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Volume 12, issue 15, 2005

Does leverage influence banks' non-performing loans? Evidence from India pp. 913-918

Saibal Ghosh

Exchange rate variability, pressures and optimum currency area criteria: some empirical evidence from the 1990s pp. 919-922

Roman Horvath

Forecasting economic time series with measurement error pp. 923-927

Kosei Fukuda

Change in unconditional foreign exchange rate volatility: an analysis of the GBP and USD price of the Euro from 2002 to 2003 pp. 929-932

Richard Heaney and Kerry Pattenden

Monetary policy rules and the information content of the term structure of interest rates pp. 933-936

Ralf Fendel and Michael Frenkel

Evidencing European regional convergence clubs with optimal grouping criteria pp. 937-940

Toni Mora

A three components subgroup decomposition of the Hirschman-Herfindahl index and household's income inequalities in Cameroon pp. 941-947

Célestin Nembua

The separation rate cannot be exogenous pp. 949-951

Ben-David Nissim

Luck and giving pp. 953-956

Julio Videras

Fiscal policy sustainability: test of intertemporal borrowing constraints pp. 957-962

Huseyin Kalyoncu

Decentralization and health care expenditure: the Spanish case pp. 963-966

David Cantarero

Volume 12, issue 14, 2005

Export-led growth and the Japanese economy: evidence from VAR and directed acyclic graphs pp. 849-858

Titus Awokuse

Is dread of Genetically Modified food associated with the consumers' demand for information? pp. 859-863

Joan Costa-Font and Elias Mossialos

Cross-country analysis of high employment-generating industries pp. 865-869

Abbas Valadkhani

The adjustments of stock prices to information about inflation: evidence from MENA countries pp. 871-879

Samer Al-Rjoub

An empirical note on testing hysteresis in unemployment for ten European countries: panel SURADF approach pp. 881-886

Tsangyao Chang, Kuei-Chiu Lee, Chien-Chung Nieh and Ching-Chun Wei

Suicide and business cycles: new empirical evidence pp. 887-891

Matti Viren

Testing for persistence in aggregate and sectoral Canadian unemployment pp. 893-898

O. Mikhail, Curtis Eberwein and Jagdish Handa

Cross-sectional and serial correlation in a small-sample homogeneous panel data unit root test pp. 899-905

Kristian Jönsson

An empirical investigation of capital expenditure announcements pp. 907-911

Nikos Vafeas and Catherine Shenoy

Volume 12, issue 13, 2005

Technical efficiency bias caused by intra-input aggregation in data envelopment analysis pp. 785-788

Darold Barnum and John Gleason

When do smokers 'underestimate' smoking related mortality risks? pp. 789-794

Joan Costa-Font and Joan Rovira

On style momentum strategies pp. 795-799

Ferdi Aarts and Thorsten Lehnert

An investment strategy based on gearing ratio pp. 801-804

Yaz Muradoglu, Morten Bakke and Gyrid Kvernes

Specialization and openness to foreign trade in the European Union pp. 805-810

Elisa Alvarez Lopez and Rafael Myro

A nonparametric analysis of the black/white wage gap pp. 811-815

Shawn Ulrick

Allowing options in experimental auctions pp. 817-821

Matthew Rousu and Katherine Kosa

Bilateral intra-industry trade flows and intellectual property rights protection: first empirical evidence pp. 823-828

Nasser Al-Mawali

Detecting mutual fund timing ability using the threshold model pp. 829-834

Ping-Huang Chou, Huimin Chung and Erh-Yin Sun

Analytics for geometric average trigger reset options pp. 835-840

Tian-Shyr Dai, Yuh-Yuan Fang and Yuh-Dauh Lyuu

Finite sample effects of additive outliers on the Granger-causality test with an application to money growth and inflation in Peru pp. 841-844

Thierno Balde and Gabriel Rodríguez

The approximate slopes and the power of the GMM overidentifying restrictions test pp. 845-848

Sheng-Kai Chang

Volume 12, issue 12, 2005

Sinful indulgences, soft substitutes, and self-control pp. 719-722

Hugo Mialon and Sue Mialon

Price substitutes: the case of entrance to Greek universities pp. 723-728

George Gerasimou

Incorporating decision makers' risk preferences into real options models pp. 729-734

