Matthew J. Holian
San Jose State University
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Journal of Housing Economics | 2011
Matthew J. Holian
This article explores the relationships between homeownership, dissatisfaction with city services, and voting turnout in local elections, using original survey data. Homeowners are more likely than renters to vote, but the pure effect of ownership is not robust to either basic socio-economic controls or an instrumental variable strategy. However, dissatisfaction has a positive, significant and robust effect on likelihood of voting. When interacting homeownership and dissatisfaction, the author finds that dissatisfied homeowners are significantly more likely to vote than both satisfied homeowners and all renters. This finding is consistent with Fischel’s (2001) homevoter hypothesis.
Applied Economics Letters | 2011
Matthew J. Holian; Ali M. Reza
This article presents estimates of firm and industry fixed effects on profit rates for large US corporations, using Economic Value Added (EVA), the popular measure of profits produced by Stern Stewart & Co., and simple (unadjusted) accounting measures as the dependent variables. We find that the improvement in explanatory power of the fixed-effect model is substantially greater when using EVA than has been documented with alternative measures.
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | 2015
Matthew J. Holian; Matthew E. Kahn
In recent years, Californians have voted on two key pieces of low carbon regulation. One introduces a carbon cap-and-trade market and the other creates a plan to build a high-speed rail system connecting the state’s major cities. This provides an opportunity to examine the demand for carbon mitigation efforts. Household voting patterns are found to mirror the voting patterns by the US Congress on national carbon legislation. Political liberals and more educated voters favor such regulations while suburbanites tend to oppose such initiatives. By pricing carbon, suburban land becomes less valuable. We find that homeowner communities in suburban areas are more likely to vote against such regulation, while homeowners in the center city area are more likely to favor carbon pricing. Homeowner communities close to high-speed rail stops are also more likely to support this legislation.
Archive | 2010
Matthew J. Holian; Justin M. Ross
This chapter attempts to shed some light onto two controversies in the management of US colleges and universities: outsourcing and decentralization. We attempt to provide a comprehensive account of when these managerial changes have been, and are likely to be in the future, effective by describing the costs and benefits of both of these management practices. While the discussion generally pertains to the U.S. public universities, most concepts are general enough to apply to all colleges and universities.
Environment and Urbanization Asia | 2014
Matthew J. Holian
This article presents new estimates of air pollution production functions using data from Indian cities. The resulting estimates enable tests of various hypotheses concerning the effect of income, literacy, population and other variables on four measures of air pollution: sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and two measures of particulate matter. Controlling for multiple factors, we find the relationship between social and economic development and pollution varies across pollution types and development indicators; we find a negative relationship between income and particulate matter, no relationship between income and sulfur dioxide emissions and a positive relationship between income and nitrogen dioxide emissions. We also test for non-linear relationships, but do not find strong non-monotonic relationships between income and pollution, though there is some evidence for non-monotonic relationships between literacy and pollution. We present new population elasticity estimates and document large variation in air pollution levels across regions and industries.
Economic Affairs | 2007
Matthew J. Holian
Police departments in the USA have begun to embrace recommendations from two police management philosophies. However, it is often unclear whether these recommendations conflict with or complement each other. This article suggests that viewing these philosophies from a market-based perspective will enable police forces in the UK to better apply their recommendations.
National Bureau of Economic Research | 2014
Matthew J. Holian; Matthew E. Kahn
In recent years, Californians have voted on two key pieces of low carbon regulation. The resulting voting patterns provide an opportunity to examine the demand for carbon mitigation efforts. Household voting patterns are found to mirror the voting patterns by the U.S Congress on national carbon legislation. Political liberals and more educated voters favor such regulations while suburbanites tend to oppose such initiatives. Survey responses at the individual level are shown to predict the spatial variation in actual voting patterns and hence convergent validity for results obtained with stated preference data on voting markets.
Environment and Urbanization Asia | 2017
Matthew J. Holian; Kala Seetharam Sridhar
This article re-examines the suburbanization of Indian cities by calculating population density gradients, for a large number of urban agglomerations, using recent data and Mills’ two-point method. In the next step, we estimate multiple regression models to explore the determinants of suburbanization. This study presents several methodological advances over previous research, by incorporating new measures of transport infrastructure, air pollution and city–suburb income ratios as determinants of suburbanization of Indian cities. Our results clearly show that suburbanization is higher in urban areas with higher population and lower central city–suburban literacy ratios. We find some evidence that suburbanization is higher in urban areas with more road transport infrastructure, consistent with our expectations, though results concerning air pollution run counter to expectations. However, these could relate to caveats regarding the data and methods.
Journal of Industrial Organization Education | 2011
Matthew J. Holian
This lecture describes the M-form Hypothesis (due to Chandler, 1962 and Williamson, 1975), with a mathematical model and examples.
Economics Bulletin | 2010
Matthew J. Holian; Neil N.H. Nguyen
In their chapter in Dynamic Competition and Public Policy (2001, Cambridge University Press), Burtis and Kobayashi never defined their models discount rate, making replicating their simulation results difficult. Through our own simulations, we were able to verify their results when using a discount rate of 0.10. We also identified two new types of equilibria that the authors overlooked, doubling the number of distinct equilibria in the model.