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Volume 41, issue 27, 2009

Convergence in household credit demand across euro area countries: evidence from panel data pp. 3447-3462

Olivier de Bandt, C. Bruneau and Wydad El Amri

A nonparametric revealed preference test of optimal intra-firm resource allocation pp. 3463-3476

Jonathan Seaton

Daily variation, capital market efficiency and predicting stock returns for the Hong Kong and Tokyo exchanges pp. 3477-3482

Jeffrey Jarrett and Zhenzhen Sun

On the effect of high energy prices on investment pp. 3483-3490

Jan Jacobs, Gerard Kuper and Daan van Soest

Who bets against hedgers and how much they trade? A theory and empirical tests pp. 3491-3497

Bing-Xuan Lin, Chen-Miao Lin and Stephen Smith

Is there really a gap between aggregate productivity and technology? pp. 3499-3503

Ali Choudhary and Vasco Gabriel

Measuring and explaining the efficiencies of the United Arab Emirates banking system pp. 3505-3519

Fatima S. Al Shamsi, Hassan Aly and Mohamed El-Bassiouni

Determinants of housing price volatility in Canada: a dynamic analysis pp. 3521-3531

Belayet Hossain and Ehsan Latif

A counterfactual analysis of the Argentinian monetary transformation in 2002 pp. 3533-3544

Anne-Laure Delatte

Characteristics of households in the informal sector of an emerging economy pp. 3545-3559

S. Sookram, P. K. Watson and Friedrich Schneider

Why do people non-demand reveal in hypothetical double referenda for public goods? pp. 3561-3569

Anthony Burton, Katherine Carson, Susan Chilton and W. George Hutchinson

Volume 41, issue 26, 2009

Using panel data analysis to estimate confidence intervals for the DEA efficiency of individual decision making units pp. 3319-3326

Darold Barnum, John Gleason and Brendon Hemily

A cointegration analysis of gasoline demand in the United States pp. 3327-3336

Zia Wadud, Daniel Graham and Robert Noland

International convergence and divergence of material input structures: an industry-level perspective pp. 3337-3344

Erik Dietzenbacher, Alex Hoen, Bart Los and Jan Meist

The law of one price: conditional convergence evidence from disaggregated data pp. 3345-3357

Peter Egger, Stephan Gruber and Michael Pfaffermayr

Efficiency aspects of increasing inheritance taxes while decreasing income taxes pp. 3359-3366

Nissim Ben David

Risk premiums and optimal combat-force levels in an all-volunteer army pp. 3367-3373

D. W. Kreutzer

Are price-based capital account regulations effective in developing countries? pp. 3375-3388

Antonio David

Threshold effects of financial status on the cost frontiers of financial institutions in nondynamic panels pp. 3389-3401

Mei-Hui Wang and Tai-Hsin Huang

Conformism, peer pressure and adverse selection pp. 3403-3409

Kangsik Choi

Considering endogeneity and heterogeneity-a hierarchical random parameters approach to measuring efficiency pp. 3411-3423

Grace Lordan

Ownership of property-rights and the allocation of talents pp. 3425-3436

Haoming Liu and Yohanes Riyanto

Estimating time-varying variances and covariances via nearest neighbour multivariate predictions: applications to the NYSE and the Madrid Stock Exchange Index pp. 3437-3445

Eduardo Acosta-Gonzalez, Julian Andrada-Felix and Fernando Fernandez-Rodriguez

Volume 41, issue 25, 2009

The applied economics of sport: introduction and overview pp. 3189-3191

Mark Taylor

The dilemma of choosing talent: Michael Jordans are hard to find pp. 3193-3198

Peter Groothuis, James Richard Hill and Tim Perri

Heterogeneity and performance in tournaments: a test for incentive effects using professional tennis data pp. 3199-3208

Uwe Sunde

Attendance and promotions in minor league baseball: the Carolina League pp. 3209-3214

Richard Cebula, Michael Toma and Jay Carmichael

Can a sub-optimal tournament be optimal when the prize can be collectively consumed? The case of college football's national championship pp. 3215-3223

James Swofford, Franklin Mixon and Trellis Green

OSU and LSU: easy to spell but did they belong? Using the method of paired comparisons to evaluate the BCS rankings and the NCAA football championship game 2007-08 pp. 3225-3230

Steven B Caudill

Scoring on the stock exchange? The effect of football matches on stock market returns: an event study pp. 3231-3237

Bert Scholtens and Wijtze Peenstra

Analysing the technical efficiency of the Spanish Football League First Division with a random frontier model pp. 3239-3247

Carlos Barros, Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio and Stephanie Leach

Subsidized monopolists and product prices: the case of Major League Baseball pp. 3249-3255

Phillip Miller

Convergence, clustering and their effects on attendance in the Japan Professional Baseball League pp. 3257-3265

Eiji Yamamura and Inyong Shin

Market size and the demand for talent in major league baseball pp. 3267-3273

Anthony Krautmann

Owners incentives during the 2004-05 National Hockey League lockout pp. 3275-3285

