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Volume 40, issue 24, 2008

Asymptotic bias reduction for a conditional marginal effects estimator in sample selection models pp. 3101-3110

Alpaslan Akay and Elias Tsakas

Differentials at firm level productive capacity realization in Bangladesh food manufacturing: an empirical analysis pp. 3111-3126

Ruhul Salim

Why do diplomas pay? An expanded Mincerian framework applied to Mexico pp. 3127-3144

Aashish Mehta and Hector Villarreal

Do transport costs have a differential effect on trade at the sectoral level? pp. 3145-3157

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Eva Maria Perez-Garcia and Celestino Suarez-Burguet

Spanish stock market sensitivity to real interest and inflation rates: an extension of the Stone two-factor model with factors of the Fama and French three-factor model pp. 3159-3171

Francisco Jareño

Conditional risk and return in Asian emerging markets: evidence from the banking sector pp. 3173-3183

Shu Ling Lin

Stability of money demand function revisited in China pp. 3185-3197

Chien-Chiang Lee and Mei-Se Chien

'Irrational exuberance' in the long-run UK stock market pp. 3199-3211

Soosung Hwang and Byung Khun Song

The frequency and magnitude of earnings management in China pp. 3213-3225

Yaping Wang, Shaw Chen, Bing-Xuan Lin and Liansheng Wu

An examination of the Fisher Hypothesis: the case of Turkey pp. 3227-3231

Ekrem Gul and Sezgin Acikalin

Evidence on the glass ceiling effect in France using matched worker-firm data pp. 3233-3250

Mohamed Jellal, Christophe Nordman and François-Charles Wolff

Volume 40, issue 23, 2008

Early claiming of social security benefits and labour supply behaviour of older Americans pp. 2969-2985

Hugo Benitez-Silva and Frank Heiland

The strategic nature of advertising in segmented markets pp. 2987-2994

Craig Depken and Arthur Snow

Striving to be green: the adoption of total quality environmental management pp. 2995-3007

Donna Ramirez Harrington, Madhu Khanna and George Deltas

R&D and manufacturing production specialization in developed economies pp. 3009-3027

Dirk Frantzen

Financial market and housing wealth effects on consumption: a permanent income approach pp. 3029-3038

Arnold Cheng and Michael Fung

Consumer attitudes toward low stake risk in food markets pp. 3039-3049

Frode Alfnes, Kyrre Rickertsen and Øydis Ueland

Rolling-sampled parameters of ARCH and Levy-stable models pp. 3051-3067

Stavros Degiannakis, Alexandra Livada and Epaminondas Panas

Brain drain from Turkey: an investigation of students' return intentions pp. 3069-3087

Nil Demet Güngör and Aysıt Tansel

The strategic alliance of the biotechnology firm pp. 3089-3100

Koyin Chang

Volume 40, issue 22, 2008

Faster, smaller, cheaper: an hedonic price analysis of PDAs pp. 2839-2856

P. D. Chwelos, E. R. Berndt and Iain Cockburn

The family gap and family friendly policies: the case of Norway pp. 2857-2871

Inés Hardoy and Pål Schøne

Determinants of healthcare spending: a state level analysis pp. 2873-2889

James Thornton and Jennifer Rice

Purchasing power parity across Mexican cities: a panel data analysis pp. 2891-2899

C. O. Vargas-Tellez

Economic growth in a world of ideas: the US and the leading European countries pp. 2901-2909

Rafael Myro, Patricio Perez and Alberto Colino

A cost function analysis of import demand for Nigeria pp. 2911-2920

Anthony Akinlo

Simultaneous estimation of income and price elasticities of export demand, scale economies and total factor productivity growth for Brazil pp. 2921-2937

Christine Mutz and Thomas Ziesemer

The market power of OPEC 1973-2001 pp. 2939-2959

Petter Hansen and Lars Lindholt

Measuring consumption efficiency with utility theory and stochastic frontier analysis pp. 2961-2968

Jeong-Dong Lee, Chansoo Park, Dong-hyun Oh and Tai-Yoo Kim

Volume 40, issue 21, 2008

Banking efficiency and competition in low income countries: the case of Uganda pp. 2703-2720

David Hauner and Shanaka Peiris

Benefits of control, capital structure and company growth pp. 2721-2734

Elisabeth Mueller

The J-curve: evidence from commodity trade between US and China pp. 2735-2747

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Yongqing Wang

Trade efficiency and economic development: evidence from a cross country comparison pp. 2749-2764

