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Volume 116, issue 3, 2012

A back-door brain drain pp. 273-276

Oded Stark and Łukasz Byra

Markups and the number of firms in a simple model of imperfect competition pp. 277-280

Cheng-wei Chang and Ching-chong Lai

Credit constraints and the process of development pp. 281-283

Keigo Nishida

Asymmetric information and the demand for private health insurance in Korea pp. 284-287

Yong-Woo Lee

Young immigrant children and their educational attainment pp. 288-290

Asako Ohinata and Jan C. van Ours

Is the choice of (t−T) in Battese and Coelli (1992) type stochastic frontier models innocuous? Observations and generalisations pp. 291-294

Phill Wheat and Andrew Smith

Commitment through risk pp. 295-297

Dmytro Kylymnyuk and Alexander Wagner

Revenue decentralization and inflation: A re-evaluation pp. 298-300

Thushyanthan Baskaran

Price discrimination in asymmetric Cournot oligopoly pp. 301-303

Barna Bakó and András Kálecz-Simon

New weighting scheme for the dimensions in multidimensional poverty indices pp. 304-307

Besma Belhadj

Factors related to the depth of the latest crisis for EU-27 countries: The key role of relative inequality/poverty pp. 308-311

Demosthenes Georgopoulos, Theodore Papadogonas and George Sfakianakis

A model for assessing the contribution of innovative SMEs to economic growth: The intangible approach pp. 312-315

Miguel González-Loureiro and Jose Pita-Castelo

Usage of an estimated coefficient as a dependent variable pp. 316-318

Abigail S. Hornstein and William Greene

Simultaneity bias in the analysis of perceived job insecurity and subjective well-being pp. 319-321

Ingo Geishecker

Density prediction of stock index returns using GARCH models: Frequentist or Bayesian estimation? pp. 322-325

Lennart F. Hoogerheide, David Ardia and Nienke Corré

Forecasting stock prices: Do forecasters herd? pp. 326-329

Christian Pierdzioch and Jan-Christoph Rülke

A characterization of the plurality rule pp. 330-332

Yohei Sekiguchi

More on the Fox paradox pp. 333-334

Giannis Karagiannis

Consumer bounded rationality and rigidity/flexibility retail price patterns pp. 335-338

Ran Spiegler

Testing post-cartel pricing during litigation pp. 339-342

Can Erutku

On strong independence of allocative efficiency from distribution in the theory of public goods pp. 343-345

Norman L. Kleinberg, Barry K. Ma and Jeffrey H. Weiss

Decomposition of non-linear models using simulated residuals pp. 346-348

François-Charles Wolff

Market access and wages: A spatially heterogeneous approach pp. 349-353

Dusan Paredes and Victor Iturra

A test for complementarities among multiple technologies that avoids the curse of dimensionality pp. 354-357

Li Yu, Terrance Hurley, James Kliebenstein and Peter Orazem

Missing daughters, missing brides? pp. 358-360

d’Albis, Hippolyte and David de la Croix

Perfect classifiers in partial observability bivariate probit pp. 361-362

Dale J. Poirier

Shirking and “choking” under incentive-based pressure: A behavioral economic theory of performance production pp. 363-366

Shane Sanders and Bhavneet Walia

On the distribution of public funding to political parties pp. 367-370

Orestis Troumpounis

The simple econometrics of tail dependence pp. 371-373

Maarten van Oordt and Chen Zhou

A novel approach to identifying hedonic demand parameters pp. 374-376

Nicolai Kuminoff and Jaren Pope

Measurement of excess bidding in auctions pp. 377-380

Angeliki Ferona and Mike Tsionas

Fractional integration and the volatility of UK interest rates pp. 381-384

Simeon Coleman and Kavita Sirichand

Price inflation and stock returns pp. 385-388

Jeffrey Oxman

More inequality, more crime? A panel cointegration analysis for the United States pp. 389-391

