Applied Economics

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Volume 46, issue 36, 2014

Time-varying linkages between tourism receipts and economic growth in South Africa pp. 4381-4398

Mehmet Balcilar, Renee van Eyden, Roula Inglesi-Lotz and Rangan Gupta

Intragenerational mobility and the ratio of permanent to total inequality pp. 4399-4408

Gulgun Bayaz-Ozturk, Tao Chen and Kenneth Couch

The identifiable victim effect in charitable giving: evidence from a natural field experiment pp. 4409-4430

Tine Hjernø Lesner and Ole Dahl Rasmussen

Direct and indirect effect of depression in adolescence on adult wages pp. 4431-4444

Meliyanni Johar and Jeffrey Truong

Does unconventional monetary policy affect inequality? Evidence from Japan pp. 4445-4454

Ayako Saiki and Jon Frost

Robust determinants of health care expenditure growth pp. 4455-4474

Jochen Hartwig and Jan-Egbert Sturm

Demand in New Zealand hospitals: expect the unexpected? pp. 4475-4489

Nan Jiang and Gail Pacheco

The causal effect of coalition governments on fiscal policies: evidence from a Regression Kink Design pp. 4490-4507

Sebastian Garmann

Asset pricing with time-varying betas for stocks traded on S&P 500 pp. 4508-4518

Petros Messis and Achilleas Zapranis

The causal dynamics between renewable energy, real GDP, emissions and oil prices: evidence from OECD countries pp. 4519-4525

Nicholas Apergis and James Payne

Volume 46, issue 35, 2014

Do economies stall? pp. 4267-4275

Wai-Yip Alex Ho and James Yetman

Childcare quality and pricing: evidence from Wisconsin pp. 4276-4289

Benjamin Artz and David M. Welsch

Modelling the causes and manifestation of bank stress: an example from the financial crisis pp. 4290-4301

John Kandrac

On the relevance of exports for regional output growth in China pp. 4302-4308

Christian Dreger and Yanqun Zhang

Livestock emissions regulation with unknown damages and strategic technology adoption pp. 4309-4317

J. C. Hadrich and Jeremy Jackson

Crowding-out effects of affordable and unaffordable housing in China, 1999-2010 pp. 4318-4333

Nannan Yuan and Shigeyuki Hamori

Did the AFL equalization policy achieve the evenness of the league? pp. 4334-4344

Virginie Masson, Nicholas Sim and L. Wedding

Portfolio effects in conglomerate mergers: the empirical evidence of leverage effects in Korean liquor market pp. 4345-4359

Jinhwa Chung and Seonghoon Jeon

Broadband penetration and economic growth nexus: evidence from cross-country panel data pp. 4360-4369

Mak Arvin and Rudra P. Pradhan

More is better: evidence that joint patenting leads to quality innovation pp. 4370-4379

Kristie Briggs and Mary Wade

Volume 46, issue 34, 2014

Government bailouts and default risks of a duopoly: strong bank versus weak bank pp. 4137-4150

Jeng-Yan Tsai, Jyh-Horng Lin and Chu-Yun Cheng

A generalized double-hurdle model of Swedish gambling expenditures pp. 4151-4163

James Rude, Yves Surry and Robert Kron

Exchange rate pass-through into German import prices - a disaggregated perspective pp. 4164-4177

Joscha Beckmann, Ansgar Belke and Florian Verheyen

Is the stock market sticker shocked? A study of market response to recent CAFE regulations in the US pp. 4178-4189

Mariya Burdina, Michael Wright and Zhen Zhu

Empirical research on monetary policy, asset prices and inflation: an analysis based on provincial panel data in China pp. 4190-4204

Shenglong Liu, Guifu Chen and Shigeyuki Hamori

Ethnic externalities in education and second-generation immigrants pp. 4205-4217

Firat Yaman

Do the Spanish regions converge? A unit root analysis for the HDI of the Spanish regions pp. 4218-4230

A. Monta and Lorena Olmos

Determinants of firms' investment behaviour: a multilevel approach pp. 4231-4241

Kristine Farla

Religious service attendance and labour force status: evidence from survey data using count data methods pp. 4242-4255

Neil R. Meredith

Does computer-based training impact maintenance costs and actions? An empirical analysis of the US Navy's AN/SQQ-89(v) sonar system pp. 4256-4266

Robert M. McNab and Diana I. Angelis

Volume 46, issue 33, 2014

Assessing economic convergence in the EU: is there a perspective for the 'cohesion countries'? pp. 4025-4040

X. Chapsa and Constantinos Katrakilidis

Regime switching and the (in)stability of the price-rent relationship: evidence from the US pp. 4041-4052

J. R. Kim and Keunsuk Chung

Testing the efficiency of the futures market for crude oil in the presence of a structural break pp. 4053-4059

Jason Stevens and Patrick de Lamirande

An analysis on economic opportunity pp. 4060-4074

Kui-Wai Li

Is the pragmatic response to International Monetary Fund quotas and credit limits favourable? pp. 4075-4082

Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi

Is export diversification good for profitability? First evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany pp. 4083-4090

Joachim Wagner

Does distance matter for institutional delivery in rural India? pp. 4091-4103

Santosh Kumar, Emily A. Dansereau and Christopher J. L. Murray

Involuntary corporate finance: the dominance of history in decisions pp. 4104-4115

Les Coleman

A general method of computing the cut-off point in adverse selection models pp. 4116-4124

R. Guo and P. Zhang

Market-related reforms and increased energy efficiency in transition countries: empirical evidence pp. 4125-4136

Rabindra Nepal, Tooraj Jamasb and Clement Tisdell

Volume 46, issue 32, 2014

Cost relationships and challenges in the Spanish apparel industry pp. 3893-3906

Lila J. Truett and Dale B. Truett

Family ownership, altruism and agency costs in Australian small- and medium-sized enterprises pp. 3907-3921

Dong Xiang, Andrew Worthington and Helen Higgs

The (small) blessing of foreign aid: further evidence on aid's impact on democracy pp. 3922-3930

Yener Altunbas and John Thornton

Who pays the high health costs of older workers? Evidence from prostate cancer screening mandates pp. 3931-3941

James Bailey

Disentangling supply and demand shifts: the impacts on world salmon price pp. 3942-3953

