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Volume 16, issue 18, 2009

Velocity of money and inflation dynamics pp. 1777-1781

Hwagyun Kim and Chetan Subramanian

A note on the impact of scheduled macroeconomic news announcements on implied volatility pp. 1783-1789

Sami Vähämaa

Poverty reduction, economic growth and inequality in Africa pp. 1791-1794

Fassil Fanta and Mukti Upadhyay

Mapping innovative activity using microdata pp. 1795-1799

Andrea Conte

Monetary policy in the euro area - has it become more powerful on the road to EMU? pp. 1801-1804

Christian Melzer and Thorsten Neumann

Regional convergence in the enlarged European Union pp. 1805-1808

Hans-Friedrich Eckey, Christian Dreger and Matthias Turck

Puzzling tax attitudes and labels pp. 1809-1812

Åsa Löfgren and Katarina Nordblom

Testing credibility with time-varying coefficients pp. 1813-1817

Reginaldo Nogueira

Heterogeneity of job seekers in labour market matching pp. 1819-1823

Sanna-Mari Hynninen

An alternative test to check the validity of convergence results pp. 1825-1829

Don Webber and Paul White

Estimating penalized spline regressions: theory and application to economics pp. 1831-1835

Alfred Greiner

An extension to the neoclassical growth model to estimate growth effects pp. 1837-1841

B. Rao and Fozia Nisha

Basel II and bank bankruptcy analysis pp. 1843-1847

Yung-Ho Chiu, Yu-Chuan Chen and Yu Han Hung

The relationship between size and growth: the case of Chinese listed companies pp. 1849-1853

Long Zhang, Hong Liu, En-Hua Hu and Meng-Xi Yue

The export-growth relationship: estimating a dose-response function pp. 1855-1859

Helmut Fryges

Treating trade statistics inaccuracies: the case of intra-industry trade pp. 1861-1866

Imre Fertő and Attila Karoly Soos

Nonlinear interrelations between ADRs and their underlying stocks revisited: application of threshold VECM pp. 1867-1873

Leon Li

Discipline-specific forecasting of research output in Australian universities pp. 1875-1880

Abbas Valadkhani and Simon Ville

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and human capital management trend in Malaysia's economic development pp. 1881-1886

Jorah Ramlan and Elsadig Ahmed

Volume 16, issue 17, 2009

The nexus of income and size distribution of Chinese cities, 1984-2003 pp. 1677-1682

Chun-Yu Ho and Dan Li

Characteristics of female managers in the US labour market pp. 1683-1686

Mohammad Ashraf

The effect of gun ownership rates on homicide rates: a state-level analysis pp. 1687-1690

Mark Gius

The sustainability of trade accounts of the G-7 countries pp. 1691-1694

Shigeyuki Hamori

The optimal reservation utility in models of decision making in arranged marriages pp. 1695-1698

Amitrajeet Batabyal

A discussion on power of ADF F-test with unexpected initial value pp. 1699-1703

Tran Viet Ha

The IMF's role in mobilizing private capital flows: are there grounds for catalytic conversion? pp. 1705-1708

Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands

Reflections on a critique pp. 1709-1711

Dale Cloninger and Roberto Marchesini

Indirect ICT investment pp. 1713-1716

Paul-Antoine Beretti and Gilbert Cette

Borderplex menu evidence for the law of one price: a convergence approach pp. 1717-1720

Yong Bao, Thomas Fullerton and Donald Lien

The effect of substance use on the delinquent behaviour of adolescents pp. 1721-1729

Bisakha Sen, Susan Averett, Laura Argys and Daniel Rees

Determinants of housing expenditure in Mexico pp. 1731-1734

Matías Fontenla, Fidel Gonzalez and Juan Carlos Navarro

Decomposition of the cost growth for the US forest product industries pp. 1735-1741

Yung-Lieh Yang and Jun-Yen Lee

Impact of the real median price of single-family homes on US internal net migration: an exploratory empirical note pp. 1743-1746

Richard Cebula

Social networks and trade liberalization pp. 1747-1749

Manish Pandey and John Whalley

A structural factor-augmented vector error correction (SFAVEC) model approach: an application to the UK pp. 1751-1756

Gianluca Lagana

On the multivariate EGARCH model pp. 1757-1761

Ten-Der Jane and Cherng Ding

Long memory in stock returns: evidence from the major emerging Central European stock markets pp. 1763-1768

Saadet Kasman, Evrim Turgutlu and A. Duygu Ayhan

An empirical note on the holiday effect in the Australian stock market, 1996-2006 pp. 1769-1772

George Marrett and Andrew Worthington

Measuring the safety elasticity of advertising pp. 1773-1776

Jay Squalli

Volume 16, issue 16, 2009

Smoking restrictions and spillovers across jurisdictions pp. 1587-1592

Rajeev Goel

Stock return dynamics and the CAPM anomalies pp. 1593-1596

Reidar Hagtvedt

A pooled mean group analysis on aid and growth pp. 1597-1601

Kang Yong Tan

Size of regional trade agreements and regional trade bias pp. 1603-1606

Michele Fratianni and Chang Hoon Oh

Modelling the incidence of unemployment: the case of Greece pp. 1607-1611

Ilias Livanos

Environmental regulations and the increasing seasonality of gasoline prices pp. 1613-1616

