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Volume 45, issue 36, 2013

Loan availability and investment: can innovative companies better cope with loan denials? pp. 5001-5011

Elisabeth Mueller and Frank Reize

Economic efficiency and downside risk pp. 5012-5020

Elizabeth Yeager and Michael Langemeier

The effect of health improvements due to tobacco control on earnings in the United States pp. 5021-5030

Diana Bowser and David Canning

Analysis of the volatility's dependency structure during the subprime crisis pp. 5031-5045

Bruno P. Arruda and Pedro Valls Pereira

Metrics capturing the degree to which individual economies are globalized pp. 5046-5061

Raymond Riezman, John Whalley and Shunming Zhang

State space models for the exchange rate pass-through: determinants and null/full pass-through hypotheses pp. 5062-5075

Rafael Martins de Souza, Luiz Felipe Pires Maciel and Adrian Pizzinga

Pegging emerging currencies in the face of dollar swings pp. 5076-5085

Virginie Coudert, Cécile Couharde and Valérie Mignon

When do the USDA forecasters make mistakes? pp. 5086-5103

Olga Isengildina-Massa, Berna Karali and Scott Irwin

The impact of work-limiting disabilities on earnings and income mobility pp. 5104-5118

Nicholas Jolly

Paying informally for public health care in Albania: scarce resources or governance failure? pp. 5119-5130

Sonila M. Tomini and Wim Groot

Performance-related pay and gender wage differences pp. 5131-5143

Mari Kangasniemi and Antti Kauhanen

Volume 45, issue 35, 2013

What is the optimal design for lottery-linked savings programmes? pp. 4861-4871

Marie Pfiffelmann

The impact of price floors on farmland investments: a real options based experimental analysis pp. 4872-4882

Syster C. Maart-Noelck, Oliver Musshoff and Moritz Maack

Changes in subjective well-being with retirement: assessing savings adequacy pp. 4883-4893

Garry Barrett and Milica Kecmanovic

Variation in the fiscal multiplier with the method of financing: evidence across industrial countries pp. 4894-4927

Magda Kandil

Flexible spending accounts and the use-it-or-lose-it provision pp. 4928-4939

James Cardon, Jeffrey T. Denning and Mark H. Showalter

Overeating in all-you-can-eat buffet: paying before versus paying after pp. 4940-4948

Erez Siniver, Yosef Mealem and Gideon Yaniv

Competition and diversification in public and private higher education pp. 4949-4958

Pedro Teixeira, Vera Rocha, Ricardo Biscaia and M. F. Cardoso

Remittances and the real effective exchange rate pp. 4959-4970

Gazi Hassan and Mark Holmes

Oil shocks and monetary policy rules in emerging economies pp. 4971-4984

Joseph Alba, Wai-Mun Chia and Zheng Su

The nonlinear multidimensional relationship between stock returns and the macroeconomy pp. 4985-4999

Pian Chen and Aaron Smith

Volume 45, issue 34, 2013

Monetary policy in a dual currency environment pp. 4739-4753

Guillermo Felices and Vicente Tuesta

Preferential trade agreements and manufactured goods exports: does it matter whom you PTA with? pp. 4754-4772

Omar S. Dahi and Firat Demir

An economic efficiency study on different regions of Ghana via Slack-based data envelopment analysis and regression analysis pp. 4773-4780

Orla A. Murphy, Ping Wang, Sunny X. Wang and Greg Tkacz

Casinos and political corruption in the United States: a Granger causality analysis pp. 4781-4795

Douglas Walker and Peter Calcagno

The effect of ESCO s on carbon dioxide emissions pp. 4796-4804

WenShwo Fang and Stephen Miller

An options-based approach to forecast competing bids: evidence for Canadian takeover battles pp. 4805-4819

Stefan Eichler and Dominik Maltritz

Determinants of violent and property crimes in England and Wales: a panel data analysis pp. 4820-4830

Lu Han, Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Samrat Bhattacharya

Ex ante capital position, changes in the different components of regulatory capital and bank risk pp. 4831-4856

Boubacar Camara, Laetitia Lepetit and Amine Tarazi

Reciprocal deposits and incremental bank risk pp. 4857-4860

Sherrill Shaffer

Volume 45, issue 33, 2013

Oil prices and life satisfaction: asymmetries between oil exporting and oil importing countries pp. 4603-4628

Jeffrey Nugent and Malgorzata Switek

Investment risk taking by institutional investors pp. 4629-4640

Janko Gorter and Jacob Bikker

The first Great Divergence and the evolution of cross-country income inequality during the last millennium: the role of institutions and culture pp. 4641-4650

Jakob Madsen and Eric Yan

An empirical analysis of the relationship between economic development and population growth in China pp. 4651-4661

Wanjun Yao, Tomoko Kinugasa and Shigeyuki Hamori

On the determinants of trade in services: evidence from the MENA region pp. 4662-4676

Fida Karam and Chahir Zaki

Forecasting house prices for the four census regions and the aggregate US economy in a data-rich environment pp. 4677-4697

Rangan Gupta

Business cycle co-movements between South Africa and the BRIC countries pp. 4698-4718

Mustafa Çakır and Alain Kabundi

Subsidized temporary jobs: lock-in and stepping stone effects pp. 4719-4732

Florent Fremigacci and Antoine Terracol

Univariate unobserved-component model with a nonrandom-walk permanent component pp. 4733-4737

Zhiwei Xu

Volume 45, issue 32, 2013

How much does water consumption drop when each household takes charge of its own consumption? The case of the city of Seville pp. 4465-4473

Jos頉. Castillo-Manzano, Lourdes Lopez-Valpuesta, Manuel Marchena-G and Diego J. Pedregal

Effects of trade diversion and trade creation of MERCOSUR on US and world apple markets pp. 4474-4486

Boya Liu and Stephen Devadoss

Public and private inputs in aggregate production and growth: a cross-country efficiency approach pp. 4487-4502

Antonio Afonso and Miguel Aubyn

Mean-reversion in closed-end fund discount: evidence from half-life pp. 4503-4515

Philip Inyeob Ji and Sangbae Kim

Peer heterogeneity, school tracking and students' performances: evidence from PISA 2006 pp. 4516-4532

Michele Raitano and Francesco Vona

Ex post adaptations and hybrid contracts in software development services pp. 4533-4544

Lior Fink, Yossi Lichtenstein and Simon Wyss

Market power and fiscal policy in OECD countries pp. 4545-4555

Antonio Afonso and Luis Costa

Life cycle and housing decisions: a comparison by age cohorts pp. 4556-4568

V r E. Barrios, M. Consuelo Colom and M. Cruz Mol鳠

Econometric issues related to identification of the market power parameter pp. 4569-4574

Stephen Devadoss, Jeff Luckstead and Ron Mittelhammer

An extension of the Tiebout hypothesis of voting with one's feet: the Medicaid magnet hypothesis pp. 4575-4583

Richard Cebula and J. R. Clark

Revisiting purchasing power parity in Latin America: sequential panel selection method pp. 4584-4590

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Tsangyao Chang and Ken Hung

Multidimensional affluence: theory and applications to Germany and the US pp. 4591-4601

Andreas Peichl and Nico Pestel

Volume 45, issue 31, 2013

A cost-benefit analysis of the random assignment UK Employment Retention and Advancement Demonstration pp. 4335-4354

David Greenberg, Johanna Walter and Genevieve Knight

New estimates of labour supply elasticities for married women in Canada 1996--2005 pp. 4355-4368