Jason Winfree

Reconsidering the impact of national soccer results on the FTSE 100 pp. 3287-3294

Christian Klein, Bernhard Zwergel and J. Henning Fock

Large sport events and unemployment: the case of the 2006 soccer World Cup in Germany pp. 3295-3302

Florian Hagn and Wolfgang Maennig

Coaching for survival: the hazards of head coach careers in the German 'Bundesliga' pp. 3303-3311

Carlos Barros, Bernd Frick and Jose Passos

The government's role in China's Olympic glory pp. 3313-3318

Hongbin Li, Lingsheng Meng and Qian Wang

Volume 41, issue 24, 2009

Towards solving the PPP puzzle: evidence from 113 countries pp. 3057-3066

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Ali Kutan and Su Zhou

Bond market and stock market integration in Europe: a smooth transition approach pp. 3067-3080

Robert-Paul Berben and W. Jos Jansen

Factors influencing producers' perceptions about the importance of government support programmes in agriculture: application of a semi-parametric ordered response model pp. 3081-3092

Roderick Rejesus, Bruce Sherrick, Gary Schnitkey and Cesar Escalante

Insurance and rural welfare: what can panel data tell us? pp. 3093-3101

Chris Elbers, Jan Willem Gunning and Lei Pan

Juvenile crime and punishment: evidence from Japan pp. 3103-3115

Tatsushi Oka

Output volatility in Australia pp. 3117-3129

Philip Bodman

Modelling the domestic and foreign tourist arrivals to Tamil Nadu (India) pp. 3131-3142

Saroja Selvanathan, Brinda Viswanathan, E. A. Selvanathan and Muthu Mangai

Analysis on the growth of telecommunication services: a global comparison of diffusion patterns pp. 3143-3150

Jongsu Lee and Minkyu Lee

Cost efficiency and scale economies in the Turkish insurance industry pp. 3151-3159

Adnan Kasman and Evrim Turgutlu

International knowledge spillovers through the import of information technology commodities pp. 3161-3169

Gwanghoon Lee

The dynamic relationship between the US GDP, imports and domestic production of crude oil pp. 3171-3178

Imad Jabir

Estimating the wetland rental fee: a case study involving a Taiwan wetland pp. 3179-3188

Wei-Chun Tseng and Chi-Chung Chen

Volume 41, issue 23, 2009

Mineral wealth and human capital accumulation: a nonparametric approach pp. 2925-2941

Jean-Philippe Stijns

Decomposing growth in revenues and costs into price, quantity and total factor productivity contributions pp. 2943-2953

Jesus Dumagan and V. E. Ball

Financial well-being in an urban area: an application of multiple imputation pp. 2955-2964

David Penn

Microdata evidence on rent-sharing pp. 2965-2976

Mahmood Arai and Fredrik Heyman

Real option value and random jumps: application of a simulation model pp. 2977-2989

Susana Alonso-Bonis, Valentin Azofra-Palenzuela and Gabriel de la Fuente-Herrero

Short- and long-term evaluation of efficiency and quality. An application to Spanish municipalities pp. 2991-3002

M. Teresa Balaguer-Coll and Diego Prior

Rule changes and competitive balance in Formula One motor racing pp. 3003-3014

Camilla Mastromarco and Marco Runkel

Managing price risks using and local polynomial kernel forecasts pp. 3015-3026

Minkyoung Kim, Philip Garcia and Raymond Leuthold

Productive physical investment and growth: testing the validity of the AK model from a panel perspective pp. 3027-3043

Diego Romero-Ávila

Estimating endogenous switching regression model with a flexible parametric distribution function: application to Korean housing demand pp. 3045-3055

Pilsun Choi and Insik Min

Volume 41, issue 22, 2009

The applied economics of transport: introduction and overview pp. 2789-2791

Mark Taylor

Value based trading of real assets in shipping under stochastic freight rates pp. 2793-2807

Sigbjørn Sødal, Steen Koekebakker and Roar Adland

Forecasting container transshipment in Germany pp. 2809-2815

Peter Schulze and Alexander Prinz

Economics on the optimal port queuing pricing to bulk ships pp. 2817-2825

Chen-Hsiu Laih and Kuan-Yu Chen

The determinants of efficiency and productivity in European railways pp. 2827-2851

Antonio Couto and Daniel Graham

Preventing competition because of 'solidarity': rhetoric and reality of airport investments in Spain pp. 2853-2865

Germà Bel and Xavier Fageda

The market for used cars: new evidence of the lemons phenomenon pp. 2867-2885

Winand Emons and George Sheldon

Hedonic prices for cars: an application to the Spanish car market, 1981-2005 pp. 2887-2904

Anna Matas and Josep-Lluis Raymond

The impact of cell phones on motor vehicle fatalities pp. 2905-2914

Peter Loeb, William Clarke and Richard Anderson

Latent class model or mixed logit model? A comparison by transport mode choice data pp. 2915-2924

