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Volume 18, issue 18, 2011

Is there a software Kuznets curve? pp. 1723-1728

E. Panas and V. Ninni

FDI by early movers, followers and latecomers: timing of entry by German firms during transition in the Czech Republic pp. 1729-1734

Henning Mühlen and Peter Nunnenkamp

The performance of NASDAQ-listed UK ADRs: a note pp. 1735-1738

Mark Schaub

A self-reflective inverse demand system pp. 1739-1743

Kenneth Clements and Maxwell Maesepp

Current account, productivity and terms of trade shocks in Norway pp. 1745-1750

Cesar Sobrino

The existence and uniqueness of equilibrium in the international public good model pp. 1751-1754

Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi and Kenichi Suzuki

Testing the permanent income hypothesis using unit root quantile autoregression tests pp. 1755-1758

Fábio Gomes

A Monte Carlo study to compare two recent modifications of the KPSS test for near integration pp. 1759-1764

María-Isabel Ayuda and Antonio Aznar

On the probability of winning a lottery with a random number of competitors pp. 1765-1768

Seamus Hogan and Laura Meriluoto

Understanding the determinant factors of Internet business solutions adoption: the case of Portuguese firms pp. 1769-1775

Tiago Oliveira and Maria Fraga O. Martins

A generalization of a class of production functions pp. 1777-1784

Catalin Angelo Ioan and Gina Ioan

Partial coordination in local debt policies pp. 1785-1787

Junichi Nagami and Hikaru Ogawa

Incorporating water purification in efficiency evaluation: evidence from Japanese water utilities pp. 1789-1794

Theara Horn

Revisiting purchasing power parity for G-7 countries using nonparametric rank test for cointegration pp. 1795-1800

Tsangyao Chang, Kuei-Chiu Lee, Yang-Cheng Ralph Lu and Guochen Pan

Purchasing power parity with threshold effects for Central and Eastern European countries pp. 1801-1806

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

Purchasing power parity in Mainland China and Taiwan: an empirical note based on threshold unit root test pp. 1807-1812

Tsung-Hsien Chen, Tsangyao Chang, Yi-Chun Zhang and Chia-Hao Lee

Leisure and happiness in the United States: evidence from survey data pp. 1813-1816

Miao Wang and Man Chiu Sunny Wong

Testing the validity of quasi PPP hypothesis: evidence from a recent panel unit root test with structural breaks pp. 1817-1822

Bulent Guloglu, Serdar Ispira and Deniz Okat

Volume 18, issue 17, 2011

Identifying key elasticities in a CGE model: a Monte Carlo approach pp. 1619-1622

Antoine Belgodere and Charles Vellutini

Forecasting comparison between two nonlinear models: fuzzy regression versus SETAR pp. 1623-1627

Hui Feng

Human capital and innovation: evidence from panel cointegration tests pp. 1629-1632

Vladimir Teles and Renato Joiozo

International price dispersions of the Big Mac and economic integration pp. 1633-1638

Yukio Fukumoto

Do you have credit cards? The expansion of the credit card market in Taiwan pp. 1639-1644

Yun-Huan Lee and Ya-Li Huang

Estimating demand elasticities for intra-regional tourist arrivals to Hong Kong - the 'bounds' testing approach pp. 1645-1654

Koon Nam Henry Lee

The nonlinear dynamic process of macroeconomic development by modelling dry bulk shipping market pp. 1655-1663

Ching-Chih Chang and Tin-Chia Lai

A decomposition of the growth in self-employment pp. 1665-1669

F. van Es and Daniel van Vuuren

Determinants of various aspects of smoking behaviour in the United States pp. 1671-1675

Rajeev Goel and Michael Naretta

The decreasing returns on working time: an empirical analysis on panel country data pp. 1677-1682

Gilbert Cette, Samuel Chang and Maty Konte

Bank insolvency risk and Z-score measures with unimodal returns pp. 1683-1685

Frank Strobel

Measuring satisfaction of the unemployed: a composite indicator and policy implications pp. 1687-1690

Héctor Bellido, Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Raquel Ortega

An empirical test of the purchasing power parity for transition economies: Panel SURADF tests pp. 1691-1696

Yang-Cheng Ralph Lu, Tsangyao Chang, Kuei-Chiu Lee and Han-Wen Tzeng

The exact import price and its implications for the US external imbalance pp. 1697-1703

Fumihide Takeuchi

An empirical analysis of income convergence in the European Union pp. 1705-1708

Laurent Cavenaile and David Dubois

The effect of motivations on social indirect reciprocity: an experimental analysis pp. 1709-1711

Luca Stanca, Luigino Bruni and Marco Mantovani

The revision policy of seasonally adjusted balance sheet data in Italy pp. 1713-1717

Andrea Silvestrini

Incorporating uncertainty into the Black-Litterman portfolio selection model pp. 1719-1722

