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Volume 113, issue 1 , 2011
The impact of the financial crisis on new firm registration pp. 1-4
Leora F. Klapper and Inessa Love
Bidding fever in eBay auctions of Amazon.com gift certificates pp. 5-7
Matthew T. Jones
Optimal delegation implications of central bank transparency pp. 8-11
Jonathan G. James and Phillip Lawler
A simple method for estimating unconditional heterogeneity distributions in correlated random effects models pp. 12-15
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Forecasting with many predictors: Is boosting a viable alternative? pp. 16-18
Teresa Buchen and Klaus Wohlrabe
Selective immigration policies, migrants' education and welfare at origin pp. 19-22
Simone Bertoli and Herbert Brücker
Sharpness in randomly censored linear models pp. 23-25
Shakeeb Khan , Maria Ponomareva and Elie Tamer
Uncertain spatial demand and price flexibility: A state space approach to duopoly pp. 26-28
Kieron Meagher and Klaus G. Zauner
How bidder's number affects optimal reserve price in first-price auctions under risk aversion pp. 29-31
Audrey Hu
Tinbergen controllability and n-player LQ-games pp. 32-34
Giovanni Di Bartolomeo , Andrew J Hughes Hallett and Nicola Acocella
Do hard pegs avoid currency crises? An evaluation using matching estimators pp. 35-38
Taro Esaka
Trembling-hand myopia and trembling-hand perfection pp. 39-41
C.D. Aliprantis and . Topolyan
Hit and (they will) run: The impact of terrorism on migration pp. 42-46
Axel Dreher , Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks
Multilateral trade liberalisation, foreign direct investment and the volume of world trade pp. 47-49
David R Collie
Vertical integration and right of first refusal pp. 50-53
Luis M B Cabral and Helder Vasconcelos
Public goods and optimal paternalism under present-biased preferences pp. 54-57
Thomas Aronsson and David Granlund
The application of nonparametric tests to poverty targeting pp. 58-61
Isha Dewan and Rohini Somanathan
A note on representativeness and household finance pp. 62-64
Maik Dierkes , Alexander Klos and Thomas Langer
The shrinking endogeneity of optimum currency areas criteria: Evidence from the European Monetary Union--A beta regression approach pp. 65-69
António Mendonça , João Silvestre and José Passos
Mumbling with great incoherence: Was it really so difficult to understand Alan Greenspan? pp. 70-72
David-Jan Jansen
Ethnic networks and trade: Intensive versus extensive margins pp. 73-75
Cletus C. Coughlin and Howard J. Wall
A comparison of bias approximations for the two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator pp. 76-79
Maurice Bun and Frank Windmeijer
Cross-bidding impact throughout the product life cycle pp. 80-83
Juan-Francisco Pages and Asuncion Mochon
Individual heterogeneity in returns to education in urban China during 1995-2002 pp. 84-87
Rong Zhu
The gender reservation wage gap: Evidence from British Panel data pp. 88-91
Sarah Brown , Jennifer Roberts and Karl Taylor
Can consumption of convenience products reveal the opportunity cost of time? pp. 92-95
Daniel J. Phaneuf
Exchange rate regime verification: An alternative method of testing for regime changes pp. 96-98
A.H. Ahmad , David . Harvey and Eric John Pentecost
Volume 112, issue 3 , 2011
A folk theorem for endogenous reference points pp. 223-225
Mark Bernard
What distinguishes entrepreneurs? Evidence on the motives for self-employment pp. 226-229
Joanna Tyrowicz
Decomposition of the effect of government size on growth pp. 230-232
Eiji Yamamura
Lessons from studying a simple macroeconomic model for China pp. 233-235
Gregory C. Chow
Symplectic geometry: The natural geometry of economics? pp. 236-238
Thomas Russell
Overconfidence on public information pp. 239-242
Deqing Zhou
Identification of parameters in an asymmetric perfect information game pp. 243-246
Nese YIldIz
Ruling out unstable equilibria in New Keynesian models pp. 247-249
A. Patrick L. Minford and Naveen Srinivasan
Globalization's winners and losers--Evidence from life satisfaction data, 1975-2001 pp. 250-253
Zohal Hessami
Testing for Zipf's law: A common pitfall pp. 254-255
Carlos M. Urzúa
Financial-sector shocks in a credit-view model pp. 256-258
