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Volume 120, issue 3, 2013

Political costs and fiscal benefits: The political economy of residential property value assessment under Proposition 212 pp. 359-363

Michael Makowsky and Shane Sanders

Combining the endogenous choice of price/quantity and timing pp. 364-368

Chia-Hung Sun

Estimation of parametric homogeneous stochastic volatility pricing formulae based on option data pp. 369-373

Zheng Xu

A case for maximum wage pp. 374-378

Tomer Blumkin, Efraim Sadka and Yotam Shem-Tov

Price discrimination or uniform pricing: Which colludes more? pp. 379-383

Niklas Horstmann and Jan Krämer

Optimal learning of a set: Or how to edit a journal if you must pp. 384-388

Martin Cripps

A simple test for the ignorability of non-compliance in experiments pp. 389-391

Martin Huber

Monetary accommodation, imperfect central bank transparency and optimal delegation pp. 392-396

Marcelo Sánchez

Cheap talk with an exit option: The case of discrete action space pp. 397-400

Takashi Shimizu

Eductive learning and the rationalizability of oligopoly games pp. 401-404

Gaetano Gaballo

Global extreme poverty rates for children, adults and the elderly pp. 405-407

Yele Batana, Maurizio Bussolo and John Cockburn

Heterogeneous treatment effects in groups pp. 408-412

Gerhard Riener and Simon Wiederhold

Born to be wide? Exploring correlations in mother and adolescent body mass index pp. 413-415

Heather Brown and Jennifer Roberts

Using the downside mean-semideviation for measuring vulnerability to poverty pp. 416-418

Mauricio Gallardo

Competition lessens competition pp. 419-423

Sara Godoy, Antonio Morales and Javier Rodero

A note on bounding average treatment effects pp. 424-428

Lukas Laffers

The expectation-based loss-averse newsvendor pp. 429-432

Fabian Herweg

The granular hypothesis in EU country exports pp. 433-436

Ignacio Del Rosal

On a general class of long run variance estimators pp. 437-441

Xianyang Zhang and Xiaofeng Shao

Can geography lock a society in stagnation? pp. 442-446

Nguyen Thang Dao and Julio Dávila

The poverty-assistance paradox pp. 447-449

Béla Janky and Dániel Varga

Growth spillover through trade: A spatial dynamic panel data approach pp. 450-453

Chun-Yu Ho, Wei Wang and Jihai Yu

Informality, financial development and macroeconomic volatility pp. 454-457

Shalini Mitra

Economic interactions and social tolerance: A dynamic perspective pp. 458-463

Roy Cerqueti, Luca Correani and Giuseppe Garofalo

Credence goods, experts and risk aversion pp. 464-467

Olivier Bonroy, Stéphane Lemarié and Jean-Philippe Tropeano

The Great Recession and the inflation puzzle pp. 468-472

Troy Matheson and Emil Stavrev

Value learning and the willingness to accept–willingness to pay disparity pp. 473-476

David Kingsley and Thomas C. Brown

Factor income taxation and growth with increasing integration of world capital markets pp. 477-480

Wai-Hong Ho and C.C. Yang

Export growth and firm survival pp. 481-486

Julian Emami Namini, Giovanni Facchini and Ricardo López Rago

The impact of training duration on employment outcomes: Evidence from LATE estimates pp. 487-490

Jochen Kluve, Ulf Rinne, Arne Uhlendorff and Zhong Zhao

An alternative approach to the modelling of interest rate pass through and asymmetric adjustment pp. 491-494

Abbas Valadkhani and Bernard Bollen

A solution to the weak instrument bias in 2SLS estimation: Indirect inference with stochastic approximation pp. 495-498

Vincent Arel-Bundock

Technology licensing and innovation pp. 499-502

Arijit Mukherjee and Soma Mukherjee

Monopoly extraction of a nonrenewable resource facing capacity constrained renewable competition pp. 503-508

Min Wang and Jinhua Zhao

Competition, timing of entry and welfare in a preemption game pp. 509-512

Rossella Argenziano and Philipp Schmidt-Dengler

Capital mobility and global factor shocks pp. 513-515

Mauro Costantini and Luciano Gutierrez

Popular protest and political budget cycles: A panel data analysis pp. 516-520

Jeroen Klomp and Jakob de Haan

When are GDP forecasts updated? Evidence from a large international panel pp. 521-524

