Empirical Economics

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Volume 52, issue 4, 2017

Like my parents at home? Gender differences in children’s housework in Germany and Spain pp. 1143-1179

J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Raquel Ortega

Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness: evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children pp. 1181-1204

Anna Makles and Kerstin Schneider

Degree choice evidence from stated preferences pp. 1205-1234

Alaitz Artabe and Javier Gardeazabal

Nurses and physicians: a longitudinal analysis of mobility between jobs and labor supply pp. 1235-1269

Leif Andreassen, Maria Laura Tommaso and Steinar Strøm

Caseworkers’ attitudes: Do they matter? pp. 1271-1288

Nina Granqvist, Pathric Hägglund and Stina Jakobsson

Some criticism to a general model in Solvency II: an explanation from a clustering point of view pp. 1289-1308

I. Albarrán, P. Alonso-González and J. M. Marin

Real wages, wage inequality and the regional cost-of-living in the UK pp. 1309-1335

Cinzia Rienzo

Insurance–growth nexus and macroeconomic determinants: evidence from middle-income countries pp. 1337-1366

Rudra P. Pradhan, Mak Arvin, Sahar Bahmani, Sara E. Bennett and John H. Hall

Do credit guarantees for small and medium enterprises mitigate the business cycle? Evidence from Korea pp. 1367-1378

Sun Ho Lee, Eung-Soon Lim and Jinyoung Hwang

Monthly US business cycle indicators: a new multivariate approach based on a band-pass filter pp. 1379-1408

Martyna Marczak and Víctor Gómez

The relationship between GDP and the size of the informal economy: empirical evidence for Spain pp. 1409-1421

Pablo Duarte

Housing price–volume correlations and boom–bust cycles pp. 1423-1450

Chien-Chiang Lee, Chin-Yu Wang and Jhih-Hong Zeng

Predicting the direction of US stock markets using industry returns pp. 1451-1480

Harri Pönkä

Return and volatility spillovers in the Moroccan stock market during the financial crisis pp. 1481-1504

Ahmed El Ghini and Youssef Saidi

Is stock investment contagious among siblings? pp. 1505-1528

Kiichi Tokuoka

Co-movements and contagion between international stock index futures markets pp. 1529-1568

Claudiu Albulescu, Daniel Goyeau and Aviral Tiwari

The evolving nature of intraday price discovery in the Chinese CSI 300 index futures market pp. 1569-1585

Qiang Liu and Gaoxiu Qiao

Dynamic adjustment of ethanol demand to crude oil prices: implications for mandated ethanol usage pp. 1587-1607

Dong Hee Suh and Charles Moss

Diesel and soybean price relationship in the USA: evidence from a quantile autoregressive distributed lag model pp. 1609-1626

Debdatta Pal and Subrata K. Mitra

Export sophistication increases income in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from 1981–2000 pp. 1627-1649

Faqin Lin, Ermias O. Weldemicael and Xiaosong Wang

A sequential global Malmquist productivity index: Productivity growth index for unbalanced panel data considering the progressive nature of technology pp. 1651-1674

Yoonhwan Oh, Dong-hyun Oh and Jeong-Dong Lee

Innovation and institutional ownership revisited: an empirical investigation with count data models pp. 1675-1688

Susanne Berger, Herbert Stocker and Achim Zeileis

Measuring species concentration, diversification and dependency in a macro-fishery pp. 1689-1713

Ikerne Valle, Kepa Astorkiza and Ignacio Díaz-Emparanza

Volume 52, issue 3, 2017

Introduction pp. 895-900

Wenhua Di and Daniel Millimet

Local housing costs and basic household needs pp. 901-923

Aaron Yelowitz

Assessing the evidence on neighborhood effects from Moving to Opportunity pp. 925-954

Dionissi Aliprantis

Neighborhood price externalities of foreclosure rehabilitation: an examination of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program pp. 955-975

Tammy Leonard, Nikhil Jha and Lei Zhang

Borrower credit access and credit performance after loan modifications pp. 977-1005

Lei Ding

Cash-on-hand and demand for credit pp. 1007-1039

Can Cui

The impact of computer-based tutorials on high school math proficiency pp. 1041-1063

Ian McDonough and Constant I. Tra

Food assistance programs and food insecurity: implications for Canada in light of the mixing problem pp. 1065-1087

Craig Gundersen, Brent Kreider, John Pepper and Valerie Tarasuk

Impact of oil booms and busts on human capital investment in the USA pp. 1089-1114

Anil Kumar

Targeted business incentives and the debt behavior of households pp. 1115-1142

Wenhua Di and Daniel Millimet

Volume 52, issue 2, 2017

Marginal effects in multivariate probit models pp. 447-461

John Mullahy

Revisiting purchasing power parity in Eastern European countries: quantile unit root tests pp. 463-483