Eivind Hestvik Brækkan

Housing booms and media coverage pp. 3954-3967

Clive Walker

Intraweek and intraday trade anomalies: evidence from FOREX market pp. 3968-3979

Saša Popović and Andrija Đurović

The effects of optimism bias in teams pp. 3980-3994

Jian Wang, Xintian Zhuang, Jun Yang and Jiliang Sheng

China's catch-up to the US economy: decomposing TFP through investment-specific technology and human capital pp. 3995-4007

Jeff Luckstead, Seung Mo Choi, Stephen Devadoss and Ron Mittelhammer

Urban-rural income polarization and economic growth in China: evidence from the analysis of a dynamic panel data model pp. 4008-4023

F. Chen and Xiangwei Sun

Volume 46, issue 31, 2014

Long memory and structural breaks in the returns and volatility of gold: evidence from Turkey pp. 3777-3787

Berna Kirkulak Uludag and Zorikto Lkhamazhapov

Effectiveness analysis of quality achievements for university Departments of Economics pp. 3788-3797

David Mayston

Path modelling to bankruptcy: causes and symptoms of the banking crisis pp. 3798-3811

Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Yolanda Fuertes, Bego Guti鲲ez-Nieto and Beatriz Cuellar-Fernᮤez

Option smiling when investors' estimates of asset volatility disagree pp. 3812-3827

Chien-Chih Lin

Can the baseline search and matching model quantitatively explain Okun's law? pp. 3828-3835

Cheuk Yin Ho

The effects of economic freedom, regulatory quality and taxation on the level of per capita real income: a preliminary analysis for OECD nations and non-G8 OECD nations pp. 3836-3848

Richard Cebula and J. R. Clark

Dependence structure between nominal and index-linked bond returns: a bivariate copula and DCC-GARCH approach pp. 3849-3860

Noureddine Benlagha

Local and global illiquidity effects in the Balkans frontier markets pp. 3861-3873

George Milunovich and Jelena Minović

Defining chronic poverty: comparing different approaches pp. 3874-3881

O. Israeli and M. Weber

Governance, corruption and Olympic success pp. 3882-3891

T. Potts

Volume 46, issue 30, 2014

On the determinants of obesity: evidence from the UAE pp. 3649-3658

Marina-Selini Katsaiti and Amany A. El Anshasy

A semi-parametric approach to estimating the operational risk and Expected Shortfall pp. 3659-3672

Ainura Tursunalieva and Param Silvapulle

Some preliminary evidence of the impact of the 2008-2009 financial crisis on women pp. 3673-3681

Richard Grabowski and Sharmistha Self

International business cycle spillovers since the 1870s pp. 3682-3694

Nikolaos Antonakakis and Harald Badinger

Deviations from optimal corporate cash holdings and the valuation from a shareholder's perspective pp. 3695-3707

Zhenxu Tong

Testing uncovered interest rate parity using LIBOR pp. 3708-3723

Muhammad Omer, Jakob de Haan and Bert Scholtens

Common dynamics of nonenergy commodity prices and their relation to uncertainty pp. 3724-3735

Pilar Poncela, Eva Senra and Lya Sierra

On the comparison of Schwartz and Smith's two- and three-factor models on commodity prices pp. 3736-3749

Fernando Antonio Aiube and Carlos Patricio Samanez

R&D efficiency and heterogeneity - a latent class application for the OECD pp. 3750-3762

Astrid Cullmann and Petra Zloczysti

Performance of Thailand banks after the 1997 East Asian financial crisis pp. 3763-3776

Itthipong Mahathanaseth and Loren W. Tauer

Volume 46, issue 29, 2014

The role of supervisors in the determination of wages and wage gaps pp. 3533-3547

Joshua Pitts, S. Orozco-Aleman and Jon Rezek

British tourism demand elasticities in Mediterranean countries pp. 3548-3561

William Gatt and Joseph Falzon

Sectoral differences in the use of information technology and matching efficiency in the US labour market pp. 3562-3571

Constantine Alexandrakis

Analysis of wage flexibility across the Euro Area: evidence from the process of convergence of the labour income share ratio pp. 3572-3580

Gabriel Pino and Ariel Soto

Testing Okun’s law with Swiss industry data pp. 3581-3590

Jochen Hartwig

Insurance companies in Mozambique: a two-stage DEA and neural networks on efficiency and capacity slacks pp. 3591-3600

Carlos Barros and Peter Wanke

Markups, productivity and external market development of the service SMEs pp. 3601-3608

Atsuyuki Kato and Naomi Kodama

Insider ownership and financial flexibility pp. 3609-3629

Naiwei Chen and E-N Hsiao

Voter turnout in US presidential elections: does Carville’s law explain the time series? pp. 3630-3638

Tony Caporale and Marc Poitras

Forecasting spot freight rates based on forward freight agreement and time charter contract pp. 3639-3648

Jiao Zhang, Qingcheng Zeng and Xiaofeng Zhao

Volume 46, issue 28, 2014

Two separated effects of employer-provided health insurance on job mobility pp. 3389-3407

Ji-Liang Shiu

Military spending and economic growth in China: a regime-switching analysis pp. 3408-3420

Faek Menla Ali and O. Dimitraki

Competition and price dispersion in the airline markets pp. 3421-3436

Durba Chakrabarty and Levent Kutlu

Typology of the French regional development: revealing the refugee versus Schumpeter effects in new-firm start-ups pp. 3437-3451

Rafik Abdesselam, Jean Bonnet and Patricia Renou-Maissant

The determinants of marital happiness pp. 3452-3462

Bruce T. Elmslie and Edinaldo Tebaldi

A new method for forming asset pricing factors from firm characteristics pp. 3463-3482

Sangwon Suh, Wonho Song and Bong-Soo Lee

An empirical investigation into the impact of US federal government budget deficits on the real interest rate yield on intermediate-term treasury issues, 1972-2012 pp. 3483-3493

Richard Cebula

Housing price variability: national and local impacts pp. 3494-3502

Ting Zhang, Dan Gerlowski and Deborah Ford

Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany: patterns and developments pp. 3503-3522

Kamila Cygan-Rehm and Regina Riphahn

The government expenditure-economic growth relation in Japan: an analysis by using the ADL test for threshold cointegration pp. 3523-3531

Hiroshi Ono

Volume 46, issue 27, 2014

Courses or individual counselling: does job search assistance work? pp. 3261-3273

Sarah Bernhard and Eva Kopf

The structure of the German economy pp. 3274-3283

Sebastian Benz, Mario Larch and Markus Zimmer

Are all financial crises created equal? Wholesale funding and two financial crises pp. 3284-3299

