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Volume 19, issue 18, 2012

Exchange-rate forecasts and asymmetric loss: empirical evidence for the yen/dollar exchange rate pp. 1759-1763

Christian Pierdzioch, Jan-Christoph Rülke and Georg Stadtmann

Health policy and horizontal inequities of health-care utilization in Australia: 1983--2005 pp. 1765-1775

Mohammad Hajizadeh, Luke Connelly and James Robert Gerard Butler

Does inflation targeting matter for PPP? An empirical investigation pp. 1777-1780

Hui Ding and Jaebeom Kim

Purchasing power parity -- nonlinear threshold unit root test for transition countries pp. 1781-1785

Siyue Liu, Dongxiang Zhang and Tsangyao Chang

Transformation of payment systems: the case of European Union enlargement pp. 1787-1791

Francisco Callado-Muñoz, Jana Hromcová and Natalia Utrero-González

The political economy of tobacco control spending pp. 1793-1797

Adam Hoffer and Adam Pellillo

A spatial cost of living index for Colombia using a microeconomic approach and censored data pp. 1799-1805

Laura H. Atuesta and Dusan Paredes

Soaring food prices and food security: Does the income effect matter? pp. 1807-1811

Pradeepa Malkanthi Korale-Gedara, Shyama Ratnasiri and Jayatilleke Bandara

Are taxes sufficient for CAPM rejection? pp. 1813-1816

Hans Marius Eikseth and Snorre Lindset

Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of environmental taxes pp. 1817-1820

Bruce Morley

Fiscal volatility, financial crises and growth pp. 1821-1826

Antonio Afonso and Joao Jalles

Trading directions and the pricing of Euro interbank deposits in the long run pp. 1827-1839

Massimiliano Marzo and Paolo Zagaglia

The impact of foreign participation on stock prices in the United States pp. 1841-1845

Shakil Quayes, Abu Jamal and Tanweer Hasan

Trade, tariffs and terrorism pp. 1847-1849

Peter Berck and Jonathan Lipow

PPP and nonlinearity of real exchange rates: new evidence from transition economies pp. 1851-1855

Jani Bekő, Alenka Kavkler and Darja Boršič

Affirmative action retrenchment in public procurement and contracting pp. 1857-1860

Rodrigo Lovaton Davila, Inhyuck “Steve” Ha and Samuel L. Myers

Revealing taste-based discrimination in hiring: a correspondence testing experiment with geographic variation pp. 1861-1864

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

Measuring economic conditions: an extension of the Stock/Watson methodology pp. 1865-1869

Edinaldo Tebaldi and Logan Kelly

Country of origin advertising and US demand of imported wine: an empirical analysis pp. 1871-1877

Abdoul G. Sam and Stanley Thompson

Analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and the impact of family structure on children's well-being in the United States pp. 1879-1883

Shishu Zhang and Gregory J. Soukup

Decentralization and corruption: evidence from primary health-care programmes pp. 1885-1888

Sandro Garcia Duarte Peixoto, Fabiana Fontes Rocha, Marislei Nishijima and Fernando Antonio Postali

Efficiency of internal capital market under a controlling-minority-shareholder structure pp. 1889-1892

Daehwan Kim and Taeyoon Sung

Uncertainty and international return migration: some evidence from linked register data pp. 1893-1897

Jan Saarela and Dan-Olof Rooth

Between the penthouse and the outhouse: the sorting of economics professors pp. 1899-1902

Tim Perri

Economic growth and openness in Africa: What is the empirical relationship? pp. 1903-1907

Ching-Cheng Chang and Michael Mendy

Nonexpected discrimination: the case of social housing in France pp. 1909-1916

Liliane Bonnal, Rachid Boumahdi and Pascal Favard

A retrospective analysis of financial research by worldwide central banks and international monetary organizations pp. 1917-1922

Kam C. Chan, Chih-Hsiang Chang and Yining Chen

Education--job match among recent Canadian university graduates pp. 1923-1926

Brahim Boudarbat and Victor Chernoff

Determinants of homestead claims and the expansion of Western settlement pp. 1927-1932

Randy McFerrin, Stephen Norman and Douglas Wills

Linear and nonlinear financial time series: evidence in a sample of pension funds in Spain and the United Kingdom pp. 1933-1937

Mercedes Alda and Luis Ferruz

Study design's influence on empirical findings in economic education pp. 1939-1942

Marianne Johnson, Denise Robson and Sarinda Taengnoi

Volume 19, issue 16, 2012

PPP in Central and Eastern European economies: further evidence from panel unit root tests pp. 1543-1548

Alenka Kavkler, Darja Boršič and Jani Bekő

Volume 19, issue 15, 2012

How do banking crises impact on income inequality? pp. 1425-1429

Luca Agnello and Ricardo Sousa

An alternative method to estimate income variance in cross-sectional data pp. 1431-1436

Hiroki Uematsu, Ashok Kumar Mishra and Rebekah Rachel Powell

Movies and holidays: the empirical relationship between movies and tourism pp. 1437-1440

