Publications

by members of

Fox School of Business and Management
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)

Working papers

2007

1. Eva Marikova Leeds & Michael A. Leeds, 2007. "International Soccer Success and National Institutions," Working Papers 0702, International Association of Sports Economists. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Michael R. Powers & Martin Shubik, 2005. "A Note on a "Square-Root Rule" for Reinsurance," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1521, Cowles Foundation, Yale University. [Downloadable!]
2. Alleman, James & Rappoport, Paul, 2005. "Regulatory Failure: Time for a New Policy Paradigm," MPRA Paper 2517, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]

2003

1. David M. Schizer & Michael R. Powers & Martin Shubik, 2003. "Market Bubbles and Wasteful Avoidance: Tax and Regulatory Constraints on Short Sales," Yale School of Management Working Papers ysm356, Yale School of Management. [Downloadable!]
2. Michael R. Powers & David M. Schizer & Martin Shubik, 2003. "Market Bubbles and Wasteful Avoidance: Tax and Regulatory Constraints on Short Sales," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1413, Cowles Foundation, Yale University. [Downloadable!]

1999

1. Michael R. Powers & Martin Shubik, 1999. "Toward a Theory of Reinsurance and Retrocession," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1227, Cowles Foundation, Yale University. [Downloadable!]

1994

1. Michael R. Powers & Martin Shubik & Shuntian Yao, 1994. "Insurance Market Games: Scale Effects and Public Policy," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1076, Cowles Foundation, Yale University. [Downloadable!]

1992

1. Rappoport, P. & Sicherman, N., 1992. "Maternal Age as an Indication for Amniocentesis: An Evaluation of the "35 Plus" Rule," Papers 92-21, Columbia - Graduate School of Business.

1975

1. P.A.V.B. Swamy & J.S. Mehta & P.N. Rappoport, 1975. "Relative efficiencies of a competitor of Hoerl and Kennard's ridge regression estimator," Special Studies Papers 69, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

Journal articles

2009

1. Mudambi, Ram & Swift, Tim, 2009. "Professional guilds, tension and knowledge management," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(5), pages 736-745, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Michael R. Powers, 2009. "Rethinking risk and return: Part 1 – novel norms for non-normality?," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 10(2), pages 101-106, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Michael R. Powers, 2009. "Insurance regulation in America – playing out of its league," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 10(1), pages 5-6, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Michael R. Powers, 2009. "Rethinking risk and return: part 2 – some felicitous Fourier frequencies," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 10(3), pages 205-209, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Gao, Feng & Powers, Michael R. & Wang, Jun, 2009. "Adverse selection or advantageous selection? Risk and underwriting in China's health-insurance market," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(3), pages 505-510, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. Lin, Shih-Kuei & Chang, Chia-Chien & Powers, Michael R., 2009. "The valuation of contingent capital with catastrophe risks," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 45(1), pages 65-73, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
7. Michael A. Leeds & John M. Mirikitani & Danna Tang, 2009. "Rational Exuberance? An Event Analysis of the 2008 Olympics Announcement," International Journal of Sport Finance, Fitness Information Technology, vol. 4(1), pages 5-15, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
8. David J. Berri & Michael A. Leeds & Eva Marikova Leeds & Michael Mondello, 2009. "The Role of Managers in Team Performance," International Journal of Sport Finance, Fitness Information Technology, vol. 4(2), pages 75-93, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2008

1. Ram Mudambi & Mike Peng & David Weng, 2008. "Research rankings of Asia Pacific business schools: Global versus local knowledge strategies," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 25(2), pages 171-188, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Michael R. Powers, 2008. "The nature of randomness: Part 1 – Knowable or unknowable?," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 9(1), pages 5-8, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Michael R. Powers, 2008. "The nature of randomness: Part 2 – Cognitive constraints," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 9(2), pages 101-105, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Michael R. Powers, 2008. "Lanchester resurgent? The mathematics of terrorism risk," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 9(3), pages 225-231, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Michael R. Powers, 2008. "The sequential sawyer – a tale of frequentist fright," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 9(4), pages 313-316, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. Michael R. Powers, 2008. "Combining information about … combining information," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 9(5), pages 417-421, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
7. Michael A. Leeds, 2008. "Do Good Olympics Make Good Neighbors?," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 26(3), pages 460-467, 07. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2007

