Empirical Economics

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Volume 48, issue 4, 2015

Does labor market history matter? pp. 1327-1364

Rune Lesner

Gender ratio, divorce rate, and intra-household collective decision process: evidence from iranian urban households labor supply with non-participation pp. 1365-1394

GholamReza Haddad

Correlates of flexible working arrangements, stress, and sleep difficulties in the US workforce: does the flexibility of the flexibility matter? pp. 1395-1418

M. Haley and Laurie Miller

Explaining upper secondary school dropout: new evidence on the role of local labor markets pp. 1419-1444

Kristine Simson

The effect of life expectancy on education and population dynamics pp. 1445-1478

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

The effect of education on smoking behavior: new evidence from smoking durations of a sample of twins pp. 1479-1497

Pierre Koning, Dinand Webbink and Nicholas Martin

An international comparison of productivity change in the textile and clothing industry: a bootstrapped Malmquist index approach pp. 1499-1523

Magdalena Kapelko and Alfons Oude Lansink

Information and communication technology and foreign direct investment: interactions and contributions to economic growth pp. 1525-1539

Elena Ketteni, Constantina Kottaridi and Theofanis Mamuneas

Income inequality and economic growth: a panel VAR approach pp. 1541-1561

Bebonchu Atems and Jason Jones

Fiscal policy and current account in an oil-rich economy: the case of Nigeria pp. 1563-1585

Olusegun Akanbi

Macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy in the European Union: a GVAR model pp. 1587-1617

Alejandro Ricci-Risquete and Julian Ramajo

Tracking Chinese CPI inflation in real time pp. 1619-1641

Michael Funke, Aaron Mehrotra and Hao Yu

Convergence of inflation with a common cycle: estimating and modelling Spanish historical inflation from the 16th to the 18th centuries pp. 1643-1665

José Luis Cendejas Bueno and Cecilia Font de Villanueva

Explaining commodity prices by a cointegrated time series-cross section model pp. 1667-1690

Hildegart Ahumada and Magdalena Cornejo

GARCH modeling of five popular commodities pp. 1691-1712

Saralees Nadarajah, Emmanuel Afuecheta and Stephen Chan

Estimation of optimal metropolitan size in Japan with consideration of social costs pp. 1713-1730

Fumitoshi Mizutani, Tomoyasu Tanaka and Noriyoshi Nakayama

Volume 48, issue 3, 2015

A micro spatial analysis of firm demography: the case of food stores in the area of Trento (Italy) pp. 923-937

Giuseppe Arbia, Patrizia Cella, Giuseppe Espa and Diego Giuliani

Are all sovereigns equal? A test of the common determination of sovereign spreads in the euro area pp. 939-949

Heather Gibson, Stephen Hall and George Tavlas

Taylor rules revisited: ECB and Bundesbank in comparison pp. 951-967

Tobias Rühl

Do the Keynesian monetary transmission mechanisms work in the MENA region? pp. 969-982

Sanchita Mukherjee and Rina Bhattacharya

Stochastic trends and seasonality in economic time series: new evidence from Bayesian stochastic model specification search pp. 983-1011

Tommaso Proietti and Stefano Grassi

Residual-based tests for cointegration with three-regime TAR adjustment pp. 1013-1054

Daiki Maki and Shin-ichi Kitasaka

Identifying extreme values of exchange market pressure pp. 1055-1078

Mohammad Karimi and Marcel Voia

Oil price shocks and stock markets: testing for non-linearity pp. 1079-1102

Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez

Price dynamics in agricultural commodity markets: a comparison of European and US markets pp. 1103-1117

Jean-Christophe Statnik and David Verstraete

Do markup dynamics reflect fundamentals or changes in conduct? pp. 1119-1147

John Juselius, Moshe Kim and Staffan Ringbom

The trade effect of price risk: a system-wide approach pp. 1149-1167

Dengjun Zhang

Equity premium over different investment horizons pp. 1169-1187

Eunhee Lee, Chang Kim and In-Moo Kim

Size distortions of the wild bootstrapped HCCME-based LM test for serial correlation in the presence of asymmetric conditional heteroskedasticity pp. 1189-1202

Klaus Grobys

Density characteristics and density forecast performance: a panel analysis pp. 1203-1231

Geoff Kenny, Thomas Kostka and Federico Masera

Further results on the regression-based approach to inequality decomposition with evidence from India pp. 1233-1266

Maurizio Bigotta, Jaya Krishnakumar and Uma Rani

Disruption, learning, and the heterogeneous benefits of smaller classes pp. 1267-1286

Graham McKee, Katharine Sims and Steven Rivkin

Latent variables and propensity score matching: a simulation study with application to data from the Programme for International Student Assessment in Poland pp. 1287-1325

Maciej Jakubowski

Volume 48, issue 2, 2015

Panel data dynamics with mis-measured variables: modeling and GMM estimation pp. 517-535

Erik Biorn

Unit roots and the dynamics of market shares: an analysis using an Italian banking micro-panel pp. 537-555

