Economic Inquiry

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Volume 46, issue 4, 2008

WHAT DETERMINES CORRUPTION? INTERNATIONAL EVIDENCE FROM MICRODATA pp. 493-510

Naci Mocan

THE GRAVITY MODEL: AN ILLUSTRATION OF STRUCTURAL ESTIMATION AS CALIBRATION pp. 511-527

Edward Balistreri and Russell Hillberry

SHOULD OIL PRICES RECEIVE SO MUCH ATTENTION? AN EVALUATION OF THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF OIL PRICES FOR THE U.S. ECONOMY pp. 528-539

Lance Bachmeier, Qi Li and Dandan Liu

VOLATILITY AND IRISH EXPORTS pp. 540-560

Don Bredin and John Cotter

DISAGGREGATE EVIDENCE ON PRICE STICKINESS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MACRO MODELS pp. 561-575

Carl R. Gwin and David D. van Hoose

THE CYCLICAL BEHAVIOR OF PRICES AND RELATIVE PRICES pp. 576-586

George Davis and Bryce Kanago

IS THE PRICE ELASTICITY OF MONEY DEMAND ALWAYS UNITY? pp. 587-592

Paul Evans and Xiaojun Wang

HEDONIC IMPUTATION AND THE PRICE INDEX PROBLEM: AN APPLICATION TO HOUSING pp. 593-609

Robert Hill and Daniel Melser

DIFFERENTIAL DEPOSIT GUARANTEES AND THE EFFECT OF MONETARY POLICY ON BANK LENDING pp. 610-623

Timothy Opiela

THE IMPACT OF PAYING INTEREST ON RESERVES IN THE PRESENCE OF GOVERNMENT DEFICIT FINANCING pp. 624-642

Mark Guzman

DO CAPITAL ADEQUACY REQUIREMENTS MATTER FOR MONETARY POLICY? pp. 643-659

Stephen Cecchetti and Lianfa Li

OPTIMAL WAGE TAXATION WHEN HUMAN CAPITAL AND EMPLOYMENT ARE ENDOGENOUS pp. 660-675

Brent Kreider

HAS WAL‐MART BURIED MOM AND POP?: THE IMPACT OF WAL‐MART ON SELF‐EMPLOYMENT AND SMALL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES pp. 676-695

Russell Sobel and Andrea M Dean

Volume 46, issue 3, 2008

SCHOOLS, SKILLS, AND SYNAPSES pp. 289-324

James Heckman

THE ROLE OF THE BIDDING PROCESS IN PRICE DETERMINATION: JUMP BIDDING IN SEQUENTIAL ENGLISH AUCTIONS pp. 325-341

Yaron Raviv

FIXED REVENUE AUCTIONS: THEORY AND BEHAVIOR pp. 342-354

Cary Deck and Bart Wilson

ROBUSTNESS OF BIDDER PREFERENCES AMONG AUCTION INSTITUTIONS pp. 355-368

Radosveta Ivanova‐stenzel and Tim Salmon

SOME EVIDENCE ON LATE BIDDING IN EBAY AUCTIONS pp. 369-379

Ladislav Wintr

RACE AND CHARITABLE CHURCH ACTIVITY pp. 380-400

Daniel Hungerman

POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE SOCIAL MARGINAL COST OF PUBLIC FUNDS: THE CASE OF THE MELTZER‐RICHARD ECONOMY pp. 401-410

K. W Kevin Hsu and C. C. Yang

THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL FORCES: EVIDENCE FROM THE BEHAVIOR OF FOOTBALL REFEREES pp. 411-424

Thomas Dohmen

STRICT PRODUCT LIABILITY AND SAFETY: EVIDENCE FROM THE GENERAL AVIATION MARKET pp. 425-437

Randy Nelson and James N. Drews

WORK‐RELATED ACCIDENTS AND THE LEVEL OF MARKET COMPETITION: AN ANALYSIS OF WORKER INJURY RATES AT U.S. STEEL CORPORATION, 1907–1939 pp. 438-453

Christopher S. Decker and David Flynn

STOCK OWNERSHIP AND CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MUTUAL FUND REVOLUTION pp. 454-479

John Duca and Jason Saving

DEBT BAILOUTS AND CONSTITUTIONS pp. 480-492

Emanuel Kohlscheen

Volume 46, issue 2, 2008

2006 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS WATER MARKETS IN THE WEST: PRICES, TRADING, AND CONTRACTUAL FORMS pp. 91-112

