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Volume 25, issue 21, 2018

Erratum pp. i-i

The Editors

Determinants of spectator no-show behaviour: first empirical evidence from the German Bundesliga pp. 1475-1480

Dominik Schreyer and Daniel Däuper

Innovation policy in China: nationally promulgated but locally implemented pp. 1481-1486

Zhen Sun, Zhen Lei and Zhifeng Yin

Measuring patterns of specialization using trade in value added: the case of manufacturing in Italy pp. 1487-1492

Laura Dell’Agostino and Silvia Nenci

The effects of pay regulation when agents are loss averse pp. 1493-1498

Silvio Städter

Student demographics, school working conditions, and teacher mobility pp. 1499-1506

Jeremy A. Cook

The macroeconomic effects of the LTV and LTI ratios in Ireland pp. 1507-1511

Matija Lozej and Ansgar Rannenberg

Related variety and industrial growth: evidence from U.S. commuting zones pp. 1512-1516

Yong Hu and Jiaochen Liang

Economic policy uncertainty and economic activity in Turkey pp. 1517-1520

Saygin Sahinoz and Evren Erdoğan Coşar

Quasi-Monte Carlo application in CGE systematic sensitivity analysis pp. 1521-1526

Theodoros Chatzivasileiadis

The Misaddressed Letter Experiment pp. 1527-1530

Gweneth Leigh and Andrew Leigh

Determinants of total efficiency in water utilities in Mexico pp. 1531-1534

Gerardo Angeles-Castro, Laura Josselin Arriola-Barcenas and Carlos Bonifacio Baeza-Almaraz

How international financial flows affect stock markets? pp. 1535-1546

Hongwei Chuang and Navruzbek Karamatov

Factors affecting agricultural land transfer-in in China: a semiparametric analysis pp. 1547-1551

Meishan Jiang, Krishna Paudel and Yunsheng Mi

The (lack of) international harmonization of EU standards: import and export effects in developed versus developing countries pp. 1552-1556

Daniele Curzi, Marsela Luarasi, Valentina Raimondi and Alessandro Olper

Price-cost markups in UK industry pp. 1557-1561

Paul Turner

Volume 25, issue 20, 2018

The impact of hiring top workers on productivity: what is the role of absorptive capacity? pp. 1402-1406

Magnus Lodefalk and Aili Tang

Financial education via television comedy pp. 1407-1410

Andrew Crawford, Paul Lajbcygier and Pushkar Maitra

Welfare distribution of collective in-kind transfers in education: an application to the extended schools programme pp. 1411-1415

Simone Angioloni, Ziping Wu and Erin Sherry

Neutral agents and social tolerance: a dynamic perspective based on economic interaction model with local social cost functions pp. 1416-1420

Yingying Shi and Min Pan

Credit supply, post-acquisition performance and financial constraints pp. 1421-1425

Magnus Blomkvist and Karl Felixson

Estimating the effect of early-childhood citizenship on education using policy changes as instruments pp. 1426-1431

Kamila Cygan-Rehm

Gender in banking and mortgage behavior pp. 1432-1435

Stepan Jurajda and Radek Janhuba

Income comparison, gender roles and life satisfaction pp. 1436-1439

Jan Salland

Evolution of FDI flows in the global network: 2003–2012 pp. 1440-1446

Bing Li, Zefang Liao and Lijian Sun

Has co-movement dynamics in emerging stock markets changed after global financial crisis? New evidence from wavelet analysis pp. 1447-1453

Debojyoti Das, M. Kannadhasan, Aviral Tiwari and Khamis Hamed Al-Yahyaee

Stock prices and inflation hedged firms pp. 1454-1457

Kristopher J. Kemper, Erik Nesson and Kevin Gatzlaff

Welfare to work propensities: administrative record evidence pp. 1458-1462

Ting Zhang and Dan Gerlowski

On the assessment of the performance in earnings management for the banking industry: the case of China’s banks pp. 1463-1465

Chiu-Hui Wu, Cherng G. Ding and Cheng-Ying Wu

Financial development and governance relationships pp. 1466-1470

Özlem Sayılır, Murat Doğan and Nahifa Said Soud

Who benefits most from property assessment taxes? Evidence from Los Angeles County pp. 1471-1474

Adrian R. Fleissig

Volume 25, issue 19, 2018

The effect of disability income on retirement decisions and wealth pp. 1333-1335

Terrance K. Martin, Michael A. Guillemette and Fabiola E. Urgel

Using Malmquist index to select the strategic partners in vertical integration: the case of Taiwan LED supply chain pp. 1336-1341

Chia- Nan Wang, Hong-Xuyen Thi Ho, Shih-Hsiung Luo and Yu-Shiuan Yang

Regional job multipliers pp. 1342-1345

Michael Jones and Lu Yang

Market risk disclosures, corporate governance structure and political connections: evidence from GCC firms pp. 1346-1350

Ahmed Al-Hadi, Khamis Hamed Al-Yahyaee, Syed Mujahid Hussain and Grantley Taylor

Privacy and security concerns in online health services pp. 1351-1354

Jieun Chang

Using eye-tracking to model attribute non-attendance in choice experiments pp. 1355-1359

Daniel Chavez, Marco Palma and Alba Collart

A critical re-examination of the Carlson–Parkin method pp. 1360-1363

Ivana Lolić and Petar Sorić

Complementarities between firm-sponsored training and information technology use pp. 1364-1367