Heather Mitchell and Mark Fergusson Stewart

Can L-moments beat central moments in modelling risk? An empirical analysis pp. 1441-1447

Xiao Qin

The Taylor rule and house price uncertainty pp. 1449-1453

Bruce Morley and Qijia Wei

Workplace self-selection into Investors in People pp. 1455-1458

Bruce Rayton and Konstantinos Georgiadis

The Gramm--Leach--Bliley Act: optimal interest margin effects of commercial bank expansion into insurance underwriting pp. 1459-1463

Jyh-Horng Lin, Jeng-Yan Tsai and Paichou Huang

Early warning indicator for financial crashes using the log periodic power law pp. 1465-1469

Jeong-Ryeol Kurz-Kim

Skill mismatches and wages among European university graduates pp. 1471-1475

Elena Bárcena-Mart�n, Santiago Budr�a and Ana Moro-Egido

Estimating the extent of cross-border lottery shopping: evidence from South Carolina pp. 1477-1481

Linda S. Ghent and Alan P. Grant

Panel cointegration analysis of co-movement between interest rate swap and treasury markets pp. 1483-1486

Yuki Toyoshima and Shigeyuki Hamori

Does the effectiveness of tax incentives on the decision to give charitable donations vary across donation sectors in Canada? pp. 1487-1491

Belayet Hossain and Laura Lamb

A Gourmet's delight: CAViaR and the Australian stock market pp. 1493-1498

David Allen, A. K. Singh and Robert Powell

US residential electricity consumption: the effect of states' pursuit of energy efficiency policies pp. 1499-1503

Richard Cebula

Output sensitivity of monetary policy and macroeconomic performance pp. 1505-1509

Michael Berlemann and Kai Hielscher

A simple way to capture currency abroad pp. 1511-1514

Nikolaus Bartzsch, Gerhard Rösl and Franz Seitz

Multinational presence and the export participation of local firms in Ghana pp. 1515-1519

Hasan Faruq

Foreign direct investment, labour unionization and income inequality of Korea pp. 1521-1524

Jai S. Mah

Estimates of the long-run growth rate of Singapore with a CES production function pp. 1525-1530

Sriram Shankar and B. Rao

Real interest rate parity in East Asian countries based on China with nonlinear threshold unit-root test pp. 1531-1536

Chi-Wei Su, Pei-Long Shen, Hsu-Ling Chang and Lin Liu

Volume 19, issue 14, 2012

Sectoral leadership in international competitiveness: the Portuguese case pp. 1319-1330

Elsa Vaz

A factorial decomposition of inflation in Peru: an alternative measure of core inflation pp. 1331-1334

Alberto Humala and Gabriel Rodr�guez

Is there a better measure of self-assessed disability? pp. 1335-1338

Umut Oguzoglu

Measuring the persistence in trade patterns: the case for Turkey pp. 1339-1348

Guzin Erlat and Haluk Erlat

Lawyers and legal disputes. Evidence from Italy pp. 1349-1352

Elena D'Agostino, Emiliano Sironi and Giuseppe Sobbrio

Alcohol consumption by individuals in the United States: a sample selection approach pp. 1353-1358

Yan Yuan and Steven T. Yen

The market reaction to changes in the Brazilian official interest rate pp. 1359-1364

Anna Buchholz, César Cupertino, Roberto Meurer, Andre Santos and Newton Da Costa

Inequality factor decomposition under uniform additions property with applications to Cameroonian rural data pp. 1365-1371

Célestin Nembua

Estimation of the effects of price and billing frequency on household water demand using a panel of Wisconsin municipalities pp. 1373-1380

Steven Andrew Fenrick and Lullit Getachew

A method to overcome the numerical difficulties in PIN estimation pp. 1381-1384

Jinfeng Ma and Shancun Liu

On the relationship between concentration and competition: evidence from the Chilean private pension system pp. 1385-1389

Jean Sepulveda

A comparison of equilibrium under alternative monetary policy rules pp. 1391-1399

Ali K. Malik

Inter-board pay differentials for directors with multiple appointments pp. 1401-1404

Kathleen Farrell and Philip L. Hersch

Would liberalization lead to epidemic cocaine consumption? pp. 1405-1409

Norman Loayza and Naotaka Sugawara

Inflation in weekend box office estimates pp. 1411-1415

Neil Malhotra and Edmund Helmer

Weak instruments in estimating business cycle effects on banks' interest income pp. 1417-1420

Moritz Hahn and Edward O'Brien

Cost-effective hiring in US high schools: estimating optimal teacher quantity and quality decisions pp. 1421-1424

Gregory A. Gilpin and Anton Bekkerman

Volume 19, issue 13, 2012

Analysis of cyclical behaviour of investment expenditures for the Turkish economy pp. 1213-1221

