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Volume 127, issue C, 2015

Incorporating prior information when true priors are unknown: An Information-Theoretic approach for increasing efficiency in estimation pp. 1-5

Heath Henderson, Amos Golan and Skipper Seabold

Are US inflation expectations re-anchored? pp. 6-9

Dieter Nautz and Till Strohsal

A low dimensional Kalman filter for systems with lagged states in the measurement equation pp. 10-13

Kristoffer Nimark

Existence of free entry equilibrium in aggregative games with asymmetric agents pp. 14-16

Yasunori Okumura

Is income inequality persistent? Evidence using panel stationarity tests, 1870–2011 pp. 17-19

Md. Islam and Jakob Madsen

A simple model of endogenous growth with financial frictions and firm heterogeneity pp. 20-23

Kazuo Mino

How non-traded goods may generate quasi-quadratic costs for capital adjustment pp. 24-26

Kerk L. Phillips

One-leader and multiple-follower Stackelberg games with private information pp. 27-30

Tomoya Nakamura

Analyzing business cycle asymmetries in a multi-level factor model pp. 31-34

Jörg Breitung and Sandra Eickmeier

The merger-paradox: A tournament-based solution pp. 35-38

Cuihong Fan and Elmar Wolfstetter

Commodity price changes and the predictability of economic policy uncertainty pp. 39-42

Yudong Wang, Bing Zhang, Xundi Diao and Chongfeng Wu

On self selection of the corrupt into the public sector pp. 43-46

Ritwik Banerjee, Tushi Baul and Tanya Rosenblat

An LM test based on generalized residuals for random effects in a nonlinear model pp. 47-50

William Greene and Colin McKenzie

The misuse of the Vuong test for non-nested models to test for zero-inflation pp. 51-53

Paul Wilson

Semiparametric estimation of default probability: Evidence from the Prosper online credit market pp. 54-57

Xiaofeng Li, Ying Shang and Zhi Su

Liquidity matters after all: Asymmetric news and stock market volatility before and after the global financial crisis pp. 58-60

Athanasios Koulakiotis, Vassilios Babalos and Nicholas Papasyriopoulos

Inequality-averse principal, exogenous budget, and second-best public-goods provision pp. 61-63

Pierre Boyer

Another look at tax policy and state economic growth: The long-run and short-run of it pp. 64-67

Bebonchu Atems

Eliciting subjective probability distributions with binary lotteries pp. 68-71

Glenn Harrison, Jimmy Martínez-Correa, J. Todd Swarthout and Eric Ulm

Are volatility spillovers between currency and equity market driven by economic states? Evidence from the US economy pp. 72-75

Klaus Grobys

A detailed decomposition of synthetic cohort analysis pp. 76-80

Tavis Barr and Carl Lin

The macro-financial implications of house price-indexed mortgage contracts pp. 81-85

Isaiah Hull

The effect of the production tax credit on wind energy production in deregulated electricity markets pp. 86-88

Travis Roach

The true limit distributions of the Anderson–Hsiao IV estimators in panel autoregression pp. 89-92

Peter Phillips and Chirok Han

Multiplicity of monetary steady states pp. 93-96

Ryoji Hiraguchi and Keiichiro Kobayashi

Volume 126, issue C, 2015

Killing the (coordination) moment: How ambiguity eliminates the restart effect in voluntary contribution mechanism experiments pp. 1-5

Douglas A. Norton

The retention effects of high years of service cliff-vesting pension plans pp. 6-9

Jesse Cunha, Amilcar A. Menichini and Adam Crockett

On relationships between substitutes conditions pp. 10-12

Mustafa Afacan and Bertan Turhan

Restoring monotonic power in Wald/LM-type tests pp. 13-17

Jilin Wu

Time varying price discovery pp. 18-21

Davide Avino, Emese Lazar and Simone Varotto

The reservation wage curve: Evidence from the UK pp. 22-24

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument pp. 25-27

John Winters

Informational efficiency of the clandestine and official gold markets in Paris pp. 28-30

Georges Gallais-Hamonno, Thi-Hong-Van Hoang and Kim Oosterlinck

Performance pay and unemployment during the great recession pp. 31-34

Daniel Parent

Exports, HIV incidence and the Baltic Dry Index: Further evidence from sub-Saharan Africa pp. 35-39

