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Volume 172, issue C, 2018

Are foreign private equity buyouts bad for workers? pp. 1-4

Martin Olsson and Joacim Tåg

Taylor effect in Bitcoin time series pp. 5-7

Tetsuya Takaishi and Takanori Adachi

Kernel-based testing with skewed and heavy-tailed data: Evidence from a nonparametric test for heteroskedasticity pp. 8-11

Daniel Henderson and Alice Sheehan

Predetermined interest rates in an analytical RBC model pp. 12-15

Patrick Fève, Alban Moura and Olivier Pierrard

EU services liberalization and TFP growth: Industry level evidence pp. 16-18

Sotiris Papaioannou

Axiomatic characterisations of the basic best–worst rule pp. 19-22

Takashi Kurihara

Bitcoin Futures—What use are they? pp. 23-27

Shaen Corbet, Brian Lucey, Maurice Peat and Samuel Vigne

Effect of reimbursement on all-pay auction pp. 28-30

Yizhaq Minchuk

Radner’s cost–benefit analysis in the small: A correction and new equivalences pp. 31-33

Edward E. Schlee

Tullock contests reward information advantages pp. 34-36

Avishay Aiche, Ezra Einy, Ori Haimanko, Diego Moreno, Aner Sela and Benyamin Shitovitz

Changes in dividend smoothing after the financial crisis pp. 37-39

KyungJae Rhee and Kyung Suh Park

Inferring scope economies from the input distance function pp. 40-42

Rolf Färe and Giannis Karagiannis

Expected investment and the cross-section of stock returns pp. 43-49

Qi Lin and Xi Lin

A semi-parametric panel data analysis on financial development-economic volatility nexus in developing countries pp. 50-55

Haykel Zouaoui, Manel Mazioud and Nidhal Ziedi Ellouz

Comparing inequality and mobility in linear models: Comment pp. 56-58

Christian Di Pietro and Marco Sorge

Oil price shocks and stock return volatility: New evidence based on volatility impulse response analysis pp. 59-62

Sercan Eraslan and Faek Menla Ali

Sectoral inflation and the Phillips curve: What has changed since the Great Recession? pp. 63-68

Maria Luengo-Prado, Nikhil Rao and Viacheslav Sheremirov

kth price auctions and Catalan numbers pp. 69-73

Abdel-Hameed Nawar and Debapriya Sen

The effect of the Internet on economic growth: Counter-evidence from cross-country panel data pp. 74-77

Per Botolf Maurseth

Dividend policy relevance in a levered firm—The binomial case pp. 78-80

Dan Galai and Zvi Wiener

Intertemporal risk-return tradeoff in the short-run pp. 81-84

Joseph M. Marks and Kiseok Nam

Scale heterogeneity in discrete choice experiment: An application of generalized mixed logit model in air travel choice pp. 85-88

Ishrat Hossain, Najam U. Saqib and Munshi Masudul Haq

Factor substitution and convergence speed in the neoclassical model with elastic labor supply pp. 89-92

Manuel Gómez

The reallocative and heterogeneous effects of cap-and-trade pp. 93-96

E Curtis and Jonathan Lee

Liquidity uncertainty and Bitcoin’s market microstructure pp. 97-101

Dimitrios Koutmos

A tale of two risks in the EMU sovereign debt markets pp. 102-106

Erdinc Akyildirim, Duc Khuong Nguyen and Ahmet Sensoy

Can self-assessed risk attitudes predict behavior under risk? Evidence from a field study in China pp. 107-109

Pan He

Survivorship bias and comparability of UK open-ended fund databases pp. 110-114

Bernd Hanke, Aneel Keswani, Garrett Quigley and Maxim Zagonov

A novel approach for testing the parity relationship between CDS and credit spread pp. 115-117

Carolina Castagnetti

Does male education affect fertility? Evidence from Mali pp. 118-122

Raphaël Godefroy and Joshua Lewis

Threshold regression asymptotics: From the compound Poisson process to two-sided Brownian motion pp. 123-126

