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Volume 3, issue 12, 1996

Seasonal Unit Root Characteristics of Disaggregated Output pp. 749-53

R Stuart McDougall

Learning to Rent-Seek: Collective Action and In-Kind Benefits in the Public Sector pp. 755-57

Mixon, Franklin G, and Russell W McKenzie

Testing the Intertemporal Model of the Current Account: Some Evidence from Greece pp. 759-62

Costas Karfakis

Canadian-Japanese R&D Spillovers and Productivity Growth pp. 763-67

Jeffrey I. Bernstein and Xiaoyi Yan

Economic Growth and Monetary Union in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Evidence on the Effects of CFA-Zone Membership pp. 769-73

Mamadou Wane, Paul Burkett and Robert C Guell

Velocity and Interest Rate Variability in Italy: A Further Test of the Friedman Hypothesis pp. 775-78

Bradley T Ewing

Religion, Culture, Economic and Sociological Correlates of Suicide Rates: A Cross-National Analysis pp. 779-82

Huang, Wei-Chiao

Betting Volume and Market Efficiency in Hong Kong Race Track Betting pp. 783-87

W. D. Walls and Kelly Busche

Government Finance and Endogenous Growth pp. 789-91

Michel Strawczynski and Momi Dahan

The Role of Divorce in the Consumption Function: An EC Study pp. 793-95

Samuel Cameron

The Weekend Effect, Good News, Bad News and the Financial Times Industrial Ordinary Shares Index: 1935-94 pp. 797-801

Zainudin Arsad and J Andrew Coutts

Changes in the Duration of Economic Expansions and Contractions in the United States pp. 803-06

Jon Vilasuso

The Dancing of the Real Exchange Rate of US Dollar and the US Real Trade Balance pp. 807-08

Matiur Rahman and Muhammad Mustafa

Inflation in Developing Countries pp. 809-14

Olugbenga A Onafowora

Volume 3, issue 11, 1996

Non-convex Cost and the Behaviour of Inventories: Some Disaggregate Results pp. 687-91

Erkin Bairam

Some Questions Concerning Dynamic Almost Ideal Demand Systems pp. 693-95

David Edgerton and Ghazi Shukur

Velocity and the Variability of Anticipated and Unanticipated Money Growth in Malaysia pp. 697-700

Azali Mohamed

Long-Term Stochastic Dependence in Financial Prices: Evidence from the German Stock Market pp. 701-06

Thomas Lux

Sources of Structural Change: An Input-Output Decomposition Analysis for Greece pp. 707-10

George M Korres

The Human Capital Augmented Solow Model Revisited pp. 711-14

Harold J. Brumm

Claims' Estimation in Multiproduct Life Insurance Firms: Preliminary United Kingdom Results pp. 715-18

Philip Hardwick and Michael B Adams

Another Note on Oswald's 'The Economic Theory of Trade Unions.' pp. 719-20

Stein Ostbye

On the Effects of Money on the Terms of Trade: An Empirical Investigation pp. 721-24

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Ghiath Shabsigh

A Factor Analysis of Equity Market Relationships in Asia pp. 725-28

Tony Naughton

Kaldor's Technical Progress Function: A Comment pp. 729-31

Paul Hansen

The Applicability of Industrial Organization Theory to the Services Sector: Initial Tests from the UK Hotel Industry pp. 733-35

B Davies and P Downward

Suicide and Business Cycles: Finnish Evidence pp. 737-38

Matti Viren

Continuous Degrees of Residual Claimancy: Some Contractual Evidence pp. 739-41

Darlene C Chisholm

How Close to Their Offensive Potential Do National Football League Teams Play? pp. 743-47

Richard A Hofler and James E Payne

Volume 3, issue 10, 1996

A Turning-Point Diagnostics Analysis on the Accuracy of the OECD Forecasts for Turkey pp. 625-27