George Halkos and Nickolaos Tzeremes

Segregating genetically modified and nongenetically modified corn in a marketing channel pp. 2765-2774

Charles Moss, Troy Schmitz and A. Schmitz

The payoff and implied pricing kernel in REITs pp. 2775-2783

Hsiao-Tang Hsu

Model-selection-based unit-root detection in unemployment rates: international evidence pp. 2785-2791

Kosei Fukuda

A test of the Wagner's hypothesis for the Fiji islands pp. 2793-2801

Paresh Narayan, Arti Prasad and Baljeet Singh

Monetary policy effects: new evidence from the Italian flow-of-funds pp. 2803-2818

Riccardo Bonci and Francesco Columba

The pattern of international patenting and technology diffusion pp. 2819-2837

Kurt Hafner

Volume 40, issue 20, 2008

Gender and household education expenditure in Pakistan pp. 2573-2591

Monazza Aslam and Geeta Kingdon

Unemployment, insurance and smoking pp. 2593-2599

Rajeev Goel

Implicit trade Costs and European single market enlargement pp. 2601-2613

Terence Edwards

Disability in Italian households: income, poverty and labour market participation pp. 2615-2630

Giuliana Parodi and Dario Sciulli

Does the weekday effect of the yen/dollar spot rates exist in Tokyo, London, and New York? An analysis of panel probability distribution pp. 2631-2643

Hai-Chin Yu, Ingyu Chiou and James Jordan-Wagner

Nonlinearities in emerging stock markets: evidence from Europe's two largest emerging markets pp. 2645-2658

Mübariz Hasanov and Tolga Omay

Quick-service expenditure in Ireland: parametric vs. semiparametric analysis pp. 2659-2669

Conor Keelan, Carol Newman and Maeve Henchion

The inflation-hedging properties of Turkish REITs pp. 2671-2696

Isil Erol and Dogan Tirtiroglu

Nonlinear behaviour of emerging market bonds spreads: the Latin American case pp. 2697-2702

Claudio Bonilla, Carlos Maquieira and Rafael Romero-Meza

Volume 40, issue 19, 2008

Determinants of foreign direct investment in Spain pp. 2443-2450

Xosé Rodríguez and Julio Pallas

Understanding preference for egalitarian policies in health: are age and sex determinants? pp. 2451-2461

Ignacio Abasolo and Aki Tsuchiya

A double-hurdle approach to modelling tobacco consumption in Italy pp. 2463-2476

David Aristei and Luca Pieroni

Competition between Brazil and other exporting countries in the US import market: a new extension of constant-market-shares analysis pp. 2477-2487

Jorge Chami Batista

Production risk, pesticide use and GM crop technology in South Africa pp. 2489-2500

Bhavani Shankar, Richard Bennett and Stephen Morse

Time-varying inter-market linkage of international stock markets pp. 2501-2507

Y. -P. Hu, Lin Lin and J. -W. Kao

What factors determine the outsourcing intensity? A dynamic panel data approach for manufacturing industries pp. 2509-2521

Carmen Diaz-Mora

Trend stationary of inflation rates: evidence from LM unit root testing with a long span of historical data pp. 2523-2536

Chien-Chiang Lee and Chun-Ping Chang

Shadow economy and unemployment rate in USA: is there a structural relationship? An empirical analysis pp. 2537-2555

Roberto Dell'Anno and Offiong Helen Solomon

Demand elasticities for food products in Brazil: a two-stage budgeting system pp. 2557-2572

Tatiane Menezes, Carlos Azzoni and Fernando Gaiger Silveira

Volume 40, issue 18, 2008

Bias and precision in the DEA two-stage method pp. 2305-2311

Darold Barnum and John Gleason

Empirical relevance of the Hillman condition for revealed comparative advantage: 10 stylized facts pp. 2313-2328

Jeroen Hinloopen and Charles Marrewijk

Price elasticities and tax reform in Mexico pp. 2329-2335

Alessandro Nicita

Firms' investment decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty pp. 2337-2351

Catherine Fuss and Philip Vermeulen

Changing effects of monetary policy in the US-evidence from a time-varying coefficient VAR pp. 2353-2360

Florian Hoppner, Christian Melzer and Thorsten Neumann

Some aspects on regional integration, comparative advantage and consumer's diversity pp. 2361-2368

