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Volume 6, issue 12, 1999

Are Business Cycles All Alike? Evidence from Long-Run International Data pp. 765-69

Luca Stanca

Earnings News and the Behaviour of Large and Small Traders in the Finnish Stock Market pp. 771-74

G Geoffrey Booth, Kallunki, Juha-Pekka and Teppo Martikainen

Empirical Evidence for Export Promotion Strategies pp. 775-78

Hiroshi Yamada

On Coasean Bargaining with Transaction Costs pp. 779-83

Thomas Rhoads and Jason Shogren

The Impact of Having a Mentor on Earnings and Promotion: Evidence from a Panel Study of Lawyers pp. 785-87

David N Laband and Bernard F Lentz

Place Returns between the Tote and Bookmakers: Empirical Evidence of a Market Anomaly pp. 789-92

David Law, David A. Peel and Michael Cain

Monetary Policy Design and the Buffer-Stock Hypothesis: Further Evidence from European Union Countries pp. 793-96

Nicholas Apergis

Elasticity of Demand for Rugby League Attendance and the Impact of BskyB pp. 797-800

Fiona Carmichael, Janet Millington and Roberts Simmons

Market Movers and Tote and Bookmakers Returns: Further Empirical Evidence on a Market Anomaly pp. 801-04

David A. Peel, David Law and Michael Cain

Within-Group Homogeneity and Exit in Religious Clubs pp. 805-08

Justin P Isaacs and David N Laband

Regional Poverty Lines, Poverty Profiles, and Targeting pp. 809-12

Quentin Wodon

A Note on Generality of the Cagan Model for Money Demand pp. 813-15

Dragan Miljkovic

Asymmetric Index Stock Returns: Evidence from the G-7 pp. 817-20

Gregory Koutmos

Volume 6, issue 11, 1999

Contagion Effects of Bank Liquidation in Japan pp. 703-05

Nobuyoshi Yamori

Bootstrapping the Malmquist Productivity Index--A Simulation Study pp. 707-10

Mickael Lothgren

Discrimination, Segregation and Firm Effects: Some UK Microevidence pp. 711-15

Felix Fitzroy and Melanie Ward

Exchange Rate Volatility in the EMS before and after the Fall pp. 717-22

Simon Sosvilla-Rivero, Fernandez-Rodriguez, Fernando and Oscar Bajo-Rubio

Estimates of Industrial Country Export and Import Demand Functions: Implications for 'Thirlwall's Law.' pp. 723-27

Jonathan Perraton and Paul Turner

Firm Size and the Italian Stock Exchange pp. 729-34

Giuseppe Cavaliere and Michele Costa

Patterns of Seasonality in Employment in Tourism in the UK pp. 735-39

John Ashworth and Barry Thomas

A Transform-Both-Sides Modulus Power Model: An Application in Health Care pp. 741-45

Howard P Tuckman, Cyril F Chang and Albert A. Okunade

Inferring Disability from Post-injury Employment Duration pp. 747-51

Bruce Cater and J Barry Smith

Unobserved Heterogeneity Bias When Estimating the Economic Model of Crime pp. 753-57

Todd L. Cherry

Private Costs and the Rate of Return to Primary Education pp. 759-60

Patrick J. McEwan

Economic Growth and Health: Direct Impact or Reverse Causation? pp. 761-64

Berta Rivera and Luis Currais

Volume 6, issue 10, 1999

Welfare Implications of Pigovian Taxation of a Durable Goods Monopolist pp. 625-27

Rajeev K Goel and Hsieh, Edward Wei-Te

Efficiency Measurements with R&D Inputs and Learning by Doing pp. 629-32

Jati K Sengupta

Inside Information and Public News: R-squared and Beyond pp. 633-36

William O Brown

Long-Run Neutrality of Money in the Mexican Economy pp. 637-39

Frederick Wallace

The Causal Nexus of Government Spending and Revenue in Finland: A Bootstrap Approach pp. 641-44

Prof. Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Ghazi Shukur

Small Sample Estimation of a Cointegrating Vector: An Empirical Evaluation of Six Estimation Techniques pp. 645-48

Tilak Abeysinghe and Tan Khay Boon

Individual Time Preferences for Own Health: An Application of a Dichotomous Choice Question with Follow-up pp. 649-54

Marjon van der Pol and John Cairns

Estimating Learning Effects on Nuclear Power Plants: A Count Data Model with a Varying Time Interval as a Duration Variable pp. 655-58

