Publications

by members of

Economics and Finance Department
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, Tennessee (United States)

Working papers

2008

1. E. Anthon Eff & Malcolm M. Dow, 2008. "Do Markets Promote Prosocial Behavior? Evidence from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample," Working Papers 200803, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
2. David A. Penn, 2008. "Tennessee Housing Market Brief, 4th Quarter 2007," Studies 200802, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center. [Downloadable!]
3. Bichaka Fayissa & Badassa Tadasse & Andrew McColley, 2008. "Does a Unilateral Policy Change Promote Trade? The Case of African Growth and Opportunity Act," Working Papers 200801, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
4. Bichaka Fayissa & Christian Nsiah, 2008. "The Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth and Development in Africa," Working Papers 200802, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
5. Bichaka Fayissa & Christian Nsiah & Prathibha V. Joshi, 2008. "Perceived Financial Risk and Divergence in the Economic Growth of Sub-Saharan African Countries," Working Papers 200804, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

2007

1. Joachim Zietz & Emily N. Zietz & G. Stacy Sirmans., 2007. "Determinants of House Prices: A Quantile Regression Approach," Working Papers 200706, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
2. E. Anthon Eff & Christa D. Jensen, 2007. "The Integration of Periodic Markets in Mayan Guatemala: A Gravity Approach," Working Papers 200705, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
3. Stuart J. Fowler & Bichaka Fayissa, 2007. "Public Capital Spending Shocks and the Price of Investment: Evidence from a Panel of Countries," Working Papers 200702, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
4. R. Alan Seals & John Nunley, 2007. "The Effects of Inflation and Demographic Change on Property Crime: A Structural Time-Series Approach," Working Papers 200701, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
5. R. Alan Seals, 2007. "Are Gangs an Alternative to Legitimate Employment? Investigating the Impact of Labor Market Effects on Gang Affiliation," Working Papers 200711, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
6. David A. Penn, 2007. "Financial Well-Being in an Urban Area: An Application of Multiple Imputation," Working Papers 200708, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
7. David A. Penn, 2007. "Estimating Missing Values from the General Social Survey: An Application of Multiple Imputation," Working Papers 200709, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
8. David A. Penn & Reuben Kyle, 2007. "The Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship: A Reward for Past Achievement or Motivator for Future Performance?," Working Papers 200707, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
9. David A. Penn, 2007. "Retail and Food Services in Rutherford County: Current Status, Trends, and Supply/Demand Balance," Studies 200701, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center. [Downloadable!]
10. David A. Penn, 2007. "Tennessee Housing Market Brief, 3rd Quarter 2007," Studies 200801, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center. [Downloadable!]
11. Gregory E. Givens, 2007. "Unemployment, Imperfect Risk Sharing, and the Monetary Business Cycle," Working Papers 200710, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
12. John M. Nunley, 2007. "Inflation and Other Aggregate Determinants of the Trend in U.S. Divorce Rates since the 1960s," Working Papers 200717, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
13. John M. Nunley, 2007. "The Effects of Household Income Volatility on Divorce," Working Papers 200718, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
14. Charles L. Baum II & Christopher J. Ruhm, 2007. "Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth," NBER Working Papers 13289, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
15. Bichaka Fayissa & Christian Nsiah & Badassa Tadasse, 2007. "The Impact of Tourism on Economic Growth and Development in Africa," Working Papers 200716, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
16. Bichaka Fayissa & Badassa Tadasse, 2007. "Assessing the Impact of Development Cooperation: the Case of African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and U.S. Imports from Sub-Saharan Africa," Working Papers 200719, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