Benoit Dostie and Lene Kromann

The J-curve: evidence from commodity trade between UK and China pp. 4369-4378

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Ruixin Zhang

Do commercial real estate prices have predictive content for GDP? pp. 4379-4384

Philip Hans Franses and Bert De Groot

Interrelationships among banks, stock markets and economic growth: an empirical investigation pp. 4385-4394

Dong-Hyeon Kim and Shu-Chin Lin

Pass-through in dollarized countries: should Ecuador abandon the US dollar? pp. 4395-4411

Mar𨁌orena Mar𑁥l Cristo and Marta G -Puig

Productivity effects of trade and product innovations: an empirical analysis for 13 OECD countries pp. 4412-4418

Frank Den Butter and Abdessalam Es-Saghir

Trend and cyclical decoupling: new estimates based on spectral causality tests and wavelet correlations pp. 4419-4428

Dilip Nachane and Amlendu Kumar Dubey

Household investment decisions and offspring gender: parental accounting pp. 4429-4442

Vicki L. Bogan

The effects of merit pay on teacher job satisfaction pp. 4443-4451

Mark Gius

A Bayesian approach to aggregation in demand systems: smoothing with perfect substitution priors pp. 4452-4462

Hoanjae Park and Walter Thurman

Volume 45, issue 30, 2013

Editorial pp. 4203-4203

Josep Carrion-i-Silvestre and Emma Iglesias

Preface pp. 4204-4204

Jos頍ar𨀍 Arias

Political economy of happiness pp. 4205-4211

Bruno Frey and Jana Gallus

Earnings inequality in Spain: new evidence using tax data pp. 4212-4225

Stéphane Bonhomme and Laura Hospido

Gender wage differentials and educational mismatch: an application to the Spanish case pp. 4226-4235

Ma del Mar Salinas-Jim鮥z, Marta Rahona-L󰥺 and In鳠P. Murillo-Huertas

Higher and higher? Performance pay and wage inequality in Germany pp. 4236-4247

Katrin Sommerfeld

Nontaxable income and necessary consumption: the Rousseau's paradox of fiscal egalitarianism pp. 4248-4259

A. Fa𨐠, J. L󰥺-Rodr z and L. Varela-Candamio

Evolution over time of the determinants of preferences for redistribution and the support for the welfare state pp. 4260-4274

Emma Iglesias, J. Atilano Pena L󰥺 and Jos頍anuel Sᮣhez S᮴os

Do immigrant outflows lead to native inflows? An empirical analysis of the migratory responses to US state immigration legislation pp. 4275-4297

Michael Good

Occupational segregation of Hispanics in US metropolitan areas pp. 4298-4307

Olga Alonso-Villar, C. Grad󸀍 and C. del R􈀍

Are workers close to cities paid higher nonagricultural wages in rural China? pp. 4308-4322

Chloé Duvivier, Shi Li and M.-F. Renard

The influence of macroeconomic factors on personal income distribution in developing countries: a parametric modelling approach pp. 4323-4334

Garc𨀍, Prieto-Alaiz and Sim

Volume 45, issue 29, 2013

Prospective measures of competitive balance: application to money lines in major league baseball pp. 4071-4081

R. Alan Bowman, Thomas Ashman and James Lambrinos

Efficiency of health care delivery systems: effects of health insurance coverage pp. 4082-4094

Melanie Cozad and Bruno Wichmann

Monetary policy through the ‘credit-cost channel’: Italy and Germany pre- and post-EMU pp. 4095-4113

Giuliana Passamani and Roberto Tamborini

The shape of the Phillips curve: the case of Indonesia pp. 4114-4121

Rizki Wimanda, Paul Turner and Maximilian Hall

Non-Keynesian effects of fiscal policy in OECD economies: an empirical study pp. 4122-4136

Rina Bhattacharya and Sanchita Mukherjee

Fiscal policy and the current account: are microstates different? pp. 4137-4151

Yehenew Endegnanew, Charles Amo-Yartey and Therese Turner-Jones

Testing for panel unit roots in the presence of spatial dependency pp. 4152-4159

Kristofer Månsson, Ghazi Shukur and Pär Sjölander

Trade distance functions and the derivation of inverse demand for imports pp. 4160-4168

Ka Wong

Time-varying parameters in the almost ideal demand system and the Rotterdam model: will the best specification please stand up? pp. 4169-4183

William Barnett and Isaac Kanyama

Competitive balance versus competitive intensity before a match: is one of these two concepts more relevant in explaining attendance? The case of the French football Ligue 1 over the period 2008--2011 pp. 4184-4192

N. Scelles, C. Durand, Liliane Bonnal, D. Goyeau and W. Andreff

A note on the ‘Linsanity’ of measuring the relative efficiency of National Basketball Association guards pp. 4193-4202

Boon Lee and Andrew Worthington

Volume 45, issue 28, 2013

Bus transit technical efficiency using latent class stochastic indirect production frontier pp. 3933-3942

Kofi Obeng

A (nearly) global look at the dynamics of youth smoking initiation and cessation: the role of cigarette prices pp. 3943-3951

Deliana Kostova

Endogenous economic freedom and the wealth of nations: evidence from a panel of countries, 1996--2011 pp. 3952-3962

Aleksandar Kešeljević and Rok Spruk

Do production subsidies have a wage incidence in wind power? pp. 3963-3972

Dakshina De Silva, Robert P. McComb and Anita Schiller

Long-run growth empirics and new challenges for unified theory pp. 3973-3987

David Greasley, Jakob Madsen and Mark Wohar

Measuring the Chinese business cycle pp. 3988-4003

R. Becker and Y. Wang

Evaluating how predictable errors in expected income affect consumption pp. 4004-4021

Luigi Giamboni, Emanuele Millemaci and Robert Waldmann

What happens to social spending in IMF-supported programmes? pp. 4022-4033

Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta and Masahiro Nozaki

Does the currency board matter? US news and Argentine financial market reaction pp. 4034-4040

Bernd Hayo and Matthias Neuenkirch

Evaluating and improving GARCH-based volatility forecasts with range-based estimators pp. 4041-4049

Jui-Cheng Hung, Tien-Wei Lou, Yi-Hsien Wang and Jun-De Lee

A permanent effect of temporary immigration on economic growth pp. 4050-4059

Joan Muysken and Thomas Ziesemer

A decision support system for financial and social investment pp. 4060-4070

Carlos Serrano-Cinca and Begoña Guti鲲ez-Nieto

Volume 45, issue 27, 2013

Direct effects of money on aggregate demand: another look at the evidence pp. 3801-3809

Mariano Kulish and Stephen Elias

The multi-market analysis of a housing price transmission model pp. 3810-3819

Juan Yang, Huawei Liu and David Leatham

Population and economic growth: a simultaneous equation perspective pp. 3820-3826

Tai-Hsin Huang and Zixiong Xie

The heterogeneity of carbon Kuznets curves for advanced countries: comparing homogeneous, heterogeneous and shrinkage/Bayesian estimators pp. 3827-3842

Massimiliano Mazzanti and Antonio Musolesi

The growth effects of education in Australia pp. 3843-3852

Antonio Paradiso, Saten Kumar and B. Rao

The determinants of the location of foreign direct investment in UK regions† pp. 3853-3862

Dimitra Dimitropoulou, Philip McCann and Simon P. Burke

Valuing the social cost of corruption using subjective well being data and the technique of vignettes pp. 3863-3870

Carmelo J. León, Jorge Araña and Javier de León

Mesdames et Messieurs, momentum performance is not so abnormal after all! pp. 3871-3879

Emilios Galariotis

Economic and conservation implications of a variable effort penalty system in effort-controlled fisheries pp. 3880-3890