Eunnyeong Heo and Shin, Seong-Yun

Uncertainty in the Central Bank's Weight on Output: Some New Results pp. 659-62

David A. Peel

International Diversification of the Funds Management Industry pp. 663-67

Jenny Diggle, Robert D Brooks and John Shannon

Is the Demand for Retirement Consumption Linear? pp. 669-71

Hasan Bakhshi

Speculative Attacks or Fundamentals? Empirical Evidence from Some European Currencies pp. 673-75

Yutaka Kurihara

Estimating the Determinants of the Unemployment Duration for College Graduates in Taiwan pp. 677-81

Chuang, Hwei-Lin

On the Decline of Employment-Based Health Insurance in the US pp. 683-86

Norman K Thurston

Are the Consumption/Output and Investment/Output Ratios Stationary? An International Analysis pp. 687-91

Jesus Clemente, Antonio Montañes and Montserrat Ponz

Size and Power: Lower Tail KPSS Tests and Anti-persistent Alternatives pp. 693-95

Christine Amsler

Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: A Study of Singapore's Manufacturing Industries pp. 697-701

Harry Bloch and Sam Hak Kan Tang

Volume 6, issue 9, 1999

Time Series Evidence on a New Keynesian Theory of the Output-Inflation Trade-Off pp. 539-41

Manabu Asai

Regional Variation in the Cyclical Asymmetry of UK Unemployment pp. 543-46

Steven Cook

Bartlett and Bartlett-Type Corrections for Testing Linear Restrictions pp. 547-49

Arellano-Valle, Reinaldo B, Silvia L Ferrari and Cribari-Neto, Francisco

Government Consumption and Fiscal Policy: Some Evidence from Japan pp. 551-55

Shigeyuki Hamori and Kazumi Asako

Openness and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation pp. 557-61

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Farhang Niroomand

Why Does the Bid-Ask Spread Vary over the Day? pp. 563-67

Eric J Levin and Robert E. Wright

On Entry and Exit in Response to Aggregate Shocks pp. 569-72

Piscitelli, Laura, et al

Are the Adjustment of Actual to Desired International Reserves in Nominal or Real Terms? pp. 573-75

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee

On the Predictive Power of the Term Structure during the 1930s pp. 577-80

Adam Klug and Carmel Nadav

Autocorrelations, Returns and Australian Stock Indices pp. 581-84

Alpana Trivedi and Robert D Brooks

Exchange Market Pressure during the Current Managed Float pp. 585-88

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and David J Bernstein

On Apparent Problems with the Use of the Armington Aggregator in Computable General Equilibrium Models pp. 589-91

Dirk Willenbockel

Scale and the Malmquist Productivity Index pp. 593-96

David K Lambert

An Empirical Assessment on Alternative Functional Forms of the Lorenz Curve pp. 597-99

Guano Hua Wan

A Simple Cross-Section Model of Economic Growth Stands the Test of Time pp. 601-03

Sandeep K Gupta and Paul M Sommers

Forecasting Unemployment pp. 605-07

Geraint Johnes

Macroeconomic Time Series and the Monetary Aggregates Approach to Estimating the Underground Economy pp. 609-11

Frank J. Atkins

Testing the Law of One Price under the Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rate Systems pp. 613-16

Khosrow Doroodian, Chulho Jung and Roy Boyd

Rational Addiction and the Demand for Cinema pp. 617-20

Samuel Cameron

Domestic versus Foreign Capital and Returns to Scale in China's Provincial Industries pp. 621-24

Erkin Bairam

Volume 6, issue 8, 1999

Differences in Household Income Per Head over the UK Trade Cycle: A Comment pp. 471-76

Gripaios, Peter, et al

Savings-Investment Cointegration in Panel Data pp. 477-80

Oh, Keun-Yeob, et al

Did Markets Expect Italy to Join EMU? Evidence from Options Markets pp. 481-84

Jan Marc Berk

An Empirical Study of the Foreign Trade Balance in China pp. 485-90

Wei Weixian

Economic Reform and Inequality: Evidence from Lithuania pp. 491-95

Ferdaus Hossain and Helen H. Jensen

Exact Critical Values of Unit Root Tests When There Is a Constant Term and a Time Trend pp. 497-500

Kazuhiro Ohtani

Sufficient Cointegration and Wald Tests of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism pp. 501-03

R D Rossiter and Chulho Jung

Farrell-Type Efficiency under Demand and Price Fluctuations pp. 505-07

Jati K Sengupta

Stock Prices, Inflation and Output: Evidence from China pp. 509-11

Zhao, Xing-Qiu

Workers' Compensation Benefits and Claim Duration: Some Canadian Evidence pp. 513-17