Joseph Simonian and Josh Davis

Volume 18, issue 16, 2011

Stochastic volatility, liquidity and intraday information flow pp. 1511-1515

Jinliang Li and Chunchi Wu

Domestic lending when financial markets are integrated: Is it all for real? pp. 1517-1520

Luisa Zanforlin

Interview versus self-completion questionnaires in discrete choice experiments pp. 1521-1525

J. D. Snowball and K. G. Willis

Finance-growth nexus revisited for some Asian countries pp. 1527-1530

Bidisha Mukhopadhyay, Rudra Pradhan and Mete Feridun

Are Asian-Pacific real exchange rates (trend) stationary? pp. 1531-1535

Benjamin Kim and Andrew Perumal

R&D human resources in firms: What determines the educational level required? pp. 1537-1540

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Francisco Mas-Verdu and Jose Polo

Bank insolvency risk and different approaches to aggregate Z-score measures: a note pp. 1541-1543

Frank Strobel

Health dynamics, adaptation to illness and resource allocation pp. 1545-1548

Katharina Hauck and Bruce Hollingsworth

Forecasting bank failures: timeliness versus number of failures pp. 1549-1552

Guo Li, Lee Sanning and Sherrill Shaffer

Can households form consistent/convergent and unbiased expectation of interest rate? pp. 1553-1557

Zhong Chunping and Calum Turvey

A note on sibling rivalry and good-kid, bad-kid equilibria pp. 1559-1563

Dennis Weisman

Frequent flyer programs premium and the role of airport dominance pp. 1565-1569

Diego Escobari

Capital allocation, stock return volatility and productivity growth in US industries pp. 1571-1576

Hyunbae Chun and Jung-Wook Kim

A methodological proposal to estimate changes of residential property value: case study developed in Bogota pp. 1577-1581

Jorge Perdomo Calvo

Does the composition of public expenditure affect economic growth? Evidence from the Swiss case pp. 1583-1589

Carsten Colombier

Liquidity on the outside from the inside pp. 1591-1593

Joseph Simonian

An examination of price integration between stock market and international crude oil indices: evidence from China pp. 1595-1602

Bruce Hearn and Shuk Yin Man

The effects of gender composition of senior management on the economic fallout pp. 1603-1607

Cynthia Bansak, Mary Graham and Allan Zebedee

From debt crisis to tequila crisis: inflation stationarity through Mexico's turbulent decades pp. 1609-1612

Tony Caporale and Julia Paxton

Complementarity and contextuality in the adoption of information systems pp. 1613-1618

Yunhee Kim, Jae Young Choi and Yeonbae Kim

Volume 18, issue 15, 2011

Inward FDI, remittances and out-migration pp. 1405-1409

Miao Wang and M. C. Sunny Wong

Market discounts and announcement effects of private placements: evidence from China pp. 1411-1414

Deng Lu, Li Si-fei and Wu Wei-xing

Predicting regime switches in the VIX index with macroeconomic variables pp. 1415-1419

N. Baba and Y. Sakurai

The role of ownership on control right allocation and compensation contract design pp. 1421-1426

Yu-Hsiu Lin and Len-Kuo Hu

Assessing health efficiency across countries with a two-step and bootstrap analysis pp. 1427-1430

Antonio Afonso and Miguel Aubyn

Optimal tariff calculations in tariff games with climate change considerations pp. 1431-1435

Yan Dong and John Whalley

Determinants of performing arts attendance in Taiwan: a multivariate probit analysis pp. 1437-1442

Tsung-Chi Cheng and Wei-Jen Wen

Further evidence on money and inflation in the long run pp. 1443-1447

John Thornton

Portfolio insurance with ratcheted floor as a long-term asset management strategy: implications of loss aversion pp. 1449-1454

Huai-I. Lee, Hsinan Hsu, Len-Kuo Hu and Ching-Chung Lin

Calorie consumption and income: panel cointegration and causality evidence in developing countries pp. 1455-1461

P. J. Dawson and Ana Sanjuán López

A note on subsidy-free prices and scope economies pp. 1463-1468

Dennis Weisman

Tax-induced multiple equilibria pp. 1469-1477

John Whalley and Shunming Zhang

How to offset the negative trend growth rate in the Italian economy? pp. 1479-1483

Antonio Paradiso and B. Rao

Democracy levels and the income-military expenditure relationship pp. 1485-1489

Vahe Lskavyan

Why not sell lottery tickets in a pharmacy: on conflicting product features and consumer choice pp. 1491-1495

Daniel Mueller and Philipp Wichardt

Market size, service quality and competition in the US downhill ski industry pp. 1497-1500

James Mulligan

Determinants and information of REIT pricing pp. 1501-1505

Jinliang Li and Liang Lei

Why real estate values decline with leverage: a Modigliani-Miller example pp. 1507-1510

John McDonald

Volume 18, issue 14, 2011

Income inequality dynamics in rural China from 1991 to 2006: the role of alternative income sources pp. 1307-1310

