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Volume 97, issue 3, 2007

A panel bootstrap cointegration test pp. 185-190

Joakim Westerlund and David Edgerton

Multiple equilibria in a simple asset pricing model pp. 191-196

Todd Walker and Charles Whiteman

Social choice rules implemented in dominant strategies pp. 197-200

Haixiang Yao and Jianxin Yi

Information theoretic solutions for correlated bivariate processes pp. 201-207

Wendy K. Tam Cho and George Judge

Exclusive versus non-exclusive licensing strategies and moral hazard pp. 208-214

Patrick W. Schmitz

Possession and discounting behavior pp. 215-221

Robert Slonim, James Carlson and Eric Bettinger

GLS detrending and unit root testing pp. 222-229

Dimitrios Vougas

Relative backwardness, absorptive capacity and knowledge spillovers pp. 230-234

Rodney Falvey, Neil Foster-McGregor and Sir David Greenaway

Chinese stock market cyclical regimes: 1991-2006 pp. 235-239

Wu Yan, John G. Powell, Jing Shi and Wei Xu

Decomposing interregional differentials in productivities: An empirical analysis for Japanese data pp. 240-246

Mototsugu Fukushige and Noriko Ishikawa

Real exchange rates and real interest differentials for sectoral data: A dynamic SUR approach pp. 247-252

Jaebeom Kim

The kernel-location approach: A new non-parametric approach to the analysis of downward nominal wage rigidity in micro data pp. 253-259

Christoph Knoppik

Optimal simple rules in RE models with risk sensitive preferences pp. 260-266

Mingjun Zhao

Volume 97, issue 2, 2007

Equilibrium existence and uniqueness in impure public good models pp. 91-96

Matthew Kotchen

Estimating deterministically time-varying variances in regression models pp. 97-104

George Kapetanios

Asymmetric government transaction policies and currencies substitutability pp. 105-110

Alessandro Marchesiani and Pietro Senesi

Modified seasonal unit root test with seasonal level shifts at unknown time pp. 111-117

Stephan Popp

The Jack-of-All-Trades entrepreneur: Innate talent or acquired skill? pp. 118-123

Olmo Silva

Monotonicity, implementation and generalized strategy-proofness pp. 124-127

Jianxin Yi

Are teams prone to myopic loss aversion? An experimental study on individual versus team investment behavior pp. 128-132

Matthias Sutter

Testing for causality in variance under nonstationarity in variance pp. 133-137

Paulo Rodrigues and Antonio Rubia

Reputation, incomplete information, and differences in patience in repeated games with multiple equilibria pp. 138-144

Kjell Hausken

Determinants of contract length in franchise contracts pp. 145-150

Luis Vazquez

Superdictatorial domains for monotonic social choice functions pp. 151-154

Levent Kutlu

The pluralistic view of politics: Asymmetric lobbyists, ideological uncertainty and political entry pp. 155-161

David Martimort and Aggey Semenov

The participant's curse and the perception of unequal treatment pp. 162-169

Kevin Roberts

International reserves and monetary policy pp. 170-178

Avner Bar-ilan and Dan Lederman

Testing for seasonal unit roots in heterogeneous panels in the presence of cross section dependence pp. 179-184

Jesus Otero, Jeremy Smith and Monica Giulietti

Volume 97, issue 1, 2007

An analysis of reservation wages for the economically inactive pp. 1-5

D.H. Blackaby, Paul Latreille, P.D. Murphy, N.C. O'Leary and P.J. Sloane

Financial development and the opacity of banks pp. 6-10

Wolf Wagner

Are smoke detectors as effective as the public health literature reports? pp. 11-16

Christopher Garbacz and Herbert G. Thompson

Structural change and estimated persistence in the GARCH(1,1)-model pp. 17-23

Walter Krämer and Baudouin Tameze Azamo

When do firing taxes matter? pp. 24-31

Giulio Fella

Some analytics on bias in DSVARs pp. 32-38

Martial Dupaigne, Patrick Fève and Julien Matheron

Sunspot fluctuations ulnder zero nominal interest rates pp. 39-45

Yasuo Hirose

A note on bootstrapped White's test for heteroskedasticity in regression models pp. 46-51

