Applied Economics

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Volume 38, issue 21, 2006

If not computers then what? Returns to computer use in the UK revisited pp. 2461-2467

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani and Alan Marin

Assessing the employment effects of vocational training using a one-factor model pp. 2469-2486

Thomas Andrén and Daniela Andrén

Monetary policy in a heterogeneous monetary union: the Australian experience pp. 2487-2495

Ernst Weber

Explaining male wage inequality in the Philippines: non-parametric and semiparametric approaches pp. 2497-2511

Lawrence Dacuycuy

Near rationality in wage setting pp. 2513-2521

Sonia Bhalotra

Continuous-time model of uncovered interest parity with regulated jump-diffusion interest differential pp. 2523-2533

Young-Kyu Moh

Testing liquidity constraints in 10 Asian developing countries: an error-correction model approach pp. 2535-2543

Muzafar Shah Habibullah, Peter Smith and W.N.w Azman-Saini

Simulating weight restrictions in data envelopment analysis using the subjective and objective integrated approach pp. 2545-2552

Chun Liu

Efficiency analysis of German electricity distribution utilities - non-parametric and parametric tests pp. 2553-2566

Christian Hirschhausen, Astrid Cullmann and Andreas Kappeler

Market deregulation, trade liberalization and productive efficiency in Bangladesh agriculture: an empirical analysis pp. 2567-2580

Ruhul Salim and Amzad Hossain

Volume 38, issue 20, 2006

Effects of short- and long-term unemployment on health satisfaction: evidence from German data pp. 2335-2350

Laura Romeu Gordo

Effects of global trade liberalization on softwood lumber markets pp. 2351-2360

Stephen Devadoss and Angel Aguiar Román

An empirical study of the relation between stock price and EPS in panel data: Korea case pp. 2361-2369

Keun-Yeob Oh, Bonghan Kim and Honkee Kim

Source of income effects for demand decisions and taxable consumption pp. 2371-2379

Richard Hawkins and Sally Wallace

Production and costs in the South African motor vehicle industry pp. 2381-2392

Lila Truett and Dale Truett

Linear SAM models for inequality changes analysis: an application to the Extremadurian economy pp. 2393-2403

Francisco Javier de Miguel Velez and Jesús Pérez-Mayo

Foreign ownership and investment: evidence from Korea pp. 2405-2414

Jaewoon Koo and Kyunghee Maeng

Are nascent entrepreneurs 'Jacks-of-all-trades'? A test of Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship with German data pp. 2415-2419

Joachim Wagner

Food consumption and economic development in Turkey and European Union countries pp. 2421-2431

Haydar Sengul and Seda Sengul

Real convergence in some Central and Eastern European countries pp. 2433-2441

Juncal Cuñado and Fernando Pérez de Gracia

Effects of the customs union with the European Union on the market structure and pricing behaviour of the Turkish manufacturing industry pp. 2443-2452

Arzu Akkoyunlu-Wigley and Sevinc Mihci

Does PPP hold in African countries? Further evidence based on a highly dynamic non-linear (logistic) unit root test pp. 2453-2459

Tsangyao Chang, Hsu-Ling Chang, Hsiao-Ping Chu and Chi-Wei Su

Volume 38, issue 19, 2006

Temporal causality and the dynamics of judicial appellate caseload, real income and socio-economic complexity in Australia pp. 2209-2219

Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth

Estimating technical efficiency of Australian dairy farms using alternative frontier methodologies pp. 2221-2236

Kelvin Balcombe, Iain Fraser and Jae Kim

Regional mobility in the European Union pp. 2237-2253

Roberto Ezcurra, Pedro Pascual Arzoz and Manuel Rapun

Efficiency of hospitals in Germany: a DEA-bootstrap approach pp. 2255-2263

Matthias Staat

Is investment time irreversible? Some empirical evidence for disaggregated UK manufacturing data pp. 2265-2275

Alan Speight and Piers Thompson

Analysis of long-run benefits from international equity diversification between Taiwan and its major European trading partners: an empirical note pp. 2277-2283

