Empirical Economics

1976 - 2025

Current editor(s): Robert M. Kunst, Arthur H.O. van Soest, Bertrand Candelon, Subal C. Kumbhakar and Joakim Westerlund

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Volume 56, issue 6, 2019

Mutual funds’ selective participation and subsequent performance of seasoned equity offerings pp. 1797-1822

Xunan Feng and Kam C. Chan

Time-varying diversification benefits of commodity futures pp. 1823-1853

Sercan Demiralay, Selcuk Bayraci and H. Gaye Gencer

Do primary dealer funding constraints impact sovereign bond liquidity and yields: evidence for nine Euro area countries pp. 1855-1891

Massimo Ferrari, Stéphanie Stolz and Michael Wedow

Financial crisis spillover from Wall Street to Main Street: further evidence pp. 1893-1938

William J. Hippler, Shadiya Hossain and M. Kabir Hassan

Credit cycles and real activity: the Swiss case pp. 1939-1966

Gregor Bäurle and Rolf Scheufele

Accounting for the business cycle reduces the estimated losses from systemic banking crises pp. 1967-1978

Rob Luginbuhl and Adam Elbourne

How to de-dollarize financial systems in the Caucasus and Central Asia? pp. 1979-1999

Sami Ben Naceur, Amr Hosny and Gregory Hadjian

Inflation and relative price variability: new evidence from survey-based measures of inflation expectations in Australia pp. 2001-2024

Hiranya Nath and Jayanta Sarkar

Scale, congestion, and technical efficiency of European countries: a sector-based nonparametric approach pp. 2025-2078

Barnabé Walheer

A comparative analysis of African and Asian migrants’ effect on trade pp. 2079-2092

Samuel Admassu

Which degrees do students prefer during recessions? pp. 2093-2125

Sofoklis Goulas and Rigissa Megalokonomou

Childcare availability and maternal labor supply in a setting of high potential impact pp. 2127-2165

Anna Lovasz and Agnes Szabo-Morvai

Do pay-for-performance incentives lead to a better health outcome? pp. 2167-2184

Alina Peluso, Paolo Berta and Veronica Vinciotti

The origins of early childhood anthropometric persistence pp. 2185-2224

Augustine Denteh, Daniel Millimet and Rusty Tchernis

A replication of ‘Entry regulation and entrepreneurship: a natural experiment in German craftsmanship’ pp. 2225-2252

Petrik Runst, Jörg Thomä, Katarzyna Haverkamp and Klaus Müller

Volume 56, issue 5, 2019

Breaks and the statistical process of inflation: the case of estimating the ‘modern’ long-run Phillips curve pp. 1455-1475

Bill Russell and Dooruj Rambaccussing

A note on the evidence of inflation persistence around the world pp. 1477-1487

Jorge Belaire-Franch

Decoding unemployment persistence: an econometric framework for identifying and comparing the sources of persistence with an application to UK macrodata pp. 1489-1514

Niels Møller

Asymmetries in the revenue–expenditure nexus: new evidence from South Africa pp. 1515-1547

Andrew Phiri

Heterogeneous effects in the international transmission of the US monetary policy: a factor-augmented VAR perspective pp. 1549-1579

Anastasios Evgenidis, Dionisis Philippas and Costas Siriopoulos

Volatility spillovers among global stock markets: measuring total and directional effects pp. 1581-1599

Santiago Gamba, Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Jorge Luis Hurtado-Guarin and Luis Melo-Velandia

Oil price uncertainty and real output growth: new evidence from selected oil-importing countries in the Middle East pp. 1601-1621

Aktham Maghyereh, Basil Awartani and Osama Sweidan

Great Recession and disability insurance in Spain pp. 1623-1645

Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Arnau Juanmarti Mestres and Judit Vall Castello

Macroeconomic impacts of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti pp. 1647-1681

Rohan Best and Paul Burke

Mexico’s inter-regional inequality: a convergent process? pp. 1683-1705

Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez, Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària and Vicente German-Soto

Does innovative effort matter for corporate performance in Spanish companies in a context of financial crisis? A fuzzy-set QCA approach pp. 1707-1727

