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Volume 118, issue 3, 2013

International migration, human capital formation, and saving pp. 411-414

Oded Stark and Agnieszka Dorn

The demand for climate protection—Empirical evidence from Germany pp. 415-418

Andreas Löschel, Bodo Sturm and Carsten Vogt

Voting under temptation pp. 419-423

Monisankar Bishnu and Min Wang

Climate policy with Bentham–Rawls preferences pp. 424-428

Richard Tol

Idiosyncratic risks, self-insurance, and stochastic bubbles pp. 429-430

Eisei Ohtaki

Exploring the origins of charitable acts: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment with young children pp. 431-434

John List and Anya C. Samak

A note on bias-corrected estimation in dynamic panel data models pp. 435-438

Artūras Juodis

Dupuit conjecture for constrained screening: Overall distortion and type-partitioning pp. 439-441

Sergey Kokovin, Babu Nahata and Evgeny Zhelobodko

Gender differences in overconfidence and risk taking: Do self-selection and socialization matter? pp. 442-444

Kris Hardies, Diane Breesch and Joël Branson

Discrete approximations of continuous distributions by maximum entropy pp. 445-450

Tanaka, Ken’ichiro and Alexis Akira Toda

Using cost pass-through to calibrate demand pp. 451-454

Nathan H. Miller, Marc Remer and Gloria Sheu

From posteriors to priors via cycles: An addendum pp. 455-458

Martin Hellwig

Binding promises and cooperation among strangers pp. 459-461

Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari and Maria Bigoni

Generalized impulse response analysis in a fractionally integrated vector autoregressive model pp. 462-465

Hung Do, Robert Brooks and Sirimon Treepongkaruna

Good intentions pave the way to … the local moneylender pp. 466-469

Lutz Arnold and Benedikt Booker

Gender differences in social framing effects pp. 470-472

Tore Ellingsen, Magnus Johannesson, Johanna Mollerstrom and Sara Munkhammar

Rock–Scissors–Paper and evolutionarily stable strategies pp. 473-474

Simon Loertscher

Improving your chances: A new result pp. 475-477

Michel M. Denuit and Louis Eeckhoudt

Welfare effects of patent protection and productive public services: Why do developing countries prefer weaker patent protection? pp. 478-481

Tatsuro Iwaisako

Earnings persistence and schooling returns pp. 482-484

Corrado Andini

Alternative representations for cointegrated panels with global stochastic trends pp. 485-488

Christian Gengenbach, Jean-Pierre Urbain and Joakim Westerlund

Income and democracy: Evidence from nonlinear estimations pp. 489-492

Jess Benhabib, Alejandro Corvalan and Mark Spiegel

A global index of riskiness pp. 493-496

Adi Schnytzer and Sara Westreich

Model selection for regression with heteroskedastic and autocorrelated errors pp. 497-501

Guangyu Mao

Large distributional games with traits pp. 502-505

M. Khan, Kali P. Rath, Haomiao Yu and Yongchao Zhang

Does working with spouses make teams more productive? A field experiment in India using NREGA pp. 506-508

Alistair Munro, Arjan Verschoor and Amaresh Dubey

Identification problem of the exponential tilting estimator under misspecification pp. 509-511

Naoya Sueishi

Are time preferences for risky outcomes, riskless outcomes and commodities really different? pp. 512-514

Tal Shavit, Uri Benzion, Offer Moshe Shapir and Koresh Galil

Skill distribution and the optimal marginal income tax rate pp. 515-518

Jinlu Li, Shuanglin Lin and Congjun Zhang

Audits and tax offenders: Recent evidence from Greece pp. 519-522

Athanasios Tagkalakis

Majority voting and the single-crossing property when voters belong to separate groups pp. 523-525

Philippe De Donder

Financial markets forecasts revisited: Are they rational, stubborn or jumpy? pp. 526-530

Ippei Fujiwara, Hibiki Ichiue, Yoshiyuki Nakazono and Yosuke Shigemi

The labor demand was downward sloping: Disentangling migrants’ inflows and outflows, 1929–1957 pp. 531-534

Costanza Biavaschi

Volume 118, issue 2, 2013

Sunspot bank runs in competitive versus monopolistic banking systems pp. 247-249

Tarishi Matsuoka

Caveat preemptor: Coordination failure and success in a duopoly investment game pp. 250-254