Jonas Dovern

Common-value contests with asymmetric information pp. 525-527

Karl Wärneryd

Cyclical dynamics in idiosyncratic labor-market risks: Evidence from March CPS 1968–2011 pp. 528-531

Bo Zhao

Inconsistency of 2SLS estimators in threshold regression with endogeneity pp. 532-536

Ping Yu

Monetary policy, stock prices, and consumption externalities pp. 537-541

Marco Airaudo

Level-k reasoning and time pressure in the 11–20 money request game pp. 542-545

Florian Lindner and Matthias Sutter

A conditional demand approach to the Alchian–Allen effect pp. 546-551

Junichi Minagawa and Thorsten Upmann

Optimal climate policy: Uncertainty versus Monte Carlo pp. 552-558

Benjamin Crost and Christian Traeger

Unfolding the mystery of false-name-proofness pp. 559-561

Nanyang Bu

Hypothetical bias in value orientations ring games pp. 562-565

Emmanouil Mentzakis and Stuart Mestelman

Computing the risky steady state of DSGE models pp. 566-569

Oliver de Groot

Radner’s cost–benefit analysis in the small: An equivalence result pp. 570-572

Edward E. Schlee

SME’s registration: Evidence from an RCT in Bangladesh pp. 573-578

Giacomo De Giorgi and Aminur Rahman

Most-favored-customer pricing, product variety, and welfare pp. 579-582

Lluís M. Granero

Class-size effects in Japanese schools: A spline regression approach pp. 583-587

Masakazu Hojo

Cycles with undistinguished actions and extended Rock–Paper–Scissors games pp. 588-591

Eric Bahel and Hans Haller

Semiparametric selection of seasonal cointegrating ranks using information criteria pp. 592-595

Byeongchan Seong

Negative certainty independence without betweenness pp. 596-598

David Dillenberger and Selman Erol

A note on input congestion pp. 599-602

Kenneth Løvold Rødseth

Labour union, entry and consumer welfare pp. 603-605

Arijit Mukherjee and Leonard F.S. Wang

Volume 120, issue 2, 2013

Data revisions and periodic properties of macroeconomic data pp. 139-141

Philip Hans Franses

Validating an ultra-short survey measure of patience pp. 142-145

Thomas Vischer, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Jürgen Schupp, Uwe Sunde and Gert Wagner

On existence of moment of mean reversion estimator in linear diffusion models pp. 146-148

Yong Bao, Aman Ullah and Victoria Zinde-Walsh

Fighting corruption: To precommit or not? pp. 149-154

Fabien Ngendakuriyo and Georges Zaccour

Iterated Choquet expectations: A possibility result pp. 155-159

Adam Dominiak

The role of information in contests pp. 160-163

Pradeep Dubey

The lottery Blotto game pp. 164-166

António Osório

Do economic conditions influence environmental policy? Evidence from the US Senate pp. 167-170

Grant Jacobsen

Delinquency model predictive power among low-documentation loans pp. 171-173

Wei Jiang, Ashlyn Aiko Nelson and Edward Vytlacil

Unsubsidized microfinance institutions pp. 174-176

D’Espallier, Bert, Marek Hudon and Ariane Szafarz

A note on Futia (1981)’s non-existence pathology of rational expectations equilibria pp. 177-180

Giacomo Rondina and Todd Walker

Step thinking and costly coordination pp. 181-183

Enrique Fatas and Antonio Morales

GLS-based unit root tests for bounded processes pp. 184-187

Josep Carrion-i-Silvestre and María Gadea

When higher prizes lead to lower efforts—The impact of favoritism in tournaments pp. 188-191

Claus Herbertz and Dirk Sliwka

Testing for nonlinearity and chaos in economic time series with noise titration pp. 192-194

Petre Caraiani

Impacts of the initial observation on unit root tests using recursive demeaning and detrending procedures pp. 195-199