Masakazu Ando and Jiro Hodoshima

Poverty, relative to the ability to eradicate it: An index of poverty reduction failure pp. 52-57

Ravi Kanbur and Diganta Mukherjee

Flights towards defection in economic transactions pp. 58-63

Matjaz Perc

Synergies are a reason to prefer first-price auctions! pp. 64-69

Kasper Leufkens and Ronald Peeters

Posterior implementation vs ex-post implementation pp. 70-73

Philippe Jehiel, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Benny Moldovanu and William Zame

Herding, social preferences and (non-)conformity pp. 74-80

Luca Corazzini and Ben Greiner

What motivates and constrains politicians to privatize? The case of China pp. 81-86

Guy S. Liu, Pei Sun and Wing Woo

Erratum to "Price discrimination of digital content" [Economics Letters 93 (2006) 421-426] pp. 86-87

Koji Domon

Volume 96, issue 3, 2007

Robust M tests using kernel-based estimators with bandwidth equal to sample size pp. 295-300

Wei-Ming Lee

Weak instruments and weak identification, in estimating the effects of education, on democracy pp. 301-306

Matteo Bobba and Decio Coviello

Note on optimal predictors of binary response pp. 307-308

Walter J. Mayer and Chen Wu

Implementing the wild bootstrap using a two-point distribution pp. 309-315

James Davidson, Andrea Monticini and David Peel

Alternating offers in economic environments pp. 316-324

Harold Houba

No spurious welfare gains from taxation: A further argument for the equivalent variation pp. 325-330

Julio Robledo and Andreas Wagener

On the equivalence of quantitative trade restrictions and tariffs pp. 331-336

Harris Dellas, Ana Fernandes and Klaus Neusser

An algorithm for identifying fair and optimal allocations pp. 337-342

Tommy Andersson

Generalized quasi-geometric discounting pp. 343-350

Eric Young

Sharing and anti-sharing in teams pp. 351-356

Roland Kirstein and Robert D. Cooter

A golden rule of depreciation pp. 357-362

Thorvaldur Gylfason and Gylfi Zoega

Simple panel unit root tests to detect changes in persistence pp. 363-368

Mauro Costantini and Luciano Gutierrez

Additional properties of a linear pen's parade for individual data using the stochastic approach to the Gini index pp. 369-374

Tomson Ogwang

More efficient estimation of nonparametric panel data models with random effects pp. 375-380

Liangjun Su and Aman Ullah

Volume 96, issue 2, 2007

Consumption and Risk with hyperbolic discounting pp. 153-160

Liutang Gong, William Smith and Heng-Fu Zou

Congestion-reducing investments and economic welfare in a Hotelling model pp. 161-167

Toshihiro Matsumura and Noriaki Matsushima

Habit persistence in consumption and the demand for money pp. 168-176

Abraham Lioui and Jesper Rangvid

Does opportunism pay off? pp. 177-182

Linda Veiga and Francisco Veiga

The impact of the future in games with multiple equilibria pp. 183-188

Kjell Hausken

IS-LM and the multiplier: A dynamic general equilibrium model pp. 189-195

Jean-Pascal Benassy

The degree of precautionary saving: A reexamination pp. 196-201

Mark Lee and Yasuyuki Sawada

Worker quality and labor market sorting pp. 202-208

Michael Curme and Noah Stefanec

A method for evaluating the excess burden associated with characteristics of the goods pp. 209-214

Amelia Bilbao, Celia Bilbao and Jose Labeaga

Testing additive separability pp. 215-220

Adrian R. Fleissig and Gerald A. Whitney

Retail buyer power through steering pp. 221-225

Alexander Raskovich

A note on geometric ergodicity of a multiple threshold AR(1) processes on the boundary region with application to integrated m-m processes pp. 226-231