Benoit Dostie

Living in a bubble: potential gains from flexible water management policies pp. 1368-1372

Jesper Stage

Firm age and liquidity ratio as predictors of firm growth: evidence from Indian firms pp. 1373-1375

Amith Vikram Megaravalli and Gabriele Sampagnaro

Financial crisis and hotels’ labour productivity growth: evidence from Spanish islands pp. 1376-1382

José Manuel Cordero and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Momentum and betting market perceptions of momentum in college football pp. 1383-1388

Steven Salaga and Katie M Brown

There and back again – estimating equivalence scales with measurement error pp. 1389-1392

Melanie Borah and Andreas Knabe

Capital-enhanced equilibrium exchange rate: evidence from India pp. 1393-1397

K. P. Prabheesh and Bhavesh Garg

‘If I can set my own price for tonight’s show I will pay more after watching it!’ – evidence from Pay What You Want experiment pp. 1398-1401

Anna Kukla-Gryz and Katarzyna Zagórska

Volume 25, issue 18, 2018

The effectiveness of exchange-rate-based monetary policy: evidence from survey data pp. 1261-1265

Paolo Bianchi and Bruno Deschamps

The effects of exchange rate volatility on exports: evidence from Armenia pp. 1266-1268

Gayane Barseghyan and Hayk Hambardzumyan

Is China’s banking industry embracing sustainable investment? pp. 1269-1272

Xiaojia Li, Haitao Yin and Jiaxin Liu

Testing the validity of PPP theory for African countries pp. 1273-1277

Veli Yilanci, Murat Aslan and Önder Özgür

War versus peace: does military officer quality adjust? pp. 1278-1282

Marigee Bacolod, Michael Griner and Chad W. Seagren

Domestic R&D and offshoring: does offshoring reduce knowledge production? pp. 1283-1287

Martin Junge and Anders Sørensen

The role of uncertainty in forecasting employment by skill and industry pp. 1288-1291

Tutsirai Sakutukwa and Hee-Seung Yang

Why you should use high frequency data to test the impact of exchange rate on trade pp. 1292-1295

Karam Shaar and Mohammed Khaled

Banking solvency determinants in the EU: a model based on stress tests pp. 1296-1300

Julio Abad-González, Cristina Gutiérrez-López and Ana Salvador

Irreversible investment, ambiguity and equity default swaps pp. 1301-1305

Xiaolin Tang and Zhaojun Yang

Evaluation of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve: evidence from the Euro Area and United States pp. 1306-1315

Insu Kim

The price effect of allowing non-pharmacy outlets to sell OTC drugs in Korea pp. 1316-1318

Hoe Sang Chung and Min Kim

Firm size and debt maturity as indirect determinants of capital structure: evidence form European panel data pp. 1319-1322

Julia Koralun-Bereźnicka

The determinants of banking efficiency in Hong Kong 2004-2014 pp. 1323-1326

Hien Thu Phan, Sajid Anwar and W. Robert J. Alexander

Multivariate filter estimation and ARDL model analysis of China’s potential output pp. 1327-1332

Qi Dong and Xiangbo Liu

Volume 25, issue 17, 2018

Anti-corruption campaign in China: good news or bad news for firm value? pp. 1183-1188

Qianwei Ying and Jinsong Liu

Producing drama: a comparison of film tax incentives to alternative uses pp. 1189-1192

Devin Brady, Adam T. Jones and Ethan Watson

Politically connected managers, government ownership and corporate socially responsible investments: evidence from China pp. 1193-1197

Danlin Pu

International supply chains and trade agreements pp. 1198-1203

Juan Blyde and Valeria Faggioni

Is health care a necessity or a luxury? Evidence from urban China pp. 1204-1207

Zhi Zeng, Yu Qi and Ming Ge

Are there spillover effects of large firms’ growth in supply chain networks? Evidence from the Korean economy pp. 1208-1211

Hanhyung Pyo and Sangheon Lee

Estimating matching functions when recruiting intensity matters pp. 1212-1217

Bertil Holmlund

Does income inequality increase marginal propensity to consume? pp. 1218-1221

Dong-Eun Rhee and Hyoungjong Kim

Exploring outward FDI and the choice of destination: evidence from Swedish firm-level data pp. 1222-1225

Zouheir El-Sahli, Joakim Gullstrand and Karin Olofsdotter

Whose feedback matters? Empirical evidence from online auctions pp. 1226-1229

Pawel Baranowski, Marcin Komor and Szymon Wójcik

Upstream regulation in mature network industry: evidence from Nordic mobile telecommunications markets pp. 1230-1236

Jooyong Jun, Jeong Wook Byun and Eunjung Yeo

Estimating the effect of board independence on managerial ownership using a quasi-natural experiment pp. 1237-1243

Pornsit Jiraporn and Kridsda Nimmanunta

Determinants of stock market classifications pp. 1244-1249

B. V. M. Mendes and R. A. C. Martins

State ownership, political connections and entry barriers: evidence from China pp. 1250-1254

Meijie Yao, Ciheng Song and Zengji Song

Monetary policy surprises and firm-level stock return predictability: evidence from a new panel-based approach pp. 1255-1260

