Faculty in the Orfalea College of Business conduct research that advances theory, informs practice, and improves our understanding of the complex interface between technology, human behavior, organizations and markets. Their research addresses real-world problems, involves students when appropriate, influences public and regulatory policies, and contributes to experiential-based learning. The departmental areas promote and maintain a multitude of opportunities for industry to advise and further the interests of students and faculty.
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Submissions from 1999
Demand Shifts and Market Structure in Free-Entry Oligopoly Equilibria, Stephen F. Hamilton
Tax Incidence Under Oligopoly: A Comparison of Policy Approaches, Stephen F. Hamilton
The Comparative Efficiency of Ad Valorem and Specific Taxes Under Monopoly and Monopsony, Stephen F. Hamilton
An Analysis of the Factors that Influence Student Performance: A Fresh Approach to an Old Debate, Sanjiv Jaggia and Alison Kelly-Hawke
Do Law Enforcement Expenditures Crowd-Out Public Education Expenditures?, Michael L. Marlow and Alden F. Shiers
Formal Models of Authority: Introduction and Political Economy Applications, Eduardo Zambrano
Submissions from 1998
A Measure of the Current Account Related to the Well-Being of Japan: Generational Accounts in the Open Economy, Eric O'N. Fisher
Review of Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade, Eric O'N. Fisher
Pollution and Economic Growth, Eric O'N. Fisher and Charles van Marrewijk
Returns to Public Investments in Agriculture with Imperfect Downstream Competition, Stephen F. Hamilton and David L. Sunding
Submissions from 1997
A Note on the Core of a Monetary Economy, Eric O'N. Fisher
Meaningful Measures of the Current Account, Eric O'N. Fisher and YoungSoo Woo
Subsidies in Oligopoly Markets: A Welfare Comparison Between Symmetric and Asymmetric Costs, Stephen F. Hamilton and Rickard Sandin
The Effect of Farm Supply Shifts on Concentration and Market Power in the Food Processing Sector, Stephen F. Hamilton and David L. Sunding
Alternative Forms of the Score Test for Heterogeneity in a Censored Exponential Model, Sanjiv Jaggia
Public Education Supply and Student Performance, Michael L. Marlow
The Separation of Spending from Taxation: Implications for Collective Choices, Michael L. Marlow and William P. Orzechowski
Submissions from 1996
On Exchange Rates and Efficiency, Eric O'N. Fisher
Public Sector Unions and Public Spending, Michael L. Marlow and William Orzechowski
Submissions from 1995
A New Way of Thinking About the Current Account, Eric O'N. Fisher
Growth, Trade, and International Transfers, Eric O'N. Fisher
Review of Speculative Bubbles, Speculative Attacks, and Policy Switching, Eric O'N. Fisher
Price Competition Between Two International Firms Facing Tariffs, Eric O'N. Fisher and Charles A. Wilson
Contested Tender Offers: An Estimate of the Hazard Function, Sanjiv Jaggia and Satish Thosar
The Influence of Special District Government on Public Spending and Debt, Michael L. Marlow