Sean Pascoe, James Innes, Ana Norman-Lopez, Chris Wilcox and Natalie Dowling

Market volatility and the dynamic hedging of multi-commodity price risk pp. 3891-3903

Gabriel Power, Dmitry Vedenov, David Anderson and Steven Klose

The effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy responses to twin crises pp. 3904-3913

Jie Li

The effect of religiosity and religious festivals on positional concerns -- an experimental investigation of Ramadan pp. 3914-3921

Alpaslan Akay, Gokhan Karabulut and Peter Martinsson

Public transportation demand in a border metropolitan economy pp. 3922-3931

Thomas Fullerton and A. G. Walke

Volume 45, issue 26, 2013

One for all and all for one: privatization and Universal Service provision in the postal sector pp. 3667-3682

Philipp B. Schuster

The relationship between temperature and CO 2 emissions: evidence from a short and very long dataset pp. 3683-3690

David G. McMillan and Mark Wohar

A New Keynesian IS curve for Australia: is it forward looking or backward looking? pp. 3691-3700

Antonio Paradiso, Saten Kumar and B. Rao

Pension funds' allocations to hedge funds: an empirical analysis of US and Canadian defined benefit plans pp. 3701-3710

Vincent Bouvatier and S. Rigot

Reducing urban public transport costs by tendering lots: a panel data estimation pp. 3711-3722

Yves Croissant, William Roy and Joan Canton

Abnormal returns before acquisition announcements: evidence from Europe pp. 3723-3732

Maria Borges and Ricardo Gairifo

Growth and exchange rate volatility: a panel data analysis pp. 3733-3741

Flavio Vieira, Márcio Holland, Cleomar Gomes Da Silva and L. C. Bottecchia

A new approach to the effect of intervention frequency on the foreign exchange market: evidence from Japan pp. 3742-3759

Toshio Utsunomiya

A curse or a blessing? Natural resources in a multiple growth regimes analysis pp. 3760-3769

Maty Konte

Acquirer's return and the choice of acquisition targets: does acquisition experience matter? pp. 3770-3777

Ahmad Ismail and Abed AL-Nasser Abdallah

Micro versus macro consumption data: the cyclical properties of the consumer expenditure survey pp. 3778-3785

Rodolfo Campos, Iliana Reggio and Dionisio Garc𫑐

How serious is the aggregation problem? An empirical illustration pp. 3786-3794

Bente Halvorsen and Bodil M. Larsen

Battleground states and voter participation in US presidential elections: an empirical test pp. 3795-3799

Richard Cebula, Christopher M. Duquette and Franklin Mixon

Volume 45, issue 25, 2013

Productivity effects of land rental market operation in Ethiopia: evidence from a matched tenant--landlord sample pp. 3531-3551

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali and Tekie Alemu

The effect of fair trade affiliation on child schooling: evidence from a sample of Chilean honey producers pp. 3552-3563

Leonardo Becchetti, Stefano Castriota and Melania Michetti

Can consumption-based asset pricing models using monetary conditioning variables explain the cross-section of German stock returns? pp. 3564-3573

Benjamin R. Auer

Interest rate reforms, financial deepening and economic growth in Cameroon: an empirical investigation pp. 3574-3586

Oludele Akinloye Akinboade and Emilie Kinfack

Beyond natural resources: horizontal and vertical FDI diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 3587-3598

Tidiane Kinda

On the determinants of UK unemployment and the Great Recession: analysing the gross flows data pp. 3599-3616

Andrew Sutton

Does option provide more informative content than stock after regulation fair disclosure? pp. 3617-3624

H. C. Huang and P. S. Tung

Real and perceived losses from unemployment: a cross-country study pp. 3625-3636

Keith Bender, Rebecca Neumann and John Douglas Skåtun

Microeconomic consequences and macroeconomic causes of foreign direct investment in southern African economies pp. 3637-3649

Daniel Lederman, Taye Mengistae and Lixin Xu

Returns to individual traders in agricultural futures markets: skill or luck? pp. 3650-3666

Nicole M. Aulerich, Scott Irwin and Philip Garcia

Volume 45, issue 24, 2013

Modelling the effects of promotion expenditures on sales of pharmaceuticals pp. 3389-3399

Jaap E. Wieringa and Peter S. H. Leeflang

Financial innovation in the UK pp. 3400-3411

Shelagh A. Heffernan, Xiaolan Fu and Xiaoqing (Maggie) Fu

Are Islamic finance innovations enough for investors to escape from a financial downturn? Further evidence from portfolio simulations pp. 3412-3420

Mohamed Arouri, Hachmi Ben Ameur, N. Jawadi, F. Jawadi and W. Louhichi

Contagion effects in the electric utility industry following the Fukushima nuclear accident pp. 3421-3430

Houdou Basse Mama and Alexander Bassen

Inter-regional endogenous growth under the impacts of demographic changes pp. 3431-3449

Tae-Jeong Kim and Geoffrey Hewings

The US monetary performance prior to the 2008 crisis pp. 3450-3461

Kui-Wai Li

Economic uncertainty and corruption: evidence from a large cross-country data set pp. 3462-3468

Rajeev Goel and Rati Ram

Approximating the DGP of China's quarterly GDP pp. 3469-3472

Philip Hans Franses and Heleen Mees

Museum and monument attendance and tourism flow: a time series analysis approach pp. 3473-3482

Roberto Cellini and Tiziana Cuccia

Capital utilization and retirement pp. 3483-3494

Antoine Bonleu, Gilbert Cette and Guillaume Horny

Finite-sample distribution of the augmented Dickey--Fuller test with lag optimization pp. 3495-3511

Pui Sun Tam

Comparisons of robust tests for shifts in trend with an application to trend deviations of real exchange rates in the long run pp. 3512-3528

Sungju Chun and Pierre Perron

Static efficiency decompositions and capacity utilization: integrating economic and technical capacity notions pp. 3529-3529

Bruno De Borger, Kristiaan Kerstens, Diego Prior and Ignace Van de Woestyne

Volume 45, issue 23, 2013

Does trade liberalization and its associated increased economic activity affect permanently the value and pattern of trade flows? pp. 3263-3277

Agapi Somwaru

The impact of economic and monetary uncertainty on the demand for money in emerging economies pp. 3278-3287

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Ali Kutan and Dan Xi

The domestic Balassa--Samuelson effect of inflation for the Greek economy pp. 3288-3294

Nicholas Apergis

Inflation targeting and inflation expectations in Mexico pp. 3295-3304

Carlos Carrasco and Jesus Ferreiro

Predicting instability pp. 3305-3315

Weshah Razzak

Strategic planning of optimal resource allocation in response to global financial crisis -- a study of international tourist hotels pp. 3316-3328

Jiung-Bin Chin, Mu-Chen Wu and Ling-Feng Hsieh

Adolescent alcohol use, sociability and income as a young adult pp. 3329-3339

Marlon P. Mundt and Michael T. French

Why is it so difficult to outperform the random walk in exchange rate forecasting? pp. 3340-3346

Imad Moosa

Fiscal policy in Central and Eastern Europe with real time data: cyclicality, inertia and the role of EU accession pp. 3347-3359

John Lewis

Optimal quality threshold of admission in a two-sided farmers’ market pp. 3360-3369