Dikaios Tserkezos

Testing for a Unit Root in a Time Series with Mean Shifts pp. 629-35

Param Silvapulle

Mergers and Acquisitions in the UK: A Disaggregated Analysis pp. 637-40

Marcelo Resende

Public Expenditure and Private Investment: A Study of the UK and the USA pp. 641-44

Mehdi S Monadjemi

Call-Put Signal Predicts Finnish Stock Returns pp. 645-48

Teppo Martikainen and Vesa Puttonen

Wage Discrimination: A Statistical Test pp. 649-51

Keshab Shrestha and Christos Sakellariou

Estimating the Cost of Capital of the UK's Newly Privatized Utilities pp. 653-57

Andrew Clare and Richard Priestley

The Gloomy Mists of the 1960s: Pricing of Investment Trust Shares without Data on Net Asset Value pp. 659-61

M J Prior

The Weak-Form Efficiency of the Taiwan Share Market pp. 663-67

Fawson, Chris, et al

Consumer Demand for Poultry at Home and Away from Home: A Discrete Choice Analysis pp. 669-72

Rodolfo M Nayga

Time Series Analysis of Settlement Prices for Individual Currency Futures in Singapore pp. 673-76

John M Sequira

A Modified Human Development Index and International Comparison pp. 677-82

Satya Paul

A Note on Fractional Cointegration pp. 683-85

Peter S Sephton

Volume 3, issue 9, 1996

Multi-product Cost Functions and the Funding of Tuition in UK Universities pp. 557-61

Geraint Johnes

Sources of Fluctuations in Australian Imports pp. 563-66

Lance A Fisher and Huh, Hyeon-Seung

Foreign Trade and Economic Growth Evidence from Sri Lanka, 1960-1992 pp. 567-70

Anoma S P Abhayaratne

Some Problems with Modelling Asset Returns Using the Elliptical Class pp. 571-72

Babak Eftekhari and Stephen E Satchell

Child Labour in American Imports pp. 573-76

Baban Hasnat

Labour Mobility in Australian Industry pp. 577-79

Sue Kilpatrick and Bruce Felmingham

Velocity Instability in the USA: A Monetary or Real Phenomenon? pp. 581-85

Parantap Basu and Pami Dua

A Test of a Modern Version of the Solow Model pp. 587-90

George Tzanidakis and Theo Kirizidis

Teacher-Associated Expenditures and Student Achievement pp. 591-93

Melvin V Borland and Roy M Howsen

Economic Freedom, Per Capita Income and Economic Growth pp. 595-97

Sadequl Islam

The New Keynesian Economics and the Output-Inflation Trade-Off pp. 599-602

George M Katsimbris and Stephen M. Miller

Australian Government Sector Initial Public Offerings pp. 603-05

Stephen A Easton and Sean M P Pinder

Functional Form in Regression Models of Okun's Law pp. 607-09

Christian Ernst Weber and James E West

Industry Concentration-Profitability Relationship and Competition Policy: Is There a Critical Concentration Level? pp. 611-14

Ravi Ratnayake

On the Identification of the Barten-Gorman Model: An Example within the AIDS Framework pp. 615-19

Federico Perali and Thomas L Cox

Using Panel Data to Estimate Engel Functions: Food Consumption in China pp. 621-24

Guang H Wan

Volume 3, issue 8, 1996

On the Single and Multiple Time Trends Representation of Technical Change pp. 495-99

Almas Heshmati

An Alternative Estimation Method for the OCE Model pp. 501-03

Yoshiko Kuwahara and Yasushi Ohkusa

Deficits, Inflation and Central Banks' Independence: Evidence from Developing Nations pp. 505-09

K H Brown and M Yousefi

Overeducation and the Formal Education/Experience and Training Trade-Off pp. 511-15

Peter James Sloane, H Battu and P T Seaman

Does Europe Have an Integrated Capital Market? Evidence from Real Interest Parity Tests pp. 517-20

