Empirical Economics

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Volume 44, issue 3, 2013

Price convergence in an online virtual world pp. 1053-1064

Michael Morrison and Matías Fontenla

Forecasting inflation and tracking monetary policy in the euro area: does national information help? pp. 1065-1086

Riccardo Cristadoro, Giuseppe Saporito and Fabrizio Venditti

Comparing alternative methods to estimate gravity models of bilateral trade pp. 1087-1111

Estrella Gómez-Herrera

Output gap in Brazil: a real-time data analysis pp. 1113-1127

Rafael Cusinato, André Minella and Sabino Porto Junior

A segmented trend model to assess fiscal sustainability: The US experience 1929–2009 pp. 1129-1141

Tilak Abeysinghe and Ananda Jayawickrama

The distribution of technological progress pp. 1143-1154

Gianluca Carnabuci

Inflationary expectations and monetary policy: evidence from Bangladesh pp. 1155-1169

Rokon Bhuiyan

Nonlinearities in economic growth and club convergence pp. 1171-1202

Rosa Bernardini Papalia and Silvia Bertarelli

Multimodality in the distribution of GDP and the absolute convergence hypothesis pp. 1203-1215

Giovanni Caggiano and Leone Leonida

Decomposing the persistence of real exchange rates pp. 1217-1242

Dimitrios Malliaropulos, Ekaterini Panopoulou, Theologos Pantelidis and Nikitas Pittis

On the dynamics of inflation persistence around the world pp. 1243-1265

Antonio Noriega, Carlos Capistrán and Manuel Ramos-Francia

The effects of foreign direct investment on private domestic investment: evidence from developing countries pp. 1267-1275

Ali Al-Sadig

Appreciating depreciation: physical capital depreciation in a developing country pp. 1277-1290

Matthias Schündeln

The risk-return relation and VIX: evidence from the S&P 500 pp. 1291-1314

Angelos Kanas

A copula–GARCH model for macro asset allocation of a portfolio with commodities pp. 1315-1336

Luca Riccetti

Risk attitudes and premiums of U.S. corn and soybean producers: an empirical investigation pp. 1337-1351

Michael Livingston and Ashok Mishra

Robust estimation of the simplified multivariate GARCH model pp. 1353-1372

Farhat Iqbal

Do process innovations boost SMEs productivity growth? pp. 1373-1405

Juan A. Mañez, María Rochina-Barrachina, Amparo Sanchis-Llopis and Juan Sanchis

Liberalisation, competition and innovation in the postal sector pp. 1407-1434

Cátia Felisberto

Firm growth in multinational corporate groups pp. 1435-1453

Harald Oberhofer and Michael Pfaffermayr

Nonparametric measurement of the overall shift in the technology frontier: an application to multiple-output agricultural production data in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 1455-1475

Tsunehiro Otsuki

Endogeneity and measurement errors when estimating demand functions with average prices: an example from the movie market pp. 1477-1496

Víctor Fernández-Blanco, Luis Orea and Juan Prieto-Rodriguez

Is the housing allowance shifted to rental prices? pp. 1497-1518

Matti Viren

How well does a dynamic Mincer equation fit NLSY data? Evidence based on a simple wage-bargaining model pp. 1519-1543

Corrado Andini

The effect of public financial aid on dropout from and completion of university education: evidence from a student grant reform pp. 1545-1562

Jacob Arendt

Grades as incentives pp. 1563-1592

Darren Grant and William Green

Headlights on tobacco road to low birthweight outcomes pp. 1593-1633

Stefan Bache, Christian Dahl and Johannes Kristensen

Bowling alone, drinking together pp. 1635-1672

Paolo Buonanno and Paolo Vanin

Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment pp. 1673-1695

Per Johansson and Erica Lindahl

Can statisticians beat surgeons at the planning of operations? pp. 1697-1718

Paul Joustra, Reinier Meester and Hans Ophem

Volume 44, issue 2, 2013

Forecasting Nevada gross gaming revenue and taxable sales using coincident and leading employment indexes pp. 387-417

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta, Anandamayee Majumdar and Stephen Miller

Forecasting recessions using financial variables: the French case pp. 419-433

Francis Bismans and Reynald Majetti

Forecasting Dutch GDP and inflation using alternative factor model specifications based on large and small datasets pp. 435-453

Ard Reijer

To converge or not converge: unit labor cost inflation in the Euro area pp. 455-467

Helmut Herwartz and Florian Siedenburg

Real wages and the business cycle in Germany pp. 469-490

Martyna Marczak and Thomas Beissinger

Distribution dynamics of regional GDP per employee in unified Germany pp. 491-509

Sebastian Vollmer, Hajo Holzmann, Florian Ketterer and Stephan Klasen

The duration of business cycle expansions and contractions: are there change-points in duration dependence? pp. 511-544