Hai Fang and John Rizzo

An index to evaluate fund and fund manager performance pp. 1311-1314

Hans Byström

A gravity analysis of international stock market linkages pp. 1315-1319

Terence Tai Leung Chong, Wing-Keung Wong and Juan Zhang

Stock returns in emerging markets and the use of GARCH models pp. 1321-1325

Claudio Bonilla and Jean Sepulveda

The bounds-test approach for co-integration between international tourist arrivals, per capita income and cost of living: the case of All Cyprus pp. 1327-1331

Vedat Yorucu and Ozay Mehmet

Why a diversified portfolio should include African assets pp. 1333-1340

Imhotep Alagidede, Theodore Panagiotidis and Xu Zhang

Immigrants' legal status, permanence in the destination country and the distribution of consumption expenditure pp. 1341-1347

Matteo Barigozzi and Biagio Speciale

Pricing temperature-based weather contracts: an application to China pp. 1349-1354

Ahmet Goncu

The long-run effect of outward FDI on domestic output in developing countries pp. 1355-1358

Dierk Herzer

International evidence on the determinants of alcohol advertising restrictions pp. 1359-1362

Craig Gallet and Antonio Andres

Nonlinearities in central and eastern European stock markets pp. 1363-1366

Barry Harrison and Winston Moore

Using VIX data to enhance technical trading signals pp. 1367-1370

James Kozyra and Camillo Lento

The lag in effect of inflation targeting and policy evaluation pp. 1371-1375

WenShwo Fang and Stephen Miller

Evaluating poverty duration and transition: a spell-approach to rural China pp. 1377-1382

Jing You

Quantifying environmental sustainability using an aggregate index reflecting increasing marginal damage costs pp. 1383-1386

Jan Bentzen

How stable is the demand for international reserves? pp. 1387-1392

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Scott Hegerty

Health status and wage differences: measuring productivity penalty and discrimination patterns pp. 1393-1396

Nick Drydakis

A Bayesian approach to building robust structural credit default models pp. 1397-1400

Joseph Simonian

Big and fragile: when size does not shield from default pp. 1401-1404

Giulio Bottazzi and Federico Tamagni

Volume 18, issue 13, 2011

The effect of time on hotel pricing strategy pp. 1201-1205

Josep Maria Raya

Nonlinear price dynamics between CO2 futures and Brent pp. 1207-1211

Massimo Peri and Lucia Baldi

On choosing a constitution (at least the part relating to the distribution of income) pp. 1213-1217

John Hey and Carmen Pasca

Decomposing terms of trade fluctuations in Ethiopia pp. 1219-1224

Josef Loening and Masato Higashi

The effect of gender on stock price reaction to the appointment of directors: the case of the FTSE 100 pp. 1225-1229

Brian Lucey and Brenda Carron

Structural reforms and the benefits of the enlarged EU internal market: still much to be gained pp. 1231-1235

Jens Arnold and Andreas Wörgötter

Gender difference in the probability of success in starting business turns negligible when controlling for the managerial experience pp. 1237-1241

Naomi Kodama and Kazuhiko Odaki

The impact of higher education institution-firm knowledge links on firm-level productivity in Britain pp. 1243-1246

Richard Harris, Qian Li and John Moffat

The Fisher effect in the EU revisited: new evidence using panel cointegration estimation with global stochastic trends pp. 1247-1251

Rosa Badillo, Carmelo Reverte and Elena Rubio

Football pools and lotteries: substitute roads to riches? pp. 1253-1257

D. Forrest and Levi Pérez

Budget-constrained expenditure multipliers pp. 1259-1262

Ana-Isabel Guerra and Ferran Sancho

Determinant factors in the convergence of welfare effort in OECD countries: a decomposition of the Theil indices pp. 1263-1266

Jon Olaskoaga-Larrauri, Ricardo Alaez-Aller and Eneko Arrospide-Zabala

Determinants of bank net interest margin in Tunisia: a panel data model pp. 1267-1271

K. Ben Khediri and H. Ben-Khedhiri

A target zone model with the terminal condition of joining a currency area pp. 1273-1278

Viktors Ajevskis

Competition and dealership agglomeration in new car markets pp. 1279-1283

Ellen Sewell

Predicting recessions with the term spread - recent evidence from seven countries pp. 1285-1288

Mathias Moersch and Armin Pohl

Weekend business school degrees: Levelling the playing field? pp. 1289-1294

Rupert Rhodd, Sandra Schrouder and Marcus Allen

Testing for stationarity using covariates: an application to purchasing power parity pp. 1295-1301

Jomana Amara

Financial wealth effect: evidence from threshold estimation pp. 1303-1305

Sherif Khalifa, Ousmane Seck and Elwin Tobing

Volume 18, issue 12, 2011

Women are not always less competitive than men: evidence from Come Dine with Me pp. 1099-1101

Ali Ahmed

Shift contagion with endogenously detected volatility breaks: the case of CEE stock markets pp. 1103-1109