Imad A Moosa and Razzaque H Bhatti

How Small Firms Forecast Short-Term Employment: Some Survey Evidence pp. 521-24

John Ashworth, Peter Johnson and Cheryl Conway

Ricardian Equivalence, Budget Deficits, and Saving in the United States, 1955:1-1991:4 pp. 525-28

Richard Cebula, Hung, Chao-Shun and Neela D Manage

Consumption Growth and the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution: Some Evidence from Income Quintile Groups in Japan pp. 529-32

Shigeyuki Hamori

Annualized versus Non-annualized Lifetime Income Redistribution pp. 533-36

Jan Nelissen

Information Noise and Stock Return Volatility: Evidence from Germany pp. 537-40

G Geoffrey Booth and Mustafa Chowdhury

On the Determinants of Households' Consumption Inequality: An Empirical Analysis for Japanese Workers' Households pp. 541-44

Mototsugu Fukushige

Strikes and Profits: Considering an Asymmetric Information Model pp. 545-48

Karen Mumford

On the Relationship between Money and Inflation in the United States: Additional Evidence pp. 549-52

Benjamin S Cheng

The Fisher Effect and the Gold Standard: Evidence from the USA pp. 553-55

Taufiq Choudhry

Volume 3, issue 7, 1996

Common Trends and Common Cycles under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes pp. 423-26

Maria Simona Andreano and Giovanni Savio

The Dynamics of OECD Forecasts for Greece pp. 427-29

Dikaios Tserkezos

A New Method for Investigating the Relationship between Strikes and Absenteeism pp. 431-34

David Sapsford and Peter Turnbull

Hedonic Prices for Environmental and Safety Characteristics and the Akerloff Effect in the French Car Market pp. 435-40

C Couton, F Gardes and Y Thepaut

Impacts of Government Policies, Economic Conditions, and Past Migration on Net Migration in the USA: 1992-93 pp. 441-44

Yu Hsing

An Analysis of Bid-Ask Spreads on American- and European-Style Index Options pp. 445-49

Owain Ap Gwilym and Mike Buckle

The Effects of a North American Free Trade Agreement on the US Glassware Market pp. 451-54

Kenneth Reinert and Gina L Scorza

The Role of Reputation Capital in the Investment Banking Industry pp. 455-58

Paul Brockman

An Additive Tax and Subsidy for Controlling Automobile Pollution pp. 459-62

Robert E Kohn

A Non-parametric Approach to Identifying the pp. 463-66

Robert McMaster

About the Stability of the Inventory-Sales Ratio: An Empirical Study with US Sectoral Data pp. 467-69

Melika Ben Salem and Jacques, Jean-Francois

Hospital Costs in Catalonia: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis pp. 471-74

Adam Wagstaff and Guillem Lopez

Ownership and Efficiency Differentials in Chinese Industry: Further Evidence form Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 475-82

Fung, Michael Ka-Yiu and Wan, Ken Kai-Hong

What Opportunity Cost of Holding Real Balances? The Case of Greece 1978-1993 pp. 483-85

Nicholas Apergis

Are the Greek Budget Deficits Too Large? pp. 487-90

Stilianos Fountas and Wu, Jyh-Lin

Technical Efficiency of the Ugandan Matoke Farms pp. 491-94

Almas Heshmati and Yilma Mulugeta

Volume 3, issue 6, 1996

US Budget Deficits, Inflation and Exchange Rate: A Cointegration Approach pp. 365-68

Matiur Rahman, Muhammad Mustafa and Eldon R Bailey

Exports and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Analysis pp. 369-73

Nadeem A Burney

Do Fiscal Variables Affect Private Consumption? Evidence from Australia and the United States pp. 375-78