Pandej Chintrakarn and Dierk Herzer

Human capital Kuznets curve with subsistence consumption level pp. 392-395

Miki Matsuo and Yasunobu Tomoda

On the correlations of trend–cycle errors pp. 396-400

Tatsuma Wada

Long-range dependence in the international diamond market pp. 401-403

Terence Tai Leung Chong, Chenxi Lu and Wing Chan

Do investors’ sentiment dynamics affect stock returns? Evidence from the US economy pp. 404-407

Theologos Dergiades

Labor-force participation rates and the informational value of unemployment rates: Evidence from disaggregated US data pp. 408-410

Magnus Gustavsson and Pär Österholm

A root-N consistent estimator for some fixed-effects panel data sample selection models pp. 411-413

Chunrong Ai and Meixia Meng

Measuring regional inequality by internet car price advertisements: Evidence for Germany pp. 414-417

Konstantin Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

Another direct proof for the Gibbard–Satterthwaite Theorem pp. 418-421

Uuganbaatar Ninjbat

Inflation-regime dependent effects of monetary policy shocks. Evidence from threshold vector autoregressions pp. 422-425

Martin Mandler

A comparative analysis of the informational efficiency of the fixed income market in seven European countries pp. 426-428

Aurelio Fernandez Bariviera, M. Belén Guercio and Lisana B. Martinez

Fairness, spite, and intentions: Testing different motives behind punishment in a prisoners’ dilemma game pp. 429-431

Charlotte Klempt

Auditor expertise: Evidence from the public sector pp. 432-435

Mark Schelker

Can producer currency pricing models generate volatile real exchange rates? pp. 436-439

Laura Povoledo

Do middle classes bring about institutional reforms? pp. 440-444

Norman Loayza, Iamele Rigolini and Gonzalo Llorente

How does the European Central Bank react to oil prices? pp. 445-447

L’œillet, Guillaume and Julien Licheron

Does exchange rate control improve inflation targeting in emerging economies? pp. 448-450

Marc Pourroy

School choice and perceived school quality pp. 451-453

David Brasington and Diane Hite

Impulse responses of antipersistent processes pp. 454-456

Uwe Hassler

A measure of technological distance pp. 457-459

Talia Bar and Aija Leiponen

Durable goods and sticky prices: Industry-level evidence pp. 460-464

Carl Gwin and David VanHoose

Investigating finite sample properties of estimators for approximate factor models when N is small pp. 465-468

Shinya Tanaka and Eiji Kurozumi

Patent protection with a cooperative R&D option pp. 469-471

XiaoGang Che and Yibai Yang

On the consistency of the LIML estimator of a spatial autoregressive model with many instruments pp. 472-475

Xiaodong Liu

Another look at the uncovered interest rate parity: Have we missed the fundamentals? pp. 476-479

Emmanuel V. Pikoulakis and Tomasz Wisniewski

How does government ownership affect firm performance? A simple model of privatization in transition economies pp. 480-482

Linqiang Huang and Sheng Xiao

Size improvement of the KPSS test using sieve bootstraps pp. 483-486

Jin Lee and Young Im Lee

Firm level export decisions: The role of information cost pp. 487-490

Xuan Wei and Suzanne Thornsbury

A simple microfoundation for the utilization of fragmentation indexes to measure the performance of a team pp. 491-493

Benoît Le Maux and Yvon Rocaboy

A note on Bayesian interpretations of HCCME-type refinements for nonlinear GMM models pp. 494-497

Eric Lin and Ta-Sheng Chou

On the evolution of prize perceptions in contests pp. 498-501

James Boudreau and Nicholas Shunda

Further results on the Bertrand game with different marginal costs pp. 502-503

Romain de Nijs

On the inappropriateness of collective rent seeking analysis when agents exert within-group and between-group efforts pp. 504-507

Kjell Hausken

Brand name and private label price setting by a monopoly store pp. 508-511

Jeffrey Perloff, Jeffrey LaFrance and Hayley Chouinard

Disagreement, correlation and asset prices pp. 512-515

Xuezhong (Tony) He and Lei Shi

A necessary and sufficient single-profile condition for transitivity of the majority rule relation pp. 516-518

