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2026, volume 78, articles 1

Performance-based research funding and gender diversity in research: evidence from UK universities pp. 1-18

Ajab Khan, Ali Sina Önder and Sercan Ozcan

Social capital and financial access: evidence from a meta-analysis pp. 19-41

Andreas Sintos, Michael Chletsos and Eleftheria Stergiopoulou

Tariffs and innovation in a Schumpeterian economy with North–South technology transfer pp. 42-67

Florence Ut Meng Ho

Infrastructure, financial access, and economic growth: evidence from a quasi-experiment in China pp. 68-89

Chenran Liu, Chong Liu, Wenjing Peng and Wei Wang

Market structure and prices in online betting markets: theory and evidence pp. 90-113

Tadgh Hegarty and Karl Whelan

The effect of earned endowments and tangible money on charitable giving pp. 114-131

R Andrew Luccasen and Philip J Grossman

A dynamic modelling approach to North-South disparities in IPR protection pp. 132-156

Hwan C Lin

Inflation, unemployment, and institutional trust: the global evidence pp. 157-178

Olga Popova, Milena Nikolova, Sarah Grace See and Vladimir Otrachshenko

The nexus between labor share and income inequality: theory and evidence from the U.S pp. 179-210

Juin-Jen Chang, Chun-Hung Kuo, Kun-Ying Lei and Chia-Ying Liu

Breaking barriers: a field experiment to explore discrimination in housing for people with moving disabilities pp. 211-232

Evangelos Mourelatos and Elias Oikarinen

Macroeconomic shocks and business cycle dynamics: a comparative analysis pp. 233-258

Cosmas Dery and Apostolos Serletis

The effect of nontariff barriers on unreported trade: exploring a customs duty reform pp. 259-288

Rafael Bressan and Enlinson Mattos

Education and skill mismatches in the German labour market: the role of vocational and occupational specificity from a career perspective pp. 289-308

Stephan Bischof

2025, volume 77, articles 4

Labor market reforms and unemployment fluctuations pp. 919-937

Luca Bettarelli, Omain Duval, Davide Furceri and Joao Jalles

Performance-related pay and sorting into stress pp. 938-953

Nicole Andelic, Julia Allan, Keith Bender, Daniel Powell and Ioannis Theodossiou

A procedural model of decreasing indecisiveness pp. 954-969

Ramses Abul Naga and Mauro Papi

Why do the earnings of male and female graduates diverge? The roles of field of study, motherhood, and job dynamics pp. 970-989

Aedín Doris, Dónal O’Neill and Olive Sweetman

A pecking order of household finance pp. 990-1005

Declan French

The global gender gap in labour income pp. 1006-1036

Tewodros M Gebrewolde, James Rockey and Akbar Ullah

Beliefs- and fundamentals-driven job creation pp. 1037-1061

Philip Schnattinger

You’ll never walk alone: unemployment, social networks and leisure activities pp. 1062-1079

Mattia Filomena and Matteo Picchio

Do the rich save more? Evidence from Brazil pp. 1080-1105

Udilmar Carlos Zabot and Fábio Augusto Reis Gomes

The role of education in the disability employment gap pp. 1106-1127

Mark Bryan, Andrew Bryce, Jennifer Roberts and Cristina Sechel

The meritocratic illusion: inequality and the cognitive basis of redistribution pp. 1128-1147

Arthur Blouin, Anandi Mani, Sharun W Mukand and Daniel Sgroi

International monetary spillovers in bank profitability and risk-taking pp. 1148-1174

Evangelos Salachas, Georgios Kouretas and Nikiforos T Laopodis

2025, volume 77, articles 3

Expenditure behaviour of pensioners: exploring differences between breadwinners and non-breadwinners pp. 619-636

Álvaro Muñiz-Fernández and Guillermo Cabanillas-Jiménez

Effectiveness of military spending in reducing the intensity of armed conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 637-652

Idrissa Aladji

The effect of trade liberalization on marriage and fertility: evidence from Indian census pp. 653-674

Shruti Sengupta and Mehtabul Azam

Growth effects of fiscal policy: an application of the unobserved common factor model pp. 675-702

Ilias Kostarakos and Petros Varthalitis

Concentration of income and human development: the role of the middle class pp. 703-723

David Castells-Quintana, Carlos Gradín and Vicente Royuela

Industrial reform policies: does marketization enhance productivity more than privatization? pp. 724-753

Yang Chen, Ming He, Simon Rudkin and Don Webber

Favouritism, social pressure, and gender pp. 754-770

Finn Spilker, Christian Deutscher, Marius Ötting and Hendrik Sonnabend

Does gender matter for trade policy? Evidence from contingent protection pp. 771-789

