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Volume 108, issue 3, 2010

Reduced smoking and rising obesity: Does smoking ban in the workplace matter? pp. 249-252

Feng Liu, Ning Zhang, Kai-Wen Cheng and Hua Wang

The superior measure of PSID consumption: An update pp. 253-256

Sheng Guo

Conditional forecasts and uncertainty about forecast revisions in vector autoregressions pp. 257-259

Marek Jarociński

Students' beliefs about peer effects pp. 260-263

Gigi Foster and Paul Frijters

Common agency, organizational design and the hold-up problem pp. 264-268

Vinicius Carrasco

Inflation dynamics under habit formation in hours pp. 269-272

Gunes Kamber

Estimating simultaneous games with incomplete information under median restrictions pp. 273-276

Xun Tang

Pure strategy equilibria in Bertrand games with discontinuous demand and asymmetric tie-breaking rules pp. 277-279

Adib Bagh

Labor quality growth in Germany pp. 280-282

Guido Schwerdt and Jarkko Turunen

Nash implementation theory -- A note on full characterizations pp. 283-285

Ville Korpela

Casting the naturalization of asylum seekers as an economic problem pp. 286-290

Oded Stark

Another problem in the estimation of intergenerational income mobility pp. 291-295

Sean Muller

An examination of the utility bearing characteristics of occupations: A factor analytical approach pp. 296-298

Robert Wells

Single-valuedness of the demand correspondence and strict convexity of preferences: An equivalence result pp. 299-302

Ennio Bilancini and Leonardo Boncinelli

Reserve prices in a dynamic auction when bidders are capacity-constrained pp. 303-306

Viplav Saini

A note on information revelation in procurement auctions pp. 307-310

Nicola Doni and Domenico Menicucci

Is the real price of equipment a good measure for investment-specific technological change? pp. 311-313

Kwang Hwan Kim

Time preference and the welfare effects of tie-in sales pp. 314-317

Florian Heubrandner and Bernd Skiera

Identification and overidentification in SVECMs pp. 318-321

Bernd Lucke

Sufficient communication in repeated games with imperfect private monitoring pp. 322-326

Rui Li

SP/A and CPT: A reconciliation of two behavioral decision theories pp. 327-329

Marc Oliver Rieger

The reality of reality television: Does reality TV influence local crime rates? pp. 330-333

Lesley Chiou and Mary Lopez

A simple spatial model for Edgeworth Cycles pp. 334-336

Nick Wills-Johnson and Harry Bloch

Private monitoring games and decisions under uncertainty pp. 337-340

Shinichiro Takizawa

Minimum wages and excessive effort supply pp. 341-344

Matthias Kräkel and Anja Schöttner

Sorting, incentives and risk preferences: Evidence from a field experiment pp. 345-348

Charles Bellemare and Bruce Shearer

Derivation of the Hicks, or direct, elasticity of substitution using the input distance function pp. 349-351

David Stern

The number of pure strategy Nash equilibria in random multi-team games pp. 352-354

William Stanford

Volume 108, issue 2, 2010

Optimal observability in a linear income tax pp. 105-108

Joel Slemrod and Christian Traxler

Semiparametric information bound of dynamic discrete choice models pp. 109-112

Moshe Buchinsky, Jinyong Hahn and Kyoo il Kim

Commercializing public technology through cooperative R&D pp. 113-115

Conrad S. Ciccotello, Richard Fu and Ajay Subramanian

Is skilled immigration always good for growth in the receiving economy? pp. 116-118

Leonid Azarnert

The pricing of bank debt guarantees pp. 119-121

Stefan Arping

A new test of the inflation-real marginal cost relationship: ARDL bounds approach pp. 122-125

Alexandros Kontonikas

Threshold effects of inflation on economic growth in developing countries pp. 126-129

Alexander Bick

Equilibrium price distribution with directed technical change pp. 130-133

Pedro Gil, Fernanda Figueiredo and Oscar Afonso

Demand and choice elasticities for a separable product group pp. 134-136

Brett Smith, Zeenat Abdoolakhan and John Taplin

Does the color of the collar matter? Employment and earnings after plant closure pp. 137-140

Guido Schwerdt, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Ruf, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimüller

Fixed cost, number of firms, and skill premium: An alternative source for rising wage inequality pp. 141-144

Yoshinori Kurokawa

Aggregate economic shocks and infant mortality: New evidence for middle-income countries pp. 145-148

Norbert Schady and Marc-Francois Smitz

Level-k reasoning in contests pp. 149-152

Mark Bernard

Fitting Lorenz curves pp. 153-155

Otaviano Helene

A generalization of the Atkinson-Stiglitz (1976) theorem on the undesirability of nonuniform excise taxation pp. 156-158

Martin F. Hellwig

On the recent divergence between measures of the money supply in the UK pp. 159-162

Bruce Rayton and Khrystyna Pavlyk

International cross-holdings of bonds in a two-good DSGE model pp. 163-166

David Amdur

Is there a financial accelerator in US banking?: Evidence from the cyclicality of banks' price-cost margins pp. 167-171

Roger Aliaga-Diaz and Maria Olivero

The impact of U.S. central bank communication on European and pacific equity markets pp. 172-174

Bernd Hayo, Ali Kutan and Matthias Neuenkirch

Career concerns and ambiguity aversion pp. 175-177

Eric Rasmusen

Transition of social welfare in the European country clubs pp. 178-180

George A. Christodoulakis and Emmanuel Mamatzakis

Multinational production and choice of technologies: New evidence on skill-biased technological change from China pp. 181-183

Ben Li

How much stock return predictability can we expect from an asset pricing model? pp. 184-186

