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Applied Economics Letters
1994 - 2012
Edited by Mark Taylor
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Volume 19, issue 18 , 2012
Exchange-rate forecasts and asymmetric loss: empirical evidence for the yen/dollar exchange rate pp. 1759-1763
Christian Pierdzioch , Jan-Christoph Rülke and Georg Stadtmann
Health policy and horizontal inequities of health-care utilization in Australia: 1983--2005 pp. 1765-1775
Mohammad Hajizadeh , Luke Brian Connelly and James Robert Gerard Butler
Does inflation targeting matter for PPP? An empirical investigation pp. 1777-1780
Hui Ding and Jaebeom Kim
Purchasing power parity -- nonlinear threshold unit root test for transition countries pp. 1781-1785
Siyue Liu , Dongxiang Zhang and Tsangyao Chang
Transformation of payment systems: the case of European Union enlargement pp. 1787-1791
Francisco J. Callado-Muñoz , Jana Hromcová and Natalia Utrero-González
The political economy of tobacco control spending pp. 1793-1797
Adam J. Hoffer and Adam Pellillo
A spatial cost of living index for Colombia using a microeconomic approach and censored data pp. 1799-1805
Laura H. Atuesta and Dusan Paredes Araya
Soaring food prices and food security: Does the income effect matter? pp. 1807-1811
Pradeepa Malkanthi Korale-Gedara , Shyama Ratnasiri and Jayatilleke Bandara
Are taxes sufficient for CAPM rejection? pp. 1813-1816
Hans Marius Eikseth and Snorre Lindset
Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of environmental taxes pp. 1817-1820
Bruce Morley
Fiscal volatility, financial crises and growth pp. 1821-1826
António Afonso and João Tovar Jalles
Trading directions and the pricing of Euro interbank deposits in the long run pp. 1827-1839
Massimiliano Marzo and Paolo Zagaglia
The impact of foreign participation on stock prices in the United States pp. 1841-1845
Shakil Quayes , Abu Jamal and Tanweer Hasan
Trade, tariffs and terrorism pp. 1847-1849
Peter Berck and Jonathan Lipow
PPP and nonlinearity of real exchange rates: new evidence from transition economies pp. 1851-1855
Jani Bekő , Alenka Kavkler and Darja Boršič
Affirmative action retrenchment in public procurement and contracting pp. 1857-1860
Rodrigo Lovaton Davila , Ha, Inhyuck “Steve” and Samuel L. Myers
Revealing taste-based discrimination in hiring: a correspondence testing experiment with geographic variation pp. 1861-1864
Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth
Measuring economic conditions: an extension of the Stock/Watson methodology pp. 1865-1869
E. Tebaldi and L. Kelly
Country of origin advertising and US demand of imported wine: an empirical analysis pp. 1871-1877
Abdoul G. Sam and Stanley R. Thompson
Analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and the impact of family structure on children's well-being in the United States pp. 1879-1883
Shishu Zhang and Gregory J. Soukup
Decentralization and corruption: evidence from primary health-care programmes pp. 1885-1888
Sandro Garcia Duarte Peixoto , Fabiana Fontes Rocha , Marislei Nishijima and Fernando Antonio Slaibe Postali
Efficiency of internal capital market under a controlling-minority-shareholder structure pp. 1889-1892
Daehwan Kim and Taeyoon Sung
Uncertainty and international return migration: some evidence from linked register data pp. 1893-1897
Jan Saarela and Dan-Olof Rooth
Between the penthouse and the outhouse: the sorting of economics professors pp. 1899-1902
Timothy Perri
Economic growth and openness in Africa: What is the empirical relationship? pp. 1903-1907
Ching-Cheng Chang and Michael Mendy
Nonexpected discrimination: the case of social housing in France pp. 1909-1916
Liliane Bonnal , Rachid Boumahdi and Pascal Favard
A retrospective analysis of financial research by worldwide central banks and international monetary organizations pp. 1917-1922
Kam C. Chan , Chih-Hsiang Chang and Yining Chen
Education--job match among recent Canadian university graduates pp. 1923-1926
Brahim Boudarbat and Victor Chernoff
Determinants of homestead claims and the expansion of Western settlement pp. 1927-1932
Randy McFerrin , Stephen Norman and Douglas Wills
Linear and nonlinear financial time series: evidence in a sample of pension funds in Spain and the United Kingdom pp. 1933-1937
Mercedes Alda and Luis Ferruz
Study design's influence on empirical findings in economic education pp. 1939-1942
Marianne Johnson , Denise Robson and Sarinda Taengnoi
Volume 19, issue 16 , 2012
PPP in Central and Eastern European economies: further evidence from panel unit root tests pp. 1543-1548
