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St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 10, No. 3, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald
St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 10, No. 3, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald
St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report
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St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 10, No. 2, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald
St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 10, No. 2, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald
St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report
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St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 10, No. 1, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald
St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 10, No. 1, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald
St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report
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St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 09, No. 4, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald
St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 09, No. 4, King Banaian, Richard A. Macdonald
St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report
No abstract provided.
Spring 2008 Economics Newsletter, Economics Department
Spring 2008 Economics Newsletter, Economics Department
Economics Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Summer 2008 Economics Newsletter, Economics Department
Summer 2008 Economics Newsletter, Economics Department
Economics Newsletter
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Fall 2008 Economics Newsletter, Economics Department
Fall 2008 Economics Newsletter, Economics Department
Economics Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Does Sex Sell? A Look At The Effects Of Sex And Violence On Motion Picture Revenues, David Switzer, David M. Lang
Does Sex Sell? A Look At The Effects Of Sex And Violence On Motion Picture Revenues, David Switzer, David M. Lang
Economics Seminar Series
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is responsible for assigning all movies one of five movie ratings (G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17). Previous research has found that G and PGrated movies perform better at the box office, yet movie studios continue to make more PG-13 and R-rated movies. Other research has used data on a film’s levels of sex, violence and profanity (SVP), to explore the link between SVP, movie rating, and box office revenues. In this paper, we use a more recent data set and include additional variables to account for movie quality to further explore this relationship. …
Stability Of The Euro-Demand Function, King Banaian, Artatrana Ratha
Stability Of The Euro-Demand Function, King Banaian, Artatrana Ratha
Economics Faculty Working Papers
While the empirical literature on money demand is vast by any standards, it is relatively silent when it comes to the Euro, a major currency in the world. This hampers efforts, for example, to determine whether or not the European Central Bank can target monetary aggregates for inflation control. The difficulty has come from the lack of information about euro-wide monetary behavior, relying instead on speculative techniques for aggregating country-level data from previous periods of the European exchange rate mechanism. Now that we have six years of monthly data points, we investigate the stability of various Euro-zone monetary aggregates using …
Effects Of Subsidies On Symphony Orchestra Repertoire, William A. Luksetich, Patricia A. Hughes
Effects Of Subsidies On Symphony Orchestra Repertoire, William A. Luksetich, Patricia A. Hughes
Economics Faculty Working Papers
No abstract provided.
Measuring Central Bank Independence: Ordering, Ranking, Or Scoring?, King Banaian
Measuring Central Bank Independence: Ordering, Ranking, Or Scoring?, King Banaian
Economics Faculty Working Papers
No abstract provided.
Does An Undervalued Currency Promote Growth? Evidence From China, Artatrana Ratha, Eungmin Kang, Mary Edwards
Does An Undervalued Currency Promote Growth? Evidence From China, Artatrana Ratha, Eungmin Kang, Mary Edwards
Economics Faculty Working Papers
Whether currency devaluation promotes growth remains an empirically open question. Coexistence of an undervalued currency and the world’s largest trade surplus alongside a booming economy makes China a unique case study. Using annual data over 1977-2006 and the relatively recent “bounds-testing approach” to cointegration and error-correction modeling, we estimate a reduced form model to investigate the exchange rate sensitivity of China’s real GDP. We find that currency devaluation is contractionary in China.
Leadership And Gender: An Experiment, Mana Komai, Philip Grossman
Leadership And Gender: An Experiment, Mana Komai, Philip Grossman
Economics Faculty Working Papers
We present an information based model of leadership in a setting that exhibits the familiar problems of free riding and coordination failure. Leaders have superior information about the value of the project in hand and can send a costly signal to their uninformed followers to persuade them to cooperate in the project. Followers voluntarily choose whether or not to follow the better informed leader. We provide experimental evidence that, when the leaders’ gender is revealed to their followers, female subjects hesitate to lead (send a costly signal) while followers’ behavior does not indicate any gender discrimination. Such behavior is not …
The Thursday Effect Of The Forward Premium Puzzle, Liang Ding
The Thursday Effect Of The Forward Premium Puzzle, Liang Ding
Economics Seminar Series
This paper examines the forward premium puzzle based on 1-week forward rates across weekdays. The paper finds that Thursday consistently appears to be a special day on which the puzzle disappears, while it is present on other weekdays. In addition to Thursday, Monday is also found to be a similar special day for the Euro. The paper proposes that this Thursday effect (Monday effect for Euro) is caused by monetary announcements released constantly on Tuesday (Thursday) by the FOMC (the European Central Bank). The empirical tests provide convincing evidence in favor of the proposed explanation.
Giving To Government: Voluntary Taxation In The Lab, Philip Grossman, Catherine Eckel, Sherry Xin Li, Tara Larson
Giving To Government: Voluntary Taxation In The Lab, Philip Grossman, Catherine Eckel, Sherry Xin Li, Tara Larson
Economics Seminar Series
In the United States, there is widespread antipathy toward taxation, yet at the same time there are substantial voluntary donations to nonprofit organizations with missions that are parallel to those of many government agencies. In this paper we compare giving in the form of voluntary taxes paid to government agencies with giving in the form of voluntary donations to nonprofit organizations that have similar missions. In a laboratory experimental setting, subjects are given an endowment, and are given the opportunity to donate any part of the endowment to a government agency or to a nonprofit organization. We compare levels of …