Murat Isik

Stock market political cycles in a small, two-party democracy pp. 735-740

Jared Cahan, Christopher Malone, John Powell and Udomsak Wong Choti

Logit models: smallest versus largest extreme value error distributions pp. 741-744

Wuyang Hu

Detecting outliers and influential observations with heteroscedasticity-corrected models pp. 745-748

David Martin and Vikram Kumar

Unstable periodic orbits embedded in a chaotic economic dynamics model pp. 749-753

Ken-ichi Ishiyama and Yoshitaka Saiki

An application of the residual deviance analysis in testing input separability restrictions pp. 755-758

Morteza Haghiri and Alireza Simchi

International income polarization: a note pp. 759-762

Juan Duro

Is there convergence in income inequality levels among the European regions? pp. 763-767

Roberto Ezcurra and Pedro Pascual

Cigarette smuggling mitigates the public health benefits of cigarette taxes pp. 769-773

R.Andrew Luccasen, R. Morris Coats and G. Karahan

A cautionary note on the detection of multifractal scaling in finance and economics pp. 775-780

Sergio Bianchi

Changes in occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the USA pp. 781-784

Herve Queneau

Volume 12, issue 11, 2005

Partial privatization and screening pp. 653-655

Hongbin Li and Qian Wang

An investigation of the relationship between bond market volatility and trading activities: Korea treasury bond futures market pp. 657-661

Joocheol Kim

Military spending as another cause of the failure of the PPP pp. 663-667

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Gour Goswami

Exploiting information from path dependency in Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition procedures pp. 669-672

Martin Fournier

Political elections and foreign investor trading in South Korea's financial markets pp. 673-677

Chien-Liang Chiu, Chun-Da Chen and Wan-Wei Tang

The Taylor rule and real-time data - a critical appraisal pp. 679-685

Pär Österholm

Evidence of affiliation of values in a repeated trial auction experiment pp. 687-691

John Bernard

Exports, economic growth and causality in Korea pp. 693-696

Titus Awokuse

Provincial convergence in Spain: a spatial econometric approach pp. 697-700

Jose Villaverde

Non-linear mean reversion of real exchange rates and purchasing power parity: some evidence from Turkey pp. 701-704

Joseph Alba and Donghyun Park

Sources of gender difference in rural to urban migration in Kenya: does human capital matter? pp. 705-709

Richard Agesa and Jacqueline Agesa

The information content of M0 in the United Kingdom pp. 711-717

Mohammad Hasan

Volume 12, issue 10, 2005

Bidding behaviour in the multi-unit Vickrey and uniform price auctions pp. 589-595

John Bernard, William Schulze and Timothy Mount

A semiparametric hedonic model for valuing wetlands pp. 597-601

Okmyung Bin

Stock returns and volatility: empirical evidence from fourteen countries pp. 603-611

Ercan Balaban and Aslı Bayar

The scope test revisited pp. 613-617

Samiran Banerjee and James Murphy

Demand stochastics, supply adaptation, and the distribution of film earnings pp. 619-623

W. Walls

R&D spillovers and productivity growth: evidence from Italian manufacturing microdata pp. 625-631

Francesco Aiello and Paola Cardamone

Consumers' attitude towards hormone-free milk: what have we learned? pp. 633-637

Kalyan Chakraborty

Estimating the value of leisure time in Korea pp. 639-641

Kwangsuck Lee and In-Moo Kim

Persistent wage differential and its implications on the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis pp. 643-648

Mark Lee

Do loyal subordinates get higher wages? Experience from China pp. 649-652

Hon-Kwong Lui and Yui-Tim Wong

Volume 12, issue 9, 2005

Can real exchange rate devaluation improve the trade balance? The 1990-1998 Brazilian case pp. 525-528

Fábio Gomes and Lourenco Paz

Bank efficiency ratios in Latin America pp. 529-532

Jeremy Forster and Sherrill Shaffer

On the property of diffusion in the spatial error model pp. 533-536

Julie Le Gallo, Catherine Baumont, Sandy Dall'erba and Cem Ertur

Evidence on the seasonality of stock market prices of firms traded on organized markets pp. 537-543