Caterina Giannetti

Monetary policy in Brazil: evidence of a reaction function with time-varying parameters and endogenous regressors pp. 557-575

Edilean da Silva Bejarano Aragón and Gabriela Medeiros

Macroeconomic news surprises and volatility spillover in foreign exchange markets pp. 577-607

Walid Ben Omrane and Christian Hafner

Is forecasting inflation easier under inflation targeting? pp. 609-626

Harun Ozkan and Ege Yazgan

DSGE priors for BVAR models pp. 627-656

Thomai Filippeli and Konstantinos Theodoridis

The evolution of economic convergence in the European Union pp. 657-681

Mihály Borsi and Norbert Metiu

Asymmetry in the relationship between unemployment and the business cycle pp. 683-697

Jorge Belaire-Franch and Amado Peiró

Time–frequency relationship between share prices and exchange rates in India: Evidence from continuous wavelets pp. 699-714

Aviral Tiwari, Niyati Bhanja, Arif Dar and Faridul Islam

World Trade Organization sanctions, implementation, and retaliation pp. 715-745

Benjamin Liebman and Kasaundra Tomlin

Measuring world governance: revisiting the institutions hypothesis pp. 747-778

Mehmet Pinar

Sectoral trade freeness and agglomeration in the EU: an empirical test approach pp. 779-805

Gianluca Cafiso

Productivity spillovers from FDI and the role of domestic firm’s absorptive capacity in South Korean manufacturing industries pp. 807-827

Minjung Kim

Expected efficiency ranks from parametric stochastic frontier models pp. 829-848

William Horrace, Seth Richards-Shubik and Ian Wright

Do dropouts with longer training exposure benefit from training programs? Korean evidence employing methods for continuous treatments pp. 849-881

Chung Choe, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Sang-Jun Lee

The elasticity of taxable income of high earners: evidence from Hungary pp. 883-908

Áron Kiss and Palma Filep-Mosberger

Income and democracy: the modernization hypothesis re-visited via alternative non-linear models pp. 909-921

Suzanna-Maria Paleologou

Volume 48, issue 1, 2015

Introduction pp. 1-8

Subal Kumbhakar and Christopher Parmeter

Nonparametric testing for anomaly effects in empirical asset pricing models pp. 9-36

Sainan Jin, Liangjun Su and Yonghui Zhang

Mixed data kernel copulas pp. 37-59

Jeffrey Racine

Penalized exponential series estimation of copula densities with an application to intergenerational dependence of body mass index pp. 61-81

Yichen Gao, Yu Zhang and Ximing Wu

Partial identification of the long-run causal effect of food security on child health pp. 83-141

Daniel Millimet and Manan Roy

Nonparametric estimation of returns to scale using input distance functions: an application to large U.S. banks pp. 143-168

Diego Restrepo-Tobon and Subal Kumbhakar

Semi-nonparametric spline modifications to the Cornwell–Schmidt–Sickles estimator: an analysis of US banking productivity pp. 169-191

Pavlos Almanidis, Giannis Karagiannis and Robin Sickles

Should all microfinance institutions mobilize microsavings? Evidence from economies of scope pp. 193-225

Michael Delgado, Christopher Parmeter, Valentina Hartarska and Roy Mersland

Additive kernel estimates of returns to schooling pp. 227-251

Deniz Ozabaci and Daniel Henderson

Efficient kernel-based semiparametric IV estimation with an application to resolving a puzzle on the estimates of the return to schooling pp. 253-281

Feng Yao and Junsen Zhang

Assessing the effect of high performance computing capabilities on academic research output pp. 283-312

Amy Apon, Linh Ngo, Michael Payne and Paul Wilson

A semiparametric varying coefficient model of monotone auction bidding processes pp. 313-335

Wenchuan Liu, Yu Zhang and Qi Li

A nonparametric analysis of firm size, leverage and labour productivity distribution dynamics pp. 337-360

Kim Huynh, David Jacho-Chávez, Robert Petrunia and Marcel Voia

Semi-mixed effects gravity models for bilateral trade pp. 361-387

Isabel Proença, Stefan Sperlich and Duygu Savaşcı

A new semiparametric test for superior predictive ability pp. 389-405

Zongwu Cai, Jiancheng Jiang, Jingshuang Zhang and Xibin Zhang

Forecasting major Asian exchange rates using a new semiparametric STAR model pp. 407-426

Nan Cai, Zongwu Cai, Ying Fang and Qiuhua Xu

Testing purchasing power parity hypothesis: a semiparametric varying coefficient approach pp. 427-438

Hongjun Li, Zhongjian Lin and Cheng Hsiao

An environmental degradation index based on stochastic dominance pp. 439-459

Elettra Agliardi, Mehmet Pinar and Thanasis Stengos

Robust multiple regimes in growth volatility pp. 461-491

Andros Kourtellos, Ioanna Stylianou and Chih Tan

Transaction costs and social networks in productivity measurement pp. 493-515

Geraldine Henningsen, Arne Henningsen and Christian Henning