Takaaki Aoki

Budgetary constraints and programmatic choices by Flemish subsidized theatres pp. 2369-2379

Kristien Werck, Mona Grinwis Plaat Stultjes and Bruno Heyndels

Interest rate volatility and home mortgage loans pp. 2381-2385

Eric Hillebrand and Faik Koray

A simple inflation indicator for the euro zone pp. 2387-2394

María Arrazola and Jose de Hevia

Table games, slot machines and casino revenue pp. 2395-2404

Richard Thalheimer and Mukhtar Ali

Tournament incentives and match outcomes in women's professional tennis pp. 2405-2412

Keith F. Gilsdorf and Vasant Sukhatme

Merger and optimal number of firms: an integrated simulation approach pp. 2413-2421

Lin Lin, Hsien-Chang Kuo and I-Liang Lin

The J-curve dynamics of Turkey: an application of ARDL model pp. 2423-2429

Ferda Halicioglu

Does tourism influence economic growth? A dynamic panel data approach pp. 2431-2441

Tiago Sequeira and Paulo Nunes

Volume 40, issue 17, 2008

Dual representation and its online scheduling method for event-varying DESs with capacity constraints pp. 2175-2190

Hakan Tasci

Consumption and income smoothing pp. 2191-2207

Francesco Busato, Bruno Chiarini and Elisabetta Marzano

Impact of trade area environment on bank's comparative advantages pp. 2209-2219

Aude Deville and Hervé Leleu

Domestic versus cross-border acquisitions: which impact on the target firms' performance? pp. 2221-2238

Olivier Bertrand and Habib Zitouna

Do birth order and family size matter for intergenerational income mobility? Evidence from Sweden pp. 2239-2257

Lena Lindahl

Comparing alternative Phillips curve specifications: European results with survey-based expectations pp. 2259-2270

Maritta Paloviita

A confirmatory analysis of the unit root hypothesis for OECD consumption-income ratios pp. 2271-2278

Diego Romero-Ávila

Sources of employment fluctuations in Taiwan's industries and regions pp. 2279-2293

Pi-Fem Hsu

Environmental impact of customs union agreement with EU on Turkey's trade in manufacturing industry pp. 2295-2304

Elif Akbostancı, G. Ipek Tunc and Serap Turut-Asık

Volume 40, issue 16, 2008

An investigation into the demand for alcoholic beverages in Canada: a choice between the almost ideal and the Rotterdam models pp. 2045-2054

Akhter Faroque

The use of bootstrapped Malmquist indices to reassess productivity change findings: an application to a sample of Polish farms pp. 2055-2061

Kelvin Balcombe, Sophia Davidova and Laure Latruffe

Competition and efficiency in the Dutch life insurance industry pp. 2063-2084

Jacob Bikker and Michiel Van Leuvensteijn

Total factor productivity: an unobserved components approach pp. 2085-2097

Raul Crespo

Evidence on the dynamics of unemployment by gender pp. 2099-2108

Herve Queneau and Amit Sen

Removal of farm subsidies in a regional economy: a computable general equilibrium analysis pp. 2109-2120

Francisco Javier de Miguel and Antonio Manresa

Sea turtle interactions with Hawaii's longline fishery: an extended multi-objective programming model incorporating spatial and seasonal dimensions pp. 2121-2134

Naresh Pradhan and PingSun Leung

A new choice of dynamic asset management: the variable proportion portfolio insurance pp. 2135-2146

Huai-I. Lee, Min-Hsien Chiang and Hsinan Hsu

Deposit insurance and moral hazard problem: the case of Turkish banking system pp. 2147-2163

Ensar Yilmaz and Alovsat Muslumov

Effects of USD-Euro parity on a small open economy: evidence from Turkey pp. 2165-2174

Hakan Berument and Mustafa Yücel

Volume 40, issue 15, 2008

Price flexibility in developing countries: evidence and implications pp. 1905-1918

Magda Kandil

An application of the DEA double bootstrap to examine sources of efficiency in Bangladesh rice farming pp. 1919-1925

Kelvin Balcombe, Iain Fraser, Laure Latruffe, Mizanur Rahman and Laurence Smith

Foreign direct investment and economic growth in less developed countries: an empirical study of causality and mechanisms pp. 1927-1939

