Empirical Economics

1976 - 2008

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

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Non-linearity in the determinants of capital structure: evidence from UK firms pp. 417-438: Bassam Fattouh, Laurence Harris and Pasquale Scaramozzino
Is Asian per capita GDP panel stationary? pp. 439-449: Paresh Narayan
Consumption, wealth and business cycles in Germany pp. 451-476: Britta Hamburg, Mathias Hoffmann and Joachim Keller
Nonparametric estimation of a dependent competing risks model for unemployment durations pp. 477-491: Gerard Berg, A. Lomwel and Jan Ours
Monitoring and forecasting annual public deficit every month: the case of France pp. 493-524: Andrea Silvestrini, Matteo Salto, Laurent Moulin and David Veredas
Wealth effects on money demand in the euro area pp. 525-536: Laurence Boone and Paul Noord
GMM estimation of a structural demand model for yogurt and the effects of the introduction of new brands pp. 537-565: Marina Giacomo
Impacts of the distribution of households across income groups in a differential demand system for orange juice pp. 567-584: Mark Brown and Jonq-Ying Lee
Scale and efficiency measurement using a semiparametric stochastic frontier model: evidence from the U.S. commercial banks pp. 585-602: Subal C. Kumbhakar and Efthymios Tsionas
The agribusiness cycle and its wavelets pp. 603-622: Roger Bowden and Jennifer Zhu

Downward wage rigidity and job mobility pp. 205-230: Thomas Cornelissen and Olaf Hübler
Metafrontier frameworks for the study of firm-level efficiencies and technology ratios pp. 231-255: Christopher O’Donnell, D. Rao and George Battese
Demographic versus expenditure flexibility in Engel curves pp. 257-271: Panayiota Lyssiotou, Panos Pashardes and Thanasis Stengos
Decomposing productivity growth and divergence: an index number approach pp. 273-284: Troy Matheson
The role of credit constraints and government subsidies in farmland valuations in the US: an options pricing model approach pp. 285-297: Ashok Mishra, Charles B Moss and Kenneth Erickson
Price convergence across regions in India pp. 299-313: Samarjit Das and Kaushik Bhattacharya
Private returns to education versus education spill-over effects pp. 315-342: Aniela Wirz
On comparing the accuracy of default predictions in the rating industry pp. 343-356: Walter Krämer and André Güttler
Measuring uncertainty of the euro area NAIRU: Monte Carlo and empirical evidence for alternative confidence intervals in a state space framework pp. 357-379: Christian Schumacher
Expectations in micro data: rationality revisited pp. 381-416: Hugo Benítez-Silva, Debra Dwyer, Wayne-Roy Gayle and Thomas Muench

Introduction pp. 1-4: Badi Baltagi and Giuseppe Arbia
Errors in variables and spatial effects in hedonic house price models of ambient air quality pp. 5-34: Luc Anselin and Nancy Lozano-Gracia
A generalized method of moments estimator for a spatial model with moving average errors, with application to real estate prices pp. 35-57: Bernard Fingleton
Spatial analysis of urban growth in Spain, 1900–2001 pp. 59-80: Julie Le Gallo and Coro Chasco Yrigoyen
A class of spatial econometric methods in the empirical analysis of clusters of firms in the space pp. 81-103: Giuseppe Arbia, Giuseppe Espa and Danny Quah
A spatially filtered mixture of β-convergence regressions for EU regions, 1980–2002 pp. 105-121: Michele Battisti and Gianfranco Vaio
Spatial shift-share analysis versus spatial filtering: an application to Spanish employment data pp. 123-142: Matías Mayor and Ana López
R&D spillovers and firms’ performance in Italy pp. 143-166: Francesco Aiello and Paola Cardamone
The impact of decentralization and inter-territorial interactions on Spanish health expenditure pp. 167-184: Joan Costa-Font and Francesco Moscone
Regional evidence on financial development, finance term structure and growth pp. 185-201: Andrea Vaona
A spatially filtered mixture of β-convergence regressions for EU regions, 1980–2002 pp. 203-203: Michele Battisti and Gianfranco Vaio

Indeterminacy in price–value correlation measures pp. 389-399: Emilio Díaz and Ruben Osuna
Italian households’ debt: the participation to the debt market and the size of the loan pp. 401-426: Silvia Magri
Price effects of airline consolidation: evidence from a sample of transatlantic markets pp. 427-448: Volodymyr Bilotkach
Improving the estimation of total factor productivity growth: capital operating time in a latent variable approach pp. 449-468: Luc Everaert and Francisco Simone
Measuring chronic and transient components of poverty: a Bayesian approach pp. 469-490: Hikaru Hasegawa and Kazuhiro Ueda
Why did US air pollution decline after 1970? pp. 491-513: Ross R. McKitrick
Financial shocks and worry about the future pp. 515-530: Ann Owen and Stephen Wu
A flexible time-varying specification of the technical inefficiency effects model pp. 531-540: Giannis Karagiannis and Vangelis Tzouvelekas
Interest rate reaction functions for the euro area pp. 541-569: Karsten Ruth

New evidence on the convergence of international income from a group of 29 countries pp. 199-230: John W. Dawson and Amit Sen
Commodity price cycles and heterogeneous speculators: a STAR–GARCH model pp. 231-244: Stefan Reitz and Frank Westerhoff
The effect of computer use on earnings in Italy pp. 245-262: Giorgio Pietro
PISA: What makes the difference? pp. 263-287: Andreas Ammermueller
Hedonic price measurement: the CCC approach pp. 289-311: Ludwig Auer
Model selection via genetic algorithms illustrated with cross-country growth data pp. 313-337: Eduardo Acosta-González and Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez
Avoiding arbitrary exclusion restrictions using ratios of reduced-form estimates pp. 339-357: Myoung-jae Lee and Pao-Li Chang
School composition effects in Denmark: quantile regression evidence from PISA 2000 pp. 359-388: Beatrice Rangvid

Pitfalls in estimates of the relationship between stock returns and inflation pp. 1-21: Jakob B. Madsen
Estimating exchange rate dynamics with diffusion processes: an application to Greek EMU data pp. 23-39: Mark Trede and Bernd Wilfling
Testing for Cointegrating Rank Via Model Selection: Evidence From 165 Data Sets pp. 41-49: Badi Baltagi and Zijun Wang
The shadow economy in three Mediterranean countries: France, Spain and Greece. A MIMIC approach pp. 51-84: Roberto Dell’Anno, Miguel Gómez-Antonio and Angel Alañon Pardo
Estimating potential output and the output gap for the euro area: a model-based production function approach pp. 85-113: Tommaso Proietti, Alberto Musso and Thomas Westermann
A dynamic econometric system for the real yen–dollar rate pp. 115-149: Takamitsu Kurita
The information content of the divisia monetary aggregates in forecasting inflation in the euro area pp. 151-176: Petri Mäki-Fränti
Assessing the predictive power of financial spreads in the euro area: does parameters instability matter? pp. 177-195: Andrea Nobili
The shadow economy in three Mediterranean countries: France, Spain and Greece. A MIMIC approach pp. 197-197: Roberto Dell’Anno, Miguel Gómez and Angel Alañon-Pardo