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Volume 48, issue 60, 2016

Erratum pp. i-i

The Editors

IPO underpricing in supply and demand framework: evidence from a market of retailers pp. 5835-5849

Ahmed S. Alanazi, Benjamin Liu and Haitham Al-Zoubi

Measuring the effects of preservation on farm profits in a continuous treatment setting pp. 5850-5865

Witsanu Attavanich, Brian J. Schilling and Kevin P. Sullivan

Dynamic elasticities of tax revenue: evidence from the Czech Republic pp. 5866-5881

Tomas Havranek, Zuzana Irsova and Jiří Schwarz

The suspension of borrowing: an implicit penalty for loan default under imperfect information pp. 5882-5896

Xinhua Gu, Yang Zhang, Xiaolin Qian and Haizhen Guo

Are Indian rice exporters able to price discriminate? Empirical evidence for basmati and non-basmati rice pp. 5897-5908

Akash Issar and Poornima Varma

How did wars dampen trade in the MENA region? pp. 5909-5930

Fida Karam and Chahir Zaki

The U.S. health care expenditure: evidence from 2001 to 2009 pp. 5931-5940

Reed Olsen and Hui-Kuan Tseng

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 48, issue 59, 2016

Corrigendum pp. i-i

The Editors

Erratum pp. ii-ii

The Editors

Brand price differentials in retail distribution: product quality and service quality pp. 5749-5760

Juan A. Mañez, Rafael Moner Colonques, José Sempere-Monerris and Amparo Urbano

Economic feasibility analysis for electrical generation from biogas in waste disposal sites in Mexico City pp. 5761-5771

Pablo Emilio Escamilla García, María Elena Tavera Cortés, Raúl Junior Sandoval Gómez, Edmar Salinas Callejas and Horacio Eliseo Alvarado Raya

BRIC and GIPS – who drives who? Evidence from newly developed asymmetric causality tests pp. 5772-5778

Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Eduardo Roca

Study on the industrial Eco-Efficiency in East China based on the Super Efficiency DEA Model: an example of the 2003–2013 panel data pp. 5779-5785

Zhimin Dai, Lu Guo and Zhengyi Jiang

The contribution of start-ups and young firms to industry-level efficiency growth pp. 5786-5801

Michel Dumont, Glenn Rayp, Marijn Verschelde and Bruno Merlevede

Effects of the US monetary policy shocks during financial crises – a threshold vector autoregression approach pp. 5802-5823

Renee Fry-McKibbin and Jasmine Zheng

Investing against the wind: contagion during the recent financial crisis pp. 5824-5833

Liping Lu and Chunyang Wang

Volume 48, issue 58, 2016

Determinants of non-life insurance expenditure in developed and developing countries: an empirical investigation pp. 5639-5653

Tam Trinh, Xuan Nguyen and Pasquale Sgro

A nonparametric method for term structure fitting with automatic smoothing pp. 5654-5666

Vadim Kaushanskiy and Victor Lapshin

How does leverage affect R&D intensity and how does R&D intensity impact on firm value in South Korea? pp. 5667-5675

Byung S. Min and Russell Smyth

The effects of foreign strategic investors on business models in China’s commercial banks: does ownership structure matter? pp. 5676-5698

Maoyong Cheng, Hong Zhao and Mingming Zhou

To defer or not defer? UK state pension and work decisions in a lifecycle model pp. 5699-5716

Ricky Kanabar and Peter Simmons

What’s powering wind? The effect of the U.S. state renewable energy policies on wind capacity (1994–2012) pp. 5717-5730

Karen Maguire

Did large institutional investors flock into the technology herd? An empirical investigation using a vector Markov-switching model pp. 5731-5747

Aram Balagyozyan and Esin Cakan

Volume 48, issue 57, 2016

The asymmetric relationship between executive earnings management and compensation: a panel threshold regression approach pp. 5525-5545

Leon Li, Mark Holmes and Bong Soo Lee

Exchange rate and foreign GDP elasticities of Swiss exports across sectors and destination countries pp. 5546-5562

Sandra Hanslin Grossmann, Sarah Lein and Caroline Schmidt

Credit rationing or overlending? An exploration into financing imperfection pp. 5563-5580

Jean Bonnet, Sylvie Cieply and Marcus Dejardin

Is firm-sponsored training a palliative? A common agency approach pp. 5581-5592

Hejer Lasram and Didier Laussel

Do women borrowers augment financial performance of MFIs? pp. 5593-5604

Shahnaz Abdullah and Shakil Quayes

Relative scarcity and convenience yield: evidence from non-ferrous metals pp. 5605-5624

Akihiro Omura, Richard Chung, Neda Todorova and Bin Li

Transparency and trust: the case of the European Central Bank pp. 5625-5638

Roman Horvath and Dominika Katuscakova

Volume 48, issue 56, 2016

Financial development and poverty: evidence from the CFA Franc Zone pp. 5421-5436

Youssouf Kiendrebeogo and Alexandru Minea

Growth opportunities and trade credit: evidence from Chinese listed firms pp. 5437-5447

Sekyung Oh and Woo Sung Kim

An empirical study of third-party purchase: New Zealand users’ perspective pp. 5448-5461

Yangyan Shi, Tiru Arthanari and Lincoln C. Wood

Short-selling constraints and stock-valuation pattern: a regime–event analysis pp. 5462-5484

Min Bai, Xiao-Ming Li and Yafeng Qin

The triggers and clustering properties of merger waves pp. 5485-5496

Florian Szücs

Valuing externalities from energy infrastructures through stated preferences: a geographically stratified sampling approach pp. 5497-5512

Sergio Giaccaria, Vito Frontuto and Silvana Dalmazzone

Soccer transfers, team efficiency and the sports cycle in the most valued European soccer leagues – have European soccer teams been efficient in trading players? pp. 5513-5524

Paulo Mourão

Volume 48, issue 55, 2016

Corrigendum pp. 1-1

The Editors

Asset price momentum and monetary policy: time-varying parameter estimation of Taylor Rules pp. 5329-5339

Ramaprasad Bhar and Anastasios Malliaris

Social benefit expenditures and stagflation: evidence from the United States pp. 5340-5347

J. F. Li and Z. X. Lin

The relationship between the markets for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance pp. 5348-5363

J. Bradley Karl, Patricia H. Born and W Viscusi

Allocative and scale efficiency among maize farmers in Zambia: a zero efficiency stochastic frontier approach pp. 5364-5378

Abdul Nafeo Abdulai and Awudu Abdulai

Why firm size matters: investigating the drivers of innovation and economic performance in New Zealand using the pp. 5379-5395

Shangqin Hong, Les Oxley, Philip McCann and Trinh Le

The information content of implied volatility in developed versus developing FX markets pp. 5396-5404

Nicoleta Iliescu and Satyaki Dutta

The expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates and monetary policy: some evidence from Asian countries pp. 5405-5420

Chiara Guerello and Marco Tronzano

Volume 48, issue 54, 2016

Price transmission in the international skim milk powder markets pp. 5233-5245

Panos Fousekis and Emmanouil Trachanas

Population and lifestyle trend changes in China: implications for environmental quality pp. 5246-5256

Nicholas Apergis and Jun Li

Tacit collusion in housing markets: the case of Santiago, Chile pp. 5257-5275

Miguel Vargas

Competition and efficiency in the MENA banking region: a non-structural DEA approach pp. 5276-5291

Nicholas Apergis and Michael Polemis

Optimal penalty and accounting policy pp. 5292-5299

Masatomo Akita and Yusuke Osaki

Light fuel demand and public policies in Brazil, 2003–2013 pp. 5300-5313

Luciano Rodrigues and Mirian Rumenos Piedade Bacchi

The effects of the high school curriculum on school dropout pp. 5314-5328

Katja Görlitz and Christina Gravert

Volume 48, issue 53, 2016

The effect of sample size on European Union’s renewable energy investment drivers pp. 5129-5137