Danvee Floro

Volume 25, issue 16, 2018

With and without the tracks: how railroad access impacts gas price elasticity pp. 1113-1116

Alex Kaechele and David Slusky

Will social networks become less important pp. 1117-1120

Xiao Yu and Xuelong Wang

Can Facebook popularity help albums to remain in the sales charts? pp. 1121-1124

Chien-Yuan Sher and Yi-Hung Kuo

An examination of the effects of 2014 concealed weapons law in Illinois on property crimes in Chicago pp. 1125-1129

Srikant Devaraj and Pankaj C. Patel

Internationalization and performance: the role of state ownership pp. 1130-1134

Chao Zhou

How financial intermediation impacts on financial stability? pp. 1135-1139

José Américo Pereira Antunes, Claudio de Moraes and Adriano Rodrigues

Soft commitment: a study on demand and compliance pp. 1140-1146

Dan Anderberg, Claudia Cerrone and Arnaud Chevalier

Earnings response coefficient in the MENA region pp. 1147-1152

Omar Farooq, Nermeen F Shehata and Siva Nathan

Returns to cognitive and non-cognitive skills: evidence for Mexico pp. 1153-1156

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez

Spatial analysis of municipal water demand: a panel data approach pp. 1157-1160

Michael O’Donnell and Robert Berrens

The value of waivers from the affordable care act pp. 1161-1165

James Bailey, Coleman Drake and John Wingender

‘Whatever it takes’ and the role of Eurozone news pp. 1166-1169

Minke Van Der Heijden, Roel Beetsma and Ward Romp

Evidence of a glass ceiling for arts and culture professionals in Korea pp. 1170-1174

Shik Heo and Suyoung Yoon

Entrepreneurial overconfidence and firm survival: an analysis using the Kauffman firm survey pp. 1175-1178

H. Young Baek and Florence Neymotin

Fiscal consolidation in Europe: has it worked? pp. 1179-1182

Juan Cuestas and Javier Ordóñez

Volume 25, issue 15, 2018

Economic freedom and growth specification debate: a retrospective pp. 1038-1040

Robert Lawson and Ryan Murphy

Institutions, parental selection, and locus of control pp. 1041-1044

Kristin Kleinjans and Andrew Gill

Do expectations matter? Reassessing the effects of government spending on key macroeconomic variables in Germany pp. 1045-1050

Klaus Gründler and Sarah Sauerhammer

Effects of house-sale restrictions in China: a difference-in-difference approach pp. 1051-1057

Yan Yan and Ouyang Hongbing

The impacts of export competition on international technology flows pp. 1058-1061

Kaoru Nabeshima, Mila Kashcheeva and Byeongwoo Kang

Product innovation and employment growth at the firm level: a quantile regression approach to inter-industry differences pp. 1062-1065

Sverre J. Herstad

The estimation of profit efficiency pp. 1066-1070

Yongseung Han and Myeong Hwan Kim

The costs of foreign single listing pp. 1071-1077

Peixin Li and Baolian Wang

Does default point vary with firm size? pp. 1078-1082

Yaojie Zhang and Benshan Shi

Size and information revelation in securities trading pp. 1083-1086

Ryan Garvey, Tao Huang and Fei Wu

Bank diversification and monetary policy pp. 1087-1090

Hiroshi Gunji and Yuan Yuan

A new stock-price bubble with stochastically deflating trajectories pp. 1091-1096

Benedikt Rotermann and Bernd Wilfling

Simultaneous-equation estimation with no instrumental variables pp. 1097-1100

Eric Blankmeyer

The relative importance of capital inflows: some evidence from emerging market economies pp. 1101-1106

Vandana Arya, Rajabrata Banerjee and Tony Cavoli

Housing, consumption and monetary policy: how different are the first-, second- and third-tier cities in China? pp. 1107-1111

Lili Wu and Yang Bian

Volume 25, issue 14, 2018

Quantifying the impacts of China’s currency depreciation and capital control: a CGE analysis pp. 964-967

Weixian Wei, Junling Zhang, Baomin Dong and Huiqing Wang

Product differentiation in the German soft drink market: which attributes matter? pp. 968-971

Julia Bronnmann and Julia Hoffmann

Seasonal U.S. beer demand: socio-economic determinants and relation with other products pp. 972-979

Rajeev Goel and James Saunoris

Is there a ‘business case’ for board gender diversity within French listed SMEs pp. 980-983

R. Dang A, L. Houanti, Aymen Ammari and N. T. Lê

Does corporate governance influence firm performance? Quantile regression evidence from a transactional economy pp. 984-988

R. Dang A., L. Houanti, N. T. Le and M.-C. Vu

A new perspective on the exporter productivity premium: online trade pp. 989-993

Néstor Duch-Brown and Bertin Martens

Time preference and savings behaviour pp. 994-997

Yoonseok Choi and Jong-soo Han

Dynamic probability of informed trading and price movements: evidence from the CSI300 index futures market pp. 998-1003

Yan Yan and Ouyang Hongbing

Political uncertainty, risk of Frexit and European sovereign spreads pp. 1004-1009

Clément Malgouyres and Clément Mazet-Sonilhac

Comparison of cross-country measures of sigma-convergence in per-capita income, 1960–2010 pp. 1010-1014

Rati Ram

Skill premium in Portuguese manufacturing industries pp. 1015-1018

Manuel Carlos Nogueira, Oscar Afonso and Elias Soukiazis

The Obama effect? Inspiration and ACT scores pp. 1019-1023

Patrick Gourley

Positional income concerns and personality: evidence from Germany pp. 1024-1028

Tim Friehe, Mario Mechtel and Markus Pannenberg

Macroeconomic uncertainty, growth and inflation in the Eurozone: a causal approach pp. 1029-1033

Vasilios Plakandaras, Rangan Gupta, Periklis Gogas and Theophilos Papadimitriou

Chinese firms’ crash risk and CEO media exposure pp. 1034-1037

Peng-hua Qiao, Hung-Gay Fung and Wei Wang

Volume 25, issue 13, 2018

Corrigendum pp. 1-1

The Editors

Physical appearance and peer effects in academic performance pp. 887-890

Rey Hernández-Julián and Christina Peters

The daughter effect: do CEOs with daughters hire more women to their board? pp. 891-894

Ari Dasgupta, Lan Ha, Spurthi Jonnalagadda, Steven Schmeiser and Hannah Youngerman

Remittances and misery index in Turkey: is there a link? pp. 895-899

Selçuk Akçay

Asymmetric effect of margin-trading activities on price crashes: evidence from Chinese stock market pp. 900-904

Dayong Lv and Qingsong Ruan

Are consumers forward looking? Evidence from used iPhones pp. 905-909

Kanis Saengchote and Voraprapa Nakavachara

Stock market reactions to environmental disclosures: new evidence from China pp. 910-913

Hui Zhou and Haitao Yin

Birthday effect pp. 914-917

Tolga Yuret

Noise traders, firm-specific uncertainty and technical trading effectiveness pp. 918-923

Meifen Qian, Bin Yu and Qianyu Zhu

Tuition increases Geaux away? Evidence from voting on Louisiana’s amendment 2 pp. 924-927

Joshua Hall and Serkan Karadas

The role of debt profile vulnerabilities in sovereign distress pp. 928-935

Mariusz Jarmuzek and Esteban R. Vesperoni

Excluded coalitions and the 2013 German federal election pp. 936-940

Tobias Hiller

Application of local projections in the monetary policy in Brazil pp. 941-944

Hector Carcel, Luis Gil-Alana and Peter Wanke

Are false own-account workers less job satisfied than true ones? pp. 945-950

Ana Millán, Jose Maria Millan and Concepción Román

Bank competition and the cost of debt: the role of state ownership and firm size pp. 951-957

Peisen Liu, Houjian Li and Shoujun Huang

Female executives and corporate cash holdings pp. 958-963

Binay K. Adhikari

Volume 25, issue 12, 2018

Unemployment persistence in EU countries: new evidence using bounded unit root tests pp. 807-810

Claudiu Albulescu and Aviral Tiwari

When do sell-side analysts switch industries they follow? pp. 811-815

Vadim S. Balashov

How does leverage in stock market influence the margin of stock index futures? pp. 816-820

Hailong Liu and Yushan Shi

On the peer effects of star students pp. 821-825

Manuel Barron, Maria Basurto Preciado and Gabriela Cuadra

Conflicted financial advice: disclosure revisited pp. 826-829

Paul Chen and Martin Richardson

On the motivations for the dual-use of electronic and traditional cigarettes pp. 830-834

David Ronayne and Daniel Sgroi

Global risk and demand for gold by central banks pp. 835-839

Balagopal Gopalakrishnan and Sanket Mohapatra

South Africa’s monetary policy independence: evidence from a Global New-Keynesian DSGE model pp. 840-846

Annari De Waal, Rangan Gupta and Charl Jooste

NAIRU and productivity shocks: evidence from three gigantic economies pp. 847-852

Mehdi Mohebi and Akbar Komijani

Why zombies can go out: evidence from Chinese manufacturing pp. 853-856

Youxing Huang and Yan Zhang

An experimental analysis of moral self-regulation pp. 857-861

İ.Erdem Seçilmiş

Rank tests for price convergence in Australian beverage markets pp. 862-866

Paul Shum, Kai-yin Woo and Shu-kam Lee

Conditional density forecast of China’s energy demand via QRNN model pp. 867-875

Shubo Cao, Qifa Xu, Cuixia Jiang and Yaoyao He

Relevance of corruption on the effect of public health expenditure and taxation on economic growth pp. 876-881

Helder de Mendonça and Adriana Cabrera Baca

IMF conditionality supports revenue collection: is it just tax rates? pp. 882-885

Ernesto Crivelli and Sanjeev Gupta

Volume 25, issue 11, 2018

The impacts of investor sentiment and price uncertainty on the effects of open-market share repurchase announcements pp. 730-733

Chia-Pin Chen and Ying-Sing Liu

Life satisfaction and self-employment in different types of occupations pp. 734-740

Jolanda Hessels, Efstratia Arampatzi, Peter van der Zwan and Martijn Burger

Testing the role of urban development in the conventional Environmental Kuznets Curve: evidence from Turkey pp. 741-746

Setareh Katircioğlu and Salih Katircioğlu

Do different time horizons in the volatility of the US stock market significantly affect the China ETF market? pp. 747-751

He Nie, Yonghong Jiang and Baoqing Yang

Is it China that leads the Asian stock market contagion in 2015? pp. 752-757

Lu Fang and David Bessler

Is institutional improvement possible? pp. 758-761

Christopher Boudreaux and Randall Holcombe

Facebook-to-Facebook: online communication and economic cooperation pp. 762-767

Anna Lou Abatayo, John Lynham and Katerina Sherstyuk

Racial diversity and academic test scores in public elementary schools pp. 768-771

Don Mar

The myth of China’s monetization pp. 772-775

Lei Wang and Taihui Zhu

Online advertising networks and consumer perceptions of privacy pp. 776-780

Steven Schmeiser

Financial literacy and use of payday loans in the United States pp. 781-784

Kyoung Tae Kim and Jonghee Lee

A simple approximation to the average effect of the treatment on the treated in panel settings with selective enrolment pp. 785-790

John Gardner

Patterns of poverty among elderly Americans: a latent class Markov model pp. 791-795

Paolo Li Donni and M. Marino

Is it the wage premium that targets worker turnovers? pp. 796-799

Tannista Banerjee and Arnab Nayak

On the dynamic effects of global commodities on stock market blocks in Africa pp. 800-805

Maurice Omane-Adjepong and John Bosco Dramani

Volume 25, issue 10, 2018

Education budget savings from ending child marriage and early childbirths: the case of Niger pp. 649-652

Quentin Wodon

Entry and pricing on Broadway pp. 653-658

Taylor Jaworski, Maggie Jones and Mario Samano

Herding on lottery-type stocks: evidence from the Chinese stock market pp. 659-662

Pu Gong and Jun Dai

Cointegration networks in stock markets pp. 663-667

Vik Singh, Eduardo Roca and Bin Li

Aid for trade and the quality of exports pp. 668-673

Zheng Wang and Meina Xu

Volatility, maturity and volume in the Indian metals futures pp. 674-680

Pratap Chandra Pati

Long-run expectations in a learning-to-forecast experiment pp. 681-687

Annarita Colasante, Simone Alfarano, Eva Camacho Cuena and Mauro Gallegati

Market depth, domestic investors and price monotonicity violations pp. 688-692

Heejin Yang, Jaeram Lee and Doojin Ryu

Effect of cultural distance on reverse technology spillover from outward FDI: a bane or a boon? pp. 693-697

Ye Jiao, Zhao Yunpeng, Cui Chuanjiang and Zhao Lu

Income and democracy: dynamic misspecification due to the presence of serial correlation pp. 698-701

Suzanna- Maria Paleologou

Trust, reputation and bidding behaviour in online mystery auctions pp. 702-706

Lesley Chiou and Jennifer Pate

A panel data model with interactive effects characterized by multilevel non-parallel factors pp. 707-712

Jiaolong Li and Zhiqin Yang

Campaigning and election outcomes in a presidential primary election pp. 713-717

Steven Bednar

A bottom-up approach for forecasting GDP in a data-rich environment pp. 718-723

Francisco Dias, Maximiano Pinheiro and António Rua

Systemic financial crises and the housing market cycle pp. 724-729

Luca Agnello, Vitor Castro and Ricardo Sousa

Volume 25, issue 9, 2018

Assessing macroprudential regulation: the role of the zero lower bound pp. 580-583

Jürgen Jerger and Jenny Körner

Identifying peers in international tax competition pp. 584-587

Daniel L. Friesner, Matthew McPherson, Tim Schibik and Andrew Brajcich

Does the constraint matter? A note on the asymptotic properties of nonparametric instrumental variable estimation under monotonicity shape constraint pp. 588-591

Petyo Bonev

The 2008 tax rebate and US household debt pp. 592-596

John Hisnanick and Andreas Kern

On the time-varying nature of the debt-growth nexus: evidence from the euro area pp. 597-600

Marta Gómez-Puig and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Testing causality among five fertilizer prices pp. 601-606

Prithviraj Lakkakula

What determines post-compulsory academic studies? Evidence from the longitudinal survey of young people in England pp. 607-610

William Collier, Javier Valbuena and Yu Zhu

Fixed-term contracts as a source of labour demand fluctuations pp. 611-614

Toyoki Matsue

Outside the box: using synthetic control methods as a forecasting technique pp. 615-618

Stefan Klößner and Gregor Pfeifer

Financial literacy and retirement planning: evidence from China pp. 619-623

Geng Niu and Yang Zhou

How to escape poverty through education?: intergenerational evidence in Spain pp. 624-627

Rosa Duarte, Sandra Latorre and José Alberto Molina

Profit rate in the US, 1949–2007: a Markov switching assessment pp. 628-631

Marcelo Resende

Testing the demand regime hypothesis in the Euro Area. Evidence from a VAR approach pp. 632-637

Giovanni Covi

Economic cost–benefit analysis of the addictive digital game industry pp. 638-642

Dong J. Cho, Hyung T. Kim, Jaywon Lee and Sang H. Park

Testing for cointegration with threshold effect between unemployment and stock prices pp. 643-647

Ozer Arabaci

Volume 25, issue 8, 2018

Compromise effect and consideration set size in consumer decision-making pp. 513-517

Jaewon Yoo, Hyunsik Park and Wonjoon Kim

Involuntary excess reserve and bankers’ remuneration: evidence from Chinese banks pp. 518-522

Thai Nguyen, Agyenim Boateng and Thanh Cong Nguyen

Unemployment and new business formation – new insights into a complex relationship pp. 523-526

Dirk Dohse and Andrea Vaona

Infant formula trade and the family-friendly workplace pp. 527-530

Sarah Adelman and Katherine Schmeiser

Financial dependence and the terms of payments in international transactions pp. 531-534

Kemal Turkcan and Veysel Avsar

International reserves and trilemma policy convergence in Malaysia pp. 535-538

Chee-Hong Law

Gender differences in selection into self-competition pp. 539-543

Werner Bönte, Vivien Procher and Diemo Urbig

University fees and the demand for STEM degrees pp. 544-546

Alastair Ball

Student employment and academic performance: an empirical exploration of the primary orientation theory pp. 547-552

Stijn Baert, Ive Marx, Brecht Neyt, Eva Van Belle and Jasmien Van Casteren

Adjusting for family size in the supplemental poverty measure pp. 553-556

John A Bishop, Jonathan Lee and Lester A Zeager

Empirical issues in the computation of Stone–Lewbel price indexes in censored micro-level demand systems pp. 557-561

Daniele Moro, Elena Castellari and Paolo Sckokai

The impact of a study abroad programme on learning abilities and personality traits: evidence from a randomization pp. 562-566

Silvia De Poli, Loris Vergolini and Nadir Zanini

Do internal markets influence bank failures? pp. 567-570

Nilufer Ozdemir and Cuneyt Altinoz

Do fiscal decentralization and income inequality affect the size of the shadow economy? A panel data analysis for OECD countries pp. 571-575

Wolfram Berger, Simone Salotti and Jordi Sardà

The structural effect of cooperatives on price volatility in the European dairy sector pp. 576-579

Malte Müller, Markus Hanisch, Agustina Malvido, Jens Rommel and Julian Sagebiel

Volume 25, issue 7, 2018

Corrigendum pp. i-i

The Editors

How do independent directors influence innovation productivity? A quasi-natural experiment pp. 435-441

Pornsit Jiraporn, Sang Mook Lee, Kuen Jae Park and HakJoon Song

A case for complements? Location and attendance in Major League Soccer pp. 442-446

Jadrian Wooten

Education and the minimum wage in the United States pp. 447-450

Christos Pargianas

The interplay between target firm R&D, acquirer debt financing and takeover premia pp. 451-455

Virginie Mataigne, Wouter De Maeseneire and Mathieu Luypaert

The recent process of job polarization in Japan: evidence from 1980 to 2010 pp. 456-460

Yosuke Furukawa and Hiroki Toyoda

Are there inherent biases in applying cost–benefit analysis? pp. 461-464

Kenneth Button and Johan Eklund

Non-linear quantile unit root test and PPP: more evidence from Africa pp. 465-471

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Tsangyao Chang, Zahra (Mila) Elmi, Abera Gelan and Omid Ranjbar

Does investor sentiment dynamically impact stock returns from different investor horizons? Evidence from the US stock market using a multi-scale method pp. 472-476

Yonghong Jiang, Bin Mo and He Nie

The impacts of bank-specific and macroeconomic variables on the capital adequacy ratio: evidence from Islamic banks pp. 477-481

Wagdi Kalifa and Eralp Bektaş

The effect of coffee price shock on school dropout: new evidence from the 2008 global financial crisis pp. 482-486

Abraham Abebe Asfaw

A benchmark for wage growth through the lens of the Beveridge curve pp. 487-492

Florian Kajuth

An evaluation of the relationship between minimum wage and unemployment: does the local cost-of-living matter? pp. 493-498

Christopher S. Brunt and Anthony G. Barilla

Is inflation targeting or the fixed exchange rate more effective for attracting FDI into developing countries? pp. 499-503

Dessie Ambaw and Nicholas Sim

Pricing efficiency of Bitcoin Trusts pp. 504-508

Fahad Almudhaf

Differences in business R&D intensity across OECD countries: the role of size-dependent regulation pp. 509-512

Jieun Chang and Youngho Kang

Volume 25, issue 6, 2018

Commodity exports and labour productivity in the long run pp. 362-365

Stefan Csordas

A note on trust in the ECB in the era of sovereign debt crisis pp. 366-368

Konstantinos Drakos, Christos Kallandranis and Socrates Karidis

Quantitative easing and asset bubbles pp. 369-374

John H. Huston and Roger W. Spencer

Identifying the relationship between length of hospital stay and the probability of readmission pp. 375-380

Michael Makowsky and Eili Y. Klein

Option valuation with liquidity risk and jumps pp. 381-387

Hai Zhang and Hyejin Ku

Performance budgeting: effects on government debt and economic growth pp. 388-392

Illoong Kwon

The impact of the Great Recession on TFP convergence among EU countries pp. 393-396

Dolores Añón Higón, Juan A. Mañez, María E. Rochina-Barrachina, Amparo Sanchis-Llopis and Juan A. Sanchis

The external cost of asbestos in the housing market pp. 397-400

Ermanno Affuso, J. Reid Cummings and Huubinh Le

The poverty experience of lone mothers and their children pp. 401-404

Ashley Provencher and Audrey Carlton

How does organizational structure affect executive compensation? pp. 405-408

Changmin Lee, Hyung-goo Kang and Woonam Seok

Comparing private and government schools in India: the devil is in the maths pp. 409-414