Michele Campolieti

Univariate Analysis of Asymmetry in the DHSY Model pp. 519-22

Steven Cook

Assortative Mating versus the Cross-Productivity Effect pp. 523-25

Liu, Pak-Wai and Junsen Zhang

Stochastic Cost Frontier and Cost Inefficiency of Japanese Hospitals: A Panel Data Analysis pp. 527-32

Atsushi Fujii and Makoto Ohta

Swiss Residential Demand for Electricity pp. 533-38

Massimo Filippini

Volume 6, issue 7, 1999

Approximating the Term Structure of Interest Rates in Japan pp. 403-07

Yu, Shang-Wu

Estimation of the Probit Model with Autocorrelated Errors via the MCECM Algorithm pp. 409-12

Huang, Ho-Chuan

Cointegration, Causality and Wagner's Law in 19th Century Europe pp. 413-16

John Thornton

Variance Ratio Testing of the Australian Forward Foreign Exchange Market pp. 417-19

Joanne Copp and Robert D Brooks

Ethnic Differences in British Employer-Funded on the Off-the-Job Training pp. 421-29

Michael A. Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

Evaluating Firm Training, Effects on Performance and Labour Demand pp. 431-37

Eugenia Kazamaki Ottersten, Thomas Lindh and Erik Mellander

A Dynamic and Stochastic Analysis of Decision Making in Arranged Marriages pp. 439-42

Amitrajeet Batabyal

Nonparticipation and Corner Solution: Extramarital Affairs Reconsidered pp. 443-45

Steven T Yen

A Suggestion for a Simple Cross-Country Empirical Proxy for Trend Unemployment pp. 447-51

Stephen Charles Murchison and Pierre Siklos

Agricultural Liberalization and the Environment in Southern Europe: The Role of the Supply Side pp. 453-58

Joseph N Lekakis and Christos Pantzios

Does the Issue Method Influence the Market Reaction to Seasoned Equity Offer Announcements? pp. 459-62

Bruce M Burton, A Alasdair Lonie and David M Power

Ethnic Differences in Labour Market Transitions: An Exploration Using the British Household Panel Survey pp. 463-66

Balckaby, David, et al

Nonsymmetric Error Correction Revisited pp. 467-70

Steven Cook

Volume 6, issue 6, 1999

Excess US Bank Reserves and the Short-Term Interest Rate Differentials: Evidence from Bivariate Cointegration Analysis pp. 333-36

Muhammad Mustafa and Matiur Rahman

Wages, Firm Size and Absenteeism pp. 337-41

Rainer Winkelmann

Simple Measures of Convergence in Per Capita GDP: A Note on Some Further International Evidence pp. 343-47

Gerard Eugene Boyle and T G McCarthy

Real Exchange Rates and Structural Breaks: Evidence for the Spanish Peseta pp. 349-52

Antonio Montañes and Jesus Clemente

The Monetary Impulse Measure as an Explanation for Fed Policy pp. 353-58

Peter Cornelius and Andreas Gottschling

Some Evidence on the Countercyclicality of the Trade Balance pp. 359-60

Liam J A Lenten and Imad A Moosa

Technology, Investment and Trade: Empirical Evidence for Five Asia-Pacific Countries pp. 361-63

Gary Madden, Scott James Savage and Su Yin Thong

Dearth of Private Capital Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 365-68

Kausik Chaudhuri and D K Srivastava

Productivity Effects of Enterprise-Related Training pp. 369-71

Wim Groot

Verdoorn's Law and Increasing Returns: An Empirical Analysis of the Spanish Regions pp. 373-76

Miguel Leon-Ledesma

Gradual Switching Regression Estimates of Alcohol Demand Elasticities pp. 377-379

Craig A Gallet

Looks Unimportant? A Demand Function for Male Attractiveness by Female Personal Advertisers pp. 381-84

Samuel Cameron and Alan Collins

A Profitable Trading Rule Using Mean Reverting Investment Trusts Discounts pp. 385-88

M J Prior

Economic Integration, Efficiency and Economic Growth: The European Union Experience pp. 389-92

Joaquin Maudos, José M. Pastor and Lorenzo Seranno

Discrete Poisson Kernel Density Estimation--With an Application to Wildcat Coal Strikes pp. 393-96

Lawrence C Marsh and Kajal Mukhopadhyay

Habit Formation and Durability and Consumption: Some Evidence from Income Quintile Groups in Japan pp. 397-402

Shigeyuki Hamori and Toshifumi Tokunaga

Volume 6, issue 5, 1999

Unemployment and Home-Ownership pp. 263-65

Jaakko Pehkonen

Hypothetical versus Real Willingness to Pay: Comment pp. 267-69

Helen R Neill

Factors Affecting Infant Mortality Rates: Evidence from Cross-Sectional Data pp. 271-73

