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2022, volume 74, articles 4

Brexit and Japanese foreign direct investment in the UK: a sectoral analysis (A knowledge and physical Capital model of international trade flows, foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises) pp. 959-975

Andrzej Cieślik and Michael Ryan

Under attack: Terrorism and international trade in France, 2014–2016 (The economic cost of conflict: A case study of the Basque Country) pp. 976-998

Volker Nitsch and Isabelle Rabaud

Longitudinal patterns in cohort income inequality, income instability, and income trajectories of a US cohort on the cusp of retirement (Growth-rate heterogeneity and the covariance structure of life-cycle earnings) pp. 999-1020

Thomas L Hungerford

The causal impact of performance-based funding on university performance: quasi-experimental evidence from a policy in Russian higher education (Impacts of performance-based research funding systems: the case of the Norwegian publication indicator) pp. 1021-1044

Tommaso Agasisti, Ekaterina Abalmasova, Ekaterina Shibanova and Aleksei Egorov

Parental gender bias and investment in children’s health and education: evidence from Bangladesh (Child gender and parental investments in India: Are boys and girls treated differently?) pp. 1045-1062

Lutfunnahar Begum, Philip Grossman and Asad Islam

Damage sensitivity and stability in international environmental agreements (Self-enforcing international environmental agreements) pp. 1063-1076

Heather Eckert and Bruno Nkuiya

Firm dynamics by age and size classes and the choice of size measure (A unified theory of firm selection and growth) pp. 1077-1109

Stelios Giannoulakis and Plutarchos Sakellaris

Job search, unemployment protection, and informal work (Re-employment probabilities of unemployment benefit recipients) pp. 1110-1138

Iain W Long and Vito Polito

Migration and growth in a Schumpeterian growth model with creative destruction (A model of growth through creative destruction) pp. 1139-1166

Carmelo Parello

Preferences or expectations: understanding the gender gap in major choice (The demand for and return to education when education outcomes are Uncertain) pp. 1167-1194

Aparajita Dasgupta and Anisha Sharma

The cyclicality of job search effort in matching models (Labor supply in the past, present, and future: a Balan ced-Growth perspective) pp. 1195-1213

Alper Çenesiz and Luís Guimarães

How Uzawa differs from Lucas (A model of growth through creative destruction) pp. 1214-1227

Kazuyuki Sasakura

Did the Black Death cause economic development by ‘inventing’ fertility restriction? (Land use and management in the upland demesne of the De Lacy estate of Blackburnshire c. 1300) pp. 1228-1246

Jeremy Edwards and Sheilagh Ogilvie

Reply to Edwards and Ogilvie: ‘Did the Black Death Cause Economic Development by “Inventing” Fertility Restriction’ (On the origins of gender roles: Women and the plough) pp. 1247-1263

Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth

2022, volume 74, articles 3

Wealth concentration in the USA using an expanded measure of net worth (Top wealth shares in the UK over more than a century) pp. 623-642

Lindsay Jacobs, Elizabeth Llanes, Kevin Moore, Jeffrey Thompson and Alice Henriques Volz

Wealth inequality, intergenerational transfers, and family background (Intergenerational wealth mobility and the role of inheritance: Evidence from multiple generations) pp. 643-670

Juan Palomino, Gustavo Marrero, Brian Nolan and Juan Rodríguez

Inflation trends in Asia: implications for central banks (Are Phillips curves useful for forecasting inflation?) pp. 671-700

Juan Angel Garcia and Aubrey Poon

Professionals Inflation Forecasts: The Two Dimensions Of Forecaster Inattentiveness (Sectoral and aggregate inflation dynamics in the euro area) pp. 701-720

Joshy Easaw and Roberto Golinelli

Are economic growth and well-being compatible? Welfare reform and life satisfaction in Japan (Childcare expansion in East Asia: Changing shape of the institutional configurations in Japan and South Korea) pp. 721-745

Francesco Sarracino, Kelsey J O’Connor and Hiroshi Ono

The persistence of unhappiness: trapped into despair? (Estimation of dynamic nonlinear random effects models with unbalanced panels) pp. 746-772

Lionel Wilner

Heterogeneous gains from countercyclical fiscal policy: new evidence from international industry-level data* (Optimal investment with costly reversibility) pp. 773-804

Sangyup Choi, Davide Furceri and Joao Jalles

Private and public consumption: substitutes or complements? (Temporary and permanent government spending in an open economy) pp. 805-819

Joao Jalles and Georgios Karras

Data brokers co-opetition (The impact of big data on firm performance: an empirical investigation) pp. 820-839

Yiquan Gu, Leonardo Madio and Carlo Reggiani

What drives financial development? A Meta-regression analysis (A new database of financial reforms) pp. 840-868

Chris Doucouliagos, Jakob de Haan and Jan-Egbert Sturm

For some, luck matters more: the impact of the great recession on the early careers of graduates from different socio-economic backgrounds* (Cashier or consultant? Entry labor market conditions, field of study, and career success) pp. 869-893

Emilia Del Bono and Greta Morando

Adult skills and labor market conditions during teenage years: cross-country evidence from international surveys (Is post-secondary education a safe port and for whom? Evidence from Canadian data) pp. 894-919

By Marianne Haraldsvik and Bjarne Strøm

Simultaneous borrowing and saving in microfinance (Microfinance beyond group lending) pp. 920-935

Dyotona Dasgupta and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

The dynamics of disability and benefit receipt in Britain (Large sample properties of matching estimators for average treatment effects) pp. 936-957

Melanie K Jones and Duncan McVicar

2022, volume 74, articles 2

Revealed preference analysis and bounded rationality (Consume now or later? Time inconsistency, collective choice and revealed preference) pp. 313-332

