Applied Economics Letters

1994 - 2014

Edited by Anita Phillips

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Volume 21, issue 11, 2014

Momentum in Irish stocks: evidence from the credit crisis pp. 717-722

O'Keeffe, Cormac and Liam A. Gallagher

Poisson analysis of suicide in Japan using municipal data pp. 723-726

Saki Sugano and Yusuke Matsuki

Nonexclusionary input prices pp. 727-732

Soheil R. Nadimi and Dennis L. Weisman

R&D, export and productivity: testing the Bustos model on Danish data pp. 733-737

Mogens Dilling-Hansen and Valdemar Smith

Imports of intermediate inputs and country size pp. 738-741

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

Japan's deflation: the role of wage costs pp. 742-746

Satoshi Urasawa

Empirical estimation of market power in Greece pp. 747-750

Michael L. Polemis

Visiting an old battleground in empirical industrial organization: SCP versus NEIO pp. 751-754

Sanjib Bhuyan

Employment and education effects on HIV/AIDS prevalence rate and economic growth: empirical investigation in ECOWAS pp. 755-759

Komivi Afawubo and Samuel Mathey

Why do economists publish less? pp. 760-762

Tolga Yuret

Taxation and democracy: an instrumental variable approach pp. 763-766

Nurullah Gur

Economic development and the impact of the EU--US Transatlantic Open Skies Air Transport Agreement pp. 767-770

Kenneth Button, Rui Neiva and Junyang Yuan

Eating in: employment and home production during the Great Recession pp. 771-775

Kathryn Birkeland

Effects of fiscal policy on private consumption: evidence from structural-balance fiscal rule deviations pp. 776-781

Juan Allamand Correa, Christian Ferrada, Pablo Gutiérrez and Francisco Parro

Too big to merge? Evidence from the US banking sector pp. 782-785

Michael L. Polemis and John M. Paleologos

Convergence in sovereign debt ratios across heavily indebted EU countries: evidence from club convergence pp. 786-788

Nicholas Apergis and Arusha Cooray

Modelling tail dependence between energy market and stock markets in the BRIC countries pp. 789-794

Zhiyuan Pan

Comparing the aggregation bias in the input--output model and the social accounting matrix model pp. 795-800

Maria Llop and Antonio Manresa

Volume 21, issue 10, 2014

Does it matter why power outages occur? An example of information-induced gender-heterogeneous preference on the intensive and extensive margins of choice pp. 657-664

Jacob Ladenburg, Kirsten Lund Jensen and Christa Lassen

Dynamics of social tolerance in the economic interaction model with three groups pp. 665-670

Yingying Shi and Daiyan Peng

Adjustment dynamics of countries' specialization patterns in the European Union pp. 671-674

Astrid Martina Krenz

The wealth, health and well-being of Ireland's older people before and during the economic crisis pp. 675-678

A. Barrett and V. O'Sullivan,

Compensation discrimination in the NFL: an analysis of career earnings pp. 679-682

Johnny Ducking, Peter A. Groothuis and James Richard Hill

The US Dow and the US dollar pp. 683-686

Samih Antoine Azar

Is the Internet an effective mechanism for reducing corruption experience? Evidence from a cross-section of countries pp. 687-691

Jamie Bologna

An efficiency analysis of European banks considering hierarchical technologies pp. 692-696

A. Kontolaimou

Testing for causality between credit and real business cycles in the frequency domain: an illustration pp. 697-701

Jose Eduardo Gomez-Gonzalez, Jair N. Ojeda-Joya, Héctor Manuel Zárate and Fernando Tenjo-Galarza

Gender differences in deception behaviour -- the role of the counterpart pp. 702-705

Tim Lohse and Salmai Qari

Devaluation expectations based on cross-listed stocks: evidence for financial crises in Argentina then and now pp. 706-710

Stefan Eichler

Macroeconomic uncertainty: does it matter for commodity prices? pp. 711-716

Libo Yin and Liyan Han

Volume 21, issue 9, 2014

A search for evidence of skill mismatch in the aftermath of the great recession pp. 587-592

J. L. Hotchkiss, M. M. Pitts and F. Rios-Avila

Balance-constrained growth rates: generalizing Thirlwall's law pp. 593-596

Oscar Bajo-Rubio

Better sexy than flexy? A lab experiment assessing the impact of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions pp. 597-601

