Empirical Economics

1976 - 2012

Edited by Badi H. Baltagi, Heather M. Anderson and Bernd Fitzenberger

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Volume 42, issue 2, 2012

Special issue on health econometrics: editors’ introduction pp. 365-368

Badi H. Baltagi, Andrew Michael Jones, Francesco Moscone and John Mullahy

Quality of schooling and inequality of opportunity in health pp. 369-394

Andrew Michael Jones, Nigel Rice and Pedro Rosa Dias

Medical technology and the production of health care pp. 395-411

Badi H. Baltagi, Francesco Moscone and Elisa Tosetti

Estimation of a dynamic model of weight pp. 413-443

Shu Ng, Edward C. Norton, David Guilkey and Barry Popkin

Mixed logit estimation of willingness to pay distributions: a comparison of models in preference and WTP space using data from a health-related choice experiment pp. 445-469

Arne Risa Hole and Julie Riise Kolstad

An empirical analysis of habit and addiction to antibiotics pp. 471-486

Massimo Filippini and G. Masiero

Perceived quality of public services, liquidity constraints, and the demand of private specialist care pp. 487-511

Massimo Baldini and Gilberto Turati

Heterogeneity in health responses and anchoring vignettes pp. 513-538

Franco Peracchi and Claudio Rossetti

Hospital cost sharing incentives: evidence from Iceland pp. 539-561

Elín Hafsteinsdóttir and Luigi Siciliani

The effect of a law limiting upcoding on hospital admissions: evidence from Italy pp. 563-582

Giorgio Vittadini, Paolo Berta, Gianmaria Martini and Giuditta Callea

Causation between health and income: a need to panic pp. 583-601

Declan French

Generalized cointegration: a new concept with an application to health expenditure and health outcomes pp. 603-618

Stephen George Hall, P. Swamy and George Tavlas

Volume 42, issue 1, 2012

Instrumental variable estimation of a nonlinear Taylor rule pp. 1-20

Zisimos Koustas and Jean-Francois Lamarche

Risk premia in forward foreign exchange rates: a comparison of signal extraction and regression methods pp. 21-51

Zhiguang Wang and Prasad Bidarkota

Markups in the Euro area and the US over the period 1981–2004: a comparison of 50 sectors pp. 53-77

Rebekka Christopoulou and Philip Vermeulen

The properties of survey-based inflation expectations in Sweden pp. 79-94

Thomas Jonsson and Pär Österholm

Nowcasting norwegian GDP: the role of asset prices in a small open economy pp. 95-119

Knut Aastveit and Tørres Trovik

Econometric testing of the real option hypothesis: evidence from investment in oil tankers pp. 121-145

George Dikos and Dimitrios D. Thomakos

Benchmarking and firm heterogeneity: a latent class analysis for German electricity distribution companies pp. 147-169

Astrid Cullmann

Exact welfare measurement for double-log demand with partial adjustment pp. 171-180

C. Woo, J. Zarnikau and E. Kollman

Equipment investment, output and productivity in China pp. 181-207

Maria Jesus Herrerias and Vicente Orts

Estimating the long-run relationship between income inequality and economic development pp. 209-233

Tuomas Malinen

Growth performance of Indian states pp. 235-259

Ajit V. Karnik and Mala Lalvani

A time-series analysis of the U.S. kidney transplantation and the waiting list: donor substitution effects pp. 261-277

Thomas Randolph Beard, John Jackson, David Kaserman and Hyeongwoo Kim

Pricing dynamics and product quality: the case of antidepressant drugs pp. 279-300

Jie Chen and John Rizzo

Talking trade: language barriers in intra-Canadian commerce pp. 301-323

Nicolas Sauter

Dodging the vote? pp. 325-343

Richard J. Cebula and Franklin Mixon

International student migration to Germany pp. 345-361

Donata Bessey

Report of the editors pp. 363-364

Robert M. Kunst

Volume 41, issue 3, 2011

Is real GDP per capita a stationary process? Smooth transitions, nonlinear trends and unit root testing pp. 555-563

Juan Carlos Cuestas and Dean Garratt

A note on spurious significance in regressions involving I(0) and I(1) variables pp. 565-571

Chris Stewart

The role of the United States in the global economy and its evolution over time pp. 573-591

Stephane Dees and Arthur Saint-Guilhem

Modelling export equations using an unobserved component model: the case of the Euro Area and its competitors pp. 593-637

Bernardina Algieri

Cointegration tests under multiple regime shifts: An application to the stock price–dividend relationship pp. 639-662

Vasco J. Gabriel and Luis F. Martins

Sentiment dynamics and stock returns: the case of the German stock market pp. 663-679