Alenka Kavkler , Darja Boršič and Jani Bekő
Volume 19, issue 15 , 2012
How do banking crises impact on income inequality? pp. 1425-1429
Luca Agnello and Ricardo M. Sousa
An alternative method to estimate income variance in cross-sectional data pp. 1431-1436
Hiroki Uematsu , Ashok Kumar Mishra and Rebekah Rachel Powell
Movies and holidays: the empirical relationship between movies and tourism pp. 1437-1440
Heather Mitchell and Mark Fergusson Stewart
Can L-moments beat central moments in modelling risk? An empirical analysis pp. 1441-1447
Xiao Qin
The Taylor rule and house price uncertainty pp. 1449-1453
Bruce Morley and Qijia Wei
Workplace self-selection into Investors in People pp. 1455-1458
Bruce A. Rayton and Konstantinos Georgiadis
The Gramm--Leach--Bliley Act: optimal interest margin effects of commercial bank expansion into insurance underwriting pp. 1459-1463
Jyh-Horng Lin , Jeng-Yan Tsai and Paichou Huang
Early warning indicator for financial crashes using the log periodic power law pp. 1465-1469
Jeong-Ryeol Kurz-Kim
Skill mismatches and wages among European university graduates pp. 1471-1475
Elena Bárcena-Martín , Santiago Budría and Ana . Moro-Egido
Estimating the extent of cross-border lottery shopping: evidence from South Carolina pp. 1477-1481
Linda S. Ghent and Alan P. Grant
Panel cointegration analysis of co-movement between interest rate swap and treasury markets pp. 1483-1486
Yuki Toyoshima and Shigeyuki Hamori
Does the effectiveness of tax incentives on the decision to give charitable donations vary across donation sectors in Canada? pp. 1487-1491
Belayet Hossain and Laura Lamb
A Gourmet's delight: CAViaR and the Australian stock market pp. 1493-1498
D. E. Allen , A. K. Singh and R. Powell
US residential electricity consumption: the effect of states' pursuit of energy efficiency policies pp. 1499-1503
Richard J. Cebula
Output sensitivity of monetary policy and macroeconomic performance pp. 1505-1509
Michael Berlemann and Kai Hielscher
A simple way to capture currency abroad pp. 1511-1514
Nikolaus Bartzsch , Gerhard Rösl and Franz Seitz
Multinational presence and the export participation of local firms in Ghana pp. 1515-1519
Hasan Faruq
Foreign direct investment, labour unionization and income inequality of Korea pp. 1521-1524
Jai S. Mah
Estimates of the long-run growth rate of Singapore with a CES production function pp. 1525-1530
Sriram Shankar and B. Bhaskara Rao
Real interest rate parity in East Asian countries based on China with nonlinear threshold unit-root test pp. 1531-1536
Chi-Wei Su , Pei-Long Shen , Hsu-Ling Chang and Lin Liu
Volume 19, issue 14 , 2012
Sectoral leadership in international competitiveness: the Portuguese case pp. 1319-1330
Elsa Cristina Vaz
A factorial decomposition of inflation in Peru: an alternative measure of core inflation pp. 1331-1334
Alberto Humala and Gabriel Rodríguez
Is there a better measure of self-assessed disability? pp. 1335-1338
Umut Oguzoglu
Measuring the persistence in trade patterns: the case for Turkey pp. 1339-1348
Guzin Erlat and Haluk Erlat
Lawyers and legal disputes. Evidence from Italy pp. 1349-1352
D'Agostino, Elena , Emiliano Sironi and Giuseppe Sobbrio
Alcohol consumption by individuals in the United States: a sample selection approach pp. 1353-1358
Yan Yuan and Steven T. Yen
The market reaction to changes in the Brazilian official interest rate pp. 1359-1364
Anna Buchholz , Cesar Cupertino , Roberto Meurer , Andre Portela Santos and Newton Da Costa
Inequality factor decomposition under uniform additions property with applications to Cameroonian rural data pp. 1365-1371
C. Chameni Nembua
Estimation of the effects of price and billing frequency on household water demand using a panel of Wisconsin municipalities pp. 1373-1380
Steven Andrew Fenrick and Lullit Getachew
A method to overcome the numerical difficulties in PIN estimation pp. 1381-1384
Jinfeng Ma and Shancun Liu
On the relationship between concentration and competition: evidence from the Chilean private pension system pp. 1385-1389
Jean P. Sepúlveda
A comparison of equilibrium under alternative monetary policy rules pp. 1391-1399
Ali K. Malik
Inter-board pay differentials for directors with multiple appointments pp. 1401-1404
Kathleen Farrell and Philip L. Hersch
Would liberalization lead to epidemic cocaine consumption? pp. 1405-1409
Norman V. Loayza and Naotaka Sugawara
Inflation in weekend box office estimates pp. 1411-1415
Neil Malhotra and Edmund Helmer
Weak instruments in estimating business cycle effects on banks' interest income pp. 1417-1420
Moritz Hahn and O'Brien, Edward J.