Mohammed Zakir and Phanindra V. Wunnava

Is There a Long-Run Relationship between ODA and GDP? The Case of India pp. 275-77

Philip J Dawson and Richard Tiffin

An Illfare Approach to the Measurement of Unemployment: Comment on Paul (1992) pp. 279-81

Martin Riese

Linear versus Nonlinear Technical Progress: Theory and Some Evidence pp. 283-86

Erkin Bairam

General Trigger Values of Optimal Investment pp. 287-90

Jurgen Vandenbroucke

The Incidence of Loan Collateralization in Small Business Lending Contracts: Evidence from the UK pp. 291-93

Marc Cowling

On Measuring Total Factor Productivity Growth in Singapore's Manufacturing Industries pp. 295-98

M Renuka and K P Kalirajan

The Demand for Money in Italy, 1861-1988 pp. 299-301

Norbert Funke and John Thornton

Occupant Death: A Study with Directed Graphs pp. 303-06

Roh, Jae-Whak and David A. Bessler

The Effects of Advertising Restrictions on Cigarette Prices: Evidence from OECD countries pp. 307-09

Craig A. Depken

Graduate Earnings in Great Britain: A Matter of Degree? pp. 311-15

D H Blackaby, P D Murphy and O'Leary, N C

The Relationship between Inflation and Wage Growth in the Irish Economy pp. 317-21

Stilianos Fountas, Breda Lally and Wu, Jyh-Lin

Forecast Intervals in ARCH Models: Bootstrap versus Parametric Methods pp. 323-27

Pilar Olave Robio

Stability of the Money Demand Function in Germany pp. 329-32

Naoko Hamori and Shigeyuki Hamori

Volume 6, issue 4, 1999

Tests of Structural Change Using Factor Analysis in Equity Returns pp. 203-07

David Morelli

Modelling the Risk Premium in the Black-Market Zloty-Dollar Exchange Rate pp. 209-14

David G McMillan and Alan E H Speight

Road Fatalities, Modal Split and Smeed's Law pp. 215-17

Ian Smith

On Convergence Accounting pp. 219-21

Lorenzo Serrano

Panel Stationarity with Structural Breaks: Carbon Emissions and GDP pp. 223-25

Mark T Heil and Thomas Mathiasen Selden

The Exchange Rate and Long-Run Price Movements in the US and Japan pp. 227-30

Zhenhui Xu

On the Measurement of Spatial Differentials in Economic Growth: An Application of a Shift-Share Method for China in 1985-94 pp. 231-34

Aying Liu and Shujie Yao

Overpayment and Earnings Satisfaction: An Application of an Ordered Response Tobit Model pp. 235-38

Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

Prudence, Risk Aversion, and the Demand for Life Insurance pp. 239-42

Joseph G Eisenhauer and Martin Halek

Testing for Long Run Relationship between Infrastructure and Private Capital Productivity: A Time Series Analysis for the Greek Industry pp. 243-46

E C Mamatzakis

Some Additional Australian Evidence on the Day-of-the-Week Effect pp. 247-49

Sinclair Davidson and Robert William Faff

The Determination of Bank-Small Business Loan Premia in the UK pp. 251-53

Marc Cowling

A Note on the Macroeconomic Modelling of Unemployment Hysteresis pp. 255-58

Knut Røed

Liquidity Constraints and Financial Liberalization: The Case for Asian Developing Countries pp. 259-62

Muzafar Shah Habibullah and Peter Smith

Volume 6, issue 3, 1999

Structural Breaks and Stochastic Trends in Macroeconomic Variables in Norway pp. 133-38

Hilde Christiane Bjørnland

Determinants of Graduates' Demand for Housing pp. 139-42

Mike Rosser

Modelling Addictive Consumption: Some Theoretical and Econometric Issues pp. 143-46

Chongwoo Choe and Imad A Moosa

Testing Long-Run Validity of Purchasing Power Parity for Asian Countries pp. 147-51

Murat Doganlar

Determinants of Entry and Exit in the Foreign Owned Sector of UK Manufacturing pp. 153-56

Nigel L. Driffield

A Nordic Convergence Club? pp. 157-60

Les Oxley and David Greasley

Openness and Industrialization in Developing Countries pp. 161-64

Don P Clark, W Charles Sawyer and Richard L Sprinkle

Real Exchange Rates and Hysteresis: Does Nominal Exchange Rate Volatility Matter? pp. 165-67