Dimitrios Xefteris

Application of the simultaneous least squares-probit Nelson–Olson covariance estimator for stratified surveys pp. 519-522

Dayton Lambert, Seong-Hoon Cho and S. Jung

Multi-tasking and inequity aversion in the linear–exponential–normal moral hazard model pp. 523-525

Björn Bartling

Housing deep-habit model: Mutual implications of macroeconomics and asset pricing pp. 526-530

MeiChi Huang

Estimating the number of common factors in serially dependent approximate factor models pp. 531-534

Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, Chirok Han and Donggyu Sul

A note on estimation of two-sided matching models pp. 535-537

Kosuke Uetake and Yasutora Watanabe

Conditions for the numerical equality of the OLS, GLS and Amemiya–Cragg estimators pp. 538-540

Cuicui Lu and Peter Schmidt

Granger causality between total expenditure on health and GDP in OECD: Evidence from the Toda–Yamamoto approach pp. 541-544

Arshia Amiri and Bruno Ventelou

On the interpretation of panel unit root tests pp. 545-546

Mohammad Pesaran

Money and output: New evidence based on wavelet coherence pp. 547-550

Petre Caraiani

Asymmetric marginal costs in search models pp. 551-553

Sandro Shelegia

The trade-enhancing effect of immigration networks: New evidence on the role of geographic proximity pp. 554-557

Andrés Artal-Tur, Vicente J. Pallardó-López and Francisco Requena-Silvente

The size of the tradable and non-tradable sectors: Evidence from input–output tables for 25 countries pp. 558-561

Giovanni Lombardo and Federico Ravenna

What determines the intra-industrial technology spillovers of foreign direct investment? pp. 562-564

Tao Xu and Zengyao Zhao

Convergence clubs in incomes across Indian states: Is there evidence of a neighbours’ effect? pp. 565-570

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Monetary policy and inflationary shocks under imperfect credibility pp. 571-574

Matthieu Darracq Paries and Stéphane Moyen

Education, borrowing constraints and growth pp. 575-578

Koji Kitaura

Sources of advantageous selection: Evidence using actual health expenditure risk pp. 579-582

Meliyanni Johar and Elizabeth Savage

Financial reforms and income inequality pp. 583-587

Luca Agnello, Sushanta Mallick and Ricardo Sousa

Participation in deterministic contests pp. 588-592

Ron Siegel

Efficient organization of production: Nested versus horizontal outsourcing pp. 593-596

Oz Shy and Rune Stenbacka

Structural change with dynamics of capital income share pp. 597-600

Yue Liu

Evaluating Japanese corporate executives’ forecasts under an asymmetric loss function pp. 601-603

Yoichi Tsuchiya

Economic determinants of technological progress in G7 countries: A re-examination pp. 604-608

Bulent Guloglu, R. Baris Tekin and Ercan Saridogan

Can donor coordination solve the aid proliferation problem? pp. 609-612

Aminur Rahman and Yasuyuki Sawada

Bank failure risk: Different now? pp. 613-616

Sherrill Shaffer

Money talks pp. 617-621

Marie Hoerova, Cyril Monnet and Ted Temzelides

The effects of type of non-parental child care on pre-teen skills and risky behavior pp. 622-625

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Marianne Simonsen

Overconfidence, public disclosure and long-lived information pp. 626-630

Deqing Zhou

Fully aggregative games pp. 631-633

Richard Cornes and Roger Hartley

Testing the single-factor model in the presence of persistent regressors pp. 634-636

Masako Miyanishi

A GEL-based AIC for model selection pp. 637-639

Qiang Feng

Volume 116, issue 2, 2012

A note on the relation between local power and robustness to misspecification pp. 133-135

Patrik Guggenberger

Efficient unemployment insurance and the cost of borrowing pp. 136-138

Andreas Pollak

Early selection and moral hazard pp. 139-142

Kangoh Lee

Risk versus social preferences under the veil of ignorance pp. 143-146

Nicola Frignani and Giovanni Ponti

Earnings of rejected applicants to the Social Security Disability Insurance program pp. 147-150

