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Volume 22, issue 18, 2015

Partisan and bureaucratic changes in public education spending. French empirical evidence pp. 1435-1438

Abel Fran �ois and Raul Magni-Berton

Energy use-GDP deterministic cointegration: progress towards EU-15 Kyoto targets pp. 1439-1442

Mariam Camarero, Yurena Mendoza and Javier Ordo�ez

Deposit insurance and effectiveness of monetary policy pp. 1443-1449

Mei-Yin Lin

Assessing the impact of the demographic dividend on real estate prices: empirical evidence from China pp. 1450-1456

Ying Zhang, Xiaoxing Liu, Yan Ding and Anni Su

Forecasting intraday volatility and VaR using multiplicative component GARCH model pp. 1457-1464

Xundi Diao and Bin Tong

Does a cutback in external funding reduce incidence of foreign sponsored terrorism? pp. 1465-1468

Parai

Income inequality and household debt: a cointegration test pp. 1469-1473

Edmond Berisha, John Meszaros and Eric Olson

Revisiting the effects of innovation on growth: a threshold analysis pp. 1474-1479

M. Aristizabal-Ramirez, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza and Fernando Rios-Avila

Banks, stock market development and economic growth in South Africa: a multivariate causal linkage pp. 1480-1485

Sheilla Nyasha and Nicholas Odhiambo

The market structure-performance relationship applied to the Canadian wine industry pp. 1486-1492

Outreville

Long-run and short-run dynamics of nonlife insurance consumption in China pp. 1493-1498

Shi-jie Jiang and Guochen Pan

Chess players' fame versus their merit pp. 1499-1504

Simkin and Roychowdhury

Employee retention and psychological health: evidence from military recruits pp. 1505-1510

Cunha, Jeremy Arkes, Lester and Yu-Chu Shen

A sector strategy from the Fama and French model pp. 1511-1514

Luis Ferruz and Guillermo Bad�a

Don't like the picture? Change the frame: the impact of cognitive ability and framing on risky choice pp. 1515-1518

Michael Guillemette, Chris Browning and Patrick Payne

Volume 22, issue 17, 2015

The demand for Turkish wine: estimates of the wine price elasticities pp. 1355-1360

Durmus Ozdemir

Forecasting realized range volatility: a regime-switching approach pp. 1361-1365

Feng Ma, Li Liu, Zhichao Liu and Yu Wei

Changes in aggregate food demand over the business cycle pp. 1366-1371

Fleissig

Is spurious behaviour an issue for two independent stationary spatial autoregressive SAR(1) processes? pp. 1372-1377

Christos Agiakloglou, Cleon Tsimbos and Apostolos Tsimpanos

Should we charge environmental factors for poor students' achievement? pp. 1378-1381

Laura L�pez-Torres and Diego Prior

The role of variance risk premium in predicting excess stock market return: out-of-sample evidences pp. 1382-1388

Jian Chen, Liya Shen, Xiaoke Wang and Haomiao Zuo

Productivity bias hypothesis: evidence from South Asia pp. 1389-1394

Sajid Anwar and Ali

Equities as long-term inflation hedges: small versus large company stocks pp. 1395-1398

Cetin Ciner

Does energy use cause economic growth in Latin America? pp. 1399-1403

Roberto Past�n, Rodrigo Saens and Roberto Contreras Mar�n

The prediction for London gold price: improved empirical mode decomposition pp. 1404-1408

Qiuling Hua and Tingfeng Jiang

Linking environmental management to health outcomes: a case study of the emerald ash borer pp. 1409-1414

Benjamin Jones and McDermott

Country of origin and employment prospects among immigrants: an analysis of south-south and north-south migrants to South Africa pp. 1415-1418

Peters and Asha Sundaram

The process of brain drain in peripheral regions pp. 1419-1423

Miki Malul

Party affiliation rather than former occupation: the background of central bank governors and its effect on monetary policy pp. 1424-1429

Matthias Neuenkirch and Florian Neumeier

The long-run and short-run effects of health aid on life expectancy pp. 1430-1434

Dierk Herzer and Korbinian Nagel

Volume 22, issue 16, 2015

Long-memories and mean breaks in realized volatilities pp. 1273-1280

Hyejin Song and Shin

Structural change and long-run reversion in the ex ante real interest rate pp. 1281-1286

Lai

A note on the determinants of long-run aggregate state productivity growth pp. 1287-1292

Bebonchu Atems

Critical thresholds for budget consolidations: a semi-parametric approach pp. 1293-1297