Tsangyao Chang, Chien-Chung Nieh and Ching-Chun Wei

Tax policy and yardstick voting in Flemish municipal elections pp. 2285-2298

Jan Vermeir and Bruno Heyndels

Estimating total factor productivity growth in Singapore at sectoral level using data envelopment analysis pp. 2299-2314

Nancy Kong and Jose Tongzon

Modelling unobserved heterogeneity in contingent valuation of health risks pp. 2315-2325

Jorge Araña and Carmelo Leon

Consumers' preferences for the attributes of post-PC: results of a contingent ranking study pp. 2327-2334

Joo-Suk Lee, Seung-Hoon Yoo and Seung-Jun Kwak

Volume 38, issue 18, 2006

Parental investment in children's human capital in urban China pp. 2089-2111

Linda Yueh

Discriminating between alternative measures of over-education pp. 2113-2120

Dieter Verhaest and Eddy Omey

The internal market and hospital efficiency: a stochastic distance function approach pp. 2121-2130

Alessandra Ferrari

The dynamics of food insecurity and overall health: evidence from the Canadian National Population Health Survey pp. 2131-2146

Logan McLeod and Michael Veall

A heterogeneous model of disposition effect pp. 2147-2157

Mao-Wei Hung and Hsiao-Yuan Yu

The effects of water temperature in aquaculture management pp. 2159-2168

Carmelo Leon, Juan M Hernandez and Miguel Leon-Santana

The Kyoto Protocol, market power, and enforcement pp. 2169-2178

Alan de Brauw

Is the NAIRU more useful in forecasting inflation than the natural rate of unemployment? pp. 2179-2189

Victor Claar

A two factor model to combine US inflation forecasts pp. 2191-2197

Pilar Poncela and Eva Senra

The asymmetric effects of monetary shocks: the case of Turkey pp. 2199-2208

Erdinc Telatar and Mübariz Hasanov

Volume 38, issue 17, 2006

Financial systems, financing constraints and investment: empirical analysis of OECD countries pp. 1963-1974

Radislav Semenov

Dead man walking: an empirical reassessment of the deterrent effect of capital punishment using the bounds testing approach to cointegration pp. 1975-1989

Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth

Economic volatility and returns to education in Venezuela: 1992-2002 pp. 1991-2005

Harry Patrinos and Christos Sakellariou

The price stability oriented monetary policy of the ECB: an assessment pp. 2007-2020

Claudio Morana

The effects of macroeconomic stability on foreign trade. An analysis for Spain, 1986-2000 pp. 2021-2036

Ana Belen Gracia Andia, María Gadea and José Serrano Sanz

Testing a theoretical model of mortgage demand on UK data pp. 2037-2051

David Leece

Testing the effectiveness of the French work-sharing reform: a forecasting approach pp. 2053-2068

Camille Logeay and Sven Schreiber

Relative prices and expenditure switching effect pp. 2069-2073

Shikuan Chen and Ming-Jen Chang

Privatization, foreign bank entry and bank efficiency in Croatia: a Fourier-flexible function stochastic cost frontier analysis pp. 2075-2088

Evan Kraft, Richard Hofler and James Payne

Volume 38, issue 16, 2006

Intra-family transfers in Japan: intergenerational co-residence, distance, and contact pp. 1839-1861

Ken Yamada

Consequences of Hodrick-Prescott filtering for parameter estimation in a structural model of inventory behaviour pp. 1863-1875

D. Doorn

Cost structure and capacity in the Norwegian pelagic fisheries pp. 1877-1887

Linda Nøstbakken

The effect of financial development on economic growth: evidence from the APEC countries, 1981-2000 pp. 1889-1904

Donny Tang

Determining factors for the adoption of e-business: the case of SMEs in Korea pp. 1905-1916

Bang Jeon, Kyeong Seok Han and Myung Jin Lee

Petroleum spreads and the term structure of futures prices pp. 1917-1929

Bahram Adrangi, A. Chatrath, Frank Song and Ferenc Szidarovszky

Relative prices and inflation: new evidence from different inflationary contexts pp. 1931-1944