Cost-effective hiring in US high schools: estimating optimal teacher quantity and quality decisions pp. 1421-1424
Gregory A. Gilpin and Anton Bekkerman
Volume 19, issue 13 , 2012
Analysis of cyclical behaviour of investment expenditures for the Turkish economy pp. 1213-1221
Evren Erdoğan Coşar
Momentum profitability: the pre-CRSP evidence pp. 1223-1226
Xiuqing Ji
An application of the Ricardian trade model with trade costs pp. 1227-1230
Andrew J. Cassey
Impact of socio-economic factors and social affiliation on living standards: a quantile regression approach pp. 1231-1236
Renuka Mahadevan and Sandy Suardi
The bank lending channel in Turkey: has it changed after the low-inflation regime? pp. 1237-1242
Abdurrahman Nazif Çatik and Mehmet Karaçuka
Patients' perceptions and treatment effectiveness: a reassessment using generalized maximum entropy pp. 1243-1248
Sean M. Murphy , Dan L. Friesner and Robert Rosenman
European stock market comovement dynamics during some major financial market turmoils in the period 1997 to 2010 -- a comparative DCC-GARCH and wavelet correlation analysis pp. 1249-1256
Silvo Dajcman , Mejra Festic and Alenka Kavkler
Are central bank projections rational? pp. 1257-1263
Jan-Christoph Rülke
Testing dependence using copulas: the case of dual employment pp. 1265-1269
D'Antoni, Jeremy Michael and Ashok Kumar Mishra
The structure of social networks and labour market success pp. 1271-1274
Adalbert Mayer
A financial sophistication proxy for the Survey of Consumer Finances pp. 1275-1278
Sandra J. Huston , Michael S. Finke and Hyrum Smith
Decomposing temporal changes in covariate contributions to wage inequality pp. 1279-1283
Lawrence Dacuycuy and Connie Dacuycuy
Deforestation, economic growth and corruption: a nonparametric analysis on the case of Amazon forest pp. 1285-1291
Cassandro Maria Mendes and Sabino Porto Junior
The male--female pay gap across the managerial workforce in the United Kingdom: a semi-parametric decomposition approach pp. 1293-1297
Sergio Scicchitano
Statistical evidence on the mean reversion of real interest rates: SPSM using the Panel KSS test with a Fourier function pp. 1299-1304
Chih-Kai Chang and Tsangyao Chang
A monetary approach to the exchange market pressure index under capital control pp. 1305-1309
Jie Li
On a class of bi-polarization variance-based measurement: evidence from Cameroonian data pp. 1311-1317
C. Chameni Nembua
Volume 19, issue 12 , 2012
Macroeconomic conditions and technical trading profitability in foreign exchange markets pp. 1107-1110
Ann L. Owen and Brent Palmer
Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity with flexible Fourier function in G-7 countries pp. 1111-1116
Tsangyao Chang , Chi-Wei Su and Chia-Hao Lee
Further examples of the impact of skewness on the expected utility of a risk-averse agent pp. 1117-1121
D. A. Peel
Can the PPP stand on the BRICS? The ADL test for threshold cointegration pp. 1123-1127
Tsangyao Chang , Chia-Hao Lee and Ken Hung
Reporting heterogeneity in health: an extended latent class approach pp. 1129-1133
Valentino Dardanoni and Paolo Li Donni
The economics of terrorism against two targets pp. 1135-1138
Kjell Hausken
Gamblers hate inequality: evidence from China pp. 1139-1142
Roland Cheo
Comparing business R&D across countries over time: a decomposition exercise using data for the EU 27 pp. 1143-1148
Andreas Reinstaller and Fabian Unterlass
Do derivatives affect the use of external financing? pp. 1149-1152
Peter J. DaDalt , Bing-Xuan Lin and Chen-Miao Lin
A note on the determinants of substance abuse spending pp. 1153-1156
Craig A. Gallet
What drives regional differences in the stock market wealth effect in China? pp. 1157-1160
Wenfeng Wu , Chongfeng Wu and Oliver M. Rui
Who cancels in electronic markets? pp. 1161-1164
Ryan Garvey and Fei Wu
How free do people feel to express their opinions? A study in urban China pp. 1165-1169
Wenkai Sun , Xianghong Wang and Yean Zhou
Tort reform and caesarean deliveries pp. 1171-1174
Alfredo G. Esposto
Religion and education: recent evidence from the United States pp. 1175-1178
Michael A. Kortt , Brian Dollery and Simon Pervan
On the choice of the unit period in time series models pp. 1179-1182
Peter Fuleky
Smuggling illegal goods across the US--Mexico border: a political-economy perspective pp. 1183-1187
Andreas Buehn and Stefan Eichler
The effects of privatization on the capital structure of Brazilian firms pp. 1189-1192
Cinthia Barbosa , Cristiano M. Costa and Bruno Funchal
The Bank of Korea's nonlinear monetary policy rule pp. 1193-1202
Jahyun Koo , Ivan Paya and David A. Peel
Competition law and profits: a dynamic panel data analysis for Dutch manufacturing firms pp. 1203-1206
Fatih Cemil Ozbugday and Erik Brouwer
The change in the CD rate--target federal funds rate linkage during the financial crisis pp. 1207-1211