Kerim Arin, Torben Kuhlenkasper and Nandialath

Fiscal policy over the cycle: the role of automatic stabilizers pp. 1298-1302

Alexander Klemm

Comparing data sources of real GDP in purchasing power parities pp. 1303-1308

Jan Bentzen

R&D, export and productivity in business services firms: testing the Bustos model pp. 1309-1314

Mogens Dilling-Hansen and Valdemar Smith

Stockholding in France: the role of financial literacy and information pp. 1315-1319

Luc Arrondel, Majdi Debbich and Frédérique Savignac

Introducing financial stability considerations into Taylor rules in emerging market economies pp. 1320-1324

Blaise Gadanecz, Ken Miyajima and J�rg Urban

Is there ownership for money? pp. 1325-1328

Mosi Rosenboim and Tal Shavit

An anatomy of Chinese stock and futures markets' dynamic features pp. 1329-1334

Chaoyou Wang, Yuanyuan Guo and Qiang Ye

The not so distant effect of distance within a time zone pp. 1335-1339

Rishav Bista and Rebecca Tomasik

Level and quality of openness and corruption in the ECA countries pp. 1340-1344

Omer Gokcekus, Eva Muchova and Zuzana Brincikova

Relative age at school entry, school performance and long-term labour market outcomes pp. 1345-1348

J. Pehkonen, Jutta Viinikainen, P. B�ckerman, L. Pulkki-R�back, L. Keltikangas-J�rvinen and O. Raitakari

Do ratings matter? An examination of nonrated firms pp. 1349-1354

Kemper

Volume 22, issue 15, 2015

Children and maternal migration: evidence from exogenous variations in family size pp. 1184-1187

Vengadeshvaran Sarma and Rasyad Parinduri

The distributional effects of the multi-track year-round calendar: a quantile regression approach pp. 1188-1192

Steven McMullen, Katy Rouse and Justin Haan

Explaining determinants of national UNESCO Tentative Lists: an empirical study pp. 1193-1198

B. Parenti and Elina De Simone

Regulations on direct investment in ASEAN: do they reduce currency instability? pp. 1199-1203

Abbas Mohammadzadeh

Trading volume around announcements of mergers and acquisitions pp. 1204-1208

Ivo Ph. Jansen

The effects of conference realignment on NCAA athletic departments pp. 1209-1223

Adam J. Hoffer and Jared A. Pincin

The determinants of sexual freedom from 1990 to 2010 pp. 1224-1229

Feler Bose

Entrepreneurship and unemployment in Spain: a regional analysis pp. 1230-1235

Begoña Cueto, Matías Mayor and Patricia Su�rez

Leadership favouritism in Africa pp. 1236-1239

Souleymane Soumahoro

Do political connections matter to bondholders? Evidence from China pp. 1240-1245

Po-Hsin Ho, Yu-Chun Wang and Chih-Yung Lin

Extreme value analysis of electricity demand in the UK pp. 1246-1251

Stephen Chan and Saralees Nadarajah

Why do Chinese local governments transfer their rights of control over SOEs to the central government? pp. 1252-1256

Weixing Cai, Fangming Xu and Cheng (Colin) Zeng

Income, democracy and European colonization pp. 1257-1261

Alberto Posso and Simon Feeny

The impact of sales tax on economic growth in the United States: an ARDL bounds testing approach pp. 1262-1266

J. F. Li and Z. X. Lin

The short-run impacts of Connecticut's paid sick leave legislation pp. 1267-1272

Tom Ahn and Aaron Yelowitz

Volume 22, issue 14, 2015

Empirical evidence of joint nonlinearity in economic area and US economic variables using two modified multivariate nonlinearity tests pp. 1094-1099

Mari�n V�vra

On the evaluation of soccer players: a comparison of a new game-theoretical approach to classic performance measures pp. 1100-1107

Benjamin R. Auer and Tobias Hiller

Self-employment: does parental cultural diversity matter? pp. 1108-1115

Marianna Marino and Pierpaolo Parrotta

Salary commensurate with social capital pp. 1116-1121

Yoshiho Matsunaga

GDP estimation errors: bias or white noise pp. 1122-1126

Richard Parsons and David Reavis

Do immigrants reduce bilateral trade costs? An empirical test pp. 1127-1132

Bedassa Tadesse and Roger White

Empirical evidence on SMEs' tax management pp. 1133-1137

Issam Laguir, Jamal Elbaz and Lamia Laguir

Approximate aggregation revisited: higher moments do matter pp. 1138-1143

Andrea Giusto

The impact of pricing mechanism reform on underpricing of initial public offerings in China pp. 1144-1149