Mehdi S Monadjemi

Do Prices Move Counter-Cyclically? pp. 379-83

Torben M Andersen and Niels Lynggard Hansen

Consumer Expenditure in South Africa: A Time-Series Model pp. 385-89

David Fielding

Attendance Demand: An Investigation of Repeat Fixtures pp. 391-94

David A. Peel and Dennis Thomas

Mexico's Futile Attempt to Defy Purchasing Power Parity pp. 395-99

Ghoshroy-Saha, Atrayee and Hendrik van den Berg

On the Characteristics of Tariff Rates: Permanent or Temporary Shocks? pp. 401-03

Jai Mah

Charts as Signals in Markov Switching World pp. 405-7

Hans Dewachter

The Impact of Exchange Rate Adjustment on Output: Jamaica 1960-90 pp. 409-11

Derick Boyd

Misspecification and Cross-Country Growth Regressions pp. 413-16

Scott McDonald and Jennifer Roberts

The Effects of Welfare Guarantee Levels and Tax Rates on Male Labour Supply pp. 417-22

Howard Gensler

Volume 3, issue 5, 1996

On the High Correlation between Unemployment and the Dispersion of Industrial Unemployment pp. 285-88

Jing Lu

A Model of State-Level Prescription Drug Expenditures in the USA pp. 289-92

Chutima Suraratdecha

The Effect of Charter Status on Savings and Loan Resolution Costs pp. 293-97

Steven B Caudill, Daniel M. Gropper and Tracy W Stephens

Causality between Advertising and Sales: New Evidence from Cointegration pp. 299-301

Junsoo Lee, B S Shin and In Chung

The Distribution of Futures Prices: Diffusion-Jump versus Generalized Beta-2 pp. 303-5

Kyle W. Stiegert and B Wade Brorsen

Can Factor Proportions Explain Vertical Intra-industry Trade? pp. 307-9

Johan Torstensson

Assortative Mating and Ethnicity in the Low Wage Population: An Examination of Spouses' Earnings pp. 311-15

Michael Zimmer

IGARCH Effect on Autoregressive Lag Length Selection and Causality Tests pp. 317-23

Alain Hecq

Bank Credit in the ERM: An Investigation of the Role of Germany pp. 325-28

Mark J. Holmes

Can an Increase in National Saving Reduce the Level of Unemployment in Australia? pp. 329-32

Abdul Latif

Transfer Pricing by the Canadian Oil Industry: A Company Analysis pp. 333-40

Jean-Thomas Bernard and Genest-Laplante, Eric

Export-Led Growth and the US Economy: Another Look pp. 341-44

Jang C Jin and Eden S H Yu

Dividends with No Taxes: Evidence from Hong Kong pp. 345-48

Kok Chew Lim

Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models: The Case of Japan, 1960-90 pp. 349-54

Ranko Bon and Tomonari Yashiro

The Form of the Production Function for the Chinese Regional Economy pp. 355-58

Erkin Bairam

Instability in Trade Flows as a Cause of Economic Stagnation in Africa: An Error-Correction Test pp. 359-64

Muhammed N Islam

Volume 3, issue 4, 1996

Married Female Labour Force Participation: An Analysis of Probit Model with a Natural Non-participation Rate pp. 205-07

Weiren Wang

Estimating the Degree of Dominance in a Bilateral Oligopoly pp. 209-11

Azzeddine M. Azzam

Black Market Trade: An Example from a Rural Hospital in Kenya pp. 213-15

Germano Mwabu and Wang'ombe, Joseph

Duration of First Marriage: Does Pre-marital Cohabitation Matter? pp. 217-19

Yannis Georgellis

Mergers and Market Power in the US Steel Industry pp. 221-23

Craig A Gallet

Does Simultaneity Exaggerate Empirical Tests of the Trade-Growth Relationship? pp. 225-31

Hendrik Van den Berg

The Risk Premium on the Australian Dollar in the 30-Day Forward Market pp. 233-35

Bruce Felmingham

Is Spanish Consumer Behaviour Consistent with the Utility Maximization? A Non-parametric Response pp. 237-41