Junyi Shen

Volume 41, issue 21, 2009

Does asymmetric information matter in the early insurance market? Evidence from the auto insurance market pp. 2653-2666

Kuniyoshi Saito

On the nature of micro-entrepreneurship: evidence from Argentina pp. 2667-2680

Gabriel V. Montes Rojas and Lucas Siga

Testing the expectations hypothesis in the Brazilian term structure of interest rates: a cointegration analysis pp. 2681-2689

Benjamin Tabak

Do low corporate income tax rates attract FDI? - Evidence from Central- and East European countries pp. 2691-2703

Christian Bellak and Markus Leibrecht

The impact of Medicaid's preferred drug lists on physicians' prescribing behaviour pp. 2705-2725

Suchin Virabhak and Wook Sohn

The long-run uncovered interest rate parity in view of a trading strategy pp. 2727-2739

Chang-Chiang Chin and Huei-Mei Liang

Tourism, trade and growth: the case of Cyprus pp. 2741-2750

Salih Katircioglu

Multiple job holding in the United Kingdom: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey pp. 2751-2766

Zhongmin Wu, Mark Baimbridge and Yu Zhu

A general equilibrium analysis of production subsidy in a Harris-Todaro developing economy: an application to India pp. 2767-2777

Abdul Razack, Stephen Devadoss and David Holland

Home is where the hurt is: an econometric analysis of injuries caused by spousal assault pp. 2779-2787

Vani Borooah and John Mangan

Volume 41, issue 20, 2009

The J-curve in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe pp. 2523-2532

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Ali Kutan

Obesity and employment as predictors of diabetes in Mexican Americans: findings from a longitudinal study pp. 2533-2540

Elena Bastida and Gokce Soydemir

Trade barriers, multinational involvement and intra-industry trade: panel data evidence from India pp. 2541-2553

C Veeramani

Quality of service, efficiency and scale in network industries: an analysis of European electricity distribution pp. 2555-2570

Christian Growitsch, Tooraj Jamasb and Michael Pollitt

Exchange rate policy and trade balance: a cointegration analysis of the Argentine experience since 1962 pp. 2571-2582

David Matesanz and Guadalupe Fugarolas Álvarez-Ude

Traffic accidents, deaths and alcohol consumption pp. 2583-2595

Jose Arranz and Ana Gil

The stability of the Turkish Phillips curve and alternative regime shifting models pp. 2597-2604

A. Özlem Önder

Does debt market timing increase firm value? pp. 2605-2617

Kyojik Song

Drivers of expected returns in Istanbul stock exchange: Fama-French factors and coskewness pp. 2619-2633

E. Ulas Mısırlı and C. Emre Alper

Seasonal fluctuations and equilibrium models of exchange rate pp. 2635-2652

Juan Jimenez-Martin and Rafael Flores de Frutos

Volume 41, issue 19, 2009

The applied economics of employment: introduction and overview pp. 2385-2387

Mark Taylor

The effects of hiring and firing regulation on unemployment and employment: evidence based on survey data pp. 2389-2401

Horst Feldmann

Banking structure and employment growth pp. 2403-2417

Robert Collender and Sherrill Shaffer

Tax evasion and self-employment in a high-tax country: evidence from Sweden pp. 2419-2430

Per Engstrom and Bertil Holmlund

Market integration between developing countries and urban unemployment-the perspective of the real minimum wage pp. 2431-2447

Yao-Tung Chen

Self-employment duration in urban and rural locations pp. 2449-2461

Mika Haapanen and Hannu Tervo

Canadian lone mother employment rates, policy change and the US welfare reform literature pp. 2463-2481

Michael Shannon

The nature of occupational unemployment rates in the United States: hysteresis or structural? pp. 2483-2493

Bertrand Candelon, Arnaud Dupuy and Luis Gil-Alana

Gender difference in suicide, household production and unemployment pp. 2495-2504

Andy Chung

The effects of regional diversity on national unemployment through inter-regional migration: new evidence from Taiwan pp. 2505-2511

Shu-hen Chiang

The dynamics of job creation and destruction for university graduates: why a rising unemployment rate can be misleading pp. 2513-2521

Ana Rute Cardoso and Priscila Ferreira

Volume 41, issue 18, 2009

Demand for cigarettes in the United States: effects of prices in bordering states and contiguity with Mexico and Canada pp. 2255-2260

Richard Connelly, Rajeev Goel and Rati Ram

What money buys: clients of street sex workers in the US pp. 2261-2277

Marina Della Giusta, Maria Di Tommaso, Isilda Shima and Steinar Strøm

On the robustness of racial discrimination findings in mortgage lending studies pp. 2279-2297

Judith Clarke, Nilanjana Roy and Marsha Courchane

Service quality in Brazilian mobile telephony: an efficiency frontier analysis pp. 2299-2307

Marcelo Resende and Henrique Cesar Tupper

Economic activity and recession probabilities: information content and predictive power of the term spread in Italy pp. 2309-2322

