James V. Koch

Old Dominion University | ODU · Department of Economics

The diversity of business philosophies and practices across family firms suggests their performance is influenced by factors that can be hard to isolate or understand. Based on 215 observations of Vietnamese firms operating in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, we use fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis techniques to discern the con...

Relying on a panel of more than 600 four-year colleges (including 49 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs)), we show that HBCUs as a group outperform other major classes of institutions (for example, flagship state universities) in generating upward economic mobility for their graduates.

Factors underlying rapidly escalating college costs and solutions for the problem.

Because individual listing data for Airbnb typically are not publicly available, private companies have emerged to estimate the performance of Airbnb listings. The implicit assumption of a growing number of academics, policymakers, and consultants is that Airdna’s performance measures are directly comparable with those of STR. We argue that Airdna’...

Airbnb is an Internet-based firm that connects potential short-term renters with hosts who own or control rental properties. Its rapidly expanding activities are tracked by Airdna, an independent firm that generates seemingly conventional performance metrics describing Airbnb. These metrics include occupancy rates, average daily rates, and revenue...

Many believe that the presence of role models positively influences the behavior and success of students. We test one aspect of this contention by focusing upon the impact that Black, Asian, Hispanic, White and women role models have upon graduation rates at 176 four-year, public colleges. We find only limited evidence in favor of role model hypoth...

James MacGregor Burns is a distinguished and well-published student of the American presidency and leadership. The more than twenty books he has authored have been careful, largely non-polemical, and well received. He received both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1971 for his Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (New York: Harcourt Bra...

This study empirically finds that the U.S. federal budget deficit during the years of the Carter and Reagan Administrations was an increasing function of the unemployment rate, the nominal 20-year Treasury bond interest rate yield, and federal government purchases of goods and services and a decreasing function of the maximum marginal federal perso...

Examines family income differentials which existed among 18 different ethnic groups that immigrated to the United States between 1970 and 1980. Family size and fertility, education levels, labor force participation, geographic location, facility with English, and what Sowell has termed the "cultural inheritance" of an ethnic group are revealed as i...

SYMPOSIUM: Antitrust Issues In Amateur Sports, held at the Indiana University School of Law - March 1985

County of Washington v. Gunther is discussed--a case that dramatically widened the set of circumstances that may be used to provide legal standing for a suit alleging sex discrimination in faculty and staff salaries. The theory of "comparable worth" was supported by the Supreme Court. (MLW)

Despite the NCAA's public statements about its concern for amateurism and physical fitness, its fundamental actions are readily explainable by means of conventional economic models of cartelization . This has been especially evident in the NCAA's recent activities in the area of football television and in its recent foray into the domain of women's...

The role and effects of police activity in the enforcement of drug laws are examined using the economic tools of supply and demand analysis. In view of the epidemic nature of the drug abuse problem and its obvious economic aspects, the infrequent application of economic analysis in the area seems an anomaly. This analysis suggests that some of our...

Despite the claims of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that it is a champion of amateur athletics and physical fitness in colleges and universities, the NCAA is in fact a business cartel composed of university-firms that have varying desires to restrict competition and maximize profits in the area of intercollegiate athletics.

Examination of the relationship between student choice of undergraduate field of study and internal rates of return (IRR) in universities and colleges in the United States. Methodology; Results of the study; Impact of shifts in academic majors on IRR. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)