Applied Economics

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Volume 36, issue 21, 2004

Lotto nothing? The budgetary impact of state lotteries pp. 2357-2367

Stephen Fink, Alan Marco and Jonathan Rork

Average marginal tax rates in the UK economy pp. 2369-2372

Eon-Seon Rym and Faik Koray

Modified Hausman tests for inefficient estimators pp. 2373-2376

Michael Creel

An analysis of the variation in billing charges of medical providers: causes and implications pp. 2377-2384

Michael Spinelli, George Canavos† and Douglas Brown

Credit channel of monetary policy in Japan: resolving the supply versus demand puzzle pp. 2385-2396

Tomoya Suzuki

Factors influencing education achievement pp. 2397-2404

Daniel Rainey and Olga Murova

Economic and demographic factors in Australian alcohol demand pp. 2405-2417

E. A. Selvanathan and S. Selvanathan

Agglomeration economies in the finnish manufacturing sector pp. 2419-2427

Kirsi Mukkala

The effects of exchange rate risk on economic performance: the Turkish experience pp. 2429-2441

Hakan Berument and Nazire Nergiz Dincer

On the measurement of risk aversion from experimental data pp. 2443-2451

Mette Wik, Tewodros Aragie Kebede, Olvar Bergland and Stein Holden

Another look at competition: a regime-switching aproach pp. 2453-2460

Martin Schmidt and David Berri

Channels of financial market contagion pp. 2461-2469

Daryl Collins and Shana Gavron

Volume 36, issue 20, 2004

Modelling demand and supply influences on utilization: A flow demand model to predict hospital utilization at the small area level pp. 2237-2251

Monica Oliveira

Social interactions and the contemporaneous determinants of individuals' weight pp. 2253-2263

Joan Costa-Font and Joan Gil

Determining market power exertion between buyers and sellers: are nonparametrics a viable alternative? pp. 2265-2274

Kellie Raper and Corinna Noelke

Barriers to investment in ICT pp. 2275-2286

Matteo Bugamelli and Patrizio Pagano

Value of agricultural non-point source pollution measurement technology: assessment from a policy perspective pp. 2287-2298

Lyubov Kurkalova, Catherine Kling and Jinhua Zhao

Is there a wage bonus from drinking? Unobserved heterogeneity examined pp. 2299-2315

Bethany Peters

Agency problems and unrelated business income of non-profit organizations: an empirical analysis pp. 2317-2326

C. Du Bois, R. Caers, M. Jegers, C. Schepers, S. De Gieter and R. Pepermans

Empirical regularities in South African consumption patterns pp. 2327-2333

Saroja Selvanathan and E. A. Selvanathan

The interprovincial migration of Canadian physicians: does income matter? pp. 2335-2345

Michael Benarroch and Hugh Grant

Forecasting UK commercial real estate cycle phases with leading indicators: a probit approach pp. 2347-2356

Alexandra Krystalogianni, George Matysiak and Sotiris Tsolacos

Volume 36, issue 19, 2004

Location and attendance in major league baseball pp. 2117-2124

Jason Winfree, Jill McCluskey, Ron Mittelhammer and Rodney Fort

Economic growth and government expenditure: evidence from a new test specification pp. 2125-2135

Mahmoud Wahab

Liberalizing the energy markets of Western Europe - a computable equilibrium model approach pp. 2137-2149

Finn Roar Aune, Rolf Golombek, Sverre Kittelsen and Knut Einar Rosendahl

Cigarettes and addiction information: simulating the demand effects of the tobacco industry's 'conspiracy of silence' pp. 2151-2159

Aju Fenn and John Schroeter

Exchange rate uncertainty and the level of investment in selected South-east Asian countries pp. 2161-2165

Gyan Pradhan, Zeljan Schuster and Kamal Upadhyaya

Modelling EU tobacco policy reform pp. 2167-2175

Chrysostomos Stoforos and G. Mergos

Measuring the impact of natural disasters on capital markets: an empirical application using intervention analysis pp. 2177-2186

Andrew Worthington and Abbas Valadkhani

Total factor productivity and the convergence hypothesis in the Italian regions pp. 2187-2193

Leone Leonida, Carmelo Petraglia and Luis Murillo-Zamorano

The big problem of forecasting small change pp. 2195-2207

David Griffiths

How does exchange rate policy affect manufactured exports in MENA countries? pp. 2209-2219