M. Angeles Caraballo, Carlos Dabus and Carlos Usabiaga

Measuring the social value of local public goods: an empirical analysis within Paris metropolitan area pp. 1945-1961

Nicolas Gravel, Alessandra Michelangeli and Alain Trannoy

Volume 38, issue 15, 2006

Does China really lose from RMB revaluation? Evidence from some export industries pp. 1715-1723

Jan Voon, Guangzhong Li and Jimmy Ran

A comparison of contingent valuation method and random utility model estimates of the value of avoiding reductions in king mackerel bag limits pp. 1725-1735

John Whitehead

Capital grants and regional public investment in Spain: fungibility of aid or crowding-in effect? pp. 1737-1747

Santiago Lago-Peñas

Collective bargaining and regional wage differences in Spain: an empirical analysis pp. 1749-1760

Hipolito Simon, Raul Ramos and Esteban Sanroma

Taxation and political business cycles in EU economies pp. 1761-1774

Andreas Andrikopoulos, John (Ioannis) Loizides and Kyprianos Prodromidis

Business cycles and research investment pp. 1775-1782

Mark Funk

Did the pattern of aggregate employment growth change in the euro area in the late 1990s? pp. 1783-1807

Gilles Mourre

Estimating persistence in Canadian unemployment: evidence from a Bayesian ARFIMA pp. 1809-1819

O. Mikhail, C. J. Eberwein and J. Handa

A result similar to the Odlyzko's 'Paris Metro Pricing' pp. 1821-1824

Maxime de Marin de Montmarin

What does export diversification do for growth? An econometric analysis pp. 1825-1838

Dierk Herzer and Nowak-Lehnmann Felicitas

Volume 38, issue 14, 2006

Biases in technical efficiency scores caused by intra-input aggregation: mathematical analysis and a DEA application using simulated data pp. 1593-1603

Darold Barnum and John Gleason

Female income and the divorce decision: evidence from micro data pp. 1605-1616

Randall Kesselring and Dale Bremmer

Is the Swedish central government a wage leader? pp. 1617-1625

Matthew Lindquist and Roger Vilhelmsson

A socio-economic study of the borrowing process: the case of microentrepreneurs in Jordan pp. 1627-1640

Dilip Dutta and Ihab Magableh

Intra-school competition and student achievement pp. 1641-1647

Melvin Borland, Roy Howsen and Michelle Trawick

Alphabetized coauthorship pp. 1649-1653

David Laband and Robert Tollison

A computable general equilibrium model of the southern region of Taiwan: the impact of the Tainan science-based industrial park pp. 1655-1661

Chun Liu

Cigarette tax revenues and tobacco control in Japan pp. 1663-1675

Junmin Wan

A structural time series approach to modelling multiple and resurgent meat scares in Italy pp. 1677-1688

Mario Mazzocchi, Davide Delle Monache and Alexandra Lobb

Measuring worker flows pp. 1689-1695

Peter Huber and Kristin Smeral

The productivity debate of East Asia revisited: a stochastic frontier approach pp. 1697-1706

Sangho Kim and Young Hoon Lee

Size and scope of the underground economy in Germany pp. 1707-1713

Michael Pickhardt and Jordi Sardà

Volume 38, issue 13, 2006

Airline choice, switching costs and frequent flyer programmes pp. 1469-1475

Fredrik Carlsson and Åsa Löfgren

Estimating the efficiency of the system of healthcare financing in achieving better health pp. 1477-1488

Shawna Grosskopf, Sharmistha Self and Osman Zaim

Tests for causality between integrated variables using asymptotic and bootstrap distributions: theory and application pp. 1489-1500

R Scott Hacker and Abdulnasser Hatemi-J

Use of damage schedules in environmental valuation: The case of urban Singapore pp. 1501-1512

Euston Quah, Edward Choa and K. C. Tan

Medical interventions among pregnant women in fee-for-service and managed care insurance: a propensity score analysis pp. 1513-1525

Leo Turcotte, John Robst and Solomon Polachek

Tariff protection elimination and Common Agricultural Policy reform: implications of changes in methods of import demand modelling pp. 1527-1539