1. Michael R. Powers, 2007. "Thoughts on the “scientific method”: part 1 – ignorance through inconsistency," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 8(3), pages 209-213, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Michael R. Powers, 2007. "Thoughts on the “scientific method”: part 2 – frequentist fecklessness," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 8(4), pages 325-329, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Michael R. Powers, 2007. "Intuition and surprise," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 8(5), pages 429-433, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Michael R. Powers, 2007. "Sharing responsibility: what they didn't teach you in kindergarten," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 8(2), pages 93-96, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Michael R. Powers, 2007. "Human mortality: written in the stars?," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 8(1), pages 5-10, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. Michael A. Leeds & Cristen Miller & Judith Stull, 2007. "Interscholastic Athletics and Investment in Human Capital," Social Science Quarterly, The Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 88(3), pages 729-744. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2006

1. Coombs, Joseph E. & Mudambi, Ram & Deeds, David L., 2006. "An examination of the investments in U.S. biotechnology firms by foreign and domestic corporate partners," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 21(4), pages 405-428, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Marc Goergen & Arif Khurshed & Ram Mudambi, 2006. "The Strategy of Going Public: How UK Firms Choose Their Listing Contracts," Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 33(1-2), pages 79-101. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Michael R. Powers, 2006. "Catastrophe forecasting: seeing “gray” among the “black boxes”," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 7(5), pages 458-462, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Michael R. Powers, 2006. "Pure vs speculative risk: False choice; sham marriage," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 7(4), pages 345-347, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Michael R. Powers, 2006. "An insurance paradox," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 7(2), pages 113-116, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. Michael R. Powers, 2006. "The Cramér-Rao lower bound on variance: Adam and Eve's “uncertainty principle”," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 7(3), pages 233-236, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2005

1. Mudambi, Ram & Treichel, Monica Zimmerman, 2005. "Cash crisis in newly public Internet-based firms: an empirical analysis," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 20(4), pages 543-571, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Philip McCann & Ram Mudambi, 2005. "Analytical differences in the economics of geography: the case of the multinational firm," Environment and Planning A, Pion Ltd, London, vol. 37(10), pages 1857-1876, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Cristina Bicchieri & Ram Mudambi & Pietro Navarra, 2005. "A matter of trust: The search for accountability in Italian politics, 1990–2000," Mind and Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, Fondazione Rosselli, vol. 4(1), pages 129-148, 06. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Michael R. Powers, 2005. "Forecasts from biased experts: a “meta-credibility” problem," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 6(1), pages 47-59, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2004

1. Mudambi, Ram & Navarra, Pietro, 2004. "Electoral strategies in mixed systems of representation," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 20(1), pages 227-253, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Ram Mudambi & Pietro Navarra, 2004. "Divisional power, intra-firm bargaining and rent-seeking behavior in multidivisional corporations," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 4(13), pages 1-10. [Downloadable!]
3. Philip McCann & Ram Mudambi, 2004. "The Location Behavior of the Multinational Enterprise: Some Analytical Issues," Growth and Change, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, vol. 35(4), pages 491-524. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Ram Mudambi, 2004. "The economics of transaction costs, edited by Rao, P.K., Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, xvi+197 pp., GBP 50.00 (cloth)," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 25(1), pages 56-57. [Downloadable!]
5. Michael A. Leeds & Peter von Allmen, 2004. "Spousal Complementarity in Home Production," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 63(4), pages 795-811, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2003

1. Ram Mudambi & Pietro Navarra, 2003. "Political culture and foreign direct investment: The case of Italy," Economics of Governance, Springer, vol. 4(1), pages 37-56, 04. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Powers, Michael R. & Venezian, Emilio C. & Juca, Iana B., 2003. "Of happy and hapless regulators: the asymptotics of ruin," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(2), pages 317-330, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Michael Leeds, 2003. "Race, incentives, and opportunities: The importance of timing," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer, vol. 30(3), pages 55-69, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2002

1. Mudambi, Ram & Navarra, Pietro & Paul, Chris, 2002. " Institutions and Market Reform in Emerging Economies: A Rent Seeking Perspective," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 112(1-2), pages 185-202, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Khurshed, Arif & Mudambi, Ram, 2002. "The Short-Run Price Performance of Investment Trust IPOs on the UK Main Market," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 12(10), pages 697-706, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Kridel, Donald J. & Rappoport, Paul N. & Taylor, Lester D., 2002. "IntraLATA long-distance demand: carrier choice, usage demand and price elasticities," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 18(4), pages 545-559. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2001