Ping Yu and Peter Phillips

The regional effects of Germany’s national minimum wage pp. 127-130

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel

The green golden rule: Habit and anticipation of future consumption pp. 131-133

Joao Faria and Peter McAdam

Econometrics with system priors pp. 134-137

Michal Andrle and Miroslav Plašil

High trend inflation and passive monetary detours pp. 138-142

Guido Ascari, Anna Florio and Alessandro Gobbi

The truth about tattoos pp. 143-147

Bradley Ruffle and Anne E. Wilson

Foreign assistance and migration choices: Disentangling the channels pp. 148-151

Mauro Lanati and Rainer Thiele

A note on optimal sectoral policies in production networks pp. 152-156

Jorge Miranda-Pinto

How the U.S. Census Bureau e-commerce figures overestimate output and online sales pp. 157-159

Roger Betancourt

Volume 171, issue C, 2018

Comparing hybrid time-varying parameter VARs pp. 1-5

Joshua Chan and Eric Eisenstat

Sequential contests with first and secondary prizes pp. 6-9

Asaf Iluz and Aner Sela

Financial market activity under capital controls: Lessons from extreme events pp. 10-13

Konstantinos Gkillas (Gillas) and François Longin

Inflation and innovation with a cash-in-advance constraint on human capital accumulation pp. 14-18

Qichun He

The impact of Tether grants on Bitcoin pp. 19-22

Wang Chun Wei

An examination of geographic heterogeneity in price effects of superfund site remediation pp. 23-28

Ralph Mastromonaco and Peter Maniloff

Moment redundancy test with application to efficiency-improving copulas pp. 29-33

Bowen Hao, Artem Prokhorov and Hailong Qian

Variable markups and capital-labor substitution pp. 34-36

Wei Jiang and Miguel Leon-Ledesma

Conditional cooperation: Review and refinement pp. 37-40

Christian Thöni and Stefan Volk

On the endogenous determination of the degree of meritocracy in large cooperatives pp. 41-45

Ramon Torregrosa

Easy bootstrap-like estimation of asymptotic variances pp. 46-50

Bo E. Honoré and Luojia Hu

A simple mechanism for double implementation with semi-socially-responsible agents pp. 51-53

Makoto Hagiwara

Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers pp. 54-57

Frederick S. Ahiabor, Gregory James, Frank O. Kwabi and Mathias M. Siems

A machine learning approach to identifying different types of uncertainty pp. 58-62

Bennett Saltzman and Julieta Yung

On the transmission mechanism of country-specific and international economic uncertainty spillovers: Evidence from a TVP-VAR connectedness decomposition approach pp. 63-71

David Gabauer and Rangan Gupta

The FOMC versus the staff, revisited: When do policymakers add value? pp. 72-75

Carola Binder and Samantha Wetzel

A modification to the WPC model pp. 76-78

Hossein Jahanshahloo and Laima Spokeviciute

Shocks to military support and subsequent assassinations in Ancient Rome pp. 79-82

Cornelius Christian and Liam Elbourne

Does charitable giving crowd out support for government spending? pp. 83-86

Seth H. Werfel

Optimal Ramsey taxation with endogenous risk aversion pp. 87-92

Orhan Erem Ateşağaoğlu and Orhan Torul

Optimal vs naïve diversification in cryptocurrencies pp. 93-96

Emmanouil Platanakis, Charles Sutcliffe and Andrew Urquhart

Quality, price, and time-on-market pp. 97-101

Jordan Martel

Averaging estimators for kernel regressions pp. 102-105

Chu-An Liu

On the computation of detection error probabilities under normality assumptions pp. 106-109

Masakatsu Okubo

Moral hazard with non-additive uncertainty: When are actions implementable? pp. 110-114

