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Volume 115, issue 3, 2012

Business cycles through international shocks: A structural investigation pp. 329-333

Hakan Yilmazkuday

Efficient realized variance, regression coefficient, and correlation coefficient under different sampling frequencies pp. 334-337

Dong Wan Shin and Sangun Park

Fertility choice under child mortality and social norms pp. 338-341

Joydeep Bhattacharya and Shankha Chakraborty

The PPP debate: Multiple breaks and cross-sectional dependence pp. 342-344

Stuart Snaith

Citizens’ trust in government and their willingness-to-pay pp. 345-347

Hyungna Oh and Jong Ho Hong

Public debt and financial development: A theoretical exploration pp. 348-351

Mustafa Ismihan and Gulcin Ozkan

An evaluation of private forecasts of interest rate targets in Brazil pp. 352-355

Hamid Baghestani and Cassia Marchon

Decision-making in competitive framings—Strategic behavior of chess players in mini-ultimatum game chess puzzles pp. 356-358

Christoph Bühren, Björn Frank, Stefan Krabel and Alexander Werner

The propensity to return: Theory and evidence for the Italian brain drain pp. 359-362

A.E. Biondo, Simona Monteleone, G. Skonieczny and B. Torrisi

Child gender and parental borrowing: Evidence from India pp. 363-365

Isabelle Agier, Isabelle Guérin and Ariane Szafarz

Farmers’ performance and subject pool effect in decentralized bargaining markets pp. 366-368

Israel Waichman and Christiane Ness

Bank of Canada communication, media coverage, and financial market reactions pp. 369-372

Bernd Hayo and Matthias Neuenkirch

Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do! pp. 373-375

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Hannes Öhler

Conditional forecasts on SVAR models using the Kalman filter pp. 376-378

Gonzalo Camba-Mendez

The monopolist is not the best environmentalist’s best friend: An example pp. 379-382

Philippe Mahenc and Marion Podesta

Has US inflation really become harder to forecast? pp. 383-386

Markku Lanne and Jani Luoto

Discontinuous stable games and efficient Nash equilibria pp. 387-389

Vincenzo Scalzo

Structural correlation decompositions for business cycle analysis pp. 390-391

Michal Andrle

Fiscal policy institutions and history pp. 392-395

David Cuberes and Andrew Mountford

Low-quality leadership in a vertically differentiated duopoly with Cournot competition pp. 396-398

Luca Lambertini and Alessandro Tampieri

A mechanism for eliciting a probability distribution pp. 399-400

Xiangyu Qu

Rock–paper–scissors and cycle-based games pp. 401-403

Eric Bahel

Lifestyles of the rich and polygynous in Cote d’Ivoire pp. 404-407

Eric Gould, Omer Moav and Avi Simhon

Multi-attribute procurement auctions with risk averse suppliers pp. 408-411

Shulin Liu, Jun Li and De Liu

Local interaction in tax evasion pp. 412-415

Barnabás M. Garay, Andras Simonovits and János Tóth

Identification and estimation of thresholds in the fixed effects ordered logit model pp. 416-418

Gregori Baetschmann

Hysteresis in unemployment: Fact or fiction? pp. 419-422

Naveen Srinivasan and Pratik Mitra

Charities and the political support for estate taxation pp. 423-426

Georges Casamatta, Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau

Rational thinking under costly information—Macroeconomic implications pp. 427-430

Orlando Gomes

The efficiency of the benchmark revisions to the current employment statistics (CES) data pp. 431-434

Keith Phillips and James Nordlund

The relevance of irrelevant alternatives pp. 435-437

Eike Kroll and Bodo Vogt

Measuring business cycle comovements in Europe: Evidence from a dynamic factor model with time-varying parameters pp. 438-440

Jim Lee

Financial conditions indexes for the United States and euro area pp. 441-446

Troy Matheson

Intergovernmental transfers and procyclical public spending pp. 447-451

Andrew Abbott and Philip Jones

Self-regulatory strength and dynamic optimal purchase pp. 452-454

Kenju Kamei

Crime and moral hazard: Does more policing necessarily induce private negligence? pp. 455-459