Marianna Brunetti and Costanza Torricelli

The effects of decoupling on land allocation pp. 2323-2333

Teresa Serra, David Zilberman, Jose Gil and Allen Featherstone

Accounting for output fluctuations in manufacturing pp. 2335-2352

David Bivin and Brad Humphreys

The effects of ownership on bank efficiency in Latin America pp. 2353-2368

Catarina Figueira, Joseph Nellis and David Parker

Voting and turning out for monetary integration: the case of the French referendum on the Maastricht treaty pp. 2369-2384

Pierre-Guillaume Méon

Volume 41, issue 17, 2009

Effects of credit and debit cards on the currency demand pp. 2115-2123

Hakan Yilmazkuday and Ege Yazgan

Nonlinear target adjustment in corporate liquidity management: an endogenous thresholds approach pp. 2125-2131

Allard Bruinshoofd and Clemens Kool

Rent sharing before and after the wage bill pp. 2133-2151

Pedro Martins

Determinants of pension plan fees in Spain pp. 2153-2168

Carmen Marti, Juan Matallin and M Angeles Fernandez

Market dynamics and dichotomy: evidence from Taiwanese manufacturing pp. 2169-2179

Mita Bhattacharya and Jong-Rong Chen

A globally flexible, quadratic almost ideal demand system: an application to demand for meats and fish in Taiwan pp. 2181-2189

Kang Ernest Liu

Leading institutional contributors to the elite economic journals pp. 2191-2196

Jean Heck, Peter Zaleski and Scott Dressler

Taste or reputation: what drives market prices in the wine industry? Estimation of a hedonic model for Italian premium wines pp. 2197-2209

Luigi Benfratello, Massimiliano Piacenza and Stefano Sacchetto

The drinkers' bonus in the military: officers versus enlisted personnel pp. 2211-2220

Bethany Peters

Exchange rate pass-through in Turkish export and import prices pp. 2221-2228

R. Barıs Tekin and Ege Yazgan

Innovation and price: the case of digital cameras pp. 2229-2236

Daniel Fehder, Edward Nelling and Jeffrey Trester

Competing-destinations gravity model: an application to the geographic distribution of FDI pp. 2237-2253

Felipa De Mello-Sampayo

Volume 41, issue 16, 2009

The applied economics of monetary policy: introduction and overview pp. 1991-1993

Mark Taylor

Has ECB communication been helpful in predicting interest rate decisions? An evaluation of the early years of the Economic and Monetary Union pp. 1995-2003

David-Jan Jansen and Jakob de Haan

Interest rates and monetary policy pp. 2005-2012

S. Gazioglu and W. D. McCausland

Banks' regulatory buffers, liquidity networks and monetary policy transmission pp. 2013-2024

Christian Merkl and Stephanie Stolz

Long-run monetary neutrality pp. 2025-2036

H. Sonmez Atesoglu and Jamie Emerson

Monetary policy rules in theory and in practice: evidence from the UK and the US pp. 2037-2046

Juan Paez-Farrell

The role of monetary shocks and real shocks on the current account, the terms of trade and the real exchange rate dynamics: a SVAR analysis pp. 2047-2063

Yanchun Zhang

Quantitative goals for monetary policy: a quantile regression approach pp. 2065-2071

Aaron Jackson and William Miles

Excess liquidity and the foreign currency constraint: the case of monetary management in Guyana pp. 2073-2084

Tarron Khemraj

Exchange rate versus monetary aggregate targeting: the Turkish case pp. 2085-2092

Kerim Arin and Timur Gur

Measuring regional effects of monetary policy in Canada pp. 2093-2113

George Georgopoulos

Volume 41, issue 15, 2009

Canadian regional labour market evolutions: a long-run restrictions SVAR analysis pp. 1855-1871

Mark Partridge and Dan Rickman

The evolution of wage inequality in Italy pp. 1873-1892

Marco Lilla and Stefano Staffolani

Tests of the different variants of the monetary model in a developing economy: Malaysian experience in the pre- and post-crisis periods pp. 1893-1902

Chin Lee, M Azali and Abul Masih

European monetary union and the outsiders pp. 1903-1916

I. D. McAvinchey and W. D. McCausland

Incentives and service quality in the restaurant industry: the tipping-service puzzle pp. 1917-1927

Ofer Azar

The industrial relationships in time-varying beta coefficients between Korea and United States pp. 1929-1938

Kwang Woo Park and Myeong Hwan Kim

Assessing the mean reversion behaviour of fiscal policy: the perspective of Asian countries pp. 1939-1949

Evan Lau and Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah

Uniform testing and portfolio strategies for single and multifactor asset pricing models in the Pacific Basin markets pp. 1951-1963

An-Sing Chen and Shih-Chuan Fang

Empirical of the Taiwan stock index option price forecasting model - applied artificial neural network pp. 1965-1972

Chin-Tsai Lin and Hsin-Yi Yeh

Testing capital structure models on Philippine listed firms pp. 1973-1990

Darwin Yu and Rodolfo Aquino

Volume 41, issue 14, 2009

Driving fatalities after 9/11: a hidden cost of terrorism pp. 1717-1729

Garrick Blalock, Vrinda Kadiyali and Daniel Simon

A cost-benefit analysis of female primary education as a means of reducing HIV/AIDS in Tanzania pp. 1731-1743

Robert Brent

A concentration index for differentiated products: the case of religious competition pp. 1745-1759

Christopher Bailey and Jason Taylor

On the predictive power of monetary exchange rate model: the case of the Malaysian ringgit/US dollar rate pp. 1761-1770

Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Siti Hamizah Mohd and Sung Ahn

Tests of different monetary aggregates for the monetary models of the exchange rate in five ASEAN countries pp. 1771-1783

Chin Lee, Muzafar Shah Habibullah and M Azali

A study of optimal weights restriction in Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 1785-1790

Chun Liu

Assessing economic activities - an example from central business districts pp. 1791-1797

Shu-Chun Chang

Does the birth order affect the cognitive development of a child? pp. 1799-1818

Frank Heiland

Imports, exports and total factor productivity in Korea pp. 1819-1834

Sangho Kim, Hyunjoon Lim and Donghyun Park

Border effects in the enlarged EU area: evidence from imports to accession countries pp. 1835-1854

Miriam Manchin and Anna Pinna

Volume 41, issue 13, 2009

The applied economics of economic growth: introduction and overview pp. 1575-1577

Mark Taylor

Corruption, governance, investment and growth in emerging markets pp. 1579-1594

Stephen Everhart, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Robert McNab

Financial development and the FDI-growth nexus: the Malaysian experience pp. 1595-1601

James Ang

Trade, foreign direct investment and economic growth in Asian economies pp. 1603-1612

Xiaohui Liu, Chang Shu and Peter Sinclair

The immiserizing growth: an empirical evaluation pp. 1613-1620

Yasuyuki Sawada

An analysis of the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth pp. 1621-1641

Jonathan Batten and Xuan Vinh Vo

Stationary properties of the real interest rate and the per-capita consumption growth rate: empirical evidence for theoretical arguments pp. 1643-1651

Claude Lopez and Javier Reyes

Openness and growth in Fiji: some time series evidence pp. 1653-1662

B. Bhaskara Rao and Maheshwar Rao

Export-total factor productivity growth nexus in East Asian economies pp. 1663-1675

Hailin Liao and Xiaohui Liu

Growth effects of currency mismatches: evidence from emerging economies pp. 1677-1690

Tarkan Çavuşoğlu

Causality between financial development and economic growth: an application of vector error correction and variance decomposition methods to Saudi Arabia pp. 1691-1699

Abul Masih, Ali Al-Elg and Haider Madani

Does financial development affect growth? pp. 1701-1707

Karima Saci, Gianluigi Giorgioni and Ken Holden

Foreign direct investment, pollution and economic growth: evidence from Malaysia pp. 1709-1716

Chew Ging Lee

Volume 41, issue 12, 2009

Piece-wise or differentiable budget constraint? Estimating labour supply function for Finnish females pp. 1461-1472

Mika Kuismanen

Patents, technological inputs and spillovers among regions pp. 1473-1486

Mercedes Gumbau-Albert and Joaquin Maudos

A test of the market potential equation in Spain pp. 1487-1493

Elisenda Paluzie, Jordi Pons and Daniel Tirado-Fabregat

Revealed preferences for car tax cuts: an empirical study of perceived fiscal incidence pp. 1495-1500

David Feldman and Robert Archibald

The response of household incomes to stock price and GDP growth by income quantile pp. 1501-1512

Joachim Zietz and Xiaolin Zhao

Noncompensatory/nonlinear composite indicators for ranking countries: a defensible setting pp. 1513-1523

Giuseppe Munda and Michela Nardo

How trade and foreign investment affect the growth of a small but not so open economy: Australia? pp. 1525-1532

Kris Iyer, Alicia Rambaldi and Kam Ki Tang

Semiparametric quantile Engel curves and expenditure elasticities: a penalized quantile regression spline approach pp. 1533-1542

Timothy Beatty

Pricing to market of Italian exporting firms pp. 1543-1562

Roberto Basile, Sergio de Nardis and Alessandro Girardi

An analysis of count data models for the study of exclusivity in wine consumption pp. 1563-1574

V. J. Cano Fernandez, G. Guirao Perez, M. C. Rodriguez Donate and M. E. Romero Rodriguez

Volume 41, issue 11, 2009

An empirical refinement of the relationship between growth and volatility pp. 1331-1343

Jeffrey Edwards and Benhua Yang

The nature of the relationship between international tourism and international trade: the case of German imports of Spanish wine pp. 1345-1359

Christian Fischer and Luis Gil-Alana

The start of interest rate smoothing in the US: is it a monetary or fiscal story? pp. 1361-1365

Tony Caporale and Kyongwook Choi

'I've been to Bali too' (and I will be going back): are terrorist shocks to Bali's tourist arrivals permanent or transitory? pp. 1367-1378