Mustapha Kamel Nabli and Marie-Ange Véganzonès

Liquidity constraint, uncertainty and household consumption in China pp. 2221-2229

Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan

A cost of living index incorporating a network effect pp. 2231-2235

Gary Madden and Grant Coble-Neal

Volume 36, issue 18, 2004

Corporate credit, stock price inflation and economic fluctuations pp. 1995-2006

Jan Groen

Convergence and clustering in major league baseball: the haves and have nots? pp. 2007-2014

Martin Schmidt and David Berri

Job creation through public start-up assistance? pp. 2015-2024

Matthias Almus

Are US macroeconomic series difference stationary or trend-break stationary? pp. 2025-2029

Amit Sen

The cyclical behaviour of inventories: European cross-country evidence from the early 1990s recession pp. 2031-2044

Fabio Bagliano and Alessandro Sembenelli

Scope and scale economies in multi-utilities: evidence from gas, water and electricity combinations pp. 2045-2057

Giovanni Fraquelli, Massimiliano Piacenza and Davide Vannoni

The determinants of firm diversification in UK quoted companies pp. 2059-2071

Adrian Gourlay and Jonathan Seaton

The British gambler's fallacy pp. 2073-2077

George Papachristou

Crime rates, male youth unemployment and real income in Australia: evidence from Granger causality tests pp. 2079-2095

Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth

Primary market and aftermarket competition in the bicycle component industry pp. 2097-2102

Paul Isely and Matthew Roelofs

Agglomeration economies in manufacturing industries: the case of Spain pp. 2103-2116

Olga Alonso-Villar, Jose-MarIa Chamorro-Rivas and Xulia González

Volume 36, issue 17, 2004

Performing arts attendance: an economic approach pp. 1871-1885

Francesca Borgonovi

Is social protection a necessity or a luxury good? New multivariate cointegration panel data results pp. 1887-1898

Monica Auteri and Mauro Costantini

Transfer price and equilibrium in multidivisional firms: an examination of divisional autonomy and central control pp. 1899-1906

Alireza Dorestani

Trend breaks and the fisher hypothesis in canada and the United States pp. 1907-1913

Frank Atkins and Milanda Chan

Financial liberalization and bank efficiency: a comparative analysis of India and Pakistan pp. 1915-1924

Ali Ataullah, Tony Cockerill and Hang Le

Growth, convergence and public investment. A Bayesian model averaging approach pp. 1925-1936

Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Daniel Montolio

Is there evidence of creative destruction in the Turkish manufacturing sector? Lessons from a cross-industry analysis of aggregate productivity growth pp. 1937-1945

Mahmut Yasar, Roderick Rejesus and Ilhami Mintemur

Export growth slowdown and currency crisis: the Malaysian experience pp. 1947-1957

Anita Daraisami

Sheepskin effects in work behaviour pp. 1959-1966

Philip Trostel and Ian Walker

Evolution of the gender earnings gap among Canadian university graduates pp. 1967-1978

Ross Finnie and Ted Wannell

Computer knowledge and earnings: evidence for Australia pp. 1979-1993

Jeff Borland, Joseph Hirschberg and Jeanette Lye

Volume 36, issue 16, 2004

The 'Home Grown' Presidency: empirical evidence on localism in presidential voting, 1972-2000 pp. 1745-1749

Franklin Mixon and J. Matthew Tyrone

Patients' migration across regions: the case of Italy pp. 1751-1757

Rosella Levaggi and Roberto Zanola

Who moves? A logit model analysis of inter-provincial migration in Canada pp. 1759-1779

Ross Finnie

Relative importance of sectoral and aggregate sources of price changes pp. 1781-1796

Hiranya Nath

R&D and productivity in Danish firms: some empirical evidence pp. 1797-1806

Valdemar Smith, Mogens Dilling-Hansen, Tor Eriksson and Erik Madsen

Alcohol consumption, smoking and wages pp. 1807-1817

Jeanette Lye and Joseph Hirschberg

Exports and economic growth in Central and East European countries during transition pp. 1819-1824

P. J. Dawson and L. J. Hubbard

The BSE crisis and the price of red meat in the UK pp. 1825-1829

John Leeming and Paul Turner

Exports, investments and economic development of pre-accession countries of the European Union: an empirical investigation of Bulgaria and Romania pp. 1831-1838