Danlin Pu and Shanping Wang

Do expert reviews really drive demand? Evidence from a German car magazine pp. 1150-1153

Ralf Dewenter and Ulrich Heimeshoff

The impact of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) events on firm value pp. 1154-1157

Steven Crawford, Bryan Johnson and John R. Wingender

World energy intensity revisited: a cluster analysis pp. 1158-1169

Yihua Yu, Yonghui Zhang and Feng Song

Publication bias in FDI spillovers in developing countries: a meta-regression analysis pp. 1170-1174

Binyam Afewerk Demena

Gift exchange anomaly: evidence from incentives vis-�-vis performance of Islamic insurance operators pp. 1175-1178

Hayat Khan

The race that stops the equity market pp. 1179-1183

Paul Docherty and Adrian Melia

Volume 22, issue 13, 2015

Detecting jumps and regime switches in international stock markets returns pp. 1011-1019

Julien Chevallier and Stéphane Goutte

Disaggregation of sectors in social accounting matrices using a customized Wolsky method pp. 1020-1024

Margarita Barrera-Lozano, Alfredo Mainar and Jos� Vall�s

New evidence of quarterly return patterns in the Spanish stock market pp. 1025-1029

Cristina Ortiz, Jos� Mar�a Ortiz de Z�rate and Luis Vicente

Characteristics of Bitcoin users: an analysis of Google search data pp. 1030-1036

Aaron Yelowitz and Matthew Wilson

Does ownership duration really matter? - Experimental study pp. 1037-1040

Tal Shavit and Mosi Rosenboim

Gender and generosity in charitable giving: empirical evidence for the German Red Cross pp. 1041-1045

Eike Emrich and Christian Pierdzioch

Euro area banking fragmentation in the aftermath of the crisis: a cluster analysis pp. 1046-1050

Yannick Lucotte

Expected quality in European football attendance: market value and uncertainty reconsidered pp. 1051-1054

Raúl Serrano, Javier Garc�a-Bernal, Marta Fern�ndez-Olmos and Manuel A. Espitia-Escuer

The influence of the US market on herding behaviour in China pp. 1055-1058

Ziyao Luo and Christophe Schinckus

The instantaneous return and volatility of a covered call position pp. 1059-1063

Craig Edwards

Credit expansion and the economy pp. 1064-1072

Luis Angeles

A note on the directional accuracy of interest-rate forecasts pp. 1073-1077

Christian Pierdzioch

An empirical analysis of interest rates and exports under imperfect credit markets pp. 1078-1082

Pu Chen, Nan Xu and Chunyang Wang

Does an active fiscal policy work under a high level of government debt? pp. 1083-1088

Jun-Hyung Ko

The militarization of local law enforcement: is race a factor? pp. 1089-1093

Gbenga Ajilore

Volume 22, issue 12, 2015

Exporter productivity premium for European SMEs pp. 930-933

Martin Falk and Eva Hagsten

Information transparency and idiosyncratic risk pp. 934-937

Jen-Sin Lee, Kuan-Ling Lai and Yu-Ko Huang

Big box stores and obesity pp. 938-944

Michael Marlow

Are there long-run diversification gains from the Dow Jones Islamic finance index? pp. 945-950

Mehmet Balcilar, Charl Jooste, Shawkat Hammoudeh, Rangan Gupta and Vassilios Babalos

Asymmetric real exchange rate pass-through and poverty in China: evidence from a nonlinear model pp. 951-954

Nicholas Apergis

The international impact of US unconventional monetary policy pp. 955-959

Chandler Lutz

Long-term effects of global oil price changes on the macroeconomy and financial markets: a comparative panel co-integration approach pp. 960-966

M. Ali Sotoudeh and Andrew Worthington

Do mutual fund managers manipulate? pp. 967-971

Meifen Qian and Bin Yu

Do producers respond to every input price change? A note on nonlinearities in factor demand systems pp. 972-977

Gulcan Onel

Determinants of C2C e-commerce: an empirical analysis of the use of online auction websites among Europeans pp. 978-981

M. R. Vicente

The nexus between top managers' human capital and firm productivity pp. 982-986

Christian Pfeifer

Weather and stock market volatility: the case of a leading emerging market pp. 987-992