Russell Smyth, Ingrid Nielsen and Vinod Mishra

Uncertainty, economic reforms and private investment in the Middle East and North Africa pp. 1379-1395

Ahmet Aysan, Gaobo Pang and Marie-Ange Véganzonès

Unit root testing against an ST-MTAR alternative: finite-sample properties and an application to the UK housing market pp. 1397-1404

Steven Cook and Dimitrios Vougas

A simple multivariate test for asymmetry pp. 1405-1416

Mårten Bjellerup and Thomas Holgersson

Assessing the value of museums with a combined discrete choice/count data model pp. 1417-1436

Jan Rouwendal and Jaap Boter

Inter-industry gender wage gaps by knowledge intensity: discrimination and technology in Korea pp. 1437-1452

Beyza Ural Marchand, William Horrace and Jin Hwa Jung

The evolution of the returns to education and wage differentials in Brazil: a quantile approach pp. 1453-1460

Patricia Castello Stefani and Ciro Biderman

Volume 41, issue 10, 2009

The applied economics of money and inflation: introduction and overview pp. 1199-1201

Mark Taylor

Modelling inflation in Georgia pp. 1203-1213

Wojciech Maliszewski

What drives inflation expectations in Brazil? An empirical analysis pp. 1215-1227

Martin Cerisola and R. Gaston Gelos

Modelling the duration of interest rate spells under inflation targeting in Canada pp. 1229-1239

R. Shih and D. E. Giles

On the behaviour of UK money, velocity, prices, and output in the gold standard period: 1871-1913 pp. 1241-1249

Hamid Baghestani and Tracy Mott

Structural changes and the US money demand function pp. 1251-1257

Kyongwook Choi and Chulho Jung

Money demand and disinflation in selected CEECs during the accession to the EU pp. 1259-1267

Jarko Fidrmuc

Demand for money in Thailand pp. 1269-1276

Michael Sumner

Cointegration, structural breaks and the demand for money in Bangladesh pp. 1277-1283

B. Rao and Saten Kumar

The effect of inflation and real wages on productivity: new evidence from a panel of G7 countries pp. 1285-1291

Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth

Inflation differentials in the Euro area: did the ECB care? pp. 1293-1302

R. Fendel and M. Frenkel

The time-series properties of Norwegian inflation and nominal interest rate pp. 1303-1309

Pär Österholm

Modelling the general public's inflation expectations using the Michigan survey data pp. 1311-1320

Arto Luoma and Jani Luoto

Inflation and money in Colombia: another P-Star model pp. 1321-1329

Andres Gonzalez, Luis Melo-Velandia and Carlos Posada

Volume 41, issue 9, 2009

Cigarette prices and illicit drug use: is there a connection? pp. 1071-1076

Rajeev Goel

Does atypical work help the jobless? Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS cohort analysis pp. 1077-1087

John Addison and Christopher Surfield

The sale of alcohol in Denmark - recent developments and dependencies on prices/taxes pp. 1089-1103

Lisbeth la Cour and A. Milhøj

Testing expected utility maximization under price and quantity risk with a heterogeneous panel pp. 1105-1119

Yucan Liu and C. Shumway

Can the LR test be helpful in choosing the optimal lag order in the VAR model when information criteria suggest different lag orders? pp. 1121-1125

Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and R Scott Hacker

Firm turnover, restructuring and labour productivity in transition: the case of Poland pp. 1127-1136

Barbara Roberts and Steve Thompson

Cash-flow news, market liquidity and liquidity risk pp. 1137-1156

Yi-Mien Lin, Yun-Sheng Hsu and Shieh-Liang Chen

Natural resource dependence: a macroeconometric model for the United Arab Emirates pp. 1157-1174

Ajit Karnik and Cedwyn Fernandes

Union wage, nonwage and political effects on protective service budgets pp. 1175-1182

Kevin O'Brien

Student participation in sporting activities pp. 1183-1190

Don Webber and Andrew Mearman

The effect of outward investment to China on domestic R&D: a two-hurdle model with endogenous ODI pp. 1191-1198

Hui-Lin Lin, Ryh-song Yeh and Ching-Fan Chung

Volume 41, issue 8, 2009

Productivity and territorial specialization pp. 941-945

Shu-Chun Chang

International R&D spillovers and economic performance of firms: an empirical study using random coefficient models pp. 947-976

Syoum Negassi

Knowledge of African countries: production and value of doctoral dissertations pp. 977-989

Voxi Heinrich Amavilah

Manufacturing FDI and economic growth: evidence from Asian economies pp. 991-1002

Miao Wang

Inflation regimes and the stability of the pass-through of wages to consumer prices in Canada pp. 1003-1017

Akhter Faroque and Ryan Minor

Regional differences in job satisfaction pp. 1019-1041

Richard Jones and Peter Sloane

International capital market imperfections: evidence from geographical features of international consumption risk sharing pp. 1043-1053

Yonghyup Oh

Downside risk measures and equity returns in the NYSE pp. 1055-1070

Dar-Hsin Chen, Chun-Da Chen and Jianguo Chen

Volume 41, issue 7, 2009

The applied economics of fiscal policy: introduction and overview pp. 811-813

Mark Taylor

Fiscal devolution and dependency pp. 815-828

James Foreman-Peck and Laurian Lungu

Fiscal rules, discretionary fiscal policy and macroeconomic stability: an empirical assessment for OECD countries pp. 829-847

Harald Badinger

Endogenous growth and European fiscal rules pp. 849-858

Oscar Afonso and Rui Alves

The sustainability of South African fiscal policy: an historical perspective pp. 859-868

Lusine Lusinyan and John Thornton

Estimation of a fiscal policy rule for EMU countries (1984-2005) pp. 869-884

Agustin Garcia, M. J. Arroyo, R. Minguez and J. Uxo

Fiscal effect from inflation targeting: the Brazilian experience pp. 885-897

Helder de Mendonça and Rubens Teixeira da Silva

Growth effects of fiscal policies: an application of robust modified M-estimator pp. 899-912

Carsten Colombier

Do public investment and FDI crowd in or crowd out private domestic investment in Malaysia? pp. 913-919

James Ang

Impacts of tourism and fiscal expenditure on remote islands in Japan: a panel data analysis pp. 921-928

Noriko Ishikawa and Mototsugu Fukushige

The immediate effect of monetary union on EU-15 sovereign debt yield spreads pp. 929-939

Marta Gómez-Puig

Volume 41, issue 6, 2009

Skewness as an explanation of gambling in cumulative prospect theory pp. 685-689

D. Law and David Peel

Twister! Employment responses to the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City tornado pp. 691-702

Bradley Ewing, Jamie Kruse and Mark Thompson

Toddler economicus: childhood habit cessation in a Beckerian Model of pacifier use pp. 703-713

Franklin Mixon, T. D. Pousson and T. G. Green

Time-varying risk premium: further evidence in agricultural futures markets pp. 715-725

Julieta Frank and Philip Garcia

Assessing the impact of skill shortages on the productivity performance of high-tech firms in Northern Ireland pp. 727-737

Jessica Bennett and Seamus McGuinness

An analysis of the interaction among savings, investments and growth in Turkey pp. 739-751

Nurhan Yenturk, Burc Ulengin and Ahmet Cimenoglu

The relevance of supply shocks for inflation: the spanish case pp. 753-764

M. Angeles Caraballo and Carlos Usabiaga

Hourly wages and working time in the Dutch market sector 1962-1995 pp. 765-778

Erik de Regt

Institutions, capital stock and wage setting in Spain pp. 779-789

Hector Sala

Does religion constrain the risky sex behaviour associated with HIV/AIDS? pp. 791-802

Maury Granger and Gregory Price

Environment and development: is there a Kuznets curve for CO2 emissions? pp. 803-810

Nektarios Aslanidis and Susana Iranzo

Volume 41, issue 5, 2009

What determines the survival of internet IPOs? pp. 547-561

Tjalling van der Goot, Noud Giersbergen and Michiel Botman

International economic activities and skilled labour demand: evidence from Brazil and China pp. 563-577

Pablo Fajnzylber and Ana Fernandes

Determinants of household supply of labour in food-for-work programme in Tigray, Ethiopia pp. 579-587

Fassil Fanta and Mukti Upadhyay

A blueprint for success in the US film industry pp. 589-606

Stephanie Brewer, Jason Kelley and James Jozefowicz

Evidence on economic growth and government size pp. 607-614

Atrayee Ghosh Roy

The role of environmental factors in water utilities' technical efficiency. Empirical evidence from Spanish companies pp. 615-628

Andres Picazo-Tadeo, Francisco Saez-Fernandez and Francisco González-Gómez

On the simultaneous elimination of export subsidies under oligopoly pp. 629-631

Yu-Ter Wang

An empirical study of age discrimination in Norway and Germany pp. 633-651

Victoria Busch, Svenn-Åge Dahl and Dennis Dittrich

Endogeneity, computers, language skills and wages among university graduates in Vietnam pp. 653-663

Christos Sakellariou

Firm export participation: entry, spillovers and tradability pp. 665-675

Martina Lawless

Current account composition and sustainability of external debt pp. 677-683

Gianpaolo Rossini and Paolo Zanghieri

Volume 41, issue 4, 2009

The applied economics of health: introduction and overview pp. 413-415

Mark Taylor

Cross-country comparisons of technical efficiency of health production: a demonstration of pitfalls pp. 417-427

Jean Spinks and Bruce Hollingsworth

The determinants of health expenditures: evidence from US state-level data pp. 429-435

Zijun Wang

Healthcare services accessibility of children in the USA pp. 437-450

Tetsuji Yamada, Chia-Ching Chen, Tadashi Yamada, I-Ming Chiu and John Smith

Intergenerational health mobility: an empirical approach based on the ECHP pp. 451-458