Gyanendra Singh Sisodia, Isabel Soares and Paula Ferreira

Measuring the degree of competition in Pakistan’s banking industry: an empirical analysis pp. 5138-5151

Faisal Mirza, Olvar Bergland and Isma Khatoon

Measuring capital services by energy use: an empirical comparative study pp. 5152-5167

Jürgen Bitzer and Erkan Gören

Are U.S. growth and value stocks similarly integrated with the world markets? A test across business cycles pp. 5168-5185

Shailesh Rana and G. Michael Phillips

The interactive effects of human capital and quality of life on economic growth pp. 5186-5200

Qin Fan, Stephan Goetz and Jiaochen Liang

Nature of transfers, income tax function and empirical estimation of elasticity of taxable income for Brazil pp. 5201-5220

Enlinson Mattos and Rafael Terra

Pollution, energy use, GDP and trade: estimating the long-run relationship for Vietnam pp. 5221-5232

Sajid Anwar and W. Robert J. Alexander

Volume 48, issue 52, 2016

What drives the choice of the type of partner in R&D cooperation? Evidence for Spanish manufactures and services pp. 5023-5044

Erika Badillo Enciso and Rosina Moreno

Promoting entry of high-quality workers through US immigration policy pp. 5045-5059

Lawrence Brunner and Joseph Pate

Has regulatory reform had any impact on bank efficiency in Indonesia? A two-stage analysis pp. 5060-5074

Felisitas Defung, Ruhul Salim and Harry Bloch

Liquidity and equity returns in Borsa Istanbul pp. 5075-5092

Yigit Atilgan, K. Ozgur Demirtas and A. Doruk Gunaydin

Board independence and operating performance: analysis on (French) company and individual data pp. 5093-5105

Sandra Cavaco, Edouard Challe, Patricia Crifo, Antoine Reberioux and Gwenaël Roudaut

Productivity comparison of European airlines: bootstrapping Malmquist indices pp. 5106-5116

Chyan Yang and Tung-Pao Wang

Sustainable competitive advantage and stock performance: the case for wide moat stocks pp. 5117-5127

Srinidhi Kanuri and Robert W. McLeod

Volume 48, issue 51, 2016

Macroeconomic policy uncertainty shocks on the Chinese economy: a GVAR analysis pp. 4907-4921

Liyan Han, Mengchao Qi and Libo Yin

Convergence and spillover of house prices in Chinese cities pp. 4922-4941

William W. Chow, Michael K. Fung and Arnold C. S. Cheng

Time-varying relationship of news sentiment, implied volatility and stock returns pp. 4942-4960

Lee Smales

Exchange rate and Chinese outward FDI pp. 4961-4976

Hai Yue Liu and Ivan Deseatnicov

High-low range in GARCH models of stock return volatility pp. 4977-4991

Peter Molnár

How to explain carbon price using market micro-behaviour? pp. 4992-5007

Ying Fan, Yin-Peng Liu and Jian-Feng Guo

U.S. foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: a case of remittances and market size pp. 5008-5021

Pablo A. Garcia-Fuentes, P. Lynn Kennedy and Gustavo F. C. Ferreira

Volume 48, issue 50, 2016

Rating the credit rating agencies pp. 4799-4812

Dror Parnes and Sagi Akron

Childhood obesity and the income gradient: evidence from Australia pp. 4813-4822

Hong Son Nghiem and Rasheda Khanam

Age dependency and labour productivity divergence pp. 4823-4845

Misbah Tanveer Choudhry, Enrico Marelli and Marcello Signorelli

Forecasting Brazilian inflation by its aggregate and disaggregated data: a test of predictive power by forecast horizon pp. 4846-4860

Thiago Carlomagno Carlo and Emerson Marçal

Does remittance fuel labour productivity in Bangladesh? The application of an asymmetric non-linear ARDL approach pp. 4861-4877

Md Al Mamun, Kazi Sohag, Nahla Samargandi and Farida Yasmeen

Cost of debt and federal home loan bank funding at U.S. bank and thrift holding companies pp. 4878-4893

Scott Deacle and Elyas Elyasiani

Portfolio optimization through Kriging methods pp. 4894-4905

Marcelo Rosário da Barrosa, Arthur Valle Salles and Celma de Oliveira Ribeiro

Volume 48, issue 49, 2016

Erratum pp. i-i

The Editors

Measuring bank competition under binding interest rate regulation: the case of China pp. 4699-4718

Bing Xu, Adrian Rixtel and Michiel Van Leuvensteijn

Non-elective C-sections in public hospitals: capacity constraints and doctor incentives pp. 4719-4731

Alejandro Arrieta and Ariadna García Prado

Guns, laws and public shootings in the United States pp. 4732-4746

Benjamin Blau, Devon Gorry and Chip Wade

Derivatives holdings and market values of U.S. bank holding companies pp. 4747-4757

Wonho Wilson Choi, Jinyong Kim and Mingook Kim

Asymmetric monetary policy rules in Australia pp. 4758-4772

George B. Tawadros

The dominant borrower syndrome pp. 4773-4782

Ali Choudhary, Sajawal Khan, Farooq Pasha and Muhammad Rehman

Estimating fundamental and affordable housing price trends: a study based on Singapore pp. 4783-4798

Tilak Abeysinghe and Jiaying Gu

Volume 48, issue 48, 2016

Validity of sustainability framework for China’s mining cities – a structural equation modelling approach pp. 4585-4605

Zhongjun Zhang, Shunming Zhang, Fangfang Zhang, Jing Yu and Yanyang Zhu

Maternal employment trajectories and caring for an infant or toddler with a disability pp. 4606-4621

Anna Zhu

Cyclicality of taxes and external debt pp. 4622-4634

Noa Srebrnik and Michel Strawczynski

Strength of co-movement between sector CDS indexes and relationship with major economic and financial variables over time and during investment horizons pp. 4635-4654

Besma Hkiri, Shawkat Hammoudeh and Chaker Aloui

Predictability of sustainable investments and the role of uncertainty: evidence from a non-parametric causality-in-quantiles test pp. 4655-4665

Nikolaos Antonakakis, Vassilios Babalos and Clement Kyei

The transmission from equity markets to commodity markets in crises periods pp. 4666-4689

Kae-Yih Tzeng and Joseph Chang Pying Shieh

Ready to run: price determinants of thoroughbreds from 2 year olds in training sales pp. 4690-4697

Marion Robert and C. Stowe

Volume 48, issue 47, 2016

The effect of ECB monetary policies on interest rates and volumes pp. 4477-4501

Jerome Creel, Paul Hubert and Mathilde Viennot

Smart, connected products change a company’s business strategy orientation pp. 4502-4509

Hana Mohelska and Marcela Sokolova

The price of the euro: evidence from sovereign debt markets pp. 4510-4525

Erik Mäkelä

Food environment and weight outcomes: a stochastic frontier approach pp. 4526-4537

Xun Li and Rigoberto Lopez

Analyst coverage and stock return synchronicity: evidence from regulation changes in China’s IPO market pp. 4538-4557

Xuelian Bai, Fangjun Wang and Junrui Zhang

Presidential approval and macroeconomic conditions: evidence from a nonlinear model pp. 4558-4572

Seung-Whan Choi, Patrick James, Yitan Li and Eric Olson

Comparative evaluation of the cost of water in northern Malawi: from rural water wells to science education pp. 4573-4583

Rochelle Holm, Wales Singini and Simeon Gwayi

Volume 48, issue 46, 2016

Extreme dependence in price transmission analysis pp. 4379-4392

Feng Qiu and James Rude

Crises and exchange rate regimes: time to break down the bipolar view? pp. 4393-4409

Jean-Louis Combes, Alexandru Minea and Moussé Sow

The profitability of financial analysts’ recommendations: evidence from an emerging market pp. 4410-4418

Raphaëlle Bellando, Z. Ben Braham and Sébastien Galanti

Asymmetric correlations in gold and other financial markets pp. 4419-4425

T. Miyazaki and Shigeyuki Hamori

Structural shifts in aid dependency and fiscal policy in developing countries pp. 4426-4446

