Volunteer Labor Supply and Liability of VolunteersTerry W. Judd(ABSTRACT)This paper examines factors affecting volunteer labor supply with two specific goals: (1) a reassessment of the model and empirical process outlined by Paul Menchik and Burton Weisbrod using a larger data set from a more...

Firms seeking sites for new or expansion plants rely on their ability to assess thebenefits and costs generated by locating operations in a given state. Stategovernments strive to understand the issues important to firms who are seekinga site for new operations or branch plants. They do so...

This study compares different methods of forecasting price volatility in the crude oil futures market using daily data for the period November 1986 through March 1997. It compares the forward-looking implied volatility measure with two backward-looking time-series measures based on past returns...

This thesis tests the hypothesis that the qualities of different forecasts of exchange rate volatility depend on the underlying exchange rate regime. By examining the British pound during and after its withdrawal from the European Monetary System (EMS), this analysis compares "backward-looking"...

Physicians often continue toprescribe brand-name drugs to theirpatients even when less expensivegeneric equivalents are available. Ina 1994 study, Judith Hellersteinadvances two hypotheses to explainthis behavior. First, doctors mayconsciously conclude that certainbrand-name drugs impart a...

Several stales have incorporated into the education aid formula ad hoc adjustments for differences in the supply prices of education inputs across school districts. Urban school districts often receive additional stale education aid per pupil based on the belief that such districts face...

(Abstract)This paper uses a multi-factor Arbitrage Pricing model to measure the systematic risks of U.S. Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in the largest emerging markets of Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. The Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) states that returns on investments...