Alexandre Gohin, Herve Guyomard and Chantal Le Mouël

Developing country fisheries and technical efficiency: the Java Sea purse seine fishery pp. 1541-1552

Yongil Jeon, Ishak Haji Omar, K. Kuperan, Dale Squires and Indah Susilowati

Regional price levels in Germany pp. 1553-1566

Michael Roos

Consumption patterns of food, tobacco and beverages: a cross-country analysis pp. 1567-1584

S. Selvanathan and E. A. Selvanathan

The equilibrium relationship among money, income, prices, and interest rates: evidence from a threshold cointegration test pp. 1585-1592

Daiki Maki and Shin-ichi Kitasaka

Volume 38, issue 12, 2006

Broad-based employee stock options grants and IPO firms pp. 1343-1351

Peter Roosenboom and Tjalling van der Goot

How similar are alcohol drinkers? International evidence pp. 1353-1362

Saroja Selvanathan

The impact of patient choice and waiting time on the demand for health care: results from the London Patient Choice project pp. 1363-1370

Diane Dawson, Rowena Jacobs, Stephen Martin and Peter Smith

The effectiveness of foreign exchange interventions under a floating exchange rate regime for the Turkish economy: a post-crisis period analysis pp. 1371-1388

Ozge Akinci, Olcay Çulha, Umit Ozlale and Gülbin Şahinbeyoğlu

Economic policies and demand for money: evidence from Canada pp. 1389-1407

Amir Kia

Monetary policy and dividend growth in Germany: long-run structural modelling versus bounds testing approach pp. 1409-1423

Ansgar Belke and Thorsten Polleit

The art of benchmarking: Picasso prints and auction house performance pp. 1425-1434

Finn Førsund and Roberto Zanola

Employer search and employment subsidies pp. 1435-1448

Riccardo Welters and Joan Muysken

Performance evaluation of the English Premier Football League with data envelopment analysis pp. 1449-1458

Carlos Barros and Stephanie Leach

Policy reform and labour demand in branches of Sri Lankan manufacturing industry pp. 1459-1467

John Gibson and Ananda Patabendige

Volume 38, issue 11, 2006

Real exchange rates and real interest rates once again: a multivariate panel cointegration analysis pp. 1217-1221

Avik Chakrabarti

The prevalence of hyperbolic discounting: some European evidence pp. 1223-1234

Joseph Eisenhauer and Luigi Ventura

Tobacco consumption and policy in the United Kingdom pp. 1235-1257

Martyn Duffy

Empirical studies on the relationship between public and private investment and GDP growth pp. 1259-1270

Yang Zou

An empirical model of the Brazilian country risk -- an extension of the beta country risk model pp. 1271-1278

Joaquim Andrade and Vladimir Teles

How sensitive are Malaysia's bilateral trade flows to depreciation? pp. 1279-1286

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Hanafiah Harvey

An analysis of a panel of Spanish GDP forecasts pp. 1287-1292

Jordi Pons-Novell

Alcohol availability and crime: a robust approach pp. 1293-1307

Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong and Jeffrey Racine

Time-specific disturbances and cross-sectional dependency in a small-sample heterogeneous panel data unit root test pp. 1309-1317

Kristian Jönsson

Demand for money in India: 1953-2003 pp. 1319-1326

B. Rao and Rup Singh

Agricultural externalities and environmental regulation: evaluating good practice in citrus production pp. 1327-1334

Andres Picazo-Tadeo and Ernest Reig-Martínez

Competition in the Turkish banking industry pp. 1335-1342

Burak Gunalp and Tuncay Celik

Volume 38, issue 10, 2006

Does globalization affect growth? Evidence from a new index of globalization pp. 1091-1110

Axel Dreher

Public funding and repertoire conventionality in the German public theatre sector: an econometric analysis pp. 1111-1121