Brishti Guha and Ashok S. Guha

Financial expectations and the ‘left–right’ political value scale: Testing for the POUM hypothesis pp. 460-464

Franz Buscha

Welfare properties of strategic R&D investments in Hotelling models pp. 465-468

Toshihiro Matsumura and Noriaki Matsushima

An application of models of speculative behaviour to oil prices pp. 469-472

Shuping Shi and Vipin Arora

An international agreement with full participation to tackle the stock of greenhouse gases pp. 473-476

Uwe Kratzsch, Gernot Sieg and Ulrike Stegemann

Pace of work and piece rates pp. 477-479

Adam Clemens

Better to give than to receive? Altruistic provision of a global public good pp. 480-483

Ramses Abul Naga and Philip Jones

Symmetry-based compromise and the Nash solution to convex bargaining problems pp. 484-486

Yongsheng Xu

Chaos in German stock returns — New evidence from the 0–1 test pp. 487-489

Karsten Webel

Limited investor attention and the mispricing of American Depositary Receipts pp. 490-492

Stefan Eichler

Impatience among preschool children and their mothers pp. 493-495

Fabian Kosse and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

Gauging potential sovereign risk contagion in Europe pp. 496-499

Tom Fong and Alfred Y-T. Wong

Matching auction with winner’s curse and imperfect financial markets pp. 500-503

Alexander Matros

On the belief (in-)dependence of sequential equilibria pp. 504-507

Hans Carlsson and Philipp Wichardt

A stylized model of overrepresentation and quality in the Congress pp. 508-510

José Bercoff, Osvaldo Meloni and Jorge Nougués

Partial identification of distributional and quantile treatment effects in difference-in-differences models pp. 511-515

Yanqin Fan and Zhengfei Yu

A multivariate discrete choice method based on inequality restrictions pp. 516-518

Dae-Yong Ahn

An alternative explanation for the logit form probabilistic choice model from the equal likelihood hypothesis pp. 519-522

Tomohiko Konno

Is wealth accumulation a luxury good? pp. 523-526

Kiichi Tokuoka

Population aging and sectoral employment shares pp. 527-530

Akira Momota

Volume 115, issue 2, 2012

Real wage cyclicality in urban China pp. 141-143

Lili Kang and Fei Peng

Causal relations between inflation and inflation uncertainty—Cross sectional evidence in favour of the Friedman–Ball hypothesis pp. 144-147

Matthias Hartmann and Helmut Herwartz

Assessing the reassessment: A panel analysis of the Lisbon Strategy pp. 148-151

Sergio Destefanis and Giuseppe Mastromatteo

Determinacy of equilibrium outcome distributions for zero sum and common utility games pp. 152-154

Cristian M. Litan and Francisco Marhuenda

On the loss function of the Bank of Canada: A note pp. 155-159

Christian Pierdzioch, Jan-Christoph Rülke and Georg Stadtmann

Optimal contracts and the role of the government in wage bargaining pp. 160-163

Lilia Cavallari

Chinese firms’ political connection, ownership, and financing constraints pp. 164-167

Kenneth Chan, Vinh Q.T. Dang and Kit Ming Yan

Greater moderations pp. 168-171

John Keating and Victor (Vic) Valcarcel

Welfare of naive and sophisticated players in school choice pp. 172-174

Jose Apesteguia and Miguel Ballester

The relation between wealth and health: Evidence from a world panel of countries pp. 175-176

Casper Hansen

Is China different? A meta-analysis of export-led growth pp. 177-179

Patrik Tingvall and Christer Ljungwall

Funded social security and economic growth pp. 180-183

Lars Kunze

Financial development and remittances: Micro-econometric evidence pp. 184-186

Giulia Bettin, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti and Alberto Zazzaro

A household level environmental Kuznets curve? Some recent evidence on transport emissions and income pp. 187-189

Adam Cox, Alan Collins, Lee Woods and Neil Ferguson

Does innovation help the good or the poor performing firms? pp. 190-195

Joze Damijan, Crt Kostevc and Matija Rojec

External deficits and non-performing loans in the recent financial crisis pp. 196-199