Burton Alan Abrams
Parity dependence of a majority rule characterization on the Condorcet domain pp. 259-261
Lauren Nicole Merrill
Does democracy foster financial development? An empirical analysis pp. 262-265
Benhua Yang
Education cost, intergenerational mobility, and income inequality pp. 266-269
Tamotsu Nakamura and Yu Murayama
More stringent BITs, less ambiguous effects on FDI? Not a bit! pp. 270-272
Axel Berger , Matthias Busse , Peter Nunnenkamp and Martin Roy
Externality in labor supply and government spending pp. 273-276
Patrick Fève , Julien Matheron and Jean-Guillaume Sahuc
Location and happiness in the United States pp. 277-279
William Sander
Public randomization in the repeated prisoner's dilemma game with local interaction pp. 280-282
Myeonghwan Cho
Distributional impacts of a local living wage increase with ability sorting pp. 283-286
Tom Ahn
Aid effectiveness and the soft budget constraint: EU development aid to the former Soviet Union pp. 287-289
Theocharis Nikolaou Grigoriadis
A direct test of hyperbolic discounting using market asset data pp. 290-292
Matthew Jude Salois and Charles B Moss
Test of random versus fixed effects with small within variation pp. 293-297
Jinyong Hahn , John Ham and Hyungsik Roger Moon
Volume 112, issue 2 , 2011
Untruthful dominant strategies for the deferred acceptance algorithm pp. 135-137
Taro Kumano and Masahiro Watabe
Consumption time in household production: Implications for the goods-time elasticity of substitution pp. 138-140
Ranju Baral , George C. Davis and Wen You
Organization capital and firm performance. Empirical evidence for European firms pp. 141-143
Claudia Tronconi and Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti
Barro-Gordon revisited: Reputational equilibria with inferential expectations pp. 144-147
Timo Henckel , Gordon Menzies , Nick Prokhovnik and Daniel John Zizzo
On uniqueness of the conditional maximum likelihood estimation for a binary panel model pp. 148-150
Kentaro Akashi
Is a skill intensity reversal a mere theoretical curiosum? Evidence from the US and Mexico pp. 151-154
Yoshinori Kurokawa
The power to delay pp. 155-157
Duozhe Li
"Girls will be Girls", especially among Boys: Risk-taking in the "Daily Double" on Jeopardy pp. 158-160
Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist and Jenny Säve-Söderbergh
Markov-switching models and the unit root hypothesis in real US GDP pp. 161-164
Maximo Camacho
Implementation of individually rational social choice functions with guaranteed utilities pp. 165-167
Yosef Mealem
Microfinance and competition for external funding pp. 168-170
Suman Ghosh and Eric Van Tassel
Poverty, political freedom, and the roots of terrorism in developing countries: An empirical assessment pp. 171-175
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Javed Younas
The benefits of voluntary leadership in experimental public goods games pp. 176-178
M. Fernanda Rivas and Matthias Sutter
Exchange rate policy under sovereign default risk pp. 179-181
Andreas Schabert
The Endogenous Sequential Probit model: An application to the demand for hospital utilization pp. 182-185
Murat K. Munkin
ECB repo rate setting during the financial crisis pp. 186-188
Stefan Gerlach
On the dynamics of international inflation pp. 189-191
Giovanni Caggiano and Efrem Castelnuovo
Equilibrium of a sequence of auctions when bidders demand multiple items pp. 192-194
Qingmin Liu
Terrorism risk concern in Europe pp. 195-197
Konstantinos Drakos and Cathérine Müller
Regime-switching factor models in which the number of factors defines the regime pp. 198-201
Adriana S. Cordis and Chris Kirby
Bertrand equilibrium with subadditive costs pp. 202-204
Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar
Cointegration, factor shares, and production function parameters pp. 205-206
Bob Chirinko and Debdulal Mallick
Parameter orthogonalization and Bayesian inference with many instruments pp. 207-209
Jinyong Hahn and Karsten Hansen
Who benefits from bilateral information exchange in a retail channel? pp. 210-212
Anthony Dukes , Esther Gal-Or and Tansev Geylani
Search costs and corporate income tax competition pp. 213-215
Kai A. Konrad
Multiple equilibria in Tullock contests pp. 216-219
