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Volume 146, issue C, 2016

The opportunity costs of entrepreneurs in international trade pp. 1-3

Timothy Kehoe, Pau Pujolas and Kim Ruhl

Endowment inequality in public goods games: A re-examination pp. 4-7

Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, Abhijit Ramalingam and Brock V. Stoddard

Equivalence of efficiency notions for ordinal assignment problems pp. 8-12

Wonki Cho and Battal Dogan

Competition and consumer choice in option demand markets pp. 13-16

Gilad Sorek

Determinants of transition in artificially discrete Markov chains using microdata pp. 17-20

Achilleas Vassilopoulos and Stathis Klonaris

Deposit contract design with relatively partially honest agents pp. 21-23

Yoshihiro Ohashi

Red tape reduction and firm entry: New evidence from an Italian reform pp. 24-27

Monica Amici, Silvia Giacomelli, Francesco Manaresi and Marco Tonello

Support notions for belief functions pp. 28-32

Adam Dominiak and Jürgen Eichberger

The Balassa–Samuelson hypothesis in the developed and developing countries revisited pp. 33-38

Weiguo Wang, Jing Xue and Chonghua Du

Characterizing plurality rule on a fixed population pp. 39-41

Jerry S. Kelly and Shaofang Qi

Double take: The effect of sibling sex composition on women’s schooling, earnings, and labor supply pp. 42-46

Moiz Bhai

Interlocking relationships and quantity rationing pp. 47-49

Simen Ulsaker

Robust inference for the Two-Sample 2SLS estimator pp. 50-54

David Pacini and Frank Windmeijer

Gains from variety? Product differentiation and the possibility of losses from trade under Cournot oligopoly with free entry pp. 55-58

David Collie

Inflation expectations, disagreement, and monetary policy pp. 59-63

Mathias Hoffmann and Patrick Hürtgen

Structural change test in duration of bull and bear markets pp. 64-67

João Nicolau

On the IENBR-solvability of two-person finite games pp. 68-70

Takuya Iimura

Can we predict dividend cuts? pp. 71-76

Enrico Onali

A note on the Cogley–Nason–Sims approach pp. 77-81

Syed M. Hussain and Lin Liu

Estimation of time-varying average treatment effects using panel data when unobserved fixed effects affect potential outcomes differently pp. 82-84

Shosei Sakaguchi

Matching with contracts, substitutes and two-unit demand pp. 85-88

Benjamin Tello

A unit root test against globally stationary ESTAR models when local condition is non-stationary pp. 89-94

Junjuan Hu and Zhenlong Chen

Immigrant volunteering: A way out of labour market discrimination? pp. 95-98

Stijn Baert and Sunčica Vujić

Down and out in Italian towns: Measuring the impact of economic downturns on crime pp. 99-102

Guido de Blasio, Giuseppe Maggio and Carlo Menon

On the existence of efficient and fair extensions of communication values for connected graphs pp. 103-106

Sylvain Béal, André Casajus and Frank Huettner

Considering all microstructure effects: The extension of a trade indicator model pp. 107-110

Doojin Ryu

A World Trade Leading Index (WTLI) pp. 111-115

Karim Barhoumi, Olivier Darné and Laurent Ferrara

Innovation and immigration — Insights from a placement policy pp. 116-119

Vera Jahn and Max Steinhardt

Legitimacy of mechanisms for public good provision pp. 120-122

Pierre Boyer, Yukio Koriyama and Elisabeth Schulte

Breaking the rules: Anticipation of norm violation in a binary-choice trust game pp. 123-125

Wolfgang Breuer, Christiane Helduser and Philipp Schade

Ambiguity attitudes in decisions for others pp. 126-129

Christian König-Kersting and Stefan Trautmann

Organization and export performance pp. 130-134

Grigorios Spanos

How does renewables competition affect forward contracting in electricity markets? pp. 135-139

Robert Ritz

External habit: Anything goes pp. 140-142

Walt Pohl

Gender differences and stereotypes in financial literacy: Off to an early start pp. 143-146