Jeffrey Jarrett and Eric Kyper

Direct and indirect effects of new business formation on regional employment pp. 545-548

Michael Fritsch, Pamela Mueller and Antje Weyh

No cure, be paid: super-contingent fee contracts pp. 549-551

Lambert Schoonbeek and Peter Kooreman

Effects of multicollinearity on the definition of mutual funds' strategic style: the Spanish case pp. 553-556

Luis Ferruz Agudo and Luis A. Vicente Gimeno

Macroeconomic and institutional determinants of current account deficits pp. 557-560

Erdal Ozmen

Completely predictable and fully anticipated? Step ups in warrant exercise prices pp. 561-565

Luis Garcia-Feijoo, John Howe and Tie Su

Changing export status and firm performance: evidence from UK small firms pp. 567-571

Francisco Requena Silvente

A note on return distribution of UK stock indices pp. 573-576

Ercan Balaban, Jamal Ouenniche and Danae Politou

Capital mobility: evidence from four South Asian economies pp. 577-581

Arusha Cooray

The role of human capital in economic growth pp. 583-587

Vladimir Teles

Volume 12, issue 8, 2005

An empirical study on risk-taking in tournaments pp. 457-461

Christian Grund and Oliver Gürtler

German dominance in the European Monetary System: a reprise using robust Wald tests pp. 463-466

G. Geoffrey Booth and Cetin Ciner

Impacts of macroeconomic policies on the Latvian output and policy implications pp. 467-471

Yu Hsing

Why some US nonmetropolitan counties moved out of persistent high-poverty status in the 1990s pp. 473-478

Mark Partridge and Dan Rickman

Does equality reduce growth? Some empirical evidence pp. 479-483

Marta Bengoa and Blanca Sanchez-Robles

Applications of a more for less result to labour markets and to auctions pp. 485-488

Michael Ryan

Extreme risk in futures contracts pp. 489-492

John Cotter

Why explore for oil when it is cheaper to buy? pp. 493-497

Les Coleman

Is the tourism-led growth hypothesis valid for Turkey? pp. 499-504

Lokman Gunduz and Abdulnasser Hatemi-J

Low pay, higher pay and job quality: empirical evidence for Portugal pp. 505-511

José Vieira, António Menezes and Patricia Gabriel

The performance of the Markov-switching model on business cycle identification revisited pp. 513-520

Leon Li, Hsiou-Wei William Lin and Rau Hsiu-hua

The effects of income and children on marital happiness — evidence from middle- and old-aged couples pp. 521-524

Hung-Lin Tao

Volume 12, issue 7, 2005

Do higher tipped minimum wages boost server pay? pp. 391-393

John Anderson and Orn Bodvarsson

Worker turnover and productivity growth pp. 395-398

Pekka Ilmakunnas, Mika Maliranta and Jari Vainiomäki

A three-regime business cycle model for an emerging economy pp. 399-402

Moritz Cruz

A study of the initial returns and the aftermarket performance of initial public offerings of demutualized building societies in the UK pp. 403-409

Radha Shiwakoti, Robert Hudson and Helen Short

A test for multivariate ARCH effects pp. 411-417

R Scott Hacker and Abdulnasser Hatemi-J

Monetary policy implications of electronic currency: an empirical analysis pp. 419-423

Ann Owen and Christopher Fogelstrom

Can Japan avert any future banking crisis? pp. 425-429

Monzur Hossain

Convergence hypothesis of regional income in Korea pp. 431-435

Ji Kim

Economies of scale and cost efficiency in the postal services: empirical evidence from Switzerland pp. 437-441

Massimo Filippini and Marika Zola

Agricultural productivity convergence across Europe and the United States of America pp. 443-446

Anthony Rezitis

Does complexity reduce coordination? pp. 447-452

Gregory Parkhurst and Jason Shogren

Quality choice, the Coase problem, and a fixed cost function of quality: a note pp. 453-455

Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu

Volume 12, issue 6, 2005

A technical analysis approach to tourism demand forecasting pp. 327-333

C. Petropoulos, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, A. Patelis and V. Assimakopoulos

Collusion and price dispersion pp. 335-338

John Connor

The determinants of solvency in the United Kingdom life insurance market pp. 339-344