Subhasish Modak Chowdhury and Roman M. Sheremeta
Further simulation evidence on the performance of the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator pp. 220-222
João M.C. Santos Silva and Silvana Tenreyro
Volume 112, issue 1 , 2011
Crowding-out effect of the current food stamp subsidy scheme pp. 1-2
Yi Zhang
Asymmetric access pricing in the Internet backbone market pp. 3-6
Ángel Luis López
Determinacy, stock market dynamics and monetary policy inertia pp. 7-10
Damjan Pfajfar and Emiliano Santoro
The spectral representation of Markov switching ARMA models pp. 11-15
Beatrice Pataracchia
Simultaneous versus sequential information processing pp. 16-18
Ross M. Hoffman , John H. Kagel and Dan Levin
Testing the unit root hypothesis against TAR nonlinearity using STAR-based tests pp. 19-22
Robert Sollis
Financial frictions and the K/L ratio in UK manufacturing pp. 23-25
Marina-Eliza Spaliara
Nominal uncertainty and inflation: The role of European Union membership pp. 26-30
Kyriakos C. Neanidis and Christos Savvas Savva
Casinos and campus crime pp. 31-33
Thomas Hyclak
Probabilistic risk aversion with an arbitrary outcome set pp. 34-37
Pavlo R. Blavatskyy
Risk aversion in auctions with asymmetrically informed bidders: A "desensitizer" from uncertainty pp. 38-41
Felix Munoz-Garcia and Sandra Orozco-Alemán
A credit market in early stages of economic development pp. 42-44
Hideki Nakamura and Tetsuya Nakajima
Welfare effects of subsidizing higher education when access and quality are endogenous pp. 45-48
Gary Fethke
Asymptotically unbiased estimation of autocovariances and autocorrelations for panel data with incidental trends pp. 49-52
Ryo Okui
An asymptotic variance inequality for instrumental variable estimators signaling proportional bias increases pp. 53-55
Yun-Yeong Kim
Further evidence regarding nonlinear trend reversion of real GDP and the CPI pp. 56-59
Gary L. Shelley and Frederick H. Wallace
De facto financial openness and capital mobility pp. 60-62
Javed Younas
Why do people place lower weight on advice far from their own initial opinion? pp. 63-66
Francesco Ravazzolo and Øistein Røisland
Best-of-three all-pay auctions pp. 67-70
Aner Sela
Reflections on the failure of the Taylor principle under commitment pp. 71-74
Emanuel Barnea and Nissan Liviatan
On the role of social wage comparisons in gift-exchange experiments pp. 75-78
Siang, Ch'ng Kean , Till Requate and Israel Waichman
Semiparametric binary random effects models: Estimating two types of drinking behavior pp. 79-81
Yingying Dong
Ranking of signals in multitask agency models pp. 82-84
Jia Xie
Intergenerational transmission of preferences pp. 85-87
Erwin Bulte and Richard D. Horan
Observed inflation forecasts and the new Keynesian macro model pp. 88-90
Mika Kortelainen , Maritta Paloviita and Matti Viren
Are there pre-programme effects of active placement efforts? Evidence from a social experiment pp. 91-93
Pathric Hägglund
The nonlinear impact of currency unions on bilateral trade pp. 94-96
Hajime Katayama and Mark Melatos
R&D subsidies and the performance of high-tech start-ups pp. 97-99
Massimo G. Colombo , Luca Grilli and Samuele Murtinu
On the efficiency of participation with vertically differentiated workers pp. 100-102
Frédéric Gavrel
Endogenous monetary commitment pp. 103-106
Jan Libich and Petr Stehlík
Bayesian estimation of the output gap for a small open economy: The case of Canada pp. 107-112
Tino Berger and Bernd Kempa
Is there dynamic adverse selection in the life insurance market? pp. 113-115
Daifeng He
The non-linear effects of life expectancy on economic growth pp. 116-118
Rodolphe Desbordes
Public health spending, tax reform, and long-run growth pp. 119-121
Elwin Tobing
Opportunity costs in buying and short selling--Do they really matter? pp. 122-124
Tal Shavit , Mosi Rosenboim and Miki Malul
Price premiums for journal quality and journal governance: Evidence from economics journals pp. 125-127
Yuqing Zheng and Harry M. Kaiser
The role of private information in dynamic matching and bargaining: Can it be good for efficiency? pp. 128-131
Artyom Shneyerov and Chi Leung Wong
Trading imbalances and the law of one price pp. 132-134
Mark S. Seasholes and Clark Liu