Carmen González-Velasco, Marcos González-Fernández and José-Luis Fanjul-Suárez

School district consolidation policies: endogenous cost inefficiency and saving reversals pp. 1729-1768

Mustafa Karakaplan and Levent Kutlu

Do sunk costs affect expert decision making? Evidence from the within-game usage of NFL running backs pp. 1769-1796

Quinn A. W. Keefer

Volume 56, issue 4, 2019

Technology in 1500 and genetic diversity pp. 1145-1165

Tiago Sequeira and Marcelo Santos

The impact of earthquakes on economic activity: evidence from Italy pp. 1167-1206

Francesco Porcelli and Riccardo Trezzi

The effect of income on democracy revisited a flexible distributional approach pp. 1207-1230

Rajius Idzalika, Thomas Kneib and Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso

Medium-term macroeconomic volatility and economic development: a new technique pp. 1231-1249

Sam Hak Kan Tang

The common component of bilateral US exchange rates: to what is it related? pp. 1251-1268

Natalia Ponomareva, Jeffrey Sheen and Ben Wang

Determinants of fiscal distress in Italian municipalities pp. 1269-1281

Wildmer Daniel Gregori and Luigi Marattin

Estimating and forecasting with a two-country DSGE model of the Euro area and the USA: the merits of diverging interest-rate rules pp. 1283-1323

Ulrich Gunter

Evaluating Croatian stock index forecasts pp. 1325-1339

Silvija Vlah Jerić and Mihovil Anđelinović

Detecting structural changes in large portfolios pp. 1341-1357

Peter Posch, Daniel Ullmann and Dominik Wied

Permanent and transitory price shocks in commodity futures markets and their relation to speculation pp. 1359-1382

Marco Haase, Yvonne Seiler Zimmermann and Heinz Zimmermann

Evidence about asymmetric price transmission in the main European fuel markets: from TAR-ECM to Markov-switching approach pp. 1383-1412

José María Martín-Moreno, Rafaela Perez and Jesus Ruiz

Detecting bubbles in China’s regional housing markets pp. 1413-1432

Wei-Fong Pan

Regulation, public interest, and private interest: an empirical investigation of firms in Japan pp. 1433-1454

Fumitoshi Mizutani and Eri Nakamura

Volume 56, issue 3, 2019

Testing for the omission of relevant variables and regime-switching misspecification pp. 775-796

Andrea Beccarini

Lag length selection and p-hacking in Granger causality testing: prevalence and performance of meta-regression models pp. 797-830

Stephan B. Bruns and David Stern

Are exports a reliable source of economic growth in MENA countries? New evidence from the rolling Granger causality method pp. 831-841

Salah Abosedra and Chor Foon Tang

An empirical analysis of the trade-creation effect of African regional economic communities pp. 843-863

Samuel Admassu

Remittances and output growth volatility in developing countries: Does financial development dampen or magnify the effects? pp. 865-882

Oluwatosin Adeniyi, Kazeem Ajide and Ibrahim Raheem

Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions pp. 883-933

Simplice Asongu, Vanessa Tchamyou, Ndemaze Asongu and Nina Tchamyou

Military spending, economic growth and investment: a disaggregated analysis by income group pp. 935-958

Christos Kollias and Suzanna-Maria Paleologou

Religiosity, income and wellbeing in developing countries pp. 959-985

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Samuelson Appau and Lisa Farrell

The determinants of individual health care expenditures in the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia: evidence from a hierarchical spatial model estimation pp. 987-1009

Luca Grassetti and Laura Rizzi

Payday-loan bans: evidence of indirect effects on supply pp. 1011-1037

Stefanie R. Ramirez

Output gaps, inflation and financial cycles in the UK pp. 1039-1070

Marko Melolinna and Mate Toth

Asymmetric price transmission in the US and German fuel markets: a quantile autoregression approach pp. 1071-1095

Karsten Schweikert

Assessing the role of futures position substitutability in a monthly model of factor demand for softwood lumber pp. 1097-1116

Ronald A. Babula and Daowei Zhang

Tail dependence between gold and sectorial stocks in China: perspectives for portfolio diversification pp. 1117-1144

