Department of Insurance, Legal Studies, and Real Estate

Select Publications
2004-2009

Risk Management and Insurance

Barth, M.M. & Eckles, D.L. (2009). "An empirical evaluation of the effect of growth on short-term changes in loss ratios." Journal of Risk and Insurance, forthcoming.

Berry-Stölzle, T.R. (2008). "Evaluating Liquidation Strategies for Insurance Companies." Journal of Risk and Insurance, 75: 207-230.

Berry-Stölzle, T.R. & Altuntas, M. (2009). "A resource-based perspective on business strategies of newly founded subsidiaries: The case of German Pensionsfonds." Risk Management and Insurance Review, forthcoming.

Berry-Stölzle, T.R., Hoyt, R.E., & Wende, S. (2009). "Successful business strategies for insurers entering and growing in emerging markets." Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, forthcoming.

Eckles, David L. & Halek, M., (2009). "Insurer reserve error and executive compensation." Journal of Risk and Insurance, forthcoming.

Eckles, David L. & Halek, M., (2009). "Effects of analysts’ ratings on insurer stock returns: Evidence of asymmetric responses." Journal of Risk and Insurance, forthcoming.

Eckles, David L. & Halek, M., (2007). "The Problem of Asymmetric Information: A Simulation of How Insurance Markets Can Be Inefficient," Risk Management and Insurance Review, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Spring 2007, 93-105.

Gaver, J., & Pottier, S.W. (2005). "The role of holding company financial information in the insurer rating process: Evidence from the property-liability industry." Journal of Risk and Insurance, 72: 77-103.

O'Brien, T.J., Klein, L.S., & Hilliard, J.I. (2007). "Capital structure swaps and shareholder wealth." European Financial Management, 13: 979-997.

Pottier, Steven W. (2007). "The Determinants of Private Debt Holdings: Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry." Journal of Risk and Insurance, 74: 591-612.

Powell, Lars, Sommer, David W., & Eckles, D.L. (2008). " Santerre, R.E. & Hilliard, J.I. (2009). "The health economy and health insurance research in the JRI." Journal of Risk and Insurance 75: 439-461.

Santerre, R.E. & Hilliard, J.I., (2009). "Health Insurance Research in the JRI and the Health Economy." Risk Management and Insurance Review, 12: 67-79.

Legal Studies

Grow, N. (2009). "Reevaluating the Curt Flood Act of 1998." Nebraska Law Review, 87: 747-758.

Grow, N. (2008). "A proper analysis of the National Football League under Section One of the Sherman Act." Texas Review of Entertainment and Sports Law, 9: 281-305.

Grow, N. (2006). "There's no 'I' in 'League': Professional sports leagues and the single entity defense." Michigan Law Review, 105: 183-208.

Pagnattaro, M.A. (2008). "Protecting Trade Secrets in China: Update on Employee Disclosures and the Limitations of the Law." American Business Law Journal 45: 399-415.

Pagnattaro, M.A. and Peirce. E.R. (2007). "The Google Challenge: Enforcement of Non-Compete and Trade Secret Agreements for Employees Working in China" American Business Law Journal 44: 603-637.

Pagnattaro, M.A. (2004). "The perils of control: Affiliated liability under the WARN Act." American Business Law Journal, 41: 313-351.

Reed, O.L. & Hipp, E.C. (2009). "A 'Commonest' Manifesto: Property and the General Welfare." American Business Law Journal, 46: 103-137.

Real Estate

Bostic, R. W., & Martin, R.W. (2005). "Have anti-discrimination laws worked? Evidence from trends in minority homeownership." Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 31: 5-26.

Brown, J.L., Vanable, P.A., & Eriksen, M.D. (2008). "Computer assisted self-interviews: A cost effectiveness analysis." Behavior Research Methods, 40: 1-7.

Cannaday, R.E., Munneke, H.J., & Yang, T.T. (2005). "A multivariate repeat sales model for estimating house price indices." Journal of Urban Economics, 57: 320-342.

Chamblee, J., Dehring, D.A., & Depken, C.A. (2009). "Watershed development restrictions and land prices: Empirical evidence from Southern Appalachia." Regional Science and Urban Economics, 39: 287-296.

Colwell, P. F., & Munneke, H.J. (2009). "Directional land value gradients." The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 39: 1-23.

Colwell, P. F., & Munneke, H.J. (2006). "Bargaining Strength and Property Class in the Office Market." Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 33: 197-213.

Dehring, C.A., Depken, C.A., & Ward, M.R. (2008). "A Direct Test of the Homevoter Hypothesis." Journal of Urban Economics, 64: 155-70.

Dehring, C.A., & Lind, M.S. (2007). "Residential Land Use Controls and Land Values: Zoning and Covenant Interactions." Land Economics, 83: 445-57.

Dehring, C.A., & Dunse, N. (2006). "Housing density and the effect of proximity to public open space." Real Estate Economics, 34: 553-66.

Dehring, C.A. (2006). "Building codes and land values in high hazard areas." Land Economics. 82: 513-28.

Eriksen, M. (2009). "The market price of low-income housing tax credits." Journal of Urban Economics, 66: 141-149.

Kau, J.B., & Peters, L. (2005). "The effect of mortgage price and default risk on mortgage spreads." Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 30: 285-295.

Kau, J.B., Keenan, D., & Smurov, A. (2006). "The hazard approach to mortgage valuation as an alternative to option-pricing models." The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 33: 183-196.

Kau, J.B., & Yildirim, Y. (2009). "Estimating Default Probabilities Implicit in Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS)." The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 39: 107-117.

Majumdar A., Munneke, H.J., Gelfand, A.E., Banerjee, S., & Sirmans, C.F. (2006). "Gradients in spatial response surfaces with application to urban land values." Journal of Business Economics and Statistics, 24: 77-90.

Martin, R.H. & Munneke, H.J. (2009). "Real estate brokerage earnings: A focus on choice of compensation structure and mobility." Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, forthcoming.

Martin, R.W. (2004). "Can Black workers escape spatial mismatch? Employment shifts, population shifts, and Black unemployment in American cities." Journal of Urban Economics, 55: 179-195.

Mills, G., Gale, W., Patterson, R., Engelhardt, G., Eriksen, M.D. & Apostolov, E. (2008). "Effects of individual development accounts on asset purchases and saving behavior: Evidence from a controlled experiment." Journal of Public Economics, 92: 1509 – 1530.