Etienne Billette de Villemeur, Richard Ruble and Bruno Versaevel

On the substitutability between foreign aid and international credit pp. 255-257

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Sajal Lahiri and Javed Younas

Savings for retirement under liquidity constraints: A note pp. 258-261

Lorenzo Corsini and Luca Spataro

Inelastic sports pricing and risk pp. 262-264

Per Andersen and Martin Nielsen

A Markov-switching model with component structure for US GNP pp. 265-268

Jurgen Doornik

Missing wages: How to test for biased estimates in wage functions? pp. 269-271

Michael Fertig and Katja Görlitz

Asymptotic variance under many instruments: Numerical computations pp. 272-274

Albert Abutaliev and Stanislav Anatolyev

Risk attitude, product innovation, and firm growth. Evidence from Italian manufacturing firms pp. 275-279

Marco Cucculelli and Barbara Ermini

Give and take in dictator games pp. 280-283

Alexander Cappelen, Ulrik H. Nielsen, Erik Sørensen, Bertil Tungodden and Jean-Robert Tyran

Output, emissions, and technology: Some thoughts pp. 284-286

Neha Khanna

On credit frictions as labor–income taxation pp. 287-292

Salem Abo-Zaid

R&D versus output subsidies in mixed markets pp. 293-296

Dusanee Kesavayuth and Vasileios Zikos

School shootings and private school enrollment pp. 297-299

Rahi Abouk and Scott Adams

Fiscal deficits and mean reversion in real exchange rates pp. 300-303

Jingping Gu, Qi Li and Jian Yang

Acyclic roommates pp. 304-306

José Rodrigues-Neto

Why firms’ exploitation of consumer myopia may benefit myopic consumers pp. 307-309

Hans Zenger

Risk aversion in the large and in the small pp. 310-313

Jørgen Haug, Thorsten Hens and Peter Woehrmann

Limited liability, the first-order approach, and the ranking of information systems in agencies pp. 314-317

Francois Larmande

Empirical determinants of in-kind redistribution: Partisan biases and the role of inflation pp. 318-320

Zohal Hessami and Silke Uebelmesser

Buyer’s equilibrium with capacity constraints and restricted mobility: A recursive approach pp. 321-323

Gabriele Camera and Jaehong Kim

Privatization neutrality theorem revisited pp. 324-326

Toshihiro Matsumura and Yasunori Okumura

Equal split in the informal market for group train travel pp. 327-329

Israel Waichman, Till Requate and Artem Korzhenevych

A wavelet analysis of international risk-sharing pp. 330-333

Riccardo Trezzi

The Family and Medical Leave Act and the labor productivity of parents pp. 334-336

Geoffrey Dunbar

Price or quantity? The strategic choice of subsidized firms in a mixed duopoly pp. 337-341

Marcella Scrimitore

What determines the dynamics of absolute excess returns on stock markets? pp. 342-346

Claudia Kurz and Jeong-Ryeol Kurz-Kim

Outsourcing and the skilled–unskilled wage gap pp. 347-350

Sajid Anwar

Reconsidering psychic return in art investments pp. 351-354

Guido Candela, Massimiliano Castellani and Pierpaolo Pattitoni

Optimal capital structure with an equity-for-guarantee swap pp. 355-359

Zhaojun Yang and Hai Zhang

Vertical disintegration and spatial co-localization: The case of Kibs in the metropolitan region of Milan pp. 360-363

Roberto Antonietti, Giulio Cainelli and Claudio Lupi

First-differenced inference for panel factor series pp. 364-366

Ekaterina Ipatova and Lorenzo Trapani

Gibrat’s law for cities, growth regressions and sample size pp. 367-369

Rafael González-Val, Luis Lanaspa and Fernando Sanz-Gracia

A bottom poor sensitive Gini coefficient and maximum entropy estimation of income distributions pp. 370-374

Hang Keun Ryu

Power or loss aversion? Reinterpreting the bargaining weights in search and matching models pp. 375-377