Guofu Zhou

Can behavioral finance models account for historical asset prices? pp. 187-189

Rhys ap Gwilym

Scale economies and intra-industry trade pp. 190-192

Don Clark

Do investors respond to tax reform? Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany pp. 193-196

Nicolas Sauter and Joachim Winter

Individual Retirement Accounts, saving and labor supply pp. 197-200

Sagiri Kitao

Voluntary implementation when the planner is a player pp. 201-204

Changchen Liu, Yunfeng Luo and Nvpo Zeng

Fundamentals behind house prices pp. 205-207

Bin Li and Zhixiong Zeng

Frictional matching: Evidence from law school admission pp. 208-211

Pascal Courty and Mario Pagliero

Behavior under social pressure: Empty Italian stadiums and referee bias pp. 212-214

Per Pettersson-Lidbom and Mikael Priks

What is the cost of venting? Evidence from eBay pp. 215-218

Lingfang Li

Adverse selection, endogenous borrowing constraints and firm growth pp. 219-221

Arthur Fishman and Miriam Krausz

Base consumption levels and fixed costs pp. 222-224

Emanuela Randon and Peter Simmons

A note on the Cliff and Ord test for spatial correlation in panel models pp. 225-228

Jan Mutl and Michael Pfaffermayr

Alternative characterizations of the proportional solution for nonconvex bargaining problems with claims pp. 229-232

Michele Lombardi and Naoki Yoshihara

Is there any asymmetry in the effect of inflation on relative price variability? pp. 233-236

Chi-Young Choi and Young Se Kim

The effect of children on specialization and coordination of partners' activities pp. 237-241

Anh Le and Paul Miller

Consumer networks and firm reputation: A first experimental investigation pp. 242-244

Steffen Huck, Gabriele K. Lünser and Jean-Robert Tyran

Rationality around the clock: Sleep and time-of-day effects on guessing game responses pp. 245-248

David Dickinson and Todd McElroy

Volume 108, issue 1, 2010

Efficient and strategy-proof voting over connected coalitions: A possibility result pp. 1-3

Veronica Block

Existence of an interim and ex-ante minimax point for an asymmetric information game pp. 4-6

Marialaura Pesce and Nicholas C. Yannelis

Stochastic volatility and DSGE models pp. 7-9

Martin Andreasen

Physical appearance and wages: Do blondes have more fun? pp. 10-12

David Johnston

Preferences and normal goods: An easy-to-check necessary and sufficient condition pp. 13-15

Ennio Bilancini and Leonardo Boncinelli

Persuasion in experimental ultimatum games pp. 16-18

Ola Andersson, Matteo Galizzi, Tim Hoppe, Sebastian Kranz, Karen van der Wiel and Erik Wengström

Creditor protection and banking system development in India pp. 19-21

Simon Deakin, Panicos Demetriades and Gregory James

Cash transfer programs and child health in Brazil pp. 22-25

Mauricio Reis

On MQS regulation, innovation and market coverage pp. 26-27

Emanuele Bacchiega, Luca Lambertini and Andrea Mantovani

Can the Fed predict the state of the economy? pp. 28-32

Tara M. Sinclair, Fred Joutz and H.O. Stekler

You CAN Carlson-Parkin pp. 33-35

Christian Müller

Cross-sectional averaging and instrumental variable estimation with many weak instruments pp. 36-39

George Kapetanios and Massimiliano Marcellino

On cost restrictions in spatial competition models with heterogeneous firms pp. 40-42

Marco Alderighi and Claudio Piga

A multilateral telephone bargaining game pp. 43-45

Duozhe Li

Do employers change job offers in their online job ads to facilitate search? pp. 46-48

Vera Brencic and John B. Norris

Declining prices in sequential auctions with complete revelation of bids pp. 49-51

Karthik N. Kannan

Do breakup fees lead to efficient takeover? pp. 52-54

Yeon-Koo Che, Jinwoo Kim and Tracy Lewis

The forward premium puzzle in the interwar period and deviations from covered interest parity pp. 55-57

Ivan Paya, David Peel and Alina Spiru

Signal jamming in a sequential auction pp. 58-61

Wei Ding, Thomas Jeitschko and Elmar Wolfstetter

The effects of Japanese interventions on FX-forecast heterogeneity pp. 62-64

Stefan Reitz, Georg Stadtmann and Mark Taylor

Improved GMM estimation of the spatial autoregressive error model pp. 65-68

Matthias Arnold and Dominik Wied

Improving imputations of top incomes in the public-use current population survey by using both cell-means and variances pp. 69-72

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

Two geometric representations of confidence intervals for ratios of linear combinations of regression parameters: An application to the NAIRU pp. 73-76

J.G. Hirschberg and Jeanette Lye

Pooling data in poverty mapping pp. 77-80

Lei Pan

Statistical arbitrage with default and collateral pp. 81-84

José Fajardo and Ana Lacerda

Persistence and time-varying coefficients pp. 85-88

David G. McMillan and Mark Wohar

The informational structure of migration decision and migrants self-selection pp. 89-92

Simone Bertoli

To lead or not to lead: Endogenous sequencing in public goods games pp. 93-95

Stefan D. Haigner and Florian Wakolbinger

The Hausman pretest estimator pp. 96-99

Viera Chmelarova and R. Carter Hill

A remark on "Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes" by Abul Naga and Geoffard, Economics Letters 90 (2006), pp. 362-367 pp. 100-100

Marco Giovanni Brambilla and Eugenio Peluso

Stock return predictability despite low autocorrelation pp. 101-103

Shima Amini, Robert Hudson and Kevin Keasey

Retraction notice to "The convergence of fictitious play in games with strategic complementarities" [Economics Letters 99 (2008) 304-306] pp. 104-104

Sunku Hahn