Yuqing Zheng and Harry Kaiser

On the empirics of risk-sharing across MENA countries pp. 3370-3377

Faruk Balli and Hatice Balli

Ad valorem tariff and spatial equilibrium models pp. 3378-3386

Stephen Devadoss

FDI, Taxes and Agglomeration Economies in the EU15 pp. 3387-3387

Åsa Marie Hansson and Karin Olofsdotter

Volume 45, issue 22, 2013

Empirics of health-aid, education and infant mortality: a semiparametric study pp. 3137-3150

Debasri Mukherjee and Elsy Thomas Kizhakethalackal

Still waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric information, abortion laws and the timing of marriage pp. 3151-3169

Simon W. Bowmaker and Patrick M. Emerson

Gravity models of trade-based money laundering pp. 3170-3182

Joras Ferwerda, Mark Kattenberg, Han-Hsin Chang, Brigitte Unger, Loek Groot and Jacob Bikker

The intergenerational transmission of education and equality of educational opportunity in East and West Germany pp. 3183-3196

Regina Riphahn and Parvati Trübswetter

A note on Canadian migration to the United States during the 1980s and 1990s pp. 3197-3210

Richard Mueller

Fiscal shocks and budget balance persistence in the EU countries from Central and Eastern Europe pp. 3211-3219

Juan Cuestas and Karsten Staehr

Real convergence: empirical evidence for Latin America pp. 3220-3229

Astrid Ayala, Juncal Cuñado and Luis Gil-Alana

The generics paradox revisited: empirical evidence from regulated markets pp. 3230-3239

Sotiris Vandoros and Panos Kanavos

Infant mortality, relative income and public policy pp. 3240-3254

Tilman Tacke and Robert Waldmann

Volatility and stock price indexes pp. 3255-3262

Kenneth Clements, H. Y. Izan and Yihui Lan

Volume 45, issue 21, 2013

Estimating the true cost of living for households with different incomes using data from Taiwan pp. 3011-3023

Pang-Tien Lieu, Chinkun Chang and Philip Mizzi

Modelling trigonometric seasonal components for monthly economic time series pp. 3024-3034

Irma Hindrayanto, John A.D. Aston, Siem Jan Koopman and Marius Ooms

Are college chief executives paid like corporate CEOs or bureaucrats? pp. 3035-3043

Ying Sophie Huang and Carl R. Chen

Predicting housing prices according to expected future interest rate pp. 3044-3048

Nissim Ben David

Forecasting China's inflation in a data-rich environment pp. 3049-3057

Ching-Yi Lin and Chun Wang

Investigating the semiconductor industry cycles pp. 3058-3067

M. Aubry and P. Renou-Maissant

Uncertainty and switching in the mortgage market pp. 3068-3073

Celine Gondat-Larralde and Frank Strobel

A regional analysis of flows into and out of the UK national minimum wage pp. 3074-3087

M. K. Jones, R. J. Jones, Paul Latreille, P. D. Murphy and Peter Sloane

Asymmetric quantile analysis of the Swedish mortgage price discovery process pp. 3088-3101

Kristofer Månsson, Ghazi Shukur and Pär Sjölander

The optimal shape of compensation contracts with earnings management pp. 3102-3109

Bo Sun

Identifying significant characteristics of organic milk consumers: a CART analysis of an artefactual field experiment pp. 3110-3121

Zhuo Liu, Christopher A. Kanter, Kent Messer and Harry Kaiser

Oil windfall, public spending and price stability: modelling inflation in Chad† pp. 3122-3135

Tidiane Kinda

Volume 45, issue 20, 2013

Optimal corporate strategy under uncertainty pp. 2877-2882

Andrew H. Chen, Frank Fabozzi and Dashan Huang

A comparative analysis of independent director appointments on stock price behaviour: an empirical investigation based on the Markov regime-switching model pp. 2883-2893

Yung-Chuan Lee and Su-Lien Lu

Measuring CPI's reliability: the stochastic approach to index numbers revisited pp. 2894-2908

Kuo-Yuan Liang and Chen-Hui Yen

Measuring asymmetry and persistence in conditional volatility in real output: evidence from three East Asian tigers using a multivariate GARCH approach pp. 2909-2914

Vu Thanh Hai, Albert Tsui and Zhaoyong Zhang

Productivity change and its determinants among leading mobile operators in Europe pp. 2915-2925

Belen Usero and Grigorios Asimakopoulos

Public expenditures and the unemployment rate in the American states: panel evidence pp. 2926-2937

Saeid Mahdavi and Emmanuel Alanis

Agglomeration economies and clustering -- evidence from German and European firms pp. 2938-2953

Kurt Hafner

Brand power index -- using principal component analysis pp. 2954-2960

Lien-Ti Bei and Tsung-Chi Cheng

International capital crunches: the time-varying role of informational asymmetries pp. 2961-2973

Ashoka Mody and Mark Taylor

Foreign exchange exposure and impact of policy switch -- the case of Malaysian listed firms pp. 2974-2984

Obiyathulla Bacha, Azhar Mohamad, Sharifah Raihan Syed Mohd Zain and Mohamed Shah

An empirical analysis on the law of purchasing power parity and international economic deepening pp. 2985-2993

Takaaki Aoki

Tobit or OLS? An empirical evaluation under different diary window lengths pp. 2994-3010

Gigi Foster and Charlene Kalenkoski

Volume 45, issue 19, 2013

Interest rate risk estimation: a new duration-based approach pp. 2697-2704

Emanuele Bajo, Massimiliano Barbi and David Hillier

A variable threshold band approach to measuring market linkages pp. 2705-2714

Anton Bekkerman, Barry Goodwin and Nicholas Piggott

Spot market wages, implicit contracts and technological change: skill-level evidence from Finland pp. 2715-2723

Sanna-Mari Hynninen and Terhi Maczulskij

Assessing monetary policy in the euro area: a factor-augmented VAR approach pp. 2724-2744

Rita Soares

Does the monetary policy committee still care about inflation? Some evidence from a small macroeconomic model pp. 2745-2750

Paul Turner

Strategic corporate social responsibility and economic performance pp. 2751-2764

Constantin Belu and Cristiana Manescu

What to show on the wine labels: a hedonic analysis of price drivers of Sicilian wines pp. 2765-2778

Paolo Roma, Giuseppe Di Martino and Giovanni Perrone

Afterlife incentives in charitable giving pp. 2779-2791

Jeremy Philip Thornton and Sara Helms

Spreading academic pay over nine or twelve months: economists are supposed to know better, but do they act better? pp. 2792-2800

Victor Claar, Christine Cain and Ross D. Poll

Investor sentiment and risk appetite of real estate security market pp. 2801-2807

Eddie Chi-man Hui, Xian Zheng and Hui Wang

Salaried employment and earnings in Indonesia: new evidence on the selection bias pp. 2808-2816

Margherita Comola and Luiz de Mello

Productivity and financial support in academic bioscience pp. 2817-2826

Sharmistha Nag, Hui Yang, Steven Buccola and David Ervin

The value of commuting time in an empirical on-the-job search model -- an application based on moments from two samples pp. 2827-2837

Gunnar Isacsson, Anders Karlström and Jan-Erik Swärdh

Using Romer and Romer's new measure of monetary policy shocks to identify the AD and AS shocks pp. 2838-2846

James Cover and Eric Olson

Revisiting purchasing power parity for East Asian countries using the rank test for nonlinear cointegration pp. 2847-2852

Tsangyao Chang and Chi-Wei Su

Does human capital constrain the impact of foreign direct investment and remittances on economic growth in Ghana? pp. 2853-2862

Frank Agbola

Individual determinants of work attendance: evidence on the role of personality pp. 2863-2875

