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Volume 121, issue 3, 2013

The computational complexity of random serial dictatorship pp. 341-345

Haris Aziz, Felix Brandt and Markus Brill

High yield spreads, real economic activity, and the financial accelerator pp. 346-355

Pierangelo De Pace and Kyle D. Weber

On the welfare equivalence of asset markets and banking in Diamond Dybvig economies pp. 356-359

Alexander Zimper

Model averaging with covariates that are missing completely at random pp. 360-363

Xinyu Zhang

Do previous good deeds to a third party make people more tolerant of bad deeds against them? An experimental investigation pp. 364-368

P. Ndodjang, Gilles Grolleau and Lisette Ibanez

Mixed-frequency VAR models with Markov-switching dynamics pp. 369-373

Maximo Camacho

Testing slope homogeneity in large panels with serial correlation pp. 374-378

Johan Blomquist and Joakim Westerlund

A CUSUM test for a long memory heterogeneous autoregressive model pp. 379-383

Eunju Hwang and Dong Wan Shin

Modelling the fiscal reaction functions of the GIPS based on state-varying thresholds pp. 384-389

Gabriella Legrenzi and Costas Milas

Shotgun mechanisms for common-value partnerships: The unassigned-offeror problem pp. 390-394

Claudia Landeo and Kathryn E. Spier

Elderly labor supply and fertility decisions in aging-population economies pp. 395-399

Masakatsu Mizuno and Akira Yakita

Can you trust the good guys? Trust within and between groups with different missions pp. 400-404

Sebastian Fehrler and Michael Kosfeld

Institutions and financial dollarization: Indirect effects based on a policy experiment pp. 405-410

Kyriakos Neanidis and Christos Savva

Taxation and the asymmetric adjustment of selected retail energy prices in the UK pp. 411-416

Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo and Yongcheol Shin

Skill upgrading and exports pp. 417-420

Antonio Accetturo, Matteo Bugamelli and Andrea Lamorgese

Does context promote higher-level thinking in the beauty contest? pp. 421-424

R. Andrew Luccasen

Personal characteristics and lying: An experimental investigation pp. 425-427

Jason Childs

Equivalence and axiomatization of solutions for cooperative games with circular communication structure pp. 428-431

Özer Selçuk, Takamasa Suzuki and Adolphus Talman

The functional central limit theorem for ARMA–GARCH processes pp. 432-435

O. Lee

Collateral constraints and rental markets pp. 436-439

d’Albis, Hippolyte and Eleni Iliopulos

On second order conditions for equality constrained extremum problems pp. 440-443

David Mandy

How does employment protection legislation influence hiring and firing decisions by the smallest firms? pp. 444-448

Ana Millán, Jose Maria Millan, Concepción Román and André van Stel

Financial distress and use of mental health care: Evidence from antidepressant prescription claims pp. 449-453

Haizhen Lin, Jonathan Ketcham, James N. Rosenquist and Kosali I. Simon

Analysis of non-stationary dynamics in the financial system pp. 454-457

Samar K. Guharay, Gaurav S. Thakur, Fred J. Goodman, Scott L. Rosen and Daniel Houser

New facts on infidelity pp. 458-462

Effrosyni Adamopoulou

Asymmetric information may protect the commons: The welfare benefits of uninformed regulators pp. 463-467

Ana Espinola-Arredondo and Felix Munoz-Garcia

Credit limits and bankruptcy pp. 469-472

Xavier Mateos-Planas

Fair wages survive multiple sources of income inequality pp. 473-477

Karina Gose

Financial openness, market structure and private credit: An empirical investigation pp. 478-481

Ronald Fischer and Patricio Valenzuela

Choosing price or quantity? The role of delegation and network externalities pp. 482-486

Alessandra Chirco and Marcella Scrimitore

Persuasion and learning by countersignaling pp. 487-491

Kim-Sau Chung and Péter Eső

Hypothesis testing for arbitrary bounds pp. 492-494

Jeffrey Penney

Non-linear budgetary policies: Evidence from 150 years of Italian public finance pp. 495-498

Alessandro Piergallini and Michele Postigliola

Greediness and equilibrium in congestion games pp. 499-503

Sergey Kuniavsky and Rann Smorodinsky

Nonlinear effects of government debt on private consumption: Evidence from OECD countries pp. 504-507

Dooyeon Cho and Dong-Eun Rhee

An extension of the home-attachment criteria under dynamic tax competition pp. 508-510

Yutao Han, Patrice Pieretti and Benteng Zou

Stock exchange mergers and return co-movement: A flexible dynamic component correlations model pp. 511-515

Jörgen Hellström, Yuna Liu and Tomas Sjögren

Do large recessions reduce output permanently? pp. 516-519

Mehdi Hosseinkouchack and Maik Wolters

Firm taxation and the endogenous distribution of markups pp. 520-523

John Dalton and Turkmen Goksel

The long-run causal relationship between transport energy consumption and GDP: Evidence from heterogeneous panel methods robust to cross-sectional dependence pp. 524-527