Evren Erdoğan Coşar

Momentum profitability: the pre-CRSP evidence pp. 1223-1226

Xiuqing Ji

An application of the Ricardian trade model with trade costs pp. 1227-1230

Andrew Cassey

Impact of socio-economic factors and social affiliation on living standards: a quantile regression approach pp. 1231-1236

Renuka Mahadevan and Sandy Suardi

The bank lending channel in Turkey: has it changed after the low-inflation regime? pp. 1237-1242

Nazif Catik and Mehmet Karacuka

Patients' perceptions and treatment effectiveness: a reassessment using generalized maximum entropy pp. 1243-1248

Sean M. Murphy, Dan L. Friesner and Robert Rosenman

European stock market comovement dynamics during some major financial market turmoils in the period 1997 to 2010 -- a comparative DCC-GARCH and wavelet correlation analysis pp. 1249-1256

Silvo Dajcman, Mejra Festic and Alenka Kavkler

Are central bank projections rational? pp. 1257-1263

Jan-Christoph Rülke

Testing dependence using copulas: the case of dual employment pp. 1265-1269

Jeremy Michael D'Antoni and Ashok Kumar Mishra

The structure of social networks and labour market success pp. 1271-1274

Adalbert Mayer

A financial sophistication proxy for the Survey of Consumer Finances pp. 1275-1278

Sandra J. Huston, Michael Finke and Hyrum Smith

Decomposing temporal changes in covariate contributions to wage inequality pp. 1279-1283

Lawrence Dacuycuy and Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy

Deforestation, economic growth and corruption: a nonparametric analysis on the case of Amazon forest pp. 1285-1291

Cassandro Maria Mendes and Sabino Porto Junior

The male--female pay gap across the managerial workforce in the United Kingdom: a semi-parametric decomposition approach pp. 1293-1297

Sergio Scicchitano

Statistical evidence on the mean reversion of real interest rates: SPSM using the Panel KSS test with a Fourier function pp. 1299-1304

Chih-Kai Chang and Tsangyao Chang

A monetary approach to the exchange market pressure index under capital control pp. 1305-1309

Jie Li

On a class of bi-polarization variance-based measurement: evidence from Cameroonian data pp. 1311-1317

Célestin Nembua

Volume 19, issue 12, 2012

Macroeconomic conditions and technical trading profitability in foreign exchange markets pp. 1107-1110

Ann Owen and Brent Palmer

Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity with flexible Fourier function in G-7 countries pp. 1111-1116

Tsangyao Chang, Chi-Wei Su and Chia-Hao Lee

Further examples of the impact of skewness on the expected utility of a risk-averse agent pp. 1117-1121

David Peel

Can the PPP stand on the BRICS? The ADL test for threshold cointegration pp. 1123-1127

Tsangyao Chang, Chia-Hao Lee and Ken Hung

Reporting heterogeneity in health: an extended latent class approach pp. 1129-1133

Valentino Dardanoni and Paolo Li Donni

The economics of terrorism against two targets pp. 1135-1138

Kjell Hausken

Gamblers hate inequality: evidence from China pp. 1139-1142

Roland Cheo

Comparing business R&D across countries over time: a decomposition exercise using data for the EU 27 pp. 1143-1148

Andreas Reinstaller and Fabian Unterlass

Do derivatives affect the use of external financing? pp. 1149-1152

Peter J. DaDalt, Bing-Xuan Lin and Chen-Miao Lin

A note on the determinants of substance abuse spending pp. 1153-1156

Craig A. Gallet

What drives regional differences in the stock market wealth effect in China? pp. 1157-1160

Wenfeng Wu, Chongfeng Wu and Oliver Rui

Who cancels in electronic markets? pp. 1161-1164

Ryan Garvey and Fei Wu

How free do people feel to express their opinions? A study in urban China pp. 1165-1169

Wenkai Sun, Xianghong Wang and Yean Zhou

Tort reform and caesarean deliveries pp. 1171-1174

Alfredo G. Esposto

Religion and education: recent evidence from the United States pp. 1175-1178

Michael Kortt, Brian Dollery and Simon Pervan

On the choice of the unit period in time series models pp. 1179-1182

Peter Fuleky

Smuggling illegal goods across the US--Mexico border: a political-economy perspective pp. 1183-1187

Andreas Buehn and Stefan Eichler

The effects of privatization on the capital structure of Brazilian firms pp. 1189-1192

Cinthia Barbosa, Cristiano Costa and Bruno Funchal

The Bank of Korea's nonlinear monetary policy rule pp. 1193-1202

Jahyun Koo, Ivan Paya and David Peel

Competition law and profits: a dynamic panel data analysis for Dutch manufacturing firms pp. 1203-1206

Fatih Cemil Ozbugday and Erik Brouwer

The change in the CD rate--target federal funds rate linkage during the financial crisis pp. 1207-1211

Bob J. Barnes

Volume 19, issue 11, 2012

The price of efficiency: examining the effects of payroll efficiency on Major League Baseball attendance pp. 1007-1015

