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Volume 124, issue 3, 2014

Risk attitudes and the stag-hunt game pp. 323-325

Muruvvet Buyukboyaci

A new perspective on the issue of selection bias in randomized controlled field experiments pp. 326-328

Michèle Belot and Jonathan James

Recursive preferences, learning and large deviations pp. 329-334

Chetan Dave and Kwok Ping Tsang

Why don’t you trade only four days a year? An empirical study into the abnormal returns of quarters first trading day pp. 335-337

Gil Cohen

On policymakers’ loss functions and the evaluation of early warning systems: Comment pp. 338-340

Lucia Alessi and Carsten Detken

Estimating aggregate autoregressive processes when only macro data are available pp. 341-347

Eric Jondeau and Florian Pelgrin

Occupations and the evolution of gender differences in intergenerational socioeconomic mobility pp. 348-352

Julia M. Schwenkenberg

A generalized panel data switching regression model pp. 353-357

Emir Malikov and Subal Kumbhakar

Stale forward guidance pp. 358-361

Gunda-Alexandra Detmers and Dieter Nautz

A semiparametric conditional duration model pp. 362-366

Mardi Dungey, Xiangdong Long, Aman Ullah and Yun Wang

An empirical input allocation model for the multiproduct firm pp. 367-369

James L. Seale, Ekaterina Vorotnikova and Serhat Asci

The functional central limit theorem and structural change test for the HAR(∞) model pp. 370-373

Oesook Lee

The dynamic relationship between disability onset, earnings, and disability insurance application and receipt pp. 374-377

Perry Singleton

Estimation of extreme value-at-risk: An EVT approach for quantile GARCH model pp. 378-381

Yanping Yi, Xingdong Feng and Zhuo Huang

The finance and growth nexus revisited pp. 382-385

Roland Beck, Georgios Georgiadis and Roland Straub

Moral hazard with the (unlikely) possibility of catastrophes pp. 386-388

Ziemowit Bednarek and Pratish Patel

The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective pp. 389-391

Alessio Brown, Christian Merkl and Dennis J. Snower

Transfers within a three generations family: When the rotten kids turn into altruistic parents pp. 392-395

Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

Supermarkets versus local shopping: Welfare implications of retail provision mode pp. 396-398

Simon Rudkin

Booms, busts, and price dispersion pp. 399-401

Robert Clark and Nicolas Vincent

On the validity of the first-order approach with moral hazard and hidden assets pp. 402-405

Giuseppe Bertola and Winfried Koeniger

The effect of health insurance coverage on the reported health of young adults pp. 406-410

Eric Cardella and Briggs Depew

Global sourcing and firm selection pp. 411-415

Wilhelm Kohler and Marcel Smolka

Optimal investment policy with fixed adjustment costs and complete irreversibility pp. 416-419

Nicolas Roys

The war of attrition and the revelation of valuable information pp. 420-423

Maciej Kotowski and Fei Li

Start-up complexity and the thickness of regional input markets pp. 424-427

Dirk Dohse and Andrea Vaona

Property tax and fiscal discipline in OECD countries pp. 428-433

Andrea Presbitero, Agnese Sacchi and Alberto Zazzaro

Retail price dynamics and retailer heterogeneity: UK evidence pp. 434-438

T.A. Lloyd, S. McCorriston, C.W. Morgan, E. Poen and E. Zgovu

Effects of the BAPCPA on the chapter composition of consumer bankruptcies pp. 439-442

Christopher Cornwell and Bing Xu

Demand reduction in multi-unit auctions with varying number of bidders and units pp. 443-445

Faical Akaichi, Rodolfo Nayga and José M. Gil

On the value of relative comparisons in firms pp. 446-448

Abhijit Ramalingam

In praise of wasteful spending pp. 449-451

Steven E. Landsburg

Direct and indirect impact of charter schools’ entry on traditional public schools: New evidence from North Carolina pp. 452-456

Yusuke Jinnai

The unique equilibrium in a model of sales with costly advertising pp. 457-460

Michael Arnold and Lan Zhang

Who comes back and when? Return migration decisions of academic scientists pp. 461-464

Patrick Gaulé

Cost pass-through and inverse demand curvature in vertical relationships with upstream and downstream competition pp. 465-468

Takanori Adachi and Takeshi Ebina

The presence of ADHD: Spillovers between siblings pp. 469-473

Sanni Nørgaard Breining

Do single-sex schools make girls more competitive? pp. 474-477

Soohyung Lee, Muriel Niederle and Namwook Kang

Content provision and compatibility in a platform market pp. 478-481

Alexander Rasch and Tobias Wenzel

Global value chains and trade elasticities pp. 482-486

Byron Gangnes, Alyson C. Ma and Ari Van Assche

Asymmetric preferences in real-time learning and the Taylor rule pp. 487-489

Taro Ikeda

Information provision before a contract is offered pp. 490-493

Jaesoo Kim and Dongsoo Shin

Efficient estimation of conditionally linear and Gaussian state space models pp. 494-499

