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Volume 17, issue 18, 2010

Oil demand and technical progress pp. 1747-1751

Hillard Huntington

Global economic crisis and trade: the role of trade facilitation pp. 1753-1757

Allen Dennis

Predicting the presidential election cycle in US stock prices: guinea pigs versus the pros pp. 1759-1765

Manfred Gärtner

The most simple methodology to create a valid correlation matrix for risk management and option pricing purposes pp. 1767-1768

Joseph Simonian

Declining cost efficiency as a signal of increasing bank vulnerability: an entropy-based approach pp. 1769-1781

Lakshmi Balasubramanyan, Spiro Stefanou and Jeffrey Stokes

Did the turmoil affect money-market segmentation in the Euro area? pp. 1783-1788

Paolo Zagaglia

Seigniorage revenue or consumer revenue? Theoretical and empirical evidences pp. 1789-1795

Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi

The impact of a diagnosis-related group-based prospective payment experiment: the experience of Shanghai pp. 1797-1803

Jiale Zhang

Thin trading and its impact upon herding: the case of Israel pp. 1805-1810

Aikaterini Andronikidi and Vasileios Kallinterakis

Customer satisfaction and competencies: an econometric study of an Italian bank pp. 1811-1817

Paola Gritti and Nicolai Foss

An efficient test of fiscal sustainability pp. 1819-1822

Vasco Gabriel and Pataaree Sangduan

Modelling and forecasting mobile telecommunication services: the case of Greece pp. 1823-1828

Theologos Dergiades and Apostolos Dasilas

The model-free measures and the volatility spread pp. 1829-1833

Jian Chen and Xiaoquan Liu

A test of the present value model of stock prices under rational and adaptive expectations using Bursa Malaysia data from 1983 to 2003 pp. 1835-1839

Nicky Yeong, Chong Mun Ho, Brian Dollery and Mori Kogid

Regional determinants of manufacturing start-ups in Greece: evidence on the effect of agglomeration economies pp. 1841-1844

Irene Daskalopoulou and Panagiotis Liargovas

Volume 17, issue 17, 2010

Demand estimation when some prices are unobserved: an application to fresh lettuce pp. 1641-1646

Carlos Arnade, Daniel Pick and Munisamy Gopinath

Who receives statins? Variations in physician prescribing patterns for patients with coronary heart disease pp. 1647-1652

Simon Condliffe, Charles Link and Bryan Townsend

Currency, credit, confidence and bubbles pp. 1653-1655

Brian Jacobsen

Movie producers and the statistical distribution of achievement pp. 1657-1661

Jordi Mckenzie

Can fighting grade inflation help the bottom line? pp. 1663-1667

Arthur Caplan and John Gilbert

Bond portfolio duration, cash flow dispersion and convexity pp. 1669-1672

Donald Smith

Race and gender differences in the cognitive effects of childhood overweight pp. 1673-1679

Susan Averett and David Stifel

Strategic interactions and belief formation: an experiment pp. 1681-1685

Kyle Hyndman, Antoine Terracol and Jonathan Vaksmann

Impact of trade freedom on per capita real GDP growth among OECD nations: recent panel data evidence pp. 1687-1690

Richard Cebula

Impact of disaggregated ICT capital on electricity intensity in European manufacturing pp. 1691-1695

Ronald Bernstein and Reinhard Madlener

Author and article characteristics, journal quality and citation in economic research pp. 1697-1701

Shi Young Lee, Sanghack Lee and Sung Hee Jun

The determinants of default risk in Brazil pp. 1703-1708

Alex Ferreira

Conditional entropy distribution of Istanbul stock market value pp. 1709-1713

Senay Asma

How do children affect parents' allocation of time? pp. 1715-1719

Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Miriam Marcén and Raquel Ortega

Purchasing power parity for 15 COMESA and SADC countries: evidence based on panel SURADF tests pp. 1721-1727

Tsangyao Chang, De-Piao Tang, Wen-Chi Liu and Chia-Hao Lee

The effectiveness of incentives to firms' outward internationalization pp. 1729-1733

Mariasole Bannò and Lucia Piscitello

Self-employment and time stress: the effect of leisure quality pp. 1735-1738

Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Raquel Ortega-Lapiedra

Bankruptcy prediction in Norway: a comparison study pp. 1739-1746

Rada Dakovic, Claudia Czado and Daniel Berg

Volume 17, issue 16, 2010

The urban-rural divide in the perception of the poverty line: the case of Russia pp. 1543-1546

Eugene Nivorozhkin, Anton Nivorozhkin, Ludmila Nivorozhkina and Lilia Ovcharova

Firm growth and firm size pp. 1547-1550

Mark Rogers, Christian Helmers and Christoffer Koch

Robust value-at-risk: an information-theoretic approach pp. 1551-1553

Joseph Simonian and Josh Davis

More on the energy/nonenergy price link pp. 1555-1558

John Baffes

Do 'African American' films perform better or worse at the box office? An empirical analysis of motion picture revenues and profits pp. 1559-1564

Jordi Mckenzie

Poverty and government transfers in the United States pp. 1565-1569

Dierk Herzer and Rainer Klump

Managerial entrenchment and corporate bond financing: evidence from Japan pp. 1571-1574

Takanori Tanaka

Purchasing power parity for 10 Latin American integration association countries: panel SURKSS tests pp. 1575-1580

Tsangyao Chang, Wen-Chi Liu, Chin-Ping Yu and Shuchen Kang

The inflation protection from indexed bonds pp. 1581-1585

Andreas Reschreiter

Volatility forecasting for crude oil futures pp. 1587-1599

Massimiliano Marzo and Paolo Zagaglia

Nonlinearity in US macroeconomic time series pp. 1601-1609

Gawon Yoon

The risk-adjusted costs of financial distress: a comment pp. 1611-1613

Martin Lally

Exchange-traded funds in bullish and bearish markets pp. 1615-1624

Karen Wong and Wai Cheong Shum

The decline in volatility of US GDP growth pp. 1625-1631

Daniel Burren and Klaus Neusser

Time-varying real estate sensitivities of mortgage REITs pp. 1633-1640

Banghan Chiu, Ming-Te Lee, Ming-Long Lee and Kevin Chiang

Volume 17, issue 15, 2010

Long-term government bond yields and economic forecasts: evidence for the EU pp. 1437-1441

Antonio Afonso

Trade policies, institutions and the natural resource curse pp. 1443-1451

Rabah Arezki and Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

Black and official market exchange rates and purchasing power parity: evidence from Latin America pp. 1453-1459

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Ali Kutan and Su Zhou

The effects of rumours on financial market efficiency pp. 1461-1464

Uriel Spiegel, Tchai Tavor and Joseph Templeman

The gender wage gap across the wage distribution in the private and public sectors in Sweden pp. 1465-1468

Roger Wahlberg

A note on the subprime mortgage crisis: dynamic modelling of bank leverage profit under loan securitization pp. 1469-1474

Mark Adam Petersen, Mmboniseni Phanuel Mulaudzi, Janine Mukuddem-Petersen and Ilse Schoeman

Should the US Congress appropriate funds for the repurchase of older vehicles? pp. 1475-1478

David Bernstein

Recent peacekeeping burden sharing pp. 1479-1484

Hirofumi Shimizu and Todd Sandler

Foreign exchange intervention and exchange rate volatility in Peru pp. 1485-1491

Alberto Humala and Gabriel Rodríguez

Examining the CRB index as a leading indicator for US inflation pp. 1493-1496

Ram Acharya, Paul Gentle and Krishna Paudel

SBTC versus trade: testing skill-premia evidence across 25 OECD countries pp. 1497-1501

Alexandre Almeida and Oscar Afonso

Stock market integration in Mexico and Argentina: are short- and long-term considerations different? pp. 1503-1507

Fredj Jawadi, Mohamed Arouri and Duc Khuong Nguyen

Subsidies and awards in movie production pp. 1509-1511

Betty Agnani and Henry Aray

Duration analysis of corporate bankruptcy in the presence of competing risks pp. 1513-1516

Sehoon Kwon and Sang Buhm Hahn

Purchasing power parity for ASEAN-8 countries: panel SURKSS tests pp. 1517-1523

Tsangyao Chang, YiChun Zhang and Wen-Chi Liu

Can intervention indices detect central bank's actual intervention behaviour? pp. 1525-1530

Yu-Ming Hsiao, Sheng-Chieh Pan and Po-Chin Wu

Does fund manager herding vary over the business cycle? pp. 1531-1535

Hung-Hsi Huang, Rern-Jay Hung, Ching-Ping Wang and Yuan-Pei Hsieh

Oil-induced stagflation: a comparison across major G7 economies and shock episodes pp. 1537-1541

Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez and Marcelo Sanchez

Volume 17, issue 14, 2010

Bounds testing cointegration methods and PPP: evidence from 123 Countries pp. 1335-1340

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Scott Hegerty

Adverse selection, seller reputation and buyer insurance in online auctions for 1960s-era collectible baseball cards pp. 1341-1345

M. Ryan Haley and Lee Van Scyoc

Is per capita real GDP stationary in China? More powerful nonlinear (logistic) unit root tests pp. 1347-1349

Tsangyao Chang, Yuan-Hong Ho and Steven B Caudill

Short-term wealth effects from debt buyback announcements pp. 1351-1354

Mark Schaub

Spanish inter-regional migration: an enigma resolved pp. 1355-1359

Alan Mulhern and John Watson

Using contingent valuation with undergraduate students to elicit a community's preferences for wind farm development pp. 1361-1366

Catherine Boulatoff broadhead and Carol Boyer

Bankruptcy reform: evidence from a survey among judges and receivers pp. 1367-1371

Nico Dewaelheyns and Cynthia Van Hulle

Fat-tails and house prices in OECD countries pp. 1373-1377

Victor Pontines

Additional evidence of long-run purchasing power parity with black and official exchange rates pp. 1379-1382

Alper Aslan, Ferit Kula and Huseyin Kalyoncu

Revisiting purchasing power parity for G7 countries: further evidence based on panel SURKSS tests pp. 1383-1387

Tsangyao Chang, Wen-Chi Liu and Chin-Ping Yu

On the performance of a nonparametric measure of convergence towards purchasing power parity in the presence of linearity pp. 1389-1396

Gawon Yoon

An analysis of the risk-return relationship in the Spanish capital market using a structural equation model pp. 1397-1403

Susana Iglesias Antelo and Jean-Pierre Levy Mangin

Government size and economic growth: an application of the smooth transition regression model pp. 1405-1415

Song-Zan Chiou-Wei, Zhen Zhu and Yung-Hsing Kuo

Electricity consumption and economic growth in Spain pp. 1417-1421

Aitor Ciarreta Antuñano and Ainhoa Zarraga

Modelling the dividend policy of banks in Gulf Cooperation Council countries pp. 1423-1428

Jasim Al-Ajmi

On the valuation of American exchange options: an analytical approximation pp. 1429-1435

Andreas Andrikopoulos

Volume 17, issue 13, 2010

Asymmetries in the Thai lending-deposit rate spread: an econometric analysis pp. 1229-1236

Chu Nguyen and Anisul Islam

Nonlinearity as an explanation of the forward exchange rate anomaly pp. 1237-1239

Derek Bond, Michael Harrison, Niall Hession and Edward O'Brien

Order imbalances explain 90% of returns of Nikkei 225 futures pp. 1241-1245

Meng Li, Misao Endo, Shiwei Zuo and Kazuo Kishimoto

Momentum in Taiwan: seasonality matters! pp. 1247-1253

Hsiao-Peng Fu and Andrew Wood

Long run determinants and short run dynamics of inflation in Tunisia pp. 1255-1263

Thouraya Boujelbene and Younes Boujelbene

An analysis of quasi-qualification, modified auditor opinions and special treatment status on China's Shenzhen market pp. 1265-1271

Donglin Pei, Philip Anthony Hamill and Kwaku Kyekyeku Opong

The effects of zero interest rate commitment in Japan pp. 1273-1277

Kunihiro Hanabusa

The relationship between the Vietnam stock market and its major trading partners - TECM with bivariate asymmetric GARCH model pp. 1279-1283

Hsu-Ling Chang and Chi-Wei Su

Price clustering of IPOs in the secondary market pp. 1285-1292

Qiming Wang

What factors discriminate developed and emerging capital markets? pp. 1293-1298

Guoma Alrgibi, Mohamed Ariff and Louis Murray

Payout and asymmetric information pp. 1299-1304

Michel Rakotomavo

Optimal gradual liquidation of equity from a risky asset pp. 1305-1308

Nikolai Dokuchaev

The impact of subprime mortgage on correlation between stock and FX markets pp. 1309-1312

Hsiu-Yun Chang and Yen-Ching Kuo

Determinants of bank failures in the US revisited pp. 1313-1317

Richard Cebula

Do short sellers outperformthe market? pp. 1319-1322

Gil Cohen

The comovements in international stock markets: new evidence from Latin American emerging countries pp. 1323-1328

Mohamed Arouri, Mondher Bellalah and Duc Khuong Nguyen

Revisiting purchasing power parity for East Asian countries: panel SURADF tests pp. 1329-1334

Tsangyao Chang and Chia-Hao Lee

Volume 17, issue 12, 2010

'Extended black' sovereign credit default swap pricing model pp. 1133-1137

Marco Realdon and Cheng Qin Shi

Monetary policy and corporate bond yield spreads pp. 1139-1144

David Beckworth, Kenneth Moon and J. Holland Toles

Testing for random walk in euro exchange rates using the subsampling approach pp. 1145-1151

Jorge Belaire-Franch and Kwaku Opong

HAC standard errors and the event study methodology: a cautionary note pp. 1153-1156

George Ford, John Jackson and Sarah Skinner

A note on model selection in (time series) regression models - general-to-specific or specific-to-general? pp. 1157-1160

Helmut Herwartz

Betting on weight loss … and losing: personal gambles as commitment mechanisms pp. 1161-1166

Nicholas Burger and John Lynham

Central bank independence and ageing pp. 1167-1171

Etienne Farvaque, Jérôme Héricourt and Gaël Lagadec

Does the 'Dogs of the Dow' strategy work better in blue chips? pp. 1173-1175

Terence Tai Leung Chong and Kin Keung Luk

'Marginal employment' and the demand for heterogeneous labour - elasticity estimates from a multi-factor labour demand model for Germany pp. 1177-1182

Ronny Freier and Viktor Steiner

Correcting the Merton and Henriksson timing model pp. 1183-1187

Luis Ferruz, Fernando Munoz and Maria Vargas

The weight of bad governance in foreign mutual funds pp. 1189-1192

Linus Wilson

A corrected Value-at-Risk predictor pp. 1193-1196

Carl Lonnbark

Asymmetric reimbursement system in an environmental conflict pp. 1197-1199

Sung-Hoon Park

Ownership herding and informational herding pp. 1201-1204

Enrica Carbone

What is the long run growth rate of the East Asian Tigers? pp. 1205-1208

B. Rao, Artur Tamazian and Rup Singh

A reassessment of the twin deficits relationship pp. 1209-1212

Mark Holmes

Between Mao and markets: new evidence on segmentation of the bank loan market in China pp. 1213-1218

Masanori Ohkuma

Effect of price quoting on financial asset prices: an experimental analysis pp. 1219-1222

Tal Shavit, Shosh Shahrabani and Uri Benzion

Purchasing power parity for G-7 countries: panel SURADF tests pp. 1223-1228

Tsangyao Chang, Wen-Chi Liu, Han-Wen Tzeng and Chin-Ping Yu

Volume 17, issue 11, 2010

Firm value and the diversification choice: international evidence from global and industrial diversification pp. 1027-1031

Stephen Ferris, Nilanjan Sen and Nguyen Thi Anh Thu

On the look-out for a white knight: options-based calculation of probability and expected value of increased bids in hostile takeover battles pp. 1033-1036

Stefan Eichler and Dominik Maltritz

Does the star power matter? pp. 1037-1041

Sang-Chul Jung and Myeong Hwan Kim

Fiscal decentralization and fiscal consolidations in emerging market economies pp. 1043-1047

John Thornton and Olumuyiwa Adedeji

Power properties of the CUSUM and CUSUMSQ tests for parameter instability pp. 1049-1053

Paul Turner

Discriminating factors of women's employment pp. 1055-1062

Angela Cipollone and Carlo D'Ippoliti

Defense planning and fiscal strategy pp. 1063-1065

Peter Berck, Jonathan Lipow and Yakir Plessner

The micro-firm health insurance hypothesis pp. 1067-1072

Richard Cebula

Long-run validity of purchasing power parity and rank tests for cointegration for Central Asian countries pp. 1073-1077

Venus Liew, Ricky Chia and Tai-Hu Ling

Multiple cyclical fractional structures in financial time series pp. 1079-1081

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

Long-run purchasing power parity and asymmetric adjustment in BRICs pp. 1083-1087

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

A survival analysis approach to the duration of union membership in Italy pp. 1089-1093

Andrea Vaona

Willingness to pay for a clear night sky: use of the contingent valuation method pp. 1095-1103

Stephanie Simpson and Bríd Hanna

Implicit amenity prices and the location of retirees in England and Wales pp. 1105-1109

J. Lee and G. Stewart

Teacher moonlighting: evidence from the US Current Population Survey pp. 1111-1114

John Winters

On the accuracy of Federal Reserve forecasts of the budget deficit-output ratio pp. 1115-1118

Hamid Baghestani

Revisiting purchasing power parity for major OPEC countries: evidence based on nonlinear panel unit-root tests pp. 1119-1123

Hsu-Ling Chang and Chi-Wei Su

Nonlinearity in real exchange rates: an approach with disaggregated data and a new linearity test pp. 1125-1132

Gawon Yoon

Volume 17, issue 10, 2010

A decomposition analysis of CO2 emissions in the United States pp. 925-931

Ferdinand Vinuya, Ferdinand DiFurio and Erica Sandoval

More jobs for university graduates: some policy options for Tunisia pp. 933-937

Mohamed Marouani

Serial correlation, drift and range unit root testing pp. 939-944

Steven Cook

Knightian uncertainty: evidence of uncertainty premium in the capital market pp. 945-949

James Ang and Carol Boyer

Testing seasonality in the liquidity-return relation: Japanese evidence pp. 951-954

Yuk Ying Chang, Robert Faff and Chuan-Yang Hwang

The joint decision to signal through IPO underpricing and lockup pp. 955-961

Chih-Jen Huang, Ching-Hsiang Chao and Tsai-Ling Liao

Exchange rate determination: monetary approach in the new EU members and Turkey pp. 963-967

Idil Uz Akdogan and Natalya Ketenci

Substitution effect of advertising on resale price maintenance: using a real options approach pp. 969-972

Guan-Ru Chen and Miao-Ling Chen

Basel II and the money supply process: some empirical evidence from the Greek banking system pp. 973-976

Yannis Panagopoulos

Friends or enemies? Foreign investors in Taiwan pp. 977-982

Cho-Min Lin, Yen-Hsien Lee and Chien-Liang Chiu

The empirical determinants of target capital structure and adjustment to long-run target: evidence from Canadian firms pp. 983-990

Pravish Kumar Nunkoo and Agyenim Boateng

Index funds should be expected to underperform the index pp. 991-994

Michael Hanke and Klaus Schredelseker

Does hedging increase firm value? Evidence from French firms pp. 995-998

Karim Ben Khediri and Didier Folus

Residual-based block bootstrap for cointegration testing pp. 999-1003

Rosa Badillo, Jorge Belaire-Franch and Carmelo Reverte

Benford's Law and psychological barriers in certain eBay auctions pp. 1005-1008

Ocean Fan Lu and David Giles

The different impacts of socio-economic factors on suicide between males and females pp. 1009-1012

Eiji Yamamura

Corruption and the size of government: causality tests for OECD and Latin American countries pp. 1013-1017

