Economics Letters

1978 - 2025

Current editor(s): Economics Letters Editorial Office

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 113, issue 3, 2011

Inequality and development: Evidence from semiparametric estimation with panel data pp. 203-207

Xianbo Zhou and Kui-Wai Li

Military reserves and social welfare pp. 208-210

Jonathan Lipow and Jay Simon

What is really common in the run-up to banking crises? pp. 211-214

Saktinil Roy and David Kemme

Duality of welfare and profit maximization pp. 215-217

Nicolas Boccard

Predicting within country household food expenditure variation using international cross-section estimates pp. 218-220

Monika Verma, Thomas Hertel and Paul Preckel

Growth, income taxes and consumption aspirations pp. 221-224

Gustavo Marrero and Alfonso Novales

Corruption, inflation and growth pp. 225-227

Keith Blackburn and Jonathan Powell

Sex and environmental policy in the U.S. House of Representatives pp. 228-230

Per Fredriksson and Le Wang

Spatial heterogeneity in the wage curve pp. 231-233

Steven Deller

A revealed preference test of rationing pp. 234-236

Adrian R. Fleissig and Gerald Whitney

State wage-payment laws, the Pension Protection Act of 2006, and 401(k) saving behavior pp. 237-240

Gary V. Engelhardt

A new test for linear inequality constraints when the variance–covariance matrix depends on the unknown parameters pp. 241-243

Stephen G. Donald and Yu-Chin Hsu

Cross-country income convergence revisited pp. 244-247

Levon Barseghyan and Riccardo DiCecio

Hiring subsidies, job creation and job destruction pp. 248-251

Sagiri Kitao, Ayşegül Şahin and Joseph Song

The distribution of sectoral TFP growth rates: International evidence pp. 252-255

Edoardo Gaffeo

Capital regulation, bank competition, and financial stability pp. 256-258

Hendrik Hakenes and Isabel Schnabel

Mean absolute percentage error and bias in economic forecasting pp. 259-262

Jordi Mckenzie

Finance and growth in Africa: The broken link pp. 263-265

Panicos Demetriades and Gregory James

Political regimes and income inequality pp. 266-268

Eric Kemp-Benedict

Disease and development: The role of life expectancy reconsidered pp. 269-272

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

A Blotto game with multi-dimensional incomplete information pp. 273-275

Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

The forecasting properties of survey-based wage-growth expectations pp. 276-281

Thomas Jonsson and Pär Österholm

An improved generalized moments estimator for a spatial moving average error model pp. 282-284

Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

Piece rates for professors pp. 285-287

John Heywood, Xiangdong Wei and Guangliang Ye

Does war influence individual expectations? pp. 288-291

Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück and Tony Muhumuza

Spurious regressions driven by excessive volatility pp. 292-297

Chang Sik Kim and Sungro Lee

Consumer expectation and output growth: The case of China pp. 298-300

Cheng Li

Measuring fixed costs for firms’ use of a free trade agreement: Threshold regression approach pp. 301-303

Kazunobu Hayakawa

Measuring match quality using subjective data pp. 304-306

Priscila Ferreira and Mark Taylor

A simple impossibility result in behavioral contract theory pp. 307-309

Giovanni Immordino, Anna Maria Menichini and Maria Romano

The case for multi-unit single-run descending-price auctions pp. 310-313

Irene Martínez-Pardina and Andres Romeu

Volume 113, issue 2, 2011

The n-dimensional Bailey–Divisia measure as a general-equilibrium measure of the welfare costs of inflation pp. 99-102

Rubens Cysne

Endogenous growth, monetary shocks and nominal rigidities pp. 103-107

Barbara Annicchiarico, Alessandra Pelloni and Lorenza Rossi

First-price sealed-bid auctions when bidders exhibit different attitudes toward risk pp. 108-111

François Maréchal and Pierre-Henri Morand

Parental education, labor market experience and earnings: New wine in an old bottle? pp. 112-115

John Hudson and John Sessions

Multiplicative habit formation and consumption: A note pp. 116-119

Luisa Corrado and Sean Holly

On strategic stability in discontinuous games pp. 120-123

Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau

Discoveries of fakes: Their impact on the art market pp. 124-126

Fabian Bocart and Kim Oosterlinck

Is the WTO mystery really solved? pp. 127-130

Jayjit Roy

“Wacky” patents meet economic indicators pp. 131-134

Dirk Czarnitzki, Katrin Hussinger and Cédric Schneider

International debt shifting and multinational firms in developing economies pp. 135-138

Clemens Fuest, Shafik Hebous and Nadine Riedel

The impact of ECB and FED announcements on the Euro interest rates pp. 139-142

Andrea Monticini, David Peel and Giacomo Vaciago

Dynamics in transitory and permanent variation of wages in Germany pp. 143-146

Michal Myck, Richard Ochmann and Salmai Qari

The impact of prudence on optimal prevention revisited pp. 147-149

Georges Dionne and Jingyuan Li

Can national infrastructure spending reduce local unemployment? Evidence from an Australian roads program pp. 150-153

