Economics Letters

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Volume 224, issue C, 2023

Electronic trading and stock market participation in Africa: Does technology induce participation?

Gbenga Adamolekun, Rilwan Sakariyahu, Rodiat Lawal and Ammar Ahmed

One for the money, two for the show? The number of designated market makers and liquidity

Erik Theissen and Christian Westheide

Mindfulness reduces information avoidance

Elliott Ash, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell and Shi Zhuo

Genericity of the completeness condition with constrained instruments

Isaac Loh

The role of political connections in bad times: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

Hengxu Liu and Wenxi Zhao

Repeated data breaches and firm value

Jin Peng, Haofei Zhang, Juan Mao and Shouhuai Xu

Climate risk and deployment of corporate resources to working capital

Muhammad Farooq Ahmad, Nihat Aktas and Ettore Croci

The guiding effect of economic stimulus plan on corporate investment behavior in heterogeneous institutional environment

Yan Yang, Yuqian Wang and Chengzan Qi

A mixed placebo test for synthetic control method

Qiang Chen and Guanpeng Yan

The role of incentive structure in eliciting willingness to donate

Carolyn Chisadza, Nicky Nicholls and Eleni Yitbarek

Stackelberg leadership and managerial delegation under hyperbolic demand

Flavio Delbono and Luca Lambertini

Psychological pressure and performance in competitive environments: The first-hole effect in youth golf

Minbo Xu and Oliver Wang

The optimal allocation of Covid-19 vaccines

Ana Babus, Sanmay Das and SangMok Lee

Optimal capital structure and credit spreads under pandemic shocks

Yanming Yao and Pengfei Luo

Oil price uncertainty and carbon management system quality

Abdullah Bugshan and Jibriel Elsayih

Climate change-related risks and bank stock returns

Whelsy Boungou and Christian Urom

Incentivizing research with (un)conditional teaching duties: Punishment or rent extraction?

Patrick Schmitz

Valuation when disaster risks increase at an increasing rate

Ravi Joshi, Rajesh P. Narayanan and R. Kelley Pace

The impact of temperature on calorie intake and consumption inequality

Jialiang Zhu and Ying Fang

Intergenerational persistence of health: Evidence from India

Santosh Kumar and Bernard Nahlen

Payout suspensions during the Covid-19 pandemic

Davide Pettenuzzo, Riccardo Sabbatucci and Allan Timmermann

The connectedness between green and conventional bond yields during the COVID-19 crisis: The role of the vaccination process

Nicholas Apergis

Central bank balance sheet, money and inflation

Samuel Reynard

A bootstrap-based efficiency test of growth and inflation forecasts for Germany

Christian Pierdzioch

Extending the characterization of maximum Nash welfare

Sheung Man Yuen and Warut Suksompong

In defense of the Kaldor-Hicks criterion

Toshihiko Mukoyama

Time-varying predictability of the long horizon equity premium based on semiparametric regressions

Deshui Yu, Li Chen and Luyang Li

The role of labor in cash holdings: Evidence from the supply-side impact of COVID-19

Jaewan Bae and Jangkoo Kang

Volume 223, issue C, 2023

Rice culture and the cushion hypothesis: Experimental evidence from incentivized risk taking tasks

Soo Hong Chew, Richard P. Ebstein and Yunfeng Lu

On the income elasticity and regressivity of emission taxation

Tingmingke Lu

Using demand transfer ratios to infer market impacts of new goods

Philip Gayle and Ying Lin

I’m feeling lucky: How randomly drawn suggested donations affect donation choice

Jing Li

The aggregate productivity slowdown: A system approach

Rafael Serrano-Quintero

Scarcity nationalism during COVID-19: Identifying the impact on trade costs

Peter Egger, Gerard Masllorens, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta

Does brick size matter? Albert G. Keller on another QWERTY story

Luca Fiorito and Massimiliano Vatiero

Gini decomposition: An inequality of opportunity perspective

Sandip Sarkar

Behavioral responses to wealth taxes: Evidence from the Spanish Survey of Household Finances

Edison Jakurti and Bernd Süssmuth

Size-dependent minimum-effort games and constrained interactions

Zhiwei Cui, Ge Jiang and Fei Shi

Modified harmonic mean method for spatial autoregressive models

Osman Doğan

Education choices and job market characteristics

Qianshuo Liu and Ines Macho-Stadler

Computation of spatial equilibria in the Ottaviano–Tabuchi–Thisse model

Wei Ma, Ruthira Naraidoo and Francesco Perugini

Efficiency and strategy-proofness in multi-unit object allocation problems with non-quasi-linear preferences: A positive result

Hiroki Shinozaki

Revisiting vulnerable growth in the Euro Area: Identifying the role of financial conditions in the distribution

Tibor Szendrei and Katalin Varga

Same race teachers do not necessarily raise academic achievement

Jeffrey Penney

Exploring the trade-off between leaning against credit and stabilizing economic activity