Eduard Baumohl, Štefan Lyócsa and Tomáš Výrost

Financial liberalization and banking performance: an analysis of Taiwan's former 'Top 10 Banks' pp. 1111-1120

Chen-Jui Huang and Jwu-Rong Lin

Management innovation, corporation core competence and corporate culture: the impact of relatedness pp. 1121-1124

Chich-Jen Shieh

The effect of habitual smoking on labour productivity pp. 1125-1132

Michio Yuda

Role of foreign direct investment in estimating capital mobility: a reappraisal of Feldstein-Horioka puzzle pp. 1133-1137

Javed Younas

What are the odds? A measure of the small sample problems pp. 1139-1143

Kurt Rotthoff, Danielle Zanzalari and John Jasina

The relationships between rent multiplier and user cost - a case study of Taipei pp. 1145-1148

Sun-Tien Wu and Chieh-Hsuan Wang

Firm-level inefficiency and its determinants in the Swedish water and wastewater sector pp. 1149-1153

Magnus Söderberg

Liberalization and efficiency in the European postal sector pp. 1155-1158

Cipriano Quiros

The determinants of out-of-pocket payments: evidence from selected hospitals in Ankara, Turkey pp. 1159-1162

Julide Yildirim, Erdogan Yilmaz and Nebile Korucu

Social time preference and the optimal carbon price pp. 1163-1166

Ross Guest

Social capital and health across European countries pp. 1167-1170

Bas van Groezen, R. Jadoenandansing and Giacomo Pasini

Crime and arrests: deterrence or resource reallocation? pp. 1171-1175

Thomas Garrett and Lesli Ott

Openness and capital flow volatility: comparisons between transition economies and Latin America pp. 1177-1180

Scott Hegerty

Does oil abundance harm growth? pp. 1181-1184

Tiago Cavalcanti, Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi

Did George W. Bush increase the happiness of US Republicans? pp. 1185-1188

Todd Gabe and Bernardita Silva

Real money demand and supply meets Federal debt pp. 1189-1193

David Bywaters and David Thomas

Economic effects of grades on course evaluations pp. 1195-1199

Tin-Chun Lin

Volume 18, issue 11, 2011

See the future by looking at the past: predicting divorce with premarital earnings pp. 997-1000

Johanna Åstrom, Robert Nakosteen, Olle Westerlund and Michael Zimmer

Does a red shirt improve sporting performance? Evidence from Spanish football pp. 1001-1004

Miguel Garcia-Rubio, Andres Picazo-Tadeo and Francisco González-Gómez

Intention to access food risk information through Internet-enabled mobile phones: the role of critical thinking pp. 1005-1009

Hideo Aizaki, Yasuhiro Nakashima, Kiyokazu Ujiie, Hironobu Takeshita and Kengo Tahara

Suicide, social integration and fertility rates pp. 1011-1014

T. J. Classen and Richard Dunn

Incapacity to pay or moral hazard? Public mortgage delinquency rates in Chile pp. 1015-1020

Luis Marcano and Inder Ruprah

Financial systems and mechanisms of growth in different conditions of country risk pp. 1021-1028

Su-Yin Cheng, Han Hou, Chia-Cheng Ho and Joakim Westerlund

Maturity effect on stock index futures in an emerging market pp. 1029-1033

Dimitris Kenourgios and Athanasios Katevatis

Noise traders: a new approach to understand the phantom of stock markets pp. 1035-1041

H. F. Baklaci, O. Olgun and E. Can

Collusion, competition and piracy pp. 1043-1047

Francisco Martínez-Sánchez

The persistence of memory of Marilyn: the diversification potential of individual artists pp. 1049-1052

Boram Lee and Yulia Veld-Merkoulova

Measuring the biases in self-reported disability status: evidence from aggregate data pp. 1053-1060

Naoko Akashi-Ronquest, Paul Carrillo, Bruce Dembling and Steven Stern

Has split share structure reform improved the efficiency of the Chinese stock market? pp. 1061-1064

Xindan Li and Bing Zhang

The impact of openness and domestic performance on growth using nonparametric estimation pp. 1065-1070

Xianbo Zhou and Kui-Wai Li

Budgetary trade-offs between defence, education and social spending in Greece pp. 1071-1075

Christos Kollias and Susana-Maria Paleologou

Impact of computer skills on wages in USA pp. 1077-1081

Shah Danyal, Pankaj Maskara and Annaheeta Naqvi

Inflation and marginal cost: on the importance of their covariance pp. 1083-1089

Sandeep Mazumder

Money isn't everything: linking college choice to winning prizes and professorships pp. 1091-1098

Charles Moul and John Nye

Volume 18, issue 10, 2011

Tracking the Libor rate pp. 893-899

Rosa Abrantes-Metz, Sofia Villas-Boas and George Judge

The effects of the removal of US safeguards on imports from China pp. 901-913

Maria Erlinda Mutuc, Samarendu Mohanty, Don Ethridge and Darren Hudson

Music to my ears: the (many) socioeconomic benefits of music training programmes pp. 915-918