Mousumi Duttaray, Amitava Dutt and Kajal Mukhopadhyay

Studying household purchasing and nonpurchasing behaviour for a frequently consumed commodity: two models pp. 1941-1951

Diansheng Dong and Harry Kaiser

Privatization and economic growth in Australia: the shorthand of a long process pp. 1953-1967

Margaret McKenzie

Exchange rates forecasting: local or global methods? pp. 1969-1984

Marcos Alvarez-Diaz

The role of user fees in the cost-benefit analysis of privatization with an application to inpatient psychiatric services in the US pp. 1985-1993

Robert Brent

Opening the Pandora's box? Trade openness and informal sector growth pp. 1995-2007

Amit Ghosh and Saumik Paul

Rear-view-mirror driving in defined contribution systems: the strange formula of the Chilean pension funds pp. 2009-2019

Jose Olivares

Monetary policy and country risk pp. 2021-2028

Vladimir Teles and Joaquim Andrade

An econometric analysis of urban households' animal products consumption in Turkey pp. 2029-2036

Goksel Armagan and Cuma Akbay

Productivity and efficiency change and shareholder value: evidence from the Spanish banking sector pp. 2037-2044

Isidoro Guzman and Carmelo Reverte

Volume 40, issue 14, 2008

No smoking at the slot machines: the effect of a smoke-free law on Delaware gaming revenues pp. 1769-1774

Michael Pakko

Forecasting international bandwidth capacity using linear and ANN methods pp. 1775-1787

Gary Madden and Joachim Tan

The death effect in art prices: evidence from Denmark pp. 1789-1793

David Maddison and Anders Jul Pedersen

Measuring the substitution bias in Japan: the demand system approach and a superlative index pp. 1795-1806

Takashi Unayama

Aggregate consumption function and public social security: the first time-series study for a developing country, Turkey pp. 1807-1826

Yigit Aydede

Productivity and R&D: an econometric evidence from Spanish firm-level data pp. 1827-1837

Jorge Mate-Garcia and Jose Rodriguez-Fernandez

The welfare costs of corruption pp. 1839-1849

Heinz Welsch

Capital structure and institutional setting: a decompositional and international analysis pp. 1851-1864

Félix López-Iturriaga and Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sanz

Endogenous mergers and cost heterogeneity pp. 1865-1871

Laurent Granier

Productivity effects of environmental performance: evidence from TFP analysis on marketing cooperatives pp. 1873-1888

Emilio Galdeano-Gomez

The price of free advice pp. 1889-1903

Machiel van Dijk, Michiel Bijlsma and Marc Pomp

Volume 40, issue 13, 2008

News and volatility of food prices pp. 1629-1635

Yuqing Zheng, Henry Kinnucan and Henry Thompson

The behaviour of the US consumer price index 1913-2003: a study of seasonality in the monthly US CPI pp. 1637-1650

Shaikh Hamid and Tej Dhakar

Testing for asymmetries in the preferences of the euro-area monetary policymaker pp. 1651-1667

Alvaro Aguiar and Manuel Martins

Spatial disparities in the European agriculture: a regional analysis pp. 1669-1684

Roberto Ezcurra, Belen Iraizoz, Pedro Pascual Arzoz and Manuel Rapun

Student-t distribution based VAR-MGARCH: an application of the DCC model on international portfolio risk management pp. 1685-1697

Yuan-Hung Hsu Ku

On the proper modelling of multioutput port cargo handling costs pp. 1699-1705

Sergio Jara-Diaz, Beatriz Tovar and Lourdes Trujillo

Time-series model forecasts and structural breaks: evidence from Spanish pre-EMU interest rates pp. 1707-1721

Jose Luis Fernandez-Serrano and M. Dolores Robles-Fernandez

Sharing health risk and income risk within households: evidence from Japanese data pp. 1723-1735

Atsushi Yoshida and Young-Sook Kim

Evaluating the operational efficiency of major ports in the Asia-Pacific region using data envelopment analysis pp. 1737-1743

Chun Liu

International fish trade and exchange rates: an application to the trade with salmon and fishmeal pp. 1745-1755

Sigbjorn Tveteras and Frank Asche

The effects of price and smoking risk information on the demand for tobacco in Taiwan: an empirical study pp. 1757-1767

Jie-Min Lee and Sheng-Hong Chen

Volume 40, issue 12, 2008

Business-cycle synchronization in the EMU pp. 1491-1501

Davide Furceri and Georgios Karras

Consequences of local variations in social care on the performance of the acute health care sector pp. 1503-1518

