Empirical Economics

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Volume 58, issue 6, 2020

The politics of environmental enforcement: the case of the Resource and Conservation Recovery Act pp. 2593-2613

Per Fredriksson and Le Wang

Decomposing the effects of consumer boycotts: evidence from the anti-Japanese demonstration in China pp. 2615-2634

Zijun Luo and Yonghong Zhou

Income inequality, financial flows and political institution: sub-Saharan African financial network pp. 2635-2665

John Inekwe, Yi Jin and Maria Rebecca Valenzuela

Inequality, redistribution, and growth: new evidence on the trade-off between equality and efficiency pp. 2667-2707

Jaejoon Woo

Estimation of the production profile and metafrontier technology gap: a quantile approach pp. 2709-2731

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

Why fully efficient banks matter? A nonparametric stochastic frontier approach in the presence of fully efficient banks pp. 2733-2760

Kien Tran, Mike Tsionas and Emmanuel Mamatzakis

Dynamics of the European sovereign bonds and the identification of crisis periods pp. 2761-2781

Zhenxi Chen and Stefan Reitz

Specialization in the presence of trade and financial openness pp. 2783-2816

J. Bos, Claire Economidou and Lu Zhang

Banking sector development and economic growth in developing countries: a bootstrap panel Granger causality analysis pp. 2817-2836

Khalil Mhadhbi, Chokri Terzi and Ali Bouchrika

The Moses effect: can central banks really guide foreign exchange markets? pp. 2837-2865

Smita Roy Trivedi

The Neo-Fisherian hypothesis: empirical implications and evidence? pp. 2867-2888

William Crowder

The effects of economic policy uncertainty on European economies: evidence from a TVP-FAVAR pp. 2889-2910

Jan Prüser and Alexander Schlösser

Monetary shocks and job flows: evidence from disaggregated data pp. 2911-2936

Mohamad Karaki

Consistent estimates of the public/private wage gap pp. 2937-2947

Domenico Depalo and Santiago Pereda-Fernández

Is there an informal employment wage penalty in Egypt? Evidence from quantile regression on panel data pp. 2949-2979

Aysıt Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin and Zeynel Ozdemir

Insights from kernel conditional-probability estimates into female labour force participation decision in the UK pp. 2981-3006

Obbey Elamin, Len Gill and Martyn Andrews

Demand for emergency savings is higher for low-income households, but so is the cost of shocks pp. 3007-3033

Scott Fulford

Competition policy and labor productivity growth: some new evidence pp. 3035-3076

Kelly Benetatou, Yannis Katsoulacos, Aikaterini Kyriazidou and Galateia Makri

Lost economies of scope and potential merger gains in the Norwegian electricity industry pp. 3077-3100

Ørjan Mydland

Socioeconomic factors and happiness: evidence from self-reported mental health data pp. 3101-3123

Jacek Rothert, Douglas VanDerwerken and Ethan White

Volume 58, issue 5, 2020

The wrong skew problem in stochastic frontier models when inefficiency depends on environmental variables pp. 2031-2047

Cheol-Keun Cho and Peter Schmidt

The order of variables, simulation noise, and accuracy of mixed logit estimates pp. 2049-2083

Marco Palma, Dmitry V. Vedenov and David Bessler

Bayesian semiparametric quantile regression modeling for estimating earthquake fatality risk pp. 2085-2103

Xuejun Jiang, Yunxian Li, Aijun Yang and Ruowei Zhou

National leaders’ visits and temporary improvement of air quality: evidence from Chinese cities pp. 2105-2127

Qingling Shi, Chenchen Shi and Feng Guo

Crowds in or crowds out? The effect of foreign direct investment on domestic investment in Chinese cities pp. 2129-2154

Yao Yao and Ruhul Salim

Persistence and unit root in $$\text {CO}_{2}$$CO2 emissions: evidence from disaggregated global and regional data pp. 2155-2179

Firouz Fallahi

Asymmetric pricing dynamics with market power: investigating island data of the retail gasoline market pp. 2181-2221

Woo-Hyung Hong and Daeyong Lee

Firm characteristics and the ability to exercise market power: empirical evidence from the iron ore market pp. 2223-2247