Giuseppe Ciccarone, Francesco Giuli and Enrico Marchetti

Economic growth and individualism: The role of informal institutions pp. 378-380

Casper Hansen

Optimal patent policy, research joint ventures, and growth pp. 381-384

Yibai Yang

Market financing of bail-out targets pp. 385-388

Carlos Pérez Montes

Recursive predictive tests for structural change of long-memory ARFIMA processes with unknown break points pp. 389-392

Cindy Shin-huei Wang and Chrysovalantis Vasilakis

A new analysis of a simple model of fair allocation pp. 393-395

Juan Moreno-Ternero

Technology licensing, R&D and welfare pp. 396-399

Ray-Yun Chang, Hong Hwang and Cheng-Hau Peng

Quantitative evidence on the welfare effects of home sector fiscal policy pp. 400-403

Kelly S. Ragan

Multinational firms mitigate tax competition pp. 404-406

Johannes Becker and Nadine Riedel

E-stability in the stochastic Ramsey model pp. 407-410

George Evans and Kaushik Mitra

Volume 118, issue 1, 2013

Do family ties with those left behind intensify or weaken migrants’ assimilation? pp. 1-5

Oded Stark and Agnieszka Dorn

Can dissimilarity indexes resolve the issue of when to chain price indexes? pp. 6-9

Lorraine Ivancic and Kevin Fox

Anonymity, monotonicity, and limited neutrality: Selecting a single alternative from a binary agenda pp. 10-12

Donald E. Campbell and Jerry S. Kelly

Discrete choice with large choice sets pp. 13-15

Robert Bordley

Dealing with negative marginal utilities in the discrete choice modeling of labor supply pp. 16-18

Philippe Liégeois and Nizamul Islam

The spatial dynamics of growth and inequality: Evidence using U.S. county-level data pp. 19-22

Bebonchu Atems

How reliable are household expenditures as a proxy for permanent income? Implications for the income–nutrition relationship pp. 23-25

John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim

A note on credible spatial preemption in an entry–exit game pp. 26-28

Takeshi Murooka

Testing the law of one price in retail banking: An analysis for Colombia using a pair-wise approach pp. 29-32

Ana Iregui and Jesus Otero

The time-varying correlation between uncertainty, output, and inflation: Evidence from a DCC-GARCH model pp. 33-37

Paul M. Jones and Eric Olson

English deficiency and the native–immigrant wage gap pp. 38-41

Alfonso Miranda and Yu Zhu

The incentive effect of a handicap pp. 42-45

Sam-Ho Lee

A note on interpreting the beta-convergence effect pp. 46-49

Khuong Vu

A dynamic factor model with time-varying loadings for euro area bond markets during the debt crisis pp. 50-54

Jens Boysen-Hogrefe

Rent sharing as a driver of the glass ceiling effect pp. 55-59

Alessia Matano and Paolo Naticchioni

A driver currency hypothesis pp. 60-62

Peijie Wang

Wage sorting trends pp. 63-67

Jesper Bagger, Kenneth Sørensen and Rune Vejlin

Business cycles and divorce: Evidence from microdata pp. 68-70

Judith K. Hellerstein, Melinda Morrill and Ben Zou

Opposite-sex coworkers and marital infidelity pp. 71-73

Masanori Kuroki

Economic literacy, inequality, and financial development pp. 74-76

Anna Lo Prete

A comparison of industry classification schemes: A large sample study pp. 77-80

Karel Hrazdil, Kim Trottier and Ray Zhang

Reinterpreting the Frisch parameter in the field of personal taxation: A link between taxable capacity and social marginal utility in Optimal Taxation pp. 81-83

Andrés Faíña, Jesus Lopez-Rodriguez and Laura Varela-Candamio

Labour market signalling and unemployment duration: An empirical analysis using employer–employee data pp. 84-86

Anders Frederiksen, Rikke Ibsen, Michael Rosholm and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen

Communicating excellence in innovation pp. 87-90

Juan Nicolau and María Jesús Santa-María

E(M)U effects in global cross-border banking pp. 91-93

Harald Sander, Stefanie Kleimeier and Sylvia Heuchemer

Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods pp. 94-96

Patrick Schmitz

Upstream collusion and downstream managerial incentives pp. 97-100

Junsong Bian, Kin Keung Lai and Zhongsheng Hua

Intertemporal choice with liquidity constraints: Theory and experiment pp. 101-103

Dale Stahl

Is the exchange rate regime really irrelevant for external adjustment? pp. 104-109

