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2019, volume 71, articles 4

Diverging trends of wage inequality in Europe pp. 799-823

João Pereira and Aurora Galego

Re-estimating the relationship between inequality and growth pp. 824-847

Nathalie Scholl and Stephan Klasen

Kuznets meets Lucas: structural change and human capital pp. 848-873

Edgar Cruz

Volatility and growth: a not so straightforward relationship pp. 874-907

Dimitrios Bakas, Georgios Chortareas and Georgios Magkonis

Monetary policy regimes and growth revisited: evidence from a de facto classification pp. 908-929

Kin Ming Wong and Terence Tai Leung Chong

The incentive and efficiency effects of affirmative action: does envy matter? pp. 930-951

Rezina Sultana

Social capital as an instrument for common pool resource management: a case study of irrigation management in Sri Lanka pp. 952-978

Takeshi Aida

The effects of bigger rewards in individual tournaments on efforts and risk taking: evidence from chess pp. 979-995

Rasyad Parinduri, Hon Lee and Kung Ming Tiong

It’s time for Westernization: the advantages of the early start for long-term economic development at the local level pp. 996-1025

Sotiris Kampanelis

The effects of fiscal stimulus: firm-level evidence from selective temporary consumption tax cuts pp. 1026-1049

Florian Misch and Atılım Seymen

Negative correlation between retirement age and length of contribution? pp. 1050-1070

Erik Granseth, Wolfgang Keck, Wolfgang Nagl, Andras Simonovits and Melinda Tir

Sustained investment surges pp. 1071-1095

Emiliano Libman, Juan Antonio Montecino and Arslan Razmi

2019, volume 71, articles 3

On the dynamics of gender differences in preferences pp. 503-527

Thomas Baudin and Victor Hiller

In-group and out-group biases in the marketplace: a field experiment during the World Cup pp. 528-547

Sang-Hyun Kim and Fernanda L Lopez de Leon

Get her off my screen: taste-based discrimination in a high-stakes popularity contest pp. 548-563

Tom Lane

The silent treatment: discrimination against same-sex relations in the sharing economy pp. 564-576

Rishi Ahuja and Ronan Lyons

Poverty, prosperity, and fiscal policies in a two-sector model with human capital externalities pp. 577-599

Lei Shao and Jie Zhang

The power of joint decision-making in a finitely-repeated dilemma pp. 600-622

Kenju Kamei

Positive illusions and the temptation to borrow pp. 623-644

Eva Kløve and Halvor Mehlum

The intellectual origins of the monetarist counter-revolution reconsidered: how Clark Warburton influenced Milton Friedman’s monetary thinking pp. 645-665

George Tavlas

Total factor productivity growth in English agriculture: 1690–1914 pp. 666-686

David Maddison and Katrin Rehdanz

Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps: evidence from Bangladesh pp. 687-708

Christophe Nordman, Leopold R Sarr and Smriti Sharma

Time is on my side: relational contracts and aggregate welfare pp. 709-732

Bohdan Kukharskyy and Michael Pflüger

Illustrating income mobility: new measures pp. 733-755

John Creedy and Norman Gemmell

On the relevance of contextual factors for socially responsible investments: an econometric analysis pp. 756-776

Gunnar Gutsche, Anja Köbrich León and Andreas Ziegler

Pricing and obfuscation with complexity averse consumers pp. 777-798

Robert Edwards

2019, volume 71, articles 2

Introduction to the special issue on sovereign debt restructuring pp. 309-319

Sayantan Ghosal and Marcus Miller

Sovereign debt: election concerns and the democratic disadvantage pp. 320-343

Amrita Dhillon, Andrew Pickering and Tomas Sjostrom

The macroeconomic effects of official debt restructuring: evidence from the Paris Club pp. 344-363

Gong Cheng, Javier Díaz-Cassou and Aitor Erce

Pre-emptive sovereign debt restructuring and holdout litigation pp. 364-381

Kartik Anand and Prasanna Gai

Deconstructing delays in sovereign debt restructuring pp. 382-404

David Benjamin and Mark Wright

Waiting for a haircut? A bargaining perspective on sovereign debt restructuring pp. 405-420

Sayantan Ghosal, Marcus Miller and Kannika Thampanishvong

Resolving sovereign debt crises: the role of political risk pp. 421-444

Christoph Trebesch

Lost and found: market access and public debt dynamics pp. 445-471

Antonio Bassanetti, Carlo Cottarelli and Andrea Presbitero

The sovereign debt listing puzzle pp. 472-495

Elisabeth de Fontenay, Josefin Meyer and Mitu Gulati

2019, volume 71, articles 1

The changing distribution of wealth in the pre-crisis US and UK: the role of socio-economic factors pp. 1-24

