The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

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Volume 48, issue 4, 2008

Wages, supervision and sharing pp. 653-672

John Sessions

Benefit sharing: An incentive mechanism for social control of government expenditure pp. 673-690

Mauricio Bugarin and Laercio Vieira

Risk taking by Japanese bond investors: Testing the "reach for yields" hypothesis in the Japanese bond markets pp. 691-707

Shinichi Nishioka and Naohiko Baba

The effect of macroeconomic news on German closed-end funds pp. 708-724

Sanjay Ramchander, Marc W. Simpson and Harold Thiewes

How well do U.S. consumers predict the direction of change in interest rates? pp. 725-732

Hamid Baghestani and Samer Kherfi

A neural network approach for credit risk evaluation pp. 733-755

Eliana Angelini, Giacomo di Tollo and Andrea Roli

Shareholder rights and the market reaction to Sarbanes-Oxley pp. 756-771

Seung Hee Choi, Melissa B. Frye and Minhua Yang

The impact of preemption of the Georgia Fair Lending Act by the OCC on national and state banks and the dual banking system pp. 772-791

Gary W. Whalen

The role of convertible bonds in alleviating contracting costs pp. 792-816

Sudha Krishnaswami and Devrim Yaman

Volume 48, issue 3, 2008

The term structure of interest rates in a pure exchange economy where investors have heterogeneous recursive preferences pp. 457-481

Sergei Isaenko

Global and regional integration of the Middle East and North African (MENA) stock markets pp. 482-504

Jung-Suk Yu and M. Kabir Hassan

Wealth creation from high-tech divestitures pp. 505-519

Georgina Benou, Jeff Madura and Thanh Ngo

S&P Global Sector survivals: Momentum effects in sector indices underlying iShares pp. 520-540

Hartwig Kos and Natasa Todorovic

Are regulations the answer for emerging stock markets? Evidence from the Czech Republic and Poland pp. 541-566

Edward Stringham, Peter Boettke and J.R. Clark

Modeling common volatility characteristics and dynamic risk premia in European equity markets pp. 567-578

Gregory Koutmos, Johan Knif and George C. Philippatos

Gradual information diffusion and contrarian strategies pp. 579-604

Atakan YalçIn

The dynamics of Central European equity market comovements pp. 605-622

Claire G. Gilmore, Brian Lucey and Ginette M. McManus

Lagged order flows and returns: A longer-term perspective pp. 623-640

Avanidhar Subrahmanyam

Do demand curves for stocks slope down?: Evidence from aggregate data pp. 641-651

Xuejing Xing

Volume 48, issue 2, 2008

The Paraty papers: Regulation, competition and income distribution in developing economies pp. 175-176

Edmund Amann, Werner Baer and Paul Cook

Infrastructure regulation and poverty reduction in developing countries: A review of the evidence and a research agenda pp. 177-188

David Parker, Colin Kirkpatrick and Catarina Figueira

What connects regulatory governance to poverty? pp. 189-201

Martin Minogue

Regulatory governance in Brazilian infrastructure industries pp. 202-216

Paulo Correa, Marcus Melo, Bernardo Mueller and Carlos Pereira

How to make bankers richer: The Brazilian financial market with public and private banks pp. 217-236

Alexandre Barros

Reforms and infrastructure regulation in Brazil: The experience of ANTT and ANTAQ pp. 237-251

Germano Mendes De Paula and Ana Paula Avellar

Neo-liberalism and market concentration in Brazil: The emergence of a contradiction? pp. 252-262

Edmund Amann and Werner Baer

Competition and circulation of economic elites: Theory and application to the case of Peru pp. 263-273

Adolfo Figueroa

Structural change, competition and income distribution pp. 274-286

Paul Cook and Yuichiro Uchida

Sensitivity analysis in applied general equilibrium models: An empirical assessment for MERCOSUR free trade areas agreements pp. 287-306

Edson Domingues, Eduardo Haddad and Geoffrey Hewings

Loans, risks, and growth: The role of government and public banking in Paraguay pp. 307-319