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Tsangyao Chang, Tsung-Hsien Chen and Han-Wen Tzeng

Public cash transfers and poverty dynamics in Europe pp. 485-524

Iryna Kyzyma and Donald Williams

Regional club convergence in the EU: evidence from a panel data analysis pp. 525-553

Konrad Lyncker and Rasmus Thoennessen

Is Sub-Saharan Africa catching up? pp. 555-575

José Noguera-Santaella

Wage gap and dispersion in a partially unionized structure in Turkey pp. 577-597

Ensar Yilmaz and Sayin San

Patent thickets, defensive patenting, and induced R&D: an empirical analysis of the costs and potential benefits of fragmentation in patent ownership pp. 599-634

Mahdiyeh Entezarkheir

Does democracy dampen the effect of finance on economic growth? pp. 635-658

Kevin Williams

The effect of female and male health on economic growth: cross-country evidence within a production function framework pp. 659-689

Gazi Hassan, Arusha Cooray and Mark Holmes

Estimating production functions for the US states: the role of public and human capital pp. 691-721

Nikos Benos, Nikolaos Mylonidis and Stefania Zotou

Crime and punishment: evidence from dynamic panel data model for North Carolina (2003–2012) pp. 723-730

Mojtaba Ghasemi

Contemporaneous causal orderings of US corn cash prices through directed acyclic graphs pp. 731-758

Xiaojie Xu

Identifying the robust economic, geographical and political determinants of FDI: an Extreme Bounds Analysis pp. 759-776

Melisa Chanegriha, Chris Stewart and Christopher Tsoukis

Long-term links between raw materials prices, real exchange rate and relative de-industrialization in a commodity-dependent economy: empirical evidence of “Dutch disease” in Colombia pp. 777-798

Pilar Poncela, Eva Senra and Lya Sierra

Empirical analysis of Australian consumption patterns pp. 799-823

Lucille Wong, Eliyathamby Selvanathan and Saroja Selvanathan

Preschool and school performance of children from immigrant families pp. 825-867

Nina Drange and Kjetil Telle

Quasi-experimental evidence for the importance of accounting for fear when evaluating catastrophic events pp. 869-894

Hayato Nakanishi

Volume 52, issue 1, 2017

Long-term unemployment and violent crime pp. 1-29

Martin Nordin and Daniel Almén

Local labor markets and earnings of refugee immigrants pp. 31-58

Anna Godøy

The wage curve before and during the Greek economic crisis pp. 59-77

Joan Daouli, Michael Demoussis, Nicholas Giannakopoulos and Ioannis Laliotis

Outside options and wages: What can we learn from subjective assessments? pp. 79-121

Marta Lachowska

The import price index with trade barriers: theory and evidence pp. 123-141

Thomas Brasch

The effect of nonreciprocal preferential trade agreements on benefactors’ exports pp. 143-154

Salvador Gil-Pareja, Rafael Llorca-Vivero and José Antonio Martínez-Serrano

On the influence of US monetary policy on crude oil price volatility pp. 155-178

Alessandra Amendola, Vincenzo Candila and Antonio Scognamillo

Portfolio flows and the US dollar–yen exchange rate pp. 179-189

Faek Menla Ali, Fabio Spagnolo and Nicola Spagnolo

Searching for the Fed’s reaction function pp. 191-227

Katrin Wölfel and Christoph Weber

Forecast combination for discrete choice models: predicting FOMC monetary policy decisions pp. 229-254

Laurent Pauwels and Andrey Vasnev

The Baltic Dry Index: cyclicalities, forecasting and hedging strategies pp. 255-282

Fotis Papailias, Dimitrios Thomakos and Jiadong Liu

Real interest rates: nonlinearity and structural breaks pp. 283-307

Tolga Omay, Aysegul Çorakcı Eruygur and Furkan Emirmahmutoglu

Financial liberalization and sectoral reallocation of capital in South Africa pp. 309-356

Zivanemoyo Chinzara, Radhika Lahiri and En Te Chen

The Japanese Taylor rule estimated using censored quantile regressions pp. 357-371

Jau-er Chen and Masanori Kashiwagi

Semiparametric smooth coefficient quantile estimation of the production profile pp. 373-392

Cliff J. Huang, Tsu-Tan Fu, Hung-pin Lai and Yung-Lieh Yang

A generalization to QUAIDS pp. 393-410

Arman Bidarbakht Nia

Explaining university course grade gaps pp. 411-446

Kevin Mongeon, Shawn W. Ulrick and Michael P. Giannetto