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Papers by Agnieszka Kwapisz
Journal of education for business, 2013
The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge am... more The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge among undergraduate business seniors, is widely used to measure student achievement. Many previous studies analyzing scores on the MFT-B report gender differences on the exam even after controlling for student's aptitude, general intellectual ability, and motivation. The authors' results point to two reasons behind this phenomenon. First, it is important to control for critical thinking abilities while explaining variation in MFT-B scores. Second, motivation to perform well on the test varies between genders and high-and low-performing students.
![Research paper thumbnail of Erratum to: “Sufficiency in Blackwell’s theorem” [Math. Social Sci. 46(1) (2003) 21–25]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/106706354/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Mathematical Social Sciences, Jul 1, 2009
1 We note that Crêmer (1982), Ponssard (1975) and Marschak and Miyasawa (1968) also present short... more 1 We note that Crêmer (1982), Ponssard (1975) and Marschak and Miyasawa (1968) also present short proofs of Blackwell's theorem with somewhat different techniques.
Journal of education for business, Jul 1, 2016
ABSTRACT The authors used bibliometric analysis to create indices for both the percentage of arti... more ABSTRACT The authors used bibliometric analysis to create indices for both the percentage of articles a journal publishes on business and management education (BME) research and the relative scholarly impact an article is likely to have after being published in that journal. They envision that the dissemination of these indices will be helpful for scholars considering work in BME research because the indices save prospective scholars considerable time in determining the range and desirability of outlets in which their work might be published.
Journal of studies on alcohol, Mar 1, 2003
Research in Higher Education Journal, Apr 1, 2013
This study's objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software appli... more This study's objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software applications course academic difficulties in that course achievement problems in business applications course early in business schools' curriculum and e success in the course, as well as in students' early college GPA. characteristics of the students who do not applications course, and a comparison to the lo B) scoring model, suggests that over 84% an MFT-B score below the 50th percentile of a would be expected to score in the bottom 20% of that same distribution. course were predicted to score 23% lower on the MFT than comparable students.
Journal of public finance and public choice, Apr 1, 2009
We estimate the determinants of state excise tax rates on beer, cigarettes, and gasoline using a ... more We estimate the determinants of state excise tax rates on beer, cigarettes, and gasoline using a panel data set from US 48 contiguous states from 1982 to 2003. State excise tax rates currently vary a great deal and we assess empirically economic and political factors that affect the level of these tax rates. We incorporate both horizontal competition and vertical competition. Our results show that the most important factor determining the level of cigarette and gasoline tax rates is the horizontal competition between neighboring states and that vertical competition exists in case of beer and cigarette taxation.
Journal of education for business, 2012
The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge am... more The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge among undergraduate business seniors, is widely used to measure student achievement. The Educational Testing Service, publisher of the assessment, provides data that allow institutions to compare their own MFT-B performance to national norms, but that procedure fails to take the characteristics of institutional student cohorts into
Applied Financial Economics, May 11, 2012
Citation counts are widely used in academia in hiring, tenure, promotion, salary increases, merit... more Citation counts are widely used in academia in hiring, tenure, promotion, salary increases, merit pay as well as to rank departments, journals and authors. However, no previous study examined the factors that influence citations in finance journals. This article examines how the number of citations is affected by authors' collaboration, advertising and 'salesmanship' efforts, journals rank, article placement in the journal, and authors' experience. We employ 16 years of data and use the Tobit model to study the number of citations. Also, we use the hazard model to estimate the probability of an article being cited for the first time. The empirical results show significant relation between the number of citations and the ranking of authors' university, placement of an article in a journal, the length of an article, and the number of references included but no significant effect of collaboration, grant support, and the number of presentations and acknowledgments. Additionally, we conclude that it is important to use a long time series data to analyse citations in finance.
This study extends previous lines of research which have identified academic achievement determin... more This study extends previous lines of research which have identified academic achievement determinates among undergraduate business students by intellectual variance on business education estimate whether the returns on certain student characteristics, most notably the variance in intellectual ability as signaled by ACT score distribution business programs, differ along the conditional distribution of their Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B) test scores. A systematic examination of the relationship between academic ability (using the ACT as a proxy) and academic achievement (measured by the MFT significant effects of either hetero achievement for high ability students. students might be disadvantaged by the presence of lo positive and significant effect was f of the MFT-B distribution. While intellectual or academic ability, as signaled by the ACT, certainly appears relevant in terms of individual achievement, there is no indication that an admissions policy which creates cohorts w...
