Economics Letters

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Volume 104, issue 3, 2009

Job-finding and separation rates in the OECD pp. 107-111

Bart Hobijn and Aysegül Sahin

On estimating firm-level production functions using proxy variables to control for unobservables pp. 112-114

Jeffrey Wooldridge

Does the size of the action set matter for cooperation? pp. 115-117

Lata Gangadharan and Nikos Nikiforakis

Rent-seeking under a weak institutional environment pp. 118-121

Davide Infante and Janna Smirnova

Investment and financial constraints in Hungarian agriculture pp. 122-124

Zoltán Bakucs, Imre Fertő and József Fogarasi

A structural model of the fixed time costs of market work pp. 125-128

Stephen Donald and Daniel S. Hamermesh

A restriction on lobbyist donations pp. 129-132

Brendan Kline

A quantile regression approach for estimating panel data models using instrumental variables pp. 133-135

Matthew Harding and Carlos Lamarche

The coefficient of the whole is an average of the coefficients of its parts: A special case of restricted least squares pp. 136-139

Hiau Looi Kee

Rogoff revisited: The conservative central banker proposition under active fiscal policies pp. 140-143

Andrew Hughes Hallett, Jan Libich and Petr Stehlík

Quality certification standards in competitive markets: When consumers and producers (dis)agree pp. 144-147

Harvey Lapan and GianCarlo Moschini

Multiple bidding in auctions as bidders become confident of their private valuations pp. 148-150

Christopher Cotton

Endogenous political competition and political accountability pp. 151-153

Miltiadis Makris

Volume 104, issue 2, 2009

Global identification of the semiparametric Box-Cox model pp. 53-56

Ivana Komunjer

Reconsidering hedonic art price indexes pp. 57-60

Alan Collins, Antonello Scorcu and Roberto Zanola

A technique for calculating labor market flows pp. 61-62

Ben-David Nissim

Determinants of the distribution of congressional earmarks across states pp. 63-65

Melissa Boyle and Victor Matheson

Testing under local misspecification and artificial regressions pp. 66-68

Anil K. Bera, Gabriel Montes-Rojas and Walter Sosa-Escudero

Why higher punishment may reduce deterrence pp. 69-71

Eberhard Feess and Ansgar Wohlschlegel

The pro-trade effect of the brain drain: Sorting out confounding factors pp. 72-75

Gabriel Felbermayr and Benjamin Jung

Does foreign aid improve governance? pp. 76-78

Matthias Busse and Steffen Gröning

Patents and profit rates pp. 79-80

Ulrich Kaiser

Spatial lag test with equal weights pp. 81-82

Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

Star-shaped probability weighting functions and overbidding in first-price auctions pp. 83-85

Olivier Armantier and Nicolas Treich

On revenue and welfare dominance of ad valorem taxes in two-sided markets pp. 86-88

Hans Jarle Kind, Marko Koethenbuerger and Guttorm Schjelderup

Is mistrust self-fulfilling? pp. 89-91

Ernesto Reuben, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

How forward-looking is the Fed? Direct estimates from a 'Calvo-type' rule pp. 92-95

Vasco Gabriel, Paul Levine and Christopher Spencer

Comparison of two treatments and inconsistency of bootstrap pp. 96-98

Keiichi Kawai

GLS-detrending and regime-wise stationarity testing in small samples pp. 99-101

Claude Lopez

An experimental investigation of endowment source heterogeneity in two-person public good games pp. 102-105

John Spraggon and Robert Oxoby

Volume 104, issue 1, 2009

Modeling sudden stops: The non-trivial role of preference specifications pp. 1-4

Suparna Chakraborty

Testing for unit root in nonlinear heterogeneous panels pp. 5-8

Nuri Ucar and Tolga Omay

Overstatement and rational market expectation pp. 9-12

Illoong Kwon and Eunjung Yeo

Multiple equilibria and selection by learning in an applied setting pp. 13-16

Robin Lee and Ariel Pakes

Another weakness of "determinacy" as a selection criterion for rational expectations models pp. 17-19

Seonghoon Cho and Bennett McCallum

Price sensitive prescribers pp. 20-22

William Neilson

Simultaneous vs. sequential price competition with incomplete information pp. 23-26

Leandro Arozamena and Federico Weinschelbaum

Population and neoclassical economic growth: A new child policy perspective pp. 27-30

Luciano Fanti and Luca Gori

Two are better than one!: Individuals' contributions to "unpacked" public goods pp. 31-33

Michele Bernasconi, Luca Corazzini, Sebastian Kube and Michel Maréchal

Structural changes in job creation and destruction pp. 34-36

De-Chih Liu

Revisiting the role of multiplicative uncertainty in a model without inflationary bias pp. 37-39