Sunil Mitra Kumar

Single currency and fiscal performance: the early Euro Area in perspective pp. 415-419

Joao Jalles, Carlos Mulas-Granados, Jose Tavares and Carolina Correa Caro

A re-analysis of the trade and welfare effects of export subsidies pp. 420-424

Laura Brown and Elizabeth Troutt

Support to renewable energy sources and carbon capture and sequestration: comparison of alternative green tax reforms pp. 425-428

Susana Silva, Isabel Soares and Carlos Pinho

Price competition between big and small supermarkets: evidence from Seoul pp. 429-433

Hoe Sang Chung, Sanghyun Hwang and Min Kim

Volume 25, issue 5, 2018

The long-run effect of economic disasters pp. 296-299

Bruno Ćorić

From college to the NBA: what determines a player’s success and what characteristics are NBA franchises overlooking? pp. 300-304

Brent Evans

Oil prices and economic activity: evidence for G-7 economies based on a wavelet approach pp. 305-308

Dulce Redin, Ignacio Rodriguez, Juncal Cuñado and Fernando Pérez de Gracia

Exchange rate pass-through in the Asian countries: does inflation volatility matter? pp. 309-312

Siew-Voon Soon, Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah and Mark Wohar

Does the impact of financial liberalization on income inequality depend on financial development? Some new evidence pp. 313-316

Jakob de Haan, Regina Pleninger and Jan-Egbert Sturm

The effects of state and Federal gun control laws on school shootings pp. 317-320

Mark Gius

International arbitration of investment disputes: are poor and badly governed respondent states more likely to lose? pp. 321-325

Julian Donaubauer and Peter Nunnenkamp

When lack of accountability allows observing unobservables: moral hazard in sub-national government credit markets in Mexico pp. 326-330

Fausto Hernandez-Trillo

International trade and factor productivity as determinants of the real effective exchange rate pp. 331-334

Ernesto R. Gantman and Marcelo P. Dabós

Investigation of the nonlinear behaviour in real exchange rates in developing regions pp. 335-339

Hyunjoo Kim Karlsson, Kristofer Månsson and Pär Sjölander

Corruption and public debt: a cross-country analysis pp. 340-344

Luigi Benfratello, Alfredo Del Monte and Luca Pennacchio

The effect of economic policy uncertainty on bank valuations pp. 345-347

Zelong He and Jijun Niu

An estimate of the producer cost of liability for oil spills pp. 348-353

Peter Maniloff

Estimating the relationship between labour market tightness, unemployment insurance benefits and union election activity pp. 354-358

Robert Baumann, Bryan Engelhardt, David Fuller and M. Ryan Haley

Do National Basketball Association players need higher salaries to play in high tax states? Evidence from free agents pp. 359-361

Candon Johnson and Joshua Hall

Volume 25, issue 4, 2018

Debt crisis and 10-year sovereign yields in Ireland and in Portugal pp. 217-222

Antonio Afonso and Jorge Silva

Standing on the shoulder of giants: the aspect of free-riding in RePEc rankings pp. 223-228

Justus Meyer and Klaus Wohlrabe

Optimal forecast evaluation: fertilizer prices pp. 229-233

Seon-Woong Kim and B Brorsen

Contingent convertible bonds: Who invests in European CoCos? pp. 234-238

Martijn Boermans and Sweder van Wijnbergen

Market manipulation with sentiment traders pp. 239-243

Qingduo Zeng, Shancun Liu, Yi Qu and Qiang Zhang

How does the ordering of questions affect elicited time preferences? pp. 244-248

Kitae Sohn

Testing hysteresis effect in U.S. state unemployment: new evidence using a nonlinear quantile unit root test pp. 249-253

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Tsangyao Chang and Omid Ranjbar

Attitudes towards credit after the Great Recession pp. 254-257

James P. Dow

Economic cycles and downside commodities risk pp. 258-263

Robert Powell, Duc H. Vo and Thach Pham

The Internet, R&D expenditure and economic growth pp. 264-267

Changkyu Choi and Myung Hoon Yi

Energy price shocks and milk price adjustments pp. 268-271

Xun Li, Rigoberto Lopez and Rui Wang

Predicting season ticket holder loyalty using geographical information pp. 272-277

Dominik Schreyer, Sascha Schmidt and Benno Torgler

Announcements credibility and government securities: evidence from Colombia pp. 278-282

Juan Camilo Galvis Ciro and Juan Anzoátegui Zapata

European financial crisis and bank productivity: evidence from Eastern European Countries pp. 283-289

Ilias S. Kevork, Christos Kollias, Panayiotis Tzeremes and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

The evolution of consumer preferences in Poland pp. 290-295

Paweł Marcin Pońsko

Volume 25, issue 3, 2018

The dynamic impact of bilateral trade linkages on stock market correlations of Australia and China pp. 141-145

Sudharshan Reddy Paramati, Abdulrasheed Zakari, Mallaiah Jalle, Seenaiah Kale and Prasad Begari

Housing market volatility connectedness among G7 countries pp. 146-151

Hahn Lee and Woo Suk Lee

Are women more likely than men to oppose corruption in China? Not yet pp. 152-157

