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Volume 79, month 12, 2017

What We can Learn About the Behaviour of Firms from the Average Monthly Frequency of Price-Changes: An Application to the UK CPI Data pp. 907-932

Huw Dixon and Kun Tian

Imperfect Information and Consumer Inflation Expectations: Evidence from Microdata pp. 933-968

Lena Dräger and Michael Lamla

Squeezing the Last Drop Out of Your Suppliers: An Empirical Study of Market-Based Purchasing Policies for Generic Pharmaceuticals pp. 969-996

Mats A. Bergman, David Granlund and Niklas Rudholm

Bargaining and Wage Rigidity in a Matching Model for the US pp. 997-1017

James Malcomson and Sophocles Mavroeidis

Does it Pay to Work for Free? Negative Selection and the Wage Returns to Volunteer Experience pp. 1018-1045

Guido Cozzi, Noemi Mantovan and Robert Sauer

Low Wage Returns to Schooling in a Developing Country: Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Turkey pp. 1046-1086

Abdurrahman Aydemir and Murat Kırdar

Is the Quarter of Birth Endogenous? New Evidence from Taiwan, the US, and Indonesia pp. 1087-1124

Elliott Fan, Jin-Tan Liu and Yen-Chien Chen

Inflation Target Credibility: Do the Financial Markets Find the Targets Believable? pp. 1125-1147

Bedri Tas and Mustafa Peker

On the Identification of Interdependence and Contagion of Financial Crises pp. 1148-1175

Emanuele Bacchiocchi

Control Function Approach for Partly Ordered Endogenous Treatments: Military Rank Premium in Wage pp. 1176-1194

Youngmin Ju and Myoung-jae Lee

Financial Depth and the Asymmetric Impact of Monetary Policy pp. 1195-1218

Mustafa Caglayan, Ozge Kandemir Kocaaslan and Kostas Mouratidis

Volume 79, month 10, 2017

Ranking Economics Journals Using Data From a National Research Evaluation Exercise pp. 621-636

Arne Hole

Meta-Regression Models and Observational Research pp. 637-653

Stephan B. Bruns

Do Smaller Classes Always Improve Students’ Long-run Outcomes? pp. 654-688

Torberg Falch, Astrid Marie Sandsør and Bjarne Strøm

The Sorting of Female Careers after First Birth: A Competing Risks Analysis of Maternity Leave Duration pp. 689-716

Melanie Arntz, Stephan Dlugosz and Ralf Wilke

Life-Cycle Consumption and Children: Evidence from a Structural Estimation pp. 717-746

Thomas Jørgensen

Land Market Restrictions, Women's Labour Force Participation and Wages in a Rural Economy pp. 747-768

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

Heterogeneity in Labour Supply Responses: Evidence from a Major Tax Reform pp. 769-796

Mauro Mastrogiacomo, Nicole M. Bosch, Miriam D. A. C. Gielen and Egbert L. W. Jongen

Return Migration, Self-selection and Entrepreneurship pp. 797-821

Catia Batista, Tara McIndoe-Calder and Pedro Vicente

Testing for Flexible Nonlinear Trends with an Integrated or Stationary Noise Component pp. 822-850

Pierre Perron, Mototsugu Shintani and Tomoyoshi Yabu

A Simple Approach for Diagnosing Instabilities in Predictive Regressions pp. 851-874

Jean-Yves Pitarakis

Direct Estimation of Equivalence Scales and More Evidence on Independence of Base pp. 875-905

Martin Biewen and Andos Juhasz

Volume 79, month 08, 2017

Ethnic Fractionalization, Governance and Loan Defaults in Africa pp. 435-462

Svetlana Andrianova, Badi Baltagi, Panicos Demetriades and David Fielding

On Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models pp. 463-494

Maurice J.G. Bun, Martin Carree and Artūras Juodis

Quantile Aggregation of Density Forecasts pp. 495-512

Fabio Busetti

Measuring Business Cycles Intra-Synchronization in US: A Regime-switching Interdependence Framework pp. 513-545

Danilo Leiva-Leon

The Macroeconomic Effects of Shocks to Large Banks’ Capital pp. 546-569

Jean-Stéphane Mésonnier and Dalibor Stevanovic

Finance Sector Wage Growth and the Role of Human Capital pp. 570-591

Joanne Lindley and Steven McIntosh

Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth pp. 592-618

Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel and Cecilia Jona-Lasinio

Volume 79, month 06, 2017

Size Matters: The Effect of the Size of Ethnic Groups on Development pp. 291-318

Arcangelo Dimico

Determinants of Relative Sectoral Prices: The Role of Demographic Change pp. 319-347