David Vera, Kazuki Onji and Prasanna Gai

Median-unbiased estimation of structural change models: an application to real exchange rate persistence pp. 3300-3311

Hatice Balli, Chris Murray and David Papell

Dynamic multiproduct optimal hedging in the soybean complex - do time-varying correlations provide hedging improvements? pp. 3312-3322

Hernan A. Tejeda and Barry Goodwin

CSR and financial performance: complementarity between environmental, social and business behaviours pp. 3323-3338

Sandra Cavaco and Patricia Crifo

If at first you don't succeed: applying for and staying on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program pp. 3339-3350

David Ribar and Christopher Swann

A refinement of the relationship between economic growth and income inequality pp. 3351-3361

Fadi Fawaz, Masha Rahnama and Victor (Vic) Valcarcel

The impact and economic cost of environmental regulation on energy utilization in China pp. 3362-3376

Zhao-Hua Wang and Chao Feng

Long memory and fractional integration in the housing price series of London and Paris pp. 3377-3388

Luis Gil-Alana, Carlos Barros and Nicolas Peypoch

Volume 46, issue 26, 2014

Explaining personality pay gaps in the UK pp. 3131-3150

Alita Nandi and Cheti Nicoletti

The effects of government spending shocks on the real exchange rate and trade balance in Turkey pp. 3151-3162

Cem Çebi and Ali Askın Çulha

Bioenergy and global land-use change pp. 3163-3179

Miroslava Rajcaniova, d'Artis Kancs and Pavel Ciaian

Hidden underemployment among Irish farm holders 2002-2011 pp. 3180-3192

Jason Loughrey and Thia Hennessy

Lax money supply under globalization and detecting an early sign to anticipate deep recession pp. 3193-3201

Yong-Yil Choi

Economic growth as a function of human capital, internet and work pp. 3202-3210

Martha Jim鮥z, Jaime Arturo Matus and Miguel Angel Mart󹑺

Optimal pricing of public lotteries and comparison of competing mechanisms pp. 3211-3223

Chen Ling and David Scrogin

Which drives abnormal returns, over- or under-reaction? Studies applying longitudinal analysis pp. 3224-3235

Yi-Cheng Liu and I-Cheng Yeh

Does the law of one price hold in a high-inflation environment? A tale of two cities in Turkey pp. 3236-3245

Sule Akkoyunlu and Boriss Siliverstovs

Dynamic linkages between diffusion of Information Communication Technology and labour productivity in South Asia pp. 3246-3260

Md Al Mamun and Guneratne Wickremasinghe

Volume 46, issue 25, 2014

Interest rate, size and book-to-market effects in Australian financial firms pp. 3005-3020

Md Akhtaruzzaman, Paul Docherty and Abul Shamsuddin

Technology spillover effects and economic integration: evidence from integrating EU countries pp. 3021-3036

Kurt Hafner

Market concentration and competition in OECD mobile telecommunications markets pp. 3037-3048

Nakil Sung

Using business simulation games in regulatory impact analysis - the case of policies aimed at reducing nitrogen leaching pp. 3049-3060

Oliver Musshoff and Norbert Hirschauer

Does student employment really impact academic achievement? The case of France pp. 3061-3073

Kady Marie-Danielle Body, Liliane Bonnal and Jean-François Giret

Incentive-compatible compensation and regulation pp. 3074-3081

An Chen

The new Keynesian Phillips curve: endogeneity and misspecification pp. 3082-3089

Christopher Malikane and Tshepo Mokoka

Links between trust in the ECB and its interest rate policy pp. 3090-3106

Maciej Albinowski, Piotr Ciżkowicz and Andrzej Rzońca

Error correction modelling and dynamic specifications as a conduit to outperforming the random walk in exchange rate forecasting pp. 3107-3118

Imad Moosa and Kelly Burns

Federal Reserve communications and newswire coverage pp. 3119-3129

Matthias Neuenkirch

Volume 46, issue 24, 2014

Performance of moving average trading strategies over varying stock market conditions: the Finnish evidence pp. 2851-2872

Eero P䴤ri and Mika Vilska

The impact of job security on job satisfaction in economic contractions versus expansions pp. 2873-2890

Benjamin Artz and Ilker Kaya

How do advertised brands benefit from private labels? An application of rational expectations models pp. 2891-2902

G. R. Chen

The heterogeneous effect of finance on international trade pp. 2903-2919

Rafael Cezar

Income inequality and financial reform in Asia: the role of human capital pp. 2920-2935

Jie Li and Han Yu

Credit growth, monetary policy and economic activity in a three-regime TVAR model pp. 2936-2951

Stefan Avdjiev and Zheng Zeng

Where they go, what they do and why it matters: the importance of geographic accessibility and social class for decisions relating to higher education institution type, degree level and field of study pp. 2952-2965

Darragh Flannery and J. Cullinan

Housing and the Great Depression pp. 2966-2981

Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta and Stephen Miller

The importance of the Logistics Performance Index in international trade pp. 2982-2992

Rosa Mart𓐊Author-Name: Rosa Puertas and Leandro Garc𨀍

Estimating gravity equation models in the presence of sample selection and heteroscedasticity pp. 2993-3003

Bo Xiong and Sixia Chen

Volume 46, issue 23, 2014

Assessing the losses in euro area potential productivity due to the financial crisis pp. 2711-2720

Valérie Chouard, Daniel Fuentes Castro, Delphine Irac and Matthieu Lemoine

Cost efficiency of French rugby clubs pp. 2721-2732

Carlos Barros, Gaël Bertrand, Laurent Botti and Scott Tainsky

Two tales on human capital and knowledge spillovers: the case of the US and Brazil pp. 2733-2743

Florian I. Schumacher, Joilson Dias and Edinaldo Tebaldi

International stock market efficiency: a non-Bayesian time-varying model approach pp. 2744-2754

Mikio Ito, Akihiko Noda and Tatsuma Wada

Taxation and corruption: theory and firm-level evidence from Uganda pp. 2755-2765

Bernard Gauthier and Jonathan Goyette

Optimal price setting during a currency changeover: theory and evidence from french restaurants pp. 2766-2782

Nicoletta Berardi, Thomas Eife and Erwan Gautier

Approval of social security disability appeals: analysis of judges' decisions pp. 2783-2791