Catherine Bros, Julie Lochard and Neha B Upadhayay

Concentration and mergers: evidence from Italian labor markets pp. 790-805

Filippo Passerini

Evaluating fiscal supports on the public–private partnerships: a hidden risk for contract survival pp. 806-828

Manabu Nose

Tax-price elasticities of charitable giving and selection of reporting: panel study of South Korea pp. 829-848

Hiroki Kato, Tsuyoshi Goto and Youngrok Kim

The effect of task switching on productivity: evidence from major league baseball pitchers pp. 849-866

Alex Farnell, Brian Mills, Vincent O’Sullivan, Robert Simmons and David Berri

Firm-specific factors and the state-dependent effects of monetary policy pp. 867-884

Hayk Kamalyan

Banks defy gravity in tax havens pp. 885-904

Vincent Bouvatier, Gunther Capelle-Blancard and Anne-Laure Delatte

The degeneration of workers’ cooperatives under endogenous membership in mixed oligopoly pp. 905-917

Flavio Delbono and Carlo Reggiani

2025, volume 77, articles 2

Guaranteed storage? Risk and credit constraints in the demand for postharvest technology pp. 289-309

Benjamin Schwab and Jisang Yu

Corporate debt, repayment and maturity structure, and monetary policy transmission pp. 310-332

Hatice Karasoy Can

Politicians, institutional incentives, and citizen welfare: evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India pp. 333-352

Prasenjit Banerjee, Vegard Iversen, Sandip Mitra and Kunal Sen

Flexible contracts and ethnic economic inequalities across gender during the UK’s COVID-19 recession pp. 353-374

Nico Ochmann, Ken Clark, James Nazroo, Andrea Aparicio-Casto and Michaela Šťastná

The distribution of savings behaviours and macro dynamics pp. 375-399

Orlando Gomes

Revisiting the effect of democracy on population health pp. 400-426

Trung Vu

Institutional ‘gaming’ involving staff turnover during recent research evaluation exercises by UK Russell Group universities pp. 427-444

Richard Harris, Mariluz Mate-Sanchez-Val and Manuel Ruiz Marín

Immigrant overeducation across two generations: the role of gender and part-time work pp. 445-465

Kevin Pineda-Hernández, Francois Rycx and Mélanie Volral

How do banks respond to limits on maturity transformation? pp. 466-489

Pierluigi Bologna and Maddalena Galardo

The contribution of employer changes to aggregate wage mobility pp. 490-515

Nils Torben Hollandt and Steffen Mueller

Do you really want to share everything? The well-being of work-linked couples pp. 516-536

Juliane Hennecke and Clemens Hetschko

Pandemic shocks and macroprudential policy pp. 537-563

George Bratsiotis and Manuel Gloria

Economic impact of large earthquakes: lessons from residential property values pp. 564-583

Jayash Paudel

Optimal taxation under status consumption and preferences for equality pp. 584-595

Thomas Aronsson, Tomas Sjögren and Sonal Yadav

Conflict as a cause of migration pp. 596-618

Andrea Crippa, Giorgio d’Agostino, John Dunne and Luca Pieroni

2025, volume 77, articles 1

The college wage premium in the UK: decline and fall? pp. 1-18

Gianna Boero, Tej Nathwani, Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith

Welfare-maximizing patent length in a dynamic general equilibrium model pp. 19-41

Tatsuro Iwaisako

Household durable goods and child health in China pp. 42-69

Amanda Kerr

Social learning and the acquisition of information and knowledge—a network approach for the case of technology adoption pp. 70-90

Yazeed Abdul Mumin and Renan Goetz

Monopolistic competition under frictional entries pp. 91-118

Vincent Boitier

Consumer participation in the credit market during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond pp. 119-143

Evangelos Charalambakis, Federica Teppa and Athanasios Tsiortas

Degrees of demand: a task-based analysis of the British graduate labour market pp. 144-165

Golo Henseke, Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie and Francis Green

The role of social effects in shaping beliefs about the economy pp. 166-189

Markus Knell and Helmut Stix

Climate change, strict Pareto improvements in welfare and multilateral financial transfers pp. 190-212

Christos Kotsogiannis and Alan Woodland

Inflation-overshooting commitment: an analysis using a macroeconomic model pp. 213-233

Takuji Kawamoto, Jouchi Nakajima and Tomoaki Mikami

Spillovers from tax shocks to the Euro area pp. 234-255

Sascha Mierzwa

Who should decide how much information to collect? pp. 256-270

Youping Li and Jianhu Zhang

Are non-practising entities opportunistic? Evidence from litigation of standard essential patents pp. 271-288

Brian J Love and Christian Helmers