Ming Meng, Hyejin Lee, Myeong Hyeon Cho and Junsoo Lee

Permanent and transitory inequality and intragenerational mobility pp. 200-202

Tao Chen and Kenneth Couch

Generalized adaptive expectations revisited pp. 203-205

Marco Sorge

Easy and flexible mixture distributions pp. 206-210

Mogens Fosgerau and Stefan Mabit

Asymmetric Nash bargaining solutions: A simple Nash program pp. 211-214

Nejat Anbarci and Ching-jen Sun

Financial dependence and growth: Diminishing returns to improvement in financial development pp. 215-219

Leilei Shen

Endogenous risk in monopolistic competition pp. 220-223

Vladislav Damjanovic

A factor approach to realized volatility forecasting in the presence of finite jumps and cross-sectional correlation in pricing errors pp. 224-228

Alev Atak and George Kapetanios

Business cycles, bank credit and crises pp. 229-231

Monika Bucher, Diemo Dietrich and Achim Hauck

The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail pp. 232-237

Marco Bee, Massimo Riccaboni and Stefano Schiavo

Heterogeneous convergence pp. 238-241

Andrew Young, Matthew J. Higgins and Daniel Levy

Small is beautiful—Experimental evidence of donors’ preferences for charities pp. 242-244

Sarah Borgloh, Astrid Dannenberg and Bodo Aretz

An incentive compatible scoring rule for ordinal judgments of expected utility maximizers pp. 245-248

Johannes G. Jaspersen

Derivation of marginal effects of determinants of technical inefficiency pp. 249-253

Subal Kumbhakar and Kai Sun

Bubbles, crashes and risk pp. 254-258

William Branch and George Evans

Competition and collusion with fixed output pp. 259-261

Hans Zenger

Envelope condition method versus endogenous grid method for solving dynamic programming problems pp. 262-266

Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar

Time inconsistency and the long-run effects of inflation pp. 267-270

Karl Boulware, Robert Reed and Ejindu Ume

Do financial markets learn from ECB monetary policy? pp. 271-275

Jean-Yves Filbien and Fabien Labondance

Intention-based fairness preferences in two-player contests pp. 276-279

Magnus Hoffmann and Martin Kolmar

Bilateral delegation in wage and employment bargaining in monopoly pp. 280-283

Ishita Chatterjee and Bibhas Saha

Hedonic methods for baskets of goods pp. 284-287

Rachel Griffith and Lars Nesheim

On discrete location choice models pp. 288-291

Nils Herger and Steve McCorriston

Multi-trait matching and gender differentials in intergenerational mobility pp. 292-296

Natalie Chen, Paola Conconi and Carlo Perroni

Technology adoption and diffusion with uncertainty in a commons pp. 297-301

Benjamin E. Fissel, Ben Gilbert and Jacob LaRiviere

Fertility and wealth in early colonial India: Evidence from widow suicides (satis) in Bengal pp. 302-304

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Elliott Green

Semiparametric smooth-coefficient stochastic frontier model pp. 305-309

Kai Sun and Subal Kumbhakar

House money effects, risk preferences and the public goods game pp. 310-313

Lin Jing and Roland Cheo

Foreign bank presence: Helping or hurting when financial contagion strikes? pp. 314-317

Rudiger Ahrend and Antoine Goujard

Borders and Big Macs pp. 318-322

Anthony Landry

Female labour force participation and economic growth in the South Mediterranean countries pp. 323-328

Stella Tsani, Leonidas Paroussos, Costas Fragiadakis, Ioannis Charalambidis and Pantelis Capros

Credit rationing or entrepreneurial risk aversion? A comment pp. 329-331

Claudio Bonilla and Marcos Vergara

Repeated games with local monitoring and private communication pp. 332-337

Marie Laclau

Tax benefits of leasing pp. 338-341

Timothy J. Bell and Jacob Thomas

Political budget cycles in Indonesia at the district level pp. 342-345

Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Günther G. Schulze

Avoiding biased versions of Wooldridge’s simple solution to the initial conditions problem pp. 346-349

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Anders Skrondal

Are there bubbles in the Sterling-dollar exchange rate? New evidence from sequential ADF tests pp. 350-353