Susi Störmer and René Fahr

Volume 45, issue 18, 2013

The effects of monetary policy using structural factor analysis pp. 2511-2526

Dandan Liu and Dennis Jansen

Are company founders underpaid? pp. 2527-2536

Konstantinos Tzioumis

The opportunistic approach to monetary policy and financial market conditions pp. 2537-2545

Ndahiriwe Kasa and Ruthira Naraidoo

Labour inputs substitution during corporate restructuring: a translog model approach for US freight railroads pp. 2547-2562

Laura Padilla-Angulo

Trade and transport connectivity: a spatial approach pp. 2563-2566

Luisa Alam᭓abater, Laura MᲱuez-Ramos and Celestino SuᲥz-Burguet

Decentralization and the shadow economy: Oates meets Allingham--Sandmo pp. 2567-2578

Andreas Buehn, Christian Lessmann and Gunther Markwardt

Breakeven inflation rates and their puzzling correlation relationships pp. 2579-2585

Gilbert Cette and Marielle de Jong

Why do low-educated workers invest less in further training? pp. 2587-2601

Didier Fouarge, Trudie Schils and Andries de Grip

Nominal and real volatility as determinants of FDI pp. 2603-2610

Lilia Cavallari and Stefano d'Addona

Do Malaysian house prices follow a random walk? Evidence from univariate and panel LM unit root tests with one and two structural breaks pp. 2611-2627

Hooi Hooi Lean and Russell Smyth

Exchange--rate volatility and US--Hong Kong industry trade: is there evidence of a 'third country' effect? pp. 2629-2651

Mohsen Bahmani--Oskooee, Scott Hegerty and Jia Xu

FDI, taxes and agglomeration economies in the EU15 pp. 2653-2664

Åsa Marie Hansson and Karin Olofsdotter

Location, internationalization and performance of firms in Italy: a multilevel approach pp. 2665-2673

Giorgia Giovannetti, Giorgio Ricchiuti and Margherita Velucchi

New evidence of regional income divergence in post-reform Russia pp. 2675-2682

Alisher Akhmedjonov, Chi Keung Lau and Berna Balcı İzgi

A history of European electricity day-ahead prices pp. 2683-2693

Ronald Huisman and Mehtap Kili砍

A univariate model of aggregate labour productivity pp. 2695-2695

Robert Dixon and Guay Lim

Volume 45, issue 17, 2013

Regional clusters of innovative activity in Europe: are social capital and geographical proximity key determinants? pp. 2325-2335

Laura de Dominicis, Raymond Florax and Henri de Groot

Sensitivity analysis of efficiency rankings to distributional assumptions: applications to Japanese water utilities pp. 2337-2348

Shinji Yane and Sanford Berg

The management function of entrepreneurs and countries’ productivity growth pp. 2349-2360

Vicente Salas-Fumás and J. Javier Sanchez-Asin

Temporary hires and innovative investments pp. 2361-2370

Marco Malgarini, Massimo Mancini and Lia Pacelli

Oil price forecasting under asymmetric loss pp. 2371-2379

Christian Pierdzioch, Jan-Christoph Rülke and Georg Stadtmann

Impact of interest rates on Islamic and conventional banks: the case of Turkey pp. 2381-2388

Etem Ergec and B. G. Arslan

The driving forces of the level and the growth rate of real per capita income in Indonesia pp. 2389-2400

Parjiono, A.B.M. Rabiul Alam Beg and Richard Monypenny

What explains the performance of students in a heterogeneous environment? Conditional efficiency estimation with continuous and discrete environmental variables pp. 2401-2412

Kristof De Witte and Mika Kortelainen

New measures of factor productivity in Australia: a Sato approach pp. 2413-2422

Anthony J. Makin and Sam Strong

A micro data approach to the identification of credit crunches pp. 2423-2441

Horst Rottmann and Timo Wollmershäuser

The business cycle implications of the euro adoption in Poland pp. 2443-2455

Michał Gradzewicz and Krzysztof Makarski

A matrix approach to the Gini index decomposition by subgroup and by income source pp. 2457-2468

Mauro Mussini

Ability transmission, endogenous fertility and educational subsidy pp. 2469-2479

Kazumasa Oguro, Takashi Oshio and Junichiro Takahata

The impacts of religion, political ideology, and social capital on religious and secular giving: evidence from the 2006 Social Capital Community Survey pp. 2481-2490

Kevin Forbes and Ernest M. Zampelli

An operational risk profile: the experience of British firms pp. 2491-2500

Imad Moosa and Larry Li

Budget deficits and interest rates: a fresh perspective pp. 2501-2510

Ari Aisen and David Hauner

Volume 45, issue 16, 2013

A systemic approach to modelling and estimating demand for money(ies) pp. 2141-2162

Mauricio Calani, Rodrigo Fuentes and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

Economic growth drag in the Central China: evidence from a panel analysis pp. 2163-2174

Yaobin Liu

Border region panel evidence on PPP deviations pp. 2175-2182

Thomas Fullerton and Andre Mollick

Does productivity growth lower inflation in Korea? pp. 2183-2190

Sangho Kim, Hyunjoon Lim and Donghyun Park

The relationship between smoking, quitting smoking and obesity in Australia: a seemingly unrelated probit approach pp. 2191-2199

N. Au, Katharina Hauck and Bruce Hollingsworth

Explaining local manufacturing growth in Chile: the advantages of sectoral diversity pp. 2201-2213

Rita Almeida and Ana Fernandes

Estimating willingness to pay: do health and environmental researchers have different methodological standards? pp. 2215-2229

Semra Özdemir and F. Reed Johnson

Is there a case for carbon-based border tax adjustment? An applied general equilibrium analysis pp. 2231-2240

Jean-Marc Burniaux, Jean Chateau and Romain Duval

Do remittances dampen the effect of natural disasters on output growth volatility in developing countries? pp. 2241-2254

Christian Hubert Ebeke and Jean-Louis Combes

A cost-benefit analysis of restoring the Em River in Sweden: valuation of angling site characteristics and visitation frequency pp. 2255-2266

Anton Paulrud and Thomas Laitila

Cross-country evidence on the relation between stock prices and the current account pp. 2267-2277

Tim Berg

Does purchasing power parity hold sometimes? Regime switching in real exchange rates pp. 2279-2294

Hwa-Taek Lee and Gawon Yoon

Migration and labour markets in OECD countries: a panel cointegration approach pp. 2295-2304

Olivier Damette and Vincent Fromentin

The experience of some OECD economies on tax smoothing pp. 2305-2313

Ananda Jayawickrama and Tilak Abeysinghe

A hedonic price analysis of hearing aid technology pp. 2315-2323

Dakshina De Silva, Nidhi Thakur and Mengzhi Xie

Volume 45, issue 15, 2013

Testing for codependence of cointegrated variables pp. 1953-1964

Carsten Trenkler and Enzo Weber

Do microfinance institutions accomplish their mission? Evidence from the relationship between traditional financial sector development and microfinance institutions’ outreach and performance pp. 1965-1982

Annabel Vanroose and Bert D’Espallier

Scouts versus Stats: the impact of Moneyball on the Major League Baseball draft pp. 1983-1990

Tony Caporale and Trevor Collier

Training and retirement patterns pp. 1991-1999

Raymond Montizaan, Frank Cörvers and Andries de Grip

Inflation stationarity during Latin American inflation: insights from unit root and structural break analysis pp. 2001-2010

Tony Caporale and Julia Paxton

Market power versus efficiency under uncertainty: conventional versus Islamic banking in the GCC pp. 2011-2022

Azzeddine Azzam and Belaid Rettab

Productivity, technical and efficiency change in Singapore's services sector, 2005 to 2008 pp. 2023-2029