Hyein Shim, Hyeyoen Kim, Junyeup Kim and Doojin Ryu

Trade credit, international trade costs and exports: cross-country firm-level evidence pp. 993-998

Xiao Wang

Characteristics of pricing errors in stocks implied by autocovariance and 'drag' pp. 999-1004

Lieven De Moor and Piet Sercu

A comparison of corporate social responsibility engagement in the OECD countries with categorical data pp. 1005-1009

Mar�a L. Gall�n and Carlos Peraita

Volume 22, issue 11, 2015

'Leverage Effect' in country betas and volatilities? pp. 848-853

Alina Synyavska and Numan Ülkü

Temporary ban on short positions and financial market volatility: evidence from the Madrid Stock Market pp. 854-859

Amalia Morales-Zumaquero and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Does early-life health enhance growth? Evidence from Spain pp. 860-864

C. Bl�zquez-Fern�ndez, David Cantarero, P. Perez-Gonzalez and J. Llorca-D�az

Does renewables production affect income inequality? Evidence from an international panel of countries pp. 865-868

Nicholas Apergis

Herding behaviour in asymmetric and extreme situations: the case of China pp. 869-873

Ziyao Luo and Christophe Schinckus

Volunteering and life satisfaction: a closer look at the hypothesis that volunteering more strongly benefits the unhappy pp. 874-885

Martin Binder

Culture and current account balances pp. 886-890

Mika Nieminen, Kari Heimonen and Esa Mangeloja

Substitution of liquor sales across states pp. 891-894

Jason Winfree and Philip Watson

Experimental evidence of the effects of an early intervention programme on economics student achievement pp. 895-899

Douglas Campbell and Andrew Hussey

Is regulatory capital more value relevant than book value of equity? A cross-country analysis pp. 900-903

Alessandro Mechelli, Riccardo Cimini and Francesca Mazzocchetti

Size of government and economic growth in the largest Latin American country pp. 904-910

Helder Ferreira de Mendon �a and Thiago Cacicedo

Social consumption and price rigidity of quality-tier differentiated private labels pp. 911-915

Sven Anders and Milena Beye

Is ageing deflationary? Some evidence from OECD countries pp. 916-919

Pawel Gajewski

The relevance of fiscal rules for fiscal and sovereign yield developments pp. 920-924

Antonio Afonso and Ana Sofia Guimarães

Fiscal sustainability: a panel assessment for advanced economies pp. 925-929

Antonio Afonso and Joao Jalles

Volume 22, issue 10, 2015

Private sector bribery and effectiveness of anti-corruption policies pp. 759-766

Rajeev Goel, Jelena Budak and Edo Rajh

Growth dynamics, financial crises and exchange rate regimes pp. 767-771

Amalia Morales-Zumaquero and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

On understanding inconsistent disciplinary behaviour in schools pp. 772-776

Anton Bekkerman and Gregory Gilpin

Preliminary evidence on relationships between agricultural commodities futures prices, spot prices and oil prices using reverse regressions pp. 777-782

Phillip A. Cartwright and Natalija Riabko

On the correct model specification for estimating the structure of a currency basket pp. 783-787

Jyh-Dean Hwang

An empirical test for Okun's law using a smooth time-varying parameter approach: evidence from East Asian countries pp. 788-795

Myeong Jun Kim, Sung Y. Park and Sang Young Jei

The life cycle of social media pp. 796-800

Philip Hans Franses

Google search-based metrics, policy-related uncertainty and macroeconomic conditions pp. 801-807

Michael Donadelli

Measuring the bid-ask spreads: a note on the potential downward bias of the Thompson-Waller estimator pp. 808-814

Yoichi Otsubo

The nature of export spillovers on trade: an analysis at NUTS 3 level in Italy pp. 815-819

Mariasole Bannò, D. Giuliani and E. Zaninotto

Modelling impact of monetary policy on stock market liquidity: a dynamic copula approach pp. 820-824

Xiaojun Chu

Interest group activity and economic growth: some new evidence from the US states pp. 825-829

Ismail M. Cole

Loss distribution of interbank contagion risk pp. 830-834

Shouwei Li, Xin Sui and Tao Xu

Economic integration agreements and production fragmentation: evidence on the extensive margin pp. 835-842

Juan Blyde, Alejandro Graziano and Christian Volpe Martincus

Information ambiguity and firm value pp. 843-847

Katrin Hussinger and Sebastian Pacher

Volume 22, issue 9, 2015

Does the presence of a formal business plan increase formal financial support? Empirical evidence from the PSED II on the signalling and mimetic nature of formal business planning pp. 673-678