Bob J. Barnes
Volume 19, issue 11 , 2012
The price of efficiency: examining the effects of payroll efficiency on Major League Baseball attendance pp. 1007-1015
Colin Santos Regan
Optimal dynamics of technology and price in a duopoly market pp. 1017-1022
Bowon Kim , Fouad El Ouardighi and Sangsun Park
Estimation of a fractionally cointegrated demand system: evidence from the Japanese expenditure data pp. 1023-1028
Manami Ogura
And action: TV sentiment and the US consumer pp. 1029-1034
Matthias W. Uhl
The era of the 24-hour society?: assessing changes in work timing using a Japanese time use survey pp. 1035-1038
Sachiko Kuroda and Isamu Yamamoto
Unemployment and labour force participation in Japan pp. 1039-1043
Makoto Kakinaka and Hiroaki Miyamoto
University patenting and knowledge spillover in Japan: panel-data analysis with citation data pp. 1045-1049
Kozo Otsuka
Searching for the picture: forecasting UK cinema admissions using Google Trends data pp. 1051-1055
Chris Hand and Guy Judge
Gender and confidence: are women underconfident? pp. 1057-1059
Niklas Jakobsson
Size properties of Lagrange Multiplier cointegration tests in the presence of structural breaks pp. 1061-1064
Pui Sun Tam
Threshold effects in the relationships between USD and gold futures by panel smooth transition approach pp. 1065-1070
Wo-Chiang Lee and Hui-Na Lin
Fiscal adjustment in Greece under the financial rescue programme: the distributional effects on Greek households pp. 1071-1074
Naotaka Sugawara
The Boulogne fish market: the social structure and the role of loyalty pp. 1075-1079
Pasquale Cirillo , Gabriele Tedeschi and Mauro Gallegati
Testing rationality of foreign exchange forecasts under flexible loss: survey evidence from Brazil pp. 1081-1084
Hamid Baghestani and Cassia Marchon
Wealth-to-income ratio, government bond yields and financial stress in the Euro Area pp. 1085-1088
Ricardo M. Sousa
Why do speculative bubbles gather steam? Some international evidence pp. 1089-1093
Renatas Kizys and Christian Pierdzioch
Grade surprise and the decision to stay on into post-compulsory education pp. 1095-1099
Don J. Webber
A comment on survival of the hippest: life at the top of the hot 100 pp. 1101-1105
Seo Bin Hong
Volume 19, issue 10 , 2012
Happiness and parental altruism in the United States pp. 901-904
Pinar Derin-Güre
The weak-form efficiency of Asian stock markets: new evidence from generalized spectral martingale test pp. 905-908
Kian-Ping Lim and Weiwei Luo
Does it pay to work in the public sector in Turkey? pp. 909-913
Alisher Akhmedjonov and Berna Izgi
The impact of education on household income and expenditure inequality pp. 915-919
Nuno Alves
How frequently do consumer prices change in transition countries? pp. 921-928
Jacek Wallusch
How does yield curve predict GDP growth? A macro-finance approach revisited pp. 929-933
Junko Koeda
The underdog should always fire the first salvo against Brazil pp. 935-938
Liam John Anthony Lenten
Regional deposits and demographic changes pp. 939-942
Jun Nagayasu
Religion and the rate of return to human capital: evidence from Australia pp. 943-946
Michael A. Kortt and Brian Dollery
A note on bank bailout: equity quality and direct equity injections pp. 947-951
Jyh-Horng Lin , Chuen-Ping Chang and Wei-Ming Hung
Time-varying long-range dependence in stock market returns and financial market disruptions -- a case of eight European countries pp. 953-957
Silvo Dajcman
Partisan privatizations: assessing the ideological bias pp. 959-963
Filippo Belloc and Antonio Nicita
Scale economies and trade pp. 965-968
Don P. Clark
Monetary policy and oil price expectations pp. 969-973
Dirk Bleich , Ralf Fendel and Jan-Christoph Rülke
Purchasing power parity nonlinear threshold unit root test for East-Asian countries pp. 975-979
Tsangyao Chang , Chi-Wei Su and Chia-Hao Lee
Assessing the predictive power of labour-market indicators of inflation pp. 981-985
Farrokh Nourzad
Interpreting the outcomes of two-part models pp. 987-992
Manuel Frondel and Colin James Vance
The possibility of mineral deposit exploitation control with Bellman's optimality principle use -- a Polkowice--Sieroszowice copper mine case study pp. 993-999
Mariusz Krzak and Paweł Panajew
A study on the urban competitiveness of two-straits pp. 1001-1005
Chun-Chu Liu , Li-Min Chuang and Chien-Min Huang
Volume 19, issue 9 , 2012
Examining the role of risk aversion in calculating the welfare cost of consumption fluctuations pp. 801-806
Chun-Yu Ho , Wai-Yip Alex Ho and Dan Li
Measuring productivity in the biotechnology industry using the global Malmquist index pp. 807-812
Chun-Hsien Wang , Jun-Yen Lee and Yi-Hua Chang
Aggregation bias in stochastic frontier models employing region-level data: an empirical analysis with Korean manufacturing data pp. 813-821