Perry Singleton

Every shroud has a silver lining: The visible benefits of hidden surcharges pp. 151-153

David de Meza and Diane Reyniers

A simple sieve bootstrap range test for poolability in dependent cointegrated panels pp. 154-156

Francesca Di Iorio and Stefano Fachin

One theory for two different risk premia pp. 157-160

Emmanuelle Gabillon

Tax policy and state economic growth: The long-run and short-run of it pp. 161-165

Andrew Ojede and Steven Yamarik

Income and democracy: Evidence from system GMM estimates pp. 166-169

Benedikt Heid, Julian Langer and Mario Larch

An infinite-horizon model of nonmonotone utility smoothing pp. 170-173

Katsutoshi Wakai

Price versus quantity in a mixed duopoly pp. 174-177

Toshihiro Matsumura and Akira Ogawa

Networks and the disappearance of the intranational home bias pp. 178-182

Aitor Garmendia, Carlos Llano, Asier Minondo and Francisco Requena Silvente

Free licensing to boost aggregate odds for success pp. 183-185

Gilad Sorek

Savings behavior with imperfect capital markets: When hyperbolic discounting leads to discontinuous strategies pp. 186-189

Bertrand Wigniolle

Historical financial analogies of the current crisis pp. 190-192

Julián Andrada-Félix, Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Why fiat money is a safe asset pp. 193-198

Dirk Paulsen

Network effects on international trade pp. 199-201

Jaehwa Lee

Channels of size adjustment and firm performance pp. 202-206

Holger Breinlich, Stefan Niemann and Edna Solomon

Did the US consumer overreact? A test of rational expectations pp. 207-209

L’Huillier, Jean-Paul

How much should we trust the World Values Survey trust question? pp. 210-212

Noel Johnson and Alexandra Mislin

A test of the extreme value type I assumption in the bus engine replacement model pp. 213-216

Bradley Larsen, Florian Oswald, Gregor Reich and Dan Wunderli

Are newly exporting firms more innovative? Findings from matched Spanish innovators pp. 217-220

Aoife Hanley and Joaquín Monreal Pérez

The language effect in international trade: A meta-analysis pp. 221-224

Peter Egger and Andrea Lassmann

Death of distance and the distance puzzle pp. 225-228

Faqin Lin and Nicholas C.S. Sim

Impossibilities with Kemeny updating pp. 229-231

Burak Can and Ton Storcken

Heteroskedasticity-robust inference in finite samples pp. 232-235

Jerry Hausman and Christopher Palmer

Fixed effects maximum likelihood estimation of a flexibly parametric proportional hazard model with an application to job exits pp. 236-239

Audrey Light and Yoshiaki Omori

The impact of financial stress on sectoral productivity pp. 240-243

Georgios Efthyvoulou

Convergence of firm-level productivity, globalisation and information technology: Evidence from France pp. 244-246

Paul-Antoine Chevalier, Rémy Lecat and Nicholas Oulton

The payoff to school selectivity: An application of Dale and Krueger’s method to MBA programs pp. 247-249

Weiwei Chen, Wayne Grove and Andrew Hussey

Testing the functional constraints on parameters in regressions with variables of different frequency pp. 250-254

Virmantas Kvedaras and Vaidotas Zemlys

Curbing corruption for higher growth: The importance of persistence pp. 255-257

Mushfiq Swaleheen

Refitting the Kuznets curve pp. 258-261

Rodolphe Desbordes and Vincenzo Verardi

Tariff evasion effects in quantitative general equilibrium pp. 262-264

Peter Egger and Mario Larch

Are the Fama–French factors good proxies for latent risk factors? Evidence from the data of SHSE in China pp. 265-268

Jianhao Lin, Meijin Wang and Lingfeng Cai

Determining optimal monetary speed limits pp. 269-271

Andrew Blake

Volume 116, issue 1, 2012

Can industry regulators learn collusion structures from information-efficient asset markets? pp. 1-4