Max Groneck and Christoph Kaufmann

Impact of Changes in Consumer Preferences on Sectoral Labour Reallocation: Evidence from the Italian Economy pp. 348-365

William Addessi, Manuela Pulina and Federico Sallusti

A Factor Analytical Approach to Price Discovery pp. 366-394

Joakim Westerlund, Simon Reese and Paresh Narayan

Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Policy: New Evidence from a World Panel of Countries pp. 395-410

Nicholas Apergis

A Cautionary Tale About Control Variables in IV Estimation pp. 411-425

Eva Deuchert and Martin Huber

Identification Based on Difference-in-Differences Approaches with Multiple Treatments pp. 426-433

Hans Fricke

Volume 79, month 04, 2017

Partial Structural Break Identification pp. 145-164

Chulwoo Han and Abderrahim Taamouti

Pricing in the Norwegian Interbank Market – the Effects of Liquidity and Implicit Government Support pp. 165-204

Qaisar Akram and Casper Christophersen

Information Frictions in Uncertain Regulatory Environments: Evidence from U.S. Commercial Banks pp. 205-233

Kristin Wilson and Stan Veuger

Consumer Search Ability, Price Dispersion and the Digital Divide pp. 234-250

Stephen McDonald and Colin Wren

Labour Costs and the Size of Government pp. 251-275

François Facchini, Mickael Melki and Andrew Pickering

A Note on US Worker Turnover pp. 276-289

Sekyu Choi and Javier Fernández-Blanco

Volume 79, month 02, 2017

System-Equation ADL Test for Threshold Cointegration with an Application to the Term Structure of Interest Rates pp. 1-24

Jing Li

Do Neighbours Influence Value-Added-Tax Introduction? A Spatial Duration Analysis pp. 25-54

Pavel Cizek, Jinghua Lei and Jenny Ligthart

The Wage Inflation-Unemployment Curve at the Macroeconomic Level pp. 55-78

Antonia López-Villavicencio and Sophie Saglio

Moving Towards Estimating Sons' Lifetime Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the UK pp. 79-100

Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan and Claudia Vittori

Mismatch and the Forecasting Performance of Matching Functions pp. 101-123

Christian Hutter and Enzo Weber

The Effect of Oil Prices on Field Production: Evidence from the Norwegian Continental Shelf pp. 124-144

Johannes Mauritzen

Volume 78, month 12, 2016

Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Health Information on Preventive Behaviour in Europe pp. 765-791

Vincenzo Carrieri and Ansgar Wuebker

Household Shocks and Education Investments in Madagascar pp. 792-813

Peter J. Glick, David Sahn and Thomas F. Walker

Global Engagement and Returns Volatility pp. 814-833

Sourafel Girma, Sandra Lancheros and Alejandro Riaño

European Integration and the Feldstein–Horioka Puzzle pp. 834-852

Margarita Katsimi and Gylfi Zoega

Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment pp. 853-876

Ronald Bachmann and Mathias Sinning

Decomposing Beveridge Curve Dynamics By Correlated Unobserved Components pp. 877-894

Sabine Klinger and Enzo Weber

The Credibility of Hong Kong's Currency Board System: Looking Through the Prism of MS-VAR Models with Time-Varying Transition Probabilities pp. 895-914

Boris Blagov and Michael Funke

A Note on the Regularized Approach to Biased 2SLS Estimation with Weak Instruments pp. 915-924

Namhyun Kim and Winfried Pohlmeier

Volume 78, month 10, 2016

A Method for Working with Sign Restrictions in Structural Equation Modelling pp. 605-622

Sam Ouliaris and Adrian Pagan

Misspecification and Expectations Correction in New Keynesian DSGE Models pp. 623-649

Giovanni Angelini and Luca Fanelli

Do Good Institutions Promote Countercyclical Macroeconomic Policies? pp. 650-670

Cesar Calderon, Roberto Duncan and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Oil Price Volatility pp. 671-693

Ine Van Robays

Global and Country-Specific Output Growth Uncertainty and Macroeconomic Performance pp. 694-716

Tino Berger, Sibylle Grabert and Bernd Kempa

Social Capital and Economic Growth in Europe: Nonlinear Trends and Heterogeneous Regional Effects pp. 717-751