Hyungna Oh
Modelling a stochastic profit system using gauge function pp. 823-827
Yongseung Han
Marriage, fertility and the selection of women into high-skill industries pp. 829-834
James T. Bang and Bharati Basu
Whither human capital? The woeful tale of transition to tertiary education in India pp. 835-838
Manisha Chakrabarty and Sumon Kumar Bhaumik
Purchasing power parity with nonlinear threshold unit root test pp. 839-842
Tsangyao Chang , Chi-Wei Su and Yu-Shao Liu
Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity in China pp. 843-848
Tsangyao Chang
Are young SMEs' survival determinants different? Empirical evidence using panel data pp. 849-855
Paulo Maças Nunes and Zélia Serrasqueiro
Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity in Latin American countries: the ADL test for threshold cointegration pp. 857-862
Guochen Pan , Tsangyao Chang , D.P. Tang and Chia-Hao Lee
Private consumption and sector price behaviour in the Spanish economy: a business cycle approach pp. 863-868
José María Martín-Moreno , Rafaela Pérez and Jesús Ruíz
A simple decomposition of the variance of output growth across countries pp. 869-872
Christopher Phillip Reicher
A capital mistake? The neglected effect of immigration on average wages pp. 873-876
Declan Trott
Revisiting purchasing power parity for 18 African countries: sequential panel selection method pp. 877-881
Guochen Pan , Tsangyao Chang , Chia-Hao Lee and Wen-Chi Liu
Experience, social pressure and performance: the case of soccer officials pp. 883-886
Peter Michael Dawson
The effect of quasi-hyperbolic discounting on rural land conversion timing pp. 887-890
Matthew Jude Salois
On maintaining the power of the Kapetanios--Snell--Shin (KSS) test under uncertain initial conditions pp. 891-896
Jen-Je Su and Duc-Tho Nguyen
A simple in-sample test of futures market efficiency based on rolling regressions pp. 897-900
Jason Stevens
Volume 19, issue 8 , 2012
Stochastic optimal hedge ratio: theory and evidence pp. 699-703
Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Youssef El-Khatib
A panel data approach to the demand for money in Bulgaria and Romania pp. 705-710
Melina Dritsaki and Chaido Dritsaki
Internet and the ‘Long Tail versus superstar effect’ debate: evidence from the French book market pp. 711-715
Stéphanie Peltier and François Moreau
‘The best defence…’ or optimal offence/defence spending ratios in the NFL pp. 717-720
M. Kevin McGee , Lee Van Scyoc and Nancy J. Burnett
Differential impact of microfinance delivery mechanism on vulnerability pp. 721-724
Ranjula Bali Swain
A simple model of two-country bargaining for financial integration pp. 725-728
Xinhua Gu and Baomin Dong
Dirty versus ecological technology in an endogenous growth model pp. 729-733
Mónica Meireles , Isabel Soares and Oscar Afonso
Financial integration and international transmission of business cycles: evidence from dynamic correlations pp. 735-738
Georgiana Nicoleta Rosoi
Are hedge fund clones attractive financial products for investors? pp. 739-743
Fredj Jawadi and Sabrina Khanniche
Choosing to give more: experimental evidence on restricted gifts and charitable behaviour pp. 745-748
Sara E. Helms , Brian L. Scott and Jeremy P. Thornton
The clustering of FDI in India: the importance of peer effects pp. 749-753
Peter Nunnenkamp and Megha Mukim
Mutual fund performance: banking versus independent managers pp. 755-758
Juan Carlos Matallin-Saez , Amparo Soler-Dominguez and Emili Tortosa-Ausina
Nature and nurture: the relation between number of siblings and earnings pp. 759-762
Elina Lampi and Katarina Nordblom
Pandora's groove: analysing the effect of the U-groove ban on PGA Tour golfers' performances and strategies pp. 763-768
Todd A. McFall and Julianne Treme
Have firms with better corporate governance fared better during the recent financial crisis in Russia? pp. 769-773
Farrukh Suvankulov and Fatma Ogucu
Competition law, networks and innovation pp. 775-778
Fatih Cemil Ozbugday and Erik Brouwer
Estimating impact of infrastructure on productivity and efficiency of Indian manufacturing pp. 779-783
Arup Mitra , Chandan Sharma and Marie-Ange Véganzonès-Varoudakis
Wheat market integration between Hungary and Germany pp. 785-788
Lajos Zoltán Bakucs , Bernhard Brümmer , Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel and Imre Fertő
Health-impaired employees' job satisfaction: new evidence from Athens, Greece pp. 789-793
Nick Drydakis
Trade restriction indices and US trade policy pp. 795-799
William R. Hauk
Volume 19, issue 7 , 2012
The effects of countercyclical capital buffers on bank lending pp. 603-608
Mathias Drehmann and Leonardo Gambacorta
Are firms on the right page with Chapter 11? An analysis of firm choices that contribute to post-bankruptcy survival pp. 609-613