Nikolaos Dritsakis

Measuring exchange rate misalignment in Turkey pp. 1839-1849

Umit Ozlale and Erinc Yeldan

The real rate of protection: the income and insurance effects of agricultural policy pp. 1851-1858

Stanley Thompson, P. Michael Schmitz, Nobuyuki Iwai and Barry Goodwin

Non-stationarity and the import demand for virgin olive oil in the European Union pp. 1859-1869

J. M. Gil, Boubaker Dhehibi, Monia Ben-Kaabia and Ana Angulo

Volume 36, issue 15, 2004

The US National Tobacco Settlement: the effects of advertising and price changes on cigarette consumption pp. 1623-1629

Theodore Keeler, Teh-wei Hu, Michael Ong and Hai-Yen Sung

Technical efficiency effects of input controls: evidence from Australia's banana prawn fishery pp. 1631-1641

Tom Kompas, Nhu Che and R. Quentin Grafton

A spatial equilibrium analysis of trade policy reforms on the world wheat market pp. 1643-1648

Antonio Gómez-Plana and Stephen Devadoss

Telecommunications and economic growth: a panel data approach pp. 1649-1654

Anusua Datta and Sumit Agarwal

Kalman filter approach to estimate the demand for international reserves pp. 1655-1668

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Ford Brown

Valuing farmland with multiple quasi-fixed inputs pp. 1669-1675

Ashok Mishra, Charles Moss and Kenneth Erickson

Economies of scale, school violence and the optimal size of schools pp. 1677-1684

J. Stephen Ferris and E. G. West

The validity of the ELG hypothesis in the MENA region: cointegration and error correction model analysis pp. 1685-1695

Aamer Abu-Qarn and Suleiman Abu-Bader

Is all domestic water consumption sensitive to price control? pp. 1697-1703

Roberto Martinez-Espineira and Celine Nauges

Cyclical and causal patterns of inflation and GDP growth pp. 1705-1715

Mahmood Arai, Mats Kinnwall and Peter Skogman Thoursie

Will a special tax on tobacco reduce lung cancer mortality? Evidence for EU countries pp. 1717-1722

José-Julián Escario and José Alberto Molina

Horizontal and vertical intra-industry trade in Australian manufacturing: does trade liberalization have any impact? pp. 1723-1730

Kishor Sharma

The effect of risk-based capital requirements on profit efficiency in banking pp. 1731-1743

Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf and William Weber

Volume 36, issue 14, 2004

Changing trade patterns in major OECD countries pp. 1501-1511

Colin Carter and Xianghong Li

Child allowances and allocative decisions in Romanian households pp. 1513-1521

David Sahn and Ari Gerstle

Demand elasticities for international message telephone service pp. 1523-1527

George Ford and John Jackson

Demand shocks and firm-financed R&D expenditures pp. 1529-1536

Matthew Rafferty and Mark Funk

Tracking Euro preparations amongst UK SMEs pp. 1537-1546

Francis Greene and Kevin Mole

Different approaches of modelling reaction lags: how do Chilean manufacturing exports react to movements of the real exchange rate? pp. 1547-1560

Nowak-Lehmann Felicitas

Evaluating social welfare and redistributive effects of Spanish personal income tax reform pp. 1561-1568

Juan Castaner, Jorge Onrubia and Raquel Paredes

Analysis of prices in tradable emission markets: an empirical study of the regional clean air incentives market in Los Angeles pp. 1569-1582

Lata Gangadharan

Forecasting the real output using fractionally integrated techniques pp. 1583-1589

Luis Gil-Alana

Exploring consumption-based asset pricing model with stochastic-trend forcing processes pp. 1591-1597

Tony Wirjanto

Expectation formation mechanisms, profitability of foreign exchange trading and exchange rate volatility pp. 1599-1606

Imad Moosa and Abul Shamsuddin

Fractional cointegration analysis of EU convergence pp. 1607-1611

Sonila Beliu and Matthew Higgins

Australian beer wars and pub demand: how vertical restraints improved the drinking experience pp. 1613-1622

Ryan Donnar and Keith Jakee

Volume 36, issue 13, 2004

The J-Curve: a literature review pp. 1377-1398

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Artatrana Ratha

The evolution of income inequality in the European Union during the period 1993-1996 pp. 1399-1408

