Robert Sproule
Department of Economics
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1.1. APPLIED ECONOMETRICS
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.
Simpson, W., and R. Sproule (1998), “An econometric analysis of Canadian self-employment using SLID”, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Catalogue Number 98-16.
1.2. ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
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).
1.3. MICROECONOMIC THEORY
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.
1.4. POLITICAL ECONOMY
Sproule, R. (2005), “The political economy of labour markets in Germany and the United Kingdom: A primer,” Open Republic, July-August-September.
1.5. 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.
1.6. 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.
Sproule, R., and C. Valsan (2006), “Hedonic models and pre-auction estimates: Abstract art revisited,” A Working Paper Presented At The 5th Global Conference on Business and Economics, Cambridge, England, July 6-8.
Valsan, C., and R. Sproule (2006), “A study in abstract art,” A Working Paper Presented At The 55th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Finance Association, Chicago, Illinois, March 23-25.
Sproule, R. (2004),“The political economy of job creation: Accounting for recent unemployment rates in Germany and the United Kingdom,” A paper presented at The Workplace of the Future: Perspectives from the EU and Canada, a colloquium celebrating Ireland’s Presidency of the European Union, and convened by Bishop’s University and the National University of Ireland (Galway), in Lennoxville, Québec, May 27-28.
Sproule, R. (1989),“The insurance-buying gambler: The friedman-savage hypothesis and beyond,” A paper presented at The 18th Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Canada Economics Association, University of New Brunswick at Saint John, October.
Sproule, R. (1985), “Tax evasion and labor supply under imperfect information about individual parameters of the tax system,” A paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Dallas, Texas, November.
Sproule, R. (1984), “Information and the deterrence of crime,” A paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Guelph, June.
Sproule, R. (1980), “Tax evasion and the estimation of labor supply: An extraneous uncontrolled variable in experimental and non-experimental research,” A paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Montréal, June.
Simpson, W., and R. Sproule (1999), “An econometric analysis of self-employment with Canadian microdata,” A paper presented in the Department of Economics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, May.
Simpson, W., and R. Sproule (1998), “The production responses of the competitive firm to three conventional distributional shifts: Towards an integrated perspective,” A paper presented in the Department of Economics, University of Stockholm, Sweden, May.
Simpson, W., and R. Sproule (1998), “The production responses of the competitive firm to three conventional distributional shifts: Towards an integrated perspective,” A paper presented in the Department of Economics, University of Orebro, Sweden, May.
Simpson, W., and R. Sproule (1998), “The production responses of the competitive firm to three conventional distributional shifts: Towards an integrated perspective,” A paper presented in the Jonkoping International Business School, University of Jonkoping, Sweden, June.
Simpson, W., R. Sproule, and D. Hum (1994), “A limit theorem on the equivalence of the sign of the marginal and global effects of risk,” A paper presented in the Departement d'économique, Université de Sherbrooke, March.
Simpson, W., R. Sproule, and D. Hum (1993), “Risk always reduces output: Signing the marginal effect of output price risk for competitive firms,” A paper presented in the Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, March.
Sproule, R. (1988), “Consistent preferences and the optimal-saving decision under one-dimensional risks,” A paper presented in the Department of Economics, Brock University.
Sproule, R. (1988), “Consistent preferences and the optimal-saving decision under one-dimensional risks,” A paper presented in the Department of Economics, Concordia University.
Sproule, R. (1987), “The adverse effect of uncertainty on thrift and labor supply: A choice-theoretic confirmation of Marshall's conjecture,” A paper presented in the Department of Economics, University of Manitoba.
Sproule, R. (1984), “The owner-managed firm under output-price uncertainty,” A paper presented in the Department of Economics, University of Alberta.
4. WORKING PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
Kier, C., A. Leung, R. Sproule, and C. Warman (2007), “Social capital and happiness: The Canadian case,” Working Paper.
Valsan, C., and R. Sproule (2007), “A study in abstract art,” Working Paper.