Jesús Peiró-Palomino

An IV Test for a Unit Root in Generally Trending and Correlated Panels pp. 752-764

Joakim Westerlund

Volume 78, month 08, 2016

Envy and Habits: Panel Data Estimates of Interdependent Preferences pp. 443-469

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Jose Casado and Jose Labeaga

Is There Catch-Up Growth? Evidence from Three Continents pp. 470-500

Sudhanshu Handa and Amber Peterman

Productivity Spillovers Across Countries and Industries: New Evidence From OECD Countries pp. 501-521

Harald Badinger and Peter Egger

Does the Composition of Government Expenditure Matter for Long-Run GDP Levels? pp. 522-547

Norman Gemmell, Richard Kneller and Ismael Sanz

Peer Effects: Evidence from Secondary School Transition in England pp. 548-575

Stephen Gibbons and Shqiponja Telhaj

To What Extent Does the Interest Burden Affect Firm Survival? Evidence from a Panel of UK Firms during the Recent Financial Crisis pp. 576-594

Alessandra Guariglia, Marina-Eliza Spaliara and Serafeim Tsoukas

Generalized Forecast Error Variance Decomposition for Linear and Nonlinear Multivariate Models pp. 595-603

Markku Lanne and Henri Nyberg

Volume 78, month 06, 2016

Accounting for Changes in Income Inequality: Decomposition Analyses for the UK, 1978–2008 pp. 289-322

Mike Brewer and Liam Wren-Lewis

Graduates, Dropouts and Slow Finishers: The Effects of Credit Constraints on University Outcomes pp. 323-346

Buly Cardak and Joe Vecci

Modified CADF and CIPS Panel Unit Root Statistics with Standard Chi-squared and Normal Limiting Distributions pp. 347-364

Joakim Westerlund and Mehdi Hosseinkouchack

A Simple Panel Unit-Root Test with Smooth Breaks in the Presence of a Multifactor Error Structure pp. 365-393

Chingnun Lee, Jyh-Lin Wu and Lixiong Yang

Tests for Multiple Breaks in the Trend with Stationary or Integrated Shocks pp. 394-411

Nuno Sobreira and Luis Nunes

A Note on the Identification of Dynamic Economic Models with Generalized Shock Processes pp. 412-423

Claire A. Reicher

Regression-Kink Approach for Wage Effect on Male Work Hours pp. 424-442

Young-sook Kim and Myoung-jae Lee

Volume 78, month 04, 2016

Durable Purchases over the Later Life Cycle pp. 145-169

Martin Browning, Thomas Crossley and Melanie Lührmann

Institutions and Firms' Productivity: Evidence from Electricity Distribution in the EU pp. 170-196

Elisa Borghi, Chiara Del Bo and Massimo Florio

The Effect of Import Competition on Firm Productivity and Innovation: Does the Distance to Technology Frontier Matter? pp. 197-227

Sai Ding, Puyang Sun and Wei Jiang

On the Production of Cognitive Achievement and Gaps in Test Scores pp. 228-247

Michael Creel and Montserrat Farell

Play Hard, Shirk Hard? The Effect of Bar Hours Regulation on Worker Absence pp. 248-264

Colin Green and María Navarro Paniagua

Testing for Granger Causality in Moments pp. 265-288

Yi-Ting Chen

Volume 78, month 02, 2016

Domestic Violence and Football in Glasgow: Are Reference Points Relevant? pp. 1-21

Alex Dickson, Colin Jennings and Gary Koop

An Analysis of Consumer Response to Corruption: Italy's Calciopoli Scandal pp. 22-41

Babatunde Buraimo, Giuseppe Migali and Robert Simmons

Financial Intermediaries, Credit Shocks and Business Cycles pp. 42-74

Yasin Mimir

Opt Out or Top Up? Voluntary Health Care Insurance and the Public vs. Private Substitution pp. 75-93

Daniele Fabbri and Chiara Monfardini

Simulation Evidence on Theory-based and Statistical Identification under Volatility Breaks pp. 94-112

Helmut Herwartz and Martin Plödt

A Simple Improvement of the IV-estimator for the Classical Errors-in-Variables Problem pp. 113-125

Jonas Andersson and Jarle Møen

Outlier Detection in the Lognormal Logarithmic Conditional Autoregressive Range Model pp. 126-144

Min-Hsien Chiang, Ray Chou and Li-Min Wang