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Volume 166, issue C, 2018

On the robustness of alternative unemployment measures pp. 1-5

Shuaizhang Feng, Yingyao Hu and Jiandong Sun

Market power and forward prices pp. 6-9

Keith Ruddell, Anthony Downward and Andy Philpott

Bargaining set with endogenous leaders: A convergence result pp. 10-13

Javier Hervés-Estévez and Emma Moreno-García

A consistent measure of hours worked for international productivity comparisons pp. 14-17

Asger Wingender

Mean growth and stochastic stability in endogenous growth models pp. 18-24

Raouf Boucekkine, Patrick Pintus and Benteng Zou

Estimation of a smooth coefficient zero-inefficiency panel stochastic frontier model: A semiparametric approach pp. 25-30

Feng Yao, Taining Wang, Jinjing Tian and Subal Kumbhakar

Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance? pp. 31-34

Vera Angelova, Thomas Giebe and Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel

Liability and reputation in credence goods markets pp. 35-39

Yuk-fai Fong and Ting Liu

What causes the attention of Bitcoin? pp. 40-44

Andrew Urquhart

Social network formation and labor market inequality pp. 45-49

Gergely Horvath and Rui Zhang

Supply function equilibria and nonprofit-maximizing objectives pp. 50-55

Yuta Yasui and Junichi Haraguchi

Duplicative research, mergers and innovation pp. 56-59

Vincenzo Denicolo' and Michele Polo

Two further impossibility results on responsive affirmative action in school choice pp. 60-62

Zhenhua Jiao and Guoqiang Tian

Dynamic connectedness of uncertainty across developed economies: A time-varying approach pp. 63-75

Nikolaos Antonakakis, David Gabauer, Rangan Gupta and Vasilios Plakandaras

Firm-level productivity dispersion and convergence pp. 76-78

Gilbert Cette, Simon Corde and Rémy Lecat

An economic “Kessler Syndrome”: A dynamic model of earth orbit debris pp. 79-82

Nodir Adilov, Peter J. Alexander and Brendan M. Cunningham

Cross-holdings with asymmetric information and technologies pp. 83-85

Longhua Liu, Junshan Lin and Chengzhong Qin

The Prebish–Singer hypothesis in the post-colonial era: Evidence from panel cointegration pp. 86-89

Francesca Di Iorio and Stefano Fachin

A suicidal Kuznets curve? pp. 90-93

Nikolaos Antonakakis and Alan Collins

Volume 165, issue C, 2018

Fair distribution of surplus and efficient extensions of the Myerson value pp. 1-5

Xun-Feng Hu, Deng-Feng Li and Gen-Jiu Xu

Managing intrinsic motivation in a long-run relationship pp. 6-9

Kfir Eliaz and Ran Spiegler

Identification and estimation using heteroscedasticity without instruments: The binary endogenous regressor case pp. 10-12

Arthur Lewbel

Does import competition worsen the gender gap? Evidence from matched employer–employee data pp. 13-16

Jeff Chan

Is microfinance raising village income? The issue of excess entry pp. 17-20

Catherine de Fontenay and Callum Wood

Finite sample performance of a long run variance estimator based on exactly (almost) unbiased autocovariance estimators pp. 21-27

Jingjing Yang and Timothy Vogelsang

Exploring the dynamic relationships between cryptocurrencies and other financial assets pp. 28-34

Shaen Corbet, Andrew Meegan, Charles Larkin, Brian Lucey and Larisa Yarovaya

Credit markets with imperfect information: Risk-aversion versus pessimism pp. 35-38

Jean-Louis Arcand and Stuart McDonald

The dynamic impact of macroeconomic news on long-term inflation expectations pp. 39-43

Michael Hachula and Dieter Nautz

Female directors and CEO power pp. 44-47

Muhammad Usman, Junrui Zhang, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Muhammad Abdul Majid Makki and Nanyan Dong

Dyadic value distance: Determinants and consequences pp. 48-53

Adrian Jaeggi, Stefan Legge and Lukas Schmid

Bayesian local influence analysis: With an application to stochastic frontiers pp. 54-57

Mike Tsionas

Price discovery of cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and beyond pp. 58-61