Vicki L. Bogan and Chad M. Sandler
The relatives are fine: use of qualitative firm data in economic analysis pp. 615-618
Richard Fabling , Arthur Grimes and Philip Stevens
Wealth-to-income ratio and stock returns: evidence from the Euro Area pp. 619-622
Ricardo M. Sousa
A note on selling distressed loans with bank bailouts: modelling of bank interest margins with default probabilities pp. 623-627
Jyh-Horng Lin , Jyh-Jiuan Lin and Ching-Hui Chang
Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity in transition countries: the ADL test for threshold cointegration pp. 629-633
Yang-Cheng Ralph Lu , Tsangyao Chang and Chia-Hao Lee
The dynamics of Italian public debt: alternative paths for fiscal consolidation pp. 635-639
Paolo Casadio , Antonio Paradiso and B. Bhaskara Rao
Australian migration policy change: selecting winners and making losers pp. 641-644
Weiping Kostenko
The effect of social trust on achievement test performance of students in Japan pp. 645-648
Eiji Yamamura
How do housing wealth effects vary with age? pp. 649-652
Elwin Tobing
Occupational mobility and the change in the occupational structure in Britain and Germany, 1993--2008 pp. 653-656
Thomas Rhein and Parvati Trübswetter
Inducing risk preferences in economics experiments pp. 657-660
Ian M. Dobbs and Anthony D. Miller
The optimal call policy for convertible bonds: Is there a market memory effect? pp. 661-664
Chris Veld and Yuriy Zabolotnyuk
Endogenous discount rate and elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption pp. 665-669
Giuseppe Di Vita
Beyond reasonable doubt: multiple tail risk measures applied to European industries pp. 671-676
David Edmund Allen , Robert John Powell and Abhay Kumar Singh
A simple approach to balancing government budgets over the business cycle pp. 677-681
Erick Michael Elder and Gary A. Wagner
A monthly consumption indicator for Germany based on Internet search query data pp. 683-687
Simeon Vosen and Torsten Schmidt
Labour productivity and compensation of employees in Europe pp. 689-693
Daniel Fuentes-Castro
How significant is the role of reallocation to long-term growth? pp. 695-698
Shu-Shiuan Lu
Volume 19, issue 6 , 2012
Physical attractiveness, employment and earnings pp. 505-510
Christian Pfeifer
Generalized safety first and the planting of crops pp. 511-515
M. Ryan Haley
Union wages, strikes and profits pp. 517-520
Stephen Blumenfeld and Andres G. Victorio
CHF strength and Swiss export performance -- evidence and outlook from a disaggregate analysis pp. 521-531
Raphael Auer and Philip Sauré
Inequality and the new human development index pp. 533-535
Ricardo Martínez
Further evidence from ex-dividend days pp. 537-540
Rakesh Bali and Jack C. Francis
The effectiveness of the order-splitting strategy: an analysis of unique data pp. 541-549
Doojin Ryu
Foreign ownership, sales to multinationals and firm efficiency: the case of Brazil, Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa and Vietnam pp. 551-555
Tidiane Kinda
Forecasts and implications of the current housing crisis: switching regimes in a threshold framework pp. 557-568
MeiChi Huang
Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity: the ADL test for threshold cointegration pp. 569-573
Siyue Liu , Tsangyao Chang , Chia-Hao Lee and Pei- Chou
Purchasing power parity with nonlinear and asymmetric smooth adjustment pp. 575-578
Tsangyao Chang , Chi-Wei Su and Yu-Shao Liu
A Bayesian spatial probit estimation of Free Trade Agreement contagion pp. 579-583
Dany Jaimovich
Is culture a determinant of financial development? pp. 585-590
Nabamita Dutta and Deepraj Mukherjee
Exploiting trends in the foreign exchange markets pp. 591-597
Adrián Fernández-Pérez , Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez and Simón Sosvilla-Rivero
Portuguese football league efficiency and players' wages pp. 599-602
António S. Ribeiro and Francisco Lima
Volume 19, issue 5 , 2012
Log-normal approximation of the equity premium in the production model pp. 407-412
Burkhard Heer and Alfred Maußner
Time-varying expected returns: evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom pp. 413-416
Ricardo M. Sousa
Income convergence within ASEAN, ASEAN+3: a panel unit root approach pp. 417-423
Mu Shun Wang
New evidence on the convergence of international income from a group of 29 countries pp. 425-429
Mauro Costantini and Amit Sen
Fractional cointegration in US term spreads pp. 431-434
Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana
Government bond yields and foreign ownership of debt pp. 435-438
Menno Broos and Jakob de Haan
A noncompensatory choice experiment analysis of Japanese consumers' purchase preferences for beef pp. 439-444
Hideo Aizaki , Manabu Sawada , Kazuo Sato and Toshiko Kikkawa
Effective schools do exist: low-income children's academic performance in Chile pp. 445-451
