Overlooked in the indictments of top FIFA officials and continuing investigations into corruption in the bidding process for the 2022 World Cup is the harm to Major League Soccer from not having the event in the United States. Applying current data about MLS revenues to a concept studied by...

Courts expect plaintiffs in complex litigation to prove damages through sophisticated economic models using techniques like regression analysis. Courts in the Daubert era also scrutinize the assumptions underlying those models and sometimes exclude expert testimony because of dubious...

We consider the effect of government-owned telecommunications providers on privately owned rivals by comparing the presence of private telecommunications services providers alongside municipal competitors in the US telecommunications industry from 1999 through 2002. Our primary finding is that...

The Supreme Court in Kelo v. City of New London left protection of property against takings for economic development to the states. Since Kelo, thirty-seven states have enacted legislation to update their eminent domain laws. This paper is the first to theoretically and empirically analyze the...

We examine a unique public assistance program, the Lifeline Program, to consider why people do not participate in a program that provides them with financial benefits. Lifeline is a nationwide program created by the Federal Communications Commission to provide price discounts to low-income...

This paper examines a unique public assistance program, the Lifeline Assistance Program, to consider factors that cause people to not participate in a program that provides them with financial benefits. Lifeline is a nationwide program created by the Federal Communications Commission to provide...

Colleges and universities routinely use evaluation scores to assess the quality of an instructor's teaching for purposes of promotion and tenure, and for merit raise allocations. This paper applies a feasible generalized least squares model to a panel of data from master's-level classes. We find...

This paper estimates the marginal revenue product of a premium women's college basketball player. Ordinary least squares estimates indicate that acquiring another one of these players generates nearly $250,000 annually for her team. Quantile regression estimates, however, show that these...

This article examines whether a player's race affects his date of election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. If the election process exhibits biases against minority-race players, then they may be required to wait longer to be elected. The results show no evidence of racial discrimination...