in the USA
This study seeks to find where undocumented workers reside in the USA. By postulating that the US destination of an undocumented worker is affected by socio-economic factors, an equation is estimated...
View ArticleParametric Estimation of a Gauge Function and a Measure of Technical Efficiency
Purpose This paper proposes the use of a gauge function as a measure of technical efficiency. The measure of technical inefficiency from a gauge function is desirable as the estimation of a gauge...
View ArticleChanges in the Productive Efficiency of the U.S. Flour Mills in the Late...
The productive efficiency of the U.S. flour milling industry increased substantially between 1850 and 1880. Specifically, a typical flour mill in 1880 was able to produce the same value of output as a...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy in Central America and the Caribbean
Book Description Financial literacy and financial education are not new topics, even though interest in these topics among policymakers, financial authorities, and academics continues to grow. The...
View ArticleSexual Fluidity and Movements in Abdellah Taïa's L'armée du salut; The Birth...
In his third novel, Salvation Army, published in France in 2006, Taïa pursues his use of autofiction, a style of writing that is very much favored by many French authors and gives the reader a...
View ArticleCritical Essays on the Writings of Lillian Smith
Critical Essays on the Writings of Lillian Smith tracks the evolution of Smith from a young girls’ camp director into a courageous artist who could examine controversial topics frankly and critically...
View ArticlePopular Geopolitical Metaphors We Live(d) by: Remarks on Western Hegemonic...
This paper discusses the existence of metaphors that are linked to popular discourses of imperialism, colonialism, and plunder in the Caribbean. Strategies of discursive erasure were implemented in...
View ArticleConceptual construal, convergence, and the Creole lexicon
This chapter moves away from the absolute and abstract universals proposed by most linguists to advance a concept of universals that is more statistical than absolute, and that is based more on our...
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