Insfrán Pelozo, José Ani­bal

Productive structure and income distribution: The Brazilian case pp. 320-332

Guilherme R.C. Moreira, Leandro Almeida, Joaquim Guilhoto and Carlos Azzoni

Fiscal decentralization, regional inequality and bail-outs: Lessons from Brazil's debt crisis pp. 333-344

Giovanni Facchini and Cecilia Testa

Tax burden, government expenditures and income distribution in Brazil pp. 345-358

Werner Baer and Antonio Fialho Galvão

Income distribution trends in Brazil and China: Evaluating absolute and relative economic growth pp. 359-369

Donald V. Coes

Constructive regulation of non-government organizations pp. 370-376

Edward Mac Abbey

Education regulation as an instrument of income distribution: The case of Ceara pp. 377-388

Marcos Costa Holanda, Cláudio André Gondim Nogueira and Francis Petterini

Is the world flat?: Differential regulation of domestic and foreign-owned firms pp. 389-411

Elizabeth Asiedu and Hadi Esfahani

Institutions and economic development in Brazil pp. 412-432

Tiago Cavalcanti, André M. Magalhães and Jose Tavares

Innovation systems and the competitive process in developing economies pp. 433-446

Stan Metcalfe and Ronald Ramlogan

Regulation, competition and income distribution: An outsider's perspective pp. 447-456

Jaime Reis

Volume 48, issue 1, 2008

The informal financial sector in the U.S.: The role of remittances pp. 1-21

Denise Stanley and Radha Bhattacharya

Ownership and control in Colombian corporations pp. 22-47

Luis Gutiérrez, Carlos Pombo and Rodrigo Taborda

The effect of auctions on daily treasury-bill volatility pp. 48-60

Michael P. Hughes, Stanley D. Smith and Drew B. Winters

The 52-week high and momentum investing in international stock indexes pp. 61-77

Ding Du

Relaxing standard hedging assumptions in the presence of downside risk pp. 78-93

Fabio Mattos, Philip Garcia and Carl Nelson

Loyalty, peer group effects, and 401(k) pp. 94-122

Marcelo Pinheiro

Project risk choices under privately guaranteed debt financing pp. 123-152

Paul Angoua, Van Son Lai and Issouf Soumare

Do the pure martingale and joint normality hypotheses hold for futures contracts: Implications for the optimal hedge ratios pp. 153-174

Sheng-Syan Chen, Cheng Few Lee and Keshab Shrestha

Volume 47, issue 5, 2007

Guest Editorial pp. 585-587

Gordon Alexander

Re-measuring agency costs: The effectiveness of blockholders pp. 588-601

Chen, Xiaoying (Cindy) and Jasmine Yur-Austin

Does Mad Money make the market go mad pp. 602-615

John J. Neumann and Peppi M. Kenny

Post-euro EU and US interest rates and foreign exchange rates: Are they in harmony or in disarray pp. 616-636

A.M. Parhizgari and I. Pavlova

Order imbalance and stock returns: Evidence from China pp. 637-650

Catherine Shenoy and Ying Jenny Zhang

Corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley, and small-cap firm performance pp. 651-666

Lorne Switzer

Largest shareholder and dividend policy around the world pp. 667-687

Thanh Truong and Richard Heaney

Volume 47, issue 4, 2007

Banking regulation, institutional framework and capital structure: International evidence from industry data pp. 481-506

Natalia Utrero-González

Imperfect capital markets, income distribution and the choice of external finance: A financial equilibrium approach pp. 507-520

Spiros Bougheas

Cause and effect of mini-tender offers pp. 521-534

Kim Gleason, Jarrod Johnston and Jeff Madura

Permanent and transitory components of earnings, dividends, and stock prices pp. 535-549

Ming-Shiun Pan

Mean and volatility linkages for closed-end country funds pp. 550-575

Pei-Jung Tsai, Peggy E. Swanson and Salil K. Sarkar

Necessity of negative serial correlation for mean-reversion of stock prices pp. 576-583