Robert Nakosteen and Michael Zimmer

Financial structure in the age of globalization pp. 2792-2813

Thi Hong Hanh Pham

Determinants of the acquisition of listed versus unlisted firms in different legal and institutional environments pp. 2814-2832

Isabel Feito-Ruiz, Ana I. Fernᮤez and Susana Men鮤ez-Requejo

Is corruption grease, grit or a gamble? Corruption increases variance of productivity across countries pp. 2833-2849

Antti Saastamoinen and Timo Kuosmanen

Volume 46, issue 22, 2014

Who upholds the surging gold price? The role of the central bank worldwide pp. 2557-2575

Ku-Hsieh Chen, Joe-Ming Lee and Cheng-Huan You

Regional analysis of the impact of inward foreign direct investment on economic growth in the Chinese electronic industry pp. 2576-2592

William Sheng Liu and Frank Agbola

Fiscal adjustment and the costs of public debt service: evidence from OECD countries pp. 2593-2610

Christoph Schaltegger and Martin Weder

On the detection of extreme movements and persistent behaviour in Mediterranean stock markets: a wavelet-based approach pp. 2611-2622

Chaker Aloui and Duc Khuong Nguyen

Net job creation in the US economy: lessons from monthly data, 1950-2011 pp. 2623-2638

Salem Abo-Zaid

An analysis of irrigated agricultural outcomes under the prior appropriation doctrine: hypotheses and applications pp. 2639-2652

W. Xu, S.E. Lowe and S. Zhang

A comparative analysis of funding schemes for public infrastructure spending in Quebec pp. 2653-2664

Dorothee Boccanfuso, Marcelin Joanis, Patrick Richard and Luc Savard

How efficient is the banking system of Asia's next economic dragon? Evidence from rolling DEA windows pp. 2665-2684

Thanh Pham Thien Nguyen, Eduardo Roca and Parmendra Sharma

A comparison of six sampling schemes for price index construction in a COICOP food group pp. 2685-2699

Saeed Heravi and Peter Morgan

Determinants of renewable energy adoption in China and India: a comparative analysis pp. 2700-2710

Shuddhasattwa Rafiq, Harry Bloch and Ruhul Salim

Volume 46, issue 21, 2014

What precludes the development of noninterest activities in Chinese commercial banks from the perspective of the price of interest activities? pp. 2453-2461

Maoyong Cheng, Hong Zhao and Junrui Zhang

Expected returns and expected dividend growth: time to rethink an established empirical literature pp. 2462-2476

Jun Ma and Mark Wohar

You can't always get what you want: gender differences in job satisfaction of university graduates pp. 2477-2487

Werner Bönte and Stefan Krabel

Foreign interest rate shocks and exchange rate regimes in East Asia pp. 2488-2501

Yang Zhang, Mengling Li and Wai-Mun Chia

The synchronization club: classification of global economic groups by inequality pp. 2502-2510

Hongduo Cao, Ying Li and Yong Tan

A new approach to the identification of regional clusters: hierarchical clustering on principal components pp. 2511-2519

M. Argüelles, C. Benavides and I. Fernᮤez

The effect of VAT rate on inflation in Latvia: evidence from CPI microdata pp. 2520-2533

Konstantins Benkovskis and Ludmila Fadejeva

Is there the threshold effect of cigarette price on smoking prevalence? A cross-country panel data analysis pp. 2534-2544

Chi-Jung Hsieh, Sheng-Hung Chen, Jie-Min Lee and Chun-Yuan Yeh

Inflation in Mozambique: empirical facts based on persistence, seasonality and breaks pp. 2545-2555

Luis Gil-Alana, Carlos Barros and Joao Faria

Volume 46, issue 20, 2014

Whistleblower laws and exposed corruption in the United States pp. 2331-2341

Rajeev Goel and Michael Nelson

Precautionary savings of agents with heterogeneous risk aversion pp. 2342-2361

Michele Limosani and Emanuele Millemaci

Monetary policy effectiveness and stock market cycles in ASEAN-5 pp. 2362-2374

Roohollah Zare, M Azali, Muzafar Shah Habibullah and W.N.w Azman-Saini

Broker monitoring of premium adequacy: the role of contingent commissions pp. 2375-2386

Mark J. Browne, Lan Ju and Zhiyong Tu

Is the Greek budget deficit sustainable after all? Empirical evidence accounting for regime shifts pp. 2387-2397

Emmanouil Trachanas and Constantinos Katrakilidis

A Bayesian stochastic frontier of Italian football pp. 2398-2407

Carlos Barros and Giambattista Rossi

Friends or family? Revisiting the effects of high school popularity on adult earnings pp. 2408-2417

Jason Fletcher

Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China: evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey pp. 2418-2428

Peng Nie and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Rational expectation bubbles: evidence from Hong Kong's sub-indices pp. 2429-2440

Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi, Kui-Wai Li and Junji Shimada

Does a gender disparity exist in academic rank? Evidence from an Australian university pp. 2441-2451

Arusha Cooray, Reetu Verma and Lynne Wright

Volume 46, issue 19, 2014

On smoothing macroeconomic time series using the modified HP filter pp. 2205-2214

Ali Choudhary, Muhammad Hanif and Javed Iqbal

Tail dependence and diversification benefits in emerging market stocks: an extreme value theory approach pp. 2215-2227

Ibrahim Ergen

Reducing public health insurance expenditure: a numerical analysis for Germany pp. 2228-2241

Stefanie Schubert

Using composite indicators to evaluate the efficiency of health care system pp. 2242-2250

Jenni P䤫könen and Timo T. Sepp䬤

The impact of the ACFTA on ASEAN--PRC trade: estimates based on an extended gravity model for component trade pp. 2251-2263

Yu Sheng, Hsiao Chink Tang and Xinpeng Xu

Competition in the political arena and local government performance pp. 2264-2276

John Ashworth, Benny Geys, Bruno Heyndels and Fanny Wille

Influences on sponsorship deals in NASCAR: indirect evidence from time on camera pp. 2277-2289

Kurt William Rotthoff, Craig Depken and Peter Groothuis

The effect of physician board membership on uncompensated care provision pp. 2290-2300

Luciana De Andrade Costa

On investment and exchange-rate movements pp. 2301-2315

Eric C. Y. Ng and Malick Souare

The influence of pension funds on corporate governance pp. 2316-2329

Andreas Sch䦥r and Urs von Arx

Volume 46, issue 18, 2014

Have food and financial markets integrated? pp. 2087-2095

Georg V. Lehecka

The returns to general experience, job and occupational tenure: a study using Australian panel data pp. 2096-2107

