Empirical Economics

1976 - 2025

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Volume 53, issue 4, 2017

Are countries becoming equally unequal? pp. 1323-1348

Dustin Chambers and Shatakshee Dhongde

Tracking positive and negative effects of inequality on long-run growth pp. 1349-1378

David Castells-Quintana and Vicente Royuela

Revisiting the FDI impact on GDP growth in errors-in-variables models: a panel data GMM analysis allowing for error memory pp. 1379-1398

Erik Biorn and Xuehui Han

Hysteresis in unemployment? Evidence from linear and nonlinear unit root tests and tests with non-normal errors pp. 1399-1414

Ming Meng, Mark Strazicich and Junsoo Lee

Unemployment hysteresis and structural change in Europe pp. 1415-1440

Kurmaş Akdoğan

Effects of idiosyncratic shocks on macroeconomic time series pp. 1441-1461

Minxian Yang

Capital structure adjustments: Do macroeconomic and business risks matter? pp. 1463-1502

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and Abdul Rashid

Endogeneity and nonlinearities in Central Bank of Brazil’s reaction functions: an inverse quantile regression approach pp. 1503-1527

Gabriela Bezerra Medeiros, Marcelo Savino Portugal and Edilean da Silva Bejarano Aragón

Effect of credibility and reputation on discretionary fiscal policy: empirical evidence from Colombia pp. 1529-1552

Juan Camilo Galvis Ciro and Helder de Mendonça

The importance of the financial system for the real economy pp. 1553-1586

Sebastian Ankargren, Mårten Bjellerup and Hovick Shahnazarian

Foreign direct investment and the domestic capital stock: the good–bad role of higher institutional quality pp. 1587-1637

Michael S. Delgado and Nadine McCloud

The effect of oil price changes on the price of Russian and Chinese oil shares pp. 1639-1656

Stephen Hall and Amangeldi Kenjegaliev

Estimation of a model for matched panel data with high-dimensional two-way unobserved heterogeneity pp. 1657-1680

Øivind Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud and Terje Skjerpen

Improving the prediction of ranking data pp. 1681-1710

Marco Palma

Ethnic diversity and firm performance: Evidence from China’s materials and industrial sectors pp. 1711-1731

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Maria Rebecca Valenzuela and Wisdom Sablah

Politician’s ideology and campaign contributions from interest groups pp. 1733-1746

Sungmun Choi

Cannabis use and support for cannabis legalization pp. 1747-1770

Ali Palali and Jan C. Ours

Volume 53, issue 3, 2017

The role of news-based uncertainty indices in predicting oil markets: a hybrid nonparametric quantile causality method pp. 879-889

Mehmet Balcilar, Stelios Bekiros and Rangan Gupta

Oil price effects over individual Portuguese stock returns pp. 891-926

Rui F. Teixeira, Mara Madaleno and Elisabete S. Vieira

Metals: resources or financial assets? A multivariate cross-sectional analysis pp. 927-958

Fabian Lutzenberger, Benedikt Gleich, Herbert G. Mayer, Christian Stepanek and Andreas W. Rathgeber

Dynamic responses and tail-dependence among commodities, the US real interest rate and the dollar pp. 959-997

Wanling Huang, Andre Mollick and Khoa Huu Nguyen

Does stock market performance affect the government satisfaction rating in the UK? pp. 999-1009

Sedef Sen and Murat Donduran

Stock market development and real economic activity in Peru pp. 1011-1038

Erick Lahura and Marco Vega

Time-varying copula models in the shipping derivatives market pp. 1039-1058

Wenming Shi, Kevin X. Li, Zhongzhi Yang and Ganggang Wang

Insurance development, banking activities, and regional output: evidence from China pp. 1059-1081

Chien-Chiang Lee and Tie-Ying Liu

Innovation and ICT use in the EU: an analysis of regional drivers pp. 1083-1108

Margarita Billon, Rocio Marco and Fernando Lera-Lopez

Are the log-growth rates of city sizes distributed normally? Empirical evidence for the USA pp. 1109-1123

Arturo Ramos

Human capital in the inner city pp. 1125-1169

Dionissi Aliprantis

Is productivity diverging in the EU? Evidence from 11 Member States pp. 1171-1192

Grigorios Emvalomatis

Fiscal policy asymmetries and the sustainability of US government debt revisited pp. 1193-1215

Steven Cassou, Hedieh Shadmani and Jesús Vázquez

A Monte Carlo comparison of estimating the number of dynamic factors pp. 1217-1241

Zhao Zhao, Guowei Cui and Shaoping Wang

Restricted Hodrick–Prescott filtering in a state-space framework pp. 1243-1251

Kristian Jönsson

A new approach to testing unemployment hysteresis pp. 1253-1280

Fumitaka Furuoka

A note on testing instrument validity for the identification of LATE pp. 1281-1286

Lukas Laffers and Giovanni Mellace

How much should we trust regression-kink-design estimates? pp. 1287-1322

Michihito Ando

Volume 53, issue 2, 2017

Are state–local government expenditures converging? New evidence based on sequential unit root tests pp. 373-403

