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Volume 24, issue 21, 2017

Corrigendum pp. i-i

The Editors

Corrigendum pp. ii-ii

The Editors

Corrigendum pp. iii-iii

The Editors

Corrigendum pp. iv-iv

The Editors

Corrigendum pp. v-v

The Editors

Blue Beijing: estimating the effects of temporary emissions restrictions on air quality pp. 1504-1510

Bruno Wichmann and Meng Yang

GMM estimation of panel data models with time-varying slope coefficients pp. 1511-1518

Yoshihiro Sato and Mans Soderbom

Do banking system transparency and competition affect nonperforming loans in the Chinese banking sector? pp. 1519-1525

Usman Bashir, Yugang Yu, Muntazir Hussain, Xiao Wang and Ahmed Ali

You should know better! Do health students have different risk attitudes to unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases? pp. 1526-1532

Stephen Whyte, Esther T.L. Lau, Lisa M. Nissen and Benno Torgler

Okun’s law revisited: a threshold in regression quantiles approach pp. 1533-1541

Xiuhua Wang and Ho-Chuan Huang

The Great Recession and charitable giving pp. 1542-1549

Jonathan Meer, David Miller and Elisa Wulfsberg

Pay-what-you-want in groups – evidence from a field experiment pp. 1550-1557

Till Proeger and Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg

‘Earnings shocks and tax-motivated income-shifting: evidence from European multinationals’ – revisited pp. 1558-1566

Caroline Schimanski

Monetary policy credibility and macrodynamics: evidence from Ghana pp. 1567-1574

Nana Akosah, Ivy Acquaye and Francis Loloh

Casting light on energy efficiency: evidence on consumer inattention and imperfect information pp. 1575-1587

Matthias Rodemeier, Andreas Löschel and Roland Kube

Infant mortality in Europe, socio-economic determinants based on aggregate data pp. 1588-1596

Aida Isabel Tavares

Intermarriage and the labour-force participation of immigrants: differences by gender pp. 1597-1604

Sukanya Basu

Monetary policy and the role of inventory investment pp. 1605-1612

Margarita Rubio and Scott Schuh

Value at risk forecasting for volatility index pp. 1613-1620

Seul-Ki Park, Ji-Eun Choi and Dong Wan Shin

On the role of network externalities in strategic delegation contracts with an industry-wide union pp. 1621-1628

Haiyang Hou, Shihuang Hong and Chunyu Zhao

Volume 24, issue 20, 2017

The impact of government debt on the long-run natural real interest rate – a quantitative evaluation pp. 1429-1434

Christoph Winter

A preliminary look at readmission and mortality among chronically critically ill and other medically complex Medicare patients pp. 1435-1438

Nicole M. Coomer, Melissa Morley, Melvin J. Ingber, Allison Briggs and Barbara Gage

A Bayesian approach to misclassified binary response: female employment and intimate partner violence in urban India pp. 1439-1442

Yoo-Mi Chin, Joon Jin Song and James Stamey

‘Talking down monetary policy’ – a note pp. 1443-1447

Peter Tillmann

Intraday hedging with financial options: the case of electricity pp. 1448-1454

Raphaël Homayoun Boroumand and Stéphane Goutte

Investment coordinates in the context of housing and stock markets nexus pp. 1455-1463

Jing-Ping Li, Jiao-Jiao Fan, Chi-Wei Su and Oana-Ramona Lobonţ

Bootstrap ARDL on energy-growth relationship for 22 OECD countries pp. 1464-1467

Soo Khoon Goh, Joe Yee Yong, Jorge Chan-Lau and Tuck Cheong Tang

Do non-citizens affect U.S. Congressional elections? pp. 1468-1471

Kaitlyn Harger and Mitchell Page

Uncertainty and the United States’ election effect on the economy: some thoughts and empirical illustrations pp. 1472-1475

Fredj Jawadi and Zied Ftiti

The impact of exogenous shocks on exits from the Catholic and Protestant churches in Germany, 1953–2015 pp. 1476-1480

Bernd Frick and Rob Simmons

When did inflation expectations in the Euro area de-anchor? pp. 1481-1485

Andrea Fracasso and Rocco Probo

The determinants of pornography actress production pp. 1486-1489

Shinn-Shyr Wang and Li-Chen Chou

Corruption and natural resource rents: evidence from quantile regression pp. 1490-1493

Keisuke Okada and Sovannroeun Samreth

Microfinance and gender inequality: cross-country evidence pp. 1494-1498

Quanda Zhang and Alberto Posso

Are momentum crashes pervasive regardless of strategy? Evidence from the foreign exchange market pp. 1499-1503

Klaus Grobys and Jesper Haga

Volume 24, issue 19, 2017

Modelling movie attendance with seasonality: evidence from China pp. 1351-1357

Xu Zhang, Guangming Hou and Weijia Dong

P2P Loans and bank loans, the chicken and the egg, what causes what?: further evidence from a bootstrap panel granger causality test pp. 1358-1362

Zan Zhang, Ken Hung and Tsangyao Chang

Is good news for Donald Trump bad news for the Peso? pp. 1363-1368

Thomas Beard, Hyeongwoo Kim and Michael Stern

The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood pp. 1369-1373

Laura Cyron, Guido Schwerdt and Martina Viarengo

Banking crises and human rights pp. 1374-1377

Jerg Gutmann, Katharina Pfaff and Stefan Voigt

Competing-destinations gravity model applied to trade in intermediate goods pp. 1378-1384