Anastasia Driva, Melanie Lührmann and Joachim Winter

Growth accounting and endogenous technical change pp. 147-150

Angus Chu and Guido Cozzi

Detecting structural changes under nonstationary volatility pp. 151-154

Jilin Wu

Volume 145, issue C, 2016

Inference on modelling cross-sectional dependence for a varying-coefficient model pp. 1-5

Bin Peng

A symmetric two-player all-pay contest with correlated information pp. 6-10

Zhiyang Liu and Bo Chen

The commitment value of funding pensions pp. 11-14

Jean-Denis Garon

A dynamic model of bank valuation pp. 15-18

Georgios Bertsatos and Plutarchos Sakellaris

Indeterminacy and history dependence of strategically interacting players pp. 19-24

Franz Wirl

Optimal provision of information about consumption choices in the presence of a cognitive constraint pp. 25-28

Alexander E. Saak

Do different time-horizons in volatility have any significance for the emerging markets? pp. 29-32

N. Alper Gormus

The negotiators who knew too much: Transaction costs and incomplete information pp. 33-37

Patrick W. Schmitz

Modeling rating transitions with instantaneous default pp. 38-40

Rafael Weißbach and Fynn Strohecker

Ordinally consistent set-ranking methods for tournaments pp. 41-44

Yves Sprumont

A random shock is not random assignment pp. 45-47

Christoph Engel

Comparing the accuracy of default predictions in the rating industry for different sets of obligors pp. 48-51

Walter Krämer and Simon Neumärker

Is it Brownian or fractional Brownian motion? pp. 52-55

Meiyu Li, Ramazan Gencay and Yi Xue

Can exchange rate pass-through explain the price puzzle? pp. 56-59

Syed Ali and Sajid Anwar

A characterization of Brandenburger–Friedenberg–Keisler’s assumption pp. 60-64

Byung Soo Lee

Examination rules and student effort pp. 65-68

Jochen Michaelis and Benjamin Schwanebeck

Global imbalances in the XIX, XX and the XXI centuries pp. 69-72

Sara Eugeni

The heterogeneous effect of software patents on expected returns: Evidence from India pp. 73-78

Markus Eberhardt, Marcel Fafchamps, Christian Helmers and Manasa Patnam

Modelling the recovery outcomes for defaulted loans: A survival analysis approach pp. 79-82

Jean-Pierre Fenech, Ying Kai Yap and Salwa Shafik

Measuring financial cycles in a model-based analysis: Empirical evidence for the United States and the euro area pp. 83-87

Gabriele Galati, Irma Hindrayanto, Siem Jan Koopman and Marente Vlekke

The impact of a closed formulary on prescribing patterns in the treatment of injured workers pp. 88-91

Marcus Dillender

Two-sided altruism and signaling pp. 92-97

Garance Genicot

Bias-corrected estimation of panel vector autoregressions pp. 98-103

Geert Dhaene and Koen Jochmans

A dynamic analysis of investment in process and product innovation with learning-by-doing pp. 104-108

Shoude Li and Jian Ni

Investment spillovers and the allocation of property rights pp. 109-113

Valeria Gattai and Piergiovanna Natale

Rawls’s maximin rule and Arrow’s impossibility theorem pp. 114-116

Kui Ou-Yang

Gender training and female empowerment: Experimental evidence from Vietnam pp. 117-119

Erwin Bulte, Robert Lensink and Nhung Vu

The power of financial transparency: An event study of country-by-country reporting standards pp. 120-122

Niels Johannesen and Dan Thor Larsen

Instrument selection for estimation of a forward-looking Phillips Curve pp. 123-125

Tiago Berriel, Marcelo Medeiros and Marcelo J. Sena

On the savings wedge in international capital flows pp. 126-129

Jacek Rothert

Gender differences in financial risk taking: The role of financial literacy and risk tolerance pp. 130-135

Christina Bannier and Milena Neubert

The ECB’s asset purchase programme: A model-based evaluation pp. 136-140

Jean-Guillaume Sahuc

The Ramsey model with monopolistic competition and general preferences pp. 141-144