Faqin Lin and Nicholas C.S. Sim

Log versus level in VAR forecasting: 42 million empirical answers—Expect the unexpected pp. 40-42

Johannes Mayr and Dirk Ulbricht

Residual-based test for fractional cointegration pp. 43-46

Bin Wang, Man Wang and Ngai Hang Chan

A note on the Tobit model in the presence of a duration variable pp. 47-50

Christian M. Hafner and Arie Preminger

Evaluating simulation-based approaches and multivariate quadrature on sparse grids in estimating multivariate binary probit models pp. 51-56

Kibrom Abay

Further evidence on the link between pre-colonial political centralization and comparative economic development in Africa pp. 57-62

Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou

Decomposing the effects of negative framing in linear public goods games pp. 63-65

Caleb Cox

A short proof for the characterization of the core in housing markets pp. 66-67

Hidekazu Anno

Tractable valuations under uncertainty pp. 68-70

József Sákovics

Common agency with caring agents pp. 71-74

Ilias Boultzis

Evidence that waste aversion begets insurance aversion pp. 75-77

David de Meza and Liza C. Fessner Diane Reyniers

Power laws, CEO compensation and inequality pp. 78-80

Calvin Blackwell, Rachel Graefe-Anderson, Frank Hefner and Dyanne Vaught

A continuous logit hotelling model with endogenous locations of consumers pp. 81-83

Matthias Wrede

Should lotteries offer discounts on multiple tickets? pp. 84-86

Damian Damianov

Railroad discounting pp. 87-90

Larry Karp

Atkinson and Stiglitz theorem in the presence of a household production sector pp. 91-95

Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari

Co-movements in commodity prices: Global, sectoral and commodity-specific factors pp. 96-100

Libo Yin and Liyan Han

Nonparametric estimation of utility function in first-price sealed-bid auctions pp. 101-106

Dong-Hyuk Kim

The impact of maternal depression on children’s cognitive development: An analysis based on panel quantile regressions pp. 107-109

Linyue Yu and Virginia Wilcox

The countervailing power hypothesis in the dominant firm-competitive fringe model pp. 110-113

Charalambos Christou and Konstantinos Papadopoulos

Asymmetric over- and undershooting of major exchange rates: Evidence from quantile regressions pp. 114-118

Konstantin Kuck, Robert Maderitsch and Karsten Schweikert

Does displaying probabilities affect bidding in first-price auctions? pp. 119-121

Anmol Ratan

On GMM estimation of distributions from grouped data pp. 122-126

William Griffiths and Gholamreza Hajargasht

What explains the survival gap of pushed and pulled corporate spin-offs? pp. 127-130

Vera Rocha, Anabela Carneiro and Celeste Varum

Hyperbolic discounting and endogenous growth pp. 131-134

Holger Strulik

Transition choice probabilities in logit pp. 135-139

Paolo Delle Site and Marco Valerio Salucci

Variance change-point detection in panel data models pp. 140-143

Fuxiao Li, Zheng Tian, Yanting Xiao and Zhanshou Chen

A note on stochastic public revelation and voluntary contributions to public goods pp. 144-146

John M. Spraggon, Lucía Andrea Vergara Sobarzo and John K. Stranlund

Bias in estimating border- and distance-related trade costs: Insights from an oligopoly model pp. 147-149

A. Kerem Coşar, Paul L.E. Grieco and Felix Tintelnot

Market structure and the competitive effects of switching costs pp. 150-155

Natalia Fabra and Alfredo García

The Balassa–Samuelson effect and pricing-to-market: The role of strategic complementarity pp. 156-158

Eddy Bekkers and Ina Simonovska

Bilateral trade and similarity of income distributions: The role of second moments pp. 159-162

Peter Eppinger and Gabriel Felbermayr

Market access and welfare: Is there a conflict? pp. 163-166

Pascalis Raimondos and Alan Woodland

Information disclosure to Cournot duopolists pp. 167-170

Kfir Eliaz and Francoise Forges

Tax evasion and uncertainty in a dynamic context pp. 171-175

Michele Bernasconi, Rosella Levaggi and Francesco Menoncin

Limit theory for an explosive autoregressive process pp. 176-180

Xiaohu Wang and Jun Yu

Raising rivals’ cost through buyer power pp. 181-184

Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Justus Haucap and Christian Wey