Colin Santos Regan

Optimal dynamics of technology and price in a duopoly market pp. 1017-1022

Bowon Kim, Fouad El Ouardighi and Sangsun Park

Estimation of a fractionally cointegrated demand system: evidence from the Japanese expenditure data pp. 1023-1028

Manami Ogura

And action: TV sentiment and the US consumer pp. 1029-1034

Matthias Uhl

The era of the 24-hour society?: assessing changes in work timing using a Japanese time use survey pp. 1035-1038

Sachiko Kuroda and Isamu Yamamoto

Unemployment and labour force participation in Japan pp. 1039-1043

Makoto Kakinaka and Hiroaki Miyamoto

University patenting and knowledge spillover in Japan: panel-data analysis with citation data pp. 1045-1049

Kozo Otsuka

Searching for the picture: forecasting UK cinema admissions using Google Trends data pp. 1051-1055

Chris Hand and Guy Judge

Gender and confidence: are women underconfident? pp. 1057-1059

Niklas Jakobsson

Size properties of Lagrange Multiplier cointegration tests in the presence of structural breaks pp. 1061-1064

Pui Sun Tam

Threshold effects in the relationships between USD and gold futures by panel smooth transition approach pp. 1065-1070

Wo-Chiang Lee and Hui-Na Lin

Fiscal adjustment in Greece under the financial rescue programme: the distributional effects on Greek households pp. 1071-1074

Naotaka Sugawara

The Boulogne fish market: the social structure and the role of loyalty pp. 1075-1079

Pasquale Cirillo, Gabriele Tedeschi and Mauro Gallegati

Testing rationality of foreign exchange forecasts under flexible loss: survey evidence from Brazil pp. 1081-1084

Hamid Baghestani and Cassia Marchon

Wealth-to-income ratio, government bond yields and financial stress in the Euro Area pp. 1085-1088

Ricardo Sousa

Why do speculative bubbles gather steam? Some international evidence pp. 1089-1093

Renatas Kizys and Christian Pierdzioch

Grade surprise and the decision to stay on into post-compulsory education pp. 1095-1099

Don Webber

A comment on survival of the hippest: life at the top of the hot 100 pp. 1101-1105

Seo Bin Hong

Volume 19, issue 10, 2012

Happiness and parental altruism in the United States pp. 901-904

Pınar Derin-Gure

The weak-form efficiency of Asian stock markets: new evidence from generalized spectral martingale test pp. 905-908

Kian-Ping Lim and Weiwei Luo

Does it pay to work in the public sector in Turkey? pp. 909-913

Alisher Akhmedjonov and Berna Izgi

The impact of education on household income and expenditure inequality pp. 915-919

Nuno Alves

How frequently do consumer prices change in transition countries? pp. 921-928

Jacek Wallusch

How does yield curve predict GDP growth? A macro-finance approach revisited pp. 929-933

Junko Koeda

The underdog should always fire the first salvo against Brazil pp. 935-938

Liam Lenten

Regional deposits and demographic changes pp. 939-942

Jun Nagayasu

Religion and the rate of return to human capital: evidence from Australia pp. 943-946

Michael Kortt and Brian Dollery

A note on bank bailout: equity quality and direct equity injections pp. 947-951

Jyh-Horng Lin, Chuen-Ping Chang and Wei-Ming Hung

Time-varying long-range dependence in stock market returns and financial market disruptions -- a case of eight European countries pp. 953-957

Silvo Dajcman

Partisan privatizations: assessing the ideological bias pp. 959-963

Filippo Belloc and Antonio Nicita

Scale economies and trade pp. 965-968

Don Clark

Monetary policy and oil price expectations pp. 969-973

Dirk Bleich, Ralf Fendel and Jan-Christoph Rülke

Purchasing power parity nonlinear threshold unit root test for East-Asian countries pp. 975-979

Tsangyao Chang, Chi-Wei Su and Chia-Hao Lee

Assessing the predictive power of labour-market indicators of inflation pp. 981-985

Farrokh Nourzad

Interpreting the outcomes of two-part models pp. 987-992

Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance

The possibility of mineral deposit exploitation control with Bellman's optimality principle use -- a Polkowice--Sieroszowice copper mine case study pp. 993-999

Mariusz Krzak and Paweł Panajew

A study on the urban competitiveness of two-straits pp. 1001-1005

Chun Liu, Li-Min Chuang and Chien-Min Huang

Volume 19, issue 9, 2012

Examining the role of risk aversion in calculating the welfare cost of consumption fluctuations pp. 801-806

Chun-Yu Ho, Wai-Yip Alex Ho and Dan Li

Measuring productivity in the biotechnology industry using the global Malmquist index pp. 807-812

Chun-Hsien Wang, Jun-Yen Lee and Yi-Hua Chang

Aggregation bias in stochastic frontier models employing region-level data: an empirical analysis with Korean manufacturing data pp. 813-821

Hyungna Oh

Modelling a stochastic profit system using gauge function pp. 823-827

Yongseung Han

Marriage, fertility and the selection of women into high-skill industries pp. 829-834

