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Volume 99, issue 3, 2008

Eliciting demand information through cheap talk: An argument in favor of a ban on price discrimination pp. 421-424

Lars Frisell and Johan Lagerlof

Dispute resolution mechanisms in the Egyptian garment industry pp. 425-430

Amirah El-Haddad

Ad valorem taxes and the fiscal gap in federations pp. 431-434

Christos Kotsogiannis and Marti­nez, Diego

Effects of foreign currency component in monetary aggregates on money neutrality pp. 435-438

Jimmy Ran, Jan P. Voon and Guangzhong Li

[rho]-convergence pp. 439-442

Bernd Lucke

A note on an interpretation to consumption-based CAPM pp. 443-445

Liqun Liu and Zijun Wang

The role of reference prices in experimental auctions pp. 446-448

Andreas Drichoutis, Panagiotis Lazaridis and Rodolfo Nayga

Subjective income and employment expectations and preferences for redistribution pp. 449-453

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

Do the reciprocal trust less? pp. 454-457

Steffen Altmann, Thomas Dohmen and Matthias Wibral

Jump bidding in ascending auctions: The case of takeover contests pp. 458-460

Christian At and Pierre-Henri Morand

The forward premium puzzle in a model of imperfect information pp. 461-464

Rui Albuquerque

First evidence of asymmetric cost pass-through of EU emissions allowances: Examining wholesale electricity prices in Germany pp. 465-469

Georg Zachmann and Christian von Hirschhausen

Nash implementation in pure public good economies pp. 470-473

Lin Zhou

Comparing the fit of the gravity model for different cross-border flows pp. 474-477

Wei-Kang Wong

Modelling uncertainty: A recursive VAR bootstrapping approach pp. 478-481

Amy (Chen) Peng and Ling Yang

The retirement consumption conundrum: Evidence from a consumption survey pp. 482-485

Jonathan Fisher, David S. Johnson, Joseph Marchand, Timothy M. Smeeding and Barbara Boyle Torrey

The macroeconomic impact of aid volatility pp. 486-489

John Hudson and Paul Mosley

Price elasticities of demand are minus one-half pp. 490-493

Kenneth Clements

Trust in cooperation or ability? An experimental study on gender differences pp. 494-497

Christiane Schwieren and Matthias Sutter

Do Inada conditions imply that production function must be asymptotically Cobb-Douglas? A comment pp. 498-499

Anastasia Litina and Theodore Palivos

A note on tests of partial parameter stability in the cointegrated system pp. 500-503

Chih-Chiang Hsu

A note on pitfalls of credit crunch regressions pp. 504-507

Ryo Kato

Does stake size matter for cooperation and punishment? pp. 508-511

Martin Kocher, Peter Martinsson and Martine Visser

Problems related to over-identifying restrictions for structural vector error correction models pp. 512-515

Helmut Lütkepohl

A note on the accuracy of Markov-chain approximations to highly persistent AR(1) processes pp. 516-520

Martin Flodén

Social capital and windfalls: Empirical evidence pp. 521-525

Yannis Georgellis, John G. Sessions and Nikolaos Tsitsianis

Investment-specific technological change and labor composition: Evidence from the U.S. manufacturing pp. 526-529

Chun-Yu Ho

Real-time rational expectations and indeterminacy pp. 530-533

Paul Shea

Unknowable states and choice-based definitions of subjective probabilities pp. 534-536

Edi Karni

Macro-panels and reality pp. 537-540

Gianluca Cubadda, Alain Hecq and Franz Palm

Lemons hypothesis reconsidered: An empirical analysis pp. 541-544

Arif Sultan

Child labor and temporary emigration pp. 545-548

Gil Epstein and Nava Kahana

Childhood sexual abuse and the gender wage gap pp. 549-551

John Robst

Are all democracies equally good? The role of interactions between political environment and inequality for rule of law pp. 552-556

Uwe Sunde, Matteo Cervellati and Piergiuseppe Fortunato

The impact of sales taxation on internet commerce -- An empirical analysis pp. 557-560

Shamim Ahmed and Tony Wirjanto

How to divide the possession of a football? pp. 561-565

Yeon-Koo Che and Terrence Hendershott

Crime and beliefs: Evidence from Latin America pp. 566-569

Rafael Di Tella, Javier Donna and Robert MacCulloch

An empirical note on wages in an internal labour market pp. 570-573

Christian Pfeifer

Could affirmative action be efficient in higher education? pp. 574-576

Kurt W. Rotthoff

Joint ownership and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information pp. 577-580