Alexander Zimper and Shakill Hassan

Are heterogeneous FOMC forecasts consistent with the Fed’s monetary policy? pp. 5-7

Ralf Fendel and Jan-Christoph Rülke

On the potential for observational equivalence in experiments on risky choice when a power value function is assumed pp. 8-10

David Peel and Jie Zhang

Voracity, growth, and welfare pp. 11-14

Kenji Fujiwara

Does labor diversity promote entrepreneurship? pp. 15-19

Marianna Marino, Pierpaolo Parrotta and Dario Pozzoli

The effect of short-term information on long-term investment: An experimental study pp. 20-22

Uri Benzion, Lena Krupalnik, Ahron Rosenfeld, Shosh Shahrabani and Tal Shavit

Identifying monotonic and non-monotonic relationships pp. 23-25

Shlomo Yitzhaki and Edna Schechtman

Exchange rate regime preferences of the international sector. Firm-level evidence pp. 26-30

José Fernández-Albertos

Beliefs about the determinants of success and employment protection pp. 31-33

Andreas Kyriacou

Stochastic processes and target zones revisited pp. 34-36

Hamid Beladi and Avik Chakrabarti

The gender earnings gap for physicians and its increase over time pp. 37-41

Constança Esteves-Sorenson and Jason Snyder

On the implementability of contracts without quasilinear utility pp. 42-45

Xavier Ruiz del Portal

A note on the extension of a binary relation on a set to the power set pp. 46-48

Sususmu Cato

A variance decomposition of index-linked bond returns pp. 49-51

Francis Breedon

Asset bubbles, credit market imperfections, and technology choice pp. 52-55

Tarishi Matsuoka and Akihisa Shibata

R&D and employment: An application of the LSDVC estimator using European microdata pp. 56-59

Francesco Bogliacino, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

Advertising as a predictor of investment pp. 60-66

Kari S. Fridriksson and Gylfi Zoega

Is currency hedging necessary for emerging-market equity investment? pp. 67-71

Daehwan Kim

Stock index return forecasting: The information of the constituents pp. 72-74

Charlie X. Cai, Khine Kyaw and Qi Zhang

The absence of deprivation as a measure of social well-being: An empirical investigation pp. 75-79

Brice Magdalou and Patrick Moyes

Does stronger protection of intellectual property stimulate innovation? pp. 80-82

Kausik Gangopadhyay and Debasis Mondal

Impacts of intangible assets on the initial public offering of biotechnology startups pp. 83-85

Nobuya Fukugawa

Public banks and financial stability pp. 86-88

Svetlana Andrianova

Can prices be insensitive to unit cost variations? A game-theoretic alternative to the kinked demand curve explanation pp. 89-91

Giorgos Stamatopoulos and Minas Vlassis

Taylor rules and technology shocks pp. 92-95

Eric R. Sims

Spatial electoral competition with a probabilistically favored candidate pp. 96-98

Dimitrios Xefteris

An empirical investigation of efficiency and price uniformity in competing auctions pp. 99-101

T. Andersson, C. Andersson and F. Andersson

The evolution of preferences for conflict pp. 102-104

Karl Wärneryd

Double implementation in Nash and M-Nash equilibria pp. 105-107

Jianxin Yi

What do drug monopolies cost consumers in developing countries? pp. 108-111

Rebecca Hellerstein

Bertrand competition with intermediation pp. 112-114

Xiaoying Liang, Lei Xie and Houmin Yan

On the measurement of a multidimensional concept of structural similarity pp. 115-117

Nuno Crespo and Nádia Simões

Dominance and admissibility without priors pp. 118-120

Jörg Stoye

Insurance in vertically differentiated repair markets pp. 121-123

Oliver Urmann

A note on empirical Sharpe ratio dynamics pp. 124-128

Martin Schuster and Benjamin R. Auer

Discrete choice cannot generate demand that is additively separable in own price pp. 129-132

Sonia Jaffe and Scott Kominers