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Volume 137, issue C, 2015

Managerial compensation under privately-observed hedging and earnings management pp. 1-4

Qi Liu and Bo Sun

An evaluation of the inflationary pressure associated with short- and long-term unemployment pp. 5-9

Michael Kiley

A new nonparametric quantile estimate for length-biased data with competing risks pp. 10-12

Feipeng Zhang and Zhong Tan

Ramadan fasting, sex-ratio at birth, and birth weight: No effects on Muslim infants born in Germany pp. 13-16

Hendrik Jürges

A generalization of Yaari’s result on annuitization with optimal retirement pp. 17-20

Seyoung Park

Delay of gratification and the role of defaults—An experiment with kindergarten children pp. 21-24

Matthias Sutter, Levent Yilmaz and Manuela Oberauer

Where do social preferences come from? pp. 25-28

Chaning Jang and John Lynham

A simple and focused backtest of value at risk pp. 29-31

Walter Krämer and Dominik Wied

Centralized vs decentralized contests pp. 32-35

Carmen Bevia and Luis Corchon

Set identification of panel data models with interactive effects via quantile restrictions pp. 36-40

Liang Chen

Pay-what-you-want because I do not know how much to charge you pp. 41-44

José F. Tudón M.

Eliciting beliefs in beauty contest experiments pp. 45-49

Yaron Lahav

Allocating value among farsighted players in network formation pp. 50-53

Nicolas Carayol, Rémy Delille and Vincent Vannetelbosch

Do girl peers improve your academic performance? pp. 54-58

Feng Hu

Axiomatic theories of utilitarianism and weak utilitarianism pp. 59-61

Osamu Mori

Consistent method of moments estimation of the true fixed effects model pp. 62-69

Daniel Wikström

When is it justifiable to ignore explanatory variable endogeneity in a regression model? pp. 70-74

Richard A. Ashley and Christopher Parmeter

Bounding average treatment effects: A linear programming approach pp. 75-77

Thomas Demuynck

Product market competition and the value of innovation: Evidence from US patent data pp. 78-82

Hyun Joong Im, Young Joon Park and Janghoon Shon

Gender differentiation in risk-taking behavior: On the relative risk aversion of single men and single women pp. 83-87

Oded Stark and Ewa Zawojska

On testing the scale sensitivity of poverty measures pp. 88-90

Martin Ravallion

On quasi maximum-likelihood estimation of dynamic panel data models pp. 91-94

Robert Phillips

Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups pp. 95-101

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

Lower bounds on inequality of opportunity and measurement error pp. 102-105

Carlos Balcazar

Choosing “Flawed” aggregation rules: The benefit of social choice violations in a league that values competitive balance pp. 106-108

James Boudreau and Shane Sanders

On the explanation of the Lucas Paradox pp. 109-113

Mehmet Göktan

Product line strategy within a vertically differentiated duopoly pp. 114-117

Ryoma Kitamura and Tetsuya Shinkai

How does women’s life satisfaction respond to retirement? A two-stage analysis pp. 118-122

Rong Zhu and Xiaobo He

Difference-in-differences techniques for spatial data: Local autocorrelation and spatial interaction pp. 123-126

Michael S. Delgado and Raymond Florax

A note on the continuity of the optimal auction pp. 127-130

Paulo Monteiro

Does the desire to remit foster integration? Evidence from migrants in Spain pp. 131-134

Chiara Falco and Kristin Göbel

Does competition spur innovation? The case of yardstick competition pp. 135-139

Yassine Lefouili

Gender, stock market participation and financial literacy pp. 140-142

Johan Almenberg and Anna Dreber

Information/communication technology and natural disaster vulnerability pp. 143-145

Hideki Toya and Mark Skidmore

Non-monotonic network effects and market entry pp. 146-149

Alexander Lundberg

Insurance, race/ethnicity, and sex in the search for a new physician pp. 150-153

Rajiv Sharma, Arnab Mitra and Miron Stano

Economic conditions at school-leaving and self-employment pp. 154-156

Keshar Ghimire and Johanna Maclean

The multivariate Beveridge–Nelson decomposition with I(1) and I(2) series pp. 157-162

Yasutomo Murasawa

Patience and long-run growth pp. 163-167

Malte Hübner and Gonzague Vannoorenberghe

The role of gender composition and size of the group in a minimum effort game pp. 168-170

Amalia Di Girolamo and Michalis Drouvelis

Privacy tradeoffs in smartphone applications pp. 171-175

Scott J. Savage and Donald Waldman

Polluting politics pp. 176-181

Louis-Philippe Beland and Vincent Boucher

Does market structure affect labour productivity and wages? Evidence from a smooth coefficient semiparametric panel model pp. 182-186

Michael Polemis and Thanasis Stengos

A simple identification strategy for Gary Becker’s time allocation model pp. 187-190

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

The distribution and regulation of Tobin’s q pp. 191-194

Ellis Scharfenaker and Paulo L. dos Santos

Carrot and stick?: Impact of a low-stakes school accountability program on student achievement pp. 195-199

Seokjin Woo, Soohyung Lee and Kyunghee Kim

Does a high minimum wage spur low-skilled emigration? pp. 200-202

Darius Martin and Ali Termos

On efforts in teams with stereotypes pp. 203-207

Shiva Sikdar

The degree of distortions under second-degree price discrimination pp. 208-213

Yong Chao and Babu Nahata

Balanced-budget consumption taxes and aggregate stability in a small open economy pp. 214-217

Qinglai Meng and Jianpo Xue

Home-ownership, unemployed’s job search behavior and post-unemployment outcomes pp. 218-221

Marco Caliendo, Anne Gielen and Robert Mahlstedt

Time-to-build and the capital structure pp. 222-225

Mauro Bambi

The gender difference in the value of winning pp. 226-229

Chen, Zhuoqiong (Charlie), David Ong and Roman M. Sheremeta

Higher education funding: The value of information pp. 230-233

Limor Hatsor