Jean-Louis Combes, Rasmane Ouedraogo and Sampawende Tapsoba

Structural fiscal balances of the UK: a state-space DSGE approach pp. 4447-4461

Kai Liu

Forecasting US consumer price index: does nonlinearity matter? pp. 4462-4475

Marcos Álvarez-Díaz and Rangan Gupta

Volume 48, issue 45, 2016

Are mortgage lenders guilty of the housing bubble? A UK perspective pp. 4271-4290

Qin Xiao and Steven Devaney

Decomposing the bias in time-series estimates of CAPM betas pp. 4291-4298

H. Malloch, R. Philip and S. Satchell

The effect of price targets on the composition of CEO pay pp. 4299-4311

Giuliano Bianchi

Volatility–volume co-movements: evidence from China metal markets pp. 4312-4336

Ren Zhang and Arnold Polanski

International aid from the recipient perspective: public or private good input assistance? pp. 4337-4349

Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi

A structural event study for M&As: an application in corporate governance pp. 4350-4365

Tarcisio da Graça and Robert Masson

Optimizing time-series forecasts for inflation and interest rates using simulation and model averaging pp. 4366-4378

Adusei Jumah and Robert Kunst

Volume 48, issue 44, 2016

The influence of entrepreneur’s personal characteristics on MSEs growth through innovation pp. 4183-4200

Issam Laguir and Matthijs Den Besten

Cointegration as an explanation for the Meese–Rogoff puzzle pp. 4201-4209

Imad A. Moosa and John J. Vaz

Economic integration and stock market dynamic linkages: evidence in the context of Australia and Asia pp. 4210-4226

Sudharshan Reddy Paramati, Eduardo Roca and Rakesh Gupta

Credibility of propensity score matching estimates. An example from Fair Trade certification of coffee producers pp. 4227-4237

Nicolas Lampach and Ulrich B. Morawetz

News sentiment and overshooting of exchange rates pp. 4238-4250

Stefan Feuerriegel, Georg Wolff and Dirk Neumann

Business cycle turning points based on DEA-discriminant analysis pp. 4251-4256

Tomoyuki Yagi and Masako Takahashi

An analysis of wine and food consumption dynamics in Japan using a vector error correction model pp. 4257-4269

Makiko Omura

Volume 48, issue 43, 2016

Differences in the determinants and targeting of antidumping: China and India compared pp. 4083-4097

Ning Meng, Chris Milner and Huasheng Song

Gender wage gap across the wage distribution in different segments of the Indian labour market, 1983–2012: exploring the glass ceiling or sticky floor phenomenon pp. 4098-4111

Malathy Duraisamy and P. Duraisamy

The spillover effects of United States foreign trade zones pp. 4112-4130

Sucharita Ghosh, Curtis Reynolds and Shawn M. Rohlin

The random walk as a forecasting benchmark: drift or no drift? pp. 4131-4142

Imad Moosa and Kelly Burns

Gender segregation and earnings differences in the Spanish labour market pp. 4143-4155

Juan Antonio Campos-Soria and Miguel Ángel Ropero

The determinants and profitability of switching costs in Chinese banking pp. 4156-4166

Wei Yin and Kent Matthews

Weight discrimination in the German labour market pp. 4167-4182

Marina-Selini Katsaiti and Mrittika Shamsuddin

Volume 48, issue 42, 2016

The valuation of patents using third-party data: the Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index pp. 3995-3998

Nathan Mauck and Stephen W. Pruitt

The effectiveness of index futures hedging in emerging markets during the crisis period of 2008-2010: Evidence from South Africa pp. 3999-4018

Lumengo Bonga-Bonga and Ekerete Umoetok

Forecasting development outcomes under alternative surplus labour assumptions pp. 4019-4032

Marc Jim M. Mariano and James Giesecke

An extension of the asymmetric causality tests for dealing with deterministic trend components pp. 4033-4041

Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Youssef El-Khatib

Consumption tax revenue and personal income tax: analytical elasticities under non-standard tax structures pp. 4042-4050

José Félix Sanz-Sanz, Juan Manuel Castañer-Carrasco and Desiderio Romero-Jordán

Reverse takeover: the moderating role of family ownership pp. 4051-4065

Isabel Feito-Ruiz, Clara Cardone-Riportella and Susana Menéndez-Requejo

The relationship between risk-neutral and actual default probabilities: the credit risk premium pp. 4066-4081

Wouter Heynderickx, Jessica Cariboni, W. Schoutens and B. Smits

Volume 48, issue 41, 2016

Financial innovation, systematic risk and commercial banks’ stability in China: theory and evidence pp. 3887-3898

Qi-an Chen and Fangzhou Du

Financing constraints on the size distribution of industrial firms: the Chinese experience pp. 3899-3911

Qigang Yuan, Yanping Zhao, Hui Shang, Wei Zhang and Zaghum Umar

On the relationship among efficiency, capitalization and risk: does management matter in local banking market? pp. 3912-3934

Cristian Barra, Giovanna Bimonte and Roberto Zotti

Inflation and inflation uncertainty in China pp. 3935-3943

Dou Jiang

The role of price risk in China’s agricultural and fisheries exports to the US pp. 3944-3960

Dengjun Zhang and Yuqing Zheng

Measuring the financial sustainability and its influential factors in local governments pp. 3961-3975

Andrés Navarro-Galera, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez-Bolívar, Laura Alcaide-Muñoz and María Deseada López-Subires

The impact of a ‘soda tax’ on prices: evidence from French micro data pp. 3976-3994

Nicoletta Berardi, Patrick Sevestre, Marine Tépaut and Alexandre Vigneron

Volume 48, issue 40, 2016

Dynamic correlation and equicorrelation analysis of global financial turmoil: evidence from emerging East Asian stock markets pp. 3789-3803

Xiao Jing Cai, Shuairu Tian and Shigeyuki Hamori

Cost of capital: spot rate or forward rate? pp. 3804-3811

Huang Qi and Y. A. Xie

Adoption of digital repositories for CO 2 emissions reduction: the case of Korea pp. 3812-3825

Wankeun Oh and Eun G. Park

Portfolios in the Ibex 35 before and after the Global Financial Crisis pp. 3826-3847

Víctor M. Adame, Fernando Fernández-Rodríguez and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Substitution between leisure activities: a quasi-natural experiment using sports viewing and cinema attendance pp. 3848-3860

Sofia Izquierdo Sanchez, Caroline Elliott and Robert Simmons

Tuition fees and social segregation: lessons from a natural experiment at the University of Paris 9-Dauphine pp. 3861-3876

Leonard Moulin, David Flacher and Hugo Harari-Kermadec

On the co-movement between coffee and cocoa prices in international markets pp. 3877-3886

F. Traoré and F. Badolo

Volume 48, issue 39, 2016

Is hedging successful at reducing financial risk exposure? pp. 3695-3713

Maria João Jorge and Mário Gomes Augusto

Bivariate risk attitudes, informal care and saving pp. 3714-3722

Desu Liu

Forecasts of the managed futures market -- an empirical analysis pp. 3723-3733

Ewelina Sokołowska

Do financial distress and liquidity crises affect value and size premiums? pp. 3734-3751

Mohammed Elgammal, Tugba Bas, Orla Gough, Neeta Shah and Stefan van Dellen

The effect of copayments on primary care utilization: results from a quasi-experiment pp. 3752-3762

Niklas Jakobsson and Mikael Svensson

Energy consumption and economic growth in the United States pp. 3763-3773

Vipin Arora and Shuping Shi

Do economic, institutional or political variables explain regulated wholesale unbundled local loop rate setting? pp. 3774-3788

Gary Madden, Christian M. Dippon and Hiroaki Suenaga

Volume 48, issue 38, 2016

Cost and learning efficiency drivers in Australian schools: a two-stage network DEA approach pp. 3577-3604