Saeid Mahdavi and Joakim Westerlund

Structural shocks and dynamic elasticities in a long memory model of the US gasoline retail market pp. 405-422

Yuliya Lovcha and Alejandro Perez-Laborda

Time-varying persistence in US inflation pp. 423-439

Massimiliano Caporin and Rangan Gupta

Money-based underlying inflation measure for Russia: a structural dynamic factor model approach pp. 441-457

Elena Deryugina and Alexey Ponomarenko

Exchange rate volatility and bilateral exports of Malaysia to Singapore, China, Japan, the USA and Korea pp. 459-492

Hock Tsen Wong

Causality between credit depth and economic growth: evidence from 24 OECD countries pp. 493-524

Mikhail Stolbov

Sudden stops and output: an empirical Markov switching analysis pp. 525-567

Andreas Bachmann and Stefan Leist

Macroeconomic and credit forecasts during the Greek crisis using Bayesian VARs pp. 569-598

Dimitrios Louzis

The housing market and excess monetary liquidity in China pp. 599-615

I-Chun Tsai

Investigation of institutional changes in the UK housing market using structural break tests and time-varying parameter models pp. 617-640

Hanxiong Zhang, Robert Hudson, Hugh Metcalf and Viktor Manahov

Hurdle models of repayment behaviour in personal loan contracts pp. 641-667

José M. R. Murteira and Mário A. G. Augusto

Markups and bargaining power in tradable and non-tradable sectors pp. 669-694

João Amador and Ana Cristina Soares

The effect of cash flow on investment: an empirical test of the balance sheet theory pp. 695-716

Ola Melander, Maria Sandström and Erik von Schedvin

On the ambiguous economic freedom–inequality relationship pp. 717-754

Daniel L. Bennett and Boris Nikolaev

Income inequalities for recently graduated French workers: a multilevel modeling approach pp. 755-778

Mathieu Bunel and Jean-Pascal Guironnet

Segregation and gender wage gaps in the private and the public sectors: an analysis of Danish linked employer–employee data, 2002–2012 pp. 779-802

Karsten Albæk, Mona Larsen and Lars Stage Thomsen

What is the right profile for getting a job? A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process pp. 803-826

Stefan Eriksson, Per Johansson and Sophie Langenskiöld

A capable wife: couple’s joint decisions on labor supply and family chores pp. 827-851

Ji-Liang Shiu and Meng-Chi Tang

The impact of targeting policy on spouses’ demand for public goods, labor supplies and sharing rule pp. 853-878

Panayiota Lyssiotou

Volume 53, issue 1, 2017

Special issue on forecasting, use of survey data on expectations, and panel data applications: editors’ introduction pp. 1-6

Badi Baltagi

Forecast combination when outcomes are difficult to predict pp. 7-20

Graham Elliott

Forecasting economic activity by Bayesian bridge model averaging pp. 21-40

Lorenzo Bencivelli, Massimiliano Marcellino and Gianluca Moretti

Macroeconomic uncertainty indices for the Euro Area and its individual member countries pp. 41-62

Barbara Rossi and Tatevik Sekhposyan

Forecast performance, disagreement, and heterogeneous signal-to-noise ratios pp. 63-77

Jonas Dovern and Matthias Hartmann

The role of indicator selection in nowcasting euro-area GDP in pseudo-real time pp. 79-99

Alessandro Girardi, Roberto Golinelli and Carmine Pappalardo

A nonparametric approach to identifying a subset of forecasters that outperforms the simple average pp. 101-115

Constantin Bürgi and Tara Sinclair

Forecasting South African macroeconomic variables with a Markov-switching small open-economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model pp. 117-135

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta and Kevin Kotze

Applying a microfounded-forecasting approach to predict Brazilian inflation pp. 137-163

Wagner Gaglianone, João Issler and Silvia Maria Matos

Measuring uncertainty and assessing its predictive power in the euro area pp. 165-182

Pilar Poncela and Eva Senra

Evaluating a leading indicator: an application—the term spread pp. 183-194

Herman Stekler and Tianyu Ye

Interest rate assumptions and predictive accuracy of central bank forecasts pp. 195-215

Malte Knüppel and Guido Schultefrankenfeld

A dynamic factor model for nowcasting Canadian GDP growth pp. 217-234

Tony Chernis and Rodrigo Sekkel

Survey-based forecast distributions for Euro Area growth and inflation: ensembles versus histograms pp. 235-246

Fabian Krüger

The national segmentation of euro area bank balance sheets during the financial crisis pp. 247-265

A. Colangelo, Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, Huw Pill and Lucrezia Reichlin

The Brazilian wage curve: new evidence from the National Household Survey pp. 267-286

Badi Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki and Kênia Barreiro Souza

Measuring market power when firms price discriminate pp. 287-305

Levent Kutlu and Robin Sickles

Demand for household sanitation in India using NFHS-3 data pp. 307-327

Anurag Banerjee, Nilanjan Banik and Ashvika Dalmia

Combination of “combinations of p values” pp. 329-350

Lan Cheng and Xuguang Simon Sheng

Determining the number of factors after stationary univariate transformations pp. 351-372

Francisco Corona, Pilar Poncela and Esther Ruiz