Jose Cuesta

Unnatural experiments: the case of television game shows pp. 919-923

Charles Reback and Kristin Stowe

Employment effects of mergers and acquisitions in the United States by sector pp. 925-928

Nadia Doytch, Franklin Mixon and Kamal Upadhyaya

Central bank transparency: another look pp. 929-933

Pierre Siklos

Driving under the influence: the breathalyser fallacy pp. 935-938

Vani Borooah

A note on the gender wage gap among managerial positions using a counterfactual decomposition approach: sticky floor or glass ceiling? pp. 939-943

Marco Biagetti and Sergio Scicchitano

Congressional complicity in the baseball antitrust exemption: analysing senate voting patterns pp. 945-947

Neil Longley

The value of SmartMoney's stock recommendations pp. 949-953

Richard Borghesi and Thomas Pencek

Influence of heterogeneous beliefs on volatility when agents' degree of confidence differs pp. 955-959

Hwai-Chung Ho and Chien-Chih Lin

The economics of bill payments: an empirical analysis pp. 961-966

D. Bounie and Abel François

The relationship between exchange rates, interest rates and Australian bank returns pp. 967-972

Ameeta Jain, Paresh Narayan and Dianne Thomson

Information trading around open market share repurchases: evidence from the Taiwan Stock Exchange pp. 973-981

Robin Chou and Yi-Min Yu

The spillover and leverage effects of ethical exchange traded fund pp. 983-987

Jo-Hui Chen

Measuring innovations in the Japanese LCD TVs using market data pp. 989-995

Kazuhiko Nishimura and Satoshi Nakano

Volume 18, issue 9, 2011

The impact of recruiting on NCAA basketball success pp. 795-798

Julianne Treme, R. Burrus and Bruce Sherrick

Cross-country pollution patterns pp. 799-804

Don Clark and Alejandro Dellachiesa

Extensive versus intensive margin in Germany and the United States: any differences? pp. 805-808

Christian Merkl and Dennis Wesselbaum

On the signalling property of debt maturity: empirical evidence from a private bank in Vietnam pp. 809-816

Robert Lensink and Thi Thu Tra Pham

Debt denomination, exchange-rate variations and the margins of trade pp. 817-822

Nicolas Berman and Jérôme Héricourt

Wage persistence and labour market institutions: an analysis of young European workers pp. 823-828

A. G. Menezes, Dario Sciulli and José Vieira

Gender bias and the female brain drain pp. 829-833

James Bang and Aniruddha Mitra

The persistence of urban poverty in Ethiopia: a tale of two measurements pp. 835-839

Arne Bigsten and Abebe Abebe

Gender, management education and the willingness for academic entrepreneurship pp. 841-844

Bernd Ebersberger and Christine Pirhofer

Stock markets and unemployment in industrial countries pp. 845-849

Horst Feldmann

Did the climb on the Greek sovereign spreads cause the devaluation of euro? pp. 851-854

Evangelia Kasimati

A re-examination of the Fisher effect using an alternative approach pp. 855-858

Abdulnasser Hatemi-J

Fish imports as an environmental policy pp. 859-864

Yeti Nisha Madhoo

How important are noncorporate patents? A comparative analysis using patent citations data pp. 865-871

Cédric Schneider

Wage differentials between East and West Germany: are they related to the location or to the people? pp. 873-879

W. Smolny and M. Kirbach

Long-run purchasing power parity with asymmetric adjustment: further evidence from China pp. 881-886

Yang-Cheng Lu and Tsangyao Chang

The valuation effects of equity carve-outs pp. 887-891

Meijui Sun and Pei-Gi Shu

Volume 18, issue 7, 2011

Equity wealth effects: fundamental or bubble-driven? pp. 601-605

Gabe de Bondt

The speed of employer learning and job market signalling revisited pp. 607-610

Steffen Habermalz

Persistence of cigarette advertising across media and smoking rates pp. 611-619

Rajeev Goel

Revealing the impact of index traders on commodity futures markets pp. 621-626

Gabriel Power and Calum Turvey

The impact of self-efficacy on wealth accumulation and portfolio choice pp. 627-631

Swarnankur Chatterjee, Michael Finke and N. Harness

The skill transferability of high-skilled US immigrants pp. 633-636

M. Ryan Haley and Sarinda Taengnoi

The persistent labour-market effects of the financial crisis pp. 637-642

Marcus Mossfeldt and Pär Österholm

Mean reversion in the US unemployment rate - evidence from bootstrapped out-of-sample forecasts pp. 643-646

Magnus Gustavsson and Pär Österholm

Determinants of investors' financial behaviour in Tehran Stock Exchange pp. 647-654