Andrew Leigh and Christine Neill

Firm competition and incentive pay: Rent seeking at work pp. 154-156

Mikael Priks

Testing the product test pp. 157-159

H. Brea, Emili Grifell-Tatje and C. Lovell

Crime rates and labor market opportunities in the Philippines: 1970–2008 pp. 160-164

Epictetus E. Patalinghug

Empirical likelihood inference for partially linear panel data models with fixed effects pp. 165-167

Junhua Zhang, Sanying Feng, Gaorong Li and Heng Lian

Common stocks as a hedge against inflation: Evidence from century-long US data pp. 168-171

Jae Kim and Heajin Ryoo

A nonparametric test for path dependence in discrete panel data pp. 172-175

Maximilian Kasy

Do FOMC members herd? pp. 176-179

Jan-Christoph Rülke and Peter Tillmann

Direct evidence of risk aversion as a source of advantageous selection in health insurance pp. 180-182

Hendrik Schmitz

An alternative bivariate zero-inflated negative binomial regression model using a copula pp. 183-185

Sunha So, Dong-Hee Lee and Byoung Cheol Jung

The effects of capital income taxation on wage formation pp. 186-188

Torbjörn Dalin and Jesper Stage

Decomposing the international variation in capital per worker pp. 189-191

Marcelo Mello

Housing wealth effect on consumption: Evidence from household level data pp. 192-194

Sungwon Cho

Economic rents in franchising: Do they exist? pp. 195-198

Begoña López-Fernández and Susana López-Bayón

A robust test for multivariate normality pp. 199-201

Kristian Jönsson

Volume 113, issue 1, 2011

The impact of the financial crisis on new firm registration pp. 1-4

Leora Klapper and Inessa Love

Bidding fever in eBay auctions of Amazon.com gift certificates pp. 5-7

Matthew T. Jones

Optimal delegation implications of central bank transparency pp. 8-11

Jonathan G. James and Phillip Lawler

A simple method for estimating unconditional heterogeneity distributions in correlated random effects models pp. 12-15

Jeffrey Wooldridge

Forecasting with many predictors: Is boosting a viable alternative? pp. 16-18

Teresa Buchen and Klaus Wohlrabe

Selective immigration policies, migrants' education and welfare at origin pp. 19-22

Simone Bertoli and Herbert Brücker

Sharpness in randomly censored linear models pp. 23-25

Shakeeb Khan, Maria Ponomareva and Elie Tamer

Uncertain spatial demand and price flexibility: A state space approach to duopoly pp. 26-28

Kieron Meagher and Klaus Zauner

How bidder's number affects optimal reserve price in first-price auctions under risk aversion pp. 29-31

Audrey Hu

Tinbergen controllability and n-player LQ-games pp. 32-34

Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Andrew Hughes Hallett and Nicola Acocella

Do hard pegs avoid currency crises? An evaluation using matching estimators pp. 35-38

Taro Esaka

Trembling-hand myopia and trembling-hand perfection pp. 39-41

C.D. Aliprantis and I. Topolyan

Hit and (they will) run: The impact of terrorism on migration pp. 42-46

Axel Dreher, Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks

Multilateral trade liberalisation, foreign direct investment and the volume of world trade pp. 47-49

David Collie

Vertical integration and right of first refusal pp. 50-53

Luis Cabral and Helder Vasconcelos

Public goods and optimal paternalism under present-biased preferences pp. 54-57

Thomas Aronsson and David Granlund

The application of nonparametric tests to poverty targeting pp. 58-61

Isha Dewan and Rohini Somanathan

A note on representativeness and household finance pp. 62-64

Maik Dierkes, Alexander Klos and Thomas Langer

The shrinking endogeneity of optimum currency areas criteria: Evidence from the European Monetary Union--A beta regression approach pp. 65-69

António Mendonça, João Silvestre and José Passos

Mumbling with great incoherence: Was it really so difficult to understand Alan Greenspan? pp. 70-72

David-Jan Jansen

Ethnic networks and trade: Intensive versus extensive margins pp. 73-75

Cletus Coughlin and Howard Wall

A comparison of bias approximations for the two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator pp. 76-79

Maurice Bun and Frank Windmeijer

Cross-bidding impact throughout the product life cycle pp. 80-83

Juan-Francisco Pages and Asuncion Mochon

Individual heterogeneity in returns to education in urban China during 1995-2002 pp. 84-87

Rong Zhu

The gender reservation wage gap: Evidence from British Panel data pp. 88-91

Sarah Brown, Jennifer Roberts and Karl Taylor

Can consumption of convenience products reveal the opportunity cost of time? pp. 92-95

Daniel Phaneuf

Exchange rate regime verification: An alternative method of testing for regime changes pp. 96-98

Ahmad Hassan Ahmad, David Harvey and Eric Pentecost