This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software appli... more This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software applications course academic difficulties in that course achievement problems in business applications course early in business schools ’ curriculum and e success in the course, as well as in students ’ early college GPA. characteristics of the students who do not applications course, and a comparison to the lo B) scoring model, suggests that over 84% an MFT-B score below the 50th percentile of a would be expected to score in the bottom 20 % of that same distribution. course were predicted to score 23 % lower on the MFT than comparable students.
If one information service is more informative than the other, then any agent values it more. In ... more If one information service is more informative than the other, then any agent values it more. In fact, the opposite implication (sufficiency) is also true, and this characterization is the celebrated Blackwell's theorem. We present here a short proof of sufficiency. Actually, we show a stronger result: it is enough to check whether the value of the service is greater than the value of the other for any fixed positive a priori probabilities and a set of terminal actions that has only two elements.
Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software appli... more This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software applications course academic difficulties in that course achievement problems in business applications course early in business schools’ curriculum and e success in the course, as well as in students’ early college GPA. characteristics of the students who do not applications course, and a comparison to the lo B) scoring model, suggests that over 84% an MFT-B score below the 50th percentile of a would be expected to score in the bottom 20% of that same distribution. course were predicted to score 23% lower on the MFT than comparable students.
![Research paper thumbnail of Erratum to: “Sufficiency in Blackwell’s theorem” [Math. Social Sci. 46(1) (2003) 21–25]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/83809228/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Mathematical Social Sciences, 2009
1 We note that Crêmer (1982), Ponssard (1975) and Marschak and Miyasawa (1968) also present short... more 1 We note that Crêmer (1982), Ponssard (1975) and Marschak and Miyasawa (1968) also present short proofs of Blackwell's theorem with somewhat different techniques.
National Tax Journal, 2002
Alcohol involvement in auto crashes, homicides, and teen drinking is an important policy concern,... more Alcohol involvement in auto crashes, homicides, and teen drinking is an important policy concern, and the price of alcohol may have significant effects on these behaviors. Are alcohol taxes quickly and fully passed on to consumers? Given the difficulties of accurately measuring beverage prices, are beer taxes a good empirical proxy for the price of alcohol? Using pooled cross sectiontime series data on state and Federal alcohol taxes and beverage prices, beer taxes are found to be poor predictors of alcohol prices. Controlling for state and period effects, excise taxes appear to be over-shifted: Retail prices rise by more than the amount of the tax, and the rise occurs within 3 months.
International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose – Given that there exists in the literature relatively little research into the effective... more Purpose – Given that there exists in the literature relatively little research into the effectiveness of writing centers at universities, the purpose of this paper is to show the impact of university writing centers on first-year business seminar student writing. Design/methodology/approach – This quantitative study involved 315 first-year undergraduate business students. Logistic and quantile regression analysis was used to test two hypotheses. Findings – Results indicate that student intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors positively influenced the likelihood that a student visits the center. Student grades on writing assignments were significantly higher for students who visited the writing center but only for students who scored in the top 40th percentile of the grade distribution. Practical implications – Writing centers should try to reach all students not only those who are naturally motivated. Most importantly, centers should find ways to help students in the lower port...
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2014
The paper explores the nature of change and finds evidence in favor of deceleration hypothesis: p... more The paper explores the nature of change and finds evidence in favor of deceleration hypothesis: prior changes of a given type decrease the likelihood of a subsequent change of the same type while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. We analyse leadership changes by explaining factors that influence football teams to replace their coaches. We use panel data for 33 National Football League's teams from 1976 to 2008.
Journal of Education for Business, 2014
Publishers of the Major Field Test-Business (MFT-B), an assessment of learning instrument, provid... more Publishers of the Major Field Test-Business (MFT-B), an assessment of learning instrument, provide a list of institutions utilizing the instrument and a table which allows comparison of local MFT-B mean scores to those of other institutions. The absence of information regarding the comparison group's characteristics limits the validity of that comparison. This study provides a comparison of the institutions accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and utilizing the MFT-B to those accredited institutions which do not, along with an estimation of the probability that a school will use the MFT-B for assessment purposes.
