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Micah Pollak

Indiana University Northwest
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[PDF][PDF] The business case for hiring military veterans/reservists: Stock price performance of military friendly firms

M Pollak, B Arshanapalli… - Journal of Veterans Studies, 2019 - scholar.archive.org
The reasons for hiring military veterans/reservists are well documented, including such factors
as leadership, teamwork, and resilience. Research shows that veterans/reservists perform …

The effect of in-person primary and secondary school instruction on county-level severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 spread in Indiana

GT Bosslet, M Pollak, JH Jang, R Roll… - Clinical Infectious …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Our goal was to determine the county-level effect of in-person primary and
secondary school reopening on daily cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (…

[HTML][HTML] Partially overlapping ownership and contagion in financial networks

M Pollak, Y Guan - Complexity, 2017 - hindawi.com
Using historical banking data for the United States from the years 2000 to 2015 we characterize
the probability and extent of a financial contagion using a calibrated network model of …

An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Course Meeting Frequency, Attendance and Performance.

M Pollak, DA Parnell - Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018 - ERIC
Using data from economics and history courses taught across multiple semesters, the
authors show that a triweekly meeting frequency improves student performance relative to a …

Designing and managing engaging discussions in online courses

M Pollak - Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2017 - scholarworks.iu.edu
This" quick hits" details two sets of tips, the first on developing engaging discussion
questions and the second on clarifying the role of the instructor in terms of moderating and …

Contagion in heterogeneous financial networks

Y Guan, M Pollak - Advances in Complex Systems, 2016 - World Scientific
In this paper, we use the financial network contagion model of Gai P. and Kapadia S. [Contagion
in financial networks, Proc. R. Soc. A 466 (2010) 2401–2423] to investigatethe …

The profitability of technical analysis during financial bubbles

…, M Lutey, W Nelson, M Pollak - The Journal of Portfolio …, 2020 - pm-research.com
This article examines the use of technical analysis, namely, a moving-average technique, to
improve upon a buy-and-hold investment strategy during financial bubbles. Econometric …

Socioeconomic and demographic trends of Northwest Indiana since 1970

M Pollak - Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
Northwest Indiana is a region with a storied economic past. Once one of the dominant steel
and manufacturing powerhouses of the United States, in the 1970s the region began a …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamic elections with investment in endogenous issues

M Pollak - Unpublished manuscript, 2011 - researchgate.net
Elections often depend on the ability of each candidate to address the issues that matter
most to voters. If the severity or importance of these issues depends on earlier policy choices, …

The Timing of International Financial Market Bubbles

B Arshanapalli, W Nelson, M Pollak - Pan Pacific Journal of …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
We employ a recursive econometric technique to identify and date multiple financial bubbles
in five countries, the US, UK, France, Germany, and Japan. We identify multiple bubbles in …