S. Baert and L. Decuypere

A test of competition in Chinese banking pp. 602-604

Botao Qin and Sherrill Shaffer

Can analyst coverage reduce the incidence of fraud? Evidence from China pp. 605-608

May Hu and Jingjing Yang

Time preference assumptions in normative analyses of household financial decisions pp. 609-612

Sherman D. Hanna and KyoungTae Kim

The impact of risk preference on health insurance and health expenditures in the United States pp. 613-616

Simon Condliffe and Gregory T. Fiorentino

Low-energy development in China pp. 617-621

Pengfei Sheng and Jun Yang

Risk diversification through multiple group membership in microfinance pp. 622-625

Ratul Lahkar and Viswanath Pingali

Insurance activities and banking credit causal nexus: evidence from China pp. 626-630

Guan-Chun Liu and Chien-Chiang Lee

Measuring financial contagion using general social interaction model with trade network structure pp. 631-635

Bingqing Li, Han Wang and Xinrong Xiao

A general decomposition formula with interaction effects pp. 636-642

Martin Biewen

Raising food prices and welfare change: a simple calibration pp. 643-645

Xiaohua Yu

Volatility contagion across commodity, equity, foreign exchange and Treasury bond markets pp. 646-650

Raquel López

Estimation of affine term structure models under the Milstein approximation pp. 651-656

Hail Park

Volume 21, issue 8, 2014

How university and industry knowledge interact to determine local entrepreneurship pp. 513-516

Massimiliano Guerini and Cristina Rossi-Lamastra

A macroeconomic investigation of funding liquidity and monetary policy shocks in the United States pp. 517-521

Chiu, Ching-Wai (Jeremy)

Market efficiency of commodity futures in India pp. 522-527

Takeshi Inoue and Shigeyuki Hamori

Marriage, divorce and economic activity in the US: 1960--2008 pp. 528-532

Hamid Baghestani and Michael Malcolm

Note on the interpretation of the convergence speed in the dynamic panel model pp. 533-535

Masahiko Shibamoto and Yoshiro Tsutsui

Unemployment hysteresis in the Eurozone area: evidences from nonlinear heterogeneous panel unit root test pp. 536-540

Suleyman Bolat, Aviral Kumar Tiwari and Ahmet Utku Erdayi

Can the government incentivize the purchase of private long-term care insurance? Evidence from the Partnership for Long-Term Care pp. 541-544

Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley

In the quest for economic significance: assessing variable importance through mean value decomposition pp. 545-549

H. E. T. Holgersson, T. Norman and Sam M. Tavassoli

Can political and business connections alleviate financial constraints? pp. 550-555

Ju-Fang Yen, Yan-Shing Chen, Chih-Yung Lin and Chih-Hong Tsai

The share is down 8% after the profit warning, is it time to buy? pp. 556-559

J. Spohr

Spousal employment and intra-household bargaining power pp. 560-563

Francisca M. Antman

Powerful CEOs and capital structure decisions: evidence from the CEO pay slice (CPS) pp. 564-568

Pandej Chintrakarn, Pornsit Jiraporn and Manohar Singh

Are per capita CO₂ emissions increasing among OECD countries? A test of trends and breaks pp. 569-572

Satoshi Yamazaki, Jing Tian and Firmin Doko Tchatoka

The factors affecting the risk attitude in entrepreneurship: evidence from Latin America pp. 573-581

Jean P. Sepúlveda and Claudio A. Bonilla

Joint evaluation of the directional accuracy of federal budget forecasts pp. 582-585

Yoichi Tsuchiya

Volume 21, issue 7, 2014

Monetary conditions and metal prices pp. 447-452

John Baffes and Cristina Savescu

Inflation targeting on unemployment rates: a quantile treatment effect approach pp. 453-458

Ho-Chuan Huang and Chih-Chuan Yeh

Children's public health insurance and scholastic success pp. 459-462

Christina Robinson and Nicole M. Coomer

Consumer preference changes in the logit demand model pp. 463-465

Steven Schmeiser

Test of the bank lending channel: the case of US consumer loans pp. 466-469

Yu Hsing

European ADRs: what a difference a decade makes pp. 470-476

Mark Schaub

Does the level of the yield curve predict inflation? pp. 477-480

Huseyin Kaya

An endogenous Goodwin--Keynes business cycle model: evidence for Germany (1991--2007) pp. 481-486

