Working Papers in Economics

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19/14: Investor Sentiment and the Economic Policy Uncertainty Premium

Gilbert Nartea, Hengyu Bai and Ji Wu

19/13: Towards an Experimental Framework for Assessing Meta-Analysis Methods, with a Focus on Andrews-Kasy Estimators

Sanghyun Hong and W. Reed

19/12: A Replication of “The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade” (Journal of International Economics, 2011)

Jianhua Duan, Xuefeng Qian, Kuntal Das, Laura Meriluoto and W. Reed

19/11: The Influence of Investment Volatility on Capital Structure and Cash Holdings

Mona Yaghoubi and Michael O’Connor Keefe

19/10: The One-Child Policy and Chinese Saving Behavior

Zhongchen Song, Tom Coupé and W. Reed

19/09: Effects of Earnings Management Strategy on Earnings Predictability: A Quantile Regression Approach Based on Opportunistic Versus Efficient Earnings Management

Leon Li, Nen-Chen Richard Hwang and Gilbert Nartea

19/08: Another Look at “Bank Competition and Financial Stability: Much Ado about Nothing?”

Samangi Bandaranayake, Kuntal Das and W. Reed

19/07: The Impact of the 2012 NZX Listing Rule Change on Board Composition and Company Performance

Glenn Boyle, Michael Foley and Sanghyun Hong

19/06: Does FDI Promote Entrepreneurial Activities? A Meta-Analysis

Sanghyun Hong, W. Reed, Bifei Tian, Tingting Wu and Gen Chen

19/05: Not Evidence for Baumol’s Cost Disease

Akinwande Atanda and W. Reed

19/04: A Performance Analysis of Some New Meta-Analysis Estimators Designed to Correct Publication Bias

Sanghyun Hong and W. Reed

19/03: Spillovers and Exports: A Meta-Analysis

Jianhua Duan, Kuntal Das, Laura Meriluoto and W. Reed

19/02: Further Tests of Ahn, Khandelwal, and Wei’s (2011) Model of Intermediated Trade

Jianhua Duan, Xuefeng Qian, Kuntal Das, Laura Meriluoto and W. Reed

19/01: Social Capital and Health: A Meta-Analysis

Xindong Xue and W. Reed

18/23: Public implementation of Blockchain Technology

Dean Franklet, Laura Meriluoto, George Ross, Cameron Scott and Patrick Williams

18/22: Takeaways from the Special Issue on The Practice of Replication

W. Reed

18/21: How Do Firms Make Capital Structure Decisions When Facing Big Events? The Case of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)

Mona Yaghoubi, Reza Yaghoubi and Graeme Guthrie

18/20: The Influence of Investment Volatility on Capital Structure and Cash Holdings

Mona Yaghoubi and Michael O’Connor Keefe

18/19: Returns to Early Formal Education: A Replication of Leuven et al. (2010)

Asaad Ismail Ali and Andrea Menclova

18/18: A Replication of “Bank Competition and Financial Stability: Much Ado About Nothing?” (Journal of Economic Surveys, 2016)

Samangi Bandaranayake, Kuntal Das and W. Reed

18/17: Mutual Fund Flows and Seasonalities in Stock Returns

Moritz Wagner, John Byong-Tek Lee and Dimitris Margaritis

18/16: You’ll Never Walk Alone – The Effects of Walkability on Pregnancy Behaviors and Outcomes

Karen S. Conway and Andrea Menclova

18/15: Erratum To “What Drives Health Care Expenditure?—Baumol’s Model of ‘Unbalanced Growth’ Revisited” [J. Health Econ. 27 (2008) 603–623]

Akinwande Atanda and W. Reed

18/14: The Effect of Exchange Rates on Chinese Trade: A Dual Margin Approach

Bin Qiu, Kuntal Das and W. Reed

18/13: Bootstrap Methods for Inference in the Parks Model

Mantobaye Moundigbaye, Clarisse Messemer, Richard W. Parks and W. Reed

18/12: Resource Dependence and the Causes of Local Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation

Rian Hilmawan and Jeremy Clark

18/11: An Investigation of the Resource Curse in Indonesia

Rian Hilmawan and Jeremy Clark

18/10: Is Cash Dead? Using Economic Concepts To Motivate Learning and Economic Thinking

Philip Gunby and Stephen Hickson

18/09: Taxes and Economic Growth in OECD Countries: A Meta-Analysis

Nazila Alinaghi and W. Reed

18/08: Searching for Profit-Shifting in China

Xuefeng Qian, Bifei Tian, W. Reed and Ziruo Chen

18/07: Can Banks Placate Knowledgeable Depositors by Offering Higher Interest Rates During a Banking Crisis?

Glenn Boyle, Roger Stover, Amrit Tiwana and Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy

18/06: Do Better Informed Investors Always Do Better? A Buyback Puzzle

Glenn Boyle and Gerald Ward

18/05: Robots, Job Characteristics and Job Insecurity

Tom Coupé

18/04: A Replication of “Are Competitive Banking Systems More Stable?” (Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2009)

Samangi Bandaranayake, Kuntal Das and W. Reed

18/03: The Impact of the European Song Contest on European Identity

Tom Coupé and Natalia Chaban

18/02: The Relative Announcement Effects of Ordinary Dividends, Special Dividends and Share Buybacks in New Zealand

Warwick Anderson and Wen Kang

18/01: Quantifying the costs of land use regulation: Evidence from New Zealand

Kirdan Lees

17/21: A Primer on the “Reproducibility Crisis” and Ways to Fix It

W. Reed

17/20: The Applicability of Micro Finance to Higher Risk Business Ventures: An Experimental Study

Jeremy Clark and John Spraggon

17/19: The Global Equity Premium Revisited: What Human Rights Imply for Assets’ Purchasing Power

Jędrzej Białkowski and Ehud I. Ronn

17/18: Does the Design of Spot Markets Matter for the Success of Futures Markets? Evidence from Dairy Futures

Jędrzej Białkowski and Jan Koeman

17/17: Does the Tail Wag the Dog? Evidence from Fund Flow to VIX ETFs and ETNs

Jędrzej Białkowski, Huong Dieu Dang and Xiaopeng Wei

17/16: Determinants of Trading Activity on the Single-Stock Futures Market: Evidence from the Eurex Exchange

Jędrzej Białkowski and Jacek Jakubowski

17/15: Adolescents’ (Un)happiness in Transition

Tom Coupé and Maksym Obrizan

17/14: Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Momentum Returns and Market Dynamics: Are Islamic Stocks Different?

Muhammad Cheema and Gilbert Nartea

17/13: Investor Sentiment Dynamics, the Cross-section of Stock Returns and the MAX Effect

Muhammad Cheema and Gilbert Nartea

17/12: Determinants of Households’ Recycling Behaviour – Evidence from China

Zhujie Chu, Laura Meriluoto, Kuntal Das, Ying Li and Bolin Chen

17/11: Is Health Care Infected by Baumol’s Cost Disease? Test of a New Model

Akinwande A. Atanda, Andrea Menclova and W. Reed

17/10: Which Panel Data Estimator Should I Use?: A Corrigendum and Extension

Mantobaye Moundigbaye, William S. Rea and W. Reed

17/09: Bootstrap Methods for Inference in the Parks Model

Mantobaye Moundigbaye, Clarisse Messemer, Richard W. Parks and W. Reed