Jose Luis Fernandez and J. Forder

Awarding monopoly franchises repeatedly: are second-best block-rate tariffs attainable without regulation? pp. 1519-1528

Jörg Borrmann

Testing the liquidity effect with equilibrium interest rate pp. 1529-1535

Liu Zhentao

A decomposition of the predictive content of the term structure for output growth in Canada pp. 1537-1545

Ronald Lange

Exchange rate volatility and export growth in Nigeria pp. 1547-1556

Olugbenga Onafowora and Oluwole Owoye

A structural Bayesian VAR for model-based fan charts pp. 1557-1569

Pär Österholm

Detection of switching cointegration rank allowing for switching lag structure: an application to money-demand function pp. 1571-1582

Kosei Fukuda

Bootstrapping statistical inferences of decomposition methods for gender earnings differentials pp. 1583-1593

Yue Ma and Ying Chu Ng

Firm size distributions in an industry with constrained resources pp. 1595-1607

Anthony Lawrance and Robert Marks

US deficit sustainability revisited: a multiple structural change approach pp. 1609-1613

Oscar Bajo-Rubio, Carmen Diaz-Roldan and Vicente Esteve

Financial development and economic growth nexus: a time-series evidence from India pp. 1615-1627

Tarlok Singh

Volume 40, issue 11, 2008

Interest rate pass through and asymmetric adjustment: evidence from the federal funds rate operating target period pp. 1355-1362

James Payne and George Waters

Stock market returns in an emerging financial market: Turkish case study pp. 1363-1372

Saziye Gazioglu

Health-adjusted life expectancy of the British population pp. 1373-1386

W. Groot and H. M. van den Brink

Assessing sticky price models using the Burns and Mitchell approach pp. 1387-1397

Juan Paez-Farrell

The effect of environmental regulation on the locational choice of Japanese foreign direct investment pp. 1399-1409

Colin Kirkpatrick and Kenichi Shimamoto

Style of practice and assortative mating: a recursive probit analysis of Caesarean section scheduling in Italy pp. 1411-1423

Daniele Fabbri and Chiara Monfardini

Financial constraints and investment decisions: evidence from a highly unstable emerging economy pp. 1425-1434

Aquiles Elie Guimaraes Kalatzis, Carlos Azzoni and Jorge Alberto Achcar

Temporary contracts and young women in Spain pp. 1435-1442

M. Angeles Diaz and Rosario Sánchez Pérez

Applying the copula approach to sample selection modelling pp. 1443-1455

Margarita Genius and Elisabetta Strazzera

Profitability, concentration, imports and exports: the case of Taiwan's midstream petrochemical industries pp. 1457-1473

Kuo-Liang Wang and Shu-Ching Wang

Modelling profit series: nonstationarity and long memory pp. 1475-1482

Adelina Gschwandtner and Michael Hauser

Mergers in the GB electricity market: effects on retail charges pp. 1483-1490

Evens Salies

Volume 40, issue 10, 2008

The excess demand for subsidized child care in Germany pp. 1217-1228

Katharina Wrohlich

Is individual environmental consciousness one of the determinants in transport mode choice? pp. 1229-1239

Junyi Shen, Yusuke Sakata and Yoshizo Hashimoto

Measurement of inequality by components of farm household consumption expenditures pp. 1241-1252

Ashok Mishra and Charles Moss

Capital as a factor of production in OECD agriculture: measurement and data pp. 1253-1277

V. Eldon Ball, W. A. Lindamood, Richard Nehring and Carlos San Juan Mesonada

Conjoint analysis of demand for IP telephony: the case of Japan pp. 1279-1287

Takanori Ida, Shin Kinoshita and Masayuki Sato

Interactive vs. non-interactive knowledge production by faculty members pp. 1289-1297

Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro, Juana Aznar-Marqez and Juan Blanco

Productivity convergence in the European regions, 1980-2003: a sectoral and spatial approach pp. 1299-1313

Jose Villaverde and Adolfo Maza

E-Baying for blood?: noncompetitive flexible pricing in entertainment ticketing-some demand side evidence pp. 1315-1322

Samuel Cameron

Measuring efficiency in education: an analysis of different approaches for incorporating non-discretionary inputs pp. 1323-1339

