PUBLISHED PAPERS BY FIELD OF INQUIRY

1. APPLIED ECONOMETRICS

Leung, A., C. Kier, Tak Fung, L. Fung, and R. Sproule (2010), “Searching for happiness: The importance of social capital,” Journal of Happiness Studies, forthcoming.

Valsan, C., and R. Sproule (2008), “Reservation prices and pre-auction estimates: A study in abstract art,” The Amfiteatru Economic Journal 24, 257-272.

Sproule, R., and C. Valsan (2006), “Hedonic models and pre-auction estimates: Abstract art revisited,” Economics Bulletin 26 (5), 1-10.

Kier, C., A. Leung, and R. Sproule (2005), “The tradeoff between unemployment and earnings inequality: The perceptions of senior business executives,” Applied Economics Quarterly 51 (4).

Erskine, M., C. Kier, A. Leung, and R. Sproule (2005), “Peer crowds, work experience, and financial saving behavior of young Canadians,” Journal of Economic Psychology 27 (2), 262-284.

2. ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION

Sproule, R., and C. Valsan (2009), “The student evaluation of teaching: Its failure as a research program, and as an administrative guide,” The Amfiteatru Economic Journal 25, 125-150.

Valsan, C., and R. Sproule (2008), “The invisible hands behind the student evaluation of teaching: The rise of the new managerial elite in the governance of higher education,” Journal of Economic Issues 42 (4), 939-958.

Sproule, R. (2002), “The underdetermination of instructor performance by data from the student evaluation of teaching,” Economics of Education Review 21 (3), 287-294.

Sproule, R. (2000), “The student evaluation of teaching: A methodological critique of conventional practices,” Education Policy Analysis Archives 8 (50).

3. MICROECONOMIC THEORY

Sproule, R. (2010), “A note on the endogeneity of the price of utility within the consumer’s static profit function,” Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

Sproule, R., and C. Valsan (2009), “A simple test for the violation of the non-satiation axiom under uncertainty: The theory,” Economics Bulletin 29 (4), 2661-2669.

Leung, A., and R. Sproule (2007), "Using the compensating and equivalent variations to define the Slutsky Equation under a discrete price change," Economics Bulletin 4 (11), 1-9.

Sproule, R. (2006), “Sandmo’s model of the competitive firm in a two-moment world,” Economic Analysis Working Papers 5 (8).

Paulsson, T., R. Sproule, and A. Wagener (2005), “The demand for a risky asset: Signing, jointly and separately, the effects of three distributional shifts,” Metroeconomica 56, 221-232.

Paulsson, T., and R. Sproule (2002), “Stochastically-dominating shifts and the competitive firm,” European Journal of Operational Research 141 (1), 100-105.

Simpson, W., and R. Sproule (2000), “The production responses of the competitive firm to three conventional distributional shifts: A unified perspective,” Metroeconomica 51 (2), 168-81.

Sproule, R., and M. Vigneault (1996), “The duality between production and cost functions: A new finding,” Economics Letters 51, 67-70.

Simpson, W., R. Sproule, and D. Hum (1995), “Can the sufficient conditions used to sign the global effect of risk be used to sign the marginal effect of risk?” Bulletin of Economic Research 47, 305-319.

Sproule, R. (1994), “The short-run shutdown decision when output-price and initial wealth are random,” European Journal of Operational Research 73 (1), 33-38.

Sproule, R., and R. Clément (1994), “Full-cost pricing and the marginalist paradigm: A reconciliation of perspectives,” The Finnish Journal of Business Economics, Special Edition, 126-131.

Sproule, R. (1992), “The production responses of the competitive firm to increases in output-price risk, and output-price downside risk: A synthesis,” Economic Studies Quarterly 43, 177-181.

Sproule, R. (1987a), “Consistent preferences and the allocation of effort under uncertainty: The case of risk-averse behavior,” Economics Letters 24, 213-18.

Sproule, R. (1987b), “The owner-managed firm under output-price uncertainty: A model based on a synthesis of Sandmo (1971), Block and Heineke (1973), and Ishii (1977),” Journal of Economics 47, 125-41.

Sproule, R. (1986), “The portfolio effects of increasing asset-return uncertainty in a two-asset, two-period model,” International Review of Economics and Business 33, 1017-26.

Sproule, R. (1985a), “Tax evasion and labor supply under imperfect information about individual parameters of the tax system,” Public Finance 40, 115-22.

Sproule, R. (1985b), “An optimal allocation of labor supply and savings under interest-rate uncertainty,” Bulletin of Economic Research 37, 115-22.

Sproule, R., D. Komus, and E. Tsang (1980), “Optimal tax evasion: Risk-neutral behavior under a negative income tax,” Public Finance 35, 309-17.

4. POLITICAL ECONOMY

Sproule, R. (2005), “The political economy of labour markets in Germany and the United Kingdom: A primer,” Open Republic, July-August-September.

5. PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

Sheldon, A., and R. Sproule (1997), “Variance as a proxy for risk: The case of the binomial distribution,” The Statistician 46 (3), 317-322.

Fu, J., and R. Sproule (1995), “A generalization of the binomial distribution,” Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 24 (10), 2645-58.

Sproule, R. (1993a), “Mean-preserving and mean-variance-preserving transformations of the general Bernoulli distribution,” Cahiers du Centre d’Études de Recherche Operationnelle 35, 125-134.

Sproule, R. (1993b), “An alternative reduction formula for the central moments of the general Bernoulli distribution,” Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 22 (4), 1191-1194.

Sproule, R., and R. Platt (1993), “Skewness and kurtosis: A pedagogical note employing the general Bernoulli distribution,” Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik 212, 162-165.

Sproule, R. (1992), “The general Bernoulli probability density function, and the properties of its central moments,” The Statistician 41, 155-59.

6. SOCIAL SCIENCES (GENERAL)

Standing, L., R. Sproule, and A. Leung (2006), “Can business and economics students perform elementary arithmetic?,” Psychological Reports 98 (2), 549-555.

Standing, L., R. Sproule, and N. Khouzam (1991), “Illustrating Meehl’s sixth law of soft psychology: Everything correlates with everything,” Psychological Reports 69, 123-26.

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