Paulo Arvate, Andrea Zaitune Curi, Fabiana Rocha and Fabio Miessi Sanches

Financial crises, bank losses, risk management and audit: what happened? pp. 1019-1022

Fredj Jawadi

Uncovered interest parity puzzle: does it really exist? pp. 1023-1026

Nikolaos Mylonidis and Maria Semertzidou

Volume 17, issue 9, 2010

Nonparallel demand increases in an asymmetric Cournot oligopoly pp. 829-833

Yuqing Zheng and Harry Kaiser

Lunar seasonality in precious metal returns? pp. 835-838

Brian Lucey

Public and private investment rates of return: evidence for industrialized countries pp. 839-843

Antonio Afonso and Miguel Aubyn

Attitudes towards CO2 taxation - is there an Al Gore effect? pp. 845-848

Åsa Lofgren and Katarina Nordblom

The cost of a short-selling constraint - welfare implications for investors under uncertainty pp. 849-860

Alice Melkumian

The economic impact of the Olympic Games: evidence from stock markets pp. 861-864

Christian Dick and Qingwei Wang

The sources of volatility transmission in the Euro area money market: from longer maturities to the overnight? pp. 865-868

Paolo Zagaglia

Predicting stock price movements: regressions versus economists pp. 869-874

Paul Söderlind

A comparison of two alternative composite leading indicators for detecting Japanese business cycle turning points pp. 875-879

Hiroshi Yamada, Shuichi Nagata and Yuzo Honda

A note on applying option pricing theory to emerging mortgage and mortgage-backed securities markets pp. 881-885

Peng Fei

Government expenditure and national income in Mexico: Keynes versus Wagner pp. 887-893

Alberto Iniguez-Montiel

Loyalty, protocol, bargainer characteristics, and rationality in an experimental investigation of bilateral bargaining in dyads pp. 895-900

Michael Spencer

Culture and life satisfaction in developed and less developed nations pp. 901-906

Thomas Lange

Periodically collapsing bubbles in the German stock market, 1876-1913 pp. 907-908

Christian Pierdzioch

Time-series tests of income convergence with two structural breaks: evidence from 29 countries pp. 909-912

John Dawson and Mark Strazicich

The effectiveness of the Spanish urban transport contracts in terms of incentives pp. 913-916

M. Pilar Socorro and Ginés de Rus

The importance of output for the monetary policy rules pp. 917-923

Ali Malik

Volume 17, issue 8, 2010

On the Athey-Levin model of skewed bidding pp. 727-732

M. Ryan Haley and Craig Dunphey

Government size and the stability of output: evidence from emerging market economies pp. 733-736

John Thornton

Who chooses to adopt fiscal responsibility laws? Evidence from emerging market economies pp. 737-740

John Thornton

Financial development and economic growth: a panel approach pp. 741-745

P. J. Dawson

Desert recreation: economic values of management and service strategies pp. 747-751

Wuyang Hu and Alison Davis

A note on the intraday and intraweek patterns in premiums of exchange-traded funds: evidence from Hong Kong pp. 753-760

Gordon Tang and Karen Wong

Events that marked tourism in Portugal pp. 761-766

Jorge Andraz and Paulo Rodrigues

Geographically weighted regression bandwidth selection and spatial autocorrelation: an empirical example using Chinese agriculture data pp. 767-772

Seong-Hoon Cho, Dayton Lambert and Zhuo Chen

Monetary policy and the asymmetric job creation and destruction behaviour pp. 773-780

De-Chih Liu

Sustainability of current account for Latin America and Caribbean countries pp. 781-785

Huseyin Kalyoncu and Ilhan Ozturk

Assessing terrorist risk and FDI using relative information measures pp. 787-790

Anthony Mancuso, Cassandra Dirienzo and Jayoti Das

Real exchange rates and bilateral trade dynamics of Turkey: panel cointegration approach pp. 791-795

Sadullah Çelik and Huseyin Kaya

Nonlinear mean reversion in real exchange rates: threshold autoregressive models and stochastic unit root processes pp. 797-804

Gawon Yoon

Is bad news always bad? The impact of Floyd Landis's rise and fall on Phonak pp. 805-808

Michael Leeds

Is small firm gardening good for local economic growth? pp. 809-813

Hart Hodges and Stein Østbye

On the currency effect to home bias puzzle pp. 815-822

Mao-Wei Hung, Mei-Lan Lo and Hsiao-Yuan Yu

Does nonlinearity help resolve the Fisher effect puzzle? pp. 823-828

Gawon Yoon

Volume 17, issue 7, 2010

Foreign bank presence in emerging markets: help or hindrance to banking system stability? pp. 623-626

Roisin O'Sullivan and Ayse Ozsoz

DEA efficiency analysis involving multiple production processes pp. 627-632

Darold Barnum and John Gleason

Profit warnings: will openness be rewarded? pp. 633-637

Matthew Church and Han Donker

The determinants of health care expenditure in Australia pp. 639-644

James Ang

Impacts of local and state tax and expenditure limits on economic growth pp. 645-648

Judith Stallmann and Steven Deller

US rural land value bubbles pp. 649-656

Gabriel Power and Calum Turvey

In search of a critical value for the real crude oil price for the United States pp. 657-661

Yu Hsing

Cost pass-through elasticities, concentration and productivity growth pp. 663-666

Vaughan Dickson

Fixed cost efficiency with infinitesimal competitors pp. 667-671

Linus Wilson

Evaluating current-year forecasts made during the year: a Japanese example pp. 673-676

Herman Stekler and Kazuta Sakamoto

The Paternity Leave Act in Iceland: implications for gender equality in the labour market pp. 677-680

Björn Arnarson and Aparna Mitra

Does the type of derivative instrument used by companies impact firm value? pp. 681-683

Hoa Nguyen and Robert Faff

A note on the effect of financial development on economic growth pp. 685-687

Emmanuel Lartey

The impact of early DVD release on box office revenues pp. 689-693

Randy Nelson and Patrick Rutherford

Do we need time series econometrics? pp. 695-697

B. Rao, Rup Singh and Saten Kumar

Cognitive abilities and earnings - first evidence for Germany pp. 699-702

Silke Anger and Guido Heineck

An analysis of the 2006 congressional elections: does campaign spending matter? pp. 703-706

Mark Paul Gius

Gibrat's law for counties in medieval England: an empirical study pp. 707-710

Marcelo Resende

Fiscal sustainability in a panel of Asian countries pp. 711-715

Olumuyiwa Adedeji and John Thornton

Exchange rate pass-through, exchange rate disconnect and exchange rate regimes pp. 717-722

Theodoros Stamatopoulos and Harilaos Harissis

The determinants of health care expenditure: a reexamination pp. 723-726

David Cantarero and Santiago Lago-Peñas

Volume 17, issue 6, 2010

Robust vs. classical principalcomponent analysis in the presence of outliers pp. 519-523

Sunil Sapra

On the relation between currency depreciation and wages pp. 525-530

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Massomeh Hajilee

The demand side of the penalty for intermittent labour market behaviour pp. 531-535

Julie Hotchkiss and M. Melinda Pitts

Missing agricultural price data: an application of mixed estimation pp. 537-541

Maria Jose Castillo, Pilar Useche and Charles Moss

Good times are drinking times: empirical evidence on business cycles and alcohol sales in Sweden 1861-2000 pp. 543-546

Niclas Krüger and Mikael Svensson

Teacher salaries and student achievement: the case of Pennsylvania pp. 547-550

Tin-Chun Lin

Institutional and economic determinants of corruption: a cross-section analysis pp. 551-554

Ayse Evrensel

Jekyll and Hyde pp. 555-559

Marie-Edith Bissey, John Hey and Stefania Ottone

Does smoking really harm your earnings so much? Biases in current estimates of the smoking wage penalty pp. 561-564

Silke Anger and Michael Kvasnicka

Unit root tests with smooth breaks: an application to the Nelson-Plosser data set pp. 565-570

Razvan Pascalau

Does sexual strategies theory help explain high violent crime in South Africa? pp. 571-574

Wim Naude

Analysis of movements in the AUD/USD exchange rate: comparison of four major models pp. 575-580

Yu Hsing

Does a rising tide raise all ships? The impact of growth on inequality pp. 581-586

Dustin Chambers

Marital status and unobserved heterogeneity: Do twins suggest a genetic inheritance? pp. 587-591

William Nilsson

Inflation forecasting, relative price variability and skewness pp. 593-596

Jane Binner, Thomas Elger, Barry Jones and Birger Nilsson

Nonlinear adjustment of short-term deviations impacts on the US real estate market pp. 597-603

Yen-Hsien Lee and Chien-Liang Chiu

Foreign direct investment and technology spillovers in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 605-608

Shunsuke Managi and Samuel Mulenga Bwalya

How homogeneous are balance of payments movements? pp. 609-611

Jong-Eun Lee

A bootstrapped metafrontier model pp. 613-617

A. Assaf and K. M. Matawie

Public's willingness to pay for preventing climate change pp. 619-622

Joo-Suk Lee, Seung-Hoon Yoo and Seung-Jun Kwak

Volume 17, issue 5, 2010

On linkages and leakages: measuring the secondary effects of tourism pp. 417-421

Iza Lejarraga and Peter Walkenhorst

Income inequality and cigarette consumption: evidence from the United States pp. 423-426

Richard Connelly, Rajeev Goel and Rati Ram

A reinterpretation of interactions in regressions pp. 427-430

Joseph Hirschberg and Jeanette Lye

A note on the performance of Chinese American Depository Receipts pp. 431-435

Mark Schaub

Credit rationing and endogenous monetary policy pp. 437-443

Enchuan Shao

The informational quality of implied volatility and the volatility risk premium pp. 445-450

Stephen Ferris, Woojin Kim and Kwangwoo Park

A Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition for count data models pp. 451-455

