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October 2004

• "Revenue Implications of Trade Liberalization under Imperfect Competition" by Sudesh Mujumdar has been accepted for publication in volume 28 of Economic Letters.  Working paper...
   

• "Financial Literacy Skills of Urban and Rural High School Students: A Case Study" by Greg Valentine and Mohammed Khayum was accepted for publication in the Spring 2005 special issue Personal Finance of the Delta Pi Epsilon Journal.
   
  This paper considers the influence of economic socialization on financial literacy.  Based on a sample of high school students the results from regression analysis suggest that the effectiveness of financial education in improving financial literacy may be influenced by the economic socialization of those receiving such education.  Working paper...

September 2004

• "Agency Costs and Corporate Financial Policies: A Simultaneous Equations Approach" by Young H Kim, Jong C. Rhim, and Jun G. Kang has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Business and Economics Research.
   

• "Marital Infidelity and Gender Inequality in the Presence of HIV/AIDS:  A Game Theoretic Model" by Peter Cashel-Cordo and Dan Friesner was published in the October 2003 - April 2004 issue of the Journal of Business Economics Research.
  
  The purpose of this paper is to present a simple game that examines the decision a potentially promiscuous individual (which we refer to as the “husband”) to cheat on his monogamous spouse (which we define as the “wife”) in the presence of social, legal and epidemiological constraints.  Working paper...

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