Journal of Change Management, 2014
This article explores triggers of organizational change. In particular, how the likelihood of fut... more This article explores triggers of organizational change. In particular, how the likelihood of future changes is influenced by duration between the changes, the number of previous changes, and the surrounding conditions. Rule changes are analysed by examining factors that influence US states to update their excise tax rates on beer and cigarettes using panel data for 48 contiguous states. We provide evidence in favour of the deceleration hypothesis: prior changes of a given type decrease the likelihood of a subsequent change of the same type. We found support that the likelihood of organizational change increases with duration (the time between the changes). States updated their beer and cigarette tax rates in response to accumulation of inflation not letting the rates to become obsolete. Finally, our results indicate that changes in surrounding conditions positively influence the probability of change. State legislators take the opportunity of changes in the neighbouring states to change their own taxes. A logit model to estimate the probability of change and a hazard model to estimate the time to change are employed.
Southern Economic Journal, 2006
We examine the relationships among alcohol prices, consumption and traffic fatalities using data ... more We examine the relationships among alcohol prices, consumption and traffic fatalities using data across U.S. states from 1982-2000. Some previous studies have found large, negative associations between alcohol taxes and fatalities. However, commonly-used price data suggest little or no connection between alcohol prices and fatalities. These apparently conflicting findings may result from measurement error and/or endogeneity in the price data, which biases ordinary least squares estimators toward a finding of no price effects. Using alcohol taxes as instrumental variables, fatalities are found to be negatively related to prices. In addition, alcohol consumption is strongly positively related to fatalities.
Journal of Education for Business, 2012
Student performance on the Major Field Achievement Test in Business is an important benchmark for... more Student performance on the Major Field Achievement Test in Business is an important benchmark for college of business programs. The authors' results indicate that such benchmarking can only be meaningful if certain student characteristics are taken into account. The differences in achievement between cohorts are explored in detail by separating the effect of high-achieving students choosing certain majors (characteristics effect) from the effect of the returns on these characteristics that students realize during their college educational experience (return effect).
Journal of education for business, 2013
The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge am... more The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge among undergraduate business seniors, is widely used to measure student achievement. Many previous studies analyzing scores on the MFT-B report gender differences on the exam even after controlling for student's aptitude, general intellectual ability, and motivation. The authors' results point to two reasons behind this phenomenon. First, it is important to control for critical thinking abilities while explaining variation in MFT-B scores. Second, motivation to perform well on the test varies between genders and high-and low-performing students.
Mathematical Social Sciences, Jul 1, 2009
1 We note that Crêmer (1982), Ponssard (1975) and Marschak and Miyasawa (1968) also present short... more 1 We note that Crêmer (1982), Ponssard (1975) and Marschak and Miyasawa (1968) also present short proofs of Blackwell's theorem with somewhat different techniques.
Journal of education for business, Jul 1, 2016
ABSTRACT The authors used bibliometric analysis to create indices for both the percentage of arti... more ABSTRACT The authors used bibliometric analysis to create indices for both the percentage of articles a journal publishes on business and management education (BME) research and the relative scholarly impact an article is likely to have after being published in that journal. They envision that the dissemination of these indices will be helpful for scholars considering work in BME research because the indices save prospective scholars considerable time in determining the range and desirability of outlets in which their work might be published.
Journal of studies on alcohol, Mar 1, 2003
Research in Higher Education Journal, Apr 1, 2013
This study's objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software appli... more This study's objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software applications course academic difficulties in that course achievement problems in business applications course early in business schools' curriculum and e success in the course, as well as in students' early college GPA. characteristics of the students who do not applications course, and a comparison to the lo B) scoring model, suggests that over 84% an MFT-B score below the 50th percentile of a would be expected to score in the bottom 20% of that same distribution. course were predicted to score 23% lower on the MFT than comparable students.