James Bang and Bharati Basu

Whither human capital? The woeful tale of transition to tertiary education in India pp. 835-838

Manisha Chakrabarty and Sumon Bhaumik

Purchasing power parity with nonlinear threshold unit root test pp. 839-842

Tsangyao Chang, Chi-Wei Su and Yu-Shao Liu

Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity in China pp. 843-848

Tsangyao Chang

Are young SMEs' survival determinants different? Empirical evidence using panel data pp. 849-855

Paulo Maças Nunes and Zelia Serrasqueiro

Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity in Latin American countries: the ADL test for threshold cointegration pp. 857-862

Guochen Pan, Tsangyao Chang, D.P. Tang and Chia-Hao Lee

Private consumption and sector price behaviour in the Spanish economy: a business cycle approach pp. 863-868

Jos� Mar�a Mart�n-Moreno, Rafaela P�rez and Jesús Ru�z

A simple decomposition of the variance of output growth across countries pp. 869-872

Claire Reicher

A capital mistake? The neglected effect of immigration on average wages pp. 873-876

Declan Trott

Revisiting purchasing power parity for 18 African countries: sequential panel selection method pp. 877-881

Guochen Pan, Tsangyao Chang, Chia-Hao Lee and Wen-Chi Liu

Experience, social pressure and performance: the case of soccer officials pp. 883-886

Peter Dawson

The effect of quasi-hyperbolic discounting on rural land conversion timing pp. 887-890

Matthew Salois

On maintaining the power of the Kapetanios--Snell--Shin (KSS) test under uncertain initial conditions pp. 891-896

Jen-Je Su and Duc-Tho Nguyen

A simple in-sample test of futures market efficiency based on rolling regressions pp. 897-900

Jason Stevens

Volume 19, issue 8, 2012

Stochastic optimal hedge ratio: theory and evidence pp. 699-703

Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Youssef El-Khatib

A panel data approach to the demand for money in Bulgaria and Romania pp. 705-710

Melina Dritsaki and Chaido Dritsaki

Internet and the ‘Long Tail versus superstar effect’ debate: evidence from the French book market pp. 711-715

St�phanie Peltier and François Moreau

‘The best defence…’ or optimal offence/defence spending ratios in the NFL pp. 717-720

M Kevin McGee, Lee Van Scyoc and Nancy J. Burnett

Differential impact of microfinance delivery mechanism on vulnerability pp. 721-724

Ranjula Bali Swain

A simple model of two-country bargaining for financial integration pp. 725-728

Xinhua Gu and Baomin Dong

Dirty versus ecological technology in an endogenous growth model pp. 729-733

Mónica Meireles, Isabel Soares and Oscar Afonso

Financial integration and international transmission of business cycles: evidence from dynamic correlations pp. 735-738

Georgiana Nicoleta Rosoi

Are hedge fund clones attractive financial products for investors? pp. 739-743

Fredj Jawadi and Sabrina Khanniche

Choosing to give more: experimental evidence on restricted gifts and charitable behaviour pp. 745-748

Sara Helms, Brian L. Scott and Jeremy Thornton

The clustering of FDI in India: the importance of peer effects pp. 749-753

Peter Nunnenkamp and Megha Mukim

Mutual fund performance: banking versus independent managers pp. 755-758

Juan Carlos Matallin-Saez, Amparo Soler-Dominguez and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Nature and nurture: the relation between number of siblings and earnings pp. 759-762

Elina Lampi and Katarina Nordblom

Pandora's groove: analysing the effect of the U-groove ban on PGA Tour golfers' performances and strategies pp. 763-768

Todd A. McFall and Julianne Treme

Have firms with better corporate governance fared better during the recent financial crisis in Russia? pp. 769-773

Farrukh Suvankulov and Fatma Ogucu

Competition law, networks and innovation pp. 775-778

Fatih Cemil Ozbugday and Erik Brouwer

Estimating impact of infrastructure on productivity and efficiency of Indian manufacturing pp. 779-783

Arup Mitra, Chandan Sharma and Marie-Ange V�ganzonès-Varoudakis

Wheat market integration between Hungary and Germany pp. 785-788

Zoltán Bakucs, Bernhard Brümmer, Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel and Imre Fertő

Health-impaired employees' job satisfaction: new evidence from Athens, Greece pp. 789-793

Nick Drydakis

Trade restriction indices and US trade policy pp. 795-799

William Hauk

Volume 19, issue 7, 2012

The effects of countercyclical capital buffers on bank lending pp. 603-608

Mathias Drehmann and Leonardo Gambacorta

Are firms on the right page with Chapter 11? An analysis of firm choices that contribute to post-bankruptcy survival pp. 609-613

Vicki L. Bogan and Chad M. Sandler

The relatives are fine: use of qualitative firm data in economic analysis pp. 615-618

Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes and Philip Stevens

Wealth-to-income ratio and stock returns: evidence from the Euro Area pp. 619-622

