The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

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Volume 57, issue C, 2015

Rain or shine: Happiness and risk-taking pp. 1-10

Cahit Guven and Indrit Hoxha

Weather and SAD related mood effects on the financial market pp. 11-31

Manfred Frühwirth and Leopold Sögner

Capital and risk in commercial banking: A comparison of capital and risk-based capital ratios pp. 32-45

Thomas Hogan

Herding where retail investors dominate trading: The case of Saudi Arabia pp. 46-60

M. Arifur Rahman, Shah Saeed Chowdhury and M. Shibley Sadique

International trade and performance of firms: Unraveling export, import and productivity puzzle pp. 61-74

Chandan Sharma and Ritesh Kumar Mishra

Should you globally diversify or let the globally diversified firm do it for you? pp. 75-85

Javeria Farooqi, Daniel Huerta and Thanh Ngo

The effects of the split share structure reform on Chinese listed firms’ leverage decisions pp. 86-100

Han-Fang Tsai, Tsui-Jung Lin and Jung-Hua Hung

International migration, migrant stock, and remittances: Reexamining the motivations to remit pp. 101-115

Sokchea Lim and Akm Morshed

Reestablishing stability and avoiding a credit crunch: Comparing different bad bank schemes pp. 116-128

Achim Hauck, Ulrike Neyer and Thomas Vieten

The impact of institutional environment on the capital structure of firms during recent financial crises pp. 129-146

Paulo Alves and Paulo Francisco

Stock price effects of asset securitization: The case of liquidity facility providers pp. 147-160

Hilke Hollander and Jörg Prokop

The economics of rational speculation in the presence of positive feedback trading pp. 161-174

Lutz Arnold and Stephan Brunner

The effect of M&A advisors’ opinions on acquirer shareholder voting pp. 175-190

Wenjing Ouyang

Dynamics of CEO compensation: Old is gold pp. 191-206

Hari P. Adhikari, Samuel B. Bulmash, Marcin W. Krolikowski and Nilesh B. Sah

An empirical study of executive option grants around initial public offerings pp. 207-221

Xudong Fu, Qin Lian, Tian Tang and Qiming Wang

Job assignment, market power and managerial incentives pp. 222-233

Kaniska Dam

Volume 56, issue C, 2015

Do the poorest ethnic minorities benefit from a large-scale poverty reduction program? Evidence from Vietnam pp. 3-14

Cuong Nguyen, Tung Phung and Daniel Westbrook

Household's coping strategies and recoveries from shocks in Vietnam pp. 15-29

Van Q. Tran

Welfare, targeting, and anti-poverty effectiveness: The case of urban China pp. 30-42

Qin Gao, Sui Yang and Shi Li

Children's experience of multidimensional deprivation: Relationship with household monetary poverty pp. 43-56

Renu Singh and Sudipa Sarkar

Multidimensional deprivations in Pakistan: Regional variations and temporal shifts pp. 57-67

Abdul Saboor, Atta Ullah Khan, Abid Hussain, Ikram Ali and Khalid Mahmood

Income inequality may not converge after all: Testing panel unit roots in the presence of cross-section cointegration pp. 68-79

Tsung-wu Ho

Consumption growth, preference for smoothing, changes in expectations and risk premium pp. 80-97

Manuel J. Rocha Armada, Ricardo Sousa and Mark Wohar

Betting on presidential elections: Should we buy stocks connected with the winning party? pp. 98-109

Chung-Hua Shen and Chih-Yung Lin

Cleaning the gears: Counter-cyclical asset trading with financial transactions taxes pp. 110-122

Gian Domenico Sarolli

Dynamic transmissions between the U.S. and equity markets in the MENA countries: New evidence from pre- and post-global financial crisis pp. 123-138

Aktham Maghyereh, Basel Awartani and Khalil Al Hilu

Price dynamics and market liquidity: An intraday event study on Euronext pp. 139-153

Paolo Mazza

Additional evidence on the frequency of share repurchases and managerial timing pp. 154-164

Adri De Ridder

A unified approach to portfolio selection in a tracking error framework with additional constraints on risk pp. 165-174

Patrizia Stucchi

Corporate precautionary savings: Evidence from the recent financial crisis pp. 175-186