Christian Hopp

A note on firm age and the margins of imports: first evidence from Germany pp. 679-682

Joachim Wagner

Happiness, economic freedom and culture pp. 683-687

Ayse Y. Evrensel

Optimized Taylor rules with domestic bond yields in emerging market economies pp. 688-692

Blaise Gadanecz, Ken Miyajima and J�rg Urban

Nonlinear interest rate effects of global oil price changes: the comparison of net oil-consuming and net oil-producing countries pp. 693-699

M. Ali Sotoudeh and Andrew Worthington

European Union expansion and seaport efficiency in the North Adriatic pp. 700-703

Kenneth Button and Tomaž Kramberger

Destroying collateral: asset security and the financing of firms pp. 704-709

Janet Rubin and Rodrigo Wagner

Examining the impact of macroeconomic announcements on gold futures in a VAR-GARCH framework pp. 710-716

Lee Smales, Barry O'Grady and Yi Yang

Further evidence on Orcutt's hypothesis using Korean-US commodity data pp. 717-724

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Jungho Baek

Health-care expenditure, GDP and share of the elderly in Japan: a panel cointegration analysis pp. 725-729

Tomoko Tamakoshi and Shigeyuki Hamori

Predictive validity of stated preference data: evidence from mountain bike park visits before and after trail system expansion pp. 730-733

Kevin Atkinson and John Whitehead

Pay-performance sensitivity of compensation contracts for nonexecutive employees: the case of the financial crisis pp. 734-738

Patrick Kampk�tter

Explaining transactions in time banks in economic crisis pp. 739-744

M. Angeles Carnero, Blanca Martinez and Roc�o S�nchez-Mangas

A spectral perspective on excess volatility pp. 745-750

Giacomo Livan, Simone Alfarano, Mishael Milaković and Enrico Scalas

Does central bank communication affect bank risk-taking? pp. 751-758

Gabriel Montes and A. Scarpari

Volume 22, issue 8, 2015

Income differences in services trade partners pp. 593-596

Charles Braymen and Kristie Briggs

Revisiting CEO power and firm value pp. 597-602

J. Lee, J. Park and S. Park

Employment industry and occupational continuity in Germany: from the Nazi regime to the post-war economic miracle pp. 603-612

Patrick Puhani

Quasi-experimental analysis of the impact of exchange rate regime selection on crisis recovery: evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis pp. 613-618

Ross Hallren

Unemployment impacts differently on the extremes of the distribution of a comprehensive well-being measure pp. 619-627

Martin Binder and Alex Coad

Revisiting unit roots in divorce rates pp. 628-631

Marko Korhonen and Mikko Puhakka

An exploratory empirical note on the impact of labour market freedom on the female labour force participation rate in the US pp. 632-636

Richard Cebula and Gigi Alexander

The Seventeenth Amendment, Senate ideology and the growth of government pp. 637-640

Danko Tarabar and Joshua Hall

Economies of scale in the demand for money by firms in China pp. 641-645

Yujun Lian, Terence Tai Leung Chong, Fangping Peng and Richard Cebula

The use of payment systems data as early indicators of economic activity pp. 646-650

Carlos Conesa, Leonardo Gambacorta, Sergio Gorjon and Marco Lombardi

The determinants of digital terrestrial radio aftermarket coverage pp. 651-653

Gary Madden, Paitoon Kraipornsak and Inayat Hussain

Sitting on the fence: does having a 'dual-director' add to bank profitability? pp. 654-657

Maria Semenova and Polina Savchenko

Majority voting and Gini-based social welfare: testing the hypothesis of symmetry pp. 658-663

Juan Gabriel Rodr�guez and Rafael Salas

A tale of two duopolies: collusion and exit in a local airline industry pp. 664-667

Akihiko Kawaura

Do government spending multipliers depend on the level of government debt? US historical data evidence pp. 668-672

Wongi Kim

Volume 22, issue 7, 2015

Indirect and feedback effects as measure of knowledge spillovers in French regions pp. 511-514

In�s Moussa and Thibault Laurent

Portuguese stock market returns and oil price variations pp. 515-520

Sebastião Messias Marques and Margarida Catalão-Lopes

A time-series analysis of US entrepreneurship: evidence from fractional integration pp. 521-524