Boon Lee

A monetary valuation of individual religious behaviour: the case of prayer pp. 2031-2037

Timothy Tyler Brown

Assessing participation in voluntary environmental programmes in the developing world: the role of FDI and export orientation on ISO14001 adoption in Thailand pp. 2039-2048

Kanittha Tambunlertchai, Andreas Kontoleon and Madhu Khanna

Information and diffusion of new prescription drugs pp. 2049-2057

Victoria Serra-Sastre and Alistair McGuire

Estimation and testing of nonproportional Weibull hazard models pp. 2059-2066

Thomas Zuehlke

Exchange rate uncertainty and US bilateral fresh fruit and fresh vegetable trade: an application of the gravity model pp. 2067-2082

Ian Sheldon, S. Khadka Mishra, Daniel Pick and Stanley Thompson

The elasticity of demand for wagering in an unregulated market pp. 2083-2090

Eberhard Feess and C. R. Schumacher

Employment protection and productivity: evidence from firm-level panel data in Japan pp. 2091-2105

H. Okudaira, M. Takizawa and Kotaro Tsuru

Preference uncertainty in stated preference studies: facts and artefacts pp. 2107-2115

Sonia Akter and Jeffrey Bennett

AIDS, longevity and long-run income pp. 2117-2125

Pedro Ferreira

Privatization, FDI inflow and economic growth: evidence from China's provinces, 1978--2008 pp. 2127-2139

Shiyong Zhao

Volume 45, issue 14, 2013

Demand for money in the selected OECD countries: a time series panel data approach and structural breaks pp. 1767-1776

Saten Kumar, Mamta Chowdhury and B. Rao

Analysing the performance of nonlisted real estate funds: a panel data analysis pp. 1777-1788

Franz Fuerst and George Matysiak

Economic implications of socio-cultural correlates of HIV/AIDS: an analysis of global data pp. 1789-1800

B. M. Craven and G. T. Stewart

Multimodality and mixture distributions: an application to a Survey of Economic Expectations pp. 1801-1817

Patricio Jaramillo and Juan Carlos Piantini

Value creation and division of gains in horizontal acquisitions in Europe: the role of industry conditions pp. 1819-1833

Nancy Huyghebaert and Mathieu Luypaert

Housing investment in Spain: has it been the main engine of growth? pp. 1835-1843

Carolina Cosculluela-Mart󹑺 and Rafael Flores de Frutos

Using repeated choice experiments to evaluate the impact of policy changes on cervical screening pp. 1845-1855

Meliyanni Johar, Denzil Fiebig, Marion Haas and Rosalie Viney

Full privatization through controlling rights transfer in China: the extent of its success pp. 1857-1867

Yunxia Bai, Bing-Xuan Lin, Yaping Wang and Liansheng Wu

Demand for nutrients in India: 1993 to 2004 pp. 1869-1886

Raghav Gaiha, Raghbendra Jha and Vani Kulkarni

A Fourier analysis of the US dairy industry pp. 1887-1895

Tristan Skolrud and C. Shumway

Revealing additional dimensions of preference heterogeneity in a latent class mixed multinomial logit model pp. 1897-1902

William Greene and David Hensher

Mother's autonomy: impact on the quality of children's healthcare in India pp. 1903-1913

Richard Grabowski and Sharmistha Self

Are low-skill public sector workers really overpaid? A quasi-differenced panel data analysis pp. 1915-1929

Peter Siminski

Dollars and pounds: the impact of family income on childhood weight pp. 1931-1941

Y. F. Chia

A panel data test for poverty traps pp. 1943-1952

Antonio Galvao, Gabriel Montes-Rojas and Jose Olmo

Volume 45, issue 13, 2013

Institutions and growth: evidence from estimation methods robust to weak instruments pp. 1625-1635

Alexandre Dmitriev

Evaluating Federal Reserve predictions of growth in consumer spending pp. 1637-1646

Hamid Baghestani

Internal and international migration in Mexico: 1995--2000 pp. 1647-1661

Ernesto Aguayo-T鬬ez and Jos頍 Mart󹑺-Navarro

Ageing, chronic conditions and the evolution of future drugs expenditure: a five-year micro-simulation from 2004 to 2029 pp. 1663-1672

S. P. Thi颡ut, Thomas Barnay and Bruno Ventelou

Explaining the spatial variation in housing prices: an economic geography approach pp. 1673-1689

Karolien De Bruyne and Jan Van Hove

Voting with the crowd: do single issues drive partisanship? pp. 1691-1700

Martin Schmidt

Does service-level spending show evidence of selection across health plan types? pp. 1701-1712

Randall Ellis, Shenyi Jiang and Tzu-Chun Kuo

Regulator flexibility and the administrative allocation licensing of 3G spectrum pp. 1713-1718

Gary Madden and Aaron Morey

Workforce reorganization and the worker pp. 1719-1729

Ben Kriechel and Gerard Pfann

Business ownership and attitudes towards risk pp. 1731-1740

Sarah Brown, Michael Dietrich, Aurora Ortiz Nunez and Karl Taylor

Funding self-employment -- the role of consumer credit pp. 1741-1749

Christoph Kneiding and Alexander Kritikos

The relationship between size, growth and profitability of commercial banks pp. 1751-1765

Choudhry Tanveer Shehzad, Jakob de Haan and Bert Scholtens

Volume 45, issue 12, 2013

Vulnerability to poverty: an empirical comparison of alternative measures pp. 1493-1506

Martina Celidoni

Diversification by entry into a new submarket? pp. 1507-1518

Gianni Amisano and Maria Letizia Giorgetti

Inflation/unemployment regimes and the instability of the Phillips curve pp. 1519-1531

Paul Ormerod, B. Rosewell and Peter Phelps

Testing for the government's intertemporal budget restriction in Brazil during 1823--1889 pp. 1533-1540

Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Fernando Zanella

Technical analysis and the Spanish stock exchange: testing the RSI, MACD, momentum and stochastic rules using Spanish market companies pp. 1541-1550

R. Rosillo, D. de la Fuente and J. A. L. Brugos

The cyclicality of consumption, wages and employment of the public sector in the euro area pp. 1551-1569

Ana Lamo, Javier J. P鲥z and Ludger Schuknecht

Reference-dependent behaviour of paua (abalone) divers in New Zealand pp. 1571-1582

Håkan Eggert and Viktoria Kahui

The effect of schooling on problem drinking: evidence from Australian twins pp. 1583-1599

Nick Zubanov, H. D. Webbink and N. G. Martin

Balance of payment crises in emerging markets: how early were the ‘early’ warning signals? pp. 1601-1623

Matthieu Bussiere

Volume 45, issue 11, 2013

Impact of bank competition on the interest rate pass-through in the euro area pp. 1359-1380

Michiel Van Leuvensteijn, Christoffer Kok, Jacob Bikker and Adrian Rixtel

The short-term impact of smoke-free workplace laws on fatal heart attacks pp. 1381-1393

Scott Adams, Chad Cotti and Daniel Fuhrmann

What does high-dimensional factor analysis tell us about risk factors in the Australian stock market? pp. 1395-1404

Colin Bowers and Chris Heaton

Regional technology development path in an open developing economy: evidence from China pp. 1405-1418

Tieli Li, Miao Fu and Xiaolan Fu

Do competition and ownership matter? Evidence from local public transport in Europe pp. 1419-1434

Andrea Boitani, Marcella Nicolini and Carlo Scarpa

Risk sharing from international factor income: explaining cross-country differences pp. 1435-1459

Vadym Volosovych

The empirical identification of heterogeneous technologies and technical change pp. 1461-1479

Johannes Sauer and Catherine Morrison Paul

Optimal diversification and risk-taking: a theoretical and empirical analysis pp. 1481-1492

James A. Yunker and Alice Melkumian

Volume 45, issue 10, 2013

Testing for long-run convergence across regional house prices in the UK: a pairwise approach pp. 1227-1238

Andrew Abbott and Glauco De Vita

How responsive is higher education? The linkages between higher education and the labour market pp. 1239-1256

Ashok Bardhan, Daniel Hicks and Dwight Jaffee

Stock returns and economic growth pp. 1257-1271

Jakob Madsen, Ratbek Dzhumashev and Hui Yao

Detecting structural breaks in tail behaviour -- from the perspective of fitting the generalized Pareto distribution pp. 1273-1286

Wei-han Liu

The impact of FOMC statements on the volatility of asset prices pp. 1287-1301

Mira Farka and Adrian R. Fleissig

Compiling the actuarial balance for pay-as-you-go pension systems. Is it better to use the hidden asset or the contribution asset? pp. 1303-1320

Carlos Vidal-Meliá and Mar𨀍 del Carmen Boado-Penas

The determinants of aggregate creditors’ voluntary liquidations pp. 1321-1330

Peter L. Jones

Market states and disposition effect: evidence from Taiwan mutual fund investors pp. 1331-1342

Jen-Sin Lee, Pi-Hsia Yen and Kam C. Chan

Publicly-funded R&D programs and survival of patents pp. 1343-1358

Roger Svensson

Volume 45, issue 9, 2013

The value of private versus public risk and pure altruism: an experimental economics test pp. 1089-1097

Kent Messer, Gregory Poe and William D. Schulze

Estimation of the public benefits of urban water supply improvements in Ethiopia: a choice experiment pp. 1099-1108

Solomon Tarfasa and Roy Brouwer

Small is not that beautiful after all: measuring the scale efficiency of Tunisian high schools using a DEA-bootstrap method pp. 1109-1120

Hédi Essid, Pierre Ouellette and Stéphane Vigeant

Impact of food safety information on US poultry demand pp. 1121-1131

Lijia Mo

Estimating the capital stock for the NUTS2 regions of the EU27 pp. 1133-1149

J. Derbyshire, B. Gardiner and Sevrin Waights

Assessing the impact of local taxation on property prices: a spatial matching contribution pp. 1151-1166

Sylvie Charlot, Sonia Paty and Michel Visalli

Do temporary extensions to unemployment insurance benefits matter? The effects of the US standby extended benefit program pp. 1167-1183

Jeremy Schwartz

Whose fault is it? Assigning blame for grade inflation in higher education pp. 1185-1200

R. Todd Jewell, Michael A. McPherson and Margie A. Tieslau

Credit access and life satisfaction: evaluating the nonmonetary effects of micro finance pp. 1201-1217

Leonardo Becchetti and Pierluigi Conzo

The welfare effects of innovative pharmaceuticals: an international perspective from the Dutch experience pp. 1219-1226

Apostolos Tsiachristas†, René Goudriaan and Wim Groot

Volume 45, issue 8, 2013

Are US stock index returns predictable? Evidence from automatic autocorrelation-based tests pp. 953-962

Kian-Ping Lim, Weiwei Luo and Jae Kim

How trade and capital restrictions affect the probability of a balance of trade disturbance pp. 963-972

Maryann Keating and Barry Keating

Employment protection legislation and catching-up pp. 973-981

Ton Schaik and Theo van de Klundert

Research publications and economic growth: evidence from cross-country regressions pp. 983-990

Jang Jin and Lawrence Jin

Foreign direct investment, corruption and democracy pp. 991-1002

Aparna Mathur and Kartikeya Singh

The efficiency of the health system in South Africa: evidence from stochastic frontier analysis pp. 1003-1010

Yohannes Kinfu

Australasian money demand stability: application of structural break tests pp. 1011-1025

Saten Kumar and Don Webber

Assessing the roles that absorptive capacity and economic distance play in the foreign direct investment-productivity growth nexus pp. 1027-1039

Philip Bodman and Thanh Le

Disentangling spillover effects of antibiotic consumption: a spatial panel approach pp. 1041-1054

L. G. González Ortiz and Giuliano Masiero

The check in the mail: household characteristics and migrant remittance from the US to Mexico pp. 1055-1073

Mudziviri Nziramasanga and Jonathan Yoder

Do large capital inflows hinder competitiveness? The Dutch disease in Ethiopia pp. 1075-1088

Pedro M. G. Martins

Volume 45, issue 7, 2013

Long-run relationships between international stock prices: further evidence from fractional cointegration tests pp. 817-828

Marcel Aloy, Mohamed Boutahar, Karine Gente and Anne P駵in-Feissolle

Do professional forecasters trust in Taylor-type rules? -- Evidence from the Wall Street Journal poll pp. 829-838

Ralf Fendel, Michael Frenkel and Jan-Christoph Rülke

Technical efficiency of US dairy farms and federal government programs pp. 839-847

Olga Murova and Benaissa Chidmi

Nonlinearity and stationarity of inflation rates: evidence from the euro-zone countries pp. 849-856

Su Zhou

Employment and education discrimination against disabled people in Cape Verde pp. 857-875

Damien Échevin

Breeding to sell: a hedonic price analysis of leading Thoroughbred sire stud fees pp. 877-885

C. Stowe

Does institutional quality impact innovation? Evidence from cross-country patent grant data pp. 887-900

Edinaldo Tebaldi and Bruce Elmslie

Firm strategy and biased decision making: the price dispersion puzzle pp. 901-910

Ofer Azar

The effects of health aid on child health promotion in developing countries: cross-country evidence pp. 911-919

Simon Feeny and Bazoumana Ouattara

Cost economies in the presence of marketing contracts pp. 921-932

Almuhanad Melhim and C. Shumway

Buying without using -- biases of German BahnCard buyers pp. 933-941

H. Schmale, T. Ehrmann and Alexander Dilger

The long-run relationship between stock return dispersion and output pp. 943-952

Ghassem A. Homaifar, Jonathan Adongo and Kevin M. Zhao

Volume 45, issue 6, 2013

Price clustering in Australian water markets pp. 677-685

Robert Brooks, Edwyna Harris and Yovina Joymungul

Employment transitions and computer use of older workers pp. 687-696

Federico Biagi, Danilo Cavapozzi and Raffaele Miniaci

Predicting entrepreneurial behaviour: a test of the theory of planned behaviour pp. 697-707

Teemu Kautonen, Marco van Gelderen and Erno T. Tornikoski

Productivity development in Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish fisheries pp. 709-720

Håkan Eggert and Ragnar Tveterås

Size and power properties of structural break unit root tests pp. 721-728

Paresh Narayan and Stephan Popp

Do country-specific shocks matter? Evidence from Australia and high income countries pp. 729-739

Philip Inyeob Ji

Overeducation, undereducation and asymmetric information in occupational mobility pp. 741-751

Stephen Rubb

Optimal bank interest margin and default risk in equity returns under the return to domestic retail with structural breaks pp. 753-764

Jeng-Yan Tsai and Jyh-Horng Lin

The effect of prior alliance experience on acquisition performance pp. 765-773

Shao-Chi Chang and Ming-Tse Tsai

Income growth, redistribution, and subjective well-being in Taiwan -- a simulation study pp. 775-791