Patrick W. Schmitz

The law of aggregate demand and welfare in the two-sided matching market pp. 581-584

Fuhito Kojima

Functional forms for the negative binomial model for count data pp. 585-590

William Greene

Hybrid auctions revisited pp. 591-594

Dan Levin and Lixin Ye

Valuating payoff streams under unequal discount factors pp. 595-598

Hannu Salonen and Hannu Vartiainen

Organizing multiple related tasks into jobs: Diversification vs. competition pp. 599-603

Nina Baranchuk

Economic status and the Indigenous/non-Indigenous health gap pp. 604-606

Alison Booth and Nick Carroll

Evaluating the information matrix in linearized DSGE models pp. 607-610

Nikolay Iskrev

Imperfect commitment and the revelation principle: The multi-agent case with transferable utility pp. 611-614

Robert Evans and Sönje Reiche

Volume 99, issue 2, 2008

Cross-national trends in earnings inequality and instability pp. 215-219

Mary Daly and Robert Valletta

The Nash product is a utility representation of the Pareto ordering pp. 220-222

Walter Trockel

Seemingly unrelated nonparametric models with positive correlation and constrained error variances pp. 223-227

Qinfeng Xu, Jinhong You and Bin Zhou

De Facto exchange rate arrangement tightness and bilateral trade flows pp. 228-232

Peter Egger

Equilibrium in a dynamic game of capital accumulation with the overtaking criterion pp. 233-237

Andrzej Nowak

Interim bribery in auctions pp. 238-241

Sevket Alper Koc and William Neilson

Characterization of the support of the mixed strategy price equilibria in oligopolies with heterogeneous consumers pp. 242-245

Maxim Sinitsyn

Asymmetric punishments for group deviations in the infinitely repeated Cournot model pp. 246-248

Miguel Aramendia

Commitment with renegotiable debt contracts and verifiable cash flow pp. 249-251

Murat Usman

GMM with more moment conditions than observations pp. 252-255

Panutat Satchachai and Peter Schmidt

Calibration of normalised CES production functions in dynamic models pp. 256-259

Rainer Klump and Marianne Saam

Monetary tightening cycles and the predictability of economic activity pp. 260-264

Tobias Adrian and Arturo Estrella

Equity, envy and efficiency under asymmetric information pp. 265-267

Geoffroy de Clippel

How risky should an R&D program be? pp. 268-271

Asher Tishler

Lower borrowing costs with inflation-indexed bonds: A trading rule based assessment pp. 272-274

Andreas Reschreiter

Supply constraints and housing prices pp. 275-277

Saku Aura and Thomas Davidoff

A dynamic auction for differentiated items under price rigidities pp. 278-281

Adolphus Talman and Zaifu Yang

Employment discrimination in Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement pp. 282-285

D.H. Blackaby, P.D. Murphy and N.C. O'Leary

Industrial fatigue Redux pp. 286-289

Diego Nocetti

Baumol-Tobin and the welfare costs of national security border delays pp. 290-292

Hui Huang and John Whalley

Interior optima and the Inada conditions pp. 293-297

C.D. Aliprantis, Gabriele Camera and F. Ruscitti

Nash implementability of the plurality rule over restricted domains pp. 298-300

M. Remzi Sanver

Intertemporal price competition with exogenous demand shocks pp. 301-303

Kasper Leufkens and Ronald Peeters

The convergence of fictitious play in games with strategic complementarities pp. 304-306

Sunku Hahn

Teacher quality and earnings pp. 307-309

William Sander

On the counter-cyclicality of prices and markups in a Cournot model of entry pp. 310-313

Jose M. Plehn-Dujowich

Testing seasonal mean-reversion in the real exchange rates: An application of nonlinear IV estimator pp. 314-316

Tsung-wu Ho

A climate agreement with full participation pp. 317-319

Camilla Bretteville Froyn and Jon Hovi

Employment targeting pp. 320-323

Jean-Pascal Benassy

The overall effect of volatility on investment pp. 324-327

Pai-Ta Shih and Weifeng Hung

Productivity spillovers through vertical linkages: Evidence from 17 OECD countries pp. 328-331

Jürgen Bitzer, Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg

Math skills and risk attitudes pp. 332-336

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Pablo Guillen and Rafael López del Paso