Luis Gil-Alana and James Payne

The impact of commodity finance on resource availability pp. 525-528

Peter Posch, Joachim Erhardt and Tarek Hard

Human capital in personal consumption and labour force productivity: evidence from an OECD panel pp. 529-538

Steven D. Silver

Economic growth and obesity: findings of an Obesity Kuznets curve pp. 539-543

Anca M. Grecu and Kurt W. Rotthoff

Endogenous and costly institutional deterrence pp. 544-548

David Kingsley and Thomas C. Brown

Heterogeneity, monetary policy and banks' balance sheets: evidence from Euro area countries pp. 549-557

Roberto De Santis

Executive compensation and product market behaviour pp. 558-562

Jaideep Chowdhury and Gokhan Sonaer

Fan substitution between North American professional sports leagues pp. 563-566

Brian Mills, Jason Winfree, Mark S. Rosentraub and Alla Sorokina

Transitions in exchange rate regimes in the aftermath of the global economic crisis pp. 567-571

Graham Bird and Alex (Alexandros) Mandilaras

FDI inflows; how do they interact with non-FDI inflows during crises? Some evidence from Asia pp. 572-575

Tony Cavoli

Distributed access to linked microdata: the example of ICT and exports pp. 576-580

Eva Hagsten

'Bribing' regulators pp. 581-586

Dennis L. Weisman

A simple solution to the distance puzzle: balanced data and Poisson estimation pp. 587-592

David Buehler and Roger White

Volume 22, issue 6, 2015

Regional heterogeneity in growth and inequality elasticities of poverty in transition countries pp. 425-429

Ivica Rubil

Input aggregation bias in technical efficiency with multiple criteria analysis pp. 430-435

A. M. Aldanondo and Valero Casasnovas

Boosting new venture projects through incubator development programme pp. 436-440

Zouha�er M'Chirgui, Asma Guerfali, Wadid Lamine and Mohamed Safouane Ben A�ssa

Effectiveness of monetary policy under different levels of capital flows for an emerging economy: Turkey pp. 441-445

Volkan �lke and Hakan Berument

Causal relationships between the capital account and the current account: an empirical investigation from India pp. 446-450

Bhavesh Garg and K. P. Prabheesh

Future of European funds in a regional economy: Andalusia 2014-2020 pp. 451-454

Manuel Alejandro Cardenete and María del Carmen Delgado

Mutual fund performance: dividends do matter pp. 455-460

Diego V�ctor de Mingo-L�pez and Juan Carlos Matall�n-S�ez

On mergers, monetary policy and output durability pp. 461-465

Samer Adra

Which precious metals spill over on which, when and why? Some evidence pp. 466-473

Jonathan Batten, Cetin Ciner and Brian Lucey

Spillovers from health insurance to the US underground economy pp. 474-482

Rajeev Goel and James Saunoris

Effects of ECB balance sheet policy announcements on inflation expectations pp. 483-487

Richhild Moessner

Use of imported inputs and the cost of importing: evidence from developing countries pp. 488-492

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

Are female politicians more responsive to international crises? pp. 493-498

Daniel Hicks, Joan Hamory Hicks and Beatriz Maldonado

Gasoline price predictability in a border metropolitan economy pp. 499-502

Thomas Fullerton, Alan Jimenez, Yu Liu and Adam G. Walke

Realized volatility forecasting in an international context pp. 503-509

Nick Taylor

Volume 22, issue 5, 2015

Examining the structural changes of European carbon futures price 2005-2012 pp. 335-342

Bangzhu Zhu, Julien Chevallier, Shujiao Ma and Yi-Ming Wei

Revisiting Svensson's test of inflation target credibility pp. 343-348

Alexander Kupfer

Which comes first - urbanization or economic growth? Evidence from heterogeneous panel causality tests pp. 349-355

Brantley Liddle and George Messinis

Do debt crises boost financial reforms? pp. 356-360

Luca Agnello, Vitor Castro, Joao Jalles and Ricardo Sousa

The immigrant-native earnings gap across the earnings distribution pp. 361-369

Sara Lemos

Dynamics between crude oil and equity markets under the risk-neutral measure pp. 370-377

Marie-H�l�ne Gagnon, Gabriel Power and Dominique Toupin

Are international fund flows pro- or counter-cyclical? pp. 378-384

Suxiao Li, Jakob de Haan, Bert Scholtens and Haizhen Yang

Countercyclical capital buffers: credit-to-GDP ratio versus credit growth pp. 385-390

Francisco J. Ib��ez-Hern�ndez, Miguel �. Pe�a-Cerezo and Andr�s Araujo

Establishing a hawkish reputation: interest rate setting by newly appointed central bank governors pp. 391-396

Matthias Neuenkirch

Panel data analysis for renewable energy investment determinants in Europe pp. 397-401

G. S. Sisodia and I. Soares

Idiosyncratic volatility and global equity markets pp. 402-405

Klaus Grobys

Measuring task content and offshorability pp. 406-410

Julia P�schel

Family member incarceration and delinquent behaviour in the classroom: evidence from Brazil pp. 411-415

Cristiano Costa, Luciana D. Costa and Renata C. Gomes

The long-run effect of trade on life expectancy in the United States: an empirical note pp. 416-420

Dierk Herzer

Modelling African inflation rates: nonlinear deterministic terms and long-range dependence pp. 421-424

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Hector Carcel and Luis Gil-Alana

Volume 22, issue 4, 2015

M-Squared and ranking issues for risky assets pp. 247-250

G. Glenn Baigent

Does attachment to money affect reciprocity behaviour? pp. 251-254

Merav Malcman, Mosi Rosenboim and Tal Shavit

Revisiting a story of two countries in East Asia after Abenomics pp. 255-260

Danbee Park and Joocheol Kim

Investor attention and advisor social media interaction pp. 261-265

Tao Guo, Michael Finke and Barry Mulholland

Does unauthorized school absenteeism accelerates the dropout decision? - Evidence from a Bayesian duration model pp. 266-271

Sofie J. Cabus and Kristof De Witte

Managed portfolio performance and transaction costs pp. 272-280

Nick Taylor

The impact of state and federal assault weapons bans on public mass shootings pp. 281-284

Mark Gius

The European periphery during the crisis: fix or float? pp. 285-290

Anne Oeking

The effects of inflation and openness on inequality across alternative monetary regimes pp. 291-298

Yi-Heng Chen, Ho-Chuan Huang and Kuang-Ping Ku

Antecedents of time to completion in mergers and acquisitions pp. 299-304

Mathieu Luypaert and Wouter De Maeseneire

The impact of goals and public rewards on a prosocial behaviour: an exploratory economic experiment pp. 305-311

K. Farrow, S. Costa, Gilles Grolleau and Lisette Ibanez

Does corporate governance quality affect analyst coverage? Evidence from the Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) pp. 312-317

Pandej Chintrakarn, Pornsit Jiraporn, Young Kim and Jang-Chul Kim

Can we distinguish regime switching from long memory? A simulation evidence pp. 318-323

Yanlin Shi

The importance of players in teams of the German Bundesliga in the season 2012/2013 - a cooperative game theory approach pp. 324-329

Tobias Hiller

Do new exporters grow so fast? pp. 330-333

Juan de Lucio, Raúl M�nguez, Asier Minondo and Francisco Requena Silvente

Volume 22, issue 3, 2015

Do transaction costs prevent arbitrage in the market for crude oil? Evidence from a threshold autoregression pp. 169-172

Jason Stevens

Financial distress and happiness of employees in times of economic crisis pp. 173-179

Efstratia Arampatzi, Martijn Burger and Ruut Veenhoven

Changes in individual and/or aggregate? pp. 180-183

John Hey and Noemi Pace

We all do it, but are we willing to admit? Incentivizing digital pirates' confessions pp. 184-188

Anna Kukla-Gryz, Joanna Tyrowicz, Michal Krawczyk and Konrad Siwiński

Rising efficiency and cost saving in Australian banks: a bootstrap approach pp. 189-194

Amir Moradi-Motlagh, Abbas Valadkhani and Ali Salman Saleh

Do credit constraints reduce foreign jobs? A note on foreign direct employment pp. 195-198

Jordi Paniagua and Juan Sapena

Parental education, child's grade repetition and the modifier effect of cannabis use pp. 199-203

Paolo Rungo, Bruno Casal, Berta Rivera and Luis Currais

Identifying the impact of deterrence on crime: internal versus external instruments pp. 204-208

Maurice J. G. Bun

Event-study volatility and bootstrapping: an international study pp. 209-213

Naceur Essaddam and Ayman Mnasri

The impact of leisure complementarity on the labour force participation of older males in Spain pp. 214-217

Carlos P�rez, �ngel Mart�n-Rom�n and Alfonso Moral

Do intraday data contain more information for volatility forecasting? Evidence from the Chinese commodity futures market pp. 218-222

Ying Jiang, Xiaoquan Liu and Wuyi Ye

China's sovereign bond yield: some lessons pp. 223-227

Thi Hong Hanh Pham

Are subjects making financial decisions in lab auctions or are they just gambling? pp. 228-232

Cary Deck, Jungmin Lee and Javier Reyes

Sports and (real) business cycles pp. 233-238

M. Alper Ҫenesiz and Christian Pierdzioch

The principal - agent problem, tracking error, and the optimal investment portfolio pp. 239-246

Wentworth Boynton, Gregory Blosick and Robert F. Rainish

Volume 22, issue 2, 2015

Pricing black-scholes options with correlated credit risk and jump risk pp. 87-93

Weidong Xu, Weijun Xu and Weilin Xiao

Obedience and income levels pp. 94-98

Kaitlyn Harger and Joshua Hall

A study on short-selling constraints: total ban versus partial ban pp. 99-103

Esther C�ceres, David Moreno and Rosa Rodr�guez

How do powerful CEOs view corporate risk-taking? Evidence from the CEO pay slice (CPS) pp. 104-109

Pandej Chintrakarn, Pornsit Jiraporn and Shenghui Tong

Modelling the tourism receipt's volatility pp. 110-115

Faruk Balli and Rosmy Jean Louis

Obesity history and male employment pp. 116-120

Francesco Renna

Wealthy, healthy and wise: does money compensate for being born into difficult conditions? pp. 121-126

James Manley, Lia Fernald and Paul Gertler

Allocating repairs and maintenance costs to fixed or variable costs in fisheries bioeconomic models pp. 127-131

Sean Pascoe, Simon Vieira and Olivier Thebaud

On the long-term macroeconomic effects of social spending in the United States pp. 132-136

Alfredo Pereira and Jorge Andraz

The effect of monetary versus nonmonetary endowment on WTP in BDM auctions pp. 137-140

Riccardo Vecchio and Azzurra Annunziata

Tiananmen Square 1989: the view from financial markets pp. 141-147

Richard Burdekin and Xinzhu Li

A satisficing approach to factor portfolio construction pp. 148-152

Joseph Simonian

Specialist supplier or systems integrator? The relationship between competencies and export performance in the Norwegian defence industry pp. 153-157

Arne Fevolden, Sverre J. Herstad and Tore Sandven

Road to success? The effects of road toll on economic growth in China pp. 158-162

Shuo Chen and Xiaobo He

Trade openness and economic growth: panel evidence pp. 163-167

B�lent Ulaşan

Volume 22, issue 1, 2015

An information theoretic approach to network tomography pp. 1-6

Wendy K. Tam Cho and George Judge

Universal pension scheme and risk-taking pp. 7-11

Yao-Tung Chen, Yuh-Ju Lan, Ker-Tah Hsu, Keng-Shen Chen and Yu-Der Wang

Determinants of football transfers pp. 12-19

Jeroen Ruijg and Hans van Ophem

Determinants of success in setting standards coalition: empirical evidence from the standard war of the blue laser DVDs pp. 20-24

Zouha�er M'Chirgui

Detailed decompositions in nonlinear models pp. 25-29

Boris Kaiser

Bitcoins as an investment or speculative vehicle? A first look pp. 30-34

C. Baek and M. Elbeck

What precious metals act as safe havens, and when? Some US evidence pp. 35-45

Brian Lucey and Sile Li

Forecasting gold-price fluctuations: a real-time boosting approach pp. 46-50

Christian Pierdzioch, Marian Risse and Sebastian Rohloff

Profitability determinants of Portuguese knowledge-intensive business services: empirical evidence using panel data models pp. 51-56

Paulo Ma�ãs Nunes and Zelia Serrasqueiro

Impact of high-speed rail on international tourism demand in China pp. 57-60

Zhenhua Chen and Kingsley E. Haynes

Northern Ireland's property market bubble: a preliminary analysis pp. 61-65

E. Gallagher, Derek Bond and Elaine Ramsey

Delisted versus voluntary delisted versus remain listed: an ordered analysis pp. 66-70

D. Balios, N. Eriotis, S. Missiakoulis and D. Vasiliou

Gender differences in competitive preferences: new cross-country empirical evidence pp. 71-75

Werner B�nte

Addressing endogeneity in estimating the effect of social capital on psychological health pp. 76-79

Peter Howley

Revenue sharing and within-team payroll inequality in Major League Baseball pp. 80-85

Nicholas Jolly