Atish Ghosh, Mahvash Qureshi and Charalambos Tsangarides

Excise taxes on gasoline and suppliers’ market power: A note pp. 110-112

Eva Pichler and Michael H. Böheim

Do airlines always suffer from crashes? pp. 113-117

Jerry Ho, Mei Qiu and Xiaojun Tang

Are government and IMF forecasts useful? An application of a new market-timing test pp. 118-120

Yoichi Tsuchiya

Non-Bayesian optimal search and dynamic implementation pp. 121-125

Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu

Partial identification and mergers pp. 126-129

Jinyong Hahn, Geert Ridder and Connan Snider

Estimation of spatial autoregressive models with boundary specification problem pp. 130-134

Zhengyu Zhang and Ji Tao

Measuring the stance of monetary policy in zero lower bound environments pp. 135-138

Leo Krippner

A note on exact correspondences between adaptive learning algorithms and the Kalman filter pp. 139-142

Michele Berardi and Jaqueson Galimberti

Decomposing abnormal returns in stochastic linear models pp. 143-147

Carl Lin

Bayesian forecasting with highly correlated predictors pp. 148-150

Dimitris Korobilis

Misspecification in allocative inefficiency: A simulation study pp. 151-154

Levent Kutlu

Behavior-based pricing with experience goods pp. 155-158

Romain de Nijs and Andrew Rhodes

Are the determinants of CO2 emissions converging among OECD countries? pp. 159-162

Mariam Camarero, Andres Picazo-Tadeo and Cecilio Tamarit

An alternative simple quantile regression estimator pp. 163-166

Zhengyu Zhang and Pingfang Zhu

Profit sharing and relative consumption pp. 167-169

Laszlo Goerke

The labor market return to an attractive face: Evidence from a field experiment pp. 170-172

Florencia Lopez Boo, Martín Rossi and Sergio Urzua

Credit sales and advance payments: Substitutes or complements? pp. 173-176

Simona Mateut and Piercarlo Zanchettin

Bayesian inference in regression with Pearson disturbances pp. 177-181

Mike Tsionas

Remittances and corruption pp. 182-185

Aziz N. Berdiev, Yoonbai Kim and Chun-Ping Chang

Taxation and the cash flow sensitivity of dividends pp. 186-188

Marcus Jacob and Martin Jacob

Partial unit root and linear spurious regression: A Monte Carlo simulation study pp. 189-191

Lingxiang Zhang

Efficiency in a search and matching economy with a competitive informal sector pp. 192-194

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet and Mustafa Ulus

Monotonicity of asset price toward higher changes in risk pp. 195-198

Octave Jokung

Fossil fuel prices, exchange rate, and stock market: A dynamic causality analysis on the European market pp. 199-202

Sławomir Śmiech and Monika Papież

Stock price reversals following end-of-the-day price moves pp. 203-205

Andrey Kudryavtsev

Two examples of ambiguity aversion pp. 206-208

Pavlo R. Blavatskyy

Public smoking bans and self-assessed health: Evidence from Great Britain pp. 209-212

John Wildman and Bruce Hollingsworth

Rational students and resit exams pp. 213-215

Peter Kooreman

Reputation in multi-unit ascending auction with common values pp. 216-218

Maksymilian Kwiek

The yield spread puzzle and the information content of SPF forecasts pp. 219-221

Kajal Lahiri, George Monokroussos and Yongchen Zhao

The impact of price discrimination on consumer surplus at popular music concerts pp. 222-224

Edwin Eckard and Marlene A. Smith

Is temporary agency employment a stepping stone for immigrants? pp. 225-228

Elke Jahn and Michael Rosholm

Intergenerational persistence of educational attainment in Italy pp. 229-232

Daniele Checchi, Carlo Fiorio and Marco Leonardi

GMM estimation of stochastic frontier model with endogenous regressors pp. 233-236

Kien Tran and Mike Tsionas

Acyclicity and singleton cores in matching markets pp. 237-239

Antonio Romero-Medina and Matteo Triossi

Cooperative bargaining: Independence and monotonicity imply disagreement pp. 240-242

Shiran Rachmilevitch

Estimation of a local-aggregate network model with sampled networks pp. 243-246

Xiaodong Liu