Karlo Kauko

Marginal likelihood calculation for the Gelfand–Dey and Chib methods pp. 200-203

Chun Liu and Qing Liu

Is America’s National Pastime too time consuming? pp. 204-206

John Burger and Stephen J.K. Walters

Trading mechanism selection with directed search when buyers are risk averse pp. 207-210

Cemil Selcuk

A note on contribution games with loss functions pp. 211-214

Giuseppe Russo and Luigi Senatore

On factors explaining the 2008 financial crisis pp. 215-217

Eduardo Acosta-González, Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

SU-ΔCoVaR pp. 218-220

Pilsun Choi, Insik Min and Keehwan Park

Does total-factor productivity drive housing prices? A growth-accounting exercise for four countries pp. 221-224

Alessio Moro and Galo Nuño Barrau

Are most people consequentialists? pp. 225-228

Olof Johansson-Stenman

A comment on ‘Is the spurious regression problem spurious?’ pp. 229-231

Berenice Martínez-Rivera and Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària

Tournament incentives and asset price bubbles: Evidence from a field experiment pp. 232-235

Michael Berlemann and Henning Vöpel

The Troika paradox pp. 236-239

Pavlo R. Blavatskyy

The effect of foreign aid on corruption: A quantile regression approach pp. 240-243

Keisuke Okada and Sovannroeun Samreth

On the stability of the constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility under high degrees of uncertainty pp. 244-248

Trino-Manuel Ñíguez, Ivan Paya, David Peel and Javier Perote

Land reforms and social unrest: An empirical investigation of riots in India pp. 249-251

Susmita Roy

Accounting for the effect of health on cross-state income inequality in India pp. 252-255

Lena Sperling and Anders Oskar Kjøller-Hansen

Set coverage and robust policy pp. 256-257

Marc Henry and Alexei Onatski

A note on the POUM effect with heterogeneous social mobility pp. 258-262

Francesco Feri

Negative recency, randomization device choice, and reduction of compound lotteries pp. 263-267

Kim Kaivanto and Eike Kroll

Asymmetric partnerships pp. 268-271

Nicolás Figueroa and Vasiliki Skreta

Government debt in the euro area—Evidence from dynamic factor analysis pp. 272-275

Huiran Pan and Chun Wang

Differentiated interchange fees pp. 276-278

Hans Zenger

How do consumers respond to house price declines? pp. 279-281

John Gathergood

On Giffen-like goods pp. 282-285

Junichi Minagawa

Increasing workload in a stochastic environment pp. 286-288

Philipp Weinschenk

Sabotage in teams pp. 289-292

Matthias Kräkel and Daniel Müller

Time varying CAPM betas and banking sector risk pp. 293-295

Tony Caporale

Optimal annuitization, uncertain survival probabilities, and maxmin preferences pp. 296-299

d’Albis, Hippolyte and Emmanuel Thibault

Practical guidelines for the estimation and inference of a dynamic logistic model with fixed-effects pp. 300-304

Romain Aeberhardt and Laurent Davezies

Innovation and duration of exports pp. 305-308

Wei-Chih Chen

The financial accelerator and monetary policy rules pp. 309-313

Gunes Kamber and Christoph Thoenissen

A cautionary note on tests of overidentifying restrictions pp. 314-317

Paulo Parente and João Santos Silva

Integration, social distress, and policy formation pp. 318-321

Oded Stark

Should you pay off your mortgage or invest? pp. 322-324

Valentina Michelangeli

Money and rank in the labor market pp. 325-328

Ana Rute Cardoso

Volume 115, issue 1, 2012

War and peace: Explosive U.S. public debt, 1791–2009 pp. 1-3

Gawon Yoon

When are adaptive expectations rational? A generalization pp. 4-6

Ben Shepherd

Transparency, entry, and productivity pp. 7-10

Yiquan Gu and Tobias Wenzel

The stability of big-five personality traits pp. 11-15

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Stefanie Schurer

Test for linearity against STAR models with deterministic trends pp. 16-19

Lingxiang Zhang

Does the trust game measure trust? pp. 20-23

Marius Brülhart and Jean-Claude Usunier

Kernel-based estimation of semiparametric regression in triangular systems pp. 24-27