Michael Dobbie, Craig MacMillan and Ian Watson

Estimating bivariate yield distributions and crop insurance premiums using nonparametric methods pp. 2108-2118

Qiujie Zheng, H. Holly Wang and Qing Hua Shi

Technical efficiency of French nuclear energy plants pp. 2119-2126

Louisa Andriamasy, Carlos Barros and Qibin Liang

Testing for persistence in housing price-to-income and price-to-rent ratios in 16 OECD countries pp. 2127-2138

Christophe Andr頍, Luis Gil-Alana and Rangan Gupta

Effects of explicit FOMC policy-rate guidance on equities and risk measures pp. 2139-2153

Richhild Moessner

US--Indonesia trade at commodity level and the role of the exchange rate pp. 2154-2166

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Hanafiah Harvey

Oil prices and MENA stock markets: new evidence from nonlinear and asymmetric causalities during and after the crisis period pp. 2167-2177

Ahdi Noomen Ajmi, Ghassen El-montasser, Shawkat Hammoudeh and Duc Khuong Nguyen

From real estate to consumption: the role of credit markets in the USA pp. 2178-2189

E. MᲱuez, A.R. Mart󹑺-Ca and I. P鲥z-Soba

The hard shadow of the Greek economy: new estimates of the size of the underground economy and its fiscal impact pp. 2190-2204

Wolfram Berger, Michael Pickhardt, Athanassios Pitsoulis, Aloys Prinz and Jordi Sardࠍ

Volume 46, issue 17, 2014

The determinants of prices in the FCC's 700 MHz spectrum auction pp. 1953-1960

Gary Madden, Erik Bohlin, Paitoon Kraipornsak and Thien Tran

Real and nominal effective exchange rates of African countries during 1971Q1--2012Q4 pp. 1961-1984

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Alice Kones

Does the Confucius institute impact international travel to China? A panel data analysis pp. 1985-1995

Donald Lien, Sucharita Ghosh and Steven Yamarik

Measuring and explaining implicit risk sharing in defined benefit pension funds pp. 1996-2009

Jacob Bikker, Thijs Knaap and Ward Romp

Japanese manufacturing facing post-Fukushima power crisis: a dynamic computable general equilibrium analysis with foreign direct investment pp. 2010-2020

Nobuhiro Hosoe

An intra- and inter-industry evaluation of three classification schemes common in capital market research pp. 2021-2033

Karel Hrazdil, Kim Trottier and Ray Zhang

Uncertainty of outcome or strengths of teams: an economic analysis of attendance demand for international cricket pp. 2034-2046

Abhinav Sacheti, Ian Gregory-Smith and David Paton

Testing Markov switching models pp. 2047-2051

Yu-Lieh Huang

Measuring the natural yield curve pp. 2052-2065

Michal Brzoza-Brzezina and Jacek Kotłowski

The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries pp. 2066-2086

Philipp Doerrenberg and Andreas Peichl

Volume 46, issue 16, 2014

Shine bright like a diamond: a hedonic model of grading and pricing an experience good pp. 1829-1838

Justin A. Lee, Steven B Caudill and Franklin Mixon

Disentangling the heterogeneous income elasticity and dynamics of health expenditure pp. 1839-1854

Carla Blázquez-Fernández, David Cantarero and Patricio Perez

The impact of social identity on trust in China: experimental evidence from cross-group comparisons pp. 1855-1860

Weiwei Weng and Fanzheng Yang

Executive compensation in government-linked companies: evidence from Malaysia pp. 1861-1872

Marizah Minhat and Mazni Abdullah

Money demand income elasticity in advanced and developing countries: new evidence from meta-analysis pp. 1873-1882

Saten Kumar

The shadow of death model revisited with an application to French firms pp. 1883-1893

Pierre Blanchard, Jean-Pierre Huiban and Claude Mathieu

Total work time in Spain: evidence from time diary data pp. 1894-1909

Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Almudena Sevilla

Health insurance and lifestyles pp. 1910-1923

Aida Isabel Tavares

Inducing risk preferences in multi-stage multi-agent laboratory experiments pp. 1924-1939

Ian Dobbs and A. D. Miller

Determinants of bank cost efficiency in transition economies: evidence for Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe and South-East Asia pp. 1940-1952

Cristi Spulbar and M. Niţoi

Volume 46, issue 15, 2014

On the economic impact of international sport events: microevidence from survey data at the EURO 2008 pp. 1693-1703

Michael Lamla, Martin Straub and Esther Mirjam Girsberger

How and where to offshore: a productivity comparison at the firm level pp. 1704-1715

Jae-Joon Han, Hongshik Lee and Joonhyung Lee

Health IT adoption, productivity and quality in primary care pp. 1716-1727

Christopher S. Brunt and John Bowblis

Reversal in the relative performance of state- and legal person-owned companies during the Chinese split share structure reform pp. 1728-1750

Anna P. I. Vong and Duarte Trigueiros

The impact of natural disasters on household income, expenditure, poverty and inequality: evidence from Vietnam pp. 1751-1766

Anh Tuan Bui, Mardi Dungey, Cuong Nguyen and Thu Phuong Pham

Firm dynamics in news-driven business cycles: the role of endogenous survival rate pp. 1767-1777

Haichao Fan and Zhiwei Xu

Maximum likelihood ranking in racing sports pp. 1778-1787

A. Anderson

AIDing contraception: HIV and recent trends in abortion pp. 1788-1803

Andrew Hussey, Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy and Jay Walker

An interest-rate-spread-based measure of Turkish monetary policy pp. 1804-1813

Hakan Berument, Nildag Basak Ceylan and Burak Dogan

Assessing the impact of domestic outsourcing and offshoring on productivity at the firm level pp. 1814-1828

Jos頃. Fari, Alberto L󰥺 and Ana Mart󻑍arcos

Volume 46, issue 14, 2014

Evaluating the economy embedded in the Brazilian ethanol--gasoline flex-fuel car: a Real Options approach pp. 1565-1581

Carlos Patricio Samanez, L鯠 da Rocha Ferreira, Carolina Caldas do Nascimento, Let de Almeida Costa and Claudio R. S. Bisso