Robert Germeshausen, Timo Panke and Heike Wetzel

Time-varying role of macroeconomic shocks on house prices in the US and UK: evidence from over 150 years of data pp. 2249-2285

Vasilios Plakandaras, Rangan Gupta, Constantinos Katrakilidis and Mark Wohar

Dating the start of the US house price bubble: an application of statistical process control pp. 2287-2307

Michael Berlemann, Julia Freese and Sven Knoth

Housing market spillovers in South Africa: evidence from an estimated small open economy DSGE model pp. 2309-2332

Rangan Gupta and Xiaojin Sun

A time–frequency analysis of the Canadian macroeconomy and the yield curve pp. 2333-2351

Mustapha Olalekan Ojo, Luís Aguiar-Conraria and Maria Joana Soares

Estimating factor shares from nonstationary panel data pp. 2353-2380

Juan Aquino and Nelson R. Ramírez-Rondán

The linkages between life expectancy and economic growth: some new evidence pp. 2381-2402

Lei He and Na Li

The impact of productive and non-productive government expenditure on economic growth: an empirical analysis in high-income versus low- to middle-income economies pp. 2403-2430

Tuan T. Chu, Jens Hölscher and Dermot McCarthy

Determinants of structural unemployment in Colombia: a search approach pp. 2431-2464

Luis Arango Thomas and Luz Florez

Recasting the trade impact on labor share: a fixed-effect semiparametric estimation study pp. 2465-2511

Taining Wang and Jinjing Tian

Disability insurance benefits and labor supply decisions: evidence from a discontinuity in benefit awards pp. 2513-2544

Tobias Müller and Stefan Boes

Multi-valued Double Robust quantile treatment effect pp. 2545-2571

Marilena Furno and Francesco Caracciolo

Education, income and happiness: panel evidence for the UK pp. 2573-2592

Felix R. FitzRoy and Michael A. Nolan

Volume 58, issue 4, 2020

Modeling US historical time-series prices and inflation using alternative long-memory approaches pp. 1491-1511

Giorgio Canarella, Luis Gil-Alana, Rangan Gupta and Stephen Miller

Technical analysis based on high and low stock prices forecasts: evidence for Brazil using a fractionally cointegrated VAR model pp. 1513-1540

Leandro Maciel

Dynamic long-range dependences in the Swiss stock market pp. 1541-1573

Paulo Ferreira

A marked point process model for intraday financial returns: modeling extreme risk pp. 1575-1601

Rodrigo Herrera and Adam Clements

Expiration day effects on European trading volumes pp. 1603-1638

Bogdan Batrinca, Christian W. Hesse and Philip C. Treleaven

Does monetary policy react asymmetrically to exchange rate misalignments? Evidence for South Africa pp. 1639-1658

Lebogang Mateane and Christian Proaño

The dynamics among domestic saving, investment, and the current account balance in the USA: a long-run perspective pp. 1659-1680

Adian McFarlane, Young Cheol Jung and Anupam Das

Sustainability of European fiscal balances: Just a statistical artifact? pp. 1681-1712

Malte Rengel

Are exchange rates disconnected from macroeconomic variables? Evidence from the factor approach pp. 1713-1747

Yunjung Kim and Cheolbeom Park

The Harberger–Laursen–Metzler effect: evidence from five SAARC countries pp. 1749-1777

Muhammad Shafiullah, Faridul Islam and Ravinthirakumaran Navaratnam

Growth cycle synchronization of the Visegrad Four and the European Union pp. 1779-1795

Luboš Hanus and Lukas Vacha

Understanding post-Crisis price deviations in Europe: Disintegration or mere adjustment? pp. 1797-1814

Marina Glushenkova and Marios Zachariadis

Identifying shocks to business cycles with asynchronous propagation pp. 1815-1836

Carsten Trenkler and Enzo Weber

Institutional difference and outward FDI: evidence from China pp. 1837-1862

Chengchun Li, Yun Luo and Glauco Vita

Does oil rents dependency reduce the quality of education? pp. 1863-1911

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan and Marcel Thum

Demand systems with heteroscedastic disturbances pp. 1913-1921

Apostolos Serletis and Libo Xu

Poverty and inequality within Brazilian households: an application of a collective consumption model pp. 1923-1952