Ricardo Sousa

A note on selling distressed loans with bank bailouts: modelling of bank interest margins with default probabilities pp. 623-627

Jyh-Horng Lin, Jyh-Jiuan Lin and Ching-Hui Chang

Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity in transition countries: the ADL test for threshold cointegration pp. 629-633

Yang-Cheng Ralph Lu, Tsangyao Chang and Chia-Hao Lee

The dynamics of Italian public debt: alternative paths for fiscal consolidation pp. 635-639

Paolo Casadio, Antonio Paradiso and B. Rao

Australian migration policy change: selecting winners and making losers pp. 641-644

Weiping Kostenko

The effect of social trust on achievement test performance of students in Japan pp. 645-648

Eiji Yamamura

How do housing wealth effects vary with age? pp. 649-652

Elwin Tobing

Occupational mobility and the change in the occupational structure in Britain and Germany, 1993--2008 pp. 653-656

Thomas Rhein and Parvati Trübswetter

Inducing risk preferences in economics experiments pp. 657-660

Ian Dobbs and Anthony D. Miller

The optimal call policy for convertible bonds: Is there a market memory effect? pp. 661-664

Chris Veld and Yuriy Zabolotnyuk

Endogenous discount rate and elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption pp. 665-669

Giuseppe Di Vita

Beyond reasonable doubt: multiple tail risk measures applied to European industries pp. 671-676

David Allen, Robert Powell and Abhay Kumar Singh

A simple approach to balancing government budgets over the business cycle pp. 677-681

Erick Elder and Gary A. Wagner

A monthly consumption indicator for Germany based on Internet search query data pp. 683-687

Simeon Vosen and Torsten Schmidt

Labour productivity and compensation of employees in Europe pp. 689-693

Daniel Fuentes-Castro

How significant is the role of reallocation to long-term growth? pp. 695-698

Shu-Shiuan Lu

Volume 19, issue 6, 2012

Physical attractiveness, employment and earnings pp. 505-510

Christian Pfeifer

Generalized safety first and the planting of crops pp. 511-515

M. Ryan Haley

Union wages, strikes and profits pp. 517-520

Stephen Blumenfeld and Andres G. Victorio

CHF strength and Swiss export performance -- evidence and outlook from a disaggregate analysis pp. 521-531

Raphael Auer and Philip Saur�

Inequality and the new human development index pp. 533-535

Ricardo Mart�nez

Further evidence from ex-dividend days pp. 537-540

Rakesh Bali and Jack C. Francis

The effectiveness of the order-splitting strategy: an analysis of unique data pp. 541-549

Doojin Ryu

Foreign ownership, sales to multinationals and firm efficiency: the case of Brazil, Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa and Vietnam pp. 551-555

Tidiane Kinda

Forecasts and implications of the current housing crisis: switching regimes in a threshold framework pp. 557-568

MeiChi Huang

Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity: the ADL test for threshold cointegration pp. 569-573

Siyue Liu, Tsangyao Chang, Chia-Hao Lee and Pei-I Chou

Purchasing power parity with nonlinear and asymmetric smooth adjustment pp. 575-578

Tsangyao Chang, Chi-Wei Su and Yu-Shao Liu

A Bayesian spatial probit estimation of Free Trade Agreement contagion pp. 579-583

Dany Jaimovich

Is culture a determinant of financial development? pp. 585-590

Nabamita Dutta and Deepraj Mukherjee

Exploiting trends in the foreign exchange markets pp. 591-597

Adrián Fernández-P�rez, Fernando Fernández-Rodr�guez and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Portuguese football league efficiency and players' wages pp. 599-602

António S. Ribeiro and Francisco Lima

Volume 19, issue 5, 2012

Log-normal approximation of the equity premium in the production model pp. 407-412

Burkhard Heer and Alfred Maussner

Time-varying expected returns: evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom pp. 413-416

Ricardo Sousa

Income convergence within ASEAN, ASEAN+3: a panel unit root approach pp. 417-423

Mu Shun Wang

New evidence on the convergence of international income from a group of 29 countries pp. 425-429

Mauro Costantini and Amit Sen

Fractional cointegration in US term spreads pp. 431-434

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

Government bond yields and foreign ownership of debt pp. 435-438

Menno Broos and Jakob de Haan

A noncompensatory choice experiment analysis of Japanese consumers' purchase preferences for beef pp. 439-444

Hideo Aizaki, Manabu Sawada, Kazuo Sato and Toshiko Kikkawa

Effective schools do exist: low-income children's academic performance in Chile pp. 445-451

Francisco Henr�quez, Bernardo Lara E., Alejandra Mizala and Andrea Repetto

The determinants of mobile subscriber retention in Sweden pp. 453-457

Pratompong Srinuan, Erik Bohlin and Gary Madden

Modelling waiting times in the Italian National Health Service pp. 459-465

Monica Auteri and Antonello Maruotti

Classic performance indexes revisited: axiomatic and applications pp. 467-470

Fernando Gómez-Bezares and Fernando R. Gómez-Bezares

How has the financial crisis affected the fiscal convergence of Central and Eastern Europe to the Eurozone? pp. 471-476