Hung-Lin Tao and Shih-Yung Chiu

Fiscal policy and the duration of financial crises pp. 793-801

Roland Craigwell, Troy Lorde and Winston Moore

A cointegration analysis of seafood import demand in Caribbean countries pp. 803-815

Giap Nguyen and Curtis M. Jolly

Volume 45, issue 5, 2013

The effect of drinking and smoking on the labour market outcomes of low-income young adults pp. 541-553

Todd C. Neumann

Biological correlates of the Allais paradox pp. 555-568

Sergio Da Silva, Dinorá Baldo and Raul Matsushita

Time-series properties of the dividend--price ratio with social dynamics pp. 569-579

Jochen Lawrenz

Does labour market flexibility matter for investment? A study of manufacturing in the OECD pp. 581-592

Roxana Radulescu and Martin Robson

Inflation targeting, flexible exchange rates and inflation convergence pp. 593-603

Hakan Yilmazkuday

Time diversification under loss aversion: a bootstrap analysis pp. 605-610

Wai Mun Fong

Diminishing marginal returns from R&D investment: evidence from manufacturing firms pp. 611-622

Robert Faff, Yew-Kee Ho, Weiling Lin and Chee-Meng Yap

The information content of the Reserve Bank of Australia's inflation forecasts pp. 623-628

George B. Tawadros

Alternative estimators of cointegrating parameters in models with nonstationary data: an application to US export demand pp. 629-636

James Forest and Paul Turner

Global output growth and volatility spillovers pp. 637-649

Abbas Valadkhani, Charles Harvie and Indika Karunanayake

Determinants of inter-firm technology licensing in the EU pp. 651-661

Young Jun Kim and George Clarke

The relationship between sex ratios and marriage rates in South Africa pp. 663-676

Dorrit Posel and Daniela Casale

Volume 45, issue 4, 2013

The impact of fuel tourism on retailers’ diesel price in Spanish neighbouring regions pp. 407-413

Desiderio Romero-Jordan, Marta Jorge Garc𫑉n鳠 and Santiago Álvarez Garc𨀍

Economies of scale and scope in the provision of diagnostic techniques and therapeutic services in Portuguese hospitals pp. 415-433

Ricardo Gonçalves and Pedro Barros

Do differences in institutional and legal environments explain cross-country variations in IPO underpricing? pp. 435-454

Christian Hopp and Axel Dreher

Median-unbiased estimation in DF-GLS regressions and the PPP puzzle pp. 455-464

Claude Lopez, Chris Murray and David Papell

The Dutch disease and intergenerational welfare pp. 465-476

Jørgen Andersen

Does the minimum wage have a higher impact on the informal than on the formal labour market? Evidence from quasi-experiments pp. 477-495

Melanie Khamis

The efficiency view of corporate boards: theory and evidence pp. 497-510

Angelo Baglioni and Luca Colombo

The impact of skills on remigration flows pp. 511-524

Peter Bönisch, Philipp Gaffert and Joachim Wilde

Was it the economy or reform that precipitated the steep decline in the US welfare caseload? pp. 525-540

Hal Snarr

Volume 45, issue 3, 2013

Stock market liberalization and price response: gradualism versus cold turkey pp. 273-285

Daehwan Kim, Jung Inn Kim and Taeyoon Sung

Stock market liberalization and price response: gradualism versus cold turkey pp. 273-285

Daehwan Kim, Jung Inn Kim and Taeyoon Sung

Trading grain now and then: the relative performance of early grain-futures markets pp. 287-298

Joseph Santos

Trading grain now and then: the relative performance of early grain-futures markets pp. 287-298

Joseph Santos

Works councils, wages and job satisfaction pp. 299-310

Christian Grund and Andreas Schmitt

Works councils, wages and job satisfaction pp. 299-310

Christian Grund and Andreas Schmitt

The log of gravity revisited pp. 311-327

Inmaculada Mart󹑺-Zarzoso

The log of gravity revisited pp. 311-327

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso

Do political budget cycles really exist? pp. 329-341

Jeroen Klomp and Jakob de Haan

Do political budget cycles really exist? pp. 329-341

Jeroen Klomp and Jakob de Haan

Are betting markets efficient? Evidence from European Football Championships pp. 343-356

Alexis Direr

Are betting markets efficient? Evidence from European Football Championships pp. 343-356

Alexis Direr

What makes workers happy? pp. 357-368

Peter H. van der Meer and Rudi Wielers

What makes workers happy? pp. 357-368

Peter H. van der Meer and Rudi Wielers

What determines the price of a racing horse? pp. 369-382

Travis Ng, Terence Tai Leung Chong, Man-Tat Siu and Benjamin Everard

What determines the price of a racing horse? pp. 369-382

Travis Ng, Terence Tai Leung Chong, Man-Tat Siu and Benjamin Everard

Foreign direct investment spillovers and technical efficiency in the Indonesian pharmaceutical sector: firm level evidence pp. 383-395

Suyanto Suyanto and Ruhul Salim

Foreign direct investment spillovers and technical efficiency in the Indonesian pharmaceutical sector: firm level evidence pp. 383-395

Suyanto Suyanto and Ruhul Salim

Wages and work conditions as determinants for physicians’ work decisions pp. 397-406

Jan Erik Askildsen and Tor Helge Holmås

Wages and work conditions as determinants for physicians' work decisions pp. 397-406

Jan Erik Askildsen and Tor Helge Holmås

Volume 45, issue 2, 2013

The impact of foreign direct investment on horizontal export diversification: empirical evidence pp. 141-159

Bedassa Tadesse and Elias Shukralla

Corporate cash holding and firm value pp. 161-170

Cristina Mart󹑺-Sola, Pedro J. Garc𫑔eruel and Pedro Mart󹑺-Solano

Testing capital structure theories using error correction models: evidence from the UK, France and Germany pp. 171-190

Viet Dang

Okun's law in panels of countries and states pp. 191-199

Ho-Chuan Huang and Chih-Chuan Yeh

The determinants of Canadian provincial health expenditures: evidence from a dynamic panel pp. 201-212

Firat Bilgel and Kien Tran

Dynamics of CDS spread indexes of US financial sectors pp. 213-223

Shawkat Hammoudeh, Mohan Nandha and Yuan Yuan

Measuring and testing the long-term impact of terrorist attacks on the US futures market pp. 225-238

Heng-Chih Chou, Rim Zaabar and David Wang

Preventive care: underused even when free. Is there something else at work? pp. 239-253

Vincenzo Carrieri and Marcel Bilger

The consumption-real exchange rate anomaly: nontraded goods and distribution services pp. 255-271

Vicente Tuesta

Volume 45, issue 1, 2013

Testing the technology interpretation of news shocks pp. 1-13

Bernd Lucke

Experimental duopolies under price guarantees pp. 15-35

Enrique Fatas, Nikolaos Georgantz, Juan A. Mañez and Gerardo Sabater

Estimating willingness to pay by risk adjustment mechanism pp. 37-46

Joo Heon Park and Douglas L. MacLachlan

Measurement of hospital efficiency, using a latent class stochastic frontier model pp. 47-54

Carlos Barros, António Menezes and José Vieira

Nonlinear income effects in random utility models: revisiting the accuracy of the representative consumer approximation pp. 55-63

Constant Tra

Does corruption cause encumbered business regulations? An IV approach pp. 65-83

Hugo J. Far𨀍, Hugo M. Montesinos-Yufa, Daniel R. Morales, C鳡r G. Aviles B. and Osmel Brito-Bigott

Decomposition of new venture growth into firm age, survey period and vintage effects pp. 85-97

Kosei Fukuda

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