Wilman J. Iglesias and Alexandre Coelho

I feel wealthy: A major determinant of Portuguese households’ indebtedness? pp. 1953-1978

Francisco Camões and Sofia Vale

Asymmetric effect of income on the US healthcare expenditure: evidence from the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach pp. 1979-2008

Mehdi Barati and Hadiseh Fariditavana

Estimating recreation benefits through joint estimation of revealed and stated preference discrete choice data pp. 2009-2029

John Whitehead and Daniel K. Lew

Volume 58, issue 3, 2020

Social capital: exploring the theory and empirical divide pp. 899-919

Brenda Gannon and Jennifer Roberts

Drink and smoke; drink or smoke? The interdependence between alcohol and cigarette consumption for men in China pp. 921-955

Yanjun Ren, Bente Castro Campos and Jens-Peter Loy

Aggregation biases in empirical Euler consumption equations: evidence from Spanish data pp. 957-977

Antonio Cutanda, Jose Labeaga and Juan A. Sanchis-Llopis

Convergence of consumption patterns in the European Union pp. 979-994

Nektarios Michail

Network analysis to measure academic performance in economics pp. 995-1018

José Alberto Molina, Alfredo Ferrer, David Iñiguez, Alejandro Rivero, Gonzalo Ruiz and Alfonso Tarancón

On the distribution of links in financial networks: structural heterogeneity and functional form pp. 1019-1053

Thomas Lux

Correction to: On the distribution of links in financial networks: structural heterogeneity and functional form pp. 1055-1055

Thomas Lux

Politics and finance: a study on the impact of campaign donations on Brazilian firms pp. 1057-1105

Mariana G. Davi and Marcelo S. Portugal

On the relationship between political alignment and government transfers: triple differences evidence from a developing country pp. 1107-1141

Sergio Naruhiko Sakurai and Maria Isabel Accoroni Theodoro

Realized volatility and jump testing in the Japanese electricity spot market pp. 1143-1166

Aitor Ciarreta, Peru Muniain and Ainhoa Zarraga

Forecasting precious metal returns with multivariate random forests pp. 1167-1184

Christian Pierdzioch and Marian Risse

The role of temporal dependence in factor selection and forecasting oil prices pp. 1185-1223

Kyle E. Binder, Mohsen Pourahmadi and James W. Mjelde

The role of human capital in energy-growth nexus: an international evidence pp. 1225-1247

Zheng Fang and Jiang Yu

Hysteresis losses in the Preisach framework pp. 1249-1278

Laura M. Werner

Leveraged enforcement under the EPA’s High Priority Violation Policy pp. 1279-1304

Lirong Liu and Zhou Yang

The effect of military spending on income inequality: evidence from NATO countries pp. 1305-1337

Michael Chletsos and Stelios Roupakias

Why are Bayesian trend-cycle decompositions of US real GDP so different? pp. 1339-1354

Jaeho Kim and Sora Chon

Bayesian comparison of production function-based and time-series GDP models pp. 1355-1380

Jacek Osiewalski, Justyna Wróblewska and Kamil Makieła

Modeling mechanism of economic growth using threshold autoregression models pp. 1381-1430

Magdalena Osinska, Tadeusz Kufel, Marcin Błażejowski and Pawel Kufel

How do banking crises affect bilateral exports? pp. 1431-1459

Youssouf Kiendrebeogo

A review of Student’s t distribution and its generalizations pp. 1461-1490

Rui Li and Saralees Nadarajah

Volume 58, issue 2, 2020

Co-movements in commodity markets and implications in diversification benefits pp. 393-425

Xiao Jing Cai, Zheng Fang, Youngho Chang, Shuairu Tian and Shigeyuki Hamori

Economic volatility and sovereign yields’ determinants: a time-varying approach pp. 427-451