Santiago Alvarez-Garcia, Juan Prieto-Rodriguez and Rafael Salas

Interest rate and exchange rate exposures of banking institutions in pre-crisis Korea pp. 1409-1419

Joon-Ho Hahm

Trade liberalization and industrial growth in Pakistan: a cointegration analysis pp. 1421-1429

Dilip Dutta and Nasiruddin Ahmed

The structuralist theory of imported inflation: an application to South Africa pp. 1431-1444

Kevin Nell

Measuring the economic benefits of recycling: the case of the waste agricultural film in Korea pp. 1445-1453

Seung-Jun Kwak, Seung-Hoon Yoo and Chan-Jun Kim

Comparing abnormal accruals models: a non-parametric approach pp. 1455-1460

B. Gill de Albornoz Noguer and Manuel Illueca

The transactions demand for money in the presence of currency substitution: evidence from Vietnam pp. 1461-1470

Christopher Adam, Michael Goujon and Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney

What if the Fed had been an inflation nutter? pp. 1471-1473

Paul Söderlind

Multi-product costs and standby capacity derived from queuing theory: the case of Belgian hospitals pp. 1475-1487

Mike Smet

Estimating statistical properties of political economic decisions pp. 1489-1499

Diana Burton, H. Love and Gordon Rausser

Volume 36, issue 12, 2004

Determinants of technical efficiency of crop and livestock farms in Poland pp. 1255-1263

Laure Latruffe, Kelvin Balcombe, Sophia Davidova and Katarzyna Zawalińska

Seasonal fractional components in macroeconomic time series pp. 1265-1279

Luis Gil-Alana

Convergence of interest rates around the Pacific Rim pp. 1281-1288

Hsiu-Yun Lee and Jyh-Lin Wu

Welfare impacts of Indian apple trade policies pp. 1289-1294

Stephen Devadoss and Thomas Wahl

Income transfers of Chinese rural migrants: some empirical evidence from Jinan pp. 1295-1313

Qiming Liu and Barry Reilly

Determinants of international tourism: a three-dimensional panel data analysis pp. 1315-1327

Yair Eilat and Liran Einav

Nash bargaining model of HMO premiums pp. 1329-1336

Roland Maude-Griffin, Roger Feldman and Douglas Wholey

Hedging against bunker price fluctuations using petroleum futures contracts: constant versus time-varying hedge ratios pp. 1337-1353

Amir Alizadeh, Manolis Kavussanos and David Menachof

Cartel formation and oligopoly structure: a new assessment of the crude oil market pp. 1355-1369

Sabine Bockem

Purchasing power parity and the role of traded goods: evidence from EU states pp. 1371-1375

Michael Jenkins

Volume 36, issue 11, 2004

Computational intermediation and the evolution of computation as a commodity pp. 1131-1142

Antony Davies

Is foreign direct investment attracted to 'knowledge creators'? pp. 1143-1149

Catherine Co and John List

'Death effect' on collectible prices pp. 1151-1155

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

Cointegration and detectable linear and nonlinear causality: analysis using the London Metal Exchange lead contract pp. 1157-1167

An-Sing Chen and James Wuh Lin

Quality-corrected price indices: the case of the Dutch new passenger car market, 1990-1999 pp. 1169-1197

Jan van Dalen and Ben Bode

Long-run homogeneity of labour demand. Panel evidence from OECD countries pp. 1199-1203

Franz Hahn

Semiparametric estimation of the fractional differencing parameter in the UK industrial production index pp. 1205-1217

Luis Gil-Alana

Dimension estimation with the BDS-G statistic pp. 1219-1223

Mariano Matilla-García, P. Sanz and F. J. Vazquez

Rates of return to public and private capital: new estimates using nonlinear Euler equations pp. 1225-1232

José Boscá, Antonio Cutanda and Javier Escriba

Assessing the impact of economic liberalization across countries: a comparison of dairy industry efficiency in Canada and the USA pp. 1233-1243

Morteza Haghiri, James Nolan and Kien Tran

Estimation of scale and scope economies in multiproduct banking: evidence from the Fourier flexible functional form with panel data pp. 1245-1253