Felipa De Mello-Sampayo

Education reform and education gaps pp. 1385-1388

Babak Jahanshahi and Arash Naghavi

Real exchange rates: are they dominated by fundamental factors? pp. 1389-1392

Michal Skorepa and Lubos Komarek

Impact of FDI and trade on environmental quality in the CAFTA-DR region pp. 1393-1398

Dina Frutos-Bencze, Kanix Bukkavesa and Nat Kulvanich

Star quality and competitive balance? Television audience demand for English Premier League football reconsidered pp. 1399-1402

N. Scelles

Duplication or experimentation: how local governors make policies under new administrative circumstances pp. 1403-1407

Yuanyuan Dang, Tao Hong and Zhonggen Mao

Determinants of contract duration in outsourced services in the defense sector pp. 1408-1411

Jorge Fleta-Asín and Fernando Muñoz

A new unit root test based on -statistic in ESTAR framework pp. 1412-1416

Shaoping Wang and Jiyu Yu

The effect of religious piety on managerial entrenchment: evidence from entrenched boards of directors pp. 1417-1422

Pandej Chintrakarn, Shenghui Tong and Pornsit Jiraporn

Gender and culture: do they matter for norms? pp. 1423-1427

Rosella Nicolini and José Luis Roig

Erratum pp. 1428-1428

The Editors

Volume 24, issue 18, 2017

Corrigendum pp. i-i

The Editors

Impact of income tax on happiness: evidence from the United States pp. 1277-1279

Taurean Hutchinson, Ishraq Ahmed and Pavlo Buryi

How does immigration affect modes of foreign market access: trade and FDI? pp. 1280-1284

Akinori Tomohara

Bank versus nonbank financial institution lending behaviour: indictors of firm size, risk or ownership? pp. 1285-1288

Wei Yin and Xiaoxing Liu

Becoming unemployed and poor in Great Britain pp. 1289-1293

Alexander Plum

Employee treatment and the choice of liquidity: lines of credit versus cash holdings pp. 1294-1297

Kiyoung Chang and Hyeongsop Shim

Political uncertainty and international corruption pp. 1298-1306

Rajeev Goel and James Saunoris

Some additional evidence on the interplay between corruption, tax policy and firm entry using US states pp. 1307-1310

John Dove

Do people gamble more in good times? Evidence from 27 European countries pp. 1311-1314

Eduard Baumohl and Eva Výrostová

Differences in the response heterogeneity of educational attainment and achievement to the same instrumental variable pp. 1315-1319

Wen Fan and Xiaobo He

Determinants of entrepreneurship using fuzzy set methods: Europe vs. non-Europe pp. 1320-1326

Jorge Velilla and Raquel Ortega

Does having one’s own place to live make someone more employable? pp. 1327-1330

Ali Ahmed, Mark Granberg and Elisabeth Lång

Pre-recession wage inflation and the strength of the subsequent recovery pp. 1331-1334

Carl Campbell

Per-unit versus ad-valorem discrimination with an application to MLB pp. 1335-1339

Paul Holmes and Robert Kane

On the relative importance of demand and supply shocks: a panel VAR study for US states pp. 1340-1345

Edward M. Feasel, Padmapriya Gollapudi and Daiki Kumazawa

Is inequality an inevitable by-product of skill-biased technical change? pp. 1346-1350

Philipp Hühne and Dierk Herzer

Volume 24, issue 17, 2017

Class matters: tracking urban inequality in post-liberalization India using a durables-based mixture model pp. 1203-1207

Sudeshna Maitra

How does governance affect tax avoidance? Evidence from shareholder proposals pp. 1208-1213

Alex Young

Should I guess? pp. 1214-1217

Ellen Sewell

Altruism: primary motivation of remittances pp. 1218-1221

SeyedSoroosh Azizi

Who gets promoted? Personality factors leading to promotion in highly structured work environments: evidence from a German professional football club pp. 1222-1227

Mark Kassis, Sascha Schmidt, Dominik Schreyer and Benno Torgler

Does reputation enhance response rates? pp. 1228-1231

V. Smith, Sharon L. Harlan, Michael McLaen, Jacob Fishman, Carlos Valcarcel and Marcia Nation

Initial wealth effects of the Brexit vote on UK ADRs pp. 1232-1236

Mark Schaub

The impact of customer reviews and advertisement efforts on the performance of experience goods in electronic markets pp. 1237-1240

Bernd Frick and Daniel Kaimann

An econometric analysis of global warming hiatus pp. 1241-1246

Fumitaka Furuoka

Life expectancy and human capital: long-run evidence from a panel of countries pp. 1247-1250

Dierk Herzer

Do stock prices react to immigration restrictions? Evidence from an event study in Switzerland pp. 1251-1254

Philip C. Hanke

Empirical analysis of profit maximization and cost minimization behaviour of Kansas farms pp. 1255-1258

Yacob A. Zereyesus and Allen Featherstone

And if the ball does not cross the line? A comprehensive analysis of football clubs’ performance pp. 1259-1262

Fabíola Zambom-Ferraresi, Fernando Lera-López and Belen Iraizoz

Do unfair perceived own pay and top managers’ pay erode satisfaction with democracy? pp. 1263-1266

Christian Pfeifer and Stefan Schneck

Who takes the child to the doctor? Mom, pretty much all of the time pp. 1267-1276