Luca Benati

Monetary policy rules and opinionated markets

Pengfei Jia, Haopeng Shen and Shikun Zheng

Local information hinders coordination in endogenous networks

Feifei Lu

Volume 222, issue C, 2023

The quality of imported intermediate inputs and firms’ innovation activities in China

Jianjun Zhong

Inflation and uncertainty in New Keynesian models: A note

Gabor Pinter

Bank and non-bank balance sheet responses to monetary policy shocks

Fédéric Holm-Hadulla, Falk Mazelis and Sebastian Rast

Vertical integration under optimal taxation: A consumer surplus detrimental result

Michele Giuranno, Marcella Scrimitore and Giorgos Stamatopoulos

Climate policy in the shadow of national security

Peter K. Kruse-Andersen

Quality sorting, Alchian–Allen effect, and distance

Kazutaka Takechi

The Holt–Winters filter and the one-sided HP filter: A close correspondence

Rodrigo Alfaro and Mathias Drehmann

Gender differences in lying: The role of stakes

Haukur Freyr Gylfason, Vaka Vésteinsdóttir, Kari Kristinsson, Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir and Arthur Schram

Sex ratios and marital matching outcomes in the Chinese marriage market

Yuxin Yao, Min Zhang and Yixian Li

A field experiment on attracting crowdfunders

Lars Hornuf and Christoph Siemroth

The effect of 1987 Ireland’s Programme for National Recovery on sustainable economic growth: A synthetic control approach

Daniel de Abreu Pereira Uhr, Magnus Kelly de Oliveira Pinheiro, Domingos Joaquim Francisco, Mauricio Felipe Bemfica de Oliveira and Júlia Gallego Ziero Uhr

Inflation target credibility in times of high inflation

Winnie Coleman and Dieter Nautz

Promises or agreements? Moral commitments in bilateral communication

Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Martin Dufwenberg, Stefano Papa and Francesco Passarelli

Equilibrium (non-)existence in games with competing principals

Andrea Attar, Eloisa Campioni and Gwenaël Piaser

When the Celtic Tiger relaxed its corporate tax bite: An analysis of effects on top and upper middle income shares in Ireland

Niklas Uliczka

Do floods scare off residents?

Michael Berlemann, Joel Methorst and Marcel Thum

Do investors like political connections?

Marika Carboni, Franco Fiordelisi and Irwan Trinugroho

Stimulus payments and private transfers

Thomas Crossley, Paul Fisher, Peter Levell and Hamish Low

Therapeutic reference pricing and drug innovation incentives

Odd Rune Straume

Natural disasters and preferences for the environment: Evidence from the impressionable years

Chiara Falco and Raphael Corbi

Vertical differentiation with overlapping ownership

Youping Li, Jianhu Zhang and Zipeng Zhou

Your next bank is not necessarily a bank: FinTech expansion and bank branch closures

Kaibin Yuan, Wanli Li and Weijun Zhang

Crypto market responses to digital asset policies

Alexander Copestake, Davide Furceri and Pablo Gonzalez-Dominguez

Student debt forgiveness, residential energy credits, and equity

V. Kerry Smith

Ethnic diversity and economic development with spatial segregation

Naveen Bharathi, Deepak Malghan and Andaleeb Rahman

Holiday gift giving in retreat

Joel Waldfogel

When is weak Pareto equivalent to strong Pareto?

Susumu Cato

Fortune and identity

Gary Charness and Xin Jiang

Tree solutions and standardness for cycle-free graph games

Daniel Li Li and Erfang Shan

A characterization of maximum Nash welfare for indivisible goods

Warut Suksompong

The entry of online retailers and productivity dynamics in the retail trade sector

Hyunabe Chun and Donghan Shin

Growth with automation capital and declining population

Hiroaki Sasaki

Peer correlations in income: Evidence from a Guanxi network in rural China

Hang Fang, Qianheng Chen, Michael S. Delgado and Qinying He

Mitigating firm-level political risk in China: The role of multiple large shareholders

Liang Wang

Responsive democracy and commercial media

Saptarshi P. Ghosh, Nidhi Jain, Cesar Martinelli and Jaideep Roy

What is that noise? Analysing sentiment-based variation in central bank communication

Bernd Hayo and Johannes Zahner

The impact of the Covid-19 job retention support on employment

Jaanika Meriküll and Alari Paulus

Testing for state dependence in the fixed-effects ordered logit model

Francesco Bartolucci, Claudia Pigini and Francesco Valentini

The value of firm flexibility under extreme positive demand shocks: COVID-19 and toilet paper panic purchases

Maximilian Koppenberg, Ashok K. Mishra, Tobias Dalhaus and Stefan Hirsch

R&D and subsidy policy with imperfect project classification

Thomas Gehrig and Rune Stenbacka

Asymmetric volatility impulse response functions

Christian M. Hafner and Helmut Herwartz