Konstantinos Nikolaos Konstantakis, Panayotis G. Michaelides and Theodore Mariolis

A longitudinal analysis of the union wage premium for US workers pp. 487-489

P. E. Gabriel and S. Schmitz

Muscle drain versus brain gain in association football: technology transfer through player emigration and manager immigration pp. 490-493

Grant Jordan Allan and John Duncan Moffat

Demand forecasting errors and the ownership of infrastructure pp. 494-496

Kenneth Button and Zhenhua Chen

The varying interest elasticity and the cost of inflation in India pp. 497-500

Sudhanshu Kumar

The participation of Mexico in global supply chains: the challenge of adding Mexican value pp. 501-504

Juan Blyde

Dividend changes and information about future profitability: an application of difference GMM pp. 505-508

Tai-Yuan Chen and Lie-Jane Kao

Inferring export orientation from corporate websites pp. 509-512

Desamparados Blazquez and Josep Domenech

Volume 21, issue 6, 2014

Population health status and economic growth in Chinese provinces: some policy implications pp. 377-382

Vasudeva N. R. Murthy and Albert A. Okunade

Sharing out the costs of a public--private partnership pp. 383-386

Kenneth Button and Nobuhiko Daito

Local long-term institutions, growth and cash holdings pp. 387-390

Kiyoung Chang, Eun Kang and Ying Li

Does European Monetary Union make inflation dynamics more uniform? pp. 391-396

Stefano Maria Iacus and Giuseppe Porro

Identify regimes in post-war US GDP growth pp. 397-401

Yu Jiang and Xianming Fang

Competition or privatization: which is more effective in China's banking sector reform? pp. 402-406

Weixing Cai, Hang Li and Cheng Zeng

Financial and economic downturns in OECD countries pp. 407-412

Markus Haavio, Caterina Mendicino and Maria Teresa Punzi

Brand-size complementarity in the choice of retail stores pp. 413-416

Hyoung-Goo Kang, Hailey Hayeon Joo and Janghee Cho

The price momentum and discounting effects on stock prices after earnings announcements: an empirical analysis pp. 417-420

Brian Truong and Dang T. Tran

Location and adoption of ICT innovations in the agri-food industry pp. 421-424

Josep Domenech, Victor Martinez-Gomez and Francisco Mas-Verdú

Opposition to capital market opening pp. 425-428

Philipp Engler and Alexander Wulff

Duration and optimal number of shifts in the labour market pp. 429-432

U. Spiegel, L.D. Gonen and M. Weber

What is behind class attendance in college economics courses? pp. 433-437

Qihui Chen and Tade O. Okediji

Diversification and bank profitability: a nonlinear approach pp. 438-441

Leonardo Gambacorta, Michela Scatigna and Jing Yang

Exports and profitability: a note from quantile regression approach pp. 442-445

Huong Vu, Mark J. Holmes, Steven Lim and Tuyen Quang Tran

Volume 21, issue 5, 2014

Is there a transatlantic divide in undergraduate macroeconomics teaching? pp. 297-303

Manfred Gärtner, Björn Griesbach and Florian Jung

An empirical examination of the determinants of the shadow economy pp. 304-307

Eduardo Acosta-González, Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Measuring happiness: context matters pp. 308-311

Georgios Kavetsos, Marika Dimitriadou and Paul Dolan

The effects of a back-loaded compensation policy on the recruiting of older workers pp. 312-316

Israel Luski and Miki Malul

Firm location and the method of payment in mergers and acquisitions pp. 317-324

Dimitrios Koutmos, Wei Song and Si Zhou

Innovation rankings: good, bad or revealing? pp. 325-328

Yuezhou Cai and Aoife Hanley

Geographic and sector externalities from highly qualified human capital: the importance of the business service sector pp. 329-334

Joilson Dias, Florian Schumacher and Edinaldo Tebaldi

Does informal risk capital relax the financial constraints of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures? pp. 335-339

Massimo G. Colombo, Annalisa Croce and Massimiliano Guerini

Reconsidering the effect of work intensity on study time pp. 340-343

Stephen B. DeLoach, Stephanie Franz and Jennifer Platania

Human resource management practices and longitudinal workplace performance pp. 344-349