Adriana Neligan

Asymmetric monetary policy effects in EMU pp. 1123-1134

Volker Clausen and Bernd Hayo

Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany pp. 1135-1152

Bernhard Boockmann and Viktor Steiner

Are Australia's tourism markets converging? pp. 1153-1162

Paresh Narayan

Job satisfaction in Britain: individual and job related factors pp. 1163-1171

Saziye Gazioglu and Aysıt Tansel

The effects of labour strikes on consumer demand in professional sports: revisited pp. 1173-1179

Victor Matheson

Growth effects of public expenditure on the state and local level: evidence from a sample of rich governments pp. 1181-1192

Christoph Schaltegger and Benno Torgler

Regional dependencies in job creation: an efficiency analysis for Western Germany pp. 1193-1206

René Fahr and Uwe Sunde

Willingness to pay and the demand for lotto pp. 1207-1216

Jen-Hung Wang, Larry Tzeng and Junji Tien

Volume 38, issue 9, 2006

Execution moratoriums, commutations and deterrence: the case of Illinois pp. 967-973

Dale Cloninger and Roberto Marchesini

Demand elasticities for Internet services pp. 975-980

Rajeev Goel, Edward Hsieh, Michael Nelson and Rati Ram

Burden sharing in a greenhouse: egalitarianism and sovereignty reconciled pp. 981-996

Christoph Bohringer and Heinz Welsch

Volatility and trading activity in Short Sterling futures pp. 997-1005

Elena Kalotychou and Sotiris Staikouras

Variable unit costs in an output-regulated industry: The Fishery pp. 1007-1018

Per Sandberg

Dual track or academic route for auditors: does it matter? pp. 1019-1035

Nicole Jonker, Hans van Ophem and Joop Hartog

Spanish food expenditure away from home (FAFH): by type of meal pp. 1037-1047

Seval Mutlu and Azucena Gracia

Nonlinear models, composite longer leading indicator and forecasts for UK real GDP pp. 1049-1053

Nadir Ocal

Regional unemployment, self-employment and family background pp. 1055-1062

Hannu Tervo

Workers and trade liberalization: simulating the potential impact of the FTAA on Venezuela's output and wages pp. 1063-1069

Hugo Toledo

Fuel poverty and access to electricity: comparing households when they differ in needs pp. 1071-1078

Paul Makdissi and Quentin Wodon

Cost and profit efficiencies in transition banking: the case of new EU members pp. 1079-1090

Adnan Kasman and Canan Yildirim

Volume 38, issue 8, 2006

African terms of trade and the commodity terms of trade: close cousins or distant relatives? pp. 845-859

Paul Cashin and Catherine Pattillo

An examination of firms' employment costs pp. 861-878

Sarah Dolfin

Bilateral J-curve between the UK vis-a-vis her major trading partners pp. 879-888

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Claire Economidou and Gour Goswami

Understanding intertemporal choices pp. 889-898

Enrica Carbone

Creating low skilled jobs by subsidizing market-contracted household work pp. 899-911

Tilman Brück, John de New and Klaus Zimmermann

The macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy in Spain pp. 913-924

Francisco de Castro Fernández

Overcompensation by severance payments pp. 925-930

Christian Grund

The dynamics of a newly floating exchange rate: the Turkish case pp. 931-941

Oya Ardic and Faruk Selcuk

Productivity growth in Korea: efficiency improvement or technical progress? pp. 943-954

Taegi Kim and Changsuh Park

Analysing rationing policies: drought and its effects on urban users' welfare (Analysing rationing policies during drought) pp. 955-965

Maria de los Angeles Garcia Valinas

Volume 38, issue 7, 2006

Profile of multiple versus single acquirers and their targets: a research note pp. 725-733

Hubert Ooghe, Tine De Langhe and Jan Camerlynck

Contingent valuation and actual payment for voluntarily provided passive-use values: Assessing the effect of an induced truth-telling mechanism and elicitation formats pp. 735-756

Knut Veisten and Stale Navrud

Same-sex sexual behaviour: US frequency estimates from survey data with simultaneous misreporting and non-response pp. 757-769

Nathan Berg and Donald Lien

Why has wage inequality increased more in the USA than in Europe? An empirical investigation of the demand and supply of skill pp. 771-788

Daniel Fernandez Kranz

Wives' time allocation and intrahousehold power: evidence from the Philippines pp. 789-804

Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy

Three decades of money demand studies: differences and similarities pp. 805-818

Markus Knell and Helmut Stix

Multicointegration in US consumption data pp. 819-833

Boriss Siliverstovs

An analysis of the impact of climate change on crop yields and yield variability pp. 835-844

Murat Isik and Stephen Devadoss

Volume 38, issue 6, 2006

Income, health and health care utilization in the UK pp. 605-617

Roshni Mangalore

The predicted earnings differential and immigrant self-employment in Sweden pp. 619-630

Mats Hammarstedt

Capital market efficiency and the predictability of daily returns pp. 631-636

Jeffrey Jarrett and Eric Kyper

Hospital mergers: who merges with whom? pp. 637-647

Teresa Harrison

The effects of local labour market conditions on welfare programme participation pp. 649-659

Suwen Pan, Helen Jensen, Wayne Fuller and Samarendu Mohanty

Violence-related injury and the price of beer in England and Wales pp. 661-670

Kent Matthews, Jonathan Shepherd and Vaseekaran Sivarajasingham

Geographic aggregation and induced innovation in American agriculture pp. 671-682

Qinghua Liu and C. Shumway

The effects of shared ATM networks on the efficiency of Turkish banks pp. 683-697

Evren Damar

The portable guarantee to exchange back an old defined benefit for a new defined contribution (DC) pension plan pp. 699-706

Chao-Liang Chen

Market consumption and hidden consumption. A test for substitutability pp. 707-716

Bruno Chiarini and Elisabetta Marzano

Doubling fish exports or garment exports: which would benefit the Fijian economy most? Evidence from a computable general equilibrium model pp. 717-723

Paresh Narayan and Biman Prasad

Volume 38, issue 5, 2006

Predicting presidential election results pp. 483-490

David Walker

Does female education prevent the spread of HIV-AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa? pp. 491-503

Robert Brent

What kind of German biotechnology start-ups do venture capital companies and corporate investors prefer for equity investments? pp. 505-518

Claire Champenois, Dirk Engel and Oliver Heneric

Relations of the regional Brazilian cane agro-industry with the national economy: analysis applied to the Centre-South and North-Northeast pp. 519-531

Cinthia Cabral da Costa, Heloisa Lee Burnquist and Joaquim Guilhoto

What drives business Research and Development (R&D) intensity across Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries? pp. 533-547

Martin Falk

Sexual orientation and labour supply pp. 549-562

Edinaldo Tebaldi and Bruce Elmslie

Female labour force participation, fertility and infant mortality in Australia: some empirical evidence from Granger causality tests pp. 563-572

Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth

Risk and farm operator labour supply pp. 573-586

Nigel Key, Michael Roberts and Erik O'Donoghue

Rational exuberance at the mall: addiction to carrying a credit card balance pp. 587-592

Kaili Shen and David Giles

Export-led growth and the Japanese economy: evidence from VAR and directed acyclic graphs pp. 593-602

Titus Awokuse

Volume 38, issue 4, 2006

Evaluating the long-run impacts of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on US domestic airline travel pp. 363-370

Scott Blunk, David Clark and James McGibany

Difficulties in valuing street light improvement: trust, surprise and bound effects pp. 371-381

Neil Powe, Kenneth Willis and Guy Garrod

Effect of price information on residential water demand pp. 383-393

S. Gaudin

Forecasting volatility of futures market: the S&P 500 and FTSE 100 futures using high frequency returns and implied volatility pp. 395-413

Jaesun Noh and Tae-Hwan Kim

The response of industry employment to exchange rate shocks: evidence from panel cointegration pp. 415-421

Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Manuchehr Irandoust

Private health insurance and utilization of health services in Chile pp. 423-439

Ricardo Henriquez Hofter

The intragenerationally redistributive effects of the retirement insurance scheme in Turkey before and after the 1999 reform pp. 441-448

Ayfer Karayel

Time-varying discrete monetary policy reaction functions pp. 449-464

Ho-Chuan Huang and Shu-Chin Lin

The competitive environment hypothesis revisited: non-linearity, nonstationarity and profit persistence pp. 465-472