Moira Daly and Fane Groes

Volume 24, issue 16, 2017

The effects of minimum wages on the health of working teenagers pp. 1127-1130

Susan Averett, Julie K. Smith and Yang Wang

The political economy of Brexit: explaining the vote pp. 1131-1134

Joshua Matti and Yang Zhou

The economics of the Swedish online gambling market pp. 1135-1137

Mikael Arvidsson, James Sjöstrand and Jesper Stage

The European refugee crisis and the natural rate of output pp. 1138-1142

Katja Heinisch and Klaus Wohlrabe

Renewable energy and low-carbon policy spillover effects on natural gas demand pp. 1143-1147

Travis Roach

Effect of investor fear on Australian financial markets pp. 1148-1153

Lee Smales

Unified efficiency evaluation of regional industries in China: a nonradial directional distance function approach pp. 1154-1160

Jun Liang and Shaobo Long

Irrational exuberance in the Chinese iron ore market? pp. 1161-1166

Xiaoli Etienne

The drowning-refugee effect: media salience and xenophobic attitudes pp. 1167-1172

Silvia De Poli, Niklas Jakobsson and Simone Schüller

Buyer and/or seller power? An application to the Brazilian milk market pp. 1173-1176

Paulo Scalco, Rigoberto Lopez and Xi He

Re-examining the economic determinants of alcohol consumption in Canada: controlling for the presence of common correlated effects pp. 1177-1180

Jason Stevens and Jason Childs

Government intervention, sectoral productivity growth and structural transformation pp. 1181-1188

Jun Liang and Shaobo Long

The impact of payroll allocation has on winning in major league baseball pp. 1189-1193

Robert Killins

How does the internet affect migration decisions? pp. 1194-1198

Hernan Winkler

A note on modelling household food waste behaviour pp. 1199-1202

Jayson Lusk and Brenna Ellison

Volume 24, issue 15, 2017

Oil prices and the real exchange rate in Iran: an ARDL bounds testing approach pp. 1051-1056

Esfandiar Jahangard, Arian Daneshmand and Mehdi Tekieh

Using partial identification methods to estimate the effect of violence against women on their children’s health outcomes pp. 1057-1060

Jorge Agüero

Does an economically active population matter in housing prices? pp. 1061-1064

Changkyu Choi and Hojin Jung

Cyclical comovements in energy-related venture capital investments pp. 1065-1069

Bradley Ewing, Simon Medcalfe, Wennie Squires and Mark A. Thompson

Income mobility and the Arab spring: the case of Egypt and Jordan pp. 1070-1074

Mahdi Majbouri

The Lerner index and revenue maximization pp. 1075-1079

Laura Spierdijk and Michalis Zaouras

Does legal system matter for directed technical change? Evidence from the auto industry pp. 1080-1083

Per Fredriksson and Alexandre Sauquet

The impact of terrorism on expectations, trust and happiness – the case of the November 13 attacks in Paris, France pp. 1084-1087

Tom Coupé

Forecasting household debt with latent transition modelling pp. 1088-1092

Piotr Bialowolski

Do workers perceive high wage settlements of craft unions as fair? pp. 1093-1096

Christian Pfeifer, Gesine Stephan, Matthias Dütsch and Olaf Struck

Out-of-sample forecasting of the Canadian unemployment rates using univariate models pp. 1097-1101

Zameelah Rifkha Khan Jaffur, Noor-Ul-Hacq Sookia, Preethee Nunkoo Gonpot and Boopendra Seetanah

A new test for analysing hysteresis in European unemployment pp. 1102-1106

Fumitaka Furuoka

Do we lie in groups? An experimental evidence pp. 1107-1111

Václav Korbel

Choice of the empirical definition of zero in the translog multiproduct cost functional form pp. 1112-1120

Yapo Genevier N’guessan, Allen Featherstone, Oluwarotimi Odeh and Sreedhar Upendram

Solving RE models with discontinuous policy rules – an application to minimum wage setting in Germany pp. 1121-1126

Dirk Bursian

Volume 24, issue 14, 2017

Revealed preferences for portfolio selection – does skewness matter? pp. 968-971

Merrill W. Liechty and Ümit Sağlam

European bank stress test and sovereign exposures pp. 972-976

Maria Gerhardt and Rudi Vander Vennet

The limitations of negative incomes in the Gini coefficient decomposition by source pp. 977-981

Ana Manero

Causality patterns for Brent, WTI, and Argus oil prices pp. 982-986

Semei Coronado, Thomas Fullerton and Omar Rojas

Predicting a flash crash in the yen/dollar foreign exchange market pp. 987-990

Yoshihiro Kitamura

Fractional integration and nonlinear deterministic trends in the analysis of time series data pp. 991-994

Luis Gil-Alana and Hector Carcel

Predictor imperfection: international evidence pp. 995-1000

Lijie Zhang, Yong Li and Wenbo Wu

The appointment of celebrities to corporate boards in China: sword or shield? pp. 1001-1004

Jin-hui Luo, Zeyue Huang and Zhiru Lin

Measuring the under-diversification of socially responsible investments pp. 1005-1018

Fabio Pizzutilo

Market timing in precious metals is detrimental to value creation pp. 1019-1024

Fahad Almudhaf and Yaser AlKulaib

Does raising indigent defender pay rates improve defendant outcomes? Evidence from New York pp. 1025-1030

Michael A. Roach

Deregulation and firm investment: evidence from the dismantling of the license system in India pp. 1031-1034