Journal of public finance and public choice, Apr 1, 2009
We estimate the determinants of state excise tax rates on beer, cigarettes, and gasoline using a ... more We estimate the determinants of state excise tax rates on beer, cigarettes, and gasoline using a panel data set from US 48 contiguous states from 1982 to 2003. State excise tax rates currently vary a great deal and we assess empirically economic and political factors that affect the level of these tax rates. We incorporate both horizontal competition and vertical competition. Our results show that the most important factor determining the level of cigarette and gasoline tax rates is the horizontal competition between neighboring states and that vertical competition exists in case of beer and cigarette taxation.
Journal of education for business, 2012
The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge am... more The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge among undergraduate business seniors, is widely used to measure student achievement. The Educational Testing Service, publisher of the assessment, provides data that allow institutions to compare their own MFT-B performance to national norms, but that procedure fails to take the characteristics of institutional student cohorts into
Applied Financial Economics, May 11, 2012
Citation counts are widely used in academia in hiring, tenure, promotion, salary increases, merit... more Citation counts are widely used in academia in hiring, tenure, promotion, salary increases, merit pay as well as to rank departments, journals and authors. However, no previous study examined the factors that influence citations in finance journals. This article examines how the number of citations is affected by authors' collaboration, advertising and 'salesmanship' efforts, journals rank, article placement in the journal, and authors' experience. We employ 16 years of data and use the Tobit model to study the number of citations. Also, we use the hazard model to estimate the probability of an article being cited for the first time. The empirical results show significant relation between the number of citations and the ranking of authors' university, placement of an article in a journal, the length of an article, and the number of references included but no significant effect of collaboration, grant support, and the number of presentations and acknowledgments. Additionally, we conclude that it is important to use a long time series data to analyse citations in finance.
This study extends previous lines of research which have identified academic achievement determin... more This study extends previous lines of research which have identified academic achievement determinates among undergraduate business students by intellectual variance on business education estimate whether the returns on certain student characteristics, most notably the variance in intellectual ability as signaled by ACT score distribution business programs, differ along the conditional distribution of their Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B) test scores. A systematic examination of the relationship between academic ability (using the ACT as a proxy) and academic achievement (measured by the MFT significant effects of either hetero achievement for high ability students. students might be disadvantaged by the presence of lo positive and significant effect was f of the MFT-B distribution. While intellectual or academic ability, as signaled by the ACT, certainly appears relevant in terms of individual achievement, there is no indication that an admissions policy which creates cohorts w...
This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software appli... more This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software applications course academic difficulties in that course achievement problems in business applications course early in business schools ’ curriculum and e success in the course, as well as in students ’ early college GPA. characteristics of the students who do not applications course, and a comparison to the lo B) scoring model, suggests that over 84% an MFT-B score below the 50th percentile of a would be expected to score in the bottom 20 % of that same distribution. course were predicted to score 23 % lower on the MFT than comparable students.
If one information service is more informative than the other, then any agent values it more. In ... more If one information service is more informative than the other, then any agent values it more. In fact, the opposite implication (sufficiency) is also true, and this characterization is the celebrated Blackwell's theorem. We present here a short proof of sufficiency. Actually, we show a stronger result: it is enough to check whether the value of the service is greater than the value of the other for any fixed positive a priori probabilities and a set of terminal actions that has only two elements.
Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software appli... more This study’s objective is to determin complete a required sophomore level business software applications course academic difficulties in that course achievement problems in business applications course early in business schools’ curriculum and e success in the course, as well as in students’ early college GPA. characteristics of the students who do not applications course, and a comparison to the lo B) scoring model, suggests that over 84% an MFT-B score below the 50th percentile of a would be expected to score in the bottom 20% of that same distribution. course were predicted to score 23% lower on the MFT than comparable students.
Mathematical Social Sciences, 2009
1 We note that Crêmer (1982), Ponssard (1975) and Marschak and Miyasawa (1968) also present short... more 1 We note that Crêmer (1982), Ponssard (1975) and Marschak and Miyasawa (1968) also present short proofs of Blackwell's theorem with somewhat different techniques.
