Research & Publications

My research interests span a variety of areas including Financial Economics, Health Economics, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Regional Economics and Applied Microeconomics. Below is a listing of publications. You can find additional information on Google Scholar or ResearchGate.

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

• Pollak, M., Arshanapalli, B., Griffin, A., Hobson, C., Griffin, A. (2024), “The Returns to Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing” Journal of Investing, Vol. 33, No. 5, https://doi.org/10.3905/joi.2024.1.326

• Bosslet, G., Pollak, M., Jang, J.H., Roll, R., Sperling M., Khan, B. (2021) “The effect of in-person primary and secondary school instruction on county-level SARS-CoV-2 spread in Indiana” Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 74, Issue 1, 1 January 2022, Pages 17–23, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab306 

• Arshanapalli, B., Lutey, M., Nelson, W. and Pollak, M. (2020), “The Profitability of Technical Analysis during Financial Bubbles,” The Journal of Portfolio Management. Vol. 47, No. 1, p. 168-175; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jpm.2020.1.176 

  • Overview, practical applications, and discussion of above published in:
    Arshanapalli, B., Lutey, M., Nelson, B., and Pollak, M. (2021) “Practical Applications of The Profitability of Technical Analysis during Financial Bubbles” Practical Applications. Vol. 8, No. 2, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/pa.8.2.429

• Arshanapalli, B., Nelson, W. and Pollak, M. (2019), “The Timing of International Financial Market Bubbles.” Pan Pacific Journal of Business Research. Vol. 10, No. 1: p40-51 http://ppbri.org/the-timing-of-international-financial-market-bubbles

• Pollak, M., Arshanapalli, B. and Hobson, C. (2019). “The Business Case for Hiring Military Veterans/Reservists: Stock Price Performance of Military Friendly Firms,” Journal of Veterans Studies, 4(2), p52–63. https://journal-veterans-studies.org/articles/abstract/99/ 

• Pollak, M. and Parnell, D. A. (2018), “An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Course Meeting Frequency, Attendance and Performance,” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Vol. 18, No 3: p132-151, https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v18i3.23752

• Pollak, M. and Guan, Y. (2017), “Partially Overlapping Ownership and Contagion in Financial Networks,” Complexity, vol. 2017, Article ID 9895632, https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9895632.

• Guan, Y. and Pollak, M. (2016), “Contagion in Heterogeneous Financial Networks,” Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 19, No. 1/2. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9895632.

• Pollak, M. (2016), “Socioeconomic and Demographic Trends of Northwest Indiana since 1970,” Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 19, No. 1: p88-109. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jiass/vol19/iss1/10/

• Arshanapalli, B. G., Nelson, W. B. and Pollak, M. (2015), “The Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on Withdrawals of Retirement Wealth,” The Journal of Wealth Management, Vol. 17, No. 4: p57-66. https://doi.org/10.3905/jwm.2015.17.4.057 

Editorially-reviewed and other publications

• Pollak, M. (2023), “Gary Forecast 2024,” Indiana Business Review, Vol. 98, No. 5,

• Pollak, M. (2022), “Gary Forecast 2023,” Indiana Business Review, Vol. 97, No. 4 

• Pollak, M. (2020), “Gary Forecast 2021,” Indiana Business Review, Vol. 95, No. 4 

• Pollak, M. (2019), “Gary Forecast 2020,” Indiana Business Review, Vol. 94, No. 4 

• Pollak, M. (2018), “Gary Forecast 2019,” Indiana Business Review, Vol. 93, No. 4 

• Pollak, M. (2017), “Gary Forecast 2018,” Indiana Business Review, Vol. 92, No. 4 

• Konrady, L., Barkow, S., Rao, S. K. B., Pollak, M., Sindone, A. and Saros, D. (2017). One Region Benchmark Report: New Jersey, Pittsburgh, and Denver. One Region: Northwest Indiana. http://www.oneregionnwi.org/ 

• Pollak, M. (2016), “Gary Forecast 2017,” Indiana Business Review, Vol. 91, No. 4 

• Pollak, M. "The Last Word 2016," Building Indiana, November/December Issue 2016 (December 2016)

• Pollak, M. (2015), “Gary Forecast 2016,” Indiana Business Review, Vol. 90, No. 4 

• Pollak, M. (2015), “Math and Graphing Review,” New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing. Interactive Digital Video Publication. 

• Pollak, M. (2014), “Gary Forecast 2015,” Indiana Business Review, Vol. 89, No. 4 

• Pollak, M. (2013), “Gary Forecast 2014,” Indiana Business Review, Vol. 88, No. 4 

• Pollak, M. "The Last Word: Taking Control in 2013," Building Indiana, January/February Issue 2013 (January 2013) 

• Pollak, M. (2012), “Gary Forecast 2013,” Indiana Business Review, Vol. 87, No. 4