A note on the utility function under prospect theory pp. 337-339

Ali al-Nowaihi, Ian Bradley and Sanjit Dhami

Modeling pairwise convergence: A Bayesian approach with an application to Greek inflation pp. 340-344

Veni Arakelian and Demetrios Moschos

Maximal loss from collusion in IPV symmetric auctions pp. 345-348

Gregory Pavlov

International capital mobility: Evidence from panel cointegration tests pp. 349-352

Olumuyiwa Adedeji and John Thornton

The taste for leisure, career choice, and the returns to education pp. 353-356

Keith Chen and Judith Chevalier

On the full dimensionality assumption for the discounted Folk Theorem pp. 357-359

Guilherme Carmona

Revenue maximizing auctions with market interaction and signaling pp. 360-363

Jozsef Molnar and Gábor Virág

Efficiency properties of non-linear pricing schedules without the single-crossing condition pp. 364-366

Tommy Andersson

Indescribability and asymmetric information at the contracting stage pp. 367-370

Takashi Kunimoto

Investigating the intertemporal risk-return relation in international stock markets with the component GARCH model pp. 371-374

Hui Guo and Christopher Neely

Specification testing under moment inequalities pp. 375-378

Patrik Guggenberger, Jinyong Hahn and Kyoo il Kim

Forecasting the ECB's main refinancing rate. A field experiment pp. 379-383

Michael Berlemann

Sustainable collusion on separate markets pp. 384-386

Paul Belleflamme and Francis Bloch

Parametric variability in cross-country growth regressions: An application of quantile-regression methodology pp. 387-389

Rati Ram

Long memory with Markov-Switching GARCH pp. 390-392

Walter Krämer

Asymptotic bias of GMM and GEL under possible nonstationary spatial dependence pp. 393-397

Emma Iglesias and Garry Phillips

Age-specific job flows and worker flows using a national dataset pp. 398-401

Meng-Wen Tsou and Jin-Tan Liu

Money on the table: Some evidence on the role of liquidity constraints in 401(k) saving pp. 402-404

Gary V. Engelhardt and Anil Kumar

Intergenerational talent transmission, inequality, and social mobility pp. 405-409

Stefan Napel and Andrea Schneider

Who chooses to inflation target? pp. 410-413

Carlos Goncalves and Alexandre Carvalho

Untangling supply and demand in occupational choice pp. 414-417

Sarah Brown, Tim Fry and Mark Harris

The perverse response of interest rates pp. 418-420

Virginie Boinet and Christopher Martin

Volume 99, issue 1, 2008

Risk aversion, mandatory disclosure and the concealment of information pp. 2-9

Hui Huang

Equilibrium, convergence, and capital mobility in neoclassical models of growth pp. 10-13

Javier Birchenall

Comparisons of poverty across periods: Significance of distributional effects of prices pp. 14-17

Panayiota Lyssiotou

Monetary policy and monetary asset substitution pp. 18-22

Barry Jones, Adrian R. Fleissig, Thomas Elger and Donald Dutkowsky

Job satisfaction and the gender composition of jobs pp. 23-26

Emiko Usui

Does political proximity to the U.S. cause terror? pp. 27-29

Axel Dreher and Martin Gassebner

A robust modification of the Jarque-Bera test of normality pp. 30-32

Yulia R. Gel and Joseph L. Gastwirth

Expectations and chaotic dynamics: Empirical evidence on exchange rates pp. 33-35

Marcelo Resende and Rodrigo Zeidan

Majority rule or delegation? A normal noise case pp. 36-39

Minoru Kitahara and Yohei Sekiguchi

The black market exchange rate vs. the official rate in testing PPP: Which rate fosters the adjustment process? pp. 40-43

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Altin Tankui

Can rejections of weak separability be attributed to random measurement errors in the data? pp. 44-47

Thomas Elger and Barry Jones

Forecasting with the yield curve; level, slope, and output 1875-1997 pp. 48-50

Michael Bordo and Joseph G. Haubrich

Maximum likelihood estimation of singular systems of equations pp. 51-54

Hung-pin Lai

Layoffs and lemons over the business cycle pp. 55-58

Emi Nakamura

Is it protestant tradition or current protestant population that affects corruption? pp. 59-62