2006

1. Joachim Zietz & R. Alan Seals, 2006. "Genetically Modified Maize, Biodiversity, and Subsistence Farming in Mexico," Working Papers 200604, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
2. Gregory E. Givens, 2006. "Revisiting the Delegation Problem in a Sticky Price and Wage Economy," Working Papers 200601, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
3. Gregory E. Givens & Michael K. Salemi, 2006. "Generalized Method of Moments and Inverse Control," Working Papers 200603, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Joachim Zietz, 2005. "Detecting Neglected Parameter Heterogeneity with Chow Tests," Working Papers 200503, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
2. E. Anthon Eff, 2005. "Migration Data and Matrix Methods: Deriving the Network of U.S. Central Places," Working Papers 200508, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
3. Stuart J. Fowler, 2005. "Fiscal Spending Shocks and the Price of Investment: Evidence from a Panel of Countries," Working Papers 200502, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
4. Stuart J. Fowler, 2005. "Income Inequality, Monetary Policy, and the Business Cycle," Working Papers 200507, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
5. Stuart J. Fowler, 2005. "Income Inequality, Monetary Policy, and the Business Cycle," Computing in Economics and Finance 2005 184, Society for Computational Economics. [Downloadable!]
6. David A. Penn, 2005. "Financial Well-Being in an Urban Setting: An Application of Multiple Imputation," Working Papers 200506, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
7. David A. Penn, 2005. "Economic Recovery and Growth in Middle Tennessee," Working Papers 200505, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
8. David A. Penn, 2005. "Determinants of Self-Reported Financial Security for Oklahoma County Households – An Application of Multiple Imputation," Working Papers 200504, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

2004

1. David A. Penn & Joachim Zietz, 2004. "The Development of Water Rights in Colorado," Working Papers 200404, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
2. Joachim Zietz, 2004. "Dynamic Programming: An Introduction by Example," Working Papers 200405, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
3. E. Anthon Eff, 2004. "Spatial and Cultural Autocorrelation in International Datasets," Working Papers 200401, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
4. E. Anthon Eff, 2004. "Spatial, Cultural, and Ecological Autocorrelation in U.S. Regional Data," Working Papers 200406, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
5. E. Anthon Eff, 2004. "A Flexible-Weights School Effectiveness Index," Working Papers 200403, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
6. Stuart J. Fowler & Eric R. Young, 2004. "The Acquisition of Skills over the Life-Cycle," Working Papers 200402, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
7. Charles L. Baum, 2004. "The Effect of Government-Mandated Family Leave on Employer Family Leave Policies," Working Papers 200407, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]
8. Charles L. Baum, 2004. "The Effects of Employment while Pregnant on Health at Birth," Working Papers 200408, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

1994

1. Alberto Valdés & Joachim Zietz, 1994. "Distortions in World Food Markets in the Wake of GATT: Evidence and Policy Implications," Reports _020, World Bank Latin America and the Caribean Region Department. [Downloadable!]

1989

1. Joachim Zietz & Alberto Valdés, 1989. "International Interactions in Food and Agricultural Policies: The Effect of Alternative Policies," OECD Development Centre Working Papers 2, OECD Development Centre. [Downloadable!]

1988

1. Zietz, Joachim A. & Valdés, Alberto, 1988. "Agriculture in the GATT: an analysis of alternative approaches to reform," Research reports 70, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

1980

1. Valdés, Alberto & Zietz, Joachim A., 1980. "Agricultural protection in OECD countries: its cost to less-developed countries," Research reports 21, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). [Downloadable!]

Journal articles

2008

1. David A. Penn, 2008. "Housing Slowdown Sinking In," Midstate Economic Indicators, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center, vol. 17(2), pages 1-4, Winter. [Downloadable!]
2. David A. Penn, 2008. "Tennessee Housing Market: 3rd Quarter 2007," Tennessee Housing Market, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center, vol. 1(1), pages 1-5. [Downloadable!]
3. David A. Penn, 2008. "Tennessee Housing Market: 1st Quarter 2008," Tennessee Housing Market, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center, vol. 1(3), pages 1-4. [Downloadable!]
4. David A. Penn, 2008. "Tennessee Housing Market: 4th Quarter 2007," Tennessee Housing Market, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center, vol. 1(2), pages 1-4. [Downloadable!]
5. David A. Penn, 2008. "Nashville Area," Midstate Economic Indicators, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center, vol. 17(3), pages 1-4, Spring. [Downloadable!]