O. Lee and D.W. Shin

Real effort versus chosen effort in experiments pp. 232-236

Alexander Bruggen and Martin Strobel

International database on human capital quality pp. 237-244

Nadir Altinok and Hatidje Murseli

International Growth Equalization along nonbalanced constant growth paths pp. 245-252

Yi Jin and Zhixiong Zeng

Foreign direct investment and indigenous technological efforts: Evidence from China pp. 253-258

C. Fan and Yifan Hu

Production function residuals, VAR technology shocks, and hours worked: Evidence from industry data pp. 259-263

Annika Alexius and Mikael Carlsson

Does income inequality lead to more crime? A comparison of cross-sectional and time-series analyses of United States counties pp. 264-268

Jesse Brush

Development and inequality: Evidence from an endogenous switching regression without regime separation pp. 269-274

Zhuo Chen

Mind your ps and qs! Improving ARMA forecasts with RBC priors pp. 275-281

Kirdan Lees and Troy Matheson

A bootstrap-based minimum bias maximum simulated likelihood estimator of Mixed Logit pp. 282-286

Athanasios G. Tsagkanos

Mixed oligopoly, privatization, subsidization, and the order of firms' moves: Several types of objectives pp. 287-292

Kazuhiko Kato and Yoshihiro Tomaru

Erratum to "Transparency and prices with imperfect substitutes" [Economics Letters 93 (2006) 398-404] pp. 292-294

Jan Boone and Jan Potters

Erratum to "Microeconomic uncertainties facilitate cooperative alliances and social welfare" [Economics Letters 95 (2007) 104-109] pp. 292-293

Matjaz Perc

Volume 96, issue 1, 2007

Interest deductibility under default risk and the unfavorable tax treatment of investment costs: A simple explanation pp. 1-7

Paolo Panteghini

How far ahead do people plan? pp. 8-13

John D. Hey and Julia A. Knoll

Asymmetric information and stock return cross-autocorrelations pp. 14-22

Dan Bernhardt and Reza S. Mahani

The dynamically extended Keynesian cross and the welfare-improving fiscal policy pp. 23-29

Masayuki Otaki

Tentative evidence of tax foresight pp. 30-37

Shu-Chun Yang

Multicointegration under measurement errors pp. 38-44

Uwe Hassler

The impossibility of a Paretian rational: A Bayesian perspective pp. 45-50

Klaus Nehring

The welfare loss from unstable inflation pp. 51-57

Salvatore Nisticò

The effects of exports, technical change and markup on total factor productivity growth: Evidence from Singapore's electronics industry pp. 58-63

Harry Bloch and Sam Hak Kan Tang

Trade policy: What's welfare got to do with it? pp. 64-69

Richard Damania and Per Fredriksson

Binary models with misclassification in the variable of interest and nonignorable nonresponse pp. 70-76

Esmeralda Ramalho

Supply shocks, private sector information and monetary policy: Is there inevitably a stabilization trade-off? pp. 77-83

Jonathan G. James and Phillip Lawler

R&D and the use of spillovers pp. 84-88

Uwe Jirjahn

Growth and the environment: Are we looking at the right data? pp. 89-96

Ariaster B. Chimeli

Monetary policy dynamics in the Euro area pp. 97-102

Patrick Fève, Julien Matheron and Céline Poilly

Non-Manipulability vs. Individual Rationality in a permit sharing problem pp. 103-108

Sungwhee Shin and Sang-Chul Suh

Threat of unionization and nonunion employment pp. 109-115

Pablo Ruiz-Verdu

Tax incidence varies across the price distribution pp. 116-119

Jeffrey Perloff and Ximing Wu

Business enterprise R&D, technological change, and intellectual property protection pp. 120-126

Sunil Kanwar

The US-China trade imbalance: Will revaluing the RMB help (much)? pp. 127-132

Nicolaas Groenewold and Lei He

Team competition and the public goods game pp. 133-139

Jonathan Tan and Friedel Bolle

On the alternating use of "unanimity" and "surjectivity" in the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem pp. 140-143

Emre Dogan and M. Remzi Sanver

Local media networks and social spending: Evidence from the UK pp. 144-149

Federico Revelli