Frank Cowell, Eleni Karagiannaki and Abigail McKnight

The ‘mighty girl’ effect: does parenting daughters alter attitudes towards gender norms? pp. 25-46

Mireia Borrell-Porta, Joan Costa-Font and Julia Philipp

Balancing family and work: transition to self-employment among new mothers pp. 47-72

Sung-Hee Jeon and Yuri Ostrovsky

Out of sight, out of mind? The education outcomes of children with parents working abroad pp. 73-94

Joanna Clifton-Sprigg

Helping with the kids? How family-friendly workplaces affect parental well-being and behaviour pp. 95-118

Verena Lauber and Johanna Storck

Job creation in a multi-sector labour market model for developing economies pp. 119-144

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau, Gary Fields and Ravi Kanbur

Effective skill: a new theoretical perspective on the relation between skills, skill use, mismatches, and wages pp. 145-165

Rolf Van der Velden and Ineke Bijlsma

Temporary investment incentives and divestment by foreign firms pp. 166-186

José Mata and Paulo Guimaraes

R&D policy and competition in a Schumpeterian growth model with heterogeneous firms pp. 187-202

Carmelo Parello

Exploring heterogeneity in willingness to pay for the attributes of higher education institutions pp. 203-224

Sharon Walsh, John Cullinan and Darragh Flannery

Assessing activist fiscal policy in advanced and emerging market economies using real-time data pp. 225-249

Tigran Poghosyan and Mehmet Tosun

Winners and losers of corporate tournaments pp. 250-268

Ian Gregory-Smith and Peter Wright

The effect of language on foreign direct investment pp. 269-291

Xiaoyun Feng, Faqin Lin and Nicholas Sim

Bargaining and hold-up: the role of arbitration pp. 292-308

Yannick Gabuthy and Abhinay Muthoo

2018, volume 70, articles 4

Personality and pay: do gender gaps in confidence explain gender gaps in wages? pp. 919-949

Leonora Risse, Lisa Farrell and Tim Fry

What makes you ‘super-rich’? New evidence from an analysis of football players’ wages pp. 950-973

Vincenzo Carrieri, Francesco Principe and Michele Raitano

General education, vocational education and skill mismatches: short-run versus long-run effects pp. 974-993

Dieter Verhaest, Jeroen Lavrijsen, Walter Van Trier, Ides Nicaise and Eddy Omey

Overeducation in Europe: trends, convergence, and drivers pp. 994-1015

Seamus McGuinness, Adele Bergin and Adele Whelan

Endogenous real wage rigidity in a search frictions model pp. 1016-1035

Christopher Martin and Bingsong Wang

Political competition and rural welfare: evidence from Pakistan pp. 1036-1061

Katrina Kosec, Hamza Haider, David Spielman and Fatima Zaidi

Incentive for risk sharing and trust formation: experimental and survey evidence from Bangladesh pp. 1062-1083

Masahiro Shoji

Prices vs quantities for international environmental agreements pp. 1084-1107

Ulrike Kornek and Robert Marschinski

Effects of commodity price shocks on inflation: a cross-country analysis pp. 1108-1135

Atsushi Sekine and Takayuki Tsuruga

Prudent sovereign debt borrowing pp. 1136-1147

Christopher Bliss

Contests with ambiguity pp. 1148-1169

David Kelsey and Tigran Melkonyan

2018, volume 70, articles 3

Trust and signals in workplace organization: evidence from job autonomy differentials between immigrant groups pp. 591-612

André van Hoorn

Heterogeneous effects of high school peers on educational outcomes pp. 613-634

Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo Paloyo and Ian Walker

The dynamic effect of disability on work and subjective well-being pp. 635-657

Melanie Jones, Kostas Mavromaras, Peter Sloane and Zhang Wei

The role of museums in bilateral tourist flows: evidence from Italy pp. 658-679

Nadia Campaniello and Matteo Richiardi

How free admittance affects charged visits to museums: an analysis of the Italian case pp. 680-698

Roberto Cellini and Tiziana Cuccia

Currency depreciation and the monetary adjustment process: reconsidering Lord King’s contributions pp. 699-718

Joseph T Salerno and Carmen Elena Dorobat

Milton Friedman’s causal realist stance? pp. 719-740

Edward Mariyani-Squire

Smoking behaviour and individual well-being: a fresh look at the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy pp. 741-762