Eileen Tipoe, Abi Adams and Ian Crawford

Rising wealth inequality: when r − g matters (The rise and decline of general laws of capitalism) pp. 333-358

Hoang Khieu

Quantifying multipliers in Italy: does fiscal policy composition matter? (The macroeconomic effects of public investment: Evidence from advanced economies) pp. 359-381

Matteo Deleidi

An economical business-cycle model (Breaking through the zero lower bound) pp. 382-411

Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez

Fiscal multipliers in a small open economy: the case of Austria (The macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy in Portugal: a bayesian SVAR analysis) pp. 412-430

Jan Čapek, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Johannes Holler and Philip Schuster

Labour productivity during the Great Depression and the Great Recession in UK engineering and metal manufacture (The Productivity Puzzle: a Firm-level Investigation into Employment Behaviour and Resource Allocation over the Crisis) pp. 431-452

Robert Hart

Posthumous trading patterns affecting artwork prices (Financial returns, price determinants, and genre effects in American art investment) pp. 453-472

Dakshina De Silva, Georgia Kosmopoulou, Rachel Pownall and Robert Press

Household saving, health, and healthcare utilization in Japan (Stature, obesity, and portfolio choice) pp. 473-497

Raslan Alzuabi, Sarah Brown, Daniel Gray, Mark Harris and Christopher Spencer

The role of income and substitution in commodity demand (Modelling OECD industrial energy demand: asymmetric price responses and energy-saving technical change) pp. 498-522

John Baffes, Alain Kabundi and Peter Nagle

Does misery love company? An experimental investigation (How much do we care about absolute versus relative income and consumption?) pp. 523-540

Katherine Farrow, Gilles Grolleau and Lisette Ibanez

Mental health, reporting bias and economic transitions (Semiparametric estimation with mismeasured dependent variables: an application to duration models for unemployment spells) pp. 541-564

Sarah Brown, Mark Harris, Preety Srivastava and Karl Taylor

Erratum: Mental health, reporting bias and economic transitions pp. 565-566

Sarah Brown, Mark Harris, Preety Srivastava and Karl Taylor

Conflict and the nature of precautionary wealth (Behavioral and material determinants of production relations in land-abundant tropical agriculture) pp. 567-593

Rishabh Sinha, Leila Aghabarari and Ahmed Rostom

The evolution of tax implicit value judgements in the UK: 1968–2018 (Comparing poverty rates internationally: Lessons from recent studies in developed countries) pp. 594-609

Justin van de Ven and Nicolas Hérault

Logit function in stochastic categorizations (Choice overload: a conceptual review and meta-analysis) pp. 610-622

Kai Wang

2022, volume 74, articles 1

Slow real wage growth during the Industrial Revolution: productivity paradox or pro-rich growth? (Engels’ pause: technical change, capital accumulation, and inequality in the British industrial revolution) pp. 1-13

Nicholas Crafts

Return to apprenticeships: a comparison between existing apprentices and newly recruited apprentices (Apprenticeship as a stepping stone to better jobs: evidence from Brazilian matched employer-employee data) pp. 14-39

Stefan Speckesser and Lei Xu

Economic conditions, task shares, and overqualification (Changes in unemployment and wage inequality: an alternative theory and some evidence) pp. 40-61

Fraser Summerfield

Return migration and self-employment: is there a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ effect? (The intergenerational transmission of liberal professions) pp. 62-84

Clotilde Mahé

Worker surveillance capital, labour share, and productivity (Workplace surveillance: an overview) pp. 85-93

Philippe Askenazy

The gender pay gap: what can we learn from Northern Ireland? (Women’s labour market participation in Northern Ireland: a re-examination of the ‘traditionalism’ argument) pp. 94-114

Melanie Jones and Ezgi Kaya

Technological unemployment revisited: automation in a search and matching framework (The future of work: meeting the global challenges of demographic change and automation) pp. 115-135

Dario Cords and Klaus Prettner

Task-specific human capital and returns to specialization: evidence from association football (All about balance? A test of the jack-of-all-trades theory using military enlistment data) pp. 136-154

Karol Kempa

Impacts of the Great Recession on sport: evidence from English Football League attendance demand (US household tourism expenditure and the great recession: an analysis with the consumer expenditure survey) pp. 155-177

Babatunde Buraimo, Giuseppe Migali and Rob Simmons

Sovereign debt crises and cross-country assistance (A pyrrhic victory? Bank bailouts and sovereign credit risk) pp. 178-193

Christian Grisse and Gisle Natvik

E pluribus unum? Political fractionalization and deviations from the law of one price in the USA (Fractionalization) pp. 194-214

Massimo Antonini, David Fielding and Jacinta Pires

Strategic environmental policy and international market share rivalry under differentiated Bertrand oligopoly (Tradable permits vs. ecological dumping when governments act non-cooperatively) pp. 215-235

Harvey Lapan and Shiva Sikdar

Can hope elevate microfinance? Evidence from Oaxaca, Mexico (Multiple inference and gender differences in the effects of early intervention: a reevaluation of the Abecedarian, Perry Preschool, and early training projects) pp. 236-264

Ruben Irvin Rojas Valdes, Bruce Wydick and Travis Lybbert

Non-parametric estimation and evaluation of capability sets (Gender differences in Italian children's capabilities) pp. 265-296

Pim Verbunt, Nicky Rogge and Tom Van Puyenbroeck

Innovation and product market concentration: Schumpeter, arrow, and the inverted U-shape curve (Lessons from schumpeterian growth theory) pp. 297-311

Flavio DelbonoBy and Luca Lambertini