Francisco Henríquez , Bernardo Lara , Alejandra Mizala and Andrea Repetto
The determinants of mobile subscriber retention in Sweden pp. 453-457
Pratompong Srinuan , Erik Bohlin and Gary Madden
Modelling waiting times in the Italian National Health Service pp. 459-465
Monica Auteri and Antonello Maruotti
Classic performance indexes revisited: axiomatic and applications pp. 467-470
Fernando Gómez-Bezares and Fernando R. Gómez-Bezares
How has the financial crisis affected the fiscal convergence of Central and Eastern Europe to the Eurozone? pp. 471-476
Astrid Ayala and Szabolcs Blazsek
Interchangeability of the median operator with the present value operator pp. 477-481
Gary R. Skoog and James E. Ciecka
An interrelation of time preference and risk attitude: an application to the equity premium puzzle pp. 483-486
Jangkoo Kang and Hwa-Sung Kim
Purchasing power parity with nonlinear and asymmetric smooth adjustment for the Middle Eastern countries pp. 487-491
Tsangyao Chang , Yu-Shao Liu and Chi-Wei Su
Detecting trends in the foreign exchange markets pp. 493-503
Adrián Fernández-Pérez , Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez and Simón Sosvilla-Rivero
Volume 19, issue 4 , 2012
The nonlinear relationship between autocorrelation and volatility: the case of the Asian financial crisis pp. 305-311
Chiao-Yi Chang and Fu-Shuen Shie
A predictive model of the freight rate of the international market in Capesize dry bulk carriers pp. 313-317
Ching-Chih Chang , Chin-Yuan Hsieh and Yung-Chih Lin
The consequences on job satisfaction of job--worker educational and skill mismatches in the Spanish labour market: a panel analysis pp. 319-324
Lourdes Badillo Amador , Ángel López Nicolás and Luis E. Vila
Thinking about it: a note on attention and well-being losses from unemployment pp. 325-328
Paul Dolan and Nattavudh Powdthavee
Who has more influence on Asian stock markets around the subprime mortgage crisis -- the US or China? pp. 329-335
Chien-Chung Nieh , Chao-Hsiang Yang and Yu-Sheng Kao
The inter-industrial linkage of maritime sector in Taiwan: an input--output analysis pp. 337-343
Rong-Her Chiu and Yu-Chang Lin
Investor sentiment in the Chinese stock market: an empirical analysis pp. 345-348
Lixu Chi , Xintian Zhuang and Dalei Song
Do commuters suffer from job--education mismatch? pp. 349-352
Peter Huber
Exploring stationarity and structural breaks in commodity prices by the panel data model pp. 353-361
Chao-Hsiang Yang , Chi-Tai Lin and Yu-Sheng Kao
Fear sentiments and gold price: testing causality in-mean and in-variance pp. 363-366
Mahmod Qadan and Joseph Yagil
A Lotka--Volterra evolutionary model of China's incremental institutional reform pp. 367-371
Yongjing Zhang
Examining the power of stochastic unit root tests without assuming independence in the error processes of the underlying time series pp. 373-377
Jen-Je Su and Eduardo Roca
The euro changeover and price adjustments in Italy pp. 379-382
Guglielmo Maria Caporale , Alessandro Girardi and Marco Ventura
Effects of unusual R&D expenditures on stock returns -- evidences from the listed companies in Taiwan pp. 383-386
Jian-Fa Li , Yih-Bey Lin and Cheng-Yih Hong
The Volcker--Greenspan--Bernanke Phillips Curve pp. 387-391
Sandeep Mazumder
FDIs in life cycle stages: firm-level evidence from Taiwan pp. 393-397
Szu-Hsien Lin , You-Jie Chen , Tz-Li Wang and Ya-Chiu Angela Liu
Current account imbalances, trade and finance pp. 399-402
Anna Lo Prete
Does age matter for employability? A field experiment on ageism in the Swedish labour market pp. 403-406
Ali M. Ahmed , Lina Andersson and Mats Hammarstedt
Volume 19, issue 3 , 2012
Oil prices and their effect on potential output pp. 207-214
Angel Estrada and Pablo Hernández de Cos
Note on estimating effectiveness of demand management pp. 215-220
Joon-Mo Yang
Sunk costs of physical capital and the form of enterprise: investor-owned firms, consumer cooperatives and public enterprises pp. 221-225
Kazuhiko Mikami
An econometric approach to identify determinants of cooperation for innovation among firms pp. 227-235
Flávio Lenz-Cesar and Almas Heshmati
Are project appraisers chiromancers? pp. 237-241
Marco Percoco
Day-of-the-week effect on the return and conditional variance of the H-shares index in Hong Kong pp. 243-249
Hing Lin Chan and Kai-Yin Woo
The dynamics of sovereign credit default swap and bond markets: empirical evidence from the 2001 to 2007 period pp. 251-259
Rahmi Erdem Aktug , Geraldo Vasconcellos and Youngsoo Bae
Testing for the possibility of a monetary union in the ASEAN+3 countries: rationality and asymmetric loss functions pp. 261-268
Hyun-Jae Rhee
Ship investment at a standstill? An analysis of shipbuilding activities and policies pp. 269-275
Jane Jing Xu and Tsz Leung Yip