Ivan Kandilov, Asli Leblebicioglu and Ruchita Manghnani

Optimal portfolio selection with maximal risk adjusted return pp. 1035-1040

Yue Wang, Zhijian Qiu and Xiaomei Qu

The impact of technology imports on technology balance of payments in Korea: an ARDL bounds testing approach pp. 1041-1045

Cheolmin Pak and Bonchul Ku

PPP test for Asian countries and regions: new evidence from a wild bootstrap AESTAR test pp. 1046-1050

Shaoping Wang and Yang Yang

Volume 24, issue 13, 2017

Does terrorism reduce life satisfaction? pp. 893-896

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks

Semiparametric versus parametric hedonic wine price models: an empirical investigation pp. 897-901

Lester Kwong, Tomson Ogwang and Ling Sun

Tax enforcement and corporate profit shifting pp. 902-905

Florian Baumann, Achim Buchwald, Tim Friehe, Hanna Hottenrott and John P. Weche

Expected utility theory with imprecise probability perception: explaining preference reversals pp. 906-910

Oben K. Bayrak and John Hey

Current account balance cyclicality pp. 911-917

Antonio Afonso and Jorge Silva

A possible explanation of the ‘Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle’: a common solution to three macroeconomic puzzles? pp. 918-922

Charles Horioka and Nicholas Ford

Estimating the elasticity of intertemporal substitution accounting for stockholder-specific portfolios pp. 923-927

Yosef Bonaparte and Frank Fabozzi

A note on economic freedom and political ideology pp. 928-931

Ji Gu, Ryan Compton, Daniel Giedeman and Gary Hoover

Bidding for nothing? The pitfalls of overly neutral framing pp. 932-935

Peter Duersch and Julia Müller

The financial consequences of abolishing a carbon trading system pp. 936-939

Vikash Ramiah, Huy Pham, Ian Wang, Van Ngoc Tuong Dang, Jose Francisco Veron and Hung Duong

Internal validity in discrete choice experiments: varying the position of the price attribute pp. 940-944

Mario Soliño, Begoña A. Farizo and Pablo Campos

Reservation wages of first- and second-generation migrants pp. 945-949

Amelie Constant, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

Deregulation and the determinants of network access: evidence from the German interurban bus industry pp. 950-955

Niklas S. Dürr and Kai Hüschelrath

Why has US monetary policy become ineffective lately? pp. 956-960

Chulho Jung and Jay E. Ryu

The time-varying effect of inflation uncertainty on inflation for Turkey pp. 961-967

Serdar Varlik, Volkan Ülke and Hakan Berument

Volume 24, issue 12, 2017

Does unemployment lead to a less healthy lifestyle? pp. 815-819

Micha Kaiser, Jan Michael Bauer and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Permissible delay period and pricing decisions in a two-echelon supply chain pp. 820-825

Honglin Yang, Heping Dai and Wenyan Zhuo

Investor sentiment, trading behavior and stock returns pp. 826-830

Doojin Ryu, Hyeyoen Kim and Heejin Yang

Further evidence on the law of factor proportionality in multiple households closed CGE models pp. 831-836

Yves Balasko and Octavio Augusto Tourinho

Going offshore or better staying in? Spatial relocation strategies and their impact on firm innovativeness pp. 837-840

Fabian Kreutzer and Timo Mitze

A national or local phenomenon? A comparison of the US and the Chinese housing markets pp. 841-845

Peng Chen and Fu Wang

Patience and achievement test results pp. 846-849

Benedikt Vogt

The allocation of China’s higher education talent (2003–2013) pp. 850-853

Changjun Yue, Siyan Yue and Jing Zhang

Equity and asset growth among Subchapter S banks pp. 854-857

Russ Kashian, Richard G. Cummings and Peter Westort

Inter-gender interaction and communication in ultimatum games pp. 858-862

Nikolaos Georgantzís, Despoina Parasyri and Konstantinos Tsagarakis

Innovation and imitation: substitutes or complements? pp. 863-867

Tracy Collins

Losing children and mental well-being: evidence from China pp. 868-877

Qianping Ren and Maoliang Ye

Productivity change of Portuguese municipalities after local reforms pp. 878-881

Juan Aparicio, Jose M. Cordero and Jesus T. Pastor

The effect of family ownership on corporate hedging: the case of Thailand pp. 882-887

Sachapon Tungsong and Pornsit Jiraporn

Value of tax benefits of a dynamic debt policy with regime switching pp. 888-892

Michael Dothan and Wei Wu

Volume 24, issue 11, 2017

Stock market uncertainty and interest rate behaviour: a panel GARCH approach pp. 732-735

Harold Glenn Valera, Mark Holmes and Gazi Hassan

Nonlinear causality relationship between stock and real-estate returns in PIGS countries: wealth effect or credit-price effect pp. 736-741

Tienwei Lou

Impact of hospitalist care on hospital malpractice premiums using California hospital data pp. 742-752

Jinhyung Lee

Willingness to pay to control PM2.5 pollution in Jing-Jin-Ji Region, China pp. 753-761

Weixian Wei and Yan Wu

Estimating local average treatment effects in aggregate data pp. 762-765

Nick Huntington-Klein

Using demographic identification to estimate the effects of board size on corporate performance pp. 766-770

Pandej Chintrakarn, Pornsit Jiraporn, Shenghui Tong and Richard M. Proctor

International stock return predictability: on the role of the United States in bad and good times pp. 771-773

Boriss Siliverstovs

At the mercy of a prisoner three dictator experiments pp. 774-778

Thorsten Chmura, Christoph Engel and Markus Englerth

Do consumers’ home buying attitudes explain the behaviour of US home sales? pp. 779-783