Vitor Castro

Cointegration and causal relationships among steel prices of Mainland China, Taiwan, and USA in the presence of multiple structural changes pp. 545-561

Chien-Chung Nieh, Hwey-Yun Yau, Ken Hung, Hong-Kou Ou and Shine Hung

Energy and capital inputs: cornerstones of productivity growth in Mexico: 1965–2004 pp. 563-590

Flory Dieck-Assad and Ernesto Peralta

Long memory in US real output per capita pp. 591-611

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

The dynamic effects of shocks to wages and prices in the United States and the Euro Area pp. 613-638

Rita Duarte and Carlos Marques

The export-output growth nexus in Japan: a bootstrap rolling window approach pp. 639-660

Mehmet Balcilar and Zeynel Ozdemir

Intertemporal labor supply and involuntary unemployment pp. 661-683

Peter Haan and Arne Uhlendorff

A dynamic factor approach to domestic capital mobility pp. 685-700

Jun Nagayasu

Federal excise tax increase and its effects on U.S. tobacco production pp. 701-717

Kelly Tiller, Shiferaw Feleke and Jane Starnes

Is the Pareto–Lévy law a good representation of income distributions? pp. 719-737

John Dagsvik, Zhiyang Jia, Bjørn Vatne and Weizhen Zhu

Using spectral analysis and multinomial logit regression to explain households’ choice patterns pp. 739-760

Krishna Paudel, Mahesh Pandit and Michael Dunn

Modeling different kinds of spatial dependence in stock returns pp. 761-774

Matthias Arnold, Sebastian Stahlberg and Dominik Wied

Inflation news and stock returns: market direction and flow-through ability pp. 775-798

Antonio Díaz and Francisco Jareño

Functional form issues in the regression analysis of financial leverage ratios pp. 799-831

Joaquim Ramalho and J. Silva

A modified LLC panel unit root test of the PPP hypothesis pp. 833-860

Joakim Westerlund and Johan Blomquist

Inflation and growth: new evidence from a dynamic panel threshold analysis pp. 861-878

Stephanie Kremer, Alexander Bick and Dieter Nautz

Understanding wage determination in a multi-level bargaining system: a panel data analysis pp. 879-897

Maritza López Novella and Salimata Sissoko

Detracking Swedish compulsory schools: any losers, any winners? pp. 899-920

Krister Sund

Effects of National Health Insurance on precautionary saving: new evidence from Taiwan pp. 921-943

Chung-Ming Kuan and Chien-Liang Chen

The immigration surplus and the substitutability of immigrant and native labor: evidence from Spain pp. 945-958

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De La Rica

Informal home care and labor-force participation of household members pp. 959-979

Annika Meng

Risk attitude and wage growth: replicating Shaw (1996) pp. 981-1004

Santiago Budria Rodriguez, Luis Diaz-Serrano, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Joop Hartog

Competition and market power in physician private practices pp. 1005-1029

Timothy Gunning and Robin Sickles

Is there a threat effect of mandatory activation programmes for the long-term unemployed? pp. 1031-1051

Brian Graversen and Brian Larsen

Volume 44, issue 1, 2013

Estimation of treatment effects: recent developments and applications pp. 1-11

Bernd Fitzenberger, Michael Lechner and Jeffrey Smith

Matching using semiparametric propensity scores pp. 13-45

Steven Lehrer and Gregory Kordas

Propensity score matching and variations on the balancing test pp. 47-80

Wang-Sheng Lee

Nonparametric analysis of treatment effects in ordered response models pp. 81-109

Stefan Boes

A parametric control function approach to estimating the returns to schooling in the absence of exclusion restrictions: an application to the NLSY pp. 111-133

Lidia Farre, Roger Klein and Francis Vella

College education and wages in the U.K.: estimating conditional average structural functions in nonadditive models with binary endogenous variables pp. 135-161

Tobias Klein

Calculating long-run impacts of social programs with staggered implementation pp. 163-187

Stephen Bell and M. Bradley

Can income support for part-time workers serve as a stepping-stone to regular jobs? An application to young long-term unemployed women pp. 189-229

Bart Cockx, Christian Goebel and Stéphane Robin

An analysis of the impact of the self-sufficiency project on wages pp. 231-259

Jeffrey Zabel, Saul Schwartz and Stephen Donald

Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers pp. 261-287

Sandra Cavaco, Denis Fougere and Julien Pouget

Déjà Vu? Short-term training in Germany 1980–1992 and 2000–2003 pp. 289-328

Bernd Fitzenberger, Olga Orlanski, Aderonke Osikominu and Marie Paul

Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm’s propensity to export pp. 329-354

Sascha Becker and Peter Egger

Estimating the causal effect of fertility on economic wellbeing: data requirements, identifying assumptions and estimation methods pp. 355-385

Bruno Arpino and Arnstein Aassve