Incorporating undesirable outputs into Malmquist TFP indices with an unbalanced data panel of Chinese power plants pp. 277-283
Hongliang Yang and Michael Pollitt
Paying to punish on a free ride: member and nonmember punishments in voluntary coalitions pp. 285-288
David Michael McEvoy
A reassessment of inequality and growth in the United States pp. 289-295
Huang, Ho-Chuan (River) and Chih-Chuan Yeh
The effects of exchange rate volatility on trade: evidence from Turkish agricultural trade pp. 297-303
Gülistan Erdal , Hilmi Erdal and Kemal Esengün
Volume 19, issue 2 , 2012
Does insurance demand or financial development promote economic growth? Evidence from Taiwan pp. 105-111
Ming-Sun Horng , Yung-Wang Chang and Ting-Yi Wu
On the specification of the asset evolution equation in consumption models pp. 113-116
Samih Antoine Azar
Optimal leverage with a variable borrowing rate pp. 117-121
John F. McDonald
Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity in G-7 countries pp. 123-128
Tsangyao Chang , Chia-Hao Lee and Pei- Chou
Sovereign credit default swaps and the macroeconomy pp. 129-132
Yang Liu and Bruce Morley
Investment under uncertainty and volatility estimation risk pp. 133-137
George Dotsis , Vasiliki Makropoulou and Raphael Nicholas Markellos
Re-examining purchasing power parity for selected emerging markets and African countries pp. 139-144
Pelin Öge Güney , Erdinç Telatar and Mübariz Hasanov
Trust, institutions and development pp. 145-147
Biswo Poudel and Krishna P. Paudel
Yuan revaluation and its implications pp. 149-154
Won-Cheol Yun
Investment strategies of institutional investors: evidence from Dutch flow-of-funds data pp. 155-159
Leo de Haan and Jan Kakes
The sustainability of trade balances in sub-Saharan Africa: panel cointegration tests with cross-section dependence pp. 161-165
Yoshihiro Hashiguchi and Shigeyuki Hamori
Fiscal policy and the current account new evidence from four East Asian countries pp. 167-173
Hassan Mohammadi and Golaleh Moshrefi
On the evaluation of marginal expected shortfall pp. 175-179
Massimiliano Caporin and Paolo Santucci de Magistris
Some notes on applying the Herfindahl--Hirschman Index pp. 181-184
Akio Matsumoto , Ugo Merlone and Ferenc Szidarovszky
Estimating an inflation index by quantile regression pp. 185-187
Eric Blankmeyer
Corporate governance, stock options and earnings management pp. 189-196
Bo Sun
Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity for Germany's real exchange rate relative to its major trading partners pp. 197-202
Tsangyao Chang , Hsu-Ling Chang , Ken Hung and Chi-Wei Su
Biases in the distribution of bilateral aid: a regional decomposition analysis pp. 203-206
Matthew J. Salois
Volume 19, issue 1 , 2012
Gender and ethnic discrimination in the rental housing market pp. 1-5
Ragnar Bengtsson , Ellis Iverman and Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich
The synchronization of GDP growth in the G7 during US recessions pp. 7-11
Nikolaos Antonakakis and Johann Scharler
Causality links between consumer and producer price inflation in South Africa pp. 13-18
Zerihun Gudeta Alemu
Purchasing power parity in major OPEC countries: flexible Fourier stationary test pp. 19-24
Chi-Wei Su , Yu-Shao Liu , Meng-Nan Zhu and Kuei-Chiu Lee
Regime shift of Japanese foreign exchange policy: some findings pp. 25-28
Takeshi Hoshikawa
An assessment of crop diversification in Bangladesh: a spatial analysis pp. 29-33
Nawshaba Islam and Motiur Rahman
Efficiency of Chinese enterprises: Does human resource management matter? pp. 35-39
Ying Chu Ng and Li-Qun Wei
The US term structure and central bank policy pp. 41-45
Enzo Weber and Jürgen Wolters
An appropriate test of the Kuznets hypothesis pp. 47-51
Huang, Ho-Chuan (River) , Yi-Chen Lin and Chih-Chuan Yeh
Credit securitization decisions pp. 53-56
Camilo Sarmiento
An EBIT-based variant of the Duffie--Lando credit risk model pp. 57-60
Joseph Simonian
Testing for hysteresis in entrepreneurship in 23 OECD countries pp. 61-66
Simon C. Parker , Emilio Congregado and Antonio A. Golpe
Successive monopolies and product variety pp. 67-71
Brian J. Jacobsen
Efficiency of the top 50 business schools in the United States pp. 73-78
Yukiko Hirao
An empirical test of Lazear's leadership theory using evidence from Ghana pp. 79-82
Oliver Masakure
Breaking deterministics, test size and the efficient Wald test for fractional unit roots pp. 83-85
P. S. Sephton
Are we getting closer to purchasing power parity in Central and Eastern European economies? pp. 87-91
Darja Boršič , Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah and Jani Bekő
Herd behaviour and underdogs in the NFL pp. 93-97
Sean Wever and David Aadland
The relationship between plan characteristics and Medicare Prescription Drug Plan bids pp. 99-104
Rui Dai and John Robst