Who are the members of the international club? pp. 1582-1585

Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi and Kenichi Suzuki

Resource drag in an endogenous growth context: a panel data-based estimation with cross-sectional dependences and structural breaks pp. 1586-1598

Yaobin Liu

Statistical inference for richness measures pp. 1599-1608

Michał Brzeziński

Organizational choices and performance in distribution systems pp. 1609-1623

Muriel Fadairo and Cintya Lanchimba

City size and household food consumption: demand elasticities in Spain pp. 1624-1641

Elena Lasarte Navamuel, Fernando Rubiera Moroll and Dusan Paredes

The puzzle on the causality of the productivity and employment growth: evidence from firm-level data pp. 1642-1651

Nina Ponikvar and Katja Zajc Kejžar

The effects of oil price shocks on expenditure category CPI pp. 1652-1664

Yasunori Yoshizaki and Shigeyuki Haomori

Risks of Latin America sovereign debts before and after the financial crisis pp. 1665-1676

Alan T. Wang and Chengxue Yao

The effect of pension reform on pension-benefit expectations and savings decisions in Japan pp. 1677-1691

Tsunao Okumura and Emiko Usui

Volume 46, issue 13, 2014

Inflation persistence in central and eastern European countries pp. 1437-1448

Zsolt Darvas and Balẳ Varga

Estimating country-specific environmental Kuznets curves from panel data: a Bayesian shrinkage approach pp. 1449-1464

Thomas Jobert, Fatih Karanfil and Anna Tykhonenko

Assessing salesforce marginal productivity pp. 1465-1475

Gonzalo Troncoso, Juan Carlos Mu, Juan Carlos Ferrer and Louis de Grange

Does European regional competitiveness influence sports? An analysis of three sports pp. 1476-1489

Paulo Mourão

Financial market development and trade openness: evidence from emerging economies pp. 1490-1498

Farhang Niroomand, Massomeh Hajilee and Omar M. Al Nasser

Assessing bank equity risk under Legacy Loan Program pp. 1499-1508

Jyh-Horng Lin, Jeng-Yan Tsai and Wei-Ming Hung

Does trade creation by social and business networks hold in services? pp. 1509-1525

Tamara de la Mata

What makes you grab low carb beers? pp. 1526-1534

Minki Kim and Hailey Hayeon Joo

Team performance and race: evidence from the English and French national soccer teams pp. 1535-1546

Ray Bachan, Barry Reilly and Robert Witt

Moving toward risk-based deposit insurance premiums in the European Union: the case of Spain pp. 1547-1564

Pilar G -Fernᮤez-Aguado, Antonio Partal-Ure and Antonio Trujillo-Ponce

Volume 46, issue 12, 2014

Evidences of maturity mismatching of loans in OECD housing markets between 1995 and 2008 pp. 1301-1311

Daniel Fuentes Castro

Where did all the remittances go? Understanding the impact of remittances on consumption patterns in rural China pp. 1312-1322

Yu Zhu, Zhongmin Wu, L. Peng and L. Sheng

The integration of direct real estate and stock markets in Asia pp. 1323-1334

Pin-te Lin and Franz Fuerst

Stock return reversal and continuance anomaly: new evidence from Hong Kong pp. 1335-1349

Gordon Y. N. Tang and Haomin Zhang

Firm heterogeneity in modelling foreign direct investment location decisions pp. 1350-1360

Simona Rasciute, Eric Pentecost and Ben Ferrett

Effects of economic conditions and policy interventions on OECD broadband adoption pp. 1361-1372

Johannes M. Bauer, Gary Madden and Aaron Morey

Does grade retention affect students' achievement? Some evidence from Spain pp. 1373-1392

J. Ignacio Garc𫑐鲥z, Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo and J. Antonio Robles-Zurita

Re-examining the models used to estimate disability-related wage discrimination pp. 1393-1408

Marjorie L. Baldwin and Chung Choe

Are we at a turning point in the evolution of gastronomy? Paris: an exemplary case pp. 1409-1419

Christian Barr貥, Quentin Bonnard and V鲯nique Chossat

Optimal hedge ratio estimation and hedge effectiveness with multivariate skew distributions pp. 1420-1435

Wei-Han Liu

Volume 46, issue 11, 2014

PACking a punch: Political Action Committees and corruption pp. 1161-1169

Rajeev Goel

The macroeconomic determinants of private equity investment: a European comparison pp. 1170-1183

Kerstin Bernoth and Roberta Colavecchio

Dynamic linkages between Asian stock prices and exchange rates: new evidence from causality in quantiles pp. 1184-1201

Zheng Yang, Anthony H. Tu and Yong Zeng

Convergence of per capita sulphur dioxide emissions across US states pp. 1202-1211

James Payne, Stephanie Miller, Junsoo Lee and Myeong Hyeon Cho

A new international database on education quality: 1965--2010 pp. 1212-1247

Nadir Altinok, Claude Diebolt and Jean-Luc Demeulemeester

Freight transportation costs and the thickening of the US--Mexico border pp. 1248-1258

A. G. Walke and Thomas Fullerton

An analysis of Chinese government expenditure using dynamic binary panel data pp. 1259-1266

Qiao Wang and Wenju Wang

The effects of tax convexity on default and investment decisions pp. 1267-1278

Adrian C. H. Lei, Martin H. Y. Yick and Keith S. K. Lam

Time-varying regional integration of stock markets in Southeast Europe pp. 1279-1290

Khaled Guesmi and Duc Khuong Nguyen

Expedited citizenship for sale: estimating the effect of Executive Order 13269 on noncitizen military enlistments pp. 1291-1300

Jesse Cunha, Ryan Sullivan, Melih Can and Huseyin Yalcinkaya

Volume 46, issue 10, 2014

Market structure and casino taxation in tourist resorts pp. 1049-1057

Xinhua Gu and Pui Sun Tam

On real interest rate persistence: the role of breaks pp. 1058-1066

Alfred Haug

Does player specialization predict player actions? Evidence from penalty kicks at FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro Cup pp. 1067-1080

Luigi Buzzacchi and Stefano Pedrini

Do downturns cause desperation? The effect of economic conditions on suicide rates in Canada pp. 1081-1092

Emmanuelle Pi鲡rd and Paul Grootendorst

College football attendance: a panel study of the Football Bowl Subdivision pp. 1093-1107

Gregory A. Falls and Paul A. Natke

Market reaction to second-hand news: inside the attention-grabbing hypothesis pp. 1108-1121