Astrid Ayala and Szabolcs Blazsek

Interchangeability of the median operator with the present value operator pp. 477-481

Gary R. Skoog and James E. Ciecka

An interrelation of time preference and risk attitude: an application to the equity premium puzzle pp. 483-486

Jangkoo Kang and Hwa-Sung Kim

Purchasing power parity with nonlinear and asymmetric smooth adjustment for the Middle Eastern countries pp. 487-491

Tsangyao Chang, Yu-Shao Liu and Chi-Wei Su

Detecting trends in the foreign exchange markets pp. 493-503

Adrián Fernández-P�rez, Fernando Fernández-Rodr�guez and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Volume 19, issue 4, 2012

The nonlinear relationship between autocorrelation and volatility: the case of the Asian financial crisis pp. 305-311

Chiao-Yi Chang and Fu-Shuen Shie

A predictive model of the freight rate of the international market in Capesize dry bulk carriers pp. 313-317

Ching-Chih Chang, Chin-Yuan Hsieh and Yung-Chih Lin

The consequences on job satisfaction of job--worker educational and skill mismatches in the Spanish labour market: a panel analysis pp. 319-324

Lourdes Badillo Amador, Ángel López Nicolás and Luis E. Vila

Thinking about it: a note on attention and well-being losses from unemployment pp. 325-328

Paul Dolan and Nattavudh Powdthavee

Who has more influence on Asian stock markets around the subprime mortgage crisis -- the US or China? pp. 329-335

Chien-Chung Nieh, Chao-Hsiang Yang and Yu-Sheng Kao

The inter-industrial linkage of maritime sector in Taiwan: an input--output analysis pp. 337-343

Rong-Her Chiu and Yu-Chang Lin

Investor sentiment in the Chinese stock market: an empirical analysis pp. 345-348

Lixu Chi, Xintian Zhuang and Dalei Song

Do commuters suffer from job--education mismatch? pp. 349-352

Peter Huber

Exploring stationarity and structural breaks in commodity prices by the panel data model pp. 353-361

Chao-Hsiang Yang, Chi-Tai Lin and Yu-Sheng Kao

Fear sentiments and gold price: testing causality in-mean and in-variance pp. 363-366

Mahmod Qadan and Joseph Yagil

A Lotka--Volterra evolutionary model of China's incremental institutional reform pp. 367-371

Yongjing Zhang

Examining the power of stochastic unit root tests without assuming independence in the error processes of the underlying time series pp. 373-377

Jen-Je Su and Eduardo Roca

The euro changeover and price adjustments in Italy pp. 379-382

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Alessandro Girardi and Marco Ventura

Effects of unusual R&D expenditures on stock returns -- evidences from the listed companies in Taiwan pp. 383-386

Jian-Fa Li, Yih-Bey Lin and Cheng-Yih Hong

The Volcker--Greenspan--Bernanke Phillips Curve pp. 387-391

Sandeep Mazumder

FDIs in life cycle stages: firm-level evidence from Taiwan pp. 393-397

Szu-Hsien Lin, You-Jie Chen, Tz-Li Wang and Ya-Chiu Angela Liu

Current account imbalances, trade and finance pp. 399-402

Anna Lo Prete

Does age matter for employability? A field experiment on ageism in the Swedish labour market pp. 403-406

Ali M. Ahmed, Lina Andersson and Mats Hammarstedt

Volume 19, issue 3, 2012

Oil prices and their effect on potential output pp. 207-214

Angel Estrada and Pablo Hernández de Cos

Note on estimating effectiveness of demand management pp. 215-220

Joon-Mo Yang

Sunk costs of physical capital and the form of enterprise: investor-owned firms, consumer cooperatives and public enterprises pp. 221-225

Kazuhiko Mikami

An econometric approach to identify determinants of cooperation for innovation among firms pp. 227-235

Flávio Lenz-Cesar and Almas Heshmati

Are project appraisers chiromancers? pp. 237-241

Marco Percoco

Day-of-the-week effect on the return and conditional variance of the H-shares index in Hong Kong pp. 243-249

Hing Lin Chan and Kai-Yin Woo

The dynamics of sovereign credit default swap and bond markets: empirical evidence from the 2001 to 2007 period pp. 251-259

Rahmi Erdem Aktug, Geraldo Vasconcellos and Youngsoo Bae

Testing for the possibility of a monetary union in the ASEAN+3 countries: rationality and asymmetric loss functions pp. 261-268

Hyun-Jae Rhee

Ship investment at a standstill? An analysis of shipbuilding activities and policies pp. 269-275

Jane Jing Xu and Tsz Leung Yip

Incorporating undesirable outputs into Malmquist TFP indices with an unbalanced data panel of Chinese power plants pp. 277-283

