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Volume 114, issue 3, 2012

A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism pp. 235-238

Oded Stark, Martyna Kobus and Marcin Jakubek

Optimal financial investments for non-concave utility functions pp. 239-240

Marc Oliver Rieger

Selling patent rights and the incentive to innovate pp. 241-244

Yair Tauman and Ming-Hung Weng

Convergence in price levels across US cities pp. 245-248

Huang, Ho-Chuan (River), Wei-han Liu and Chih-Chuan Yeh

Quantifying the recapitalization fund premium using option pricing techniques pp. 249-251

Ciprian Necula and Alina-Nicoleta Radu

International transmission of business cycles: Evidence from dynamic correlations pp. 252-255

Jarko Fidrmuc, Taro Ikeda and Kentaro Iwatsubo

On the (de)stabilizing effects of news shocks pp. 256-258

Roland Winkler and Hans-Werner Wohltmann

The effect of feedback consistency on success in markets with positive feedbacks pp. 259-261

Pj Lamberson and Scott E. Page

Background risk and self-protection pp. 262-264

Kangoh Lee

An operational interpretation and existence of the Aumann–Serrano index of riskiness pp. 265-267

Ulrich Homm and Christian Pigorsch

Long memory and changing persistence pp. 268-272

Robinson Kruse and Philipp Sibbertsen

In pursuit of impeccable veracity pp. 273-275

Sergey Popov

Public sector decentralization and school performance: International evidence pp. 276-279

Torberg Falch and Justina A. V. Fischer

Contest for power in organizations pp. 280-283

Martin Gregor

German business cycle forecasts, asymmetric loss and financial variables pp. 284-287

Jens Krüger and Julian Hoss

Proportional concessions and the leximin solution pp. 288-291

Bram Driesen

Asset price boom–burst cycle as an elastic money response to technological shocks pp. 292-295

Chin-Yoong Wong and Yoke-Kee Eng

Mergers and corporate debt financing pp. 296-298

Esaignani Selvarajah and Nancy Ursel

The Phillips unit root tests for polynomials of integrated processes pp. 299-303

Martin Wagner

A test of monopoly price dispersion under demand uncertainty pp. 304-307

Brad Humphreys and Brian P. Soebbing

Exploring whether behavior in context-free experiments is predictive of behavior in the field: Evidence from lab and field experiments in rural Sierra Leone pp. 308-311

Maarten Voors, Ty Turley, Andreas Kontoleon, Erwin Bulte and John List

Evaluating the median voter model’s explanatory power pp. 312-314

David Stadelmann, Marco Portmann and Reiner Eichenberger

On competition for listings pp. 315-318

Hamid Beladi, Reza Oladi and Nicholas S.P. Tay

An estimated fiscal Taylor Rule for the postwar United States pp. 319-321

Claire Reicher

Optimal monetary policy and model selection in a real-time learning environment pp. 322-325

Federico Ravenna

Returns to education in professional football pp. 326-328

René Böheim and Mario Lackner

Nonlinear dynamics in CEE stock markets indices pp. 329-331

Petre Caraiani

Unique monetary equilibria with interest rate rules: An extension pp. 332-334

Kent P. Kimbrough

How important is cultural background for the level of intergenerational mobility? pp. 335-337

Daniel D. Schnitzlein

What drives inflation in New Keynesian models? pp. 338-342

Christian Matthes and Mu-Chun Wang

Value of public information in sender–receiver games pp. 343-345

Ying Chen

Catholic schooling and further education pp. 346-348

Young-Joo Kim

Contracting welfare-to-work services pp. 349-352

Pierre Koning

On general periodic time-varying bilinear processes pp. 353-357

Abdelouahab Bibi and Ines Lescheb

Volume 114, issue 2, 2012

Auctions with a random number of identical bidders pp. 143-146

Moshe Haviv and Igal Milchtaich

Gender differences in lying pp. 147-149

Jason Childs

Dissipative advertising signals quality: Static model with a continuum of types pp. 150-153

Laurent Linnemer

Investment under uncertainty: The nature of demand shocks and the expected profitability of capital pp. 154-156

Pedro Gil

Some international evidence on the Lucas Supply Function pp. 157-160

Ralf Fendel and Jan-Christoph Rülke

The asymmetry of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve in the euro-area pp. 161-163

Georgios Chortareas, George Magonis and Theodore Panagiotidis

Communication and reputation in procurement auctions — Some empirical evidence pp. 164-167

Timo Heinrich

Do bad risks know it? Experimental evidence on optimism and adverse selection pp. 168-171

Marta Coelho and David de Meza

Recreational versus professional bettors: Performance differences and efficiency implications pp. 172-174

A.C. Bruce, J.E.V. Johnson and John Peirson

Undesirable competition pp. 175-177

Leonard F.S. Wang and Arijit Mukherjee

Bargaining and inequity aversion: On the efficiency of the double auction pp. 178-181

Alexander Rasch, Achim Wambach and Kristina Wiener

Paying the price of sweetening your donation: Evidence from a natural field experiment pp. 182-185