Michael Davis

The border puzzle is solved pp. 1617-1620

Martin Andresen

Over education among older workers: impact on wages and early retirement decisions pp. 1621-1626

Stephen Rubb

Economic significance of downside risk in developed and emerging markets pp. 1627-1632

Don Galagedera

Oil shocks and the macro-economy: a comparison across high oil price periods pp. 1633-1638

Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez and Marcelo Sanchez

Analysis of school failure based on Portuguese micro data pp. 1639-1643

Amélia Bastos, G. Leao Fernandes and J. Passos

Informational differentiation, interest rate dispersion and market power pp. 1645-1649

Alfredo Martin-Oliver, Vicente Salas-Fumas and Jesús Saurina

The relationship between pharmaceutical expenditure and life expectancy: evidence from 21 OECD countries pp. 1651-1655

Zafer Caliskan

Accurate approximation formulas for stock options with discrete dividends pp. 1657-1663

Tian-Shyr Dai and Yuh-Dauh Lyuu

What is important in a fight for life? - preferences of women diagnosed with breast cancer for attributes of an oncological institute pp. 1665-1670

Einat Neuman

The role of inflation expectations in the EMU pp. 1671-1675

Maritta Paloviita and Matti Viren

Volume 16, issue 15, 2009

More inequality, less social mobility pp. 1489-1492

Dan Andrews and Andrew Leigh

Power of significance test of dummy variables in two-stage efficiency analysis model pp. 1493-1495

Valentin Zelenyuk

Estimation of competitive conduct when firms are efficiently colluding: addressing the Corts critique pp. 1497-1500

Steven Puller

The labour scarcity paradox reconsidered: a simple growth theoretic explanation pp. 1501-1504

Qiang Chen

Tipping and service quality: results from a large database pp. 1505-1510

Peter Kerr and Bruce Domazlicky

Time allocation by the self-employed: the determinants of the number of working hours in start-ups pp. 1511-1515

Martin Carree and Ingrid Verheul

Implementation of stochastic dominance: a nonparametric kernel approach pp. 1517-1522

Charles Moss and Grigorios Livanis

Negative fiscal multipliers exceed positive multipliers during Japanese deflation pp. 1523-1527

Jonathan Leightner and Tomoo Inoue

Altruism and externalities pp. 1529-1531

Andres Victorio

International R&D spillovers: the role of financial markets pp. 1533-1536

Isabell Koske

Are immigrants more likely to commit crimes? Evidence from France pp. 1537-1541

Yu Aoki and Yasuyuki Todo

Preference asymmetry and international reserve accretion in India pp. 1543-1546

Naveen Srinivasan, Vidya Mahambare and M Ramachandran

Modelling international trade flows between CEEC and OECD countries pp. 1547-1554

Christophe Rault, Robert Sova and Ana Maria Sova

Price discovery for copper futures in informationally linked markets pp. 1555-1558

Xindan Li and Bing Zhang

The determinants of foreign direct investment in MENA countries: an extreme bounds analysis pp. 1559-1563

Imad Moosa

Federal Reserve vs. consumer forecasts of inflation: 1979-1983 pp. 1565-1568

Hamid Baghestani and Mohamed Soliman

Twin deficits phenomenon in small islands: an empirical investigation by panel data analysis pp. 1569-1573

Salih Katircioglu, Sami Fethı and Meryem Duygun Fethı

Stock market returns and terrorist violence: evidence from the Basque Country pp. 1575-1579

Carlos Barros and Luis Gil-Alana

Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes pp. 1581-1586

Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus Zimmermann

Volume 16, issue 14, 2009

Median-voter, size of the government and budget spillover: evidence for US states pp. 1387-1392

Enlinson Mattos

Wage differential by disability status in an agrarian labour market in India pp. 1393-1398

Sophie Mitra and Usha Sambamoorthi

Calculating implied volatility using the bisection algorithm: a note pp. 1399-1402

R. H. Berry and X. Zuo

Relationship between stock returns and inflation pp. 1403-1408

Imhotep Alagidede

The Reichsbank: a nonparametric modelling of historical time series pp. 1409-1414

Mohamed Chikhi and Claude Diebolt

Marginal effects and significance testing with Heckman's sample selection model: a methodological note pp. 1415-1419

Colin Vance

The determinants of sales on eBay: the case of baseball cards pp. 1421-1424

Jannett Highfill and Kevin O'Brien

An empirical analysis of the CDX index and its tranches pp. 1425-1431

Frank Fabozzi, Yi-Chen Wang, Shih-Kuo Yeh and Ren-Raw Chen

International equity diversification between Japan and its major trading partners pp. 1433-1437

Tsangyao Chang, Chien-Wen Mo and Wen-Chi Liu

The impact of preferences on the WTP premium and the WTA premium pp. 1439-1442

Tal Shavit, Shosh Shahrabani and Uri Benzion

Testing long-run validity of purchasing power parity for selected emerging market economies pp. 1443-1448