Alexander Brauneis and Roland Mestel

Quasi-competitiveness in the Cournot model with heterogeneous firms pp. 62-64

Takashi Uchiyama

Accounting for the sources of macroeconomic tail risks pp. 65-69

Enghin Atalay, Thorsten Drautzburg and Zhenting Wang

An alternative model of Metcalfe’s Law for valuing Bitcoin pp. 70-72

Ben Van Vliet

Testing for cointegration in I(1) state space systems via a finite order approximation pp. 73-76

Massimo Franchi

Momentum and crash sensitivity pp. 77-81

Stefan Ruenzi and Florian Weigert

Business regulations and poverty pp. 82-87

Simeon Djankov, Dorina Georgieva and Rita Ramalho

Volume 164, issue C, 2018

On the examination of non-linear relationship between market structure and performance in the US manufacturing industry pp. 1-4

Chaoyi Chen, Michael Polemis and Thanasis Stengos

Gibrat’s law and quantile regressions: An application to firm growth pp. 5-9

Roberta Distante, Ivan Petrella and Emiliano Santoro

State-dependent risk taking and the transmission of monetary policy shocks pp. 10-14

Patrick Fève, Pablo Garcia Sanchez and Jean-Guillaume Sahuc

Optimal search from multiple distributions with infinite horizon pp. 15-18

Jean-Michel Benkert, Igor Letina and Georg Nöldeke

Robust estimation and empirical likelihood inference with exponential squared loss for panel data models pp. 19-23

Shaomin Li, Kangning Wang and Yanyan Ren

On the indifference relation in Bewley preferences pp. 24-26

Georgios Gerasimou

Calculating direct and indirect contributions of players in cooperative games via the multi-linear extension pp. 27-30

André Casajus and Frank Huettner

Threatening to buy: Private equity buyouts and antitrust policy pp. 31-34

Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson and Joacim Tåg

Do private acquirers pay less compared to public acquirers? pp. 35-37

Ding Du and Mason Gerety

The smile curve at the firm level: Where value is added along supply chains pp. 38-42

Armando Rungi and Davide Del Prete

Investigating the effects of medical marijuana laws on educational attainment pp. 43-45

Yajuan Li and Marco A. Palma

Do fiscal spending news shocks generate financial spillovers? pp. 46-49

Kian Ong

Who creates jobs and who creates productivity? Small versus large versus young versus old pp. 50-57

Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson

Height restrictions and housing prices: A difference-in-discontinuity approach pp. 58-61

Raissa N.D. Dantas, Gisleia Duarte, Raul da Mota Silveira Neto and Breno Sampaio

Entropy and the value of information for investors: The prior-free implications pp. 62-64

Ran I. Shorrer

The myth of economic recovery: The case of crises in neighboring countries pp. 65-69

Can Sever

On Mitra’s sufficient condition for topological chaos: Seventeen years later pp. 70-74

Liuchun Deng and M. Khan

Coordination and focality under gain–loss framing: Experimental evidence pp. 75-78

Odile Poulsen and Krista J. Saral

Local influence analysis of stochastic frontier estimation: A case-weights perturbation approach pp. 79-81

Shuaihe Zhuo

Drop out, switch majors, or persist? The contrasting gender gaps pp. 82-85

Carmen Astorne-Figari and Jamin D. Speer

Gender differences in willingness to compete and answering multiple-choice questions—The role of age pp. 86-89

Gerhard Riener and Valentin Wagner

A note on ex-ante stable lotteries pp. 90-93

Jan Christoph Schlegel

Intergenerational assimilation of UK immigrants in the labour market: A minor assumption with enormous implications for inference pp. 94-99

Zovanga L. Kone

International economic policy uncertainty and stock prices revisited: Multiple and Partial wavelet approach pp. 100-108

Debojyoti Das and Surya Bhushan Kumar

An application of extreme value theory to cryptocurrencies pp. 109-111

Konstantinos Gkillas (Gillas) and Paraskevi Katsiampa

Value of corruption in China: Evidence from anti-corruption investigation pp. 112-116

Daniel S. Kim, Yun Li and Domenico Tarzia

A fine collection: The political budget cycle of traffic enforcement pp. 117-120

Emanuele Bracco

Panel data approach vs synthetic control method pp. 121-123

Shui-Ki Wan, Yimeng Xie and Cheng Hsiao

The responses of internet retail prices to aggregate shocks: A high-frequency approach pp. 124-127

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Viacheslav Sheremirov and Oleksandr Talavera