Thomas Lux

A test for the presence of central bank intervention in the foreign exchange market with an application to the Bank of Canada pp. 681-701

Douglas Hodgson

Economic growth and budgetary components: a panel assessment for the EU pp. 703-723

Antonio Afonso and Juan Alegre

Cyclicality of fiscal policy and the shadow economy pp. 725-737

Deniz Çiçek and Ceyhun Elgin

Measuring persistence of U.S. city prices: new evidence from robust tests pp. 739-745

Syed Abul Basher and Josep Carrion-i-Silvestre

The cyclical behavior of the Italian business survey data pp. 747-768

Tatiana Cesaroni

The world elasticity of labor substitution across education levels pp. 769-785

Andre V. Mollick

Be productive or face decline. On the sources and determinants of output growth in Italian manufacturing firms pp. 787-815

Francesco Aiello, Camilla Mastromarco and Angelo Zago

R&D and productivity: testing sectoral peculiarities using micro data pp. 817-839

Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Lesley Potters and Marco Vivarelli

Body mass index in families: spousal correlation, endogeneity, and intergenerational transmission pp. 841-864

Jason Abrevaya and Hongfei Tang

Consumer welfare from publicly supplemented private goods: age and income effects on demand for health care pp. 865-885

Panos Pashardes and Nicoletta Pashourtidou

Volume 41, issue 2, 2011

Easy grading practices and supply–demand factors: evidence from Italy pp. 227-246

Maria De Paola

Private saving in India and Malaysia compared: the roles of financial liberalization and expected pension benefits pp. 247-267

James B. Ang and Kunal Sen

Modelling non-performing loans probability in the commercial banking system: efficiency and effectiveness related to credit risk in Italy pp. 269-291

Bernardo Maggi and Marco Guida

The inflation and inflation uncertainty relationship for Turkey: a dynamic framework pp. 293-309

M. Berument, Yeliz Yalcin and Julide Yildirim

France in the global economy: a structural approximate dynamic factor model analysis pp. 311-342

Alain Kabundi and Francisco Nadal De Simone

Analysing convergence in Europe using the non-linear single factor model pp. 343-369

Ulrich Fritsche and Vladimir Kuzin

Assessing fiscal sustainability subject to policy changes: a Markov switching cointegration approach pp. 371-385

Vasco J. Gabriel and Pataaree Sangduan

What principles should inform poverty indices? Insights from a cross-country survey pp. 387-420

Lucio Esposito and Francesca Majorano

Is there a signalling role for public wages? Evidence for the euro area based on macro data pp. 421-445

Javier J. Pérez García and Antonio Jesús Sánchez Fuentes

Health care utilization and self-assessed health: specification of bivariate models using copulas pp. 447-472

José Murteira and Óscar Domingos Lourenço

Power laws in top wealth distributions: evidence from Canada pp. 473-486

Tomson Ogwang

Forecast accuracy and uncertainty in applied econometrics: a recommendation of specific-to-general predictor selection pp. 487-510

Helmut Herwartz

Revisiting residential demand for electricity in Greece: new evidence from the ARDL approach to cointegration analysis pp. 511-531

Theologos Dergiades and Lefteris Tsoulfidis

Tourism and trade in OECD countries. A dynamic heterogeneous panel data analysis pp. 533-554

María Santana-Gallego, Francisco Ledesma and Jorge Pérez-Rodríguez

Volume 41, issue 1, 2011

Introduction to the special issue pp. 1-5

Badi H. Baltagi and Panicos O. Demetriades

One date, one break? pp. 7-24

Michail Karoglou, Panicos O. Demetriades and Siong Hook Law

Does corruption hamper bank lending? Macro and micro evidence pp. 25-42

Laurent Weill

Private investment and financial development in a globalized world pp. 43-56

Yongfu Huang

Financial development and poverty in developing countries: a causal analysis pp. 57-80

Salvador Perez-Moreno

Determinants of cross-sectional stock return variations in emerging markets pp. 81-102

Ye Bai and Christopher J. Green

Roles played by financial development in economic growth: application of the flexible regression model pp. 103-125

Chung-Hua Shen, Chien-Chiang Lee, Shyh-Wei Chen and Zixiong Xie

Finance–growth nexus: does causality withstand financial liberalization? Evidence from cointegrated VAR pp. 127-154

Alessandra Dal Colle

Deposit insurance scheme and banking crises: a special focus on less-developed countries pp. 155-182

Anichul Khan and Hasnat Dewan

Credit channel and flight to quality in emerging markets: evidence from Chile pp. 183-197

Rodrigo Troncoso

Cost economies, efficiency and productivity growth in the Chinese banking industry: evidence from a quarterly panel dataset pp. 199-226

Jun Du and Sourafel Girma