Instructors teaching empirical techniques in managerial economics or economic and business statistics courses often face a dilemma. The typical student in these classes has less mathematical sophistication than those in...
This paper empirically examines whether major domestic oil companies held down product prices relative to their less visible counterparts during the 1979 oil crisis. We compare company prices on unregulated fuel oil with a...
In introductory and intermediate microeconomics courses, students are taught about production functions and cost functions but rarely are they shown a direct link between production and cost. If we assume production is...
The article discusses the use of a barter Edgeworth box in teaching students in economic classes about the connection between distributive efficiency and exchange.
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Erfle, Stephen. "On Using a...
This article examines the proclivity and performance attributes of focal students across time and activities using data from 9,345 students. Three systematic focal behavior partitions are examined: Across activities, across...
Economists studying the welfare effects of advertising typically face a dilemma: advertising appears to change tastes, but welfare effects are not calculable when tastes change. By using a model where taste do not change,...
Published as: Erfle, Stephen E. and Corey M. Gelbaugh. "Physical Activity Performance of Focal Middle School Students." Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science 17 (2013): 150-66. This is an Accepted Manuscript...
For more information on the published version, visit Oxford Journals Website., Using the oil crisis of the late 1970s as a case study, we examine the intertwined influences of public opinion and media attention on the...
For more information on the published version, visit Sage Journals Website., Erfle, Stephen, Henry McMillan, and Bernard Grofman. "Testing the Regulatory Threat Hypothesis: Media Coverage of the Energy Crisis and Petroleum...
The paper presents an ecological analysis evaluating two explanatory perspectives on third/minor party advances in recent English general elections. The impact of community cohesion on third/minor party mobilisation is complex...