B. P. Cozzarin and S. A. Jeffrey

The injured victim's health care spending: is there an effect of the origin of accident? pp. 350-355

Laurent Carnis and Hamza Achit

Are consumer sentiments useful in Japan? An application of a new market-timing test pp. 356-359

Y. Tsuchiya

Cost minimizing sequential punishment policies for repeat offenders pp. 360-365

Evgenia Motchenkova

Law matters?: a Bayesian analysis of the cross-country relationship between anti-self-dealing rules and stock market outcomes pp. 366-371

Wenming Xu

ELW pricing kernel and empirical risk aversion pp. 372-376

Jun Sik Kim, Hyeyoen Kim and Doojin Ryu

Volume 21, issue 4, 2014

Stock market development and economic growth in Ghana: an ARDL-bounds testing approach pp. 229-234

Erasmus L. Owusu and Nicholas M. Odhiambo

Are crude oil markets globalized or regionalized? Evidence from WTI and Brent pp. 235-241

Huei-Chu Liao, Shu-Chuan Lin and Ho-Chuan Huang

Nonfinancial defined contribution pension schemes: is a survivor dividend necessary to make the system balanced? pp. 242-247

Boado-Penas and Carlos Vidal-Melia

Was the Euro good for Greece? pp. 248-251

Ethan Hamilton and Eric Olson

Multi-scale tracking dynamics and optimal index replication pp. 252-256

Q. Li, L. Bao and Q. L. Zhang

Does growth affect volatility? An empirical study on developing countries pp. 257-260

Masahiro Kodama

Too non-traditional to fail? Determinants of systemic risk for BRICs banks pp. 261-264

X. Qin and X. Zhu

An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates pp. 265-267

Mark Gius

Accurately measuring gold mutual fund performance pp. 268-271

David Moreno, Rosa Rodríguez and Chieh Wang

The impact of unionization and other factors on undocumented immigrant settlement patterns in the US pp. 272-275

Richard J. Cebula, Maggie Foley and Robert Boylan

Hedging price risk when no direct hedge vehicle exists: the case of silicon pp. 276-279

Bahram Adrangi, Arjun Chatrath, Rohan A. Christie-David, Mariia Guk and Gaurav Malik

Racial differences in the effects of hypertension and obesity on health expenditures by diabetes patients in the US pp. 280-283

Simon Condliffe and Charles R. Link

A two-step approach to examine the dynamics of market convergence pp. 284-288

Alexander Karmann and Alexander Ludwig

The power of the pram: do young children determine female job satisfaction? pp. 289-292

T. Kifle, Parvinder Kler and S. Shankar

Information disclosure and job search: evidence from a social networks experiment pp. 293-296

Z. K. Dong, D. S. Huang and F. F. Tang

Volume 21, issue 3, 2014

Deficit versus social statistics: empirical evidence for the effectiveness of Benford's law pp. 147-151

Bernhard Rauch, Max Göttsche, Gernot Brähler and Thomas Kronfeld

Do past decisions influence future decisions? pp. 152-157

John Hey and Wenting Zhou

The relation between gold and stocks: an analysis of severe bear markets pp. 158-170

An-Sing Chen and James Wuh Lin

Chinese superstition in US commodity trading pp. 171-175

Richard Chung, Ali F. Darrat and Bin Li

Export and FDI premia among services firms in the developing world pp. 176-179

Ben Shepherd

Using a multinomial probit to test for complementarity pp. 180-184

Fares, M'hand

Selectivity and timing abilities of international socially responsible funds pp. 185-188

Paulo Leite and Maria Céu Cortez

Do Asia-Pacific stock prices follow a random walk? A regime-switching perspective pp. 189-195

Xin Shen and Mark J. Holmes

What really drives inflation? pp. 196-200

Christopher Malikane and Tshepo Mokoka

Does the composition of regional knowledge bases influence extra-regional collaboration for innovation? pp. 201-204

B. Ebersberger, S. J. Herstad and C. Koller

The convergence of regional house prices in China pp. 205-208

Fang Zhang and Bruce Morley

The demand for UK beer: estimates of the long-run on- and off-trade beer price elasticities pp. 209-214