Martin Dumav and Urmee Khan

Procuring substitutes with (fine-tuned) first-price auctions pp. 115-118

Leandro Arozamena, Federico Weinschelbaum and Elmar Wolfstetter

Search costs and cost pass-through: Evidence for the Iranian poultry market pp. 119-122

Omid Zamani, Thomas Bittmann and Jens-Peter Loy

The spillover of macroeconomic uncertainty between the U.S. and China pp. 123-127

Zhuo Huang, Chen Tong, Han Qiu and Yan Shen

Is utility maximization compromised by acute intoxication with THC or MDMA? pp. 128-132

Gillinder Bedi and Daniel Burghart

Reminders for voluntary payments might backfire—Evidence from a field study pp. 133-136

Christoph Feldhaus, Tassilo Sobotta and Peter Werner

Empirical estimates of the methane–income elasticity pp. 137-139

Octavio Fernández-Amador, Joseph Francois, Doris Oberdabernig and Patrick Tomberger

How investible is Bitcoin? Analyzing the liquidity and transaction costs of Bitcoin markets pp. 140-143

Anne H. Dyhrberg, Sean Foley and Jiri Svec

A note on the asymptotic properties of least squares estimation in high dimensional constrained factor models pp. 144-148

Jingjie Xiang, Kunpeng Li and Guowei Cui

Generalized empirical likelihood specification test robust to local misspecification pp. 149-153

Haiqi Li, Rui Fan and Sung Y. Park

On bootstrap implementation of likelihood ratio test for a unit root pp. 154-158

Anton Skrobotov

Wage inflation and informal work pp. 159-163

Anat Bracha and Mary Burke

The effects of the Fed’s monetary tightening campaign on nonbank mortgage lending pp. 164-168

Jocelyn D. Evans and Mari L. Robertson

DSGE Models with observation-driven time-varying volatility pp. 169-171

Giovanni Angelini and Paolo Gorgi

Estimation for the spatial autoregressive threshold model pp. 172-175

Ying Deng

Effects of health insurance coverage on household financial portfolio: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act pp. 176-179

Daeyong Lee

Dieselgate and its expected consequences on the European auto ABS market pp. 180-182

Britta Hachenberg, Florian Kiesel and Dirk Schiereck

Quality screening and information disclosure in two-sided markets pp. 183-188

Jin Wang

To sign or not to sign? On the response of prices to financial and uncertainty shocks pp. 189-192

Philipp Meinen and Oke Roehe

The role of visibility on third party punishment actions for the enforcement of social norms pp. 193-197

Kenju Kamei

Reconciling endogenous job destruction with labor market stylized facts: The role of hiring costs pp. 198-201

Jérémy Rastouil

Credit constraints, house prices, and the impact of life cycle dynamics pp. 202-207

Aaron Hedlund

The goal gradient effect and repayments in consumer credit pp. 208-210

Moritz Lukas

Giving, taking, earned money, and cooperation in public good games pp. 211-213

Caleb Cox, Oleg Korenok, Edward Millner and Laura Razzolini

A model of sales with differentiated and homogeneous goods pp. 214-217

Vladimir Petkov

Choices between OLS with robust inference and feasible GLS in time series regressions pp. 218-221

Richard T. Baillie and Kun Ho Kim

On lexicographic choice pp. 222-224

Christopher Chambers and M. Bumin Yenmez

Booms, busts and heavy-tails: The story of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets? pp. 225-229

John Fry

Bi- and Unilateral trade effects of joining the Euro pp. 230-234

Mario Larch, Joschka Wanner and Yoto Yotov

Risk management-driven policy rate gap pp. 235-238

Giovanni Caggiano, Efrem Castelnuovo and Gabriela Nodari

Accounting for non-response bias using participation incentives and survey design: An application using gift vouchers pp. 239-244

Mark McGovern, David Canning and Till Bärnighausen

Accounting for persistence in panel count data models. An application to the number of patents awarded pp. 245-248

Stefanos Dimitrakopoulos