Murat Doğanlar, Harun Bal and Mehmet Ozmen

Snuff the puff: international evidence on the determinants of anti-smoking laws pp. 1449-1453

Craig Gallet

Social or human infrastructure? Re-examining essential determinants of output per worker among countries pp. 1455-1459

Tiago Sequeira and Margarida Rodrigues

The (non)impact of revenue decentralization on fiscal deficits: some evidence from OECD countries pp. 1461-1466

John Thornton

The millennium bub pp. 1467-1470

Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh

Further considerations on the link between adjustment costs and the productivity of R&D investment: evidence for Spain pp. 1471-1476

Desiderio Romero-Jordan, Jose Felix Sanz-Sanz and Inmaculada Álvarez

Identifying turbulent and calm regimes in stock prices: evidence from the Taiwan stock market pp. 1477-1481

Yu-Lieh Huang

Entry of young economists into working life: analysis of the determinants of first unemployment duration pp. 1483-1488

Cristina Borra, Francisco Gómez and Manuel Salas-Velasco

Volume 16, issue 13, 2009

Predictive content of the stock market for output revisited pp. 1289-1294

Gabe de Bondt

Further evidence for the negative relationship between stock returns and volatility pp. 1295-1300

Jeong-Ryeol Kurz-Kim

Does 'early purchase' improve the willingness to pay for long-term care insurance? pp. 1301-1305

Joan Costa-Font and Montserrat Font

Microenterprises and economic growth: a panel study of the US states 1977-1997 pp. 1307-1312

Steven Deller and James Mcconnon

Pricing delinquent mortgages pp. 1313-1317

Camilo Sarmiento

A note on combining on-site samples and supplemental samples in a logit model of recreation demand pp. 1319-1322

Steven B Caudill, Ram Acharya and Diane Hite

Inflation uncertainty and money demand pp. 1323-1328

Matthew Higgins and Shohreh Majin

Nonlinear linkages between financial risk tolerance and demographic characteristics pp. 1329-1332

Robert Faff, Terrence Hallahan and Michael McKenzie

Revisiting the interest rate puzzle pp. 1333-1340

Joe Yoshino and Edson Bastos e Santos

Start-up funding sources and biotechnology firm growth pp. 1341-1345

Shamim Ahmed and Brian Cozzarin

Trends in occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the USA: evidence from detailed data pp. 1347-1350

Herve Queneau

Sexual orientation and earnings: evidence from the ISSP pp. 1351-1354

Guido Heineck

Agency in health-care: are medical care-givers perfect agents? pp. 1355-1360

Einat Neuman and Shoshana Neuman

Market depth in an illiquid market: applying the VNET concept to Victorian water markets pp. 1361-1364

Robert Brooks, Edwyna Harris and Yovina Joymungul

Convergence in income inequality in the United States: a nonparametric analysis pp. 1365-1368

Roberto Ezcurra and Pedro Pascual Arzoz

The effect of communication between doctor and patient on patient's medical care use pp. 1369-1374

Jae-Young Lim

Who stopped flying around September 11? pp. 1375-1381

Don Webber

Explaining variation in wine prices: the battle between objective and sensory attributes revisited pp. 1383-1386

Christer Thrane

Volume 16, issue 12, 2009

Country of origin labelling of fresh produce: a consumer preference analysis pp. 1183-1185

Venkata Puduri, Ramu Govindasamy and Benjamin Onyango

KPSS test and model misspecifications pp. 1187-1190

Kaddour Hadri and Yao Rao

Regional VARs and the channels of monetary policy pp. 1191-1194

Michael Owyang and Howard Wall

Official dollarization in El Salvador and the inflation-inflation uncertainty nexus pp. 1195-1199

James Payne

Why do financially distressed firms pay dividends? pp. 1201-1204

Gil Cohen and Joseph Yagil

Markov switching and long memory: a Monte Carlo analysis pp. 1205-1210

Wei-Choun Yu

Why buy when you can rent? A brief investigation of differences in acquisition mode based on duration pp. 1211-1213

Amy Moore and Michael Taylor

Tests of the present-value model of the current account: a note pp. 1215-1219

Hafedh Bouakez and Takashi Kano

Does the employment guarantee scheme stabilize household incomes in rural India? pp. 1221-1225

Pasquale Scandizzo, Raghav Gaiha and Katsushi Imai

Further results on bias in dynamic unbalanced panel data models with an application to firm R&D investment pp. 1227-1233

Boris Lokshin

Estimating individual rates of discount: a meta-analysis pp. 1235-1239

Marco Percoco and Peter Nijkamp

Energy demand models: a threshold panel specification of the 'Kuznets curve' pp. 1241-1244

Julien Fouquau, Ghislaine Destais and Christophe Hurlin

Income convergence: fresh evidence from the Nordic countries pp. 1245-1248

Venus Liew and Yusuf Ahmad

On selection of components for a diffusion index model: it's not the size, it's how you use it pp. 1249-1254

Boriss Siliverstovs and Kinstantin Kholodilim

Incorporating a leading indicator into the trading rule through the Markov-switching vector autoregression model pp. 1255-1259

Tzu-Pu Chang and Jin-Li Hu

Emigrant and immigrant networks in FDI pp. 1261-1264

Marina Murat and Barbara Pistoresi

The changing composition of output and the great moderation pp. 1265-1270

David Black and Michael Dowd

Mean reversion and sales pp. 1271-1275

Patrick Lunnemann and Thomas Mathä

Modelling skewness and kurtosis with the skewed Gauss-Laplace sum distribution pp. 1277-1283

Markus Haas

Do dividends signal information about future earnings? pp. 1285-1288

Khaled Hussainey

Volume 16, issue 11, 2009

Corporate foreign currency debt in Brazil: will dollar indebted firms invest more after real exchange rate depreciations? pp. 1083-1088

Lourenco Paz

Estimating external returns to education in the US: a production function approach pp. 1089-1092

Michael Shields and Gail Shields

Occupation and the labour market participation of women: why do some people trade down jobs when careers are interrupted? pp. 1093-1096

Geraint Johnes

A note on Taylor rules and the term structure pp. 1097-1101

Ralf Fendel

Fractional integration of inflation rates: a note pp. 1103-1105

Paolo Zagaglia

Estimation of simultaneous equation models with latent dependent variables: a Monte Carlo evaluation pp. 1107-1112

Lixin Cai

International term structure of interest rates in the Euro area pp. 1113-1116

Shigeyuki Hamori and Naoko Hamori

Black swans, market timing and the Dow pp. 1117-1121

Javier Estrada

Does the United Kingdom have regional banking markets? An assessment of UK deposit provision 1992-2006 pp. 1123-1128

John Ashton

Efficiency tests of the UK financial futures markets and the impact of electronic trading systems: a note on relative market efficiency pp. 1129-1132

Kian-Ping Lim

Momentum in the Irish stock market pp. 1133-1138

Dan O'Donnell and Dirk Baur

Optimal common currency basket in East Asia pp. 1139-1141

Victor Pontines

Comparing the reliability of a discrete-time and a continuous-time Markov chain model in determining credit risk pp. 1143-1148

Su-Lien Lu

Feasibility of riskless hedged portfolios in imperfect markets pp. 1149-1153

Hsinan Hsu and Yaw-Bin Wang

The twin deficits in OECD countries: cointegration analysis with regime shifts pp. 1155-1164

Vincent Daly and Jalal Siddiki

A note on Allen-Uzawa partial elasticities of substitution: the case of the translog cost function pp. 1165-1169

Atanas Christev and Allen Featherstone

Testing for nominal convergence in the Central American area: evidence from panel data unit-root tests pp. 1171-1174

Jean-François Hoarau, Stéphane Blancard and Philippe Jean-Pierre

Long maturity forward rates of major currencies are stationary pp. 1175-1181

Zsolt Darvas and Zoltan Schepp

Volume 16, issue 10, 2009

Regulation, shareholder rights and corporate governance: an empirical note pp. 977-982

Pornsit Jiraporn and Wallace Davidson

The monetary transmission in the euro area: post-1999 data assessment pp. 983-988

Dejan Krusec

Empirical pricing kernels obtained from the UK index options market pp. 989-993

Xiaoquan Liu, Mark Shackleton, Stephen Taylor and Xinzhong Xu

The estimation of asymmetric adjustment costs for the number of workers and working hours - empirical evidence from Japanese industry data pp. 995-998

Kenji Azetsu and Mototsugu Fukushige

The impact of 9/11 on hours of work and labour force participation in the US pp. 999-1003

Julie Hotchkiss and Olga Pavlova

An extended Stein's lemma for asset pricing pp. 1005-1008

Paul Söderlind

Inter-market information flow: a nonlinear approach pp. 1009-1015

Adel Boubaker and Saber Sebai

The cost of capital, corporation finance and the theory of investment: a refinement pp. 1017-1019

Dave Lane

On comparison of nutritional deprivation: an illustration using Foster Greer Thorbecke criterion pp. 1021-1024

Udaya Mishra and Rudra Narayan Mishra

High-tech exports and economic growth in industrialized countries pp. 1025-1028

Martin Falk

On skewness of return and buying more than one ticket in a lottery pp. 1029-1032

David Peel and David Law

Economic factors, firm characteristics and performance: a panel data analysis for United Kingdom life offices pp. 1033-1037

Yung-Ming Shiu

Information spillovers between derivative markets with differences in transaction costs and liquidity pp. 1039-1047

Natividad Blasco, Pilar Corredor and Rafael Santamaria

Class size, student performance and Tiebout bias pp. 1049-1052

Uwe Jirjahn, Christian Pfeifer and Georgi Tsertsvadze

Demographics and living arrangements of the minority elderly in the United States pp. 1053-1057

Mark Bicket and Aparna Mitra

Estimating the long-term costs of diabetic kidney disease: an economic approach pp. 1059-1064

Mark Knezevic

Characteristics of self-employment among university graduates pp. 1065-1071

Martin Falk and Thomas Leoni

Tenant time preference as a barrier to homeownership pp. 1073-1077

Russell James

Alternative methods of calculating optimal timber rotations: a critique of the Stokey/Lucas/Prescott tree-cutting problem pp. 1079-1081

Victor Matheson

Volume 16, issue 9, 2009

Asymmetric modelling of the revenue-expenditure nexus: evidence from aggregate state and local government in the US pp. 871-876

Matthew Zapf and James Payne

The impact of income taxation on the ratio between reservation and market wages and the incentives for labour supply pp. 877-883

Marco Caliendo, Ludovica Gambaro and Peter Haan

Gender differentials in skill use and skill formation in the aftermath of vocational training pp. 885-889

René Fahr and Uwe Sunde

Is maritime piracy random? pp. 891-895

Maximo Mejia, Pierre Cariou and François-Charles Wolff

Polarization trends across the US states pp. 897-902

Roberto Ezcurra

Market frictions and overpriced favourites: evidence from arena football pp. 903-906

Richard Borghesi, Rodney Paul and Andrew Weinbach

Return autocorrelations in the stock markets pp. 907-911

Chun-Da Chen

Dynamic hedging performance with the evaluation of multivariate GARCH models: evidence from KOSTAR index futures pp. 913-919

Gyu-Hyen Moon, Wei-Choun Yu and Chung-Hyo Hong

Estimation of a hedonic price equation for Alsace, Beaujolais and Provence wines pp. 921-927

Jean-Marie Cardebat and Jean-Marc Figuet

A heterogeneous route to the European monetary system crisis pp. 929-932

Eelke de Jong, Willem Verschoor and Remco Zwinkels

Decomposing the characteristics of undergraduate student attrition pp. 933-937

Mark Bailey and Vani Borooah

City relative price convergence in the USA with structural break(s) pp. 939-944

Robert Sonora

An alternative interpretation of 'average years of education' in growth regressions pp. 945-949

Péter Földvári and Bas van Leeuwen

Economic reforms as a tool to attract foreign direct investment: is it a chimera? pp. 951-957

Sumon Bhaumik and Ralitza Dimova

Tests of currency substitution, capital mobility and nonlinearity of Hungary's money demand function pp. 959-964

Wen-Jen Hsieh and Yu Hsing

Student effort: standards vs. tournaments pp. 965-969

Pedro Landeras

Re-estimation of capital flights from China: 1982-2005 pp. 971-976

Zhenquan Wang, Shouyang Wang and Tonghua Huang

Volume 16, issue 8, 2009

Research requirements for promotion and tenure at PhD granting departments of economics pp. 765-768

Gaines Liner and Ellen Sewell

Ordered response models for sovereign debt ratings pp. 769-773

Antonio Afonso, Pedro Gomes and Philipp Rother

Asymmetric return patterns: evidence from 33 international stock market indices pp. 775-779

Twm Evans and David McMillan

Do starting values really matter? Development of a genetic algorithm approach pp. 781-784

Glynn Tonsor and Terry Kastens

A note on democratization: does history still matter? pp. 785-789

Kevin Sylwester

Determinants of bank supervisory agencies' power and accountability: a cross-country analysis pp. 791-795

Ayse Evrensel

Detecting cumulative abnormal volume: a comparison of event study methods pp. 797-802

Imre Karafiath

Panel data model comparison for empirical saving-investment relations pp. 803-807

Helmut Herwartz and Fang Xu

Trade, labour market regulations and growth pp. 809-812

Matthias Busse and Carsten Hefeker

Kuznets's hypothesis and the data constraint pp. 813-818

Argentino Pessoa

Investor protection effects on corporate liquidity and the cost of capital pp. 819-826

Monish Chhabra, Stephen Ferris and Nilanjan Sen

Does overconfidence always matter for asset prices? pp. 827-830

Weixing Wu and Yongxiang Wang

Modelling Fiji-US exchange rate volatility pp. 831-834

Paresh Narayan, Seema Narayan and Arti Prasad

Does the information environment affect the value relevance of financial statement data? pp. 835-839

Mark Aleksanyan

The optimal internal marketing strategy in services under open economy pp. 841-845

Wann-Yih Wu and Cheng-Feng Cheng

On the sensitivity of US electric utilities' efficiency estimates - a distance function approach pp. 847-851

Christian Growitsch and Borge Hess

Currency appreciation, rising financial asset values, and output fluctuations in China pp. 853-857

Yu Hsing and Wen-Jen Hsieh

Microfinance: equity and debt contracts pp. 859-862

Amelia Correa and Romar Correa

Intraday return and order imbalance relation in NASDAQ speculative new highs pp. 863-869

Yongchern Su, Weiling Tseng and Peiwen Chen

Volume 16, issue 7, 2009

Hotel tax receipts and the 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil': a time series intervention seasonal ARIMA model with time-varying variance pp. 653-656

Michael Toma, Richard McGrath and James Payne

An evaluation of the effects of major trading partner growth using a GMM system pp. 657-661

Jeffrey Edwards and Marshall Garland

Prostate cancer: a New Brunswick tale pp. 663-667

Peter Sephton

The day-of-the-week anomaly: the role of institutional investors in Japan pp. 669-676

Wentworth Boynton, Henry Oppenheimer and Sean Reid

An experimental test of anchoring effect pp. 677-678

Anna Dodonova

Revenues as a proxy for profits: a cautionary note pp. 679-681

Sven-Olov Daunfeldt and Niklas Rudholm

What makes the income tax system so progressive? - the case of Korea pp. 683-687

Byung-In Lim and Jin Kwon Hyun

The inflation rate and financial premium pp. 689-692

Fuhmei Wang

Rethinking rational addictive behaviour and demand for cinema: a study using Japanese panel data pp. 693-697

Eiji Yamamura

Models for over reported income pp. 699-703

Saralees Nadarajah

Can transition economies implement a carbon tax and hope for a double dividend? The case of Estonia pp. 705-709

Olga Kiuila and Anil Markandya

Analysing the c-minus-age strategy for life-cycle investing pp. 711-718

Christine Lai and Tsung-Chyan Lai

Municipal waste generation and the EKC hypothesis new evidence exploiting province-based panel data pp. 719-725

Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini and Roberto Zoboli

What type of economic growth does foreign aid support? pp. 727-730

Simon Feeny and Bazoumana Ouattara

Globalization, democratization and economic growth pp. 731-734

Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti and Pietro Navarra

Commuting flows across bordering regions: a note pp. 735-738

Thomas Mathä and Ladislav Wintr

The level of technology employed and the internal hierarchical wage structure pp. 739-744

Hung-Lin Tao and I-Ting Chen

Testing the home-country self-employment hypothesis on immigrants in Sweden pp. 745-748

Mats Hammarstedt and Ghazi Shukur

Combined signal approach: evidence from the Asian-Pacific equity markets pp. 749-753

Camillo Lento

The dynamic inefficiency of financial capitalism pp. 755-757

Amelia Correa, Romar Correa, D Rao and Graciella Tavares

The impact of sudden changes on the persistence of volatility: evidence from the BRIC countries pp. 759-764

Adnan Kasman

Volume 16, issue 6, 2009

Industrial structure and economic stability pp. 549-555

Sherrill Shaffer

A choice experiment approachin evaluating publictransportation projects pp. 557-561

Junyi Shen

Note rate modifications and subprime default rates pp. 563-566

Camilo Sarmiento

Macroeconomic uncertainty and private investment in Argentina, Mexico and Turkey pp. 567-571

Firat Demir

Interaction between product market and labour market power: evidence from France, Belgium and Chile pp. 573-577

Jose Miguel Benavente, Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse

Asymmetric business cycle co-movements pp. 579-584

Alain Hecq

Airline alliances: parallel or complementary? pp. 585-590

Ricardo Flores-Fillol

On the evolution of wage inequality in Acemoglu's model of directed technical change pp. 591-595

Matthias Weiss

Too many, too fast? Dynamics of net migration in OECD, 1984-2001 pp. 597-602

Nick Zubanov

On the relation between central and sub-national government fiscal balances pp. 603-608

John Thornton

A conceptual model of the economic impact of international movements in the health labour force pp. 609-613

Bruce Hollingsworth and Jeff Richardson

The savings-inflation puzzle pp. 615-617

Burkhard Heer and Bernd Sussmuth

Are the financial characteristics of acquired banks similar across the EU? Evidence from the principal markets pp. 619-623

Fotios Pasiouras and Chrysovalantis Gaganis

An analysis of momentum and contrarian anomalies using an orthogonal portfolio approach pp. 625-628

Hossein Asgharian and Björn Hansson

A robustness test of asset-pricing models using individual security returns pp. 629-637

Manapon Limkriangkrai, Robert Durand and Iain Watson

Bank risk, charter value and depositor discipline: a simultaneous equations approach pp. 639-644

Saibal Ghosh

On the negative relationship between the wage rate and the unemployment rate: application of efficiency wage models pp. 645-647

Yu Hsing

On the validity of conventional statistical tests given evidence of nonsynchronous trading and nonlinear dynamics in returns generating process: a further note pp. 649-652

Kian-Ping Lim and Robert Brooks

Volume 16, issue 5, 2009

Some notes on statistic robustness of nonparametric bivariate probit model in a finite sample pp. 443-447

Takaaki Aoki

Impact of nostalgia and past experience on recreational demand for wilderness pp. 449-453

Ram Acharya, Krishna Paudel and L. Upton Hatch

A simple model of productivity slowdown pp. 455-458

Toshihiko Mukoyama

Is self-reported disability status endogenous to labour force status? pp. 459-464

Lixin Cai

Demand estimation under limited product availability pp. 465-468

Steven Tenn

Estimating the time-varying NAIRU for Germany and policy implications pp. 469-473

Yu Hsing

Divergence from de jure exchange rate regime: a stochastic process of learning pp. 475-479

Monzur Hossain

Consumption and aggregate constraints: new evidence from Chinese provinces pp. 481-484

Xinpeng Xu

The informational efficiency: the emerging markets versus the developed markets pp. 485-487

Wiston Adrian Risso

A test statistic equation for obtaining alternative Wald and score statistics in the generalized method of moments framework pp. 489-494

Joaquim Ramalho

Juvenile crime in Spain pp. 495-500

Paolo Buonanno and Daniel Montolio

Volatility spillover effects amongsix Asian countries pp. 501-508

Sang Jin Lee

Linkages among Latin American foreign exchange markets: a long-run perspective in the presence of structural breaks pp. 509-514

Isabel Ruiz

A semiparametric approach to examine wage flexibility pp. 515-518

Adolfo Maza and Ignacio Moral-Arce

Weak-form market efficiency and nonlinearity: evidence from Middle East and African stock indices pp. 519-522

Kian-Ping Lim

Assessing the impact of historical changes in social protection on poverty in Canada pp. 523-526

Mathieu Audet and Paul Makdissi

The 'Resource Curse' and regional US development pp. 527-530

Donald Freeman

Yield spreads and real economic activity in East European transition economies pp. 531-537

Stephanos Papadamou

An econometric analysis of household political giving in the USA pp. 539-543

Russell James

Seasonality, returns and volatility on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius pp. 545-548

Subadar Agathee Ushad

Volume 16, issue 4, 2009

Is the treatment of intergovernmental aid symmetric? pp. 331-335

Steven Deller and Craig Maher

Two aspects of waste management from the viewpoints of a waste generator and a recipient pp. 337-341

Amitrajeet Batabyal and Peter Nijkamp

International reserve holdings: interest rates matter! pp. 343-348

Christopher Ball and Javier Reyes

Modification of the point optimal unit root test pp. 349-352

Dimitrios Vougas

Evaluating NAFTA - an impulse function approach pp. 353-357

Deergha Raj Adhikari

Parental eligibility for public health insurance: a study of the State Children's Health Insurance Program and child coverage rates pp. 359-363

Cynthia Bansak and Christopher McLaren

Long-term interest rates and expected future budget deficits: evidence from the term structure pp. 365-368

Lloyd Thomas and Danhua Wu

The effect of late money on betting market efficiency pp. 369-372

Marshall Gramm and C. Nicholas McKinney

Does the advertising effect of athletics impact academic rankings? pp. 373-378

Brad Trenkamp

Do bank lending relationships always enhance financial distress resolution? The case of Germany pp. 379-385

Andreas Rauterkus

Dealing with the willingness to pay data with preference intensity: a semiparametric estimation pp. 387-390

Seung-Hoon Yoo

Stimulating part-time work by legal entitlements? Evidence from a German policy experiment pp. 391-394

Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel and Hans-Dieter Gerner

The nonpecuniary effects of smoking cessation: happier smokers smoke less pp. 395-398

Simon Moore

The determinants of post-compulsory education in Spain pp. 399-404

Elena Casquel and Ezequiel Uriel

On the measurement of mismatch pp. 405-409

Carsten Ochsen

High shopping frequency of Vietnamese consumers: theory and measurement pp. 411-415

Masayoshi Maruyama and Le Viet Trung

Estimation of a regional wage curve and policy implications pp. 417-419

Yu Hsing

A note on relative violation arguments in expected penalty functions for permit noncompliance pp. 421-423

Aaron Hatcher

Availability and consumption of alcoholic beverages: evidence from Finland pp. 425-429

E. Mangeloja and J. Pehkonen

Development and determinants of systemic risk in European banking - an empirical note pp. 431-438

Helmut Herwartz and Martin Siegel

The resource curse: which institutions matter? pp. 439-442

Ivar Kolstad

Volume 16, issue 3, 2009

Non-normality, heteroscedasticity and recursive unit root tests of PPP: solving the PPP puzzle? pp. 223-226

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Andros Gregoriou

What determines self-employment? A comparative study pp. 227-232

Ilias Livanos

Inflation targeting and the inflation-inflation uncertainty relationship: evidence from Thailand pp. 233-238

James Payne

A variance decomposition in the evaluation of the effects of educational policies in economic education pp. 239-242

Barry Ma and Jeffrey Weiss

Evaluating state tax revenue variability: a portfolio approach pp. 243-246

Thomas Garrett

Effect of unemployment insurance tax on wages and employment: a partial equilibrium analysis pp. 247-250

Deergha Raj Adhikari, Lynn Gray and Jackie Burns

Estimation of race-neutral goals in public procurement and contracting pp. 251-256

Samuel Myers and Inhyuck “Steve” Ha

Pensions with early retirement and without commitment pp. 257-260

Michael Neugart

Technology transfer and convergence of performance: an economic study of FIFA football ranking pp. 261-266

Eiji Yamamura

Long lags or seasonal mis-specification? A note on co-integration testing and the consumption function pp. 267-271

Kevin Albertson and Jonathan Aylen

Another view of the social costs from rent seeking pp. 273-275

David Kamerschen

Growth effects of FDI and portfolio investment flows to developing countries: a disaggregated analysis by income levels pp. 277-283

Glauco de Vita and Khine Kyaw

Unit roots, polynomial transformations and the environmental Kuznets curve pp. 285-288

Gang Liu, Terje Skjerpen and Kjetil Telle

Demand-pulled innovation under liquidity constraints pp. 289-293

Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

Foreign aid and ecological outcomes in poorer countries: an empirical analysis pp. 295-299

Mak Arvin and Byron Lew

Efficiency in the Australian stock market, 1875-2006: a note on extreme long-run random walk behaviour pp. 301-306