Kwang-Il Choe, Kiseok Nam and Farshid Vahid

Volume 47, issue 3, 2007

The contribution of foreign capital to U.S. productivity growth pp. 383-396

Ernie Goss, John R. Wingender and Megan Torau

The analysis of self-employment levels over the life-cycle pp. 397-410

GiSeung Kim

Impact of the QQQ on liquidity and risk of the underlying stocks pp. 411-421

Nivine Richie and Jeff Madura

Risk and reward: Currency substitution and acceptance of the Mexican peso by firms in the United States southern frontier pp. 422-434

David W. Yoskowitz and Michael Pisani

The adoption of web banking at credit unions pp. 435-448

James P. Dow

Safety-first and extreme value bilateral U.S.-Mexican portfolio optimization around the peso crisis and NAFTA in 1994 pp. 449-469

Mahfuzul Haque, Oscar Varela and M. Kabir Hassan

Multivariate GARCH modeling of sector volatility transmission pp. 470-480

Syed Aun Hassan and Farooq Malik

Volume 47, issue 2, 2007

Do investor perceptions of corporate governance initiatives affect firm value: The case of TIAA-CREF pp. 198-214

John C. Alexander, Scott W. Barnhart and Stuart Rosenstein

Decomposition of total factor productivity growth in U.S. states pp. 215-241

Subhash Sharma, Kevin Sylwester and Heru Margono

Do local Governments maximize access rates to public services across areas?: A test based on marginal benefit incidence analysis pp. 242-260

Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad and Quentin Wodon

Location monopolies and prison phone rates pp. 261-278

Paul Zimmerman and Susan M.V. Flaherty

Effects of monetary policy on the twin deficits pp. 279-292

David Chen

Takeover auctions with actively participating targets pp. 293-311

Yuri Khoroshilov and Anna Dodonova

Information transmission and spillover in currency markets: A generalized variance decomposition analysis pp. 312-330

Elyas Elyasiani, Ahmet E. Kocagil and Iqbal Mansur

Going public to pursue acquisitions pp. 331-351

Joan Wiggenhorn, Kimberly C. Gleason and Jeff Madura

The permanent-transitory decomposition of the stock markets of the G7 countries: A multivariate approach pp. 352-365

Hassan Shirvani and Barry Wilbratte

A semiparametric estimation of the optimal hedge ratio pp. 366-381

Chunrong Ai, Arjun Chatrath and Frank Song

Volume 47, issue 1, 2007

Does capital mobility finance or cause a current account imbalance? pp. 1-25

Ho-Don Yan

The short term predictive ability of earnings-price ratios: The recent evidence (1994-2003) pp. 26-39

A. Giannetti

The impact of ethical ratings on Canadian security performance: Portfolio management and corporate governance implications pp. 40-54

Klaus Fischer and Nabil Khoury

Financial intermediation and the rule of law in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe pp. 55-68

James E. McNulty, Joel T. Harper and Anita K. Pennathur

Debt-equity choice as a signal of earnings profile over time pp. 69-93

Anton Miglo

Pecuniary and non-pecuniary aspects of self-employment survival pp. 94-112

Yannis Georgellis, John Sessions and Nikolaos Tsitsianis

Bond prices in a debt priority structure with absolute priority rule deviation pp. 113-134

Unyong Pyo and Howard E. Thompson

Intraday exchange rate volatility: ARCH, news and seasonality effects pp. 135-158

Yin-Feng Gau and Mingshu Hua

Empirical properties of currency risk in country index portfolios pp. 159-174

V.T. Alaganar and Ramaprasad Bhar

Best laid plans: Gender and the MBA completion rates of GMAT registrants pp. 175-191

Mark Montgomery and Katharine Anderson

Erratum to "Financial disruption and bank productivity: The 1994 experience of Turkish banks": [The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 43 (2003) 291-320] pp. 192-193

İhsan Işık and M. Kabir Hassan