Antonio Afonso and Joao Jalles

Intertemporal diversification of sub-sovereign debt pp. 453-487

David Knezevic

Investment dealer collateral and leverage procyclicality pp. 489-505

Jason Allen and Andrew Usher

The impacts of institutional ownership on stock returns pp. 507-533

Hongwei Chuang

The impact of hedging and trading derivatives on value, performance and risk of European banks pp. 535-565

Yulia Titova, Henry Penikas and Nikita Gomayun

Searching for the finance–growth nexus in Libya pp. 567-581

Serhan Cevik and Mohammad H. Rahmati

The effects of macroprudential policies on managing capital flows pp. 583-603

Idil Uz Akdogan

Inflation targeting and exchange rate volatility in emerging markets pp. 605-626

René Cabral, Francisco Carneiro and André Varella Mollick

Institutional quality and the relationship between inflation and economic growth pp. 627-649

Muhammad Khan and Waqas Hanif

Measuring the neutral real interest rate in Brazil: a semi-structural open economy framework pp. 651-667

Alberto Ronchi Neto and Osvaldo Candido

Exports, foreign ownership, and firm-level efficiency in Ethiopia and Kenya: an application of the stochastic frontier model pp. 669-698

Adugna Lemi and Ian Wright

Effects of urbanization on food demand in China pp. 699-721

Vardges Hovhannisyan and Stephen Devadoss

Shock and awe? Fiscal consequences of terrorism pp. 723-748

Serhan Cevik and John Ricco

Tax and transfer policies and the female labor supply in the EU pp. 749-775

Klara Kaliskova

Sick of family responsibilities? pp. 777-814

Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson and Erica Lindahl

The effect of unemployment on social participation of spouses: evidence from plant closures in Germany pp. 815-833

Lars Kunze and Nicolai Suppa

The impact of temperature on gaming productivity: evidence from online games pp. 835-867

Xiaojia Bao and Qingliang (Michael) Fan

A note on the maximum value of the Kakwani index pp. 869-874

Daniela Mantovani, Simone Pellegrino and Achille Vernizzi

Crude oil trade and current account deficits: replication and extension pp. 875-897

Andrew Musau and Steinar Veka

Volume 58, issue 1, 2020

Economic forecasting: editors’ introduction pp. 1-5

Robert Kunst and Martin Wagner

Assessing nowcast accuracy of US GDP growth in real time: the role of booms and busts pp. 7-27

Boriss Siliverstovs

Nowcasting East German GDP growth: a MIDAS approach pp. 29-54

João C. Claudio, Katja Heinisch and Oliver Holtemöller

Nowcasting Finnish real economic activity: a machine learning approach pp. 55-71

Paolo Fornaro and Henri Luomaranta

Business cycle dating and forecasting with real-time Swiss GDP data pp. 73-105

Christian Glocker and Philipp Wegmueller

Evaluation of economic forecasts for Austria pp. 107-137

Ines Fortin, Sebastian P. Koch and Klaus Weyerstrass

Forecasting models for the Chinese macroeconomy: the simpler the better? pp. 139-167

Chris Heaton, Natalia Ponomareva and Qin Zhang

Forecasting with supervised factor models pp. 169-190

Simon Lineu Umbach

Long-term prediction intervals of economic time series pp. 191-222

M. Chudý, S. Karmakar and W. B. Wu

Appropriate monetary policy and forecast disagreement at the FOMC pp. 223-255

Guido Schultefrankenfeld

Thick modelling income and wealth effects: a forecast application to euro area private consumption pp. 257-286

Gabe de Bondt, Arne Gieseck and Zivile Zekaite

Aggregate density forecasting from disaggregate components using Bayesian VARs pp. 287-312

Marcus Cobb

Does the price of crude oil help predict the conditional distribution of aggregate equity return? pp. 313-349

Nima Nonejad

Forecasting output growth using a DSGE-based decomposition of the South African yield curve pp. 351-378

Rangan Gupta, Hylton Hollander and Max Steinbach

Forecasting of recessions via dynamic probit for time series: replication and extension of Kauppi and Saikkonen (2008) pp. 379-392

Byeong U. Park, Leopold Simar and Valentin Zelenyuk