Hamid Baghestani

Commodity-driven integration of stock markets in Africa pp. 784-789

Jarkko Peltomäki, Michael Graham and Imhotep Alagidede

Multi-scale causality between saving and growth: evidence from China pp. 790-794

Xu Zhang, Jianqin Hang and Xiaoxing Liu

Public investment and regional business cycle fluctuations in Japan pp. 795-799

Tomomi Miyazaki

Economic growth in emerging economies: what, who and why pp. 800-803

Donatella Saccone

Re-assessing the impact of academic performance on salary level and growth: a case study pp. 804-808

Edinaldo Tebaldi, Laura Beaudin and Jodie-gaye Hunter

Citations, journal ranking and multiple authorships reconsidered: evidence from almost one million articles pp. 809-814

Vera Sommer and Klaus Wohlrabe

Volume 24, issue 10, 2017

New evidence on breaking trend functions in real GDPs from Great China Economic Area pp. 663-667

Hui Hong and Naiwei Chen

Identifying periods of market inefficiency for return predictability pp. 668-671

Subrata Kumar Mitra, Manojit Chattopadhyay, Parikshit Charan and Jaslene Bawa

Redistribution in the age of austerity: evidence from Europe 2006–2013 pp. 672-676

Markus Schneider, Stephen Kinsella and Antoine Godin

Which country uses public social expenditure efficiently among OECD countries? pp. 677-680

Taeyoung Kim and Hongkyun Kim

Quantitative easing and default probability of corporate social responsibility in US pp. 681-685

Feng-Jui Hsu and I-Chien Liu

Environmental disclosure as a proactive tool to intra-industry market reaction in China pp. 686-689

Jun Huang, Heng Li and Guowei Zhu

Capital structure and value of reported earnings: evidence from an emerging market pp. 690-694

Omar Farooq, Ziya Asgarov, Ayaz Guliyev, Toghrul Islam, Yuliya Kalinina and Zakir Pashayev

Does time difference between countries reduce bilateral trade? An application of the correlated random effects method using panel data pp. 695-698

Suryadipta Roy

The effects of policy funds on the financing constraints of small- and medium-sized enterprises in South Korea pp. 699-702

Sang B. Hahn, Sehoon Kwon and Jeongsun Yun

Comparing the employment-output elasticities of migrants and nationals: the case of the Gulf Cooperation Council pp. 703-707

Alberto Behar

Estimating three-dimensional nonlinear panel data models with interactive effects pp. 708-712

Xiaoqing Ye and Xiangjun Wu

Estimating the trend in US real GDP using the trend filtering pp. 713-716

Hiroshi Yamada

For they know not what they do: an analysis of monetary policy during the Great Moderation pp. 717-721

Makram El-Shagi and Logan Kelly

Testing for heterogeneity of preferences in randomized experiments: a satisfaction-based approach applied to multiplayer prisoners’ dilemmas pp. 722-726

Leonardo Becchetti, Vittorio Pelligra and Francesco Salustri

The role of global financial conditions for credit supply in EMU periphery countries pp. 727-731

Axel Jochem and Stefan Reitz

Volume 24, issue 9, 2017

Adding value through the mechanization of post-harvest cassava processing, and its impact on household poverty in north-eastern Zambia pp. 579-583

Adebayo Abass, Paul Amaza, Beatrice Bachwenkizi, Bamidele Alenkhe, Ivor Mukuka and Nicolaus Cromme

Implied correlation indices and volatility forecasting pp. 584-588

Holger Fink and Sabrina Geppert

Active labour market programmes and reservation wages: it is a hazard pp. 589-593

Kenneth Sørensen

Information and access to United Nations diplomatic missions pp. 594-597

Peter M. Aronow, Molly Offer-Westort, Lauren E. Pinson and Ana C. Perez-Gea

E-commerce and the market structure of the recorded music industry pp. 598-601

Marc Bourreau, Romain Lestage and François Moreau

Evaluating monetary policy with financial stability objective: rules vs. discretion pp. 602-617

Menelik Geremew

The effect of the car-parazzi system on traffic accidents in Korea pp. 618-622

Sunku Hahn, Yun Jeong Choi and Won-Sin Kim

Depth versus breadth in video rental kiosks pp. 623-626

Amanda S. King and John T. King

Comprehension in risk elicitation experiments pp. 627-634

Jens Rommel, Daniel Hermann, Malte Müller and Oliver Musshoff

Informal parental care and female labour supply in Japan pp. 635-638

Takashi Oshio and Emiko Usui

CAPM and the changing distribution of historical returns pp. 639-642

Chandana Shahi and Sherrill Shaffer

Measuring the cyclicality of labour market flows using individual transitions pp. 643-647

Regina Riphahn and Rebecca Schrader

Assessment of the effect of the financial crisis on agents’ expectations through symbolic regression pp. 648-652

Oscar Claveria, Enric Monte and Salvador Torra

Firm heterogeneity and immigrant wage assimilation pp. 653-657

Ana Damas de Matos

Stability analysis and efficiency determinants: empirical evidence pp. 658-661

José Solana-Ibáñez, Manuel Caravaca-Garratón and Lorena Para-González

Corrigendum pp. 662-662

The Editors

Volume 24, issue 8, 2017

Erratum pp. i-i

The Editors

The US real GNP is trend-stationary after all pp. 510-514

Tolga Omay, Rangan Gupta and Giovanni Bonaccolto

Finite sample performance of specification tests for correlated random effects quantile panel regressions pp. 515-519

Samiul Haque and Michael S. Delgado

Estimating the determinants of arrest-related deaths at the state level pp. 520-522

Mark Gius

Fare elasticities of demand for direct and indirect flights in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 523-526

Kenneth Button, Gianmaria Martini, Davide Scotti and Nicola Volta

The shadow rate as a predictor of real activity and inflation: evidence from a data-rich environment pp. 527-535

Jari Hännikäinen

The long-run causal relationship between exports and economic growth in the euro area pp. 536-539

Ioanna Konstantakopoulou and Mike Tsionas

Foreign investor trading and information asymmetry: evidence from a leading emerging market pp. 540-544

Chune Young Chung, Hyeyoen Kim and Doojin Ryu

Do Islamic banks shift from mark-up to equity financing when their contracting environments are improved? pp. 545-548

Nafis Alam and Rasyad Parinduri

‘I want to ride my bicycle’: delimiting cyclist typologies pp. 549-552

Raúl Brey, José I. Castillo-Manzano and Mercedes Castro-Nuño

US monetary policy shocks and the Chinese economy: a GVAR approach pp. 553-558

Yujiang Bi and Sajid Anwar

The effect of heterogeneous beliefs on mergers and acquisitions pp. 559-562

Lu Deng, Sifei Li and Mingqing Liao

Growth convergence and local steady states across Chinese prefectures pp. 563-566

Federico Frattini, Francesco Nicolli and G. Prodi

Does Islamic banking performance vary across regions? A new puzzle pp. 567-570

Fredj Jawadi, Nabila Jawadi, Hachmi Ben Ameur and Abdoulkarim Idi Cheffou

The ‘Twin Peaks’ model of post-crisis banking supervision pp. 571-574

Wook Sohn and Iegor Vyshnevskyi

An analysis of the impact of unionization on efficiency: evidence from a meta-frontier analysis pp. 575-578

Daeho Lee, Kyunam Kim and Chung Choe

Volume 24, issue 7, 2017

Agglomeration, migration cost and intergovernmental transfers pp. 439-442

Akiyoshi Furukawa

A fuzzy goal programming approach to analyse sustainable development goals of India pp. 443-447

Mohammad Asim Nomani, Irfan Ali, Armin Fügenschuh and Aquil Ahmed

A game theory model of regulatory response to insider trading pp. 448-455

Lee Smales and Matthius Thul

The reduction cost of nonperforming loan: evidence from China’s commercial bank pp. 456-459

Lei Shi, Pengfei Sheng and Marek Vochozka

Monetary policy evaluation. A counterfactual analysis based on dynamic factor models pp. 460-466

German Lopez Buenache

Smartphones support smart labour pp. 467-471

Rebecca Hartje and Michael Hübler

The polarization impact of the crisis on the Eurozone labour markets: a hierarchical cluster analysis pp. 472-476

Hélène Syed Zwick and S. Ali Shah Syed

On the simultaneity bias in the relationship between risk attitudes, entry into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial survival pp. 477-480

Matthias Brachert, Walter Hyll and Mirko Titze

Feminization of labour and profit rates: evidence from OECD countries pp. 481-484

Adem Elveren, Christa Marr and Yvonne Renard

IPO characteristics and underprincing in the Alternative Investment Market pp. 485-489

Miguel Á. Acedo-Ramírez and Francisco J. Ruiz-Cabestre

Value relevance of financial statements in convergence with IFRS: analyses in the abnormal pricing error method pp. 490-493

TsingZai C. Wu, Wan Ting Hsieh, Chun Chan Yu and Hsin Ti Chu

The influence of Internet on politics: the impact of Facebook and the Internet penetration on elections in Taiwan pp. 494-497

Li-Chen Chou and Chung-Yuan Fu

Bank risk proxies and the crisis of 2007/09: a comparison pp. 498-501

Felix Noth and Lena Tonzer

Deficit model of exchange for continuous processes with external control pp. 502-505

E. Kostenko, V. M. Kuznichenko and V. I. Lapshyn

The equilibrium real exchange rate and macroeconomic performance in developing countries pp. 506-509

Marcel Schröder

Volume 24, issue 6, 2017

Corrigendum pp. i-i

The Editors

Children’s interaction with the Internet: time dedicated to communications and games pp. 359-364

José Alberto Molina, Juan Campaña and Raquel Ortega

Technology elasticity and potential on energy saving and emission reduction: evidence from China pp. 365-369

Dayong Liu, Rong Chang and Yi Liu

Economic freedom and social capital: pooled mean group evidence pp. 370-373

Jeremy Jackson

How to curb poverty-related deforestation? pp. 374-380

Michael Hübler

Co-opted directors and powerful CEOs: evidence from the CEO pay slice (CPS) pp. 381-386

Pradit Withisuphakorn and Pornsit Jiraporn

Momentum crash, credit risk and optionality effects in bear markets and crisis periods: evidence from the US stock market pp. 387-391

Klaus Grobys

The value of non-personally identifiable information to consumers of online services: evidence from a discrete choice experiment pp. 392-395

Garrett Glasgow and Sarah Butler

Can funding platforms’ self-initiated financial innovation improve credit availability? Evidence from China’s P2P market pp. 396-398

Jinhong Jackson Mi and Hongfei Zhu

Foreign direct investment and total factor productivity in Bolivia pp. 399-403

Dierk Herzer

Exploring the link between household debt and income inequality: an asymmetric approach pp. 404-409