2007

1. E. Anthon Eff & Steven G. Livingston, 2007. "Is There A Rural/Urban Export Gap?," Journal of Regional Science, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 47(2), pages 339-363. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. David A. Penn, 2007. "First Quarter 2007: A Tale of Two Inventories," Midstate Economic Indicators, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center, vol. 16(4), pages 1-4, Spring. [Downloadable!]
3. David A. Penn, 2007. "Domestic Manufacturers Become Global Marketers: Around the Globe and Back," Tennessee's Business, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center, vol. 16(3), pages 19-20, Spring. [Downloadable!]
4. David A. Penn, 2007. "Housing Construction: Current Status," Midstate Economic Indicators, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center, vol. 16(5 (Specia), pages 1-4, Spring. [Downloadable!]
5. David A. Penn, 2007. "Housing Slowdown Beginning to Spread," Midstate Economic Indicators, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center, vol. 17(1), pages 1-4, Fall. [Downloadable!]
6. David A. Penn, 2007. "Estimating Missing Values from the General Social Survey: An Application of Multiple Imputation," Social Science Quarterly, The Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 88(2), pages 573-584. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
7. Charles Baum, 2007. "The effects of race, ethnicity, and age on obesity," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 687-705, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
8. Wassie Berhanu & David Colman & Bichaka Fayissa, 2007. "Diversification and livelihood sustainability in a semi-arid environment: A case study from southern Ethiopia," The Journal of Development Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 43(5), pages 871-889. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2006

1. Joachim Zietz, 2006. "Detecting neglected parameter heterogeneity with Chow tests," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 13(6), pages 369-374, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. G. Sirmans & Lynn MacDonald & David Macpherson & Emily Zietz, 2006. "The Value of Housing Characteristics: A Meta Analysis," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 33(3), pages 215-240, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. David A. Penn, 2006. "What do we know about oil prices and state economic performance?," Regional Economic Development, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, issue Oct, pages 131-139. [Downloadable!]
4. Charles L. Baum & William F. Ford & Jeffrey D. Hopper, 2006. "The Obese Smoker's Wage Penalty," Social Science Quarterly, The Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 87(4), pages 863-881. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Charles L. Baum, 2006. "The Effects of Government-Mandated Family Leave on Employer Family Leave Policies," Contemporary Economic Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 24(3), pages 432-445, July.

2005

1. Zietz, Joachim & Joshi, Prathibha, 2005. "Academic choice behavior of high school students: economic rationale and empirical evidence," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 24(3), pages 297-308, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. David A. Penn, 2005. "Economic growth in middle Tennessee: can local public services keep up?," Regional Economic Development, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, issue Nov, pages 30-39. [Downloadable!]
3. Charles L. Baum, 2005. "The Effects of Employment while Pregnant on Health at Birth," Economic Inquiry, Oxford University Press, vol. 43(2), pages 283-302, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Bichaka Fayissa & Paulos Gutema, 2005. "Estimating a health production function for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 37(2), pages 155-164, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2004

1. Charles L. Baum & William F. Ford, 2004. "The wage effects of obesity: a longitudinal study," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 13(9), pages 885-899. [Downloadable!]

2003

1. Emily Norman Zietz, 2003. "Multifamily Housing: A Review of Theory and Evidence," Journal of Real Estate Research, American Real Estate Society, vol. 25(2), pages 185-244. [Downloadable!]
2. Charles L. Baum II, 2003. "Does Early Maternal Employment Harm Child Development? An Analysis of the Potential Benefits of Leave Taking," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 21(2), pages 381-408, April. [Downloadable!]
3. Baum, Charles II, 2003. "The effect of state maternity leave legislation and the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act on employment and wages," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 10(5), pages 573-596, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2002

1. Joachim Zietz & Bobby Newsome, 2002. "Agency Representation and the Sale Price of Houses," Journal of Real Estate Research, American Real Estate Society, vol. 24(2), pages 165-192. [Downloadable!]

