International Review of Economics & Finance

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Volume 18, issue 4, 2009

The legal environment and corporate valuation: Evidence from cross-border takeovers pp. 552-567

David R. Kuipers, Darius P. Miller and Ajay Patel

The theory of fiat money and private money as alternative media of exchange pp. 568-582

Yan Li

Investigating business cycle asymmetry for the G7 countries: Evidence from over a century of data pp. 583-591

Paresh Narayan and Stephan Popp

Small trades and volatility increases after stock splits pp. 592-610

Chun-nan Chen and Chunchi Wu

Labor market effects of international outsourcing: How measurement matters pp. 611-623

Daniel Horgos

Forecasting in efficient bond markets: Do experts know better? pp. 624-630

Hamid Baghestani

Urban informal sector and poverty pp. 631-642

Saibal Kar and Sugata Marjit

Managerial flexibility, uncertainty, and corporate investment: The real options effect pp. 643-655

Feixue Xie

Is there any common knowledge news in the Euro/Dollar market? pp. 656-670

Walid Ben Omrane and Andréas Heinen

Where does return and volatility come from? The case of Asian ETFs pp. 671-679

Jose A. Gutierrez, Valeria Martinez and Yiuman Tse

Competition for foreign direct investment: The role of technology and market structure pp. 680-690

Qian Hao and Sajal Lahiri

Energy prices, energy conservation, and economic growth: Evidence from the postwar United States pp. 691-699

Jang Jin, Jai-Young Choi and Eden Yu

Review of Bhagwati, Jagdish (2008), Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade, Oxford University Press pp. 700-701

Devashish Mitra

R. Neck and J. Sturm, Editors, Sustainability of public debt, MIT Press, Cambridge (2008) 271 pp pp. 701-702

Peter Claeys

Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle: An Introduction to the New Keynesian Framework By Jordi Gali, Princeton Press pp. 702-703

Edgar A. Ghossoub

International Financial Issues in the Pacific Rim Global Imbalances, Financial Liberalization, and Exchange Rate Policy (Edited by Takatoshi Ito, Andrew K. Rose) pp. 703-704

Yiuman Tse

Volume 18, issue 3, 2009

Introduction to the special issue of IREF on macroeconomics of Asia pp. 363-365

David Cook and Michael Devereux

Systemic financial distress and auction-based bankruptcy reorganization pp. 366-380

Donald B. Hausch and S. Ramachandran

"Expiration hour effect of futures and options markets on stock market" -- A case study on NSE (National Stock Exchange of India) pp. 381-391

Hiren M. Maniar, Rajesh Bhatt and Dharmesh M. Maniyar

Does financial liberalization matter for emerging East Asian economies growth? Some new evidence pp. 392-403

Saoussen Ben Gamra

Business cycle and inflation synchronisation in Mainland China and Hong Kong pp. 404-418

Petra Gerlach-Kristen

PPP: Further evidence from Japanese regional data pp. 419-427

Jun Nagayasu and Noriko Inakura

The fading 1990s in Japan: Driving forces behind the unemployment upsurge pp. 428-439

Pablo Agnese and Hector Sala

Real interest rate linkages in the Pacific-Basin region pp. 440-448

Philip Inyeob Ji and Jae Kim

The puzzling dual of the uncovered interest parity puzzle evidence from Pacific Rim capital flows pp. 449-456

David Cook

A simple model of emerging market portfolio structure pp. 457-468

Michael Devereux

The effects of portfolio size on international equity home bias puzzle pp. 469-478

Jinlan Ni

Economies of scale and trade policy: The median voter model revisited pp. 479-487

Daron O. Djerdjian

Volatility of capital flows and financial liberalization: Do specific flows respond differently? pp. 488-501

Rebecca Neumann, Ron Penl and Altin Tanku

Optimum currency area in South Asia: A state space approach pp. 502-510

Nilanjan Banik, Basudeb Biswas and Keith Criddle

Do realized betas exhibit up/down market tendencies? pp. 511-519

George Woodward and Robert Brooks

Do insiders have inside tracks: An examination of Wall Street Journal's Inside Track columns? pp. 520-530

Yulong Ma, Huey-Lian Sun and Alex P. Tang

Review of foreign direct investment: Analysis of aggregate flows by Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka pp. 531-532

Kent P. Kimbrough

Review of "Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution".Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles and Michael Wallerstein, Editors, Princeton University Press (2006) pp. 533-534

Arjun Jayadev

Arvind Panagariya, Review of India: The Emerging Giant, Oxford University Press, New York (2008), p. 514 xxx pp. 535-536

Nirvikar Singh

Power and plenty: Trade, war, and the world economy in the second millennium, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (2008) $39.50, 624 pages pp. 537-538

