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Volume 90, issue 3, 2006

How fast did developing country poverty fall during the 1990s? Capabilities-based tests of rival estimates pp. 297-303

Darryl McLeod

More on the correct use of omnibus tests for normality pp. 304-309

Geoffrey Poitras

Age at immigration and educational attainment of young immigrants pp. 310-316

Jan C. van Ours and Justus Veenman

Exclusion by cognitive limitation pp. 317-320

Nicolas Houy

Results on the bias and inconsistency of ordinary least squares for the linear probability model pp. 321-327

William Horrace and Ronald Oaxaca

Employment protection: Do firms' perceptions match with legislation? pp. 328-334

Gaelle Pierre and Stefano Scarpetta

The information content of regional employment data for forecasting aggregate conditions pp. 335-339

Ruben Hernandez-Murillo and Michael Owyang

Elasticity of substitution and productivity, capital and skill intensity differences across firms pp. 340-347

Arnaud Dupuy and Andries de Grip

Temptation, self-control, and competitive nonlinear pricing pp. 348-355

Susanna Esteban and Eiichi Miyagawa

Influences on software piracy: Evidence from the various United States pp. 356-361

Trisha Bezmen and Craig Depken

Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes pp. 362-367

Ramses Abul Naga and Pierre Geoffard

Optimal number of standards under economies of scope in quality pp. 368-372

Andrew E. Stivers

The value of buyer's ignorance in monopoly pp. 373-377

Alexander Saak

Demand shocks and economic fluctuations pp. 378-383

Yi Wen

Reducing the size distortions of the panel LM Test for cointegration pp. 384-389

Joakim Westerlund

Nonparametric estimation of stochastic volatility models pp. 390-395

Roberto Renò

Equilibrium number of firms and economic welfare in a spatial price discrimination model pp. 396-401

Toshihiro Matsumura and Makoto Okamura

Evidence of a stock market wealth effect using household level data pp. 402-406

Sungwon Cho

Why costless auditing may reduce social welfare pp. 407-411

Eberhard Feess and Christoph Schumacher

(Non)optimality of the Friedman rule and optimal taxation in a growing economy with imperfect competition pp. 412-420

Ming-Fu Shaw, Juin-jen Chang and Ching-chong Lai

Reference groups and individual deprivation pp. 421-426

Walter Bossert and Conchita D'Ambrosio

Levels of computer self-efficacy, computer use and earnings in China pp. 427-432

Ying Chu Ng

Logarithmic quasi-homothetic preferences pp. 433-439

Paolo Bertoletti

Shock size, asymmetries, and state dependent pricing pp. 440-445

Wai-Yip Alex Ho and James Yetman

Spurious regressions between stationary generalized long memory processes pp. 446-454

Yixiao Sun

Volume 90, issue 2, 2006

The Mortensen rule and efficient coordination unemployment pp. 149-155

Benoit Julien, John Kennes and Ian King

Size matters for liquidity: Evidence from EMU sovereign yield spreads pp. 156-162

Marta Gómez-Puig

On the order of integration of monthly US ex-ante and ex-post real interest rates: New evidence from over a century of data pp. 163-169

Menelaos Karanasos, S.H. Sekioua and Ning Zeng

Estimation of a binary choice model with grouped choice data pp. 170-175

Lyubov Kurkalova and Sergey S. Rabotyagov

Laplace transform methods for linearizing multidimensional systems pp. 176-182

Xiaoyong Cui and Liutang Gong

Testing to confirm that Leontief-Sraffa matrix equations for input/output must obey constancy of returns to scale pp. 183-188

Paul Samuelson and Erkko Etula

The effect of central bank independence on inflation in developing countries pp. 189-193

Harold Brumm

Discrimination and growth: The distribution across skills matters pp. 194-199

Norman Sedgley and Bruce Elmslie

GARCH and irregularly spaced data pp. 200-204

Nour Meddahi, Eric Renault and Bas Werker

Stock prices-inflation puzzle and the predictability of stock market returns pp. 205-212