Federico Etro

Sickness absenteeism during a period of job-to-job transition pp. 145-147

Suzanne Heijnen, Wolter Hassink and Janneke Plantenga

Fighting collusion by permitting price discrimination pp. 148-151

Magdalena Helfrich and Fabian Herweg

Precautionary self-insurance-cum-protection pp. 152-156

Kit Pong Wong

Comparing different data descriptors in Indirect Inference tests on DSGE models pp. 157-161

A. Patrick Minford, Michael Wickens and Yongdeng Xu

Tax incentives and borrowing pp. 162-164

Sule Alan, Søren Leth-Petersen and Anders Munk-Nielsen

Protectionism in a liquidity trap pp. 165-167

Wolfgang Lechthaler

On the consistency of random serial dictatorship pp. 168-171

Xiang Han

The impact of terms of trade and macroeconomic regimes on private saving pp. 172-175

Francesco Grigoli, Alexander Herman and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

The impact of oil price shocks on the U.S. stock market: A note on the roles of U.S. and non-U.S. oil production pp. 176-181

Wensheng Kang, Ronald Ratti and Joaquin Vespignani

Constructing minimum-width confidence bands pp. 182-185

Rainer Schüssler and Mark Trede

Models of limited self-control: Comparison and implications for bargaining pp. 186-191

Shih En Lu

When is it really justifiable to ignore explanatory variable endogeneity in a regression model? pp. 192-195

Jan Kiviet

Financial development and productive inefficiency: A robust conditional directional distance function approach pp. 196-201

Sushanta Mallick, Roman Matousek and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Monetary and fiscal policy switching with time-varying volatilities pp. 202-205

Libo Xu and Apostolos Serletis

Trade and labor market dynamics: What do we learn from the data? pp. 206-209

Daniela Nordmeier, Hans-Jörg Schmerer and Enzo Weber

Supply shocks and the divine coincidence pp. 210-213

Bae-Geun Kim

Model averaging with averaging covariance matrix pp. 214-217

Shangwei Zhao, Xinyu Zhang and Yichen Gao

The “Veblen” effect, targeted advertising and consumer welfare pp. 218-220

Lynne Pepall and Joseph Reiff

An equicorrelation Moulton factor in the presence of arbitrary intra-cluster correlation pp. 221-224

Gabriel Montes-Rojas

Multi-purpose binomial model: Fitting all moments to the underlying geometric Brownian motion pp. 225-229

Y.S. Kim, S. Stoyanov, S. Rachev and Frank Fabozzi

On sufficient conditions for the existence of stable matchings with contracts pp. 230-234

Jun Zhang

A randomized tabu search-based approach for perfect stranger matching in economic experiments pp. 235-238

F. Both, M.T.P. Adam, A. Hariharan, V. Dorner, E. Lux and C. Weinhardt

Improving the length of confidence sets for the date of a break in level and trend when the order of integration is unknown pp. 239-245

David I. Harvey and Stephen Leybourne

Job polarization, job tasks and the role of firms pp. 246-251

Fredrik Heyman

Tail relation between return and volume in the US stock market: An analysis based on extreme value theory pp. 252-254

François Longin and Giovanni Pagliardi

A new characterization of the proportional rule for claims problems pp. 255-257

William Thomson

Are financial markets less responsive to monetary policy shocks at the zero lower bound? pp. 258-261

Wenbin Wu

Linear time-varying regression with Copula–DCC–GARCH models for volatility pp. 262-265

Jong-Min Kim and Hojin Jung

Tacit collusion and market concentration under network effects pp. 266-269

Rupayan Pal and Marcella Scrimitore

Optimality of the 51:49 equity structure pp. 270-273

Susheng Wang and Tian Zhu

Product standards and export quality: Micro evidence from China pp. 274-277

Cui Hu and Faqin Lin

Fiscal rules, financial stability and optimal currency areas pp. 278-281

Paul De Grauwe and Pasquale Foresti

Wealth inequality under “keeping up with the Joneses” preferences pp. 282-285

Claudio Campanale

Gender preference and age at arrival among Asian immigrant mothers in the US pp. 286-290

Ben Ost and Eva Dziadula

The Nash bargaining solution in vertical relations with linear input prices pp. 291-294

Hamid Aghadadashli, Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Christian Wey