Michael A Jenkins

Export-Led Growth and the US Economy: Some Further Testing pp. 169-72

Jordan Shan and Fiona Sun

Efficiency of the Black Market for Foreign Exchange and PPP: The Case of the Dominican Republic pp. 173-76

Sanchez-Fung, Jose R

Investment Strategy Evaluation with Cointegration pp. 177-79

Raphael Nicholas Markellos

Unit Roots versus Segmented Trends in Developing Country Output Series pp. 181-84

Matthias Lutz

The Rise and Fall of the New Zealand Underground Economy: Are the Responses Symmetric? pp. 185-89

David Giles

Estimates of the Degree of Insider Trading in Two Disparate Betting Markets pp. 191-93

Michael Cain, David Law and David A. Peel

Alternative Approach to Measuring Oligopoly Power: A Wheat Market Example pp. 195-97

Carlos Arnade and Daniel Pick

Budget Deficits and the Term Structure of Interest Rates in Italy pp. 199-201

Bradley T Ewing and Mark A Yanochik

Volume 6, issue 2, 1999

Estimates of a Bargaining Model of Wages for the UK Economy 1870-1995 pp. 63-66

Paul Turner

A Comparison of Different Estimates of Interindustry Wage Differentials: The Case of Brazil pp. 67-71

Jorge Saba Arbache

Gaussian versus Count-Data Hurdle Models: Cigarette Consumption by Women in the US pp. 73-76

Steven T Yen

An International Market Model and Exchange Rate Risk: Australian Evidence pp. 77-80

Amalia Di Iorio and Robert William Faff

Technology, Job Creation and Job Destruction in Finnish Manufacturing pp. 81-88

Jari Vainiomaki and Seppo Laaksonen

An Empirical Examination of Exchange Market Efficiency pp. 89-91

Swarna D Dutt and Dipak Ghosh

The Statistical Skeleton of the Demand for Real Money Balances during the German Hyperinflation Episode January 1921-November 1923 pp. 93-96

Ahmed A A Asseery

Does Ex Post Uncovered Interest Differential Reflect the Degrees of Capital Mobility? pp. 97-102

Donggyu Sul

A Comparison of Methods for Trend Estimation pp. 103-09

Marco Bianchi, Martin Boyle and Deirdre Hollingsworth

An Investigation of Technical Inefficiency of Production of Farmers under the National Directorate of Employment in Ondo State, Nigeria pp. 111-14

Igbekele A Ajibefun and Abdullahi O Abdulkadri

A New Time-of-the-Month Anomaly in Stock Index Returns pp. 115-20

Theodor Kohers and Jayen B Patel

The January Effect and Monthly Seasonality in the Hang Seng Index: 1985-97 pp. 121-23

Kwong C Cheung and J Andrew Coutts

The Impact of the Production Composition on the Nutrition Status of Agricultural Households in Rwanda pp. 125-31

christophe MULLER

Volume 6, issue 1, 1999

Foreign Exchange Market Pressure and Transmission of International Disturbances: The Case of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago pp. 1-4

Stephen K Pollard

The Wealth Effects of Bank Acquisitions pp. 5-11

Arphaphan Chavaltanpipat, Shady Kholdy and Ahmad Sohrabian

Functional Form Bias in Goodness-of-Fit Optimizing Models pp. 13-15

Bahram Adrangi and Kambiz Raffiee

Non-causality Due to Irrelevant Lag Polynomials pp. 17-20

Prof. Kul B Luintel

Learning during Recessions pp. 21-23

Erik Canton

The ERM and Fiscal Integration in the EU pp. 25-27

Mark J. Holmes and Prof. Kul B Luintel

Verdoorn's Law and Increasing Returns to Scale: Country Estimates Based on the Cointegration Approach pp. 29-33

Richard Ian Harris and A Liu

Friday the Thirteenth and the Financial Times Industrial Ordinary Shares Index 1935-94 pp. 35-37

J Andrew Coutts

Wagner's Law and Public Expenditure in Iraq: A Test Using Disaggregated Data pp. 39-44

A A Asseery, D Law and N Perdikis

New Evidence on Determinants of Bank Failures in the US pp. 45-47

Richard Cebula

A Note on the Long-Run Benefits from International Equity Diversification for a UK Investor Diversifying in the US Equity Market pp. 49-53

Angelos Kanas

Empirical Evidence on Alternative Theories of Inflation and Unemployment: A Re-evaluation for the Scandinavian Countries pp. 55-58

George Woodward and J Ram Pillarisetti

More Evidence concerning the Relationship between High and Variable Inflation: A More General Approach pp. 59-61

Kelvin George Balcombe