Jose Manuel Cordero-Ferrera, Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro and Javier Salinas-Jimenez

Dynamic strategies for fixed-income investment pp. 1341-1354

James Kung

Volume 40, issue 9, 2008

The effects of MFA quota elimination on Indian fibre markets pp. 1083-1099

Jagadanand Chaudhary, Samarendu Mohanty, Sukant Misra and Suwen Pan

Identifying effect heterogeneity to improve the efficiency of job creation schemes in Germany pp. 1101-1122

Marco Caliendo, Reinhard Hujer and Stephan Thomsen

I'm too clever for this job: a bivariate probit analysis on overeducation and job satisfaction in Australia pp. 1123-1138

Christopher Fleming and Parvinder Kler

Probability predictions of rising real GDP growth and inflation: the usefulness of monetary indicators pp. 1139-1149

Donald Schunk

Parametric and nonparametric statistical modelling of crop yield: implications for pricing crop insurance contracts pp. 1151-1164

Vitor Ozaki, Barry Goodwin and Ricardo Shirota

Foreign direct investment and endogenous growth in Vietnam pp. 1165-1173

Tam Bang Vu

Extremal analysis of currency crises in Taiwan pp. 1175-1186

Tai-kuang Ho

Economic determinants of comovement across international stock markets: the example of Taiwan and its key trading partners pp. 1187-1205

Cho-Min Lin and Wan-Hsiu Cheng

Further investigation of the uncertain trend in US GDP pp. 1207-1216

Luiz Lima and Jaime de Jesus Filho

Volume 40, issue 8, 2008

The labour market impact of body weight in China: a semiparametric analysis pp. 949-968

Satoru Shimokawa

Explicit and implicit targets in open economies pp. 969-980

Silvia Sgherri

Bank information monopoly and trade credit: do only banks have information about small businesses? pp. 981-996

Daisuke Tsuruta

Human capital in Spain: an estimate of educational attainment pp. 1005-1013

Javier Alonso and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Efficiency and formation of expectations: evidence from the European investment survey pp. 1015-1022

Konstantinos Drakos

Returns to education: the Greek experience, 1988-1999 pp. 1023-1030

Kyprianos Prodromidis and Prodromos Prodromidis

Economic geography in the presence of preferential trade agreements: an empirical analysis of OECD data pp. 1031-1041

Jung Hur, Donghyun Park and Joseph Alba

The effects of monetary policy: a DSGE model analysis of Taiwan pp. 1043-1051

En-Ai Liao and Chia-Hung Teng

Are shocks to real effective exchange rates permanent or transitory? Evidence from Pacific Island countries pp. 1053-1060

Paresh Narayan and Biman Chand Prasad

Internal R&D effort, external imported technology and economic value added: empirical study of Taiwan's electronic industry pp. 1073-1082

Chun-Yao Tseng

Volume 40, issue 7, 2008

International regulations and environmental performance pp. 807-822

Barış Yörük and Osman Zaim

Turkish budget deficit sustainability and the revenue-expenditure nexus pp. 823-830

James Payne, Hassan Mohammadi and Murat Cak

Determinants of state tobacco-control expenditures pp. 831-839

Michael Marlow

An assessment of four popular auction mechanisms in the siting of NIMBY facilities: some experimental evidence pp. 841-852

Euston Quah and Jongsay Yong

An economics journals' ranking that takes into account the number of pages and co-authors pp. 853-861

Pedro Vieira

Public health insurance expansions and labour supply of married women: the state children's health insurance programme pp. 863-874

Ho Jin Lee and Akinori Tomohara

Differentiating between business cycles and growth cycles: evidence from 15 developed countries pp. 875-883

Kosei Fukuda

Different ways of looking at old issues: a time-series approach to inequality and growth pp. 885-895

Niko Gobbin and Glenn Rayp

Revisiting the US money demand function: an application of the Lagrange multiplier structural break unit root test and the bounds test for a long-run relationship pp. 897-904

Paresh Narayan

What makes devout Christians happier? Evidence from Taiwan pp. 905-919

Hung-Lin Tao

Exchange rate volatility and exports: a firm-level analysis pp. 921-929

Mehmet Nihat Solakoglu, Ebru Guven Solakoglu and Tunc Demirağ

Further evidence of excess sensitivity of consumption? Nonseparability among goods and heterogeneity across households pp. 931-948