1. Powers, Michael R. & Shubik, Martin, 2001. "Toward a theory of reinsurance and retrocession," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 29(2), pages 271-290, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Kridel, Donald J. & Rappoport, Paul N. & Taylor, Lester D., 2001. "Competition in intraLATA long distance: carrier choice models estimated from residential telephone bills," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 13(3), pages 267-282, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1999

1. Mudambi, Ram & Navarra, Pietro & Sobbrio, Giuseppe, 1999. "Changing the rules: political competition under plurality and proportionality," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 15(3), pages 547-567, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Ram Mudambi, 1999. "Multinational Investment Attraction: Principal-Agent Considerations," International Journal of the Economics of Business, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 6(1), pages 65-79, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1998

1. Mudambi, Ram & Nicosia, Carmela, 1998. "Ownership Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from the UK Financial Services Industry," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 175-80, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Powers, Michael R. & Shubik, Martin, 1998. "On the tradeoff between the law of large numbers and oligopoly in insurance," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 23(2), pages 141-156, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Michael Powers & Martin Shubik & Shun Yao, 1998. "Insurance market games: Scale effects and public policy," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 67(2), pages 109-134, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1997

1. Mudambi, Ram & Navarra, Pietro & Sobbrio, Giuseppe, 1997. " Voter Information and Power Dilution: Evidence from Sicilian Provincial Elections," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 92(1-2), pages 169-80, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Mudambi, Ram, 1997. "A Complete Information Index for Measuring the Proportionality of Electoral Systems," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 4(2), pages 101-04, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Ram Mudambi, 1997. "Estimating turning points using polynomial regression," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 24(6), pages 723-732, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Rappoport, Paul N. & Taylor, Lester D., 1997. "Toll price elasticities estimated from a sample of U.S. residential telephone bills," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 51-70, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1996

1. Mudambi, Ram & Navarra, Pietro & Nicosia, Carmela, 1996. " Plurality versus Proportional Representation: An Analysis of Sicilian Elections," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 86(3-4), pages 341-57, March.
2. Mudambi, Ram, 1996. "Insurance or Signals? Student Perception of Pre-final Assessed Work," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 28(3), pages 321-26, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1995

1. Powers, Michael R., 1995. "A theory of risk, return and solvency," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 17(2), pages 101-118, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1994

1. Masson, Robert T & Mudambi, Ram & Reynolds, Robert J, 1994. "Oligopolistic Product Withholding in Ricardian Markets," Bulletin of Economic Research, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 46(1), pages 71-79, January.
2. Mudambi, Ram, 1994. "A Ricardian Excursion to Bermuda: An Estimation of Mixed Strategy Equilibrium," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 26(9), pages 927-36, September.

1993

1. Ram Mudambi, 1993. "Government Policy toward MNEs in the Presence of Foreign Exchange Scarcity," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 19(1), pages 99-108, Winter. [Downloadable!]

1992

1. Leeds, Michael A, 1992. "Who Benefits from Affirmative Action? The Case of the AEA Summer Minority Program 1986-1990," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 6(2), pages 149-56, Spring. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1991

1. Mudambi, Ram & Taylor, Larry W, 1991. "A Nonparametric Investigation of Duration Dependence in the American Business Cycle: A Note," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 99(3), pages 654-56, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1990

1. Leeds, Michael A, 1990. "Part-time Status and Hourly Earnings of Black and White Men," Economic Inquiry, Oxford University Press, vol. 28(3), pages 544-54, July.

1985

1. Leeds, Michael A., 1985. "Property values and pension underfunding in the local public sector," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(1), pages 34-46, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1982

1. Abrams, Richard K. & Kniesner, Thomas J. & Rappoport, Paul N., 1982. "Random coefficient regression and the long-run phillips curve for the U.S," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 9(3), pages 251-255. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Finan, William F. & Rappoport, Paul N., 1982. "The international trade in automobiles: Explaining short-run changes in the import share of the United States market, 1979-1981," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 4(1), pages 99-109, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1978

1. Swamy, Paravastu A. V. B. & Rappoport, Paul N., 1978. "Relative efficiencies of some simple Bayes estimators of coefficients in a dynamic equation with serially correlated errors - II," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 7(2), pages 245-258, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1975

1. Swamy, P. A. V. B. & Rappoport, Paul N., 1975. "Relative efficiencies of some simple Bayes estimators of coefficients in dynamic models -- I," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 3(3), pages 273-296, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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