P. R. Tomlinson and J. Robert Branston

Housing and behavioural factors pp. 215-219

John H. Huston and Roger W. Spencer

The impact of federal, state and local taxes on student achievement in public schools: the case of Indiana pp. 220-223

Tin-Chun Lin and Amanda Couch

Exchange rates and commodity prices: Granger causality in the time--frequency domain pp. 224-227

Riccardo Trezzi

Volume 21, issue 2, 2014

Bank deregulation and relative wages in finance pp. 69-74

Hamid

Herd behaviour in the Turkish banking sector pp. 75-79

Esin Cakan and Aram Balagyozyan

Does inflation asymmetrically affect relative price variability? pp. 80-83

Sartaj Rasool Rather, S. Raja Sethu Durai and M Ramachandran

Determinants of state laws addressing obesity pp. 84-89

Michael L. Marlow

What causes the favourite-longshot bias? Further evidence from tennis pp. 90-92

Jiří Lahvička

Do interest-rate forecasters herd? International evidence pp. 93-98

Christian and Jan-Christoph Rülke

A note on the long-run determinants of economic growth pp. 99-102

HuiMing Zhu, WanHai You and Yinghua Ren

Bank finance heterogeneity in China: micro-level evidence pp. 103-106

Chunyang Wang and Tianran Niu

Nonlinear behaviour in EMBI series from Eastern Europe: evidence of 'window size effect' pp. 107-112

Christian Espinosa, Juan Gorigoitia, Carlos Maquieira and João Paulo Vieito

Did asymmetric monetary preferences for the output gap disappear during recent economic times? pp. 113-117

Steven P. Cassou, Hedieh Shadmani and Jesús Vázquez

A comparison of two housing markets pp. 118-124

Zhengxun Tan and Shu Wu

Geography and CEO luck: where do CEOs tend to be lucky? pp. 125-128

Chintrakarn, Jiraporn and Jiraporn

EU ETS CO₂ emissions constraints and business performance: a quantile regression approach pp. 129-134

Sara Segura, Luis Ferruz, Pilar Gargallo and Manuel Salvador

Survey data and short-term forecasts of Swedish GDP growth pp. 135-139

Pär Österholm

The short and long-run dynamics between inflation and economic growth in BRICS pp. 140-145

Nimantha Manamperi

Volume 21, issue 1, 2014

Does salary discrimination persist for foreign athletes in the NBA? pp. 1-5

Adam J. Hoffer and Ryan Freidel

Quality-adjusted output cost economies of US adult versus paediatric physical therapy production pp. 6-12

Gregory G. Lubiani and Albert A. Okunade

Is the Greek crisis in the EMU contagious? pp. 13-18

Panayotis G. Michaelides, Theofanis Papageorgiou and Efthymios Mike Tsionas

Investing versus gambling: experimental evidence of multi-domain risk attitudes pp. 19-23

Cary Deck, Jungmin Lee and Javier A. Reyes

Unions and income inequality: evidence from Ireland pp. 24-27

Dierk Herzer

The persistence of unemployment at the local area level: evidence from the US and the UK pp. 28-30

Paul Ormerod

Do horizontal mergers induce entry? Evidence from the US airline industry pp. 31-34

Patrice Bougette, Kai Hüschelrath and Kathrin Müller

Eliciting risk attitudes -- how to avoid mean and variance bias in Holt-and-Laury lotteries pp. 35-38

Norbert Hirschauer, Oliver Musshoff, Syster C. Maart-Noelck and Sven Gruener

Beyond absorptive capacity: in-house R&D as a driver of innovative complementarities pp. 39-42

Alessandra Catozzella and Marco Vivarelli

Are investors' portfolios enhanced by incorporating CTA index funds? pp. 43-46

Yen-Sen Ni and Pao-Yu Huang

Determinants of fair own wage perceptions: the moderating effect of works councils and performance evaluations pp. 47-50

Christian Pfeifer

Voter demand for fluoridated water: a tale of two c(av)ities pp. 51-54

Philip L. Hersch and Jodi E. Pelkowski

A note on the role of price risk in soya bean supply functions pp. 55-59

Jung Hwan Min and Harry M. Kaiser

Testing for random walk behaviour in CIVETS exchange rates pp. 60-63

Fahad Almudhaf

The return of convergence in the US states pp. 64-68

Janice Boucher Breuer, William Hauk and John Harvey McDermott