Timo Bettendorf and Wenjuan Chen

Value added content of trade: A comprehensive approach pp. 354-357

Neil Foster-McGregor and Robert Stehrer

Volume 120, issue 1, 2013

Bonus payments as an anti-corruption instrument: A theoretical approach pp. 1-4

Daniel Cracau and Benjamin Franz

A variable addition test for exogeneity in structural threshold models pp. 5-9

Daniele Massacci

Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for top income shares pp. 10-13

Michał Brzeziński

Matching with quorums pp. 14-17

Daniel Monte and Norovsambuu Tumennasan

Productivity with general indices of management and technical change pp. 18-22

Thomas Triebs and Subal Kumbhakar

Biased effects of taxes and subsidies on portfolio choices pp. 23-26

Hagen Ackermann, Martin Fochmann and Benedikt Mihm

Euler equations and money market interest rates: The role of monetary policy and risk premium shocks pp. 27-31

Johannes Gareis and Eric Mayer

Preferences, social capital, and compulsory volunteering pp. 32-35

Wei Yang

On the design of citizens’ initiatives in a union of states pp. 36-39

Nicola Maaser

Which decision theory? pp. 40-44

Pavlo Blavatskyy

Remittance outflows and inflation: The case of the GCC countries pp. 45-47

Ali Termos, George Naufal and Ismail Genc

Economic growth and environmental efficiency: Evidence from US regions pp. 48-52

George Halkos and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Third party assessments in trust problems with conflict of interest: An experiment on the effects of promises pp. 53-56

Mitesh Kataria and Fabian Winter

Integration of choice probabilities in logit pp. 57-60

Paolo Delle Site

Leadership at school: Does the gender of siblings matter? pp. 61-64

Giorgio Brunello and Maria De Paola

Estimating the state vector of linearized DSGE models without the Kalman filter pp. 65-66

Robert Kollmann

Compensation, perks, and welfare pp. 67-70

Philipp Weinschenk

Identification in models of gasoline pricing pp. 71-73

Lance Bachmeier

How uncertain is household income in China pp. 74-78

Jihai Yu and Guozhong Zhu

On testability of complementarity in models with multiple equilibria pp. 79-82

Yoshiyasu Rai and Taisuke Otsu

The multidimensional effects of a small gift: Evidence from a natural field experiment pp. 83-86

Ellen Garbarino, Robert Slonim and Carmen Wang

Dynamic co-movements of stock market returns, implied volatility and policy uncertainty pp. 87-92

Nikolaos Antonakakis, Ioannis Chatziantoniou and George Filis

Cooperation in and out of markets: An experimental comparison of public good games and markets with externalities pp. 93-96

Todd Cherry, Steffen Kallbekken, Stephan Kroll and David McEvoy

Spatial correlation between homicide rates and inequality: Evidence from urban neighborhoods pp. 97-99

Tatiane Menezes, Raul Silveira-Neto, Circe Monteiro and José Luiz Ratton

A check for finite order VAR representations of DSGE models pp. 100-103

Massimo Franchi and Anna Vidotto

Financial shocks and trade finance: Evidence from Korea pp. 104-107

Sangyeon Hwang and Hyejoon Im

Reversal and magnitude effects in long-term time preferences: Results from a field experiment pp. 108-111

Géraldine Bocquého, Florence Jacquet and Arnaud Reynaud

Digital labor-market intermediation and job expectations: Evidence from a field experiment pp. 112-116

Ana Dammert, Jose Galdo and Virgilio Galdo

The efficient modelling of high frequency transaction data: A new application of estimating functions in financial economics pp. 117-122

David Allen, Kok Haur Ng and Shelton Peiris

Financial dependence, global growth opportunities, and growth revisited pp. 123-125

Simone Manganelli and Alexander Popov

Real exchange rate volatility, terms-of-trade shocks, and financial integration in primary-commodity exporting economies pp. 126-129

Almukhtar Al-Abri

News impact curve for stochastic volatility models pp. 130-134

Makoto Takahashi, Yasuhiro Omori and Toshiaki Watanabe

Large labour unions and terms-of-trade externality pp. 135-138

Vincenzo Cuciniello