Mahmood Yahyazadehfar, Mohammad Reza Zali and Hooman Shababi

Determinants of the long-run growth rate of Bangladesh pp. 655-658

B. Rao and Gazi Hassan

The current stock of money: an aggregation theoretic measure of narrowly defined money pp. 659-664

Logan Kelly

Role of ethnicity in consumption of meat products pp. 665-669

Carlos Garcia-Jimenez and Ashok Kumar Mishra

Tax reform in Mexico: a general equilibrium assessment pp. 671-678

Horacio Sobarzo

Political institutions and central bank independence revisited pp. 679-682

B. Pistoresi, F. Salsano and Davide Ferrari

Reduction of working hours as a policy of work sharing in the face of an economic crisis pp. 683-686

Emilio Domínguez Irastorza, M. Ullibarri and I. Zabaleta

The truth about mutual funds across Europe pp. 687-692

Luis Doncel Pedrera, Pilar Grau, J. Otamendi and Jorge Sainz

Leverage and bubbles: a note on the Spanish property market between 1998 and 2006 pp. 693-695

Daniel Fuentes-Castro

Efficiency of Botswana's financial institutions: a data envelopment analysis pp. 697-702

Boitumelo Dudu Moffat and Abbas Valadkhani

Volume 18, issue 6, 2011

Is time inconsistency primarily a male problem? pp. 501-504

Jeffrey Prince and Daniel Shawhan

Revisiting the question - Does corporate headquarters location matter for stock returns? pp. 505-508

Kenneth Moon and James LeSage

Unit root in unemployment - new evidence from nonparametric tests pp. 509-512

Jurgen Holl and Robert Kunst

The theory of optimum currency areas and growth in emerging markets pp. 513-517

Andreas Hoffmann and Gunther Schnabl

Capital depreciation and waste accumulation in capital-resource economies pp. 519-522

Rintaro Yamaguchi and K. Ueta

Religion and prosocial behaviour: a field test pp. 523-526

Philip Grossman and Matthew Parrett

Firm and industry effects in accounting versus economic profit data pp. 527-529

Matthew Holian and Ali Reza

Partial horizontal and vertical ownership pp. 531-537

Jean-Philippe Serbera

Fiscal stimulus for the USA in the current financial crisis: what does 1930-2008 tell us? pp. 539-549

Jonathan Leightner

The intra-industry effects of the acquisition of Dow Jones pp. 551-554

John Howe and David Maslar

European banks and cross-selling pp. 555-559

Anna Micaela Ciarrapico and Stefania Cosci

Bounds test approach to the relationship between human capital and foreign direct investment as regressors of economic growth in Turkey pp. 561-565

Ahmet Ozyigit and Fehiman Eminer

Intraday return dynamics and volatility spillovers between NSE S&P CNX Nifty stock index and stock index futures pp. 567-574

Pratap Chandra Pati and Prabina Rajib

Comparing estimates of risk between markets and telecommunications institutions in Europe pp. 575-579

Christos Agiakloglou and Konstantinos Bloutsos

Do entreaties reduce the WTA-WTP disparity when valuing public goods? pp. 581-584

Maria Loureiro and Melina Barrio

Panel unit root tests of purchasing power parity for Central Asian countries pp. 585-590

S. H. Hung and M. J. Weng

The simple economics of bid criteria pp. 591-594

Mingxi Wang, Shulin Liu and Shouyang Wang

Economic growth and financial development in Turkey: new evidence pp. 595-600

Ugur Soytas and Engin Kucukkaya

Volume 18, issue 5, 2011

Have more strictly regulated banking systems fared better during the recent financial crisis? pp. 399-403

Rudiger Ahrend, Jens Arnold and Fabrice Murtin

Auctioning to buyers with correlated values pp. 405-409

Robert Hammond

Re-examining long-run purchasing power parity for Central and Eastern European countries: nonlinear panel unit root tests pp. 411-415

Hsu-Ling Chang, Chi-Wei Su, Meng-Nan Zhu and Pei Liu

Multiple switching behaviour in multiple price lists pp. 417-420

David Bruner

Does the Chilean government smooth taxes? A tax-smoothing model with revenue collection from a natural resource pp. 421-425

Roberto Pasten and James Cover

Leading contributing institutions to the elite finance journals: affiliation on publication versus current institutional affiliation pp. 427-432

Jean Heck and Rajneesh Sharma

Heeding the call: seminary enrollment and the business cycle pp. 433-437

Danny Hughes, David Mitchell and D. P. Molinari

An application of kernel-based versus one-to-one propensity score matching for a nonexperimental causal study: example from a disease management program evaluation pp. 439-447

Gregory Berg

The impact of emergence of Chinese international corn markets on Chinese and US corn prices pp. 449-454

Dragan Miljkovic and William Wilson

Agent's behaviour in a sequential Dutch auction: evidence from the Pescara wholesale fish market pp. 455-460

Gianfranco Giulioni and Edgardo Bucciarelli

The propagation of European monetary policy shocks into Romania's economy pp. 461-465