Zhenzhen Sun and Yaping Wang

Volume 55, issue C, 2015

Do busy directors and CEOs shirk their responsibilities? Evidence from mergers and acquisitions pp. 1-19

Bradley W. Benson, Wallace N. Davidson, Travis R. Davidson and Hongxia Wang

Credit rationing by loan size: A synthesized model pp. 20-27

Einar C. Kjenstad, Xunhua Su and Li Zhang

Financing constraints and investments in R&D: Evidence from Indian manufacturing firms pp. 28-39

Subash Sasidharan, P.J. Jijo Lukose and Surenderrao Komera

Bank loan availability and trade credit for small businesses during the financial crisis pp. 40-52

Daisuke Tsuruta

Credit constraints, firm exports and financial development: Evidence from developing countries pp. 53-66

Dario Fauceglia

Speculative bubbles in agricultural prices pp. 67-76

Philipp Adämmer and Martin T. Bohl

Signalling the Dotcom bubble: A multiple changes in persistence approach pp. 77-86

Vitor Leone and Otavio De Medeiros

Toward an early warning system of financial crises: What can index futures and options tell us? pp. 87-99

Wei-Xuan Li, Clara Chia-Sheng Chen and Joseph French

The role of FOMC minutes for US asset prices before and after the 2008 crisis: Evidence from GARCH volatility modeling pp. 100-107

Nicholas Apergis

Deciphering financial contagion in the euro area during the crisis pp. 108-123

Albi Tola and Sébastien Wälti

Bid-ask spreads, deviations from PPP and the forward prediction error: The case of the British pound and the euro pp. 124-139

Axel Grossmann and Marc W. Simpson

Market movements and the excess cash theory pp. 140-149

Ebenezer Asem and Shamsul Alam

Causal interrelations among market fundamentals: Evidence from the European Telecommunications sector pp. 150-159

Christos Agiakloglou and Michail Gkouvakis

Corporate diversification and firm value during economic downturns pp. 160-175

Nikanor I. Volkov and Garrett C. Smith

Volume 54, issue 4, 2014

Determinants of corporate hedging: A (statistical) meta-analysis pp. 443-458

Matthias M. Arnold, Andreas W. Rathgeber and Stefan Stöckl

Inflation and interest rate derivatives for FX risk management: Implications for exporting firms under real wealth pp. 459-472

Philipp Koziol

Institutional impact and quote behavior implications of the options penny pilot project pp. 473-486

Hakan Saraoglu, David Louton and Richard Holowczak

Asymmetric information and term lending in the Euro money market: Evidence from the beginning of the turmoil pp. 487-499

Massimiliano Marzo and Paolo Zagaglia

On the determinant of bank loan contracts: The roles of borrowers’ ownership and board structures pp. 500-512

Chih-Yung Lin, Yan-Shing Chen and Ju-Fang Yen

Do investments in intangible customer assets affect firm value? pp. 513-520

Joseph Golec and Neeraj J. Gupta

The effect on stockholder wealth of product recalls and government action: The case of Toyota's accelerator pedal recall pp. 521-528

Jayendra Gokhale, Raymond M. Brooks and Victor J. Tremblay

Chinese Lunar New Year effect in Asian stock markets, 1999–2012 pp. 529-537

Tian Yuan and Rakesh Gupta

Does faith move stock markets? Evidence from Saudi Arabia pp. 538-550

Alessandra Canepa and Abdullah Ibnrubbian

Unemployment in Greece: Evidence from Greek regions using panel unit root tests pp. 551-562

Dimitrios Bakas and Evangelia Papapetrou

Personal and regional redistribution through public finance in a federal setting pp. 563-578

Walter Cont and Alberto Porto

Foreign direct investment and its determinants: A regional panel causality analysis pp. 579-589

M.W. Luke Chan, Keqiang Hou, Xing Li and Dean C. Mountain

Spatially blind trade and fiscal impact policies and their impact on regional economies pp. 590-602

Geoffrey Hewings

Volume 54, issue 3, 2014

Low interest rate policy and the use of reserve requirements in emerging markets pp. 307-314

Andreas Hoffmann and Axel Löffler

Legal rights, information sharing, and private credit: New cross-country evidence pp. 315-323

P.V. Nketcha Nana

Information acquisition, foreign bank entry, and credit allocation pp. 324-336

Hamid Boustanifar

The determinants of commercial banking profitability in low-, middle-, and high-income countries pp. 337-354