Christophe Boucher

Tinbergen and Theil meet Nash: Controllability in policy games pp. 213-218

Nicola Acocella and Giovanni Di Bartolomeo

Do tax havens divert economic activity? pp. 219-224

Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James Hines

Optimal environmental road pricing pp. 225-229

Olof Johansson-Stenman

Does tax competition soften regional budget constraint? pp. 230-236

Marie-Laure Breuillé, Thierry Madiès and Emmanuelle Taugourdeau

Advertising and bidding for television rights pp. 237-241

Lynne Pepall and Daniel Richards

A tale of two shares: The relationship between the "illegitimacy" ratio and the marriage share pp. 242-248

Jo Gray, Jean Stockard and Joe Stone

Government health spending and growth in a model of endogenous longevity pp. 249-253

Rosa Aisa and Fernando Pueyo

Comprehensive NNP, social welfare, and the rate of return pp. 254-259

Chuan-Zhong Li and Karl-Gustaf Lofgren

On the aggregation of eurozone data pp. 260-265

Maarten Bosker

Financing constraints and firm inventory investment: A reexamination pp. 266-271

John Tsoukalas

On the speed of adjustment in ESTAR models when allowance is made for bias in estimation pp. 272-277

Ivan Paya and David Peel

Efficiency wages revisited: The internal reference perspective pp. 278-284

Jean-Pierre Danthine and André Kurmann

National minimum wages, capital mobility, and global economic growth pp. 285-289

Andreas Irmen and Berthold Wigger

The Forbes 400 and the Pareto wealth distribution pp. 290-295

Oren S. Klass, Ofer Biham, Moshe Levy, Ofer Malcai and Sorin Solomon

Volume 90, issue 1, 2006

Uncovering regulator's (implicit) social welfare weights under price cap regulation pp. 1-5

Edilio Valentini

Discontinuous extraction of a nonrenewable resource pp. 6-11

Eric Iksoon Im, Ujjayant Chakravorty and James Roumasset

Corporate bond ratings changes and economic instability: Evidence from the Korean financial crisis pp. 12-20

Sang Lyong Joo and Stephen Pruitt

The contemporaneous interactions between the U.S., Japan, and Hong Kong stock markets pp. 21-27

Keun Yeong Lee

Borderplex menu evidence for the law of one price pp. 28-33

Lorenzo Blanco-Gonzalez and Thomas Fullerton

The impulse response function of the long memory GARCH process pp. 34-41

Christian Conrad and Menelaos Karanasos

Partial indexation, trend inflation, and the hybrid Phillips curve pp. 42-50

Jean-Guillaume Sahuc

Do higher gasoline taxes save lives? pp. 51-55

David C. Grabowski and Michael Morrisey

Implementing the efficient allocation of a persistent pollutant in the presence of threshold effects pp. 56-59

Francisco Candel-Sanchez

Religion and social preferences: An experimental study pp. 60-67

Jonathan Tan

Heterogeneous distance-elasticities in trade gravity models pp. 68-71

Michele Fratianni and Heejoon Kang

Causality between economic growth and immigration: An ARDL bounds testing approach pp. 72-76

Bruce Morley

Idle worship pp. 77-83

Ali Choudhary and Paul Levine

On the existence of symmetric mixed strategy equilibria pp. 84-87

Johannes Gerd Becker and Damian Damianov

Merge or fail? The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995-2000 pp. 88-95

Stefan Buehler, Christian Kaiser and Franz Jaeger

On the social efficiency of conflict pp. 96-101

Santiago Sánchez-Pagés

Analytical prediction of transition probabilities in the conditional logit model pp. 102-107

Holger Bonin and Hilmar Schneider

Implementing a surplus division rule pp. 108-115

Hannu Vartiainen

The suboptimality of optimal punishments in Cournot supergames pp. 116-121

Luca Colombo and Paola Labrecciosa

Valuing lives equally: Distributional weights for welfare analysis pp. 122-125

E. Somanathan

An alternative approach to estimation of structural vector error correction models with long-run restrictions pp. 126-131

Kyungho Jang

Identification of supply models of retailer and manufacturer oligopoly pricing pp. 132-140

Sofia Villas-Boas and Rebecca Hellerstein

Non-concave dynamic programming pp. 141-146

Kevin D. Cotter and Jee-Hyeong Park

Erratum to "Sustainability revisited" [Econ. Lett. 87 (2005) 193-197] pp. 147-147

Klaus Hellwig

Erratum to "Start-up size: The role of external financing" [Economics Letters 88 (2005) 243-250] pp. 148-148

Massimo G. Colombo and Luca Grilli