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Campus competition and co-ed allure: An institution-level analysis of collegiate dating markets

Mixon, Franklin G.; Caudill, Steven B. - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 442-453

The current study examines the political economy of collegiate dating markets by employing institution-level data from the national colleges and universities included in U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges 2012. This is a more comprehensive sample than has been used in previous studies and...

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An alternative to Bemmels's method of investigating biases in arbitration.

Caudill, Steven B.; Oswald, Sharon L. - In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 45 (1992) 4, pp. 800-803

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Fraud Detection Using a Multinomial Logit Model With Missing Information

Caudill, Steven B.; Ayuso, Mercedes; Guillén, Montserrat - In: Journal of Risk & Insurance 72 (2005) 4, pp. 539-550

Recently, Artís, Ayuso, and Guillén (2002, "Journal of Risk and Insurance" 69: 325-340; henceforth AAG) estimate a logit model using claims data. Some of the claims are categorized as "honest" and other claims are known to be fraudulent. Using the approach of Hausman, Abrevaya, and Scott-Morton...

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Which Microfinance Institutions Are Becoming More Cost Effective with Time? Evidence from a Mixture Model

CAUDILL, STEVEN B.; GROPPER, DANIEL M.; HARTARSKA, VALENTINA - In: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 41 (2009) 4, pp. 651-672

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) play a key role in many developing countries. Utilizing data from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, MFIs are found to generally operate with lower costs the longer they are in operation. Given the differences in operating environments, subsidies, and...

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Estimating the Costs of Partial-Coverage Rent Controls: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Caudill, Steven B. - In: The review of economics and statistics 75 (1993) 4, pp. 727-731

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A Logit Model with Missing Information Illustrated by Testing for Hidden Unemployment in Transition Economies

Caudill, Steven B. - In: Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics 68 (2006) 5, pp. 665

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The Development and Estimation of a Latent Choice Multinomial Logit Model with Application to Contingent Valuation

Caudill, Steven B.; Groothuis, Peter A.; Whitehead, John C. - In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics 93 (2011) 4, pp. 983-992

We offer a new approach to investigate hypothetical bias in contingent valuation using a latent choice multinomial logit model. To develop this model, we extend Dempster, Laird, and Rubin's 1977 work on the expectations maximization algorithm to the estimation of a multinomial logit model with...

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What Determines the Foreign Ownership Share of a Country's Banking Assets?

Liang, Ping; Gropper, Daniel M.; Caudill, Steven B. - In: Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies … 14 (2011) 03, pp. 535-561

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the roles of economic and political factors in explaining the foreign ownership share of a country's banking assets. In particular, our study includes new market-openness and regulation variables. The General Agreement on Trade in Services is an...

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Is Economic Freedom One Dimensional? A Factor Analysis of Some Common Measures of Economic Freedom

Caudill, Steven B.; Zanella, Fernando C.; Franklin G. … - In: Journal of Economic Development 25 (2000) 1, pp. 17-40

The present paper investigates whether popular measures of economic freedom used in regression analyses by development economists and others are one dimensional. Using the indices provided by the Fraser Institute, Heritage/Wall Street Journal, and Heritage and Freedom House, a principal...

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Microfinance institution costs: effects of gender, subsidies and technology

Caudill, Steven B.; Gropper, Daniel M.; Hartarska, Valentina - In: Journal of Financial Economic Policy 4 (2012) 4, pp. 292-304

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a statistical examination of the factors affecting the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) operating in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Design/methodology/approach – Data on MFIs operating in Eastern Europe and Central Asia...

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