Timothy Park and Luanne Lohr

Exchange rate exposure and real exports pp. 457-462

Mehmet Nihat Solakoglu

Stock market reaction to Olympic Games announcement pp. 463-466

Martin Mirman and Rajneesh Sharma

Revisiting Mrs. Machlup's wardrobe: the accumulation of international reserves, 1992-2001 pp. 467-471

Graham Bird and Alex (Alexandros) Mandilaras

Measuring long-run equilibrium exchange rates using standardized products with different specifications pp. 473-476

James Laurenceson and Kam Ki Tang

Electronics production upgrading: is China exceptional? pp. 477-482

Ari Van Assche and Byron Gangnes

The role of R&D spillovers in product and process innovation pp. 483-493

Paola Cardamone

Finance, investment and growth: nonlinear time series evidence from 10 Asian economies pp. 495-501

Yuan-Ming Lee and Kuan Min Wang

Resilience after localeconomic shocks pp. 503-507

Paul Ormerod

Forecasting exchange rates using local regression pp. 509-514

Marcos Alvarez-Diaz and Alberto Alvarez

Cinema attendance in Europe pp. 515-517

Andrea Sisto and Roberto Zanola

Volume 17, issue 4, 2010

A new method for detecting outliers in Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 313-316

Nam Anh Tran, Gerald Shively and Paul Preckel

Estimating the value of natural resources under legal constraints: an application to marine resources in Sicily pp. 317-323

Pasquale Scandizzo and Marco Ventura

Are demand elasticities affected by politically determined tax levels? Simultaneous estimates of gasoline demand and price pp. 325-328

Lennart Flood, Nizamul Islam and Thomas Sterner

Is corruption anti-labour? pp. 329-333

Suryadipta Roy

Does 'free-sampling' enhance the value of public goods? pp. 335-339

Arthur Caplan, Douglas Jackson-Smith and Sandy Marquart-Pyatt

Waste not, even if it's free: an experimental explanation for apparently unprofitable promotions pp. 341-343

Amy Moore and Michael Taylor

Long memory in return volatility pp. 345-349

Gawon Yoon

Equivalence scales for measuring poverty in transitional Russia: Engel's food share method and the subjective economic well-being method pp. 351-355

Yuka Takeda

The buffer stock model of money demand: evidence from panel data pp. 357-360

Jan Tin

Does the uncovered interest parity hold in short horizons? pp. 361-365

Ozgur Aslan and Levent Korap

Effects of Japanese intervention on yen/dollar exchange rate volatility: a conditional jump dynamics approach pp. 367-373

Jer-Yuh Wan and Chung-Wei Kao

New transformation methods in dynamic panel data models with heterogeneous time trends pp. 375-379

Kazuhiko Hayakawa and Minoru Nogimori

Output fluctuations: transitory or permanent? the case of Latin America pp. 381-386

Bulent Guloglu and Mehmet Ivrendi

Looking for a change point in French monetary policy in the early eighties pp. 387-392

Maria Alberta Oliveira and Carlos Santos

Hedge funds, exchange rates and causality: evidence from Thailand and Malaysia pp. 393-397

W.N.w Azman-Saini, Evan Lau and Zulkefly Abdul Karim

The effect of a variance shift on the Breusch-Godfrey's LM test pp. 399-404

Joo-Yeon Hyun, Hyeong Ho Mun, Tae-Hwan Kim and Jinook Jeong

Threshold cointegration and nonlinear adjustment between stock prices and dividends pp. 405-410

Vicente Esteve and Maria Prats

Low carbohydrate information, consumer health preferences and market demand of fruits in the United States pp. 411-415

Laxmi Paudel, Murali Adhikari, Jack Houston and Krishna Paudel

Volume 17, issue 3, 2010

The effects of currency crises on the long-run growth pp. 209-212

Hakan Yilmazkuday

The impact of capital gains tax exemption on housing sales pp. 213-216

Shakil Quayes

Determinants of volatility on international tourism demand for South Korea: an empirical note pp. 217-223

Sung Y. Park and Sang Young Jei

Heteroskedasticity-robust elasticities in logarithmic and two-part models pp. 225-228

Tom Hertz

Business confidence and cyclical turning points: a Markov-switching approach pp. 229-233

Mark Holmes and Brian Silverstone

Determinants of variations in state per capita personal income: a panel data approach pp. 235-239

Yihua Yu

A note on the stability of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve in Europe pp. 241-245

Peter Tillmann

Wage scales and centralized bargaining - a binding constraint on the wage-setting? pp. 247-250

Martin S�derstr�m

Children and labour supply pp. 251-255

Ajay Behl

Does the day-of-the-week effect on volatility improve the volatility forecasts? pp. 257-262

Amelie Charles

Globalization, Taylor rulesand inflation pp. 263-267

Harald Badinger

What do macroeconomic and political-economy data tell us about economic freedom? pp. 269-272

Raphael Franck

The relationship between the price of oil and macroeconomic performance: empirical evidence for the UK pp. 273-278

Robert Gausden

On the predictability of firm performance via simple time-series and econometric models: evidence from UK SMEs pp. 279-282

Vicky Bamiatzi, Konstantinos Bozos and Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

Is covered interest parity arbitrage extinct? Evidence from the spot USD/Yen pp. 283-287