Andrew Worthington and Helen Higgs

On the return-risk link in education pp. 307-314

Corrado Andini

The overconfident, or the more informed? pp. 315-318

Hefa Gui, Mingchao Cai and Yongxiang Wang

Scale economies of lotto once more pp. 319-323

George Papachristou

Financial dependence and growth: further evidence pp. 325-330

Manoj Raj

Volume 16, issue 2, 2009

A simple IM test for exponential distributions pp. 109-112

Pablo Acosta and Gabriel Montes-Rojas

Does founding family control affect earnings management? pp. 113-119

Pornsit Jiraporn and Peter DaDalt

A comparison of forecasting performance between ECM and the difference ARX model pp. 121-124

Jeong-Ryeol Kurz-Kim

Entry barriers and markup ratios: evidence from OECD countries pp. 125-130

Haibin Wu

Improving mental health inequality? Some initial evidence from Australia pp. 131-136

Ruth Williams and D. P. Doessel

Is there a natural suicide rate? pp. 137-140

Bijou Yang and David Lester

If only I could sack you! Management turnover and performance in Great German Banks between 1874 and 1913 pp. 141-145

Christian Bayer and Carsten Burhop

Effect of unemployment insurance tax on wages and reallocation of labour pp. 147-150

Deergha Raj Adhikari, Wayne Everson and Lynn Gray

On the relevance of t-ratios in empirical modelling: two special cases pp. 151-155

Wuyang Hu

Are real exchange rates of Papua New Guinea mean-reverting? Evidence from panel unit root tests pp. 157-161

Guneratne Wickremasinghe

Is South Korea's stock market efficient? Evidence from a nonlinear unit root test pp. 163-167

Mübariz Hasanov

The effect of different inflation risks on interest rates of the US pp. 169-175

E. Yuksel and Y. Akdi

Relations between health care expenditure and income: an application of local quantile regressions pp. 177-181

M. -Y. Chen, F. -L. Lin and C. -K. Chang

Multiple asymmetries in index stock returns from boom/bust and stable/volatile markets states- an empirical study of US and UK stock markets pp. 183-191

Leon Li

A note on the estimation of the PD-GEV models pp. 193-197

Tiziano Razzolini

An analysis of the relation between R&D and M&A in high-tech industries pp. 199-201

Hironobu Miyazaki

From European to Asian leadership in the economic efficiency of the world air industry pp. 203-209

Belen Rey, Vicente Inglada, Cipriano Quiros, Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez and Pablo Coto-Millán

Policy and nonpolicy determinants of progressivity of block residential water rates - a case study of Mauritius pp. 211-215

Yeti Nisha Madhoo

Systematic risk estimation in symmetric models pp. 217-221

Gilberto Paula and Francisco Jose Cysneiros

Volume 16, issue 1, 2009

Editorial: Long-run purchasing power parity and real exchange rates: introduction and overview pp. 1-4

Mark Taylor

Evidence on PPP from a cointegration test with multiple structural breaks pp. 5-8

Paresh Narayan, Seema Narayan and Arti Prasad

Cointegration tests of PPP: do they also exhibit erratic behaviour? pp. 9-15

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Christoph Hanck

Are real exchange rates more likely to be stationary during the fixed nominal exchange rate regimes? pp. 17-22

Gawon Yoon

Are real exchange rates mean reverting? Evidence from a panel of OECD countries pp. 23-27

Ozgur Aslan and Levent Korap

Financial integration and parity reversion in real exchange rates of emerging markets pp. 29-33

Joseph Kargbo

Purchasing power parity and nonlinear adjustment pp. 35-38

Jorge Pérez-Rodríguez, Francisco Ledesma and S. Torra-Porras

Testing the purchasing power parity: evidence from the new EU countries pp. 39-44

Minoas Koukouritakis

Purchasing power parity in Korean city panels with disaggregate price indices pp. 45-49

Y. Oh and K. Han

Purchasing power parity in Asian economies: further evidence from rank tests for cointegration pp. 51-54

Venus Liew, Hock-Ann Lee and Kian-Ping Lim

Purchasing power parity and long memory pp. 55-61

Gawon Yoon

New evidence of the validity of purchasing power parity from Turkey pp. 63-67

Huseyin Kalyoncu

Financial globalization and purchasing power parity in the G7 countries pp. 69-74

Joseph Kargbo

A more powerful panel unit root test with an application to PPP pp. 75-80

Chi Keung Lau

Stochastic behaviour of the real exchange rate for Jordan: a re-examination pp. 81-85

Nasip Bolatoglu, Funda Telatar and Erdinc Telatar

Purchasing power parity in Central and Eastern European countries: an analysis of unit roots and nonlinearities pp. 87-94

Juan Cuestas

Functional forms and PPP: new evidence for eight Asian countries pp. 95-98

Yu Hsing

Testing the PPP hypothesis for G-7 countries pp. 99-101

Yilmaz Akdi, Zeynel Ozdemir and Hasan Olgun

Does the relative population growth affect purchasing power parity? pp. 103-107

Ruhul Salim and Kamrul Hassan