Francisco Alpizar Rodriguez and Peter Martinsson

Instrumental variables estimation with partially missing instruments pp. 186-189

Magne Mogstad and Matthew Wiswall

A method for implementing counterfactual experiments in models with multiple equilibria pp. 190-194

Victor Aguirregabiria

Second order bias of quasi-MLE for covariance structure models pp. 195-197

Artem Prokhorov

News shocks or parametric indeterminacy? An observational equivalence result in linear rational expectations models pp. 198-200

Marco Sorge

Transition probabilities in a problem of stochastic process switching pp. 201-204

Dirk Veestraeten

Observability and incentive in organizations pp. 205-207

Sanxi Li, Bing Ye and Jianyu Yu

A simple model of herd behavior, a comment pp. 208-211

Andrea Morone

Working under pressure: Evidence from the impacts of soccer fans on players’ performance pp. 212-215

Breno Braga and Diogo Guillén

Networks in markets and the propensity of companies to collaborate: An empirical test of three mechanisms pp. 216-220

Alessandro Lomi and Fabio Fonti

Does financial development reduce corruption? pp. 221-223

Yener Altunbas and John Thornton

The importance of industry classification in estimating concentration ratios pp. 224-227

Karel Hrazdil and Ray Zhang

Aggregate demand gap based on a simple structural VAR model pp. 228-234

Dongchul Cho

Volume 114, issue 1, 2012

Euler equations and monetary policy pp. 1-5

Fabrice Collard and Harris Dellas

On the identification of the procurement model pp. 9-11

Isabelle Perrigne and Quang Vuong

The effect of option granting on executive stock purchases pp. 12-15

Paul Grout and Anna Zalewska

Co-monotonicity: Toward a utility function capturing envy pp. 16-19

Moshe Levy

Should central bankers discount the future? A note pp. 20-22

Juan Paez-Farrell

A Hausman test for non-ignorability pp. 23-25

Michael Bücker, Walter Krämer and Matthias Arnold

Credit spread and monetary policy pp. 26-28

Yuki Teranishi

Measuring the impact of monetary policy on asset prices in Turkey pp. 29-31

Murat Duran, Gülserim Özcan, Pınar Özbay Özlü and Deren Ünalmış

Tracking the US business cycle with a singular spectrum analysis pp. 32-35

Miguel de Carvalho, Paulo C. Rodrigues and António Rua

Trade costs and productivity in services sectors pp. 36-38

Sébastien Miroudot, Jehan Sauvage and Ben Shepherd

Competitive prices as optimal cartel prices pp. 39-42

Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen

An augmented Becker–DeGroot–Marschak mechanism for transaction cycles pp. 43-46

Thomas Weber

Sovereign default risk and volatility pp. 47-50

Christian Daude

The discount rate and the value of remaining years of life pp. 51-53

John M. Hartwick

The determinants of corruption in transition economies pp. 54-60

Ichiro Iwasaki and Taku Suzuki

Standards vs. labels with imperfect competition and asymmetric information pp. 61-63

Kenneth Baltzer

An empirical investigation of US fiscal expenditures and macroeconomic outcomes pp. 64-68

Yunus Aksoy and Giovanni Melina

A new measurement method of investor overconfidence pp. 69-71

Ronald Huisman, Nico L. van der Sar and Remco Zwinkels

On the origin of high persistence in GARCH-models pp. 72-75

Walter Krämer, Baudouin Tameze and Konstantinos Christou

Quality growth: New evidence from Japanese household-level data pp. 76-79

Satoshi Shimizutani

Sustainability, flexibility, and inflation targeting pp. 80-82

Takushi Kurozumi

Strategic ignorance in a second-price auction pp. 83-85

David McAdams

Estimating GARCH volatility in the presence of outliers pp. 86-90

M. Angeles Carnero, Daniel Peña and Esther Ruiz

Variable factor shares, measurement and growth accounting pp. 91-93

Hernando Zuleta

The effect of crises on firm exit and the moderating effect of firm size pp. 94-97

Celeste Varum and Vera Rocha

The dynamics of a complex system: The exchange rate crisis in Southeast Asia pp. 98-101

Fotios M. Siokis

Risk-taking for others under accountability pp. 102-105

Julius Pahlke, Sebastian Strasser and Ferdinand Vieider

Child abuse: Does public enforcement crowd out private vigilance? pp. 106-108

Michael Malcolm and Getachew Dugda

Intelligence and corruption pp. 109-112

Niklas Potrafke

Estimating the financial crisis’ impact on potential output pp. 113-119

Luca Benati

From unemployed to entrepreneur: The role of the absolute bequest motive pp. 120-123

Joao Faria and Zhongmin Wu

On the use of robust regression in econometrics pp. 124-127

Markus Baldauf and João Santos Silva

The Turkish wage curve: Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey pp. 128-131

Badi Baltagi, Yusuf Baskaya and Timur Hulagu

Are professional forecasts of growth in US business investment rational? pp. 132-135

Hamid Baghestani

Bertrand competition when firms hold passive ownership stakes in one another pp. 136-138

Sandro Shelegia and Yossi Spiegel

Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy pp. 139-141

Peter Leeson, Russell S. Sobel and Andrea M. Dean