Elena Bojesteanu and Gabriel Bobeica

Is the Indian stock market efficient? Evidence from a TAR model with an autoregressive unit root pp. 467-472

Ankita Mishra and Vinod Mishra

An analysis of split orders in an index options market pp. 473-477

Joon Chae and Eun Jung Lee

On some extensions of the concept of growth incidence curves pp. 479-483

Zoya Nissanov and Jacques Silber

Estimation of economic capital for operational risk in banking industry: a Brazilian case pp. 485-491

Helder de Mendonça, Delio Jose Cordeiro Galvao and Renato Falci Villela Loures

Will Obama's economic stimulus package be effective? Evidence from the misery index pp. 493-495

Hooi Hooi Lean and Russell Smyth

Do capital inflows cause current account deficits? pp. 497-500

Chul-Hwan Kim and Donggeun Kim

Volume 18, issue 4, 2011

On the arbitrariness of consumption pp. 301-304

John Whalley and Shunming Zhang

Testing the uncertainty-investment relationship using survey data on capital stock disequilibrium pp. 305-310

Ciaran Driver and Katsushi Imai

The effects of curfews on juvenile criminal activity: an individual-level analysis pp. 311-313

M. P. Gius

Public debt financing, ownership structures and bankers on boards: evidence from Japan pp. 315-318

Takanori Tanaka

Does the financial crisis influence the random walk behaviour of international stock markets? pp. 319-323

Benjamin Auer and Martin Schuster

Gender and overconfidence: are girls really overconfident? pp. 325-327

L. Dahlbom, A. Jakobsson, N. Jakobsson and Andreas Kotsadam

Ethnic fragmentation and police spending pp. 329-332

Gbenga Ajilore and John Smith

Technological-knowledge dynamics in lab-equipment models of quality ladders pp. 333-336

Pedro Gil and Oscar Afonso

Cross-border impact of the Financial Services Modernization Act: evidence from large foreign banks pp. 337-341

Abdullah Mamun, M. Kabir Hassan and İhsan Işık

What kinds of credit associations favour introducing new financial technology? pp. 343-347

Nobuyoshi Yamori, Kei Tomimura and Kozo Harimaya

Purchasing power parity in Mexico: a historical note pp. 349-352

Frederick Wallace

Firm size and wages in China pp. 353-357

Wenshu Gao and Russell Smyth

The relationship between income inequality and inequality of opportunities in a high-inequality country: the case of Chile pp. 359-369

Javier Nunez and Andrea Tartakowsky

Should the government stimulate enrolment in science and engineering studies? pp. 371-375

Joëlle Noailly, Dinand Webbink and Bas Jacobs

Indirect access to mobile networks: economic effects and policy implications pp. 377-381

B. -W. Kim, S. -H. Seol and D. -H. Lee

Is there an adverse effect of uncertainty on Venture Capital? The European evidence pp. 383-388

George Geronikolaou and George Papachristou

Assessing parametric misspecification and heterogeneity in growth regression pp. 389-394

Harry Haupt and Verena Petring

Debt-maturity, corporate diversification and relatedness pp. 395-398

Tiziana La Rocca

Volume 18, issue 3, 2011

Banking services, transaction costs and international remittance flows pp. 199-205

Rajen Mookerjee and Jellina Roberts

Are recessions good for everyone's health? The association between mortality and the business cycle by race/ethnicity in the US pp. 207-212

Matías Fontenla, Fidel Gonzalez and Troy Quast

Employer health benefit costs and demand for part-time labour pp. 213-216

Jennifer Feenstra Schultz and David John Doorn

Time-varying X-efficiency: evidence from US property casualty insurers pp. 217-221

Peng Shi and Wei Zhang

A missing spatial link in institutional quality pp. 223-227

Peter Claeys and Fabio Manca

Price formation on the EuroMTS platform pp. 229-233

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Alessandro Girardi

Filter rules: follow the trend or take the contrarian approach? pp. 235-237

James Kozyra and Camillo Lento

To what extent is resampling useful in portfolio management? pp. 239-244

Francois Delcourt and Mikael Petitjean

The impact of Asian crisis on market integration: evidence from East Asian real interest rates pp. 245-249

Philip Inyeob Ji

Revisiting purchasing power parity for 16 Latin American countries: panel SURADF tests pp. 251-255

Yang-Cheng Ralph Lu, Tsangyao Chang, Chi-Chen Chiu and Han-Wen Tzeng

The behaviour of individual traders and the persistence of arbitrage trading pp. 257-261

Sang Buhm Hahn and Seungyeon Won

The role of politics and economics in the allocation of federal stimulus spending pp. 263-266

Roy Howsen and Stephen Lile

What do prediction markets predict? pp. 267-272

John Fountain and Glenn Harrison

Econophysics: finance, economics and physics pp. 273-277

Russ Ray

The current international financial crisis in 10 questions: some lessons pp. 279-283