Peter Wanke, Vincent Blackburn and Carlos Barros

Investment scaling up and the role of government pp. 3605-3625

Matteo Ghilardi and Sergio Sola

Loan guarantees and the cost of debt: evidence from China pp. 3626-3643

Bin Liu, Charles Cullinan, Junrui Zhang and Fangjun Wang

Productivity growth and stock returns: firm- and aggregate-level analyses pp. 3644-3664

Hyunbae Chun, Jung-Wook Kim and Randall Morck

Can you do the wrong thing and still be right? Hypothesis testing in I(2) and near-I(2) cointegrated VARs pp. 3665-3678

Francesca Di Iorio, Stefano Fachin and Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti

Investors’ heterogeneity and tranching pp. 3679-3684

Frank Yong Wang, Xu Wei and Li Li

Impact of microcredit on borrowers’ expenditures: a fuzzy regression discontinuity design approach pp. 3685-3694

Khondker Aktaruzzaman and Omar Farooq

Volume 48, issue 37, 2016

Measuring the efficiency of health systems of OECD countries by data envelopment analysis pp. 3497-3507

Volkan Recai Cetin and Serdal Bahce

Equities of scope as merger incentives under capital regulation: narrow versus synergy banking valuation pp. 3508-3525

Shi Chen, Jeng-Yan Tsai and Rosemary Jou

Are contributions of time and money substitutes or complements? pp. 3526-3537

Wei Yang

Profit persistence and stock returns pp. 3538-3549

Adelina Gschwandtner and Michael Hauser

Combining value averaging and Bollinger Band for an ETF trading strategy pp. 3550-3557

Hung-Cheng Lai, Tseng-Chan Tseng and Sz-Chi Huang

Detecting multiple factors in panel data: an application on the growth of local regions in China pp. 3558-3568

W.D. Chen

Margin rate and the cycle: the role of trade openness pp. 3569-3575

Gilbert Cette, Rémy Lecat and Ahmed Ould Ahmed Jiddou

Volume 48, issue 36, 2016

Value of hedge and expected returns pp. 3373-3398

Jinpeng Ma, Max Tang and Yuming Wang

Migrant remittances and fertility pp. 3399-3415

Amar Anwar and Mazhar Mughal

The impact of public and semi-public information on cotton futures market pp. 3416-3431

R. Xie, O. Isengildina-Massa, Gerald Dwyer and J. L. Sharp

The franc shock and Swiss GDP: how long does it take to start feeling the pain? pp. 3432-3441

Boriss Siliverstovs

The stock market effect of air pollution: evidence from China pp. 3442-3461

Q. Li and C.H. Peng

How important is the credit channel in the transmission of monetary policy in Mexico? pp. 3462-3484

Raul Ibarra

Dynamic Model for Market Competition and Price Rigidity pp. 3485-3496

G. R. Chen

Volume 48, issue 35, 2016

Risk aversion, fanning preference and volatility smirk on S&P 500 index options pp. 3277-3292

Jian Chen and Chenghu Ma

Assessing equitable health financing for universal health coverage: a case study of South Africa pp. 3293-3306

John Ataguba

Local employer competition and training of workers pp. 3307-3321

Sylvi Rzepka and Marcus Tamm

Lottery pricing and price elasticity dispersion in the UK and Canada pp. 3322-3328

George Geronikolaou and George Papachristou

What determines stock liquidity in Australia? pp. 3329-3344

Searat Ali, Benjamin Liu and Jen Je Su

Can 1-day candlestick patterns be profitable on the 30 component stocks of the DJIA? pp. 3345-3354

Tsung-Hsun Lu and Yung-Ming Shiu

The determinants of cognitive and non-cognitive educational outcomes: empirical evidence in Spain using a Bayesian approach pp. 3355-3372

José Manuel Cordero, Manuel Muñiz and Cristina Polo

Volume 48, issue 34, 2016

Has the capital accumulation in the Asian miracle economies been fuelled by growth? pp. 3175-3194

Jakob Madsen and Iqtiar Mamun

Is health care a luxury? The debate revisited with new evidence from emerging economies pp. 3195-3207

Sanja Samirana Pattnayak and Alka Chadha

Analysing remanufacturing decisions of supply chain members in uncertainty of consumer preferences pp. 3208-3227

Shu Tong, Huaisi Liao, Shou Chen, Shouyang Wang, Kin Keung Lai and Lu Gan

Volatility--volume causality across single stock spot--futures markets in India pp. 3228-3243

Anshul Jain, Pratap Chandra Biswal and Sajal Ghosh

Persistence, mean reversion and non-linearities in the US housing prices over 1830--2013 pp. 3244-3252

Luis Gil-Alana, Rangan Gupta and Fernando Pérez de Gracia

Evaluation of the profitability of quality labels in rural tourism accommodation: a hedonic approach using propensity score matching pp. 3253-3263

Celia Bilbao and Luis Valdés

Do price-earnings ratios explain investment decisions better than Tobin’s q ? Evidence from German firm-level data pp. 3264-3276

Filomena Pietrovito

Volume 48, issue 33, 2016

How does economic policy uncertainty drive gold--stock correlations? Evidence from the UK pp. 3081-3087

Ruzhao Gao and Bing Zhang

Business environment, economic agglomeration and job creation around the world pp. 3088-3103

George Clarke, Yue Li and Lixin Xu

Just looking for a good game: competitive balance in the Korean Professional Baseball League pp. 3104-3115

Young Hoon Lee, Hayley Jang and Rodney Fort

Forecasting the realized volatility in the Chinese stock market: further evidence pp. 3116-3130

Wang Pu, Yixiang Chen and Feng Ma

Is growth corrupted or bureaucratic? Panel evidence from the enlarged EU pp. 3131-3147

E. Tsanana, X. Chapsa and Constantinos Katrakilidis

Assessing students’ equality of opportunity in OECD countries: the role of national- and school-level policies pp. 3148-3163

Michele Raitano and Francesco Vona

The role of conference externalities and other factors in determining the annual recruiting rankings of football bowl subdivision (FBS) teams pp. 3164-3174

Joshua Pitts and Brent Evans

Volume 48, issue 32, 2016

R&D intensity, economic growth and firm-size growth: theory and practice pp. 2973-2993

Oscar Afonso

Estimating multi-period Value at Risk of oil futures prices pp. 2994-3004

Chunyang Zhou, Xiao Qin, Xundi Diao and Yingchen He

What explains the total factor productivity gap between OECD economies and the U.S.? pp. 3005-3019

Eric C. Y. Ng and Ying Chu Ng

Competition in shared markets and Major League Baseball broadcast viewership pp. 3020-3032

Brian Mills, Michael Mondello and Scott Tainsky

Impacts of star-rated hotel expansion on inbound tourism development: evidence from China pp. 3033-3048

Ruyi Shi, Shengbao Ji, Xiaozhen Wang and Fan Li

Conditional convergence in US disaggregated petroleum consumption at the sector level pp. 3049-3061

Hooi Hooi Lean, Vinod Mishra and Russell Smyth

Consumer confidence and economic activity: a factor augmented VAR approach pp. 3062-3080

E. Kilic and Serkan Çankaya

Volume 48, issue 31, 2016

Two universal, probabilistic measures of competitive imbalance pp. 2883-2894

M Kevin McGee

A non-linear approach for predicting stock returns and volatility with the use of investor sentiment indices pp. 2895-2898

Stelios Bekiros, Rangan Gupta and Clement Kyei

Quantile unit root test and PPP: evidence from 23 OECD countries pp. 2899-2911

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Omid Ranjbar

Do changes in the fundamentals have symmetric or asymmetric effects on house prices? Evidence from 52 states of the United States of America pp. 2912-2936

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Seyed Hesam Ghodsi

Bilateral real exchange rates and migration pp. 2937-2951

Sekou Keita

Investor sentiment, variance risk premium and delta-hedged gains pp. 2952-2964

Yankun Chen, Jinghong Shu and Jin E. Zhang

The efficiency of Mozambique soccer league: the Moçambola pp. 2965-2971

Carlos Barros, Dercio Mandlaze and Scott Tainsky

Volume 48, issue 30, 2016

Assessing the competition in Angola’s banking industry pp. 2785-2791

Carlos Barros and Zorro Mendes

Inflation and inflation volatility in Thailand pp. 2792-2806

Akhand Hossain and Popkarn Arwatchanakarn

Dynamics of female labour force participation in France pp. 2807-2821

R. Collet and D. Legros

Bank reforms and efficiency in Vietnamese banks: evidence based on SFA and DEA pp. 2822-2835

Thanh Pham Thien Nguyen, Hong Son Nghiem, Eduardo Roca and Parmendra Sharma

Selection on performance and tracking pp. 2836-2851

Roxanne Korthals and Jaap Dronkers

Forward-premium puzzle: is it time to abandon the usual regression? pp. 2852-2867

Carlos E. da Costa, Jaime de Jesus Filho and Paulo Matos

Informality in an economy with active labour courts pp. 2868-2882

Luis Araujo, Vladimir Ponczek and André Souza

Volume 48, issue 29, 2016

Regime-switching purchasing power parity in Latin America: Monte Carlo unit root tests with dynamic conditional score pp. 2675-2696

Astrid Ayala, Szabolcs Blazsek, Juncal Cuñado and Luis Gil-Alana

A study of credit risk of Chinese listed companies: ZPP versus KMV pp. 2697-2710

Lili Li, Jun Yang and Xin Zou

A performance assessment of the Angolan soccer league pp. 2711-2720

Carlos Barros, O. H. dos S. Figueiredo and Silvestre Dumbo

Nominal term structure and term premia: evidence from Chile pp. 2721-2735

Luis Ceballos, Alberto Naudon and Damian Romero

The repatriation incentive of the foreign dividend exemption system pp. 2736-2755

Carmen Bachmann and Martin Baumann

Informality and credit constraints: evidence from Sub-Saharan African MSEs pp. 2756-2770

Nirosha Wellalage and Stuart Locke

For better or for worse: the long-term effects of postwar mobilization on family formation pp. 2771-2784

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis and Mutlu Yuksel

Volume 48, issue 28, 2016

Long- and short-run elasticities of residential electricity consumption in China: a partial adjustment model with panel data pp. 2587-2599

Haitao Yin, Hui Zhou and Kai Zhu

Impact of sovereign rating changes on stock market co-movements: the case of Latin America pp. 2600-2610

Ahmet Sensoy

Cross-base tax elasticity of capital gains pp. 2611-2624

Martin Jacob

The effectiveness of quantitative easing: new evidence on private investment pp. 2625-2635

Tarron Khemraj and Sherry Yu

The demand for medical care services: evidence from Kuwait based on households’ out-of-pocket expenses pp. 2636-2650

Nadeem A. Burney, Mohammad Alenezi, Nadia Al-Musallam and Ahmed Al-Khayat

The elusive character of fiscal sustainability pp. 2651-2664

Antonio Afonso and Joao Jalles

Local banking and local economic growth in Italy: some panel evidence pp. 2665-2674

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Stefano Di Colli, Roberto Di Salvo and Juan Sergio Lopez

Volume 48, issue 27, 2016

Does asymmetry in price transmission exist in the rice market in Sri Lanka? pp. 2491-2505

P. M. Korale Gedara, S. Ratnasiri and J. S. Bandara

Fiscal stimulus effectiveness in Japan: evidence from recent policies pp. 2506-2515

Tomomi Miyazaki

Estimating technology in the postal sector: a Bayesian approach pp. 2516-2529

José Baños and Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez

The effects of China’s split-share reform on firms’ capital structure choice pp. 2530-2549

Liang Guo, Ya Dai and Donald Lien

Why do we adopt environmentally friendly lawn care? Evidence from do-it-yourself consumers pp. 2550-2561

Dong Hee Suh, Hayk Khachatryan and Zhengfei Guan

Financial and legislative aspects of drug development of orphan diseases on the European market -- a systematic review pp. 2562-2570

Petra Maresova, Blanka Klimova and Kamil Kuca

Forecasting tourist arrivals using origin country macroeconomics pp. 2571-2585

Ioannis Chatziantoniou, Stavros Degiannakis, Bruno Eeckels and George Filis

Volume 48, issue 26, 2016

An investigation of the effects of exchange rate volatility on exports in East Asia pp. 2397-2411

Gabriel Pino, Dilara Tas and Subhash C. Sharma

Forecasting South African inflation using non-linearmodels: a weighted loss-based evaluation pp. 2412-2427

Patrick T. Kanda, Mehmet Balcilar, Pejman Bahramian and Rangan Gupta

Exchange rate volatility--economic growth nexus in Uganda pp. 2428-2442

Lorna Katusiime, Frank Agbola and Abul Shamsuddin

Interrelationship among foreign presence, domestic sales and export intensity in Chinese manufacturing industries pp. 2443-2453

Sizhong Sun and Sajid Anwar

Assessing the role of futures position substitutability in a monthly slaughtered pork factor demand by US processors: a cointegrated VAR model approach pp. 2454-2468

Ronald A. Babula and Dragan Miljkovic

US stock market sensitivity to interest and inflation rates: a quantile regression approach pp. 2469-2481

Francisco Jareño, Román Ferrer and Stanislava Miroslavova

An ordinal ranking of economic institutions pp. 2482-2490

Scott Beaulier, Robert Elder, Cheryl Han and Joshua Hall

Volume 48, issue 25, 2016

Revisiting electricity liberalization and quality of service: empirical evidence from New Zealand pp. 2309-2320

Rabindra Nepal, Antonio Carvalho and John Foster

Labour misallocation in China: 1980--2010 pp. 2321-2332

Peiwen Bai and Wenli Cheng

A discrete time model of convergence for the term structure of interest rates in the case of entering a monetary union pp. 2333-2340

V. Aevskiy and V. Chetverikov

The impact of FTAs on MENA trade in agricultural and industrial products pp. 2341-2353

Maria Dolores Parra, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and C. Suárez-Burguet

The changing role of consumers and suppliers in a food safety event: the 2006 foodborne illness outbreak linked to spinach pp. 2354-2366

Carlos Arnade, Fred Kuchler and Linda Calvin

Analysis of contagion from the dynamic conditional correlation model with Markov Regime switching pp. 2367-2382

Pedro Nielsen Rotta and Pedro Valls Pereira

Testing the relative purchasing power parity hypothesis: the case of Korea pp. 2383-2395

Hyein Shim, Hyeyoen Kim, Sunghyun Kim and Doojin Ryu

Volume 48, issue 24, 2016

An investigation into the dynamic relationship between international and China’s crude oil prices pp. 2215-2224

Hing Lin Chan and Kai-Yin Woo

The impact of coal price fluctuations on China’s economic output pp. 2225-2237

Zhihua Ding, Lingyun He, Caicai Feng and Wenbo Li

The public sector and convergence with spatial interdependence: empirical evidence from Spain pp. 2238-2252

Inmaculada Álvarez and Javier Barbero

Did the Thai rice-pledging programme improve the economic performance and viability of rice farming? pp. 2253-2265

Witsanu Attavanich

Is business saving really none of our business? pp. 2266-2284

Ricardo Bebczuk and Eduardo Cavallo

State-dependent risk and M&A pp. 2285-2300

Chune Young Chung

Research output and economic growth in G7 countries: new evidence from asymmetric panel causality testing pp. 2301-2308

Abdulnasser Hatemi-J, Ahdi Noomen Ajmi, Ghassen El Montasser, Roula Inglesi-Lotz and Rangan Gupta

Volume 48, issue 23, 2016

Short sale constraints and information-driven short selling: evidence on NASDAQ pp. 2113-2124