Andreas Dietrich and Gabrielle Wanzenried

Trading income and bank charter value during the financial crisis: Does derivatives dealer designation matter? pp. 355-370

Peter V. Egly and Jun Sun

Technology transactions, announcement effect, and reversal: Dissecting an anomaly pp. 371-381

Abdelaziz Chazi, Ashraf Khallaf, Yi Liu and Zaher Zantout

Impact of uncertainty on high frequency response of the U.S. stock markets to the Fed's policy surprises pp. 382-392

Hardik Marfatia

Multifactor risk loadings and abnormal returns under uncertainty and learning pp. 393-404

Simone Salotti and Carmine Trecroci

Implications of limited investor attention to customer–supplier information transfers pp. 405-416

Hui Zhu

The impact of ADR activity on stock market liquidity: Evidence from Latin America pp. 417-427

Alma D. Hales and Andre Mollick

The effects of U.S. monetary policy on Colombia and Panama (2002–2007) pp. 428-436

Nicolas Cachanosky

Determinants of the Confucius Institute establishment pp. 437-441

Donald Lien and Chang Hoon Oh

Volume 54, issue 2, 2014

Surplus distribution and characteristics of social enterprises: Evidence from microfinance pp. 147-157

Marek Hudon and Anaïs Périlleux

Financial stability indicators and public debt developments pp. 158-179

Athanasios Tagkalakis

Estimating the output gap in real time: A factor model approach pp. 180-193

Knut Are Aastveit and Tørres Trovik

Financial crises and economic growth pp. 194-207

Robert Jarrow

A measure of a nation's physical energy supply risk pp. 208-215

Manuel Frondel and Christoph Schmidt

Asymmetric information, foreign entry and multi-period credit competition in banking industry pp. 216-229

Qiang Li, Yong Zeng and Bin Liu

Bank capital regulation, loan contracts, and corporate investment pp. 230-241

Diemo Dietrich and Achim Hauck

Bond market co-movements, expected inflation and the GBP-USD equilibrium real exchange rate pp. 242-256

Corrado Macchiarelli

Variance swaps, non-normality and macroeconomic and financial risks pp. 257-270

Belén Nieto, Alfonso Novales and Gonzalo Rubio

When was the U.S. housing downturn predictable? A comparison of univariate forecasting methods pp. 271-281

Joachim Zietz and Anca Traian

Asset pricing for inefficient markets: Evidence from China and India pp. 282-291

Debasish Majumder

The international business cycle and gold-price fluctuations pp. 292-305

Christian Pierdzioch, Marian Risse and Sebastian Rohloff

Volume 54, issue 1, 2014

Bubble-like housing boom–bust cycles: Evidence from the predictive power of households’ expectations pp. 2-16

MeiChi Huang

Estimation of variance of housing prices using spatial conditional heteroskedasticity (SARCH) model with an application to Boston housing price data pp. 17-30

Prodosh Simlai

Autocorrelation in daily short-sale volume pp. 31-41

Benjamin Blau and Jason M. Smith

On the performance of the tick test pp. 42-50

Marcelo Perlin, Chris Brooks and Alfonso Dufour

Spread determinants and the day-of-the-week effect pp. 51-60

Paresh Narayan, Sagarika Mishra and Seema Narayan

Behavior of the firm under rate-of-return regulation with two capital inputs pp. 61-69

Adrienne M. Ohler

Management entrenchment and the valuation discount of dual class firms pp. 70-81

Vishaal Baulkaran

How entrenched managers beat earnings expectations before and after SOX pp. 82-91

Weishen Wang, Rachel Graefe-Anderson, Mark K. Pyles and Dongnyoung Kim

Do managerial behaviors trigger firm exit? The case of hyperactive bidders pp. 92-110

Mohammad M. Rahaman

Product–market flexibility and capital structure pp. 111-122

Sudipto Sarkar

Casinos, casino size, and crime: A panel data analysis of Michigan counties pp. 123-132

Gregory A. Falls and Philip B. Thompson

Inflation forecasts and core inflation measures: Where is the information on future inflation? pp. 133-137

Dandan Liu and Julie Smith

Airline passenger traffic openness and the performance of Emirates Airline pp. 138-145

Jay Squalli