Jose Alberto Molina

Financial Deepening and Economic Growth in Developing Economics pp. 243-46

John Thornton

Unanticipated Income and Consumption in ASEAN Countries pp. 247-49

John Thornton and Philip Molyneux

Sources of Fluctuations in Exchange Rates: A Structural VAR Analysis pp. 251-54

Nicholas Apergis and Costas Karfakis

The Adjustment of Nominal Interest Rates in Mexico: A Study of the Fisher Effect pp. 255-57

John Thornton

Convergence to Steady State Growth: A Model for Japan (1965-90) pp. 259-65

Jati K Sengupta and Kumiko Okamura

Testing for Deterministic Nonlinear Dependence in the Australian Dollar-US Dollar Exchange Rate Series pp. 267-69

Apostolos Serletis and Paul Dormaar

Merger Failure and Merger Profitability: An Alternative to the Hviid and Prendergast Model pp. 271-73

Xeni Dassiou and Peter Holl

Export-Import Endogeneity in the Context of the Thirlwall-Hussain Model: An Application of the Durbin-Wu-Hausman Test Incorporating a Monte Carlo Experiment pp. 275-79

Robert F Mulligan

The Determinants of Technological Protectionism pp. 281-84

Vasanthakumar N Bhat

Volume 3, issue 3, 1996

Share Price Movements: A Study of Four OECD Countries pp. 135-37

Mehdi S Monadjemi and Len Perry

Conceptualizing Suicide in Economic Models pp. 139-43

Bijou Yang and David Lester

Merger and the Returns to Labour and Investment pp. 145-48

George Bittlingmayer

Unemployment as a Constraint on Labour Supply and Goods Demand in Spain pp. 149-53

Inmaculada Garcia and Jose Alberto Molina

Extended Critical Values for a Simple Test of Cointegration pp. 155-57

Peter S Sephton

Is Equality Really Growth-Promoting? pp. 159-61

Rasha Torstensson

The Allocative Efficiency of the Formal versus the Informal Financial Sector pp. 163-65

Robert Lensink

Disaggregate Inventory-Sales Ratios over Time: The Case of US Companies and Corporations, 1976-92 pp. 167-69

Erkin Bairam

Non-linearities in the Returns to Education: Sheepskin Effects or Threshold Levels of Human Capital? pp. 171-73

Harry Patrinos

Derived Demands for 'General Cargo' Shipping in Spain, 1975-1992, an Economic Approach pp. 175-78

Pablo Coto Millan and Jose Banos Pino

Consumer Attitudes toward Trade Liberalization pp. 179-82

David Denslow and Thomas Fullerton

Logit Regressions with Continuous Dependent Variables Measured with Error pp. 183-84

Richard L Manning

The Slowdown in US Economic Growth: A Comment pp. 185-86

Alan King and Robert Alexander

Performance of Structural Change Indices: Analysis Using Real and Simulated Data pp. 187-88

Ciaran Driver and Saw, Chit-Wei

Impact of Cholesterol Information on US Egg Consumption: Evidence from Consumer Survey Data pp. 189-91

Qingbin Wang, Helen H. Jensen and Steven T Yen

Testing the (S,s) Model of Inventory Investment with Canadian Wholesale Trade Data pp. 193-95

Athanasios Episcopos

On Improvements of Phillips-Perron Unit Root Tests Using Optimal Bandwidth Estimates pp. 197-200

Junsoo Lee and Dante A Mossi

Motivations That Underlie the Subscription Prices in Common Stocks Rights Offerings: Public Utilities pp. 201-04

Majed R Muhtaseb

Volume 3, issue 2, 1996

Used Car Markets: Reliability Does Matter, but Do Consumer Reports? pp. 67-70

David B Yerger

The Spatial Correlation of the Per Capita Income of Florida's Counties, 1970-1990 pp. 71-72

