Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985.
Estimating Aid-Allocation Criteria with Panel Data.
Trumbull, William N, Wall, Howard J
In 1990, the net amount of economic aid, or official development assistance, to all recipients from all multilateral and bilateral sources was about $62 billion, an amount that exceeded the GDPs of...
Frequency of Paradox in a Common n-Winner Voting Scheme.
Mitchell, Douglas W, Trumbull, William N
This paper investigates the extent to which a commonly used electoral scheme--voting for n candidates when there are n vacancies to fill--is likely to lead, in practice, to paradoxical results. Two...
Comparing Apples: Normalcy, Russia, and the Remaining Post-Socialist World.
Peter T. Leeson, William N. Trumbull
Shleifer and Treisman (2005) argue that Russia is a “normal country.” Their benchmark for normalcy, however, refers primarily to middle-income countries like Mexico and Argentina. We propose that...
Estimating the Economic Model of Crime with Panel Data.
Cornwell, Christopher, Trumbull, William N
Previous attempts at estimating the economic model of crime with aggregate data relied heavily on cross-section econometric techniques and, therefore, do not control for unobserved heterogeneity....