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Dr. Matthew J. Holian is an Associate Professor of Economics at San José State University.

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Dr. Matthew J. Holian is an Associate Professor of Economics at San José State University.

Methods in open policy analysis: An application to California's ...

Contemporary Economic Policy (2023)

Matthew J. Holian

Have building energy codes lowered energy consumption, and have their benefits outweighed costs? Using 2000 Census data, I estimate household ...

The impact of building energy codes on household electricity expenditures

Economics Letters (2020)

Matthew J. Holian

Home energy use is a major source of a typical US household’s carbon emissions. This study uses the American Community ...

The role of road infrastructure and air pollution in the ...

Environment and Urbanization ASIA (2017)

Matthew J. Holian and Kala S. Sridhar

This article re-examines the suburbanization of Indian cities by calculating population density gradients, for a large number of urban agglomerations, ...

An agent-based model of entrepreneurship: Examining the role of alertness ...

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy (2017)

Graham D. Newell and Matthew J. Holian

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop an agent-based model that highlights the role of entrepreneurship in the market ...

HOUSEHOLD CARBON EMISSION FROM DRIVING AND CENTER CITY QUALITY OF ...

Ecological Economics (2015)

Matthew J. Holian and Matthew E. Kahn

In metropolitan areas with a vibrant center city, residents are more likely to live downtown, spend more time downtown and ...

Household demand for Low Carbon Public Policies: Evidence from California

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2015)

Matthew J. Holian and Matthew E. Kahn

In recent years, Californians have voted on two key pieces of low carbon regulation. One introduces a carbon cap-and-trade market ...

Parchment, guns, and the problem of governance

The Review of Austrian Economics (2014)

Matthew J. Holian and Giampaolo Garzarelli

The genuine problem of governance is one that pays equal attention to both incentive and knowledge issues in private and ...

The effect of social and economic development on air pollution ...

Environment and Urbanization Asia (2014)

Matthew J. Holian

This article presents new estimates of air pollution production functions using data from Indian cities. The resulting estimates enable tests ...

Assessing Municipal Bond Default Probablities

Matthew J. Holian and Marc Joffe

In response to a request from the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission, we propose a model to estimate default ...

THE RISE OF THE LOW CARBON COMSUMER CITY

National Bureau of Economic Research (2013)

Matthew J. Holian and Matthew E. Kahn

Firm and industry effects in accounting versus economic profit data

Applied Economics Letters (2011)

Matthew J. Holian and Ali M. Reza

This article presents estimates of firm and industry fixed-effects on profit rates for large US corporations, using both Economic Value ...

Homeownership, Dissatisfaction and Voting

Journal of Housing Economics (2011)

Matthew J. Holian

This article explores the relationships between homeownership, dissatisfaction with city services, and voting turnout in local elections, using original survey ...

Urban transportation, land use and household greenhouse gas production

Matt E. Kahn and Matthew J. Holian

Using Drew Carey in the Classroom

The Journal of Private Enterprise (2011)

Matthew J. Holian

This teaching note describes how to use Drew Carey’s short public policy documentaries in the classroom, and as part of ...

Intellectual Property and Antitrust Limits on Contract: Comment

Economics Bulletin (2010)

Matthew J. Holian and Neil Nguyen

In their chapter in Dynamic Competition and Public Policy (2001, Cambridge University Press), Burtis and Kobayashi never defined their model's ...

The Persistence of Accounting versus Economic Profit

Economics Bulletin (2010)

Matthew J. Holian and Ali M. Reza

Drawing on Schumpeterian theory, this article presents estimates of a first-order autoregressive model of profit persistence for large US firms, ...

Understanding the M-form Hypothesis

Journal of Industrial Organization Education (2010)

Matthew J. Holian

The theory of the firm deserves to play a prominent role in both the undergraduate and graduate industrial organization curriculum, ...

Outsourcing in U.S. Cities, Ambulances and Elderly Voters

Working Group on Interlocal Services Cooperation (2007)

Matthew J Holian

Many of the largest cities in the United States outsource emergency medical services. This paper develops a political economy model ...

Compstat, Community Policing and the Science of Success: A MarketBased ...

Economic Affairs (2007)

Matthew J. Holian

Police departments in the USA have begun to embrace recommendations from two police management philosophies. However, it is often unclear ...

Measuring the Economic Impact of High Speed Rail Construction for ...

Mineta Transportation Institute (2018)

Hilary Nixon, Matthew Holian, John Niles and J. M. Pogodzinski

The nation’s first high-speed rail project is under construction in California’s Central Valley as of the date of this report. ...

Analyzing the Potential of Hybrid and Electric Off-Road Equipment in ...

Mineta Transportation Institute (2017)

Matthew Holian and Jae-Ho Pyeon

This report quantifies the likely impact recent improvements in emissions technology in the heavy construction equipment fleet will have on ...

Benefit-Cost Analysis for Transportation Planning and Public Policy: Towards Multimodal ...

Mineta Transportation Institute (2016)

Matthew Holian and Ralph McLaughlin

This report examines existing methods of benefit-cost analysis (BCA) in two areas, transportation policy and transportation planning, and suggests ways ...

California Voting and Suburbanization Patterns: Implications for Transit Policy, MTI ...

Mineta Transportation Institute (2013)

Matthew J. Holian and Matthew E. Kahn

Public transit is an environmentally friendly transportation mode that usually focuses on transporting people within and to the city center. ...

The Impact of Center City Economic and Cultural Vibrancy on ...

Mineta Transportation Institute (2012)

Matthew J. Holian and Matthew E. Kahn

Urban planners and scholars have focused a great deal of attention on understanding the relationship between the built environment and ...

Data and the American Dream: Contemporary Social Controversies and the ...

Published Works by SJSU Honorees (2021)

Matthew J. Holian

This book paints a portrait of social life in America by providing an accessible discussion of empirical economics research on ...