Tai-Hsin Huang and Mei-Hui Wang

Volume 36, issue 10, 2004

The NBA and the influx of international basketball players pp. 1009-1020

Erick Eschker, Stephen Perez and Mark Siegler

A mnemonic for the major factors influencing the likelihood of collusion pp. 1021-1024

David Kamerschen

Stock markets and industry growth: an Eastern European perspective pp. 1025-1030

Zbigniew Kominek

Is a monetary union feasible for East Asia? pp. 1031-1043

Zhaoyong Zhang, Kiyotaka Sato and Michael McAleer

Foreign direct investment and income convergence pp. 1045-1049

Changkyu Choi

Crop failure, price regulation, and emergency imports of Japan's rice sector in 1993 pp. 1051-1056

Nobuhiro Hosoe

The macroeconomic impact of foreign labour influx into the industrialized nation state and the complementary policies pp. 1057-1063

Yong-Yil Choi

Comparing French and US hospital technologies: a directional input distance function approach pp. 1065-1081

Benoit Dervaux, Gary Ferrier, Hervé Leleu and Vivian Valdmanis

Is there an export or import-led productivity growth in rapidly developing Asian countries? a multivariate VAR analysis pp. 1083-1093

Shandre Mugan Thangavelu and Gulasekaran Rajaguru

Detecting multiple breaks in time series covariance structure: a non-parametric approach based on the evolutionary spectral density pp. 1095-1101

Ibrahim Ahamada, Jamel Jouini and Mohamed Boutahar

FDI, trade, and spillover efficiency: evidence from China's manufacturing sector pp. 1103-1115

Yih-chyi Chuang and Pi-Fum Hsu

Willingness and ability of Bulgarian consumers to pay for improved public health care services pp. 1117-1130

Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot and Godefridus Van Merode

Volume 36, issue 9, 2004

Threshold cointegration and purchasing power parity in the pacific nations pp. 889-896

Walter Enders and Kamol Chumrusphonlert

Impacts of meat product recalls on consumer demand in the USA pp. 897-909

Thomas Marsh, Ted Schroeder and James Mintert

Nonlinearity in medical expenditures: a new semiparametric approach pp. 911-916

Yanqin Fan, Dong Li and Qi Li

Central city crime and suburban economic growth pp. 917-922

Ray Burnham, Robert Feinberg and Thomas Husted

Profit margins and business cycles in the Brazilian industry: a panel data study pp. 923-930

Marcos Lima and Marcelo Resende

Long-run income and price elasticities of demand for Colombian nontraditional exports: a multivariate cointegration framework pp. 931-938

Martha Misas and Maria Ramirez-Giraldo

Macroeconomic determinants of corporate failures: evidence from the UK pp. 939-945

Jia Liu

Efficiency in the factoring industry pp. 947-959

Franco Fiordelisi and Philip Molyneux

Evidence on the purchasing power parity in a panel of cities pp. 961-966

Josep Carrion-i-Silvestre, Tomás del Barrio Castro and Enrique Lopez-Bazo

Monetary transmission mechanism in Turkey under the monetary conditions index: an alternative policy rule pp. 967-976

Vuslat Us

Paid employment and unpaid caring work in Spain pp. 977-986

Nieves Lazaro, Maria Luisa Molto and Rosario Sánchez Pérez

Delinquency, schooling, and work: time allocation decision of youth pp. 987-993

Ambrose Leung

The long run relationship between openness and government size: evidence from bounds test pp. 995-1000

Muhammad Islam

The use of quantile regressions in estimating gender wage differentials: a case study of the Philippines pp. 1001-1007

Christos Sakellariou

Volume 36, issue 8, 2004

Modelling milk purchasing behaviour with a panel data double-hurdle model pp. 769-779

Diansheng Dong, Chanjin Chung and Harry Kaiser

Credits and non-interest rate determinants of loan demand: a Spanish case study pp. 781-791

Justo Manrique and Kalu Ojah

The impact of the regulation of the cable television industry: the effect on quality-adjusted cable television prices pp. 793-802

Diane Bruce Anstine

Overeducation, undereducation, and the theory of career mobility pp. 803-816

Felix Buchel and Antje Mertens

A money demand system for euro area M3 pp. 817-838

Claus Brand and Nuno Cassola

Calibration of incomplete demand systems in quantitative analysis pp. 839-847

John Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau and Sophie Drogué

International demand and liquidity shocks in a SVAR model of the Australian economy pp. 849-863

Renee Fry-McKibbin

Do asset sales lead to improvements in operating performance? pp. 865-871

Abdul-Magid Gadad and Hardy Thomas

Modelling the US real GNP with fractionally integrated techniques pp. 873-879

Luis Gil-Alana

Regional convergence in Greece in the 1980s: an econometric investigation pp. 881-888

Leo Michelis, Athanasios Papadopoulos and Gregory Papanikos

Volume 36, issue 7, 2004

Substitution between games in the UK national lottery pp. 645-651

David Forrest, O Gulley and Robert Simmons

Foreign direct investment in the UK: evidence from a disaggregated panel of the UK food sector pp. 653-663

Monica Giulietti, S. Mccorriston and P. Osborne

The impact of religiosity on self- assessments of health and happiness: evidence from the US Southwest pp. 665-672

Gokce Soydemir, Elena Bastida and Genaro Gonzalez

Collusion analysis of the Alabama liquid asphalt market pp. 673-693

D. R. Kamerschen and J. E. Morgan

Non-uniformity of job-matching in a transition economy - A nonparametric analysis for the Czech Republic pp. 695-714

Stefan Profit and Stefan Sperlich

On inferring individual behaviour from market behaviour in a predetermined quantities model pp. 715-721

Hoanjae Park

Discrimination in matchmaking: evidence from the price policy of a French marriage bureau pp. 723-729

Nicolas Vaillant

The price premium of generic to brand-names and pharmaceutical price index pp. 731-737

Ying Kong

The price of owning a car: an analysis of auction quota premium in Singapore pp. 739-751

Mark Hon and Soo-Keong Yong

Information and efficiency in political stock markets: using computerized markets to predict election results pp. 753-768

Gregor Bruggelambert

Volume 36, issue 6, 2004

Returns to education and wage equations pp. 525-531

Pedro Pereira and Pedro Martins

Modelling the FF/MM rate by threshold cointegration analysis pp. 533-548

Mustapha Baghli

Controlling inflation in Euroland pp. 549-558

Karen Cabos and Nikolaus A Siegfried

Neighbourhood effects, preference heterogeneity and immigrant educational attainment pp. 559-572

Buly Cardak and James McDonald

The export effect of immigration into the USA pp. 573-583

Catherine Co, Patricia Euzent and Thomas Martin

Trends and volatilities in foreign patents registered in the USA pp. 585-592

Felix Chan, Dora Marinova and Michael McAleer

Fractional cointegration, low frequency dynamics and long-run purchasing power parity: an analysis of the Australian dollar over its recent float pp. 593-605

A. Mansur, M. Masih and Rumi Masih

Higher education costs and scale and scope economies pp. 607-614

G. Thomas Sav

Persistence of firm-level profitability in Turkey pp. 615-625

Burcin Yurtoglu

The measurement of technical efficiency: a neural network approach pp. 627-635

Daniel Santín, Francisco Delgado and Aurelia Valiño Castro

On measuring average growth rate pp. 637-644

Galip Altinay

Volume 36, issue 5, 2004

Prequential analysis of stock market returns pp. 399-412

David Bessler and Robert Ruffley

Estimating technical change by nonparametric methods pp. 413-420

Jati Sengupta

Labour market discrimination on the basis of health: an application to UK data pp. 421-442

David Madden

Exchange rate pass-through in a small open economy: the Anglo-Irish case pp. 443-455

Eleanor Doyle

A causal relationship between government spending and economic development: an empirical examination of the Greek economy pp. 457-464

Nikolaos Dritsakis and Antonis Adamopoulos

Foreign firm entry in an open economy: the case of Portugal pp. 465-472

Natália Barbosa, Paulo Guimaraes and Douglas Woodward

Structural change in exports and economic growth: cointegration and causality analysis for Spain (1961-2000) pp. 473-477

Jacint Balaguer and Manuel Cantavella-Jorda

Deregulation and governance: plight of Japanese banks in the 1990s pp. 479-484

Akihiko Kawaura

Needs, economic constraints, and the distribution of public home-care pp. 485-496

Audun Langørgen

Decomposition analysis of consumers' demand changes: an application to Greek consumption data pp. 497-504

Giannis Karagiannis and Kostas Velentzas

Determinants of foreign direct investment: empirical evidence from EU accession candidates pp. 505-509

Hubert Janicki and Phanindra Wunnava

Non-profit cost-adjusting with quality as a private good pp. 511-523

Dan Friesner and Robert Rosenman

Volume 36, issue 4, 2004

Inflation, minimum wage and other wages: an econometric study on French macroeconomic data pp. 277-290

Yannick L'Horty and Christophe Rault

What determines the value and volume of noncash transactions? Evidence from a panel of European and North American countries pp. 291-303

Alessandra Guariglia and Yiing Jia Loke

Do lower mortgage rates mean higher housing prices? pp. 305-313

James McGibany and Farrokh Nourzad

New light on the longshot bias pp. 315-326

Les Coleman

Patterns of co-authorship among economics departments in the USA pp. 327-333

Matthias Sutter and Martin Kocher

Are business cycles asymmetric? Some European evidence pp. 335-342

Amado Peiro

Growth of new start-up firms: evidence from the Japanese manufacturing industry pp. 343-355

Yuji Honjo

Attitudes to risk and attitudes to uncertainty: experimental evidence pp. 357-372

Carmela Di Mauro and Anna Maffioletti

Rationally addicted to drinking and smoking? pp. 373-381

Mikael Bask and Maria Melkersson

The power of negative thinking: corruption, perception and willingness to bribe in Ukraine pp. 383-397

Inna Cabelkova and Jan Hanousek

Volume 36, issue 3, 2004

Employer size-wage effects: evidence from matched employer-employee survey data in the UK pp. 185-193

Clive Belfield and Xiangdong Wei

A cointegrated structural VAR model of the Canadian economy pp. 195-213

William Crowder and Mark Wohar

Analysing the determinants of bank efficiency: the case of Italian banks pp. 215-227

Claudia Girardone, Philip Molyneux and Edward Gardener

Evaluating Irish industrial policy in terms of deadweight and displacement: a quantitative methodological approach pp. 229-252

Helena Lenihan

The evolution of regional income distribution in Japan pp. 253-259

Sung Jin Kang

A dynamic macroeconometric model for short-run stabilization in India pp. 261-276

Sushanta Mallick

Volume 36, issue 2, 2004

Adult labour market implications of antisocial behaviour in childhood and adolescence: findings from a UK longitudinal study pp. 93-105

Andrew Healey, Martin Knapp and David Farrington

Interindustry part-time and full-time wage differentials: regional and national analysis pp. 107-118

John Baffoe-Bonnie

Abnormal returns of UK privatizations: from underpricing to outperformance pp. 119-136

Massimo Florio and Katiuscia Manzoni

Convergence and catching up in ASEAN: a comparative analysis pp. 137-153

Lee Kian Lim and Michael McAleer

Industry-specific human capital, knowledge labour, and industry wage structure in Taiwan pp. 155-164

Kam Ki Tang and Yi-Ping Tseng

Inflation targeting and switch of fiscal regime in New Zealand pp. 165-172

Peter Mikek

Growth of regional economy and income inequality: county-level evidence from Florida, USA pp. 173-183

Jongsup Kim

Volume 36, issue 1, 2004

An empirical analysis of productivity growth and industrial concentration in us manufacturing pp. 1-7

Munisamy Gopinath, Daniel Pick and Yonghai Li

Efficiency in the NFL betting market: modifying and consolidating research methods pp. 9-15

William Dare and A. Steven Holland

Smokeless tobacco, smoking cessation and harm reduction: an economic analysis pp. 17-29

Richard Ault, Robert Ekelund, John Jackson and Richard Saba

Evaluating market efficiency without price data: the Swedish market for wood fuel pp. 31-39

Runar Brannlund, Per-Olov Marklund and Magnus Sjostrom

Are stocks a good hedge against inflation? evidence from emerging markets pp. 41-48

Spyros Spyrou

An analysis of the transmission mechanism of monetary policy in Ireland pp. 49-58

Don Bredin and Gerard O'Reilly

Effects of the optimal step toll scheme on equilibrium commuter behaviour pp. 59-81

Chen-Hsiu Laih

A model of advertising with application to the German automobile industry pp. 83-92

Petr Mariel and Joel Sandonis