Yu Hao, Wei Wei and Chun-Ping Chang

A note on the effect of patents in endogenous growth models pp. 158-161

Tao Qian

One-sided provision of a public good through bargaining under representative democracy pp. 162-166

Ryusuke Shinohara

Decentralization and sectoral expenditures in Europe pp. 167-171

Michele Cincera, Antonio Estache and Alexander Wolf

The determinants of the vote for Trump: an analysis of Texas 2016 primary results pp. 172-175

Richard V. Adkisson and Jim Peach

Backtesting expected shortfall: evidence from European securitized real estate pp. 176-182

Fahad Almudhaf

Constructing a dynamic financial conditions indexes by TVP-FAVAR model pp. 183-186

Shaoping Wang, Fan Xu and Sanpan Chen

Newspaper reports of food safety scandals: evidence from an online take-out application in China pp. 187-191

Zhao Chen and Jingbing Feng

Option moneyness and price disagreements pp. 192-196

Heejin Yang, Ali Kutan and Doojin Ryu

Do ethnic networks influence circular migration? Evidence from the UK pp. 197-200

Majlinda Joxhe

Asymmetric effects of housing wealth on college enrolment pp. 201-205

Meagan McCollum and Gregory Upton

Asymmetric effects of shocks on TFP pp. 206-210

Marcelo Arbex, Sidney Caetano and Michel de Souza

A novel measure of liquidity premium: application to the Korean stock market pp. 211-215

Seok-Kyun Hur and Chune Young Chung

Volume 25, issue 2, 2018

Political incentives and the effectiveness of monetary policy: evidence from China’s city commercial banks pp. 70-73

Xi Fang, Haiming Liu and Xianhang Qian

Ethnicity and risk: a field test of the white-male effect pp. 74-77

Shahar Sansani

Asymmetric downside and upside co-movements between stock and REIT markets pp. 78-82

Kuang-Liang Chang

Number of siblings and educational attainment: application of son preference pp. 83-86

Hung-Han Lin

Time-varying dependence structures of equity markets of China, ASEAN and the USA pp. 87-91

Baoxia Li and Zhi Zeng

The effect of immigrants on the extensive and intensive margins of trade pp. 92-95

Kichun Kang

Premium subsidies and demand for private health insurance: results from a regression discontinuity design pp. 96-101

Nathan Kettlewell, Olena Stavrunova and Oleg Yerokhin

Why does the trend extracted by the Hodrick–Prescott filtering seem to be more plausible than the linear trend? pp. 102-105

Hiroshi Yamada

On a generalization of a class of production functions pp. 106-110

Gabriel-Eduard Vîlcu

Is fiscal expansion more effective in a financial crisis? pp. 111-114

Ayato Ashihara and Keigo Kameda

Overreaction to extreme market events and investor sentiment pp. 115-118

Pedro Piccoli and Mo Chaudhury

The role of domestic financial and economic development in financial integration pp. 119-124

Kent Jason G. Cheng and Sarah Lynne Daway-Ducanes

Performance and diversification benefits of foreign-equity ETFs in emerging markets pp. 125-129

Thanarerk Thanakijsombat and Treerapot Kongtoranin

Health insurance subsidies and the expansion of an implicit marriage penalty: a regional comparison of various means-tested programmes pp. 130-135

J. Sebastian Leguizamon and Susane Leguizamon

A first look at Brexit and global equity markets pp. 136-140

Richard Burdekin, Eric Hughson and Jinlin Gu

Volume 25, issue 1, 2018

Age discrimination in the UK labour market. Does race moderate ageism? An experimental investigation pp. 1-4

Nick Drydakis, Peter MacDonald, Vangelis Chiotis and Laurence Somers

Return seasonality in the foreign exchange market pp. 5-8

Yiuman Tse

Not everybody prefers organic food: unobserved heterogeneity in U.S. consumers’ preference for organic apple and milk pp. 9-14

Seon-Woong Kim, B Brorsen and Jayson Lusk

Nonlinear trend stationarity in global and hemispheric temperatures pp. 15-18

Kon S. Lai and Mann Yoon

The dynamic impact of intellectual capital on firm value: evidence from China pp. 19-23

Yang Li and Zhao Zhao

Underemployment in Australia: a panel investigation pp. 24-28

Parvinder Kler, Azhar Hussain Potia and Sriram Shankar

Who has terror angst? Perceptions of the effects of terror on the world economy pp. 29-33

Dorine Boumans, Johanna Garnitz and Günther Schulze

To each according to their ability? Academic ranking and salary inequality across public colleges and universities pp. 34-37

M. Garrett Roth and William P. McAndrew

Cities export specialization pp. 38-42

Jorge Diaz-Lanchas, Carlos Llano Verduras, Asier Minondo and Francisco Requena

Is social expenditure responsible for recent rise in public debt in OECD countries? pp. 43-46

Insook Lee

Stock liquidity and firm value: evidence from China pp. 47-50

Lijie Zhang, Yong Li, Zhuo Huang and Xinhan Chen

Teens and twenties: cultural and preferences differences in the uses of time in Spain pp. 51-55

Hua Wang and J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal

Are remittances good for economic growth? The role of political institutions pp. 56-60

Kevin Williams

The role of United States Visa Waiver Program on cross-border travel pp. 61-65

Barry Reilly and Tsegay Tekleselassie

Getting income shares right in agriculture pp. 66-69

David Gomtsyan