Joscha Beckmann, Theo Berger, Robert Czudaj and Thi-Hong- Van Hoang

Volume 56, issue 2, 2019

Bayesian inference in threshold stochastic frontier models pp. 399-422

Mike Tsionas, Kien Tran and Panayotis Michaelides

Regional productivity growth in the EU since 2000: something is better than nothing pp. 423-444

Nicky Rogge

Are we ignoring supply shocks? A proposal for monitoring cyclical fluctuations pp. 445-467

Carolina Pagliacci

Dynamic analysis of trade balance behavior in a small open economy: the J-curve phenomenon and the Czech economy pp. 469-497

Martin Gürtler

Actual monetary policy independence in a small open economy: the Polish perspective pp. 499-522

Lukasz Goczek and Dagmara Mycielska

Fiscal stance, foreign capital inflows and the behavior of current account in the Asian countries pp. 523-549

Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Siew-Voon Soon and Mark Wohar

Import penetration and returns to tasks: recent evidence from the Peruvian labour market pp. 551-617

Elizabeth Casabianca, Alessia Lo Turco and Claudia Pigini

The impact of declining youth employment stability on future wages pp. 619-650

Matthias Umkehrer

Threat of grade retention, remedial education and student achievement: evidence from upper secondary schools in Italy pp. 651-678

Erich Battistin and Antonio Schizzerotto

Further econometric evidence on the extent and sources of cost savings in competitively tendered contracts pp. 679-701

Jorge González Chapela, Jose Labeaga and Luis A. Medrano

Dynamic panel data estimation of an integrated Grossman and Becker–Murphy model of health and addiction pp. 703-733

Andrew Jones, Audrey Laporte, Nigel Rice and Eugenio Zucchelli

Do speculative bubbles migrate in the Chinese stock market? pp. 735-754

Qing He, Zongxin Qian, Zhe Fei and Terence Tai Leung Chong

The impact of color palettes on the prices of paintings pp. 755-773

Elena Stepanova

Volume 56, issue 1, 2019

The social costs of gun ownership revisited pp. 1-12

Bernd Hayo, Florian Neumeier and Christian Westphal

The social costs of gun ownership: a reply to Hayo, Neumeier, and Westphal pp. 13-22

Philip J Cook and Jens Ludwig

Does apprenticeship improve job opportunities? A regression discontinuity approach pp. 23-60

Matteo Picchio and Stefano Staffolani

Unemployment rate hysteresis and the great recession: exploring the metropolitan evidence pp. 61-79

Giorgio Canarella, Rangan Gupta, Stephen Miller and Stephen K. Pollard

Does host-country education mitigate immigrant inefficiency? Evidence from earnings of Australian university graduates pp. 81-106

Dipanwita Sarkar and Trevor Collier

Does the educational management model matter? New evidence from a quasiexperimental approach pp. 107-135

María Jesús Mancebón, Domingo Ximénez-de-Embún, Mauro Mediavilla and José María Gómez-Sancho

When does specification or aggregation across consumers matter for economic impact analysis models? An investigation into demand systems pp. 137-172

Ole Boysen

Effects of the agricultural commodity and the food price volatility on economic integration: an empirical assessment pp. 173-202

Giray Gözgör

Optimal auditing of social benefit fraud: a case study pp. 203-231

Leif Appelgren

Resampling and bootstrap algorithms to assess the relevance of variables: applications to cross section entrepreneurship data pp. 233-267

Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Miguel Lafuente, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla

The interdependence between the saving rate and technology across regimes: evidence from South Africa pp. 269-300

Kevin Nell and Maria M. De Mello

The cyclical behavior of R&D investment during the Great Recession pp. 301-323

Zeynep Kabukcuoglu

Effects of economic variables on NPLs depending on the economic cycle pp. 325-340

Salvador Climent-Serrano

Determinants of bank’s interest margin in the aftermath of the crisis: the effect of interest rates and the yield curve slope pp. 341-365

Paula Cruz-García, Juan Fernández de Guevara and Joaquin Maudos

Forecasting Turkish real GDP growth in a data-rich environment pp. 367-395

Bahar Şen Doğan and Murat Midiliç

Report of the Editors pp. 397-398

Robert Kunst