Jaoaqin Alegre and Llorenc Pou

Volume 40, issue 6, 2008

Determinants of the demand for US exports and imports of tourism pp. 667-672

Michael Vogt

On generic vs. brand promotion of farm products in foreign markets pp. 673-684

Henry Kinnucan and Øystein Myrland

The links between openness and productivity in Mediterranean countries pp. 685-697

Laurence Cecchini and Charles Lai-Tong

Are hospitals seasonally inefficient? Evidence from Washington State pp. 699-723

Dan Friesner, Robert Roseman and Matthew McPherson

A more powerful modification of Johansen's cointegration tests pp. 725-729

Stephen Leybourne, Tae-Hwan Kim and Paul Newbold

The money demand function in a small, open and quasi-monetary economy: the Gambia pp. 731-734

Masoud Moghaddam and Momodou Bah

A discrete time single-server queue with balking: economic applications pp. 735-748

Macarena Lozano and Pilar Moreno

Interdependence of the banking sector and the real sector: evidence from OECD countries pp. 749-764

Ilkay Sendeniz-Yüncü, Levent Akdeniz and Kursat Aydoğan

The effect of railroads and price responsiveness on acreage decisions in the post-Bellum period pp. 765-771

Ebru Guven Solakoglu

Government restrictions and the demand for casino and parimutuel wagering pp. 773-791

Richard Thalheimer

Consistency in performance rankings: the Peru water sector pp. 793-805

Sanford Berg and Chen Lin

Volume 40, issue 5, 2008

The impact of newspapers on consumer confidence: does spin bias exist? pp. 531-539

Karel Jan Alsem, Steven Brakman, Lex Hoogduin and Gerard Kuper

Corporate social responsibility and corporate performance: evidence from a panel of US listed companies pp. 541-567

Leonardo Becchetti, Stefania Di Giacomo and Damiano Pinnacchio

Self-assessed health, reference levels and mortality pp. 569-582

Hendrik Jurges

Market dynamism and international trade: a case study of Mediterranean agricultural products, 1850-1935 pp. 583-595

Vicente Pinilla and María-Isabel Ayuda

Multidimensional housing deprivation indices with application to Spain pp. 597-611

Carolina Navarro and Luis Ayala

Productivity and farm profit - a microeconomic analysis of the cereal sector in England and Wales pp. 613-624

David Hadley and Xavier Irz

Cross-country analysis of movie piracy pp. 625-632

W. Walls

Efficient market hypothesis: evidence from a small open-economy pp. 633-641

Zeynel Ozdemir

Growth, convergence and EU membership pp. 643-656

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Doris Ritzberger-Grunwald and Maria Silgoner

Measuring country event risk compensation on BRICs international portfolio management pp. 657-665

Shu-Hsien Chen, Ming-Shu Hua and Richard Stuetz

Volume 40, issue 4, 2008

International interdependence of an emerging market: the case of Iran pp. 395-412

Elyas Elyasiani and Wanli Zhao

Parent-child bargaining, parental transfers, and the post-secondary education decision pp. 413-436

Charlene Kalenkoski

Consumer knowledge, food label use and grain consumption in the US pp. 437-448

Biing-Hwan Lin and Steven Yen

Choice of a regular physician and health care utilization: principal-agent issues for American veterans pp. 449-463

Yujing Shen

Machinery & equipment investment and growth: evidence from the Canadian manufacturing sector pp. 465-478

Tahir Abdi

The term structure of interest rates in the 12 newest EU countries pp. 479-490

Minoas Koukouritakis and Leo Michelis

Regime-switching analysis for the impacts of exchange rate volatility on corporate values: a Taiwanese case pp. 491-504

Chien-Chung Nieh, Jeng-Bau Lin and Yu-Shan Wang

Explaining noncompliance in the Norwegian coastal cod fishery: an application of the multinomial logit pp. 505-513

Carsten Jensen and Bernt Aarset

A common currency area for ASEAN? issues and feasibility pp. 515-529

Obiyathulla Bacha

Volume 40, issue 3, 2008

Do dollar forecasters believe too much in PPP? pp. 261-270

Lukas Menkhoff, Rafael Rebitzky and Michael Schroder

Estimating a fiscal reaction function: the case of debt sustainability in Brazil pp. 271-284