Enrico Maria Cervellati, Riccardo Ferretti and Pierpaolo Pattitoni

Water quality and cottage prices in Ontario pp. 1122-1126

Julia Clapper and Steven B Caudill

Examining the theory of capital structure: signal factor hypothesis pp. 1127-1133

Ginny Ju-Ann Yang, Horace Chueh and Chen-Hsun Lee

Cumulant instrument estimators for hedge fund return models with errors in variables pp. 1134-1149

François-Éric Racicot and Raymond Th鯲et

Smooth structural breaks and the stationarity of the yen real exchange rates pp. 1150-1159

Su Zhou and Ali Kutan

Volume 46, issue 9, 2014

The conditional influence of term spread and pattern changes on future equity returns pp. 913-923

David A. Volkman, Olivier J. P. Maisondieu Laforge and Mark Wohar

Job preferences of students and new graduates in nursing pp. 924-939

Denise Doiron, Jane Hall, Patricia Kenny and Deborah J. Street

Exploring the variability of patient costs in disease management programs: a hierarchical modelling approach pp. 940-951

Apostolos Tsiachristas and Maureen P. M. H. Rutten-van Mölken

'Employability-miles' and worker employability awareness pp. 952-965

Ruud Gerards, Andries de Grip and Maaike Witlox

Does mixed-frequency investor sentiment impact stock returns? Based on the empirical study of MIDAS regression model pp. 966-972

Chunpeng Yang and Rengui Zhang

Nonlinear monetary policy reaction functions in large emerging economies: the case of Brazil and China pp. 973-984

Fredj Jawadi, Sushanta Mallick and Ricardo Sousa

Asset prices and expected monetary policy: evidence from daily data pp. 985-995

Mehmet Ivrendi and Douglas Pearce

An empirical test of marginal productivity theory pp. 996-1020

Martin Biewen and Constantin Weiser

Does microfinance affect income inequality? pp. 1021-1034

Niels Hermes

Determinants of corporate cash holdings: evidence from the emerging market of Turkey pp. 1035-1048

Ali Uyar and Cemil Kuzey

Volume 46, issue 8, 2014

Cost efficiency of French soccer league teams pp. 781-789

Carlos Barros, Nicolas Peypoch and Scott Tainsky

Estimating the optimal hedge ratio in the presence of potential unknown structural breaks pp. 790-795

Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Eduardo Roca

How may a carbon tax transform Australian electricity industry? A CGE analysis pp. 796-812

Sam Meng

Do futures prices exhibit maturity effect? A nonparametric revisit pp. 813-825

Liu

Real exchange rate volatility, financial crises and exchange rate regimes pp. 826-847

Amalia Morales-Zumaquero and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Remittances and income diversification in Bolivia's rural sector pp. 848-858

Naneida Regina Lazarte Alcala, Lee Adkins, Bidisha Lahiri and Andreas Savvides

Hospital utilization in mixed public--private system: evidence from Australian hospital data pp. 859-870

Terence Cheng, Alfons Palangkaraya and Jongsay Yong

Model uncertainty and aggregated default probabilities: new evidence from Austria pp. 871-879

Paul Hofmarcher, Stefan Kerbl, Bettina Grün, Michael Sigmund and Kurt Hornik

Differential income taxation and household asset allocation pp. 880-894

Richard Ochmann

The 2007--2009 financial crisis: changing market dynamics and the impact of credit supply and aggregate demand sensitivity pp. 895-911

Theoharry Grammatikos and Robert Vermeulen

Volume 46, issue 7, 2014

Public debt accumulation and fiscal consolidation pp. 663-673

Kazumasa Oguro and Motohiro Sato

Exploring the nexus between financial openness and informational efficiency -- does the quality of institution matter? pp. 674-685

Navaz Naghavi and Wee Yeap Lau

Are women really that happy at work? Australian evidence on the 'contented female' pp. 686-697

Temesgen Kifle, Parvinder Kler and Sriram Shankar

Coordination versus flexibility in wage formation: a focus on the nominal wage impact of productivity in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the United States pp. 698-714

Marga Peeters and Ard Reijer

Dynamic linkages among carbon, energy and financial markets: a smooth transition approach pp. 715-729

Nicolas Koch

Assessing the trade impact of the European Neighbourhood Policy on the EU-MED Free Trade Area pp. 730-740

Pierluigi Montalbano and Silvia Nenci

Should further mergers be allowed? Product differentiation and merger in the external audit market pp. 741-749

Yizao Liu

GPs' shifting agencies in choice of treatment pp. 750-761

Line Pedersen, Julie Riise, Arne Hole and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

When outcome heterogeneously matters for selection: a generalized selection correction estimator pp. 762-768

Arndt Reichert and Harald Tauchmann

State antitrust enforcement in the US and implications for small business entry and relocation pp. 769-779

Robert Feinberg

Volume 46, issue 6, 2014

New tools to assess fiscal and financial vulnerabilities in advanced economies pp. 587-588

Vladimir Borgy, Carine Bouthevillain, Claude Diebolt and Gilles Dufr鮯t

Macroeconomic imbalances in Europe: institutional progress and the challenges that remain pp. 589-602

Daniele Franco and Francesco Zollino

Fiscal, economic and financial vulnerabilities: implications for Euro area surveillance pp. 603-615

Christian Kastrop, Sarah Ciaglia, Werner Ebert, Sibylle Stoßberg and Stefanie Wolff-Hamacher

Interpretation and limits of sustainability tests in public finance pp. 616-628

G. Lam頍, Matthieu Lequien and P.-A. Pionnier

Is financial repression a solution to reduce fiscal vulnerability? The example of France since the end of World War II pp. 629-637

Marcel Aloy, Gilles Dufr鮯t and Anne P駵in-Feissolle

Fiscal sustainability using growth-maximizing debt targets pp. 638-647

Cristina Checherita-Westphal, Andrew Hughes Hallett and Philipp Rother

Fiscal sustainability using growth-maximizing debt targets pp. 648-649

Lukas Reiss

A toolkit to assess fiscal vulnerabilities and risks in advanced economies pp. 650-660

Andrea Schaechter, C. Emre Alper, Elif Arbatli, Carlos Caceres, Giovanni Callegari, Marc Gerard, Jiri Jonas, Tidiane Kinda, Anna Shabunina and Anke Weber