Yung-Ming Shiu

Restaurant tips and service quality: a reply to Lynn pp. 345-346

Őrn Bodvarsson

Proposed modified probit model incorporating non-parametric density estimation: how to measure asymmetric information in the health insurance market? pp. 347-350

Takaaki Aoki

Finite-sample quantiles of the Jarque-Bera test pp. 351-354

Steve Lawford

A mean squared error estimator of market size in hedonic price analysis pp. 355-359

Camilo Sarmiento

Export-led growth in Bangladesh: a time series analysis pp. 361-364

Khawaja Saeed Mamun and Hiranya Nath

The number of working hours a salary earner is willing to reduce for leisure activities pp. 365-368

Seung-Hoon Yoo

Did the bubble burst cause structural breaks in the Japanese economy? Evidence from 84 manufacturing industries pp. 369-373

Kosei Fukuda

Are exports and imports cointegrated? Evidence from 22 least developed countries pp. 375-378

Paresh Narayan and Seema Narayan

Patents and the faster introduction of new drugs in developing countries pp. 379-382

Joan-Ramon Borrell

Bridging the gap between the measurement of poverty and of deprivation pp. 383-389

Vani Borooah

Volume 12, issue 5, 2005

A Monte Carlo evaluation of discrete choice labour supply models pp. 263-266

Lennart Flood and Nizamul Islam

Forecasting real exchange rate trends using age structure data - the case of Sweden pp. 267-272

Andreas Andersson and Pär Österholm

Two results for asymmetric multiproduct duopoly pp. 273-276

Volodymyr Bilotkach

How elastic are sea, sand and sun? Dynamic panel estimates of the demand for tourism pp. 277-280

William Maloney and Gabriel Montes-Rojas

Market failure in long-term private health insurance markets: a proposed solution pp. 281-284

Henry Brown and Luke Connelly

Valuing rights of first refusal for farmland preservation policy pp. 285-288

Scott Malcolm, Joshua Duke and John Mackenzie

Don't break the habit: structural stability tests of consumption asset pricing models in the UK pp. 289-296

Stuart Hyde and Mo Sherif

Analysing household bottled water and water purifier expenditures: simultaneous equation bivariate Tobit model pp. 297-301

Seung-Hoon Yoo

A hybrid approach based on neural networks and genetic algorithms to the study of profitability in the Spanish Stock Market pp. 303-308

Mariano Matilla-García and Carlos Arguello

Investment in ICTs: an empirical analysis pp. 309-312

Gilbert Cette, Jimmy Lopez and Pierre-Alexandre Noual

Bootstrapping and hypothesis testing in non-stationary panel data pp. 313-318

Jamie Emerson and Chihwa Kao

How volatile are East Asian stocks during high volatility periods? pp. 319-326

Carlos Bautista

Volume 12, issue 4, 2005

Forecasting inflation using the term structure and MARS pp. 199-202

Peter Sephton

Estimating the autoregressive parameter: recursive mean adjustment and the initial condition pp. 203-206

Steven Cook

On the optimality of linear contracts to induce goal-congruent investment behaviour pp. 207-211

Thomas Pfeiffer and Louis Velthuis

On the rationality of professional forecasts of corporate bond yield spreads pp. 213-216

Hamid Baghestani

The effect of class size on student achievement: evidence from Bangladesh pp. 217-221

M Asadullah

Optimal fares under uncertainty about airline safety pp. 223-226

Jay Squalli

Downgrading in the first job: who and why? pp. 227-233

David Clement, Christophe Hurlin and Fabien Serres

A note on cointegrated relationships estimated with genetic algorithms pp. 235-238

Mariano Matilla-García

Estimating underlying energy demand trends using UK annual data pp. 239-244

John Dimitropoulos, Lester Hunt and Guy Judge

Testing Hall's permanent income hypothesis for a developing country: the case of Fiji pp. 245-248

B. Rao

Key factors affecting internationally active banks' decisions to participate in loan syndications pp. 249-253

Yener Altunbas, Blaise Gadanecz and Alper Kara

Examining complex unit roots in the MENA countries industrial production indices pp. 255-259