Luiz de Mello

Regime switching cointegration tests for the Asian stock index futures: evidence for MSCI Taiwan, Nikkei 225, Hong Kong Hang-Seng, and SGX Straits Times indices pp. 285-293

Min-Hsien Chiang and Jo-Yu Wang

Assessing the impacts of stochastic trend in crop acreage supply response model pp. 295-302

Murali Adhikari, Krishna Paudel, Jack Houston and James Bukenya

Competition and investment in telecommunications pp. 303-313

Inung Jung, Philip Gayle and Dale Lehman

The story of the moment: risk averse cypriot farmers respond to drought management pp. 315-326

Ben Groom, Phoebe Koundouri, Celine Nauges and Alban Thomas

Optimal local taxation and French municipal tax distortions pp. 327-332

Marie-Estelle Binet

Economic hysteresis in hog production pp. 333-340

Jan Hinrichs, Oliver Musshoff and Martin Odening

Exchange rates, inflation and growth in small, open economies: a difference-in-differences approach pp. 341-348

William Miles

Bridging the gap between the measurement of poverty and of deprivation pp. 349-356

Vani Borooah

The effects of the BSE outbreak on the security values of US agribusiness and food processing firms pp. 357-372

Hyun Jin and Jang-Chul Kim

Real exchange rate overvaluation and currency crisis: evidence from Thailand pp. 373-382

Juthathip Jongwanich

Estimating the staged effects of regional economic integration on trade volumes pp. 383-393

I-Hui Cheng and Y. -Y. Tsai

Volume 40, issue 2, 2007

A Cointegrating approach to budget deficits and long-term interest rates pp. 127-133

Bob Barnes

Flexible trend-cycle decomposition of nonstationary multivariate time series pp. 135-147

Kosei Fukuda

Is the gender wage gap declining in the Netherlands? pp. 149-160

Peter Van der Meer

Trade openness and economic growth: is growth export-led or import-led? pp. 161-173

Titus Awokuse

The long and short of money: short-run dynamics within a structural model pp. 175-192

Martin Schmidt

Does one size fit all? A Taylor-rule based analysis of monetary policy for current and future EMU members pp. 193-199

C. Moons and Andre Van Poeck

The hurdle models choice between truncated normal and lognormal pp. 201-207

Ai-Chi Hsu and Shu-Chin Liu

Economics on the optimal n-step toll scheme for a queuing port pp. 209-228

Chen-Hsiu Laih and Kuan-Yu Chen

Technology strategy for enhancing the public-to-private technology transfer: evidence from the duration of patent pp. 229-240

Yoon-Jun Lee and Jeong-Dong Lee

Price convergence in the European car market pp. 241-250

Salvador Gil-Pareja and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Financial intermediary's choice of borrowing pp. 251-260

HuiChen Chiang

Volume 40, issue 1, 2008

Introduction: economics of betting markets pp. 1-3

David Peel

Bounded cumulative prospect theory: some implications for gambling outcomes pp. 5-15

Michael Cain, David Law and David Peel

The Markowitz model of utility supplemented with a small degree of probability distortion as an explanation of outcomes of Allais experiments over large and small payoffs and gambling on unlikely outcomes pp. 17-26

David Peel, Jie Zhang and D. Law

Why people choose negative expected return assets - an empirical examination of a utility theoretic explanation pp. 27-34

N. Bhattacharya and Thomas Garrett

The relative regressivity of seven lottery games pp. 35-39

Kathryn Combs, Jaebeom Kim and John Spry

Risk attitudes in large stake gambles: evidence from a game show pp. 41-52

Cary Deck, Jungmin Lee and Javier Reyes

Measuring displacement effects across gaming products: a study of Australian gambling markets pp. 53-62

Lisa Farrell and David Forrest

The economics of casino taxation pp. 63-73

Hasret Benar and Glenn Jenkins

Do horses like vodka and sponging? - On market manipulation and the favourite-longshot bias pp. 75-87

Stefan Winter and Martin Kukuk

The efficiency of exotic wagers in racetrack betting pp. 89-97

Marshall Gramm, C. Nicholas McKinney and Douglas Owens

Predicting bookmaker odds and efficiency for UK football pp. 99-109

I. Graham and H. Stott

Nonlinear modelling of European football scores using support vector machines pp. 111-118

Nikolaos Vlastakis, George Dotsis and Raphael Markellos

Sentiment in the betting market on Spanish football pp. 119-126

David Forrest and Robert Simmons