Comment on '"A toolkit to assessing fiscal vulnerabilities and risks in advanced economies" by Andrea Schaechter, C. Emre Alper, Elif Arbatli, Carlos Caceres, Giovanni Callegari, Marc Gerard, Jiri Jonas, Tidiane Kinda, Anna Shabunina and Anke Weber' pp. 661-662

Peter Claeys

Volume 46, issue 5, 2014

Editorial pp. 463-464

Dakshina De Silva

Green management and the nature of pollution prevention innovation pp. 465-482

George Deltas, Donna Ramirez Harrington and Madhu Khanna

Trade and transboundary pollution: quantifying the effects of trade liberalization on CO 2 emissions pp. 483-502

Timothy Hubbard

Determinants of trade with solar energy technology components: evidence on the porter hypothesis? pp. 503-526

Felix Groba

Experimental evidence on the performance of emission trading schemes in the presence of an active secondary market pp. 527-538

Chintamani Jog and Georgia Kosmopoulou

Efficiency and equity in two-part tariffs: the case of residential water rates pp. 539-555

Simon Porcher

Efficiency in the public and private French water utilities: prospects for benchmarking pp. 556-572

Aude Le Lannier and Simon Porcher

Going green: does it depend on education, gender or income? pp. 573-586

Dakshina De Silva and Rachel Pownall

Volume 46, issue 4, 2014

Does foreign aid reduce tax revenue? Further evidence pp. 359-373

John Thornton

On the causal nexus of remittances and poverty reduction in Bangladesh pp. 374-382

Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Gazi Uddin

International business cycle co-movement: the role of FDI pp. 383-393

W. Jos Jansen and Ad Stokman

Explaining peak inflation rates prior to disinflationary policy adjustments or what got us into this mess? pp. 394-399

Tony Caporale

Implication for cities of the liberalizing national economies in twenty-first century pp. 400-407

Shu-Chun Chang

Trade liberalization and the inter-industry wage premia: the missing role of productivity pp. 408-419

Lourenco Paz

Modelling the dependence structures of Australian iTraxx CDS index pp. 420-431

Jean-Pierre Fenech, Hamed Vosgha and Salwa Shafik

Estimating demand elasticities under rationing pp. 432-440

Adrian R. Fleissig and Gerald A. Whitney

Sustainability of external imbalances in the OECD countries pp. 441-449

Oscar Bajo-Rubio, Carmen D𮠭Roldᮠ and Esteve

The dissent voting behaviour of central bankers: what do we really know? pp. 450-461

Roman Horvath, Marek Rusnák, Katerina Smidkova and Jan Zapal

Volume 46, issue 3, 2014

Comparative performance analysis between conventional and Islamic banks: empirical evidence from OIC countries pp. 253-270

Asma Mobarek and Alovaddin Kalonov

Wage dispersion and team performance: a theoretical model and evidence from baseball pp. 271-281

Robert Breunig, Bronwyn Garrett-Rumba, Mathieu Jardin and Yvon Rocaboy

Perceived inflation under loss aversion pp. 282-293

Lena Dr䧥r, Jan-Oliver Menz and Ulrich Fritsche

Credit constraints and exports: evidence for German manufacturing enterprises pp. 294-302

Joachim Wagner

What determines the Japanese firm investments: real or financial? pp. 303-311

Hirokazu Mizobata

An empirical study of collaborative partnering among enterprises and government organizations for information system outsourcing pp. 312-322

Tai-Yi Yu

A subcultural study of credit card debt and foreclosures pp. 323-328

Bijou Yang and David Lester

Expectations and the quantity equation - evidence from Eastern European countries pp. 329-335

Ralf Fendel and Jan-Christoph Ruelke

Trade, skill-biased technical change and wages in Mexican manufacturing pp. 336-348

Mauro Caselli

Fiscal composition and long-term growth pp. 349-358

Antonio Afonso and Joao Jalles

Volume 46, issue 2, 2014

New evidence on the importance of gender and asymmetry in the crime--unemployment relationship pp. 119-126

Steve Cook, Duncan Watson and Louise Parker

Revisiting the palm oil boom in South-East Asia: fuel versus food demand drivers pp. 127-138

D. J. Sanders, Joseph Balagtas and Guillaume Gruère

Consumer credit in an era of financial liberalization: an overreaction to repressed demand? pp. 139-152

Sophocles Brissimis, Eugenie Garganas and Stephen Hall

Going the same 'weigh': spousal correlations in obesity in the United Kingdom pp. 153-166

Heather Brown, Arne Hole and Jennifer Roberts

Chinese resource demand and the natural resource supplier pp. 167-178

Mardi Dungey, Renee Fry-McKibbin and Verity Linehan

Initial human capital or the rule of law: what matters for the income convergence of poor countries? pp. 179-189

Faiza Azhar Khan and John Hudson

Firm credit in the euro area: a tale of three crises pp. 190-211

Sarah Holton, Martina Lawless and Fergal McCann

Looking backward to look forward: water use and economic growth from a long-term perspective pp. 212-224

Rosa Duarte, Vicente Pinilla and Ana Serrano

Beliefs, media exposure and policy preferences on immigration: evidence from Europe pp. 225-239

H鲩court and Gilles Spielvogel

Volume 46, issue 1, 2014

Brazil--US commodity trade and the J-Curve pp. 1-13

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Hanafiah Harvey and Scott Hegerty

Venture capital availability and labour market performance around the world pp. 14-29

Horst Feldmann

A reappraisal of the Meese--Rogoff puzzle pp. 30-40

Imad Moosa and Kelly Burns

Inflation targeting and inflation performance: a comparative analysis pp. 41-56

Anna Samarina, Mirre Terpstra and Jakob de Haan

Combining performance measures to investigate capacity changes in fisheries pp. 57-69

Thomas T. Thøgersen and Sean Pascoe

Rhythms and cycles in happiness pp. 70-78

Wolfgang Maennig, M. Steenbeck and M. Wilhelm

Demographic change and bank profitability: empirical evidence from German savings banks pp. 79-94

Michael Berlemann, Marco Oestmann and Marcel Thum

A directional evaluation of corporate executives' exchange rate forecasts pp. 95-101

Yoichi Tsuchiya

Identification problems in Granger causality tests based on the net oil price increase pp. 102-110

Jason Stevens

Costs of misspecification in break-model unit-root tests pp. 111-118

Florin Maican and Richard J. Sweeney