Articles
Return, purchase, or skip? Outcome, duration, and consumer behavior in the rent-to-own market (with Michael H. Anderson), Empirical Economics (2012)
Rent-to-own (RTO) is attractive to financially distressed consumers. It allows immediate access to merchandise and...
Identifiability of the misspecified split hazard models, Applied Economics (2011)
Unlike standard models, a split population hazard model allows the exit probability to be less...
A partial defense of the giant squid (with Satish Thosar), Journal of Financial Transformation (2010)
Modelling skewness and elongation in financial returns: the case of exchange-traded funds (with Alison Kelly-Hawke), Applied Financial Economics (2009)
Recent studies have documented the importance of asymmetry and tail-fatness of returns on portfolio-choice, asset-pricing,...
Rent-to-own agreements: Customer characteristics and contract outcomes (with Michael H. Anderson), Journal of Economics and Business (2009)
The rent-to-own (RTO) industry, by offering immediate access to household goods for a small periodic...