Henri Theil, Dongling Chen and Janet Galvez

Surprises in the Consumption Function: A Comparative Study pp. 73-75

Sadequl Islam

Time Series Evidence on the Saving-Investment Relationship pp. 77-80

John Barkoulas, Alpay Filizetkin and Robert G. Murphy

Stock Price and Expected Dividends: Evidence from Singapore pp. 81-83

Wee-Beng, Gan and Soon Lee Ying

Does Welfare Cause Increases in Female-Headed Households? pp. 85-88

John E Rogers, Michael Greene and Emily Hoffnar

The Determinants of Greek Manufacturing Investment: A Comment pp. 89-90

Athanassia Xenaki

Systematic Measures of Dynamic Farrell Efficiency pp. 91-94

Jati K Sengupta

A Market Share Model for Vegetable and Tropical Oils pp. 95-99

A D Owen, K Chowdhury and J R R Garrido

Money, Output, Price and Causality in Mainland China pp. 101-05

Mohammad Hasan and Majid Taghavi

Resale Price Maintenance and Antitrust Policy pp. 107-08

Antony W Dnes

Global Macroeconomic Shocks, Time-Varying Covariances and Tests of the International CAPM pp. 109-13

Clare, Andrew, et al

Decomposition of Gini Coefficients by Class: A New Approach pp. 115-19

Shujie Yao and Jirui Liu

Testing the Efficient Market Hypothesis Using Panel Data, with Application to the Athens Stock Market pp. 121-23

E Dockery and M G Kavussanos

The Irrelevance of Adjustment Costs for Investment Determination pp. 125-26

Michael Thomas Sumner

Cyclical Unemployment: Sectoral Shifts or Aggregate Disturbances? A Vector Autoregression Approach pp. 127-30

Tony Caporale, K Doroodian and M R M Abeyratne

State Economic Growth and International Export Orientation pp. 131-34

Frank Hack and Ashish Vaidya

Volume 3, issue 1, 1996

Corporate Growth and the Equity-Debt Choice pp. 1-4

B M Burton, A A Lonie and D M Power

Purchasing Power Parities and Consumer Theory pp. 5-7

Adam Szulc

The Degree of Capital Mobility in Thailand: Some Estimates Using a Cointegration Approach pp. 9-13

Rungsun Hataiseree and Anthony Phipps

The Impact of Political Shocks on Cointegrated Exchange Rate Series pp. 15-19

Rita Biswas and Hany A Shawky

Speed of Adjustment and Estimation of the Partial Adjustment Model pp. 21-23

Marcus J. Chambers

The Determinants of Student Loan Take-Up in the United Kingdom: Another Gaze pp. 25-27

Vernon Gayle

An Investigation of Cointegration and Causality between Fertility and Female Labour Force Participation pp. 29-32

Benjamin S Cheng

Effectiveness of Simple Technical Trading Rules in the Hong Kong Futures Markets pp. 33-36

Mahendra Raj and David Thurston

Aggregate Health Care Expenditures in the United States: Evidence from Cointegration Tests: A Comment pp. 37-39

Alan King and Paul Hansen

Is the Fisher Effect Robust? Further Evidence pp. 41-44

Yuhn, Ky-Hyang

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Market Share Models with Large Numbers of Shares pp. 45-48

P M C de Boer, R Harkema and A J Soede

A Note on Unemployment Rates and the Paper-Bill Spread pp. 49-51

Christian Ernst Weber

Persistence of Economic Growth and Its Determinants: Some Evidence for South Korea and India pp. 53-54

Sadequl Islam

Finite Sample Behaviour of GNR Tests for Serial Correlation pp. 55-57

Erkin Bairam

An Experimental Investigation of Direct Subjective Discount Rates pp. 59-61

Uri Benzion, Alon Granot and Joseph Yagil

Spot Price Volatility, Information and Futures Trading: Evidence from a Thinly Traded Market pp. 63-66

Phil Holmes