The phenomenon of split ticket voting is intriguing, and has partially been explicated in the scientific literature. Studies have offered several inconclusive reasons why a voter may decide to split his/her vote, and to support rival candidates, and opposing political parties. The candidate’s visibility, on the one hand, and partisan identification, on the other hand, have been the most cited e...

Burden and Kimball (1998) report that, by using the King estimation procedure for inferring individual-level behavior from aggregate data, they are the first to produce accurate estimates of split-ticket voting rates in congressional districts. There are, however, several reasons to doubt that the King estimation procedure does, in fact, produce accurate cross-level inferences. We show that the...

The objective of this study is identify key factors that determine the ticket-sales revenue of minor league baseball teams and, in doing so, to verify that marketing strategies can lead to greater success for free enterprise in this milieu. To ensure greater comparability of data between teams and hence greater relevance of the results, this study focuses upon a single grouping of minor league ...

Trusted Computing is a security base technology that will perhaps be ubiquitous in a few years in personal computers and mobile devices alike. Despite its neutrality with respect to applications, it has raised some privacy concerns. We show that trusted computing can be applied for service access control in a manner protecting users’ privacy. We construct a ticket system, a concept at the heart...

A Chinese Auction is one of the most popular mechanisms at charity or other fundraising events. In a Chinese Auction, bidders buy lottery tickets, which are essentially chances to win items. Bidders may buy as many tickets as they like, and bid them on any item(s) they want by placing them in a basket or other container in front of the item(s) they are trying to win. At the conclusion of biddin...

We consider a two-period airline yield management problem where customers may act strategically. Specifically, we allow for the possibility that a customer may decide to defer purchase in the hope that a ticket cheaper than those currently on offer will become available. We also allow for the possibility that some customers will buy a more expensive ticket if the cheaper tickets are not availab...

Low hardware costs and high staffing costs have resulted in an increase in public information and transaction kiosks. Ticket vending machines are one important subset of such kiosks. These machines must offer efficient service with zero tolerance for human error, require no user training and be accessible to a wide range of users. This study evaluates the user experience of the Taiwan high spee...