Jonathan Batten and Peter Szilagyi

Government size and unemployment in developing countries pp. 289-292

Horst Feldmann

Robust correlates of county-level growth in the United States pp. 293-296

Matthew Higgins, Andrew Young and Daniel Levy

Do ATMs influence bankprofitability in Japan? pp. 297-303

Kazumine Kondo

Currency risks hedging for major and minor currencies: constant hedging versus speculative hedging pp. 305-311

Myoung Shik Choi

Volume 17, issue 2, 2010

Expansionary fiscal consolidations in Europe: new evidence pp. 105-109

Antonio Afonso

Does labour productivity flow across industries? Estimation robust to panel heterogeneity and cross sectional correlation pp. 111-115

Joseph Byrne and Michela Vecchi

Modelling product and foreign market diversification decisions for UK firms pp. 117-120

Adrian Gourlay and Jonathan Seaton

Exploring nonlinearity with random field regression pp. 121-124

Derek Bond, Michael J. Harrison and Edward O'Brien

Macroeconomic impact of Eastern enlargement on Germany and UK: evidence from a CGE model pp. 125-128

Timo Baas and Herbert Br�cker

Residual-based tests forcointegration with gradual switching pp. 129-133

Junya Masuda

Effects of parliamentary elections on primary budget deficits in OECD countries - robustness of the results with regard to alternative econometric estimators pp. 135-139

Tobias Hagen

On the persistence of the gender unemployment gap: evidence from eight OECD countries pp. 141-145

Herv� Queneau and Amit Sen

Cultural distance as a determinant of bilateral trade flows: do immigrants counter the effect of cultural differences? pp. 147-152

Bedassa Tadesse and Roger White

Determinants of interstate differentials in the cost of housing, 2006 pp. 153-157

Richard Cebula and Michael Toma

Is the arms race between the PRC and Taiwan simply a myth? The long-run and causal relationship between their defence spending ratios pp. 159-164

Shyh-Wei Chen

Transfer payment distribution and increases in gambling activity pp. 165-167

Andrew Weinbach and Rodney Paul

Education and labour productivity in New Zealand pp. 169-173

Weshah Razzak and Jason Timmins

Gender differences in determinants of job satisfaction among cooperative extension workers in the United States pp. 175-179

Francisco Aguilar and R. P. Vlosky

The fundamental performance of newly privatized firms: evidence from continental Europe pp. 181-186

Ferdinand Mager and Tobias Jesswein

Volatility in the gold futures market pp. 187-190

Jonathan Batten and Brian Lucey

Teacher quality and student performance: the case of Pennsylvania pp. 191-195

Tin-Chin Lin

Simple tests for cointegration in panels with structural breaks pp. 197-200

Luciano Gutierrez

Bayesian hierarchical estimationof technical efficiency in a fishery pp. 201-204

David Tomberlin and Garth Holloway

Customer discrimination against black major league baseball pitchers reconsidered pp. 205-208

Philip L. Hersch

Volume 17, issue 1, 2010

Technical efficiency of shrimp fishery in South Carolina, USA pp. 1-5

Ferdinand D. Vinuya

A Monte Carlo evaluation of the efficiency of the PCSE estimator pp. 7-10

Xiujian Chen, Shu Lin and W. Reed

Capital and labor in thelong-run: evidence fromTobin's q for the US pp. 11-14

Andre Mollick and Joao Faria

Using dynamic factor models to forecast Canadian inflation: the role of US variables-super-1 pp. 15-18

Marc-Andr� Gosselin and Greg Tkacz

Public debt around the world: a new data set of central government debt pp. 19-24

Dany Jaimovich and Ugo Panizza

Time series analysis of income convergence in China pp. 25-29

Hening Liu and Le Wang

Do recent data provide evidence that the US trade deficit will correct itself? pp. 31-35

Albert Wijeweera and John Deskins

Asian-white male wage differentials in the United States pp. 37-43

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani and Jie Wang

Lemons and certified pre-owned cars in the used car market pp. 45-50

Arif Sultan

What drives broadband diffusion? Evidence from Eastern Europe pp. 51-54

Maria Vicente and Ana Jesús L�pez

To be or not to be: an economic shock, stress and suicidal ideation pp. 55-60

Yong-Hwan Noh

Resource curse: the role of institutions versus policies pp. 61-66

Benhua Yang

A note on performance measures for business failure prediction models pp. 67-70

Hubert Ooghe and Christophe Spaenjers

Cross-sectional stock return analysis using support vector regression pp. 71-74

Jie Liu, Zaixia Hu and Shaohua Tan

ROC curve for discrete choice models an application to the Romanian car market pp. 75-79

Cristian Dragos

Exchange rate volatility and the asymmetric fluctuation band on the way to the Eurozone pp. 81-86

Daniel Stav�rek

Health inequalities by education, income and wealth: a comparison of 11 European countries and the US pp. 87-91

H. J�rges

A test of employer learning in the labour market for young Australians pp. 93-98

Stephen Cheung

Price mobility of locations pp. 99-103

Konstantin Gluschenko