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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…
Weathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Following Natural Disasters
Christopher Boudreaux, Anand Jha, Monica Escaleras
This study examines how foreign aid and institutions affect entrepreneurship activity following natural disasters. We use insights from the entrepreneurship, development, and insti…
Social capital and small business productivity: The mediating roles of financing and customer relationships
Christopher Boudreaux, George Clarke, Anand Jha
How does an entrepreneur's social capital improve small informal business productivity? Although studies have investigated this relationship, we still know little about the underly…