Apostolos Fasianos, Hamid Raza and Stephen Kinsella

A panel data robust instrumental variable approach: a test of the new Fama-French five-factor model pp. 410-416

François-Éric Racicot and William F. Rentz

The effect of industry classification on analyst following and the properties of their earnings forecasts pp. 417-421

Dennis Y. Chung, Karel Hrazdil and Xin Li

Banking sector resilience to financial spillovers pp. 422-426

Wang Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori and T. Kinkyo

SEC FRR No. 48 and analyst forecast accuracy pp. 427-432

Bing-Xuan Lin and Chen-Miao Lin

Memorability of Nobel Prize laureates in economics pp. 433-437

Aloys Prinz

Volume 24, issue 5, 2017

Domestic market integration and the law of one price in Brazil pp. 284-288

Carlos Góes and Troy Matheson

Is there a life cycle in all industries? First evidence from industry size dynamics in West Germany pp. 289-297

Thomas Brenner and Matthias Dorner

The impact of public employment on labour market performance: evidence from African countries pp. 298-301

Marco Ranzani and Michele Tuccio

The impact of the market transparency unit for fuels on gasoline prices in Germany pp. 302-305

Ralf Dewenter, Ulrich Heimeshoff and Hendrik Lüth

Bilateral foreign aid: how important is aid effectiveness to people for choosing countries to support? pp. 306-310

Harry Cunningham, Stephen Knowles and Paul Hansen

The anatomy of returns from moving average trading rules in the Russian stock market pp. 311-318

Eero Pätäri, Pasi Luukka, Elena Fedorova and Tatiana Garanina

A sectoral approach to Okun’s Law pp. 319-324

Wayne Apap and Daniel Gravino

The ‘real’ explanation of the PPP puzzle pp. 325-328

Nicholas Ford and Charles Horioka

Vertical specialization in the EU and the causality of trade pp. 329-333

Stephan Huber and Binh Nguyen Thanh

The EU ETS and corporate environmental abatement pp. 334-337

Roel Brouwers, Frederiek Schoubben and Cynthia Van Hulle

Skewed background risks and higher-order risk preferences: prudent versus temperate behavior pp. 338-341

Thomas Mayrhofer

Adapting and testing the Fama and French model, with some variations of company characteristics pp. 342-345

Luis Ferruz and Guillermo Badía

Reconsidering Wagner’s law: evidence from the functions of the government pp. 346-350

Antonio Afonso and José Alves

The determinants of NCAA basketball recruiting outcomes pp. 351-354

Brent Evans and Joshua Pitts

What can biology tell us about transaction balances? pp. 355-358

Nikolaus Bartzsch and Franz Seitz

Volume 24, issue 4, 2017

Who gets arrested for marijuana use? The perils of being poor and black pp. 211-213

Wesley Austin and Rand Ressler

Quote activity and round quotes in a voice-brokered bond market pp. 214-218

Andrei Nikiforov and Eugene Pilotte

Improved output gaps with financial cycle information? An application to G7 countries’ new Keynesian Phillips curves pp. 219-228

Johanna Amberger, Ralf Fendel and Hanno Stremmel

Investor recognition and liquidity: evidence from dual listing on the NYSE and NASDAQ pp. 229-232

S. Hegde, H. Lin and S. Varshney

Estimating the market value of collegiate football players from professional factor shares pp. 233-237

Brian L. Goff, H. Youn Kim and Dennis P. Wilson

Remittances and labour allocation decisions at communities of origin: the case of rural Mexico pp. 238-242

Alejandro Lopez-Feldman and Daniel Escalona

Endogenous categorization of the human development pp. 243-246

Julio Abad-González and Ricardo Martinez

The (in) effectiveness of procurement auctions in the public sector pp. 247-249

Yizhaq Minchuk and Shlomo Mizrahi

Selection and incentives in contests: evidence from horse racing pp. 250-253

Alasdair Brown and Fuyu Yang

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate diversification: do diversified production firms invest more in CSR? pp. 254-257

Shan Xu and Duchi Liu

Who gets caught for corruption when corruption is pervasive? Evidence from China’s anti-bribery blacklist pp. 258-263

Liming Zhou, Zhangfeng Jin and Zheng Wang

Testing under a special form of heteroscedasticity pp. 264-268

Helmut Farbmacher and Heinrich Kögel

Exchange rates, central bank news and the zero lower bound* pp. 269-272

Domenico Lombardi, Pierre Siklos and Samantha St. Amand

Liquidity and investor confidence in the turn-of-the-month regularity pp. 273-278

John E. Burnett

Experts, firms, consumers or even hard data? Forecasting employment in Germany pp. 279-283

Robert Lehmann and Klaus Wohlrabe

Volume 24, issue 3, 2017

Distance-sensitivity of German exports: first evidence from firm-product level data pp. 140-142

Joachim Wagner

Bank distress and firms’ investment during the Great Recession - evidence from Ireland pp. 143-147

Mariana Spatareanu, Vlad Manole and Ali Kabiri

Vertically integrated producer when a rival is also a customer: impact of demand uncertainty pp. 148-153

Se-Youn Jung and Kun Soo Park

Determinants of fiscal rules pp. 154-158

Harald Badinger and Wolf Heinrich Reuter

Testing for differences in technical efficiency among groups within an industry pp. 159-162