Emilia Del Bono and Daniela Vuri

Judging on thin ice: the effects of group membership on evaluation pp. 763-783

Cheryl Litman and Thomas Stratmann

Do people exaggerate how happy they are? Using a promise to induce truth-telling pp. 784-798

Fredrik Carlsson and Mitesh Kataria

Electricity market integration and the impact of unilateral policy reforms pp. 799-820

Luigi Grossi, Sven Heim, Kai Hüschelrath and Michael Waterson

Constraints on LTV as a macroprudential tool: a precautionary tale pp. 821-845

Jose G Montalvo and Josep M Raya

Partial employment protection and perceived job security: evidence from France pp. 846-867

Alexandre Georgieff and Anthony Lepinteur

How important is precautionary labour supply? pp. 868-891

Robin Jessen, Davud Rostam-Afschar and Sebastian Schmitz

The use of third-party information reporting for tax deductions: evidence and implications from charitable deductions in Denmark pp. 892-916

Christian Gillitzer and Peer Skov

Double limit analysis of optimal personal income taxation pp. 917-917

Michael Sattinger

2018, volume 70, articles 2

Top incomes and inequality in the UK: reconciling estimates from household survey and tax return data pp. 301-326

Richard Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen Jenkins and Roger Wilkins

Political institutions and economic growth in Africa’s ‘Renaissance’ pp. 327-352

Robert Bates and Steven Block

The moral and fiscal implications of antiretroviral therapies for HIV in Africa pp. 353-374

Paul Collier and Olivier Sterck

Growth spillovers and market access in Africa pp. 375-391

Alexander J Moore

Why do the econometric-based studies on the effect of warming on agriculture disagree? A meta-analysis pp. 392-416

Kaixing Huang and Nicholas Sim

Climate leadership by conditional commitments pp. 417-442

Leif Helland, Jon Hovi and Håkon Sælen

The thief’s wages: theft and human capital development pp. 443-467

Geoffrey Williams

Protest treatment and its impact on the WTP and WTA estimates for theft and robbery in the UK pp. 468-484

José Ignacio Hernández, Alistair Hunt, Matteo Pazzona and Felipe Vásquez Lavín

More skilled, better paid: labour-market returns to postsecondary vocational education pp. 485-508

Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen and Christopher Jepsen

Matching skills of individuals and firms along the career path pp. 509-537

Elisabeth Sattler-Bublitz

University education and non-cognitive skill development pp. 538-562

Sonja C Kassenboehmer, Felix Leung and Stefanie Schurer

Fiscal consolidation after the Great Recession: the role of composition pp. 563-585

Iván Kataryniuk and Javier Vallés

Optimum saving and growth: Harrod on dynamic welfare economics pp. 586-586

Mauro Boianovsky

2018, volume 70, articles 1

Assessing Piketty’s second law of capitalism pp. 1-21

Jakob Madsen, Antonio Minniti and Francesco Venturini

Women voters and trade protectionism in the interwar years pp. 22-46

Alan de Bromhead

Heterogeneous firms and informality: the effects of trade liberalization on labour markets pp. 47-72

Dennis Becker

Changing social preferences and optimal redistributive taxation pp. 73-92

Jang-Ting Guo and Alan Krause

Double limit analysis of optimal personal income taxation pp. 93-113

Michael Sattinger

Positional preferences and efficient capital accumulation when households exhibit a preference for wealth pp. 114-140

Sugata Ghosh and Ron Wendner

Status competition and benevolence in social networks pp. 141-162

Yao-Yu Chih

Financial strain in the United Kingdom pp. 163-182

Declan French

The welfare effects of involuntary part-time work pp. 183-205

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins and Etienne Lalé

The German employment miracle in the Great Recession: the significance and institutional foundations of temporary working-time reductions pp. 206-224

Alexander Herzog-Stein, Fabian Lindner and Simon Sturn

Does altruism matter for remittances? pp. 225-242

Alexis Antoniades, Ganesh Seshan, Roberto Weber and Robertas Zubrickas

Information transmission within federal fiscal architectures: theory and evidence pp. 243-265

Axel Dreher, Kai Gehring, Christos Kotsogiannis and Silvia Marchesi

The cost of capital in a model of financial intermediation with coordination frictions pp. 266-285

Oana Peia and Radu Vranceanu

Multiple borrowing and adverse selection in credit markets pp. 286-299

Eric Van Tassel