Omer Gokcekus

The fixed effects negative binomial model revisited pp. 63-66

Paulo Guimaraes

Age dynamics and economic growth: Revisiting the nexus in a nonparametric setting pp. 67-71

Théophile Azomahou and Tapas Mishra

Income, working hours, and happiness pp. 72-74

Babette Pouwels, Jacques Siegers and Jan Dirk Vlasblom

External market condition and tournaments: Theory and evidence pp. 75-78

Ming-Jen Lin

The power of asking in volunteering: Evidence from a matched sample pp. 79-84

Barış Yörük

Explaining the single factor bias of arbitrage pricing models in finite samples pp. 85-88

Matthew C. Harding

Improved HAC covariance matrix estimation based on forecast errors pp. 89-92

Chung-Ming Kuan and Yu-Wei Hsieh

Barriers to exit pp. 93-97

Alberto Chong and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta

Ethnic and religious diversity and corruption pp. 98-102

Oguzhan Dincer

Cointegration, variance shifts and the limiting distribution of the OLS estimator pp. 103-106

Nikolaos Kourogenis and Nikitas Pittis

Semiparametric estimation of a nonstationary panel data transformation model under symmetry pp. 107-110

Yahong Zhou

A study on the relationship between economic inequality and mobility pp. 111-114

Juan Prieto-Rodriguez, Rodri­guez, Juan Gabriel and Rafael Salas

Unemployment insurance, unemployment durations and re-employment wages pp. 115-118

Brian McCall and Wei Chi

Incomplete contracts, the hold-up problem, and asymmetric information pp. 119-122

Patrick W. Schmitz

Can immigrant employment alleviate the demographic burden? The role of union centralization pp. 123-126

Alexander Kemnitz

Malthus revisited: Fertility decision making based on quasi-linear preferences pp. 127-130

Jacob Weisdorf

Short-selling and the WTA-WTP gap pp. 131-133

Shosh Shahrabani, Tal Shavit and Uri Benzion

Systematic small sample bias in two regime SETAR model estimation pp. 134-138

Stephen Norman

Outward FDI and domestic investment in two industrialized countries pp. 139-143

Dierk Herzer and Mechthild Schrooten

Analysis of employment protection laws and unemployment benefits pp. 144-146

Yoon-Kyung Chung and Jinook Jeong

On decentralization and life satisfaction pp. 147-151

Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Drehe and Justina A. V. Fischer

Power comparison among tests for fractional unit roots pp. 152-154

Ignacio Lobato and Carlos Velasco

The comovement in inventories and in sales: Higher and higher pp. 155-158

Ana María Herrera, Irina Murtazashvili and Elena Pesavento

Retail sweep programs and monetary asset substitution pp. 159-163

Barry Jones, Adrian R. Fleissig, Thomas Elger and Donald Dutkowsky

A gravity model of immigration pp. 164-167

Joshua Lewer and Hendrik Van den Berg

Price deflators and the estimation of the production function pp. 168-171

Carmine Ornaghi

New exact ML estimation and inference for a Gaussian MA(1) process pp. 172-176

Dimitrios Vougas

Welfare effects of life annuities: Some clarifications pp. 177-180

Hans Fehr and Christian Habermann

Are levels effects important in out-of-sample performance of short rate models? pp. 181-184

Sandy Suardi

Testing for stochastic explosive root bubbles in Asian emerging stock markets pp. 185-188

Hing Lin Chan and Kai-Yin Woo

Asset sales and debt-equity swap under asymmetric information pp. 189-191

Sanjay Banerji

Testing heterogeneity within the euro area pp. 192-196

Eric Jondeau and Jean-Guillaume Sahuc

Gender differences in deception pp. 197-199

Anna Dreber and Magnus Johannesson

The quality of industrial relations and unemployment around the world pp. 200-203

Horst Feldmann

An empirical examination of the inventory-theoretic model of precautionary money demand pp. 204-205

Jan Tin

Costly price discrimination pp. 206-208

Peter Leeson and Russell S. Sobel

The benefit of efficiency improvement on growth and convergence: A study using Japan panel data pp. 209-211

Eiji Yamamura and Inyong Shin

Erratum to "Sunspot fluctuations under zero nominal interest rates" [Economics Letters 97 (2007) 39-45] pp. 212-212

Yasuo Hirose

Erratum to "A simple rule for assessing tariff and tax incidence" [Economics Letters 93 (2006) 116-120] pp. 213-213

Stephen Tokarick