2001

1. Joachim Zietz & Bobby Newsome, 2001. "A Note on Buyer's Agent Commision and Sales Price," Journal of Real Estate Research, American Real Estate Society, vol. 21(3), pages 245-254. [Downloadable!]
2. Zietz, Joachim, 2001. " Heteroskedasticity and Neglected Parameter Heterogeneity," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 63(2), pages 263-73, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2000

1. Joachim Zietz, 2000. "Cointegration versus traditional econometric techniques in applied economics," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 26(4), pages 469-482, Fall. [Downloadable!]
2. Joachim Zietz, 2000. "Cointegration versus traditional econometric techniques in applied economics," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan Journals, vol. 26(4), pages 469-482, Fall. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1998

1. Yiuman Tse & Emily Norman Zietz & Gaylon Greer, 1998. "Anticipating Change in Development Activity Levels," Journal of Real Estate Research, American Real Estate Society, vol. 16(2), pages 159-168. [Downloadable!]

1997

1. John D. Benjamin & G. Stacy Sirmans & Emily Norman Zietz, 1997. "Security Measures and the Apartment Market," Journal of Real Estate Research, American Real Estate Society, vol. 14(3), pages 347-358. [Downloadable!]

1996

1. Joachim Zietz, 1996. "The relative price of tradables and nontradables and the U.S. trade balance," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 7(2), pages 147-160, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1995

1. Zietz, Joachim, 1995. "Some Evidence on the Efficiency of the Forward Market for Foreign Exchange from Monte-Carlo Experiments," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 105(433), pages 1471-87, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Valdes, Alberto & Zietz, Joachim, 1995. "Distortions in world food markets in the wake of GATT: Evidence and policy implications," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 23(6), pages 913-926, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Deme, Mamit & Fayissa, Bichaka, 1995. "Inflation, Money, Interest Rate, Exchange Rate, and Causality: The Case of Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 27(12), pages 1219-24, December.

1994

1. Zietz, Joachim & Fayissa, Bichaka, 1994. "The impact of exchange rate changes on investment in research and development," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 34(2), pages 195-211. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Joachim Zietz & Ghassem Homaifar, 1994. "Exchange rate uncertainty and the efficiency of the forward market for foreign exchange," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 127(3), pages 461-475, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1993

1. Zietz, Joachim & Pemberton, Donald K., 1993. "Parameter instability in aggregate US import demand functions," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 12(6), pages 654-667, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1992

1. Joachim Zietz & Bichaka Fayissa, 1992. "R & D expenditures and import competition: Some evidence for the U.S," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 127(1), pages 52-66, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Joachim Zietz, 1992. "The impact of oil price shocks and exchange rate changes on import demand elasticities," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 127(2), pages 237-248, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Kyle, Reuben & Strickland, Thomas H & Fayissa, Bichaka, 1992. "Capital Markets' Assessment of Airline Restructuring Following Deregulation," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 24(10), pages 1097-1102, October.

1991

1. Cole, William E. & Fayissa, Bichaka, 1991. "The urban subsistence labor force: Toward a policy-oriented and empirically accessible taxonomy," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 19(7), pages 779-789, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1988

1. Zietz, Joachim & Weichert, Ronald, 1988. "A dynamic singular equation system of asset demand," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 32(6), pages 1349-1357, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1987

1. Valdes, Alberto & Zietz, Joachim, 1987. "Export subsidies and minimum access guarantees in agricultural trade: a developing country perspective," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 15(5), pages 673-683, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1986

1. Joachim Zietz, 1986. "The potential benefits to LDCs of trade liberalization in beef and sugar by industrialized countries," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 122(1), pages 93-112, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1985

1. Zietz, Joachim, 1985. "A pre-estimation sample separation method for a labor market in disepuilibrium," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 7(1), pages 51-67. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1984

1. Zietz, Joachim, 1984. "The Interest Elasticity of Savings: An Analysis Based on Explicit Priors," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 46(4), pages 311-27, November.

Undated

1. Zol Alexei Hooper & E. Anthon Eff, . "Social Mobility in the United States as a Markov Process," Journal for Economic Educators, Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Economic Research Center. [Downloadable!]

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