Phuong Thanh Le, Charles Harvie and Amir Arjomandi

Gender and entrepreneurial success: evidence from survey data pp. 163-166

Benjamin Artz

Health expenditure and socio-economic determinants of life expectancy in the OECD Asia/Pacific area countries pp. 167-169

Carla Blazquez-Fernández, David Cantarero-Prieto and Marta Pascual-Saez

Is it the economy, stupid? The role of social versus economic factors in people’s support for hosting the Olympic Games: evidence from 12 democratic countries pp. 170-174

Tobias Streicher, Sascha Schmidt, Dominik Schreyer and Benno Torgler

Citations, journal ranking and multiple authorships: evidence based on the top 300 papers in economics pp. 175-181

Imad A. Moosa

Entry regulation and international trade pp. 182-185

Qingran Wang, Haibin Wu, Jun Xu and Jiaren Pang

A dynamic approach to analysing the effect of the global crisis on nonperforming loans: evidence from the Turkish banking sector pp. 186-192

Vuslat Us

Candidate quality and US Senate elections pp. 193-197

Christopher Duquette, Franklin Mixon and Richard Cebula

Assessing the impact of different workplace flexibilities on workplace stress in the presence of varying degrees of job control pp. 198-201

Chad Cotti, M. Ryan Haley and Laurie A. Miller

Industrial structure and preferences for a common currency – the case of the EURO referendum in Sweden pp. 202-206

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Wolfgang Maennig and Tobias Osterheider

U.S. farm dynamics and the distribution of U.S. agricultural subsidies pp. 207-209

Barrett Kirwan

Volume 24, issue 2, 2017

Community conversations as a strategy to change harmful traditional practices against women pp. 72-74

Elisabetta De Cao, Marloes Huis, Samson Jemaneh and Robert Lensink

Evolutionary dynamics of social tolerance in the economic interaction model with local social cost functions pp. 75-79

Yingying Shi and Min Pan

The effect of legal status on immigrant wages and occupational skills pp. 80-84

Quinn Steigleder and Chad Sparber

On the inauspicious incentives of the scholar-level h-index: an economist’s take on collusive and coercive citation pp. 85-89

M. Ryan Haley

Are gold bugs coherent? pp. 90-94

Brian Lucey and Fergal O’connor

The ‘real’ explanation of the Feldstein–Horioka puzzle pp. 95-97

Nicholas Ford and Charles Horioka

Bank consolidation before and after the 2008 crisis pp. 98-101

Richard Parsons and James Nguyen

The impact of mechanized processing of cassava on farmers’ production efficiency in Uganda pp. 102-106

Adebayo Abass, Paul Amaza, Beatrice Bachwenkizi, Kelly Wanda, Ambrose Agona and Nicolaus Cromme

Determinants of nonresident government debt ownership pp. 107-112

Antonio Afonso and Jorge Silva

Excise taxes, over-shifting, cross-elasticity, and tax revenue pp. 113-116

Donald Dutkowsky and Ryan S. Sullivan

Family firm succession and performance pp. 117-121

H. Young Baek and David Cho

Volatility spillovers to the emerging financial markets during taper talk and actual tapering pp. 122-127

Saurabh Ghosh and Mridul Saggar

On the correlation between stocks and art market returns pp. 128-131

Ventura Charlin and Arturo Cifuentes

A regime-switching approach to estimating the nonlinear quantity-based monetary policy rule in China pp. 132-135

Xu Zhang, Xiaoxing Liu, Jianqin Hang and Dengbao Yao

Unemployment rate cycles in Europe pp. 136-139

Juan Cuestas and Luis Gil-Alana

Volume 24, issue 1, 2017

Re-assessing international stock return predictability: evidence from directional accuracy and excess profitability tests pp. 1-3

Boriss Siliverstovs

Men earn less under working time accounts: a puzzle? pp. 4-7

Olaf Hübler

Does the traditional exchange rate fully explain firms’ exposure? pp. 8-13

Heeho Kim and Hyunchul Lee

The nonobserved economy in the European Union pp. 14-18

Oscar Afonso and Francisco Almeida

Prudence and prevention: an economic laboratory experiment pp. 19-24

Miriam Krieger and Thomas Mayrhofer

Do dark pools amplify volatility in times of stress? pp. 25-29

Monica Petrescu, Michael Wedow and Natalia Lari

Estimating the market value of Steve Jobs using an event study pp. 30-34

Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard, Pornsit Jiraporn, Napatsorn Jiraporn and Shenghui Tong

Collective bargaining and school district test scores: evidence from Ohio bargaining agreements pp. 35-38

Joshua Hall, Donald J. Lacombe and Joylynn Pruitt

The impact of the informal economy on R&D, wage inequality and economic growth pp. 39-44

Oscar Afonso and Rui Sarabanda

The impact of 11/13 Paris terrorist attacks on stock prices: evidence from the international defence industry pp. 45-48

Emmanuel Apergis and Nicholas Apergis

Analysis of the impact of agricultural R&D investment on food security pp. 49-53

Jooryang Lee, Myoungju Koh and Gicheol Jeong

Second-party and third-party punishment in a public goods experiment pp. 54-57

Yan Zhou, Peiran Jiao and Qilin Zhang

‘Modern’ Phillips curves and the implications for the statistical process of inflation pp. 58-60

Bill Russell

Should Africa’s emerging markets still be considered as a separate asset class? pp. 61-66

Gideon Boako and Imhotep Alagidede

UK business cycle synchronization with Germany and the US: New evidence from time–frequency domain and structure of economic growth pp. 67-71

Claudiu Albulescu

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

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