Hongliang Yang and Michael Pollitt

Paying to punish on a free ride: member and nonmember punishments in voluntary coalitions pp. 285-288

David McEvoy

A reassessment of inequality and growth in the United States pp. 289-295

Ho-Chuan Huang and Chih-Chuan Yeh

The effects of exchange rate volatility on trade: evidence from Turkish agricultural trade pp. 297-303

Gülistan Erdal, Hilmi Erdal and Kemal Esengün

Volume 19, issue 2, 2012

Does insurance demand or financial development promote economic growth? Evidence from Taiwan pp. 105-111

Ming-Sun Horng, Yung-Wang Chang and Ting-Yi Wu

On the specification of the asset evolution equation in consumption models pp. 113-116

Samih Antoine Azar

Optimal leverage with a variable borrowing rate pp. 117-121

John McDonald

Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity in G-7 countries pp. 123-128

Tsangyao Chang, Chia-Hao Lee and Pei-I Chou

Sovereign credit default swaps and the macroeconomy pp. 129-132

Yang Liu and Bruce Morley

Investment under uncertainty and volatility estimation risk pp. 133-137

George Dotsis, Vasiliki Makropoulou and Raphael Markellos

Re-examining purchasing power parity for selected emerging markets and African countries pp. 139-144

Pelin Oge Guney, Erdinc Telatar and Mübariz Hasanov

Trust, institutions and development pp. 145-147

Biswo Poudel and Krishna Paudel

Yuan revaluation and its implications pp. 149-154

Won-Cheol Yun

Investment strategies of institutional investors: evidence from Dutch flow-of-funds data pp. 155-159

Leo de Haan and Jan Kakes

The sustainability of trade balances in sub-Saharan Africa: panel cointegration tests with cross-section dependence pp. 161-165

Yoshihiro Hashiguchi and Shigeyuki Hamori

Fiscal policy and the current account new evidence from four East Asian countries pp. 167-173

Hassan Mohammadi and Golaleh Moshrefi

On the evaluation of marginal expected shortfall pp. 175-179

Massimiliano Caporin and Paolo Santucci de Magistris

Some notes on applying the Herfindahl--Hirschman Index pp. 181-184

Akio Matsumoto, Ugo Merlone and Ferenc Szidarovszky

Estimating an inflation index by quantile regression pp. 185-187

Eric Blankmeyer

Corporate governance, stock options and earnings management pp. 189-196

Bo Sun

Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity for Germany's real exchange rate relative to its major trading partners pp. 197-202

Tsangyao Chang, Hsu-Ling Chang, Ken Hung and Chi-Wei Su

Biases in the distribution of bilateral aid: a regional decomposition analysis pp. 203-206

Matthew Salois

Volume 19, issue 1, 2012

Gender and ethnic discrimination in the rental housing market pp. 1-5

Ragnar Bengtsson, Ellis Iverman and Björn Tyrefors

The synchronization of GDP growth in the G7 during US recessions pp. 7-11

Nikolaos Antonakakis and Johann Scharler

Causality links between consumer and producer price inflation in South Africa pp. 13-18

Zerihun Gudeta Alemu

Purchasing power parity in major OPEC countries: flexible Fourier stationary test pp. 19-24

Chi-Wei Su, Yu-Shao Liu, Meng-Nan Zhu and Kuei-Chiu Lee

Regime shift of Japanese foreign exchange policy: some findings pp. 25-28

Takeshi Hoshikawa

An assessment of crop diversification in Bangladesh: a spatial analysis pp. 29-33

Nawshaba Islam and Motiur Rahman

Efficiency of Chinese enterprises: Does human resource management matter? pp. 35-39

Ying Chu Ng and Li-Qun Wei

The US term structure and central bank policy pp. 41-45

Enzo Weber and Juergen Wolters

An appropriate test of the Kuznets hypothesis pp. 47-51

Ho-Chuan Huang, Yi-Chen Lin and Chih-Chuan Yeh

Credit securitization decisions pp. 53-56

Camilo Sarmiento

An EBIT-based variant of the Duffie--Lando credit risk model pp. 57-60

Joseph Simonian

Testing for hysteresis in entrepreneurship in 23 OECD countries pp. 61-66

Simon Parker, Emilio Congregado and Antonio Golpe

Successive monopolies and product variety pp. 67-71

Brian J. Jacobsen

Efficiency of the top 50 business schools in the United States pp. 73-78

Yukiko Hirao

An empirical test of Lazear's leadership theory using evidence from Ghana pp. 79-82

Oliver Masakure

Breaking deterministics, test size and the efficient Wald test for fractional unit roots pp. 83-85

Peter Sephton

Are we getting closer to purchasing power parity in Central and Eastern European economies? pp. 87-91

Darja Boršič, Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah and Jani Bekő

Herd behaviour and underdogs in the NFL pp. 93-97

Sean Wever and David Aadland

The relationship between plan characteristics and Medicare Prescription Drug Plan bids pp. 99-104

Rui Dai and John Robst