Marta Pascual and David Cantarero

Hospital performance in a noncompetitive environment pp. 459-468

Daniel Bilodeau, Pierre-Yves Cremieux and Pierre Ouellette

Demand for prenatal health care in South America pp. 469-479

R. Todd Jewell

Participation in marijuana, cocaine and heroin consumption in Australia: a multivariate probit approach pp. 481-496

Preety Ramful and Xueyan Zhao

A cost-benefit analysis of a condom social marketing programme in Tanzania pp. 497-509

Robert Brent

The Granger-causality between health care expenditure and output: a panel data approach pp. 511-518

Erkan Erdil and Ibrahim Yetkiner

Economic fluctuations and health outcome: a panel analysis of Asia-Pacific countries pp. 519-530

Shin-Jong Lin

Are health expenditures and GDP characterized by asymmetric behaviour? Evidence from 11 OECD countries pp. 531-536

Paresh Narayan

Do part-time/full-time compensation differentials for nurses vary between the private and public sector? pp. 537-546

Richard McGregory, M. Scott Niederjohn and James Peoples

Volume 41, issue 3, 2009

Structural change, specialization and regional labour market performance: evidence for the UK pp. 275-293

Martin Robson

A true test: do IMF programs hurt the poor? pp. 295-306

Zlata Hajro and Joseph Joyce

Who's number one? - ranking college football teams for the 2003 season pp. 307-310

Thomas Beard and Steven B Caudill

Markets segmented by regional-origin labelling with quality control pp. 311-321

Sven Anders, Stanley Thompson and Roland Herrmann

Macroeconomic uncertainty and banks' lending decisions: the case of Italy pp. 323-336

Mario Quagliariello

The impact of ownership on the cost of bus service provision: an example from Italy pp. 337-349

Elisabetta Ottoz, Graziella Fornengo and Marina Di Giacomo

Business expenditures on R&D and trade performances in Australia: is there a link? pp. 351-361

Ruhul Salim and Harry Bloch

Openness and access pp. 363-379

Jay Squalli and Kenneth Wilson

A tail index tour across foreign exchange rate regimes in Turkey pp. 381-397

Cem Payaslıoğlu

Markov-switching models, rational expectations and the term structure of interest rates pp. 399-412

Arielle Beyaert and Juan Jose Perez-Castejon

Volume 41, issue 2, 2009

Are devaluations contractionary in MENA countries? pp. 139-150

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Magda Kandil

Marital status in a developing economy: gender, ethnicity and family structure pp. 151-169

Reed Neil Olsen

On the contingent valuation of mortality risk reduction in developing countries pp. 171-181

Minhaj Mahmud

US and Canadian livestock prices: market integration and trade dependence pp. 183-193

Dragan Miljkovic

Characteristics of buyers and renters of cultural goods: the case of movies pp. 195-210

Alan Collins, Víctor Fernández-Blanco and Juan Prieto-Rodriguez

Tracking the stepwise effects of regulatory reforms over time: a 'back-door' approach pp. 211-218

Maria Manuela Gonzalez, Sergio Perelman and Lourdes Trujillo

New revelations about unemployment persistence in Spain: time-series and panel data approaches using regional data pp. 219-236

Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio and Luis Gil-Alana

The Feldstein - Hoiroka puzzle across countries pp. 237-247

Zeynel Ozdemir and Hasan Olgun

Best-practice benchmarking in UK higher education: new nonparametric approaches using financial ratios and profit efficiency methodologies pp. 249-267

J. Colin Glass, Gillian McCallion, Donal McKillop, Syamarlah Rasaratnam and Karl Stringer

A note on efficiency of Australian and New Zealand stock markets pp. 269-273

Mübariz Hasanov

Volume 41, issue 1, 2009

The applied economics of agriculture: introduction and overview pp. 1-3

Mark Taylor

Empirical dairy profits under fluctuating prices pp. 5-15

Masato Nakane and Loren Tauer

Farm productivity and efficiency in rural Bangladesh: the role of education revisited pp. 17-33

M Asadullah and Sanzidur Rahman

Economics of farmer early retirement policy pp. 35-43

J. Davis, P. Caskie and M. Wallace

Probability and timing of succession or closure in family firms: a switching regression analysis of farm households in Germany pp. 45-54

Thomas Glauben, Martin Petrick, Hendrik Tietje and Christoph Weiss

The distribution of dairy farm size in Poland: a markov approach based on information theory pp. 55-69

Axel Tonini and Roel Jongeneel

Are farmers' decisions to work off the farm related to their decisions to participate in the conservation reserve program? pp. 71-85

Hung-Hao Chang and Richard Boisvert

Endogenous structural breaks, public investment in agriculture and agricultural land productivity in Taiwan pp. 87-103

Chien-Chiang Lee and Yi-Chung Hsu

Macroeconomics and agriculture in Tunisia pp. 105-124

J. M. Gil, M. BenKaabia and Houssem Eddine Chebbi

On consumers' willingness to purchase nutritionally enhanced genetically modified food pp. 125-137

Maurizio Canavari and Rodolfo Nayga