Giuseppe Ciccarone and Enrico Marchetti

Income inequality and pecuniary crimes pp. 40-42

Luiz Guilherme Scorzafave and Milena Karla Soares

Myopic loss aversion revisited pp. 43-45

Pavlo Blavatskyy and Ganna Pogrebna

Real wage rigidity and the Taylor principle pp. 46-48

Eurilton Araújo

Addressing the food aid curse pp. 49-51

Max Blouin and Stephane Pallage

Volume 103, issue 3, 2009

Relative poverty as a determinant of migration: Evidence from Poland pp. 119-122

Oded Stark, Maja Micevska and Jerzy Mycielski

Pitfalls in market timing test pp. 123-126

Chia-Shang Chu, Liping Lu and Zhentao Shi

FDI as a signal of quality pp. 127-130

Seiichi Katayama and Kaz Miyagiwa

Evolution of preferences in an exchange economy pp. 131-134

Jannet Chang and Ronald Stauber

Generalized Fama proxy hypothesis: Impact of shocks on Phillips curve and relation of stock returns with inflation pp. 135-137

Lawrence Kryzanowski and Abdul H. Rahman

Intellectual property rights and appropriability of innovation pp. 138-141

Taro Akiyama and Yuichi Furukawa

Contest with pre-contest investment pp. 142-145

Qiang Fu and Jingfeng Lu

The transition of corruption: From poverty to honesty pp. 146-148

Erich Gundlach and Martin Paldam

Obesity and crime: Is there a relationship? pp. 149-152

Gregory Price

R&D and endogenous asymmetries between firms pp. 153-156

Armando Garcia Pires

The strategy method lowers measured trustworthy behavior pp. 157-159

Marco Casari and Timothy Cason

Exact inference in diagnosing Value-at-Risk estimates -- A Monte Carlo device pp. 160-162

Helmut Herwartz

Joint determinations of inequality and growth pp. 163-166

Huang, Ho-Chuan (River), Yi-Chen Lin and Chih-Chuan Yeh

Volume 103, issue 2, 2009

Economic integration and the comovement of stock returns pp. 65-67

Jose Tavares

Paying for performance and motivation crowding out pp. 68-71

Luigi Siciliani

Excludable public goods: Pricing and social welfare maximization pp. 72-74

Chong-En Bai, Yi Lu and Zhigang Tao

Wage inequality, welfare and downsizing pp. 75-77

Sajid Anwar

Endogenous discounting via wealth, twin-peaks and the role of technology pp. 78-80

Ingmar Schumacher

A matching estimator of household equivalence scales pp. 81-83

Adam Szulc

The alliance formation puzzle and capacity constraints pp. 84-86

Kai Konrad and Dan Kovenock

Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility pp. 87-90

Philipp Bauer and Regina Riphahn

Retailer price distributions and promotional activities pp. 91-95

Adam D. Rennhoff and Konstantinos Serfes

Unemployment benefits crowd out nascent entrepreneurial activity pp. 96-98

Philipp Koellinger and Maria Minniti

Monopoly, Ramsey and Lindahl in Rochet and Tirole (2003) pp. 99-100

Eric Weyl

French butchers don't do quantum physics pp. 101-106

Arnaud Manas

Non-stationary transition matrices: An overlooked issue in intra-distribution dynamics pp. 107-109

María Hierro and Adolfo Maza

Breadth, depth, and competition pp. 110-112

Heski Bar-Isaac

Consumption and habit formation when time horizon is finite pp. 113-116

Viola Angelini

A positive theory of immigration amnesties. A comment pp. 117-117

Ángel Solano García

Volume 103, issue 1, 2009

Investor protections and economic growth pp. 1-4

Jamal Ibrahim Haidar

Can government spending increase private consumption? The role of complementarity pp. 5-7

Giovanni Ganelli and Juha Tervala

Retiring to the good life? The short-term effects of retirement on health pp. 8-11

David Johnston and Wang-Sheng Lee

The apples and oranges theorem for price indices pp. 12-14

Matthijs van Veelen

The elasticity of intertemporal substitution: New evidence from 401(k) participation pp. 15-17

Gary V. Engelhardt and Anil Kumar

Productive low morale pp. 18-22

Rui Zhao

Do bequests increase or decrease wealth inequalities? pp. 23-25

Charles Yuji Horioka

Trade variety and political conflict: Some international evidence pp. 26-28

Yothin Jinjarak

What can we learn from central bankers' words? Some nonparametric tests for the ECB pp. 29-32

Paul Mizen

Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining pp. 33-35

Philipp Wichardt, Daniel Schunk and Patrick W. Schmitz

A robust algorithm for parameter estimation in smooth transition autoregressive models pp. 36-38

Stelios Bekiros

Is the New Keynesian Phillips curve flat? pp. 39-41

Keith Kuester, Gernot Müller and Sarah Stölting

Bonferroni correction for seasonal cointegrating ranks pp. 42-44

Byeongchan Seong

Construction of probability metrics on classes of investors pp. 45-48

Stoyan V. Stoyanov, Svetlozar T. Rachev and Frank Fabozzi

A test of the representativeness bias effect on stock prices: A study of Super Bowl commercial likeability pp. 49-51

Charles Chang, Jing Jiang and Kenneth Kim

A causal test of the demonstration effect theory pp. 52-54

Andreea Mitrut and François-Charles Wolff

Bertrand competition with non-rigid capacity constraints pp. 55-58

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

Systematic peak-load pricing, congestion premia and demand diverting: Empirical evidence pp. 59-61

Diego Escobari

Measuring the degree of time varying market inefficiency pp. 62-64

Mikio Ito and Shunsuke Sugiyama