Brantley Liddle and Sidney Lung

Fiscal decentralization, fiscal rules and fiscal discipline pp. 528-532

Bilin Neyapti

Public procurement in times of crisis: The bundling decision reconsidered pp. 533-536

Patrick Schmitz

Permanent versus transitory wage differentials and the inequality-hours hypothesis pp. 537-541

Magnus Gustavsson

The disappearing gay income penalty pp. 542-545

Geoffrey Clarke and Purvi Sevak

Testing the predictive power of the term structure without data snooping bias pp. 546-549

Yi-Cheng Kao, Chung-Ming Kuan and Shikuan Chen

The role of interviewer encounters in panel responses on life satisfaction pp. 550-554

Adrian Chadi

A systematic analysis of the links amongst the Marshallian, Hicksian, and Frischian demand functions: A note pp. 555-557

Robert Sproule

Volume 121, issue 2, 2013

Environmental regulation of technically inefficient firms pp. 143-147

Bruno Wichmann

Quality cut-offs in procurement auctions pp. 148-151

Mridu Prabal Goswami

Convergence in US house prices pp. 152-155

Antonio Montañés and Lorena Olmos

The effect of the financial crisis on the retirement plans of older workers in England pp. 156-159

Rowena Crawford

Public goods in directed networks pp. 160-162

Dunia López-Pintado

Can you trust survey responses? Evidence using objective health measures pp. 163-166

Agne Suziedelyte and Meliyanni Johar

A new way to assess banking competition pp. 167-169

Giovanni Alberto Tabacco

Effects of explicit FOMC policy rate guidance on interest rate expectations pp. 170-173

Richhild Moessner

VaR constrained asset pricing with relative performance pp. 174-178

Xiangbo Liu, Zhigang Qiu and Yan Xiong

Do exporters pay fair-wage premiums? pp. 179-182

Andreas Hauptmann and Hans-Joerg Schmerer

Has the Lucas Paradox been fully explained? pp. 183-187

Céline Azémar and Rodolphe Desbordes

Have Federal Reserve MBS purchases affected market functioning? pp. 188-191

John Kandrac

Estimation of social preferences in generalized dictator games pp. 192-197

Yves Breitmoser

Evolutionary justifications for non-Bayesian beliefs pp. 198-201

Hanzhe Zhang

A note on reciprocity and modified dictator games pp. 202-205

Timo Heinrich and Joachim Weimann

Notes on supermodularity and increasing differences in expected utility pp. 206-209

Alejandro Francetich

Production hierarchies in Sweden pp. 210-213

Joacim Tåg

Giving and sorting among friends: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment pp. 214-217

Christine Binzel and Dietmar Fehr

Spectral density of Markov-switching VARMA models pp. 218-220

Maddalena Cavicchioli

Spurious persistence in stochastic volatility pp. 221-223

Philip Messow and Walter Krämer

Asymmetric Nash bargaining solutions and competitive payoffs pp. 224-227

Sonja Brangewitz and Jan-Philip Gamp

Investment decisions under hidden competition pp. 228-231

Paulo J. Pereira and Manuel Rocha Armada

Internet and the efficiency of decentralized markets: Evidence from automobiles pp. 232-235

David Rapson and Pasquale Schiraldi

Accepting zero in the ultimatum game does not reflect selfish preferences pp. 236-238

Gianandrea Staffiero, Filippos Exadaktylos and Antonio Espín

Characterizing very high uncertainty episodes pp. 239-243

Martin Bijsterbosch and Pierre Guérin

International trade and wage inequality: A non-monotonic relationship pp. 244-246

Dan Liu

Reconciling narrative monetary policy disturbances with structural VAR model shocks? pp. 247-251

Martin Kliem and Alexander Kriwoluzky

A note on almost stochastic dominance pp. 252-256

Xu Guo, Xuehu Zhu, Wing-Keung Wong and Lixing Zhu

Using an asset index to simulate household income pp. 257-262

Kenneth Harttgen and Sebastian Vollmer

Public employment and earnings inequality: An analysis based on conditional and unconditional quantile regressions pp. 263-266

Jean-Marc Fournier and Isabell Koske

Forecasting regional GDP with factor models: How useful are national and international data? pp. 267-270

Alexandre Kopoin, Kevin Moran and Jean-Pierre Paré

On the characteristic function for asymmetric Student t distributions pp. 271-274

Saralees Nadarajah, Stephen Chan and Emmanuel Afuecheta

The effect of an agent’s expertise on National Football League contract structure pp. 275-281

Michael Conlin, Joe Orsini and Meng-Chi Tang

Cross-border equity portfolio choices and the diversification motive: A fractional regression approach pp. 282-286