Carlos Martins-Filho and Feng Yao

Why inflation targeting central banks seem to follow a standard Taylor rule pp. 28-30

Stefan Kühn and Joan Muysken

A simple panel stationarity test in the presence of serial correlation and a common factor pp. 31-34

Kaddour Hadri and Eiji Kurozumi

The Oaxaca decomposition generalized to a continuous group variable pp. 35-37

Shawn W. Ulrick

The effects of implicit contracts on wages: Evidence from the Japanese labor market pp. 38-40

Koyo Miyoshi

Imposing local curvature in the QUAIDS pp. 41-43

Dongfeng Chang and Apostolos Serletis

Is there an energy paradox in fuel economy? A note on the role of consumer heterogeneity and sorting bias pp. 44-48

Antonio Bento, Shanjun Li and Kevin Roth

An extreme point characterization of random strategy-proof social choice functions: The two alternative case pp. 49-52

Jérémy Picot and Arunava Sen

Specification tests and tests for overidentifying restrictions in panel data models with selection pp. 53-55

Anastasia Semykina

Distributional effects of public policy choices pp. 56-59

Yoseph Getachew

Testing for bivariate stochastic dominance using inequality restrictions pp. 60-62

Thanasis Stengos and Brennan Thompson

Gradualism and dynamic trade adjustment: Revisiting the pro-trade effect of free trade agreements pp. 63-66

Benjamin Jung

On estimation of the CES production function—Revisited pp. 67-69

Arne Henningsen and Geraldine Henningsen

Multiple equilibrium in the overlapping generations model revisited pp. 70-72

Ryoji Hiraguchi

Frequency domain analysis of foreign exchange order flows pp. 73-76

Nikola Gradojevic

Central bank independence and stock market returns in emerging economies pp. 77-80

Thomas Förch and Uwe Sunde

Binary misclassification and identification in regression models pp. 81-84

Martijn van Hasselt and Christopher Bollinger

The treatment effect, the cross difference, and the interaction term in nonlinear “difference-in-differences” models pp. 85-87

Patrick Puhani

A refined consumption–wealth ratio and its role on time-varying consumption risk pp. 88-90

Margot Quijano

Did the September 11th attacks affect the Canadian labour market? pp. 91-93

Michael Shannon

Welfare consequence of an asymmetric regulation in a mixed Bertrand duopoly pp. 94-96

Toshihiro Matsumura

Does privatization improve the environment? Revisiting the monopoly case pp. 97-99

Bibhas Saha

A note on the incompatibility of strategy-proofness and Pareto-optimality in quasi-linear settings with public budgets pp. 100-103

Ron Lavi and Marina May

Inequality, corruption and the informal sector pp. 104-107

Stephen Dobson and Carlyn Ramlogan-Dobson

Lagged duration dependence in mixed proportional hazard models pp. 108-110

Matteo Picchio

How burning money requires a lot of rationality to be effective pp. 111-113

Christian Seel and Philipp Wichardt

Effect of generic cigarettes on US cigarette demand and smuggling pp. 114-117

Rajeev Goel

Efficient but getting wet feet: A not-entirely-frivolous note on the side-effects of growth-promoting institutions pp. 118-121

Carl Hampus Lyttkens, Joakim Westerlund and Tommy Andersson

Changes in the second-moment properties of disaggregated capital flows pp. 122-127

Silvio Contessi, Pierangelo De Pace and Johanna Francis

An OLS approach to computing Ramsey equilibria in medium-scale macroeconomic models pp. 128-129

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

Government solvency and financial markets: Dynamic panel estimates for the European Monetary Union pp. 130-133

Anastasia Theofilakou and Yannis Stournaras

The intergenerational transmission of education: Evidence from Taiwanese adoptions pp. 134-136

Meng-Wen Tsou, Jin-Tan Liu and James Hammitt

The stationarity of consumption–income ratios: Evidence from bootstrapping confidence intervals pp. 137-140

Firouz Fallahi