Haitham Al-Zoubi and Aktham Maghyereh

Volume 12, issue 3, 2005

On the use of the sample partial autocorrelation for order determination in a pure autoregressive process: a Monte Carlo study and empirical example pp. 133-139

Andy Kwan and Yangru Wu

Should we really care about building business cycle coincident indexes! pp. 141-144

Alain Hecq

Predicting the equity premium with dividend ratios: a matter of balance pp. 145-147

Peter Sephton

A SVAR model for estimating core inflation in the Euro zone pp. 149-154

Mariano Matilla-García

A recursive cointegration test using the Kalman filter and its application to fiscal equilibrium in the Dominican Republic pp. 155-160

Peter Prazmowski

Service liberalization, endogenous industrial composition and modernization pp. 161-163

Nicholas Sim

The welfare cost of inflation in Italy pp. 165-168

Apostolos Serletis and Kazem Yavari

Do consumers have imperfect recollection about airline safety? pp. 169-176

Jay Squalli

The dynamic responses of growth to tax structure for Greece pp. 177-180

Emmanuel Mamatzakis

Determinants of betting market efficiency pp. 181-185

Marshall Gramm and Douglas Owens

Single housing starts and macroeconomic activity: an application of generalized impulse response analysis pp. 187-190

Bradley Ewing and Yongsheng Wang

How to assess happiness? A tale of three measures pp. 191-194

Vani Borooah

Redistributive effect of Korea's income tax: equity decomposition pp. 195-198

Jin Kwon Hyun and Byung-In Lim

Volume 12, issue 2, 2005

International growth and volatility in historical perspective pp. 67-71

Mark Siegler

Price-cost margins, prices and concentration in US manufacturing: a panel study pp. 79-83

Vaughan Dickson

Wavelet-based beta estimation and Japanese industrial stock prices pp. 85-88

Hiroshi Yamada

The post-offering performance of IPOs in the Indian banking industry pp. 89-94

Saurabh Ghosh

Job search skills, employer size and wages pp. 95-100

Daniel Millimet

On the evidence of non-linear structure in Canadian unemployment pp. 101-104

O. Mikhail, Curtis Eberwein and Jagdish Handa

Export expansion, economic growth and causality in China pp. 105-107

Jai S. Mah

The BDS test and delay time pp. 109-113

Mariano Matilla-García, Paloma Sanz and Francisco Vazquez

Overeducation, undereducation, and the theory of career mobility: a comment and a note on underemployment pp. 115-118

Stephen Rubb

A test of the credibility of temporary protection: evidence from the Japanese oil industry pp. 119-123

Ujo Goto

Stock and real estate prices in Greece: wealth versus 'credit-price' effect pp. 125-128

Panayotis Kapopoulos and Fotios Siokis

Horizontal mergers and exit in declining industries pp. 129-132

Darren Filson and Bunchon Songsamphant

Volume 12, issue 1, 2005

The decay of norms and the production of social order: conceptual and empirical models pp. 1-6

Franklin Mixon, Jared Loftus and Windy Keene

Is there 'patient selection' in the demand for private maternity care in Greece? pp. 7-12

Elias Mossialos, Joan Costa-Font, Konstantina Davaki and Konstantinos Karras

Are truck drivers underpaid? pp. 13-18

Dale Belman and Kristen Monaco

On the efficacy of constraints on the linear combination forecast model pp. 19-28

Salvatore Terregrossa

Anomalous price behaviour around stock repurchases on the Taiwan stock exchange pp. 29-39

Tung Liang Liao, Mei-Chu Ke and Hsiang-Tai Yu

Cross-country disparities in welfare, 1970-1998 pp. 41-44

Roberto Ezcurra and Pedro Pascual Arzoz

Foreign direct investment, public expenditure and economic growth: the empirical evidence for the period 1970-2001 pp. 45-49

Vu Le and Terukazu Suruga

Modelling entrepreneurship in small-scale enterprises pp. 51-57

Ruhul Salim

The initial endowment effect in experimental auctions revisited: further evidence pp. 59-63

Lanier Nalley, Darren Hudson and Gregory Parkhurst