6 papers
Natural disasters and social entrepreneurship: An attention-based view
Shihao Wei, Christopher Boudreaux, Zhongfeng Su +1
Drawing on the attention based view, this study explores the joint effects of natural disaster intensity at the country level with personal attributes in terms of gender, human cap…
Government Investments and Entrepreneurship
Joao Ricardo Faria, Laudo Ogura, Mauricio Prado +1
How can governments attract entrepreneurs and their businesses? The view that new business creation grows with the optimal level of government investments remains appealing to poli…
Natural Disasters, Entrepreneurship Activity, and the Moderating Role of Country Governance
Christopher Boudreaux, Anand Jha, Monica Escaleras
The purpose of this paper is to investigate if a country quality of governance moderates the effect of natural disasters on startup activity within that country. We test our hypoth…
Application of the Pythagorean Expected Wins Percentage and Cross-Validation Methods in Estimating Team Quality
Christopher Boudreaux, Justin Ehrlich, Shankar Ghimire +1
The Pythagorean Expected Wins Percentage Model was developed by Bill James to estimate a baseball team expected wins percentage over the course of a season. As such, the model can…
Institutional Quality and the Wealth of Autocrats
Christopher Boudreaux, Randall Holcombe
One frequently given explanation for why autocrats maintain corrupt and inefficient institutions is that the autocrats benefit personally even though the citizens of their countrie…
An Analysis of an Alternative Pythagorean Expected Win Percentage Model: Applications Using Major League Baseball Team Quality Simulations
Justin Ehrlich, Christopher Boudreaux, James Boudreau +1
We ask if there are alternative contest models that minimize error or information loss from misspecification and outperform the Pythagorean model. This article aims to use simulate…