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Adelina Gschwandtner

Education policy reform, local average treatment effect and returns to schooling from instrumental variables in the Philippines pp. 473-481

Christos Sakellariou

Volume 38, issue 3, 2006

Demand for locally provided public services within the median voter's framework: the case of the Brazilian municipalities pp. 239-251

Constantino Cronemberger Mendes and Maria da Conceicao Sampaio de Sousa

Does an increase in the doctor supply reduce medical fees? An econometric analysis of medical fees across Australia pp. 253-266

Jeff Richardson, Stuart Peacock and Duncan Mortimer

Do firm sizes and profit rates converge? Evidence on Gibrat's Law and the persistence of profits in the long run pp. 267-278

John Goddard, David McMillan and John Wilson

Testing the efficiency of the National Football League betting market pp. 279-284

Bryan Boulier, Herman Stekler and Sarah Amundson

Government revenue and government expenditure nexus: evidence from developing countries pp. 285-291

Paresh Narayan and Seema Narayan

The cost of fear: shadow pricing the intangible costs of crime pp. 293-300

Simon Moore and Jonathan Shepherd

An approach to nonparametric smoothing techniques for regressions with discrete data pp. 301-305

Kajal Mukhopadhyay and Lawrence Marsh

Exchange rate volatility and volatility asymmetries: an application to finding a natural dollar currency pp. 307-323

Kian Teng Kwek and Kuan Nee Koay

Anticipated effects of the minimum wage on prices pp. 325-337

Sara Lemos

On economic growth, FDI and exports in China pp. 339-351

Shujie Yao

A variance equality test of the ICAPM on Philippine stocks: post-Asian financial crisis period pp. 353-362

Rodolfo Aquino

Volume 38, issue 2, 2006

Demographic change and the UK savings rate pp. 119-136

David Demery and Nigel Duck

Discussing the parameters of preservation of perishable goods in a cold logistic chain model pp. 137-147

Miroslav Verbič

Revenue insurance purchase decisions of farmers pp. 149-159

Ashok Mishra and Barry Goodwin

Managerial ownership and firm performance: an analysis using switching simultaneous-equations models pp. 161-181

Ming-Yuan Chen

Transfer function estimation of trade leakages generated by court rulings in the Hawai'i longline fishery pp. 183-190

Camilo Sarmiento

Estimating economies of scope and scale under price risk and risk aversion pp. 191-201

Abdullahi Abdulkadri, Michael Langemeier and Allen Featherstone

Persistent misalignments of the European exchange rates: some evidence from non-linear cointegration pp. 203-229

Gilles Dufrénot, Laurent Mathieu, Valérie Mignon and Anne Peguin-Feissolle

Beauty in the classroom: are German students less blinded? Putative pedagogical productivity due to professors' pulchritude: peculiar or pervasive? pp. 231-238

Bernd Sussmuth

Volume 38, issue 1, 2006

On the evolution of competition: an application of nonlinear tests pp. 1-12

Martin Schmidt

Skill-biased technological knowledge without scale effects pp. 13-21

Oscar Afonso

An analysis of self-employment subsidies with duration models pp. 23-32

Begoña Cueto and Javier Mato

The information content of the term structure of interest rates pp. 33-45

Petko Kalev and Brett Inder

An explanation of the changes in the proportion of temporary workers in Spain pp. 47-62

Cesar Rodriguez-Gutierrez

Are bilateral real exchange rates stationary? Evidence from Lagrange multiplier unit root tests for India pp. 63-70

Paresh Narayan

A GMM test of the precautionary saving hypothesis with nonexpected-utility preferences pp. 71-78

Myung Hoon Yi and Changkyu Choi

Education and skills mismatch in the Italian graduate labour market pp. 79-93

Giorgio Di Pietro and Peter Urwin

A structural VAR approach on labour taxation policies pp. 95-114

Daniela Sonedda

The value of reducing fear: an analysis using the European Social Survey pp. 115-117

Simon Christopher Moore