National Tax Journal, 2002
Alcohol involvement in auto crashes, homicides, and teen drinking is an important policy concern,... more Alcohol involvement in auto crashes, homicides, and teen drinking is an important policy concern, and the price of alcohol may have significant effects on these behaviors. Are alcohol taxes quickly and fully passed on to consumers? Given the difficulties of accurately measuring beverage prices, are beer taxes a good empirical proxy for the price of alcohol? Using pooled cross sectiontime series data on state and Federal alcohol taxes and beverage prices, beer taxes are found to be poor predictors of alcohol prices. Controlling for state and period effects, excise taxes appear to be over-shifted: Retail prices rise by more than the amount of the tax, and the rise occurs within 3 months.
International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose – Given that there exists in the literature relatively little research into the effective... more Purpose – Given that there exists in the literature relatively little research into the effectiveness of writing centers at universities, the purpose of this paper is to show the impact of university writing centers on first-year business seminar student writing. Design/methodology/approach – This quantitative study involved 315 first-year undergraduate business students. Logistic and quantile regression analysis was used to test two hypotheses. Findings – Results indicate that student intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors positively influenced the likelihood that a student visits the center. Student grades on writing assignments were significantly higher for students who visited the writing center but only for students who scored in the top 40th percentile of the grade distribution. Practical implications – Writing centers should try to reach all students not only those who are naturally motivated. Most importantly, centers should find ways to help students in the lower port...
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2014
The paper explores the nature of change and finds evidence in favor of deceleration hypothesis: p... more The paper explores the nature of change and finds evidence in favor of deceleration hypothesis: prior changes of a given type decrease the likelihood of a subsequent change of the same type while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. We analyse leadership changes by explaining factors that influence football teams to replace their coaches. We use panel data for 33 National Football League's teams from 1976 to 2008.
Journal of Education for Business, 2014
Publishers of the Major Field Test-Business (MFT-B), an assessment of learning instrument, provid... more Publishers of the Major Field Test-Business (MFT-B), an assessment of learning instrument, provide a list of institutions utilizing the instrument and a table which allows comparison of local MFT-B mean scores to those of other institutions. The absence of information regarding the comparison group's characteristics limits the validity of that comparison. This study provides a comparison of the institutions accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and utilizing the MFT-B to those accredited institutions which do not, along with an estimation of the probability that a school will use the MFT-B for assessment purposes.
Journal of Change Management, 2014
This article explores triggers of organizational change. In particular, how the likelihood of fut... more This article explores triggers of organizational change. In particular, how the likelihood of future changes is influenced by duration between the changes, the number of previous changes, and the surrounding conditions. Rule changes are analysed by examining factors that influence US states to update their excise tax rates on beer and cigarettes using panel data for 48 contiguous states. We provide evidence in favour of the deceleration hypothesis: prior changes of a given type decrease the likelihood of a subsequent change of the same type. We found support that the likelihood of organizational change increases with duration (the time between the changes). States updated their beer and cigarette tax rates in response to accumulation of inflation not letting the rates to become obsolete. Finally, our results indicate that changes in surrounding conditions positively influence the probability of change. State legislators take the opportunity of changes in the neighbouring states to change their own taxes. A logit model to estimate the probability of change and a hazard model to estimate the time to change are employed.
Southern Economic Journal, 2006
We examine the relationships among alcohol prices, consumption and traffic fatalities using data ... more We examine the relationships among alcohol prices, consumption and traffic fatalities using data across U.S. states from 1982-2000. Some previous studies have found large, negative associations between alcohol taxes and fatalities. However, commonly-used price data suggest little or no connection between alcohol prices and fatalities. These apparently conflicting findings may result from measurement error and/or endogeneity in the price data, which biases ordinary least squares estimators toward a finding of no price effects. Using alcohol taxes as instrumental variables, fatalities are found to be negatively related to prices. In addition, alcohol consumption is strongly positively related to fatalities.
Journal of Education for Business, 2012
Student performance on the Major Field Achievement Test in Business is an important benchmark for... more Student performance on the Major Field Achievement Test in Business is an important benchmark for college of business programs. The authors' results indicate that such benchmarking can only be meaningful if certain student characteristics are taken into account. The differences in achievement between cohorts are explored in detail by separating the effect of high-achieving students choosing certain majors (characteristics effect) from the effect of the returns on these characteristics that students realize during their college educational experience (return effect).