Jedidiah Brewer, Robert Glennon, Alan Ker and Gary Libecap

WHO IS AFRAID OF THE FRIEDMAN RULE? pp. 113-130

Joydeep Bhattacharya, Joseph Haslag, Antoine Martin and Rajesh Singh

STOCK RETURNS, ASYMMETRIC VOLATILITY, RISK AVERSION, AND BUSINESS CYCLE: SOME NEW EVIDENCE pp. 131-148

Sei‐wan Kim and Bong‐soo Lee

THE AUCTION MARKET FOR MODERN PRINTS: CONFIRMATIONS, CONTRADICTIONS, AND NEW PUZZLES pp. 149-159

James Pesando and Pauline Shum

RELIEF FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? THE IMPORTANCE OF AN INCREASINGLY UNIMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL SECTOR pp. 160-178

Martin Gassebner, Noel Gaston and Michael Lamla

EFFICIENCY WAGES AND SUBJECTIVE PERFORMANCE PAY pp. 179-196

Huanxing Yang

WHY DO EUROPEANS WORK (MUCH) LESS? IT IS TAXES AND GOVERNMENT SPENDING pp. 197-207

Tine Dhont and Freddy Heylen

TRACING THE DYNAMICS OF COMPETITION: EVIDENCE FROM COMPANY PROFITS pp. 208-213

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Adelina Gschwandtner

NATURAL DISASTERS AS CREATIVE DESTRUCTION? EVIDENCE FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES pp. 214-226

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Jaroslava Hlouskova and Michael Obersteiner

INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND TRADE: WHICH INSTITUTIONS? WHICH TRADE? pp. 227-240

Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Khalid Sekkat

DO NONPROFIT AND GOVERNMENT NURSING HOMES ENTER UNPROFITABLE MARKETS? pp. 241-260

Jeffrey P. Ballou

ON THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF TIME AND RISK PREFERENCES: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY pp. 261-272

Werner Güth, Maria Levati and Matteo Ploner

THE DEMAND FOR CASINO GAMING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO A SMOKING BAN pp. 273-282

Richard Thalheimer and Mukhtar M. Ali

IS STATUS QUO BIAS CONSISTENT WITH DOWNWARD‐SLOPING DEMAND? pp. 283-288

Donald Wittman

Volume 46, issue 1, 2008

INTRODUCTION pp. 1-1

James Heckman

THE ROLE OF NONCOGNITIVE SKILLS IN EXPLAINING COGNITIVE TEST SCORES pp. 2-12

Lex Borghans, Huub Meijers and Bas ter Weel

AFTER‐SCHOOL PROGRAM EFFECTS ON BEHAVIOR: RESULTS FROM THE 21ST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS PROGRAM NATIONAL EVALUATION pp. 13-18

Susanne James‐burdumy, Mark Dynarski and John Deke

UNPACKING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS pp. 19-24

Ethan Cohen‐cole and Giulio Zanella

UNDERSTANDING REGRESSION VERSUS VARIANCE TESTS FOR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS pp. 25-28

Steven Durlauf and Hisatoshi Tanaka

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND DRINKING BEHAVIOR: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM AN IRISH COLLEGE STUDY pp. 29-36

Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon and Patrick Wall

AN ASSESSMENT OF CAUSAL INFERENCE IN SMOKING INITIATION RESEARCH AND A FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE RESEARCH pp. 37-44

James Heckman, Fredrick Flyer and Colleen Loughlin

RISK BELIEFS AND SMOKING BEHAVIOR pp. 45-59

W Viscusi and Jahn K Hakes

WHY UNDERSTANDING SMOKING BANS IS IMPORTANT FOR ESTIMATING THEIR EFFECTS: CALIFORNIA’S RESTAURANT SMOKING BANS AND RESTAURANT SALES pp. 60-76

Robert Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen

IS THERE RECIPROCITY IN A RECIPROCAL‐EXCHANGE ECONOMY? EVIDENCE OF GENDERED NORMS FROM A SLUM IN NAIROBI, KENYA pp. 77-83

Fiona Greig and Iris Bohnet

REPRESENTATIVE TRUST AND RECIPROCITY: PREVALENCE AND DETERMINANTS pp. 84-90

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde