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Volume 20, issue 18, 2013

The unemployment effect of hiring and firing regulation in developing countries: survey evidence pp. 1603-1607

Horst Feldmann

On the determinants of exchange rate misalignments pp. 1608-1610

Jamel Saadaoui, Jacques Mazier and Nabil Aflouk

Testing the efficiency of the futures market for crude oil using weighted least squares pp. 1611-1613

Jason Stevens

Trade collapse, quality and food exports pp. 1614-1617

Daniele Curzi, Lucia Pacca and Alessandro Olper

An equicorrelation measure for equity, bond, foreign exchange and commodity returns pp. 1618-1624

Sofiane Aboura and Julien Chevallier

Insider trading and blackout periods: evidence from Italy pp. 1625-1629

Pierpaolo Pattitoni, Barbara Petracci and Massimo Spisni

Does attending a key school have a quality premium? A regression discontinuity analysis pp. 1630-1635

Haifeng Zhang, Yang Wu and Xianguo Yao

Short-run and long-run causalities between happiness, income and unemployment in Japan pp. 1636-1639

Chew Ging Lee, Pek Kim Ng and Cassey Lee

When are fiscal adjustments successful? The role of social capital pp. 1640-1643

Markus Leibrecht and Johann Scharler

Scale and composition effects of human capital on Spanish regional migration pp. 1644-1647

Jesus Clemente Lopez, Gemma Larramona and Victor Montuenga

Information search in pension plan decisions pp. 1648-1650

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On the accuracy of Federal Reserve forecasts of the saving rate pp. 1651-1655

Hamid Baghestani

Forecasting yield spreads under crisis-induced multiple breakpoints pp. 1656-1664

Caterina Forti Grazzini and Massimo Guidolin

A Blinder--Oaxaca decomposition for double-hurdle models with an application to migrants' remittance behaviour pp. 1665-1672

David Aristei

Measuring time-varying equity risk premium in the context of financial crisis: do developed and emerging markets differ? pp. 1673-1677

Hachmi Ben Ameur, Yacouba Gn�gn� and Fredj Jawadi

Volume 20, issue 17, 2013

New experimental evidence on charitable gift restrictions and donor behaviour pp. 1521-1526

Sara Helms, Brian Scott and Jeremy Thornton

Does gender-specific starting point bias in choice experiments prevail among well-informed respondents: evidence from an empirical study pp. 1527-1530

Jacob Ladenburg

Who should supervise banks for the banking sector stability? pp. 1531-1537

Anichul Hoque Khan and Hasnat Dewan

Technical efficiency and the vertical boundaries of the firm: theory and evidence pp. 1538-1543

Fabio Pieri and Enrico Zaninotto

Evaluating others' behaviour: a public-good experiment with ex-post communication pp. 1544-1547

Takehisa Kumakawa

The relative importance of distance in restricting international trade pp. 1548-1552

Xuebing Yang

Mean reversion or a breath of fresh air? The effect of NFL coaching changes on team performance in the salary cap era pp. 1553-1556

M. A. Roach

Financial crisis, Taylor rule and the Fed pp. 1557-1561

Saten Kumar

The role of gender diversity on firm performance: a regression quantile approach pp. 1562-1566

M. Nihat Solakoglu

Tail dependence between Central and Eastern European and major European stock markets: a copula approach pp. 1567-1573

Silvo Dajcman

What determines obesity in oil-rich UAE? New evidence from survey data pp. 1574-1579

Marina-Selini Katsaiti and Amany A. El Anshasy

The accuracy of graphs to describe size distributions pp. 1580-1585

Rafael Gonz�lez-Val, Arturo Ramos and Fernando Sanz-Gracia

The new issues puzzle: evidence from non-US firms pp. 1586-1591

Turan G. Bali, Nusret Cakici and Frank Fabozzi

Introducing a new DEA methodology for environmental inputs pp. 1592-1595

Norabajra Asava-vallobh, Timothy Gronberg and Dennis Jansen

Specification tests of habit formation pp. 1596-1601

Peng Liu and Yu Ren

Volume 20, issue 16, 2013

Optimal liquidity reserve with funding liquidity risk pp. 1449-1452

Dewei Zhang, Chongfeng Wu and Chunyang Zhou

Institutional quality as a barrier to trade pp. 1453-1458

Kristie Briggs

Effective leadership in teams: a simple model pp. 1459-1461

Antoni Cunyat and Celia Melguizo

Marginal or copula: which one is critical? pp. 1462-1465

Pilsun Choi and Insik Min

Time to BRIC it? Internationalization of European family firms in Europe, North America and the BRIC countries pp. 1466-1471

Vivien Procher, Diemo Urbig and C. Volkmann

External financial dependence and FDI responsiveness to corporate tax rates pp. 1472-1476

C�line Az�mar and Rodolphe Desbordes

Facial masculinity predicts risk and time preferences in expert chess players pp. 1477-1480

Anna Dreber, Christer Gerdes, P. Gr�nsmark and A. C. Little

A recreation demand model of the North Carolina for-hire fishery: a comparison of primary and secondary purpose anglers pp. 1481-1484

John Whitehead, Christopher F. Dumas, Craig Landry and Jim Herstine

To discriminate or not to discriminate -- Is data aggregation the question? pp. 1485-1490

Kevin Mongeon and Ron Mittelhammer

Financial system sophistication and unemployment around the world pp. 1491-1496

Horst Feldmann

An exploratory inquiry into the impact of budget deficits on the nominal interest rate yield on Moody's Aaa-rated corporate bonds, 1973--2012 pp. 1497-1500

Richard Cebula

The decreasing returns to gender equality: evidence from the 2012 summer Olympics pp. 1501-1505

T. Potts and R. Edwards

Spread and depth adjustment process: an analysis of high-quality microstructure data pp. 1506-1510

Doojin Ryu

Internet-growth nexus: evidence from cross-country panel data pp. 1511-1515

Rudra P. Pradhan, Samadhan Bele and Shashikant Pandey

Read the book and see the film? The consumption of different versions of cultural goods pp. 1516-1520

Alan Collins, Antonello Scorcu and Roberto Zanola

Volume 20, issue 15, 2013

Forecasting macroeconomy based on the term structure of credit spreads: evidence from China pp. 1363-1367

Rongxi Zhou, Xianliang Wang and Guanqun Tong

A note on bank default risk under government capital injection coinciding with high future loss expectation pp. 1368-1373

Jyh-Horng Lin, Chuen-Ping Chang and Hsiao-Ning Lin

A new look at the discouragement and the added worker hypotheses: applying a trend--cycle decomposition to unemployment pp. 1374-1378

Johann Fuchs and Enzo Weber

Joining the international fight against doping pp. 1379-1382

Eike Emrich and Christian Pierdzioch

Understanding momentum in commodity markets pp. 1383-1402

Julien Chevallier, Mathieu Gatumel and Florian Ielpo

Are production managers' forecasts useful? Joint evaluation and robustness pp. 1403-1406

Yoichi Tsuchiya

Do influential contacts help in receiving fair treatment from public officials? pp. 1407-1412

Giuseppe Gaeta

Do public sector unions erode business climates? pp. 1413-1417

Michael Marlow

Illicit drug use and labour market participation: evidence of simultaneity pp. 1418-1422

Berta Rivera, Bruno Casal, Luis Currais and Paolo Rungo

Foreign direct investment in a small open economy pp. 1423-1425

Helga Kristj�nsd�ttir

The complementarity effect of research and development on firm productivity pp. 1426-1430

Andrés Barge-Gil and Alberto L�pez

Spatial autocorrelation in the European air navigation system pp. 1431-1434

Kenneth Button and Rui Neiva

Health status and time allocation in Spain pp. 1435-1439

J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Raquel Ortega-Lapiedra

The economic role of jumps in EUR/USD and USD/JPY exchange rates pp. 1440-1444

Xiao-Ping Li, Chun-Yang Zhou and Chong-Feng Wu

Solving the Wallis--North paradox in transaction cost measurement pp. 1445-1448

Puqing Lai

Volume 20, issue 14, 2013

Does unemployment affect compensating wage differentials for work-related fatal injuries? Empirical evidence from occupational data pp. 1283-1287

H. A. Mridha and F. C. Khan

Minimum wage effects on youth employment in the European Union pp. 1288-1292

S. Laporšek

The monetary model of exchange rates is better than the random walk in out-of-sample forecasting pp. 1293-1297

Imad Moosa and Kelly Burns

An empirical investigation of rewards’ effect on experimental auctions outcomes pp. 1298-1300

Riccardo Vecchio and Eugenio Pomarici

The high sensitivity of pairs trading returns pp. 1301-1304

Nicolas Huck

Are ‘stock returns’ a hedge against inflation in Japan? Determination using ADL bounds testing pp. 1305-1309

Hsiao-Fen Chang

Using DEA and financial ratings for credit risk evaluation: an empirical analysis pp. 1310-1317

Gianpaolo Iazzolino, Maria Elena Bruni and Patrizia Beraldi

An empirical approach for directly accounting for expectations in behavioural models pp. 1318-1321

A. J. Hekman and D. B. Deisenroth

Detection of anticipated structural changes in a rational expectations environment pp. 1322-1327

Luis Uzeda and Callum Jones

The ‘effective’ measure of unemployment benefit duration: data on spells or individuals? pp. 1328-1332

Jose Arranz and Carlos García-Serrano

Worldwide equity risk prediction pp. 1333-1339

David Ardia and Lennart F. Hoogerheide

The impact of supervisor age on employee job satisfaction pp. 1340-1343

Benjamin Artz

Subnational trade flows and state-level energy intensity: an empirical analysis pp. 1344-1351

P. Chintrakarn

On the provision of public goods under credit constraints pp. 1352-1356

Tobias Heinrich and Manuel Kreutner

Optimal retail location and CO 2 emissions pp. 1357-1361

Kenneth Carling, Johan Håkansson and Niklas Rudholm

Volume 20, issue 13, 2013

Quantile regression analysis of health-aid and infant mortality: a note pp. 1197-1201

Elsy Thomas Kizhakethalackal, Debasri Mukherjee and Eskander Alvi

Credit watch and capital structure pp. 1202-1205

Kristopher J. Kemper and Ramesh Rao

Do demographics influence aggregate entrepreneurship? pp. 1206-1210

Olivier Lamotte and Ana Colovic

Volatility spillovers in commodity markets pp. 1211-1227

Julien Chevallier and Florian Ielpo

What explains consumption and money holding in the very short-run?: evidence from checking account data pp. 1228-1232

Marc Anthony Fusaro and Donald Dutkowsky

Is unsystematic risk priced in bank loan contracts? pp. 1233-1237

Margot Quijano

Risk-taking in subjective promotion tournaments pp. 1238-1243

Illoong Kwon

The effect of the great recession on foreign direct investment: global empirical evidence with a gravity approach pp. 1244-1248

Salvador Gil-Pareja, Rafael-Llorca Vivero and Jordi Paniagua

Numerical method to calculate Gini coefficient from limited data of subgroups pp. 1249-1253

Weidong Huang

Common change-points in long-term UK bond yields, 1870--1914: a piecewise linear trends approach pp. 1254-1258

Gawon Yoon

GLS detrending in Sollis nonlinear unit root tests pp. 1259-1262

Jen-Je Su and Jeremy Nguyen

An international comparison of the impact of the 2008 crisis on productivity pp. 1263-1269

Daniel Fuentes Castro

The effect of corruption on migration,1985--2000 pp. 1270-1274

Eugen Dimant, Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks

Predicting Bank of England's asset purchase decisions with MPC voting records pp. 1275-1278

Matthias Neuenkirch

The willingness to pay for higher education: does the type of fee matter? pp. 1279-1282

Kerstin Bruckmeier, Georg-Benedikt Fischer and Berthold Wigger

Volume 20, issue 12, 2013

On the directional accuracy of survey forecasts: the case of gold and silver pp. 1127-1129

Ulrich Fritsche, Christian Pierdzioch, Jan-Christoph R�lke and Georg Stadtmann

Taxes and life cycle capital gains realizations pp. 1130-1134

Martin Jacob

Evaluating corporate executives' exchange rate forecasts under a flexible loss function pp. 1135-1138

Yoichi Tsuchiya

Attrition and the estimation of employment and wage equations: the Canadian survey of labour and income dynamics pp. 1139-1144

Brahim Boudarbat and Lee Grenon

Are individual investors less informed than institutional investors? Unique evidence from investor trading behaviours around bad mergers in Korean financial market pp. 1145-1149

Areum Han and Chune Young Chung

Rivalry and the dynamic instability of venture capital investment shares pp. 1150-1154

T. Ballinger, Bradley Ewing and Mark A. Thompson

The distribution of power in governing coalitions of the German Laender pp. 1155-1159

Tobias Hiller

Health, education and the dynamics of cross-country productivity differences pp. 1160-1164

Alok Kumar and Wenshu Chen

Institutional determinants of public--private sector wages' linkages pp. 1165-1169

Ana Lamo, Javier J. P�rez and A. Jesús S�nchez-Fuentes

Wage inequality determinants in European Union countries pp. 1170-1173

Oscar Afonso, Ana Lurdes Albuquerque and Alexandre Almeida

Tasters' bias in wine guides' quality evaluations pp. 1174-1177

Stefano Castriota, Daniele Curzi and Marco Delmastro

How do entrenched boards reduce human rights violations? An empirical analysis pp. 1178-1182

P. Chintrakarn, P. Chatjuthamard and Pornsit Jiraporn

Where do entrepreneurial skills come from? pp. 1183-1186

Michael Stuetzer, Martin Obschonka, Per Davidsson and Eva Schmitt-Rodermund

The dynamic relationship between earnings volatility, concentration, stability and size in the Turkish banking sector pp. 1187-1192

A. Kasman and S. Kirbas-Kasman

Joint evaluation of the directional accuracy of corporate executives' forecasts pp. 1193-1196

Yoichi Tsuchiya

Volume 20, issue 11, 2013

Re-evaluation of Japan's monetary policy in the late 1980s with the interest rate gap pp. 1027-1031

Shingo Umino

The R-word index for Switzerland pp. 1032-1035

David Iselin and Boriss Siliverstovs

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and CEO luck: are lucky CEOs socially responsible? pp. 1036-1039

Pornsit Jiraporn and P. Chintrakarn

Evidence of ‘foreign aid Keynesianism’ pp. 1040-1045

Alessandro De Matteis

Primary health care policies: investigation on morbidity pp. 1046-1051

Fabiana Fontes Rocha, Marislei Nishijima and Sandro Garcia Duarte Peixoto

Modelling money demand: further evidence from an international comparison pp. 1052-1055

Fredj Jawadi and Ricardo Sousa

Trade-creating regime-wide rules of origin: a quantitative analysis pp. 1056-1061

Sangkyom Kim, Innwon Park and Soonchan Park

What drives bank earnings? Evidence for 28 banking sectors pp. 1062-1066

Laurence Pouw and Jan Kakes

The effect of entrenched boards on corporate risk-taking: testing the quiet life hypothesis pp. 1067-1070

P. Chintrakarn, N. Jiraporn and P. Jiraporn

Determinants of revenues in the motion picture industry pp. 1071-1075

Myeong Hwan Kim

Economic growth in Greece: the cost of a failed adjustment programme pp. 1076-1080

Tilemahos Efthimiadis, Sotiris Papaioannou and Panagiotis Tsintzos

The Z -transform method for multidimensional dynamic economic systems pp. 1081-1088

Xiaoyong Cui, Liutang Gong, Zhao Xiaojun and Heng-Fu Zou

Commodity futures price volatility, convenience yield and economic fundamentals pp. 1089-1095

Gabriel Power and John R. C. Robinson

The strange persistence of consumer surplus pp. 1096-1099

James Stodder

A note on cartel ringleaders and the corporate leniency programme pp. 1100-1103

Iwan Bos and Frederick Wandschneider

The housing price bubble, the monetary policy and the foreclosure crisis in the US pp. 1104-1108

John McDonald and Houston Stokes

Rules changes and competitive balance in European professional soccer: evidence from an event study approach pp. 1109-1112

Ryan A. Kent, Steven B Caudill and Franklin Mixon

Conviction, gender and labour market status pp. 1113-1120

Dario Sciulli

The effect of exchange rate volatility on trade: correcting for selection bias and asymmetric trade flows pp. 1121-1126

Atef Al-Rashidi and Bidisha Lahiri

Volume 20, issue 10, 2013

Public policy for innovation and internationalization: are they worth it? pp. 927-930

Mariasole Bannò, Valentina Morandi and Celeste Varum

Short covering and price stabilization of IPOs pp. 931-937

A. Signori, M. Meoli and S. Vismara

Distribution and growth in demand and productivity in Switzerland (1950--2010) pp. 938-944

Jochen Hartwig

The media and discretionary behaviour of bureaucrats pp. 945-948

Paul Raschky

Labour supply and pollution in China pp. 949-952

J. Yang, John Beirne, G. Liu and Pengfei Sheng

Fear and Closed-End Fund discounts pp. 956-959

S. Anderson, Thomas Beard, Hyeongwoo Kim and L. V. Stern

Tourism flows to Caribbean islands: an empirical note pp. 957-965

Nkunde Mwase

Business cycle determinants of US foreign direct investments pp. 966-970

Lilia Cavallari and Stefano d'Addona

Economic analysis of the US fluid milk industry pp. 971-977

Xiaowei Cai and Kyle Stiegert

On international stock market co-movements and macroeconomic risks pp. 978-982

Peng Chen and Shu Wu

Quasi-hyperbolic time preferences and their intergenerational transmission pp. 983-986

Fabian Kosse and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

Exchange rate and oil price: asymmetric adjustment pp. 987-990

Jen-Eem Chen, Chin-Yu Lee and Lim Thye Goh

Unequal futures? Mass higher education and graduates' relative earnings in Portugal, 1995--2009 pp. 991-997

Hugo Figueiredo, Pedro Teixeira and Jill Rubery

Does religion affect international trade in services more than trade in goods? pp. 998-1002

Chong Wha Lee

A question of bias in the US unemployment numbers pp. 1003-1007

Richard A. Parsons

Cross-market linkages between commodities, stocks and bonds pp. 1008-1018

Julien Chevallier and Florian Ielpo

Location, education and enterprise growth pp. 1019-1022

Sverre J. Herstad, Tore Sandven and Espen Solberg

On the nature and causes of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States pp. 1023-1026

Travis Roach

Volume 20, issue 9, 2013

Age effects in Okun's law within the Eurozone pp. 821-825

O. Hutengs and G. Stadtmann

Liquidity constraints, uncertain parental income and human capital accumulation pp. 826-829

Francesco Devicienti and Mariacristina Rossi

Rank variability of the Publish or Perish metrics for economics and finance journals pp. 830-836

M. Ryan Haley

A dynamic hurdle model for zeroinflated panel count data pp. 837-841

Filippo Belloc, Mauro Bernardi, Antonello Maruotti and Lea Petrella

How skewness influences optimal allocation in a risky asset? pp. 842-846

Martin Eling, K. K. Sudheesh and Luisa Tibiletti

On the internal consistency of the term structure of forecasts of housing starts pp. 847-851

Christian Pierdzioch, Jan-Christoph Rülke and Georg Stadtmann

Do regulators consider welfare when assigning spectrum via comparative selections? pp. 852-856

Gary Madden and Thien Tran

Broadband penetration and economic growth in ASEAN countries: a generalized method of moments approach pp. 857-862

Tuan Hock Ng, Chun Teck Lye and Ying San Lim

Robust weak-form efficiency tests in volatile European equity indices pp. 863-868

Kwesi Enninful and Michael Dowling

Does the interest rate for business loans respond asymmetrically to changes in the cash rate? pp. 869-874

Abbas Valadkhani, Amir Arjomandi and Martin O'Brien

How times have changed: racial discrimination in the market for sports memorabilia (baseball cards) pp. 875-878

L. J. Van Scyoc and N. J. Burnett

Trade times, importing and exporting: firm-level evidence pp. 879-883

Ben Shepherd

Estimating the economics Nobel Prize laureates' achievement from their fame pp. 884-888

Anouk G. P. Claes and Marc J. K. De Ceuster

Research output at US economics departments pp. 889-892

Michael A. McPherson, Myungsup Kim, Megan Dorman and Nishelli Perera

Finance and economic growth: new evidence from time series analysis (1961--2009) pp. 893-896

Ernesto R. Gantman and Marcelo P. Dabós

Ignorance is bliss? Uncertainty about product valuation may benefit consumers pp. 897-902

Tarcisio da Graça and Robert Masson

Multiple comparisons problem: Recent advances applied to energy and emissions pp. 903-909

M. Cummins

A note on a simplified and general approach to simulating from multivariate copula functions pp. 910-915

Barry Goodwin

A note on the impact of economic regulation on life satisfaction pp. 916-920

Bodo Knoll, Hans Pitlik and Martin Rode

An empirical analysis of changes of the impact of federal budget deficits on stock market returns: evidence from the US economy pp. 921-924

Klaus Grobys

Volume 20, issue 8, 2013

Measuring credit risk by using a parameterized model under risk-neutral measure pp. 719-723

Su-Lien Lu

The role of education in determining the attitudes towards crime in Europe pp. 724-727

Elena D'Agostino, Emiliano Sironi and Giuseppe Sobbrio

Does monitoring affect corruption? Career concerns and home bias in football refereeing pp. 728-731

Bruno Rocha, Fábio Sanches, Igor Souza and Jos� Carlos Domingos da Silva

Potential demand for m-government services in Japan pp. 732-736

Gary Madden, Erik Bohlin, Hajime Oniki and Thien Tran

Stability price index, core inflation and output volatility pp. 737-741

Wojciech Charemza and Imran Hussain Shah

The causal relationships between sovereign CDS premiums for Japan and selected EU countries pp. 742-747

Yasunori Yoshizaki, Yuki Toyoshima and Shigeyuki Haomori

What drives a successful fiscal consolidation? pp. 748-753

Pablo Hernández de Cos and Enrique Moral-Benito

Survival of micro-enterprises: Does public seed financing work? pp. 754-757

Rodrigo Fuentes and Jorge Dresdner

The spending multiplier in a time of massive public debt: The Euro-area case pp. 758-762

Radu Vranceanu and Damien Besancenot

Liabilities -- a multi-objective approach pp. 763-766

Joseph Simonian and Gabriella Barschdorff

Greek GDP forecast estimates pp. 767-772

Michail Kiriakidis and Antonios Kargas

Worldwide synchronization since the nineteenth century: a wavelet-based view pp. 773-776

António Rua

A note on Basel III and liquidity pp. 777-780

Bernadine De Waal, Mark A. Petersen, Lungile N. P. Hlatshwayo and Janine Mukuddem-Petersen

Does competition affect evolutionary dynamics? Evidence from a collegiate university pp. 781-785

Jin-Hyuk Kim

Multilateral index number theory and generalized repeat sales house price indexes pp. 786-789

Daniel Melser

Jumps in an stochastic optimization: self-financing portfolio for risk averse investors: does bequest matter? pp. 790-794

Şaziye Gaziog̃lu, Azize Bastıyalı-Hafavi and Özge Sezgin

Reassessing the Fed's behaviour towards presidential elections pp. 795-798

Yoshito Funashima

How policy changes affect shareholder wealth: the case of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster pp. 799-803

Andr� Betzer, Markus Doumet and Ulf Rinne

Export intensity and the productivity gains of exporting pp. 804-808

Miguel Manjon Antolin, Juan A. Mañez, Maria Engracia Rochina Barrachina and Juan A. Sanchis Llopis

Multiple equilibria with a multiple price list pp. 809-812

Stéphan Marette, Sandrine Blanchemanche and Jutta Roosen

London or New York: where and when does the gold price originate? pp. 813-817

Brian Lucey, Charles Larkin and Fergal O'Connor

Danish mutual fund performance pp. 818-820

M. Christensen

Volume 20, issue 7, 2013

Ins and outs of the long-run unemployment dynamics pp. 615-620

Hiroaki Miyamoto

Interpolating flow and stock variables in a continuous-time dynamic framework pp. 621-625

Imad A. Moosa and Kelly Burns

The relationship between international innovation collaboration, intramural R&D and SMEs’ innovation performance: a quantile regression approach pp. 626-630

Bernd Ebersberger and Sverre J. Herstad

Social security effects on income distribution: a counterfactual analysis for Brazil pp. 631-637

Rodrigo de Moura, Jaime de Jesus Filho, Paulo S�rgio Braga Tafner and Ligia Helena da Cruz Ourives

The determinants of immigration from Mexico to the United States: a state-to-state analysis pp. 638-641

Nathan Ashby, Avilia Bueno and Deborah Mart�nez Villarreal

Homo certus in professional basketball? Empirical evidence from the 2011 NBA Playoffs pp. 642-648

Scott Wallace, Steven B Caudill and Franklin Mixon

The effects of hypertension and obesity on total health-care expenditures of diabetes patients in the United States pp. 649-652

Simon Condliffe, Charles Link, Shreekant Parasuraman and Michael F. Pollack

Structural breaks and nonlinearity in US and UK public debts pp. 653-657

Fredj Jawadi and Ricardo Sousa

‘Entrepreneurs out of necessity’: a snapshot pp. 658-663

Markus Poschke

Turkey's experience with disinflation: where did all the welfare gains go? pp. 664-668

Bilin Neyapti

The cyclicality of education, health, and social security government spending pp. 669-672

Antonio Afonso and Joao Jalles

The effect of assassinations on political institutions: Are the Jones--Olken findings robust? pp. 673-676

Wei Gao, Scott Gilbert and Kevin Sylwester

Are insurers SIFIs? A MGARCH model to measure interconnectedness pp. 677-681

N. Podlich and Michael Wedow

The relative importance of the Chinese stimulus package and tax stabilization during the 2008 financial crisis pp. 682-686

John Whalley and Xiliang Zhao

Heterogeneity in the allocation of external public financing: evidence from post-MDRI countries pp. 687-691

Tidiane Kinda and Marie-Helene Le Manchec

International mobility of capital in the OECD countries: a robust evidence from panel data estimators pp. 692-696

Tarlok Singh

Current account dynamics and degree of capital mobility pp. 697-701

Levent Bulut

Cost advantage cooperations larger than private waste collectors pp. 702-705

Elbert Dijkgraaf and Raymond Gradus

The price of secondary school quality: a hedonic approach pp. 706-709

Celia Bilbao-Terol and Verónica Cañal-Fernández

Red cards, referee home bias and social pressure: evidence from English Premiership Soccer pp. 710-714

Barry Reilly and Robert Witt

Is China different? A meta-analysis of China's financial sector development pp. 715-718

Christer Ljungwall and Patrik Tingvall

Volume 20, issue 6, 2013

Determinants of corporate default: a BMA approach pp. 511-514

Carlos González-Aguado and Enrique Moral-Benito

The Poisson quasi-maximum likelihood estimator: a solution to the ‘adding up’ problem in gravity models pp. 515-519

Jean-François Arvis and Ben Shepherd

Long-run performance of mergers and acquisition of privately held targets: evidence in the USA pp. 520-524

Shao-Chi Chang and Ming-Tse Tsai

Empirical test for purchasing power parity using a time-varying parameter model: Japan and Korea cases pp. 525-529

Hyung-Gun Kim and Sang Young Jei

Financial development and the magnitude of business cycle fluctuations in OECD countries pp. 530-533

Jarko Fidrmuc and Johann Scharler

On the relation between the relative size of acquisitions and the wealth of acquiring firms pp. 534-539

Ivo Ph. Jansen, Lee W. Sanning and Nathan V. Stuart

A possible role for discriminatory fuel duty in reducing the emissions from road transport: some UK evidence pp. 540-544

David Broadstock and Xun Chen

Perfect risk-sharing restrictions in the state space pp. 545-548

Riccardo Trezzi

Remeasuring labour's share pp. 549-553

Andrew Young and Hernando Zuleta

Income elasticity of poverty in developing countries: updated estimates from new data pp. 554-558

Rati Ram

Is there really no link between international trade and wage differentials? pp. 559-565

Lorenzo Corsini

Capital account liberalization and unemployment in industrial countries pp. 566-571

Horst Feldmann

Remittances and the sources of growth pp. 572-580

Aberra Senbeta

The intertemporal stability of the US money demand function: new evidence from switching regressions pp. 581-586

Bobby Davis, David Karemera and Louis Whitesides

Growth effects of inflation targeting revisited: empirical evidence from emerging markets pp. 587-591

Beldi Amira, Djelassi Mouldi and Mete Feridun

Managerial capital and firm types: findings from private bond contracts pp. 592-595

Laurent Bouvier and Tahir M. Nisar

Voluntary private sector involvement and the financial crisis in emerging Europe pp. 596-600

Elitza Mileva

A Monte Carlo test for the identifying assumptions of the Blanchard and Quah (1989) model pp. 601-605

Hyeon-seung Huh

Delivery terms in international trade: some evidence for Spain pp. 606-610

Ignacio Del Rosal

Do antitrust agencies facilitate meetings in smoke-filled rooms? pp. 611-614

Iwan Bos, Ronald Peeters and Erik Pot

Volume 20, issue 5, 2013

Do changes in consumers' home buying attitudes predict directional change in home sales? pp. 411-415

Hamid Baghestani, Ilker Kaya and Samer Kherfi

A methodology for identifying the impacted groups in referee discrimination studies pp. 416-419

Kevin Mongeon and Neil Longley

Economic growth and crime: does uncertainty matter? pp. 420-427

Eleftherios Goulas and Athina Zervoyianni

Innovation and credit ratings, does it matter? UK evidence pp. 428-431

Basil Al-Najjar and Mohammed Elgammal

Economic reforms and the indirect role of monetary policy pp. 432-435

Andrea Beccarini

Does exchange rate volatility hinder export flows for South American countries? pp. 436-439

Dimitrios Serenis

Celebrity star power: Do age and gender effects influence box office performance? pp. 440-445

Julianne Treme and Lee Craig

Estimating import demand in the presence of seasonal trade and unobserved prices pp. 446-451

Andrew Muhammad

J-curve disparity between the goods sector and the services sector: evidence from Australia pp. 452-456

Albert Wijeweera and Brian Dollery

Asymmetric gasoline price responses in France pp. 457-461

Olivier Lamotte, Thomas Porcher, Christophe Schalck and Stephan Silvestre

Exploring Theil's best linear indexes pp. 462-465

Eric Blankmeyer

Public sector unions and government size pp. 466-470

Michael Marlow

The role of heterogeneous expectations in forward exchange market pp. 471-475

Xiaoping Li, Chunyang Zhou and Chongfeng Wu

Real interest rate parity in OECD countries: new evidence from time series and panel cointegration techniques pp. 476-479

George Magonis and Andreas Tsopanakis

Constructing confidence bands for the Hodrick--Prescott filter pp. 480-484

David Giles

Was there an option-listing effect for the IRX options? pp. 485-488

E. Benrud

Currency crises, uncertain fundamentals and private-sector forecasts pp. 489-494

Jan-Christoph Rülke and Christian Pierdzioch

Do female/male distinctions in language matter? Evidence from gender political quotas pp. 495-498

Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, Amir Shoham and Victor Gay

Do the US trends drive the UK--French market linkages?: empirical evidence from a threshold intraday analysis pp. 499-503

Fredj Jawadi, Waël Louhichi and Hachmi Ben Ameur

Market entry and economic diplomacy pp. 504-507

Harold Creusen and Arjan Lejour

Salience and taxation: salience effect versus information effect pp. 508-510

Yuqing Zheng, Edward W. McLaughlin and Harry Kaiser

Volume 20, issue 4, 2013

Top income shares and crime pp. 309-315

Michał Brzeziński

On the correspondence between data revision and trend-cycle decomposition pp. 316-319

Mardi Dungey, Jan Jacobs, Jing Tian and Simon van Norden

Trade in pollutive industries and the stringency of environmental regulations pp. 320-323

Matthias Busse and Magdalene Silberberger

Practical modified Gini index pp. 324-327

Miki Malul, Daniel Shapira and Amir Shoham

How to measure the progressivity of an income component pp. 328-331

Rodolfo Hoffmann

Multiple Nash equilibria in tariff games pp. 332-342

Hui Huang, John Whalley and Shunming Zhang

Contribution of oil in economic growth of Saudi Arabia pp. 343-348

Khalid A. Alkhathlan

The impact of ICT on productivity of Italian firms: evaluation of the micro-complementarity hypothesis pp. 349-352

Cristiana Donati and Domenico Sarno

Just passing through: the effect of the Master Settlement Agreement on estimated cigarette tax price pass-through pp. 353-357

Dean R. Lillard and Andrew Sfekas

Consumer behaviour analysis for luxury goods: a technical note for empirical studies pp. 358-363

Ignacio Moral-Arce, Stefan Sperlich and Juan M. Rodriguez-Póo

Corporate governance and subjective well-being pp. 364-367

M. Çule and M. E. Fulton

Which economic freedoms influence per capita real income? pp. 368-372

Richard Cebula

A consumer demand approach to estimating the education quality component of housing cost pp. 373-376

Sofia Andreou and Nicoletta Pashourtidou

Slow growth and slow convergence in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 377-381

Bernard Malamud and Djeto Assane

Six comparisons of firm-level and product-level data pp. 382-385

Andrew Cassey and Katherine Schmeiser

A subgroup decomposition of the inequality change over time pp. 386-390

Mauro Mussini

On the application of cointegration analysis in enhanced indexing pp. 391-396

Nikolaos S. Thomaidis

Price discovery in commodity markets pp. 397-403

Massimo Peri, Lucia Baldi and Daniela Vandone

Dynamic linkages among cross-currency swap markets under stress pp. 404-409

Go Tamakoshi and Shigeyuki Hamori

Volume 20, issue 3, 2013

Optimal size of currency swap between central banks: evidence from China pp. 203-207

Jie Yang and Liyan Han

The impacts of air pollution on low birth weight pp. 208-212

Seonyeong Cho, Chung-Ki Lee and Beomsoo Kim

Financing policy, executive stock options and cash flow forecasts pp. 213-226

Yi-Mien Lin, Woody M. Liao and Yen-Yu Liu

Factors correlating with long-lasting banking crises: a special focus on crisis resolution policy measures pp. 227-232

Anichul Hoque Khan and Hasnat Dewan

Financial variables as leading indicators of GDP growth: Evidence from a MIDAS approach during the Great Recession pp. 233-237

Laurent Ferrara and Clément Marsilli

A note on the yen/dollar rate without foreign exchange intervention pp. 238-243

Takeshi Hoshikawa and Keiko Yamaguchi

Does health capital have differential effects on economic growth? pp. 244-249

Arusha Cooray

Foreign exchange reserves management in the presence of jump risk pp. 250-254

Dewei Zhang and Chunyang Zhou

’Til recession do us part: booms, busts and divorce in the United States pp. 255-261

Abdur Chowdhury

Volatility and mean spillovers between sovereign and banking sector CDS markets: a note on the European sovereign debt crisis pp. 262-266

Go Tamakoshi and Shigeyuki Hamori

The messenger of inflation -- how media change political competition pp. 267-271

Paulo Mourão

Your cheatin’ heart: joint production, joint consumption and the likelihood of extramarital sex pp. 272-275

Taggert Brooks and Kristen Monaco

The US gender gap through the Great Recession using an alternative approach to cyclicality pp. 276-281

Joseph Marchand and Sara Olfert

Energy consumption and economic growth in 12 Asian countries: panel data analysis pp. 282-287

Tsangyao Chang, Hsiao-Ping Chu and Wen-Yi Chen

A Monte Carlo comparison of panel unit root tests under factor structure pp. 288-291

J. H. Lin, Yi Hu, M. J. Wang and Xiao-Hua Xia

A wavelet transform analysis of the relationship between unexpected macroeconomic news and foreign exchange rates pp. 292-296

Show-Lin Chen, Ching-Chin Chou and Nen-Jing Chen

The uncertain unit root in GDP and CPI: a wavelet-based perspective pp. 297-299

Petre Caraiani

3G spectrum auction aftermarket network deployment pp. 300-303

Gary Madden and Hasnat Ahmad

Female parliamentarians and economic growth: evidence from a large panel pp. 304-307

Dinuk S. Jayasuriya and Paul Burke

Volume 20, issue 2, 2013

Trade openness and technical efficiency in Brazilian agriculture pp. 103-106

Dragan Miljkovic, Silvia H. Miranda and Saleem Shaik

On the forecast accuracy and consistency of exchange rate expectations: the Spanish PwC Survey pp. 107-110

Simon Sosvilla-Rivero and Mar�a del Carmen Ramos-Herrera

A comment on ‘Testing the validity of quasi-PPP hypothesis: evidence from a recent panel unit-root test with structural breaks’ pp. 111-113

Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària and M. Gómez-Zald�var

Determinants of per commercial and industrial customer electricity consumption in the United States for the period 2001 to 2005 pp. 114-118

Richard Cebula

Inference of the environmental Kuznets curve pp. 119-122

Kun Ho Kim

The drivers of labour income inequality -- an analysis based on Bayesian Model Averaging pp. 123-126

Isabell Koske and I. Wanner

What is more important, the outcome or the probability? pp. 127-130

Tal Shavit, Mosi Rosenboim and Yaniv Shani

US tax acts and their effects on average tax rates pp. 131-134

John Anderson

Do variable length moving average trading rules matter during a financial crisis period? pp. 135-141

Yen-Sen Ni, Jen-Tsai Lee and Yi-Ching Liao

How forward-looking are central banks? Some evidence from their forecasts pp. 142-146

Michal Brzoza-Brzezina, Jacek Kotłowski and Agata Miśkowiec

Bootstrap test for seasonal cointegrating ranks pp. 147-151

Byeongchan Seong

Oil shocks and the US terms of trade: gauging the role of the trade channel pp. 152-156

Alessandro Maravalle

Why some nascent entrepreneurs do not seek professional assistance pp. 157-161

Udo Brixy, Rolf Sternberg and Heiko Stüber

Knowledge spillovers and the growth of British cities pp. 162-166

Yener Altunbas, Edward Jones and John Thornton

The frequency and severity of operational losses: a cross-country comparison pp. 167-172

Imad Moosa and Larry Li

Reconstructing market reactions to consumption harms pp. 173-179

Michael McCullough, Thomas Marsh and R. Huffaker

The effect of animal gender on producer marketing behaviour pp. 180-185

Scott Fausti, Matthew Diersen, Bashir A. Qasmi, Jing Li and Brent Lange

FDI in ASEAN-8: Does institutional quality matter? pp. 186-189

Tajul Ariffin Masron and Eliza Nor

An empirical relationship between price elasticity and price levels pp. 190-193

Hongjai Rhee

NAV discount in REITs: the role of expert assessors pp. 194-198

Pierpaolo Pattitoni, Barbara Petracci and Massimo Spisni

Structural break between small and large firms' behaviour in trade credit and bank credit: evidence from India's retail sector pp. 199-202

Bidisha Lahiri and Xi Tian

Volume 20, issue 1, 2013

Measuring risk aversion among the urban poor in Kolkata, India pp. 1-9

Joseph Cook, Susmita Chatterjee, Dipika Sur and Dale Whittington

Note on the need for rules on misleading representation based on experimental evidence pp. 10-17

Koki Arai

How do mobile-voice operators compete? IVQR estimates pp. 18-22

Corrado Andini and Ricardo Cabral

Cost sharing of prescription drugs and demand for health-care utilization among seniors with rheumatoid arthritis pp. 23-27

X. Li and A. Anis

Is injury compensation inequitable? Evidence from road accidents victims in France pp. 28-33

Laurent Carnis, Nicolas Vaillant and Benoît Dervaux

Do fiscal rules matter for growth? pp. 34-40

Antonio Afonso and Joao Jalles

Oil prices and exchange rate volatility in Arab countries pp. 41-47

Gabriela Mundaca

Has political communication during the crisis impacted sovereign bond spreads in the euro area? pp. 48-61

Philipp Mohl and David Sondermann

Revisiting purchasing power parity for East Asian countries: sequential panel selection method pp. 62-66

Dongxiang Zhang, Tsangyao Chang, Chia-Hao Lee and Ken Hung

Unemployment persistence: not only stigma but discouragement too pp. 67-71

Sara Ayllón

Fuel price transmission mechanisms in Portugal pp. 72-75

Francisco José Silva, Maria Batista and Nelson Elias

A hedonic approach to testing for indirect network effects in the LCD television market pp. 76-79

Jeffrey Livingston, David Ortmeyer and Patrick Scholten

Tobacco control and obesity: evidence from a cross section of countries pp. 80-83

Craig Gallet

Does fiscal decentralization result in a better business climate? pp. 84-91

Russell Sobel, Nabamita Dutta and Sanjukta Roy

Home production and the welfare cost of labour supply tax distortions pp. 92-95

John Whalley and Kai Zhao

The easiest way to estimate the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition pp. 96-101

Liliane Bonnal, Rachid Boumahdi and Pascal Favard