Farhad Rassekh

Volume 18, issue 2, 2009

Is protection really for sale? A survey and directions for future research pp. 181-191

Susumu Imai, Hajime Katayama and Kala Krishna

Learning about reform: Time-varying support for structural adjustment pp. 192-206

Laura Veldkamp

Trade costs and foreign direct investment pp. 207-218

J. Peter Neary

Foreign versus domestic outsourcing: Firm-level evidence on the role of technology pp. 219-226

Eiichi Tomiura

Skill acquisition, credit constraints, and trade pp. 227-238

Tatyana Chesnokova and Kala Krishna

Hicks theorem: Effects of technological improvement in the Ricardian model pp. 239-247

Jiandong Ju and Xuebing Yang

Bubbles or convenience yields? A theoretical explanation with evidence from technology company equity carve-outs pp. 248-281

Vicki Bogan

International Factor Price Equalization in a limited-substitutability technology framework pp. 282-289

Erkko Etula

Expiration-day effects: Does settlement price matter? pp. 290-300

Shu-Fan Hsieh and Tai Ma

Financial intermediaries as facilitators of information exchange between lenders and reputation formation by borrowers pp. 301-305

Arthur Fishman

Application of hidden Markov switching moving average model in the stock markets: Theory and empirical evidence pp. 306-317

Shih-Kuei Lin, Shin-Yun Wang and Pei-Ling Tsai

When is money neutral under flexible exchange rates? pp. 318-326

Pekka Ahtiala

Market moves and the information content of option prices pp. 327-340

Michael L. McIntyre and David Jackson

The Feldstein-Horioka puzzle revisited: Is the home-bias much less? pp. 341-350

George Georgopoulos and Walid Hejazi

Real interest rates, inflation and the open economy: A regime-switching perspective on Australia and New Zealand pp. 351-360

Mark Holmes, Richard Dutu and Xiaoman Cui

The new comparative economic history: Cliometrics goes global.T.J. Hatton, K.H. O'Rourke and A.M. Taylor, Editors, The new comparative economic history: Essays in honor of Jeffrey Williamson, MIT Press (2007) pp. 361-361

Ronald Findlay

Volume 18, issue 1, 2009

The choice of market entry mode: Greenfield investment, M&A and joint venture pp. 3-10

Horst Raff, Michael Ryan and Frank Stähler

Entry strategies into China: The choice between Joint Ventures and Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprises: An application to the Italian manufacturing sector pp. 11-19

Maria Bontempi and Giorgio Prodi

Location choice, competition, and welfare in non-tradable service FDI pp. 20-25

Hiroshi Kurata, Takao Ohkawa and Makoto Okamura

Merger and acquisition FDI, relative wealth and relative access to bank credit: Evidence from a bivariate zero-inflated count model pp. 26-30

Woon-Yee Ho, Peiming Wang and Joseph Alba

Foreign direct investment, tax competition and social expenditure pp. 31-37

Holger Görg, Hassan Molana and Catia Montagna

International joint ventures and tax competition in an integrated market pp. 38-44

Litao Zhong and Sajal Lahiri

Multinationals and plant exit: Evidence from Chile pp. 45-51

Roberto Alvarez and Holger Görg

The impact of multinational entry on domestic market structure and investment pp. 52-62

Stefanie A. Haller

Brotherhood of competition: Foreign Direct Investment and domestic mergers pp. 63-69

Ozgur M. Kayalica and Rafael S. Espinosa-Ramirez

Trade theorems in a model of vertical production chain pp. 70-80

Yan Ma

What determines the level of IPO gross spreads? Underwriter profits and the cost of going public pp. 81-109

Björn Bartling and Andreas Park

A note on the hedging effectiveness of GARCH models pp. 110-112

Donald Lien

Capital specificity, imperfect labor mobility and growth in developing economies pp. 113-122

John Gilbert and Reza Oladi

Stackelberg financial-leader in insider trading model pp. 123-131

Leonard F.S. Wang, Ya-Chin Wang and Shuang Ren

Idiosyncratic risk matters! A regime switching approach pp. 132-141

Timotheos Angelidis and Nikolaos Tessaromatis

Re-examining the exchange rate pass-through into import prices using non-linear estimation techniques: Threshold cointegration pp. 142-161

Almukhtar Al-Abri and Barry Goodwin

The effects of abandonment options on operating leverage and investment timing pp. 162-171

Kit Pong Wong

A review of capital controls and capital flows in emerging economies: Policies practices and consequences. Edited by: Sebastian Edwards pp. 172-174

Anella Munro

Review on optimization methods in finance by Gerard Cornuejols and Reha Tütücü pp. 175-176

Yuying Li

Review on "Debt Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of Crises" by Federico Sturzenegger and Jeromin Zettelmeyer pp. 177-178

Guido Sandleris