Guilherme Moura and Douglas Eduardo Turatti

The role of constant instruments in dynamic panel estimation pp. 500-503

Chirok Han and Hyoungjong Kim

Pollution–income dynamics pp. 504-507

Ramon Lopez and Sang Yoon

International spillovers of policy uncertainty pp. 508-512

Stefan Klößner and Rodrigo Sekkel

Do guns displace books? The impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment pp. 513-515

Thomas Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo Paloyo and Christoph Schmidt

A nonparametric analysis of the growth process of Indian cities pp. 516-519

Jeff Luckstead and Stephen Devadoss

Is there adverse selection in the life insurance market? Evidence from a representative sample of purchasers pp. 520-522

Timothy Harris and Aaron Yelowitz

Marginal deterrence when offenders act sequentially pp. 523-525

Tim Friehe and Thomas J. Miceli

Nonlinear dependence between stock and real estate markets in China pp. 526-529

Haoyuan Ding, Terence Tai Leung Chong and Sung Y. Park

Economic shocks and civil conflict at the regional level pp. 530-533

Roland Hodler and Paul Raschky

Asymmetric responses to income changes: The payroll tax increase versus tax refund in 2013 pp. 534-538

Anat Bracha and Daniel Cooper

Volume 124, issue 2, 2014

Moment conditions for Almost Stochastic Dominance pp. 163-167

Xu Guo, Thierry Post, Wing-Keung Wong and Lixing Zhu

An alternative proof of Fishburn’s axiomatization of lexicographic preferences pp. 168-170

Manipushpak Mitra and Debapriya Sen

Are predictable improvements in TFP contractionary or expansionary: Implications from sectoral TFP? pp. 171-175

Deokwoo Nam and Jian Wang

A Hausman–Taylor instrumental variable approach to the penalized estimation of quantile panel models pp. 176-179

Matthew Harding and Carlos Lamarche

A policy response to a downside of the integration of economies: An impossibility theorem pp. 180-184

Oded Stark

Asymmetric group loans, non-assortative matching and adverse selection pp. 185-187

Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and Robert Lensink

Solving the price puzzle with an alternative indicator of monetary policy pp. 188-194

John W. Keating, Logan Kelly and Victor (Vic) Valcarcel

Persuasion, binary choice, and the costs of dishonesty pp. 195-198

Roland Hodler, Simon Loertscher and Dominic Rohner

Conditional punishment pp. 199-202

Kenju Kamei

A simple spatial dependence test robust to local and distributional misspecifications pp. 203-206

Ying Fang, Sung Y. Park and Jinfeng Zhang

The negative value of public information in the Glosten–Milgrom model pp. 207-210

Romans Pancs

On optimal head starts in all-pay auctions pp. 211-214

Christian Seel and Cédric Wasser

Product quality, advertising intensity and market size pp. 215-218

Bing Han and Hayley Chouinard

Observational equivalence and nonequivalence of subjective and robust mean–variance preferences pp. 219-221

Katsutoshi Wakai

Optimal tranching with diverse beliefs pp. 222-226

Guixia Guo, Frank Yong Wang and Xu Wei

Income stratification and between-group inequality pp. 227-230

Paul Allanson

Fiscal adjustments, labour market flexibility and unemployment pp. 231-235

Luca Agnello, Vitor Castro, Joao Jalles and Ricardo Sousa

A test based on panel refreshments for panel conditioning in stated utility measures pp. 236-238

Bert Van Landeghem

A two-period model with portfolio choice: Understanding results from different solution methods pp. 239-242

Katrin Rabitsch and Serhiy Stepanchuk

Habit persistence and the long-run labor supply pp. 243-247

Clemens C. Struck

GARCH with omitted persistent covariate pp. 248-254

Heejoon Han and Joon Y. Park

Regular Effective Demand Systems (REDS) pp. 255-257

Fahd Rehman and Russel Cooper

Aggregation of the generalized fractional processes pp. 258-262

Jingwei Sun and Wendong Shi

Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach pp. 263-268

Alex Coad and Martin Binder

Enhancing the local power of IVX-based tests in predictive regressions pp. 269-273

Matei Demetrescu

Personality and cooperation in finitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma games pp. 274-277

John Kagel and Peter McGee

Bundled discounts: Strategic substitutes or complements? pp. 278-282

Duarte Brito and Helder Vasconcelos

Endogenous market structure and the cooperative firm pp. 283-285

Brent Hueth and GianCarlo Moschini

Differences by mother’s education in the effect of childcare on child obesity pp. 286-289

Zafar E. Nazarov and Michael S. Rendall

A comparison of city size distributions for China and India from 1950 to 2010 pp. 290-295

Jeff Luckstead and Stephen Devadoss

Expectations and optimal monetary policy: A stability problem revisited pp. 296-299