Fredj Jawadi and Mohamed Arouri

The large country effect, contagion and spillover effects in the GCC pp. 285-294

Osman Suliman

Do macroeconomic fundamentals affect exchange market pressure? Evidence from bounds testing approach for Turkey pp. 295-300

Salih Katircioglu and Mete Feridun

Volume 18, issue 2, 2011

So you want to quit smoking: have you tried a mobile phone? pp. 103-106

Julien Labonne and Robert Chase

Recurring patterns in the run-up to house price busts pp. 107-113

Prakash Kannan, Pau Rabanal and Alasdair Scott

Managers and students playing Cournot - evidence from duopoly and triopoly experiments pp. 115-120

Israel Waichman, Till Requate and Ch'ng Kean Siang

The stance of US monetary policy: an alternative measure pp. 121-125

David Beckworth

The impact of export promotion institutions on trade: is it the intensive or the extensive margin? pp. 127-132

Christian Volpe Martincus, Jeronimo Carballo and Andres Gallo

Time-varying term premia and the expectations hypothesis in Australia pp. 133-136

Richard Finlay and Callum Jones

A finite mixture model of heterogeneous anchoring with distinct anchoring patterns pp. 137-141

Michael Farmer and Eric Belasco

Assessing the redistributive impact of higher education tuition fees reforms: the case of Quebec pp. 143-147

Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck

Foreign direct investment and labour rights: a panel analysis of bilateral FDI flows pp. 149-152

Matthias Busse, Peter Nunnenkamp and Mariana Spatareanu

Are revenue forecasts rational? Evidence surrounding Reg FD pp. 153-160

Pieter de Jong

All-pay auctions with discrete action spaces pp. 161-162

James Boudreau

FDI and human capital in the USA: is FDI in different industries created equal? pp. 163-166

Miao Wang

Does purchasing power parity hold following the launch of the euro? Evidence from the panel unit root test pp. 167-172

Yi-Hua Wu and Eric Lin

Simpler proofs in finance and shout options pp. 173-178

L. Ramprasath

The impact of economic fluctuations on crime: a multiscale analysis pp. 179-182

Niclas Krüger

Hypertension and life satisfaction: an analysis using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe pp. 183-187

Stefania Mojon-Azzi and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Change in the persistence of the real exchange rates pp. 189-192

Sergio Gabas, María Gadea and Antonio Montañés

NFL bettor biases and price setting: further tests of the Levitt hypothesis of sportsbook behaviour pp. 193-197

Rodney Paul and Andrew Weinbach

Volume 18, issue 1, 2011

Assessing long-term fiscal developments: evidence from Portugal pp. 1-5

Antonio Afonso and Ricardo Sousa

Who cut the cheese? pp. 7-10

Peter Sephton

The ECB's survey of professional forecasters and financial market volatility in the euro area pp. 11-15

Ivo Arnold and Michiel Glasbeek

Female labour supply and parental leave benefits - the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time pp. 17-20

Annette Bergemann and Regina Riphahn

Measuring performance in the Portuguese banking industry with a Fourier regression model pp. 21-28

Carlos Barros and Maria Borges

Performance of European airports: regulation, ownership and managerial efficiency pp. 29-37

Rc Marques and Carlos Barros

Conservative dichotomous choice responses in the active policy setting: the case of University Parking pp. 39-42

Clifford Lipscomb and Brandon Koford

Diffusion of irrigation technologies: the role of mimicking behaviour and public incentives pp. 43-48

Marie-Estelle Binet and Lionel Richefort

Analysis of determinants of airline choice: profiling the LCC passenger pp. 49-53

Jose Castillo-Manzano and Manuel Marchena-Gomez

An optimizing framework for the glide paths of life cycle asset allocation funds pp. 55-58

Wade Pfau

The level and growth effects of human capital in India pp. 59-62

B. Rao and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

Revisiting purchasing power parity for major oil-exporting countries using panel SURADF tests pp. 63-67

Tsangyao Chang, Yang-Cheng Lu, Wen-Chi Liu and Shu-Chen Kang

Changing volatility of long-term UK interest rates during Pax Britannica pp. 69-74

Gawon Yoon

Cycle and performance of mutual funds - an application of spectral analysis pp. 75-79

Pao-Peng Hsu, Chen-Hui Yen, Ya-Hui Chang and Li-Ling Chou

How stable is the seasonal pattern in cinema admissions? Evidence from the UK pp. 81-85

Chris Hand and Guy Judge

Price level convergence across cities? Evidence from panel unit root tests pp. 87-93

Ho-Chuan Huang, Pei-Chien Lin and Chih-Chuan Yeh

Firm, industry and corporation effects revisited: a mixed multilevel analysis for Chilean companies pp. 95-100

J. Tarzijan and C. Ramirez

Transaction costs and iceberg costs pp. 101-102

Kjell Hausken and Galina Schwartz