Kevin M. Zhao

Renegotiation on incomplete procurement contracts pp. 2125-2138

Hojin Jung

Fiscal sustainability and dollarization: the case of Ecuador pp. 2139-2155

María Lorena Marí Del Cristo and Marta Gómez-Puig

A contribution to the empirics of convergence in real GDP growth: the role of financial crises and exchange-rate regimes pp. 2156-2169

Amalia Morales-Zumaquero and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

The motor vehicle industry in an emerging nation: the case of Brazil pp. 2170-2182

Lila J. Truett and Dale B. Truett

Labour market forecasting in Germany: is disaggregation useful? pp. 2183-2198

Enzo Weber and Gerd Zika

Estimating interest rate setting behaviour in Korea: a constrained ordered choices model approach pp. 2199-2214

Hyeongwoo Kim, Wen Shi and Kwang-Myoung Hwang

Volume 48, issue 22, 2016

Liquidity commonality in order-driven trading: evidence from the Athens Stock Exchange pp. 2007-2021

Panagiotis Anagnostidis, George Papachristou and Nikos S. Thomaidis

Rhetoric on the economy: have European parties changed their economic messages? pp. 2022-2036

Elina De Simone and Paulo Mourão

What drives intermediation costs? A case of tennis betting market pp. 2037-2053

Štefan Lyócsa and Igor Fedorko

Is there a link between alcohol consumption and the level of poverty? pp. 2054-2063

Ruwan Jayathilaka, Saroja Selvanathan and Jayatilleke S. Bandaralage

Deciding on large scale investments pp. 2064-2077

Marina Barboza Camargo and Carlos Azzoni

Information on sellers and buyers characteristics: added value to explain price formation at primary fish markets in managed French scallop fisheries pp. 2078-2092

Gabrielle Lesur-Irichabeau, O. Guyader, M. Frésard, C. Leroy, Karine Latouche and L. Le Grel

Choosing for others pp. 2093-2111

Stéphan Marette, Jayson Lusk and Bailey Norwood

Volume 48, issue 21, 2016

A nonlinear Granger causality test between stock returns and investor sentiment for Chinese stock market: a wavelet-based approach pp. 1915-1924

Xiaojun Chu, Chongfeng Wu and Jianying Qiu

How is β related to asset returns? pp. 1925-1935

Bernard Bollen and Philip Gharghori

Social and family load of Alzheimer’s disease pp. 1936-1948

Petra Maresova, Hana Mohelska and Kamil Kuca

Do SPS measures matter for margins of trade? Evidence from firm-level data pp. 1949-1964

Hoda El-Enbaby, Rana Hendy and Chahir Zaki

Buying your way into a healthier lifestyle: a latent class analysis of healthy food purchases pp. 1965-1977

Michelle Segovia and Marco Palma

The impact of immigrant concentration in schools on grade retention in Spain: a difference-in-differences approach pp. 1978-1990

Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro, Daniel Santín and Rosa Simancas

Is trade in electrical and electronic products sensitive to IPR protection? Evidence from China’s exports pp. 1991-2005

Mahfuz Kabir and Ruhul Salim

Volume 48, issue 20, 2016

Does oil price variability affect ASEAN exchange rates? Evidence from panel cointegration test pp. 1831-1839

Khalid Kisswani

Environmental disclosure and stock market liquidity: evidence from Arab MENA emerging markets pp. 1840-1851

Mejda Mahmoudi Akrout and Hakim Ben Othman

Does mutual recognition of qualifications stimulate services trade? The case of the European Union pp. 1852-1865

Hildegunn Nordås

Fee or free checking? Noninterest checking account fees, competition and multimarket banking pp. 1866-1880

Russell Kashian and Robert Drago

Firm growth and liquidity constraints: evidence from the manufacturing and service sectors in Italy pp. 1881-1892

Cristiana Donati

Dynamic interfeed substitution: implications for incorporating ethanol byproducts into feedlot rations pp. 1893-1901

Dong Hee Suh and Charles Moss

Estimating the variance of decomposition effects pp. 1902-1913

Takuya Hasebe

Volume 48, issue 19, 2016

Macroeconomic effects of terms of trade fluctuations in commodity exporting advanced economies pp. 1731-1742

Anthony Makin and Nicholas Rohde

Do immigrants affect the profile of U.S. exporters? pp. 1743-1758

Bedassa Tadesse and Roger White

Another look at momentum crashes: momentum in the European Monetary Union pp. 1759-1766

Klaus Grobys

A joint analysis of market indexes in credit default swap, volatility and stock markets pp. 1767-1784

José Da Fonseca and Peiming Wang

Tail risk in emerging markets of Southeastern Europe pp. 1785-1798

Selena Totić and Miloš Božović

The economics of BitCoin price formation pp. 1799-1815

Pavel Ciaian, Miroslava Rajcaniova and d'Artis Kancs

Education and income attraction: an online dating field experiment pp. 1816-1830

David Ong

Volume 48, issue 18, 2016

The impacts of membership in multi-hospital systems on cost, productivity growth and technical change pp. 1633-1646

Gerald Granderson and Helen Tauchen

Some effects of business environment on retail firms pp. 1647-1654

Pierre Nguimkeu

Do microfinance institutions fulfil their promise? Evidence from cross-country data pp. 1655-1677

K. Lopatta and M. Tchikov

Integrated data-driven analytics to identify instability signatures in nonstationary financial time series pp. 1678-1694

Samar K. Guharay, Gaurav S. Thakur, Fred J. Goodman, Scott L. Rosen and Daniel Houser

Would information on consumer confidence have helped to predict UK household expenditure during the recent economic crisis? pp. 1695-1709

Robert Gausden and Mohammad S. Hasan

A ranking of journals for the aspiring health economist pp. 1710-1718

M. Ryan Haley

Growth, deregulation and rent seeking in post-war British economy pp. 1719-1729

S. P. Chakravarty, Dimitrios Thomakos and Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

Volume 48, issue 17, 2016

Economic development, cultural differences and FDI pp. 1545-1559

Yener Kandogan

Does simplifying divorce and marriage registration matter? Evidence from China pp. 1560-1572

Cheng Cheng

Linear time-varying regression with a DCC-GARCH model for volatility pp. 1573-1582

Jong-Min Kim, Hojin Jung and Li Qin

Ownership and corporate wage policy: the signal and its strength pp. 1583-1590

Miroslav Verbič and Marko Ogorevc

The nexus between sectoral FDI and institutional quality: empirical evidence from Pakistan pp. 1591-1601

Syed Hasanat Shah, Mohsin Ahmad and Masood Qazi

Asset correlations in single factor credit risk models: an empirical investigation pp. 1602-1617

Hestia Jacomina Stoffberg and Gary van Vuuren

The determinants of access to health care and medicines in India pp. 1618-1632

Divya Srivastava and Alistair McGuire

Volume 48, issue 16, 2016

Does higher government debt link to higher social expenditure? New method, new evidence pp. 1429-1451

Chun-Ping Chang, Chien-Chiang Lee, GenFu Feng and Shao-Lin Ning

Third-country exchange rate volatility and Japanese--US trade: evidence from industry-level data pp. 1452-1462

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Scott Hegerty and Dan Xi

Modelling regional policy scenarios in the agri-food sector: a case study of a Spanish region pp. 1463-1480

Ignacio Cazcarro, Rosa Duarte, Julio Sánchez Chóliz, Cristina Sarasa and Ana Serrano

The determinants of household recycling: social influence, public policies and environmental preferences pp. 1481-1503

Ankinée Kirakozian

Evaluating the performance of higher education institutions in Europe: a nonparametric efficiency analysis of 944 institutions pp. 1504-1514

Ann Veiderpass and Maureen McKelvey

Input-output analysis of carbon emissions embodied in China-Japan trade pp. 1515-1529

Yuhuan Zhao, Song Wang, Jiaqin Yang, Zhonghua Zhang and Ya Liu

Determinants of card payments pp. 1530-1543

Lukasz Goczek and Bartosz Witkowski

Volume 48, issue 15, 2016

Do financial indicators have directional predictability for US home sales? pp. 1349-1360

Hamid Baghestani and Ilker Kaya

Economic evaluation of healthcare technology improving the quality of social life: the case of assistive technology for the disabled and elderly pp. 1361-1371

Jungwoo Shin, Yeunjoong Kim, Heekoo Nam and Youngsang Cho

Forward guidance with an escape clause: when half a promise is better than a full one pp. 1372-1381

Maria Lucia Florez-Jimenez and Julián Parra-Polanía

A new test procedure for the choice of dependence structure in risk measurement: application to the US and UK stock market indices pp. 1382-1389

Jeungbo Shim, Eun-Joo Lee and Seung-Hwan Lee

A rigorous approach to business services offshoring and North--North trade pp. 1390-1401

Barbara Dluhosch and Thorsten Hens

Crime and punishment: the role of student body characteristics in schools’ disciplinary behaviours pp. 1402-1415

Anton Bekkerman and Gregory Gilpin

Natural or unnatural selection? The end of lending relationships for small businesses pp. 1416-1428

Daisuke Tsuruta

Volume 48, issue 14, 2016

Offshoring and employment structure in the EU periphery: the case of Spain pp. 1255-1270

Belen Gonzalez-Diaz and Rosario Gandoy

Optimal hedge ratio under a subjective re-weighting of the original measure pp. 1271-1280

Massimiliano Barbi and Silvia Romagnoli

Corporate governance structure and product market competition pp. 1281-1292

Frederick Dongchuhl Oh and Kyung Suh Park

Is executive compensation a substitute governance mechanism to debt financing and leasing? pp. 1293-1302

Marizah Minhat and Nazam Dzolkarnaini

Job insecurity, employability and health: an analysis for Germany across generations pp. 1303-1316

Steffen Otterbach and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Consumers’ perceived risk and hold and use of payment instruments pp. 1317-1329

Bruno Karoubi, Régis Chenavaz and Corina Paraschiv

Economic reforms and human development: evidence from transition economies pp. 1330-1347

Antonio Carvalho, Rabindra Nepal and Tooraj Jamasb

Volume 48, issue 13, 2016

Measuring heterogeneity, survey engagement and response quality in preferences for organic products in Nigeria pp. 1159-1171

Muhammad Bello and Awudu Abdulai

Impact of split share structure reform on capital structures: empirical evidence from China’s listed companies pp. 1172-1181

Hong Zhang, Shuai Gao and Fei Yang

Banking deregulation and allocative efficiency in Pakistan pp. 1182-1196

Shabbir Ahmad and Abid Burki

Does corporate governance still affect firm performance after controlling the distress factor? pp. 1197-1209

Syouching Lai, Hungchih Li and Bin Li

Does VIX or volume improve GARCH volatility forecasts? pp. 1210-1228

Dimos S. Kambouroudis and David G. McMillan

Comparison of indicators of women’s labour between Turkey and EU member states by employing multidimensional scaling analysis and clustering analysis pp. 1229-1239

Füsun Yenilmez and Nuray Girginer

Planned behaviour of tourism students’ entrepreneurial intentions in China pp. 1240-1254

Hu Mei, Zehui Zhan, Fong, Ting Liang and Zicheng Ma

Volume 48, issue 12, 2016

Minimum participation rules in international environmental agreements: empirical evidence from a survey among delegates in international climate negotiations pp. 1047-1065

Martin Kesternich

Could the global financial crisis improve the performance of the G7 stocks markets? pp. 1066-1080

João Paulo Vieito, Wing-Keung Wong and Zhen-Zhen Zhu

Integrating retirement and permanent disability in NDC pension schemes pp. 1081-1102

Manuel Ventura-Marco and Carlos Vidal-Melia

Using newspapers for tracking the business cycle: a comparative study for Germany and Switzerland pp. 1103-1118

David Iselin and Boriss Siliverstovs

QARMA-Beta- t -EGARCH versus ARMA-GARCH: an application to S&P 500 pp. 1119-1129

Szabolcs Blazsek and Vicente Mendoza

Financial development and financial openness nexus: the precondition of banking competition pp. 1130-1139

Wang Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori and Takuji Kinkyo

Parimutuel contests with strategic risk-sensitive bettors pp. 1140-1158

Paul Geertsema and Christoph Rainer Schumacher

Volume 48, issue 11, 2016

Foreign direct investment: the role of institutional and cultural determinants pp. 935-956

Navina Lucke and Stefan Eichler

Commodity trade between Pakistan and the US: is there evidence of the J-curve? pp. 957-965

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Javed Iqbal and Misbah Nosheen

External debt and real exchange rates’ adjustment in the euro area: new evidence from a nonlinear NATREX model pp. 966-986

Cécile Couharde, Serge Rey and Audrey Sallenave

Health spending and public pension: evidence from panel data pp. 987-1004

Yonghong An, Kai Zhao and Rong Zhou

Same currency, different strategies? The (asymmetric) role of the exchange rate in shaping European agri-food exports pp. 1005-1017

Svetlana Fedoseeva

An empirical analysis of remittance flows into West African Economic and Monetary Union: a panel time-series approach pp. 1018-1029

Ficawoyi Donou-Adonsou and Sokchea Lim

Income inequality and FDI: evidence with Turkish data pp. 1030-1045

Meltem Ucal, Alfred Haug and Mehmet Bilgin

Volume 48, issue 10, 2016

Typology for flight-to-quality episodes and downside risk measurement pp. 835-853

Mariya Gubareva and Maria Borges

Directional analysis of consumers’ forecasts of inflation in a small open economy: evidence from South Korea pp. 854-864

Young Bin Ahn and Yoichi Tsuchiya

The relevance of commuting zones for regional spending efficiency pp. 865-877

Antonio Afonso and Ana Venâncio

Linearized Hamiltonian of the LIBOR market model: analytical and empirical results pp. 878-891

Pan Tang, Belal E. Baaquie, Xin Du and Ying Zhang

The relationship between income inequality and aggregate saving: an empirical analysis using cross-country panel data pp. 892-901

Jaewoon Koo and Yunxing Song

A nonparametric kernel regression approach for pricing options on stock market index pp. 902-913

James J. Kung

Dynamics between energy, output, openness and financial development in sub-Saharan African countries pp. 914-933

Thai-Ha Le

Volume 48, issue 9, 2016

Water as an investment: liquid yet illiquid! pp. 731-745

Yizheng Jin, Bin Li, Eduardo Roca and Victor Wong

Offset carbon emissions or pay a price premium for avoiding them? A cross-country analysis of motives for climate protection activities pp. 746-758

Claudia Schwirplies and Andreas Ziegler

The impact of housing market disturbances on the US financial system: a pre-crisis analysis pp. 759-771

Marc Schaffer and Mark Wheeler

Testing rebalancing strategies for stock-bond portfolios across different asset allocations pp. 772-788

Hubert Dichtl, Wolfgang Drobetz and Martin Wambach

Financing, reputation and information disclosure quality in the Chinese market pp. 789-798

Jianhua Mi, Hong Sheng and Cassandra Elrod

Geographical disaggregation of sectoral inflation. Econometric modelling of the Euro area and Spanish economies pp. 799-815

Gabriel Pino, Juan de Dios Tena and Antoni Espasa

Does local and Euro area sentiment matter for sovereign debt markets? Evidence from a bailout country pp. 816-834

Carla Fernandes, Paulo M. Gama and Elisabete Vieira

Volume 48, issue 8, 2016

Personality traits and economic activity pp. 653-657

Bijou Yang and David Lester

Relationship between initiative risk management and firm value: evidence from Chinese financial listed companies pp. 658-668

Zhuwei Li, Yucheng Wang, Lijie Yu and Hui An

The linkages, persistence, asymmetry in the volatility, the price discovery and efficiency, and the effect of the US subprime mortgage financial crisis on the spot and the futures market's returns: the case of India pp. 669-683

Muthucattu Paul and James D. Kimata

Returns to schooling for urban and migrant workers in China: a detailed investigation pp. 684-700

Christos Sakellariou and Zheng Fang

Tacit collusion with imperfect monitoring in the Canadian manufacturing industry: an empirical study pp. 701-711

Marcelo Resende and Rodrigo Zeidan

The implications of the US renewable fuel standard programme for farm structure pp. 712-722

Constant I. Tra and Charles Towe

Athletic contests and individual robberies: an analysis based on hourly crime data pp. 723-730

Ya Yu, C. Nicholas Mckinney, Steven B Caudill and Franklin Mixon

Volume 48, issue 7, 2016

On the optimality of escalating penalties for repeat offences against the academic honour code pp. 553-562

Mohamad Khattar Awad, Bashar Zogheib and Hamed M.K. Alazemi

Dynamic interdependence of sovereign credit default swaps in BRICS and MIST countries pp. 563-575

Maria E. de Boyrie and Ivelina Pavlova

Stock exchange mergers and market efficiency pp. 576-589

Am鬩e Charles, Olivier Darn頍, Jae Kim and Etienne Redor

Effects of transparency, monetary policy signalling and clarity of central bank communication on disagreement about inflation expectations pp. 590-607

Gabriel Montes, Luciano Oliveira, A. Curi and Rodolfo Nicolay

Technical and scale efficiencies of meat goat farms in the USA pp. 608-620

B. Qushim, Jeffrey Gillespie, Krishna Paudel and K. Mcmillin

The evolution of stock market efficiency in the US: a non-Bayesian time-varying model approach pp. 621-635

Mikio Ito, Akihiko Noda and Tatsuma Wada

An examination of personality in occupational outcomes: antagonistic managers, careless workers and extraverted salespeople pp. 636-651

Robert Wells, Roger Ham and Pramod (Raja) Junankar

Volume 48, issue 6, 2016

Estimation of the effects of price on apartment water demand using cointegration and error correction techniques pp. 461-470

Saeed Ghavidelfar, Asaad Y. Shamseldin and Bruce W. Melville

Empirical research on the different innovation engine between China and US manufacturing using an improved method pp. 471-482

Yu Li, Peipei Mao and Yanming Zhang

A graphical representation of an estimated DSGE model pp. 483-489

Callum Jones and Mariano Kulish

Foreign exchange reserve adequacy and exogenous shocks pp. 490-501

Winston Moore and Adrian Glean

Economic benefits of using realized covariance forecasts in risk-based portfolios pp. 502-516

Prateek Sharma and Vipul

Capital account liberalization and dynamic price discovery: evidence from Chinese cross-listed stocks pp. 517-535

Marc Chan and Simon Sai Man Kwok

Trends in stock-bond correlations pp. 536-552

Harumi Ohmi and Tatsuyoshi Okimoto

Volume 48, issue 5, 2016

The causality between FDI and sector-specific production in Turkey: evidence from threshold cointegration with regime shifts pp. 345-360

Faik Bilgili, Nadide S. Tülüce, Ibrahim Doğan and H. Hilal Bağlıtas

Forecasting electricity spot prices using time-series models with a double temporal segmentation pp. 361-378

Marie Bessec, Julien Fouquau and Sophie Meritet

Mean reverting financial leverage: theory and evidence from Pakistan pp. 379-388

Tanveer Ahsan, Wang Man and Muhammad Azeem Qureshi

How much versus who: which social norms information is more effective? pp. 389-401

Andrew Meyer and Guanyi Yang

Board of directors' quality and firms' debt financing: the moderating effect of insider ownership - evidence from Omani firms pp. 402-410

Ahmed Sultan Bin-Sariman, Azwadi Ali and Mohd Nazli Mohd Nor

Incidence, effects, dynamics and routes out of overqualification in Europe: a comprehensive analysis distinguishing by employment status pp. 411-445

Emilio Congregado, Jesús Iglesias, Jos頍ar𨀍 Millᮠ and Concepci Romᮠ

Meat and fish consumption patterns in Saudi Arabia pp. 446-460

Saroja Selvanathan, E.A. Selvanathan, Saad Albalawi and Moazzem Hossain

Volume 48, issue 4, 2016

Monetary shocks, equity returns and volatility: a firm-level panel data analysis pp. 261-275

H. Arthur Luo, Jen-Chi Cheng and Chu-Ping C. Vijverberg

What determines outstanding corporate debt mix? Evidence from fractional multinomial logit estimation pp. 276-291

Kenneth Khang, Tao-Hsien Dolly King and Hung Nguyen

Fighting as a profit maximizing strategy in the National Hockey League: more evidence pp. 292-299

Duane Rockerbie

Determinants of margin in microfinance institutions pp. 300-311

Beatriz Cu鬬ar-Fernᮤez, Yolanda Fuertes, Carlos Serrano-Cinca and Bego Guti鲲ez-Nieto

An economic analysis of the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board demand-enhancing programmes pp. 312-320

Harry Kaiser

Excluded coalitions and the distribution of power in parliaments pp. 321-330

Tobias Hiller

Financial depth, internet penetration rates and economic growth: country-panel evidence pp. 331-343

Rudra P. Pradhan, Mak Arvin, Neville R. Norman and Sara E. Bennett

Volume 48, issue 3, 2016

Estimating the effect of monopsony power on elasticity estimates pp. 179-189

Koichi Yamaura and Allen Featherstone

The effect of product diversification strategies on the performance of health insurance conglomerates pp. 190-202

Cassandra R. Cole and J. Bradley Karl

Joint optimization of strategic fleet planning and contract analysis in tramp shipping pp. 203-211

Jørgen Laake and Abraham Zhang

An economic evaluation of market development programmes for US dairy products pp. 212-221

Liang Song and Harry Kaiser

Favouritism towards the poor and a discontinuous tax structure pp. 222-226

H. Sato

Time-frequency relationship between US output with commodity and asset prices pp. 227-242

Aviral Tiwari, Claudiu Albulescu and Rangan Gupta

The dynamic interrelation between external finance and bank credit pp. 243-259

Fabrizio Casalin and Enzo Dia

Volume 48, issue 2, 2016

Finance commission of India's assessments: a political economy contention between expectations and outcomes pp. 73-88

K. Nithin and Rathin Roy

Professional scepticism in two economies with cultural differences and the public interest: evidence from China and the United States pp. 89-106

Philip Law and Desmond Yuen

Evaluating the long-run impact of an innovative anti-poverty programme: evidence using household panel data pp. 107-120

M Asadullah and Jinnat Ara

Return patterns of South Korean stocks following large price shocks pp. 121-132

Sascha Kolaric, Florian Kiesel and Dirk Schiereck

The effects of wind generation capacity on electricity prices and generation costs: a Monte Carlo analysis pp. 133-151

Lynch and John Curtis

Short selling and exchange-traded funds returns: evidence from the London Stock Exchange pp. 152-164

Azhar Mohamad, Aziz Jaafar and John Goddard

Weather derivatives structuring and pricing: a sustainable agricultural approach in Africa pp. 165-177

L. Kermiche and N. Vuillermet

Corrigendum pp. 178-178

Minhua Yang and Hui Zhu

Volume 48, issue 1, 2016

Portfolio efficiency analysis with SFA: the case of PSI-20 companies pp. 1-6

Ferreira and Oliveira

Growth effects of leisure tourism and the level of economic development pp. 7-17

Chung-ki Min, Taek-seon Roh and Sangmee Bak

Can a corrupt ruling party win a re-election through vote buying? pp. 18-23

Stephen Devadoss and Jeff Luckstead

The Macro-prudential aspects of loan-to-deposit-ratio-linked reserve requirement pp. 24-34

Satria, Cicilia Harun and Taruna

What determines simultaneous asset bubbles? An empirical analysis pp. 35-51

Christian Drescher and Bernhard Herz

Marginal q revisited pp. 52-58

Per-Olof Bjuggren

Economic costs and impacts of climate-induced sea-level rise and storm surge in Canadian coastal provinces: a CGE approach pp. 59-71

P. Withey, Lantz and Ochuodho