Filippo Maria Pericoli, E. Pierucci and Luigi Ventura

Who pays for obesity? Evidence from health insurance benefit mandates pp. 287-289

James Bailey

Do risk lovers invest in self-protection? pp. 290-293

Paan Jindapon

On the impulse in impulse learning pp. 294-297

Jieyao Ding and Andreas Nicklisch

Marginal effects of a bivariate binary choice model pp. 298-301

Takuya Hasebe

Can double deflation explain the ICT growth miracle? pp. 302-305

Harald Edquist

Delay aversion under a general class of preferences pp. 306-310

Gulseren Mutlu

The “probability of recession”: Evaluating probabilistic and non-probabilistic forecasts from probit models of U.S. recessions pp. 311-315

Ryan Ratcliff

Timing of investments and third degree price discrimination in intermediate good markets pp. 316-320

Youping Li

A strict ex-post incentive compatible mechanism for interdependent valuations pp. 321-325

Swaprava Nath and Onno Zoeter

An alternative interpretation of random noise in rank-order tournaments pp. 326-329

Andrei Barbos

Flow effects of large-scale asset purchases pp. 330-335

John Kandrac and Bernd Schlusche

A specification test for discrete choice models pp. 336-339

Mark Chicu and Matthew Masten

Volume 121, issue 1, 2013

How have inflation-targeting central banks responded to supply shocks? pp. 1-3

Minoru Tachibana

Contest design and heterogeneity pp. 4-7

Rudi Stracke

Alternative unit root testing strategies using the Fourier approximation pp. 8-11

Jen-Je Su and Jeremy Nguyen

Incentive compatibility in non-quasilinear environments pp. 12-14

Nenad Kos and Matthias Messner

Happiness in the arts—International evidence on artists’ job satisfaction pp. 15-18

Trine Bille, Cecilie Bryld Fjællegaard, Bruno Frey and Lasse Steiner

Perpetual learning and stock return predictability pp. 19-22

Xiaoneng Zhu

Art market inefficiency pp. 23-25

Geraldine David, Kim Oosterlinck and Ariane Szafarz

The struggle to survive in the R&D sector: Implications for innovation and growth pp. 26-29

Yuichi Furukawa

Time inconsistency and retirement planning pp. 30-34

Frank Caliendo and T. Scott Findley

Task assignment under agent loss aversion pp. 35-38

Kohei Daido, Kimiyuki Morita, Takeshi Murooka and Hiromasa Ogawa

Economic policy uncertainty in the US: Does it matter for the Euro area? pp. 39-42

Valentina Colombo

Credit constraints, inequality and the growth gains from trade pp. 43-47

Mauro Caselli

A note on the life-cycle search and matching model with segmented labor markets pp. 48-52

Junichi Fujimoto

The effects of birth weight: Does fetal origin really matter for long-run outcomes? pp. 53-58

Makiko Nakamuro, Yuka Uzuki and Tomohiko Inui

Locally adjusted LM test for spatial dependence in fixed effects panel data models pp. 59-63

Ming He and Kuan-Pin Lin

Power monotonicity in detecting volatility levels change pp. 64-69

Ke-Li Xu

Impact of Italian smoking ban on business activity of restaurants, cafés and bars pp. 70-73

Luca Pieroni, P. Daddi and Luca Salmasi

Partial identification in binary response models with nonignorable nonresponses pp. 74-78

Tadao Hoshino

Efficient estimation of partially linear varying coefficient models pp. 79-81

Wei Long, Min Ouyang and Ying Shang

Multimarket contact and export entry pp. 82-84

Robert Feinberg

A test of stability in a linear altruism model pp. 85-89

Christos Ioannou, Shi Qi and Aldo Rustichini

The social cost of carbon emissions: Seven propositions pp. 90-97

Duncan Foley, Armon Rezai and Lance Taylor

Social interaction and economic organization: Toward an integrative microeconomic model pp. 98-100

Jean-Marc Callois

Habit formation and strategic interactions: A new gain from trade? pp. 101-104

Antoine Vatan

Disinflationary booms? pp. 105-109

Christian Merkl

Tax morale and tax evasion reports pp. 110-114

Francesco Flaviano Russo

eBay’s anatomy pp. 115-120

Andreas Lendle, Marcelo Olarrega, Simon Schropp and Pierre-Louis Vézina

A mechanism for eliciting the mean and quantiles of a random variable pp. 121-123

Thomas Demuynck

How economic rewards affect cooperation reconsidered pp. 124-127

John Kagel and Dan R. Schley

Political expenditure cycles and election outcomes: Evidence from disaggregation of public expenditures by economic functions pp. 128-132

Sören Enkelmann and Markus Leibrecht

Why are crude oil prices high when global activity is weak? pp. 133-136

Ronald Ratti and Joaquin Vespignani

Paying not to sell pp. 137-140

Emanuele Bacchiega, Olivier Bonroy and Rania Mabrouk