Wei Xiao and Junyi Xu

Expectation driven business cycles with limited enforcement pp. 300-303

Karl Walentin

Compensation and performance: An experimental study pp. 304-307

Anna Dodonova and Yuri Khoroshilov

On the distribution of tax effects on headquarters location pp. 308-313

Simon Bösenberg, Peter Egger and Nora Strecker

A Walrasian Rubinstein and Wolinsky model pp. 314-317

Artyom Shneyerov

Persistence under temporal aggregation and differencing pp. 318-322

Uwe Hassler

Volume 124, issue 1, 2014

A note on dynamic monopoly pricing under consumption externalities pp. 1-8

Kaito Hashimoto and Nobuo Matsubayashi

Are choice experiments reliable? Evidence from the lab pp. 9-13

S. Luchini and Verity Watson

Electing a representative committee by approval ballot: An impossibility result pp. 14-16

Conal Duddy

Hurricane strikes and local migration in US coastal counties pp. 17-20

Bazoumana Ouattara and E. Strobl

Inclusive wealth with a changing but aging population pp. 21-25

Rintaro Yamaguchi

Estimating dynamic demand for airlines pp. 26-29

Diego Escobari

Short-time work—Some long-run implications pp. 30-32

Erik Grape and Ann-Sofie Kolm

Penalties and the deterrence of unlawful collusion pp. 33-36

Joseph E. Harrington

Cumulative offer process is order-independent pp. 37-40

Daisuke Hirata and Yusuke Kasuya

Childhood preventive care, adult healthcare and economic growth: The role of healthcare financing pp. 41-47

Maame Woode, Carine Nourry and Bruno Ventelou

Establishment size and task-specific wages: Evidence from historical contract data pp. 48-50

Jaakko Pehkonen

Are lifecycle funds appropriate as default options in participant-directed retirement plans? pp. 51-54

Anup Basu, En Te Chen and Adam Clements

Reversal of gender gaps in child development: Evidence from young children in India pp. 55-59

Florencia Lopez Boo and Maria Eugenia Canon

The impact of bank competition and concentration on industrial growth pp. 60-63

Guy Liu, Ali Mirzaei and Sotiris Vandoros

Government debt dynamics and the global financial crisis: Has anything changed in the EA12? pp. 64-66

Juan Cuestas, Luis Gil-Alana and Karsten Staehr

A continuum of commitment pp. 67-73

Thomas Weber

Will knowing diabetes affect labor income? Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 74-78

Xiaoou Liu and Chen Zhu

Comparative statics for oligopoly: A generalized result pp. 79-82

Naoto Jinji

A fixed-T version of Breitung’s panel data unit root test pp. 83-87

Yiannis Karavias and Elias Tzavalis

Dynamic inconsistency and non-preferential taxation of foreign capital pp. 88-92

Kaushal Kishore and Santanu Roy

The non-monotonous impact of population growth on economic prosperity pp. 93-95

Klaus Prettner

A note on coupled lotteries pp. 96-99

Marc T.P. Adam, Eike Kroll and Timm Teubner

A simple estimator for partial linear regression with endogenous nonparametric variables pp. 100-103

Michael S. Delgado and Christopher Parmeter

A note on the representative adaptive learning algorithm pp. 104-107

Michele Berardi and Jaqueson Galimberti

Value and quantity data in economic and technical efficiency measurement pp. 108-112

Maria Silva

A model of financial contagion with variable asset returns may be replaced with a simple threshold model of cascades pp. 113-116

Teruyoshi Kobayashi

Can Markov switching model generate long memory? pp. 117-121

Changryong Baek, Natércia Fortuna and Vladas Pipiras

Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market pp. 122-126

Maria Alipranti, Chrysovalantou Milliou and Emmanuel Petrakis

The effect of human capital on countries’ economic efficiency pp. 127-131

Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Pro-competitive effect, division of labor, and firm productivity pp. 132-135

Keita Kamei

The economic impact of Swiss smoking bans on the hospitality sector pp. 136-139

Joachim Marti and Jörg Schläpfer

Is the ‘euro effect’ on trade so small after all? New evidence using gravity equations with panel cointegration techniques pp. 140-142

Mariam Camarero, Estrella Gómez-Herrera and Cecilio Tamarit

Bid coordination in split-award procurement: The buyer need not know anything pp. 143-146

Parimal Bag and Jianpei Li

Dynamic pricing in the Singapore condominium market pp. 147-150

Eric Fesselmeyer and Haoming Liu

Heterogeneous firms and the impact of government policy on welfare and informality pp. 151-156

Caterina Mendicino and Jose Prado

Alternative derivation of the leximin principle pp. 157-159

Osamu Mori

Corrigendum to "Reconciling the Rawlsian and the utilitarian approaches to the maximization of social welfare, [Economics Letters 122 (2014) 439–444]" pp. 160–161

Oded Stark, Marcin Jakubek and Fryderyk Falniowski