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23822: Payment Card Systems as an Example of two-sided Markets - a Challenge for Antitrust Authorities

Katarzyna Tosza

23820: Polish Antitrust Law in its Fight against Cartels - Awaiting a Breakthrough

Rajmund Molski

23818: Civil Law Actions in the Context of Competition Restricting Practices under Polish Law

Pawel Podrecki

23817: Does Competition matter? An Attempt of analytical 'Unbundling' of Competition from Consumer Welfare: A Response to Miasik

Oles Andryichuk

23815: Benefits and Costs of vertical Separation in Network Industries. The Case of Railway Transport in the European Environment

Marcin Krol

23809: Polish Leniency Programme and its Intersection with Private Enforcement of Competition Law

Ewelina Rumak and Piotr Sitarek

23804: Challenges of Liberalization. The Case of Polish Electricity and Gas Sector

Bartlomiej Nowak

23798: Economic Approach to Counteracting Cartels

Anna Fornalczyk

23795: Marele pericol care planează asupra economiei (The Danger which Hangs Over the Romanian Economy)

George Georgescu

23791: Assessing Damages: The 1983 Israeli Bank Shares Crisis

Asher Blass and Richard Grossman

23788: Agricultural Extension and Imperfect Supervision in Contract Farming: Evidence from Madagascar

Marc Bellemare

23787: Choosing between foreign investment and subcontracting: Strategies of Italian firms in Romania

Giuseppe Tattara

23786: Capital depreciation and waste accumulation in capital-resource economies

Rintaro Yamaguchi and Kazuhiro Ueta

23781: Dairy cattle management: survey on dairy cattle lactation trend in Sabah

Bonaventure Boniface, Jupikely James Silip and Abdul Hamid Ahmad

23780: The U.S. Excess Money Growth and Inflation Relation in the Long-Run: A Nonlinear Analysis

Tamer Kulaksizoglu and Sebnem Kulaksizoglu

23772: Comparative structural approaches regarding relevant indicators of Input-Output analysis at macro and sectoral level: a case study of some European Union countries

Marius-Razvan Surugiu and Camelia Surugiu

23770: Information Acquisition and Innovation under Competitive Pressure

Andrei Barbos

23769: The monetary origins of the financial and economic crisis

Bernard Landais

23768: Diversity of the rural farming households and policy issues: an analysis based on a case study in the Northern Cape Province in South Africa

Ward Anseeuw, Catherine Laurent, Salome Modiselle, Johan Carsten and Sakkie van der Poll

23766: Fiscal policy, institutional quality and central bank transparency

Meixing Dai, Moise Sidiropoulos and Eleftherios Spyromitros

23764: The relationship between inflation, output growth, and their uncertainties: Evidence from selected CEE countries

Mübariz Hasanov and Tolga Omay

23763: National culture and multinational performance

George Halkos and Nickolaos Tzeremes

23762: Measuring regional public health provision

George Halkos and Nickolaos Tzeremes

23761: Measuring trade efficiency

George Halkos and Nickolaos Tzeremes

23760: Production Efficiency versus Ownership: The Case of China

Alice Shiu and Valentin Zelenyuk

23759: The role of social trust in reducing long-term truancy and forming human capital in Japan

Eiji Yamamura

23757: Impact of trade openness on output growth for Pakistan: an empirical investigation

Amir Hussain Siddiqui and Javed Iqbal

23756: Aggregate import demand function for Pakistan: a co-integration approach

Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Tahir and Mirza Baig

23752: Predictive ability of Value-at-Risk methods: evidence from the Karachi Stock Exchange-100 Index

Javed Iqbal, Sara Azher and Ayesha Ijza

23751: Political cycles and economic performance in OECD countries: empirical evidence from 1951-2006

Niklas Potrafke

23750: The Euro-Project at Risk

Andreas Hauskrecht, Bryan Stuart and Wilhelm Hankel

23747: Management of International Capital Flows: The Indian Experience

Abhijit Sen Gupta

23745: Population Management should be mainstreamed in the Philippine Development Agenda

Dennis Mapa, Arsenio Balisacan and Jose Rowell T. Corpuz

23744: Food Prices and Overweight Patterns in Italy

Luca Pieroni, Donatella Lanari and Luca Salmasi

23742: A Differential game approach in the case of a polluting oligopoly

George Halkos

23741: A Stackelberg Model on Taxing Polluting Firms

George Halkos

23740: Zu Migration und Strukturfonds im Binnenmarkt der EU (Migration and the Structural Funds in the Single European Market)

Peter Schmidt

23739: Income Convergence Hypothesis: A Regional Comparison of selected East and South Asian Economies

Adnan Haider, Shahzad Hameed and Abdul Wajid

23738: Productivity and Convergence in India: State Level Analysis

Surender Kumar and Shunsuke Managi

23736: The relationship between corruption and public investment at the municipalities’ level in Indonesia

Teguh Dartanto

23735: Trade, Diversification and Growth in Nigeria

Peter Walkenhorst and Olivier Cattaneo

23728: A New Approach to Analyzing Convergence and Synchronicity in Growth and Business Cycles: Cross Recurrence Plots and Quantification Analysis

Patrick Crowley and Schultz Aaron

23727: Stock volatility in the periods of booms and stagnations

Taisei Kaizoji

23724: QR-GARCH-M Model for Risk-Return Tradeoff in U.S. Stock Returns and Business Cycles

Henri Nyberg

23721: Implied Volatility with Time-Varying Regime Probabilities

Markku Lanne and Katja Ahoniemi

23719: Product, process and organizational innovation: drivers, complementarity, and productivity effects

Michael Polder, George Leeuwen, Pierre Mohnen and Wladimir Raymond

23718: The Relevance of Accuracy for the Impact of Macroeconomic News on Volatility

Helinä Laakkonen and Markku Lanne

23717: Noncausal Vector Autoregression

Markku Lanne and Pentti Saikkonen

23715: Robust Control and Monetary Policy Delegation

Moise Sidiropoulos and Giuseppe Diana

23714: A Multivariate Generalized Orthogonal Factor GARCH Model

Markku Lanne and Pentti Saikkonen

23708: Systemic Stability of Housing and Mortgage Market: From the observable to the unobservable

Qin Xiao

23704: Monetary and fiscal policy interactions with central bank transparency and public investment

Meixing Dai and Moise Sidiropoulos

23702: Estimating Import-Demand Function in ARDL Framework: The Case of Pakistan

Abdul Rashid and Tayyaba Razzaq

23698: Youth unemployment and employment policy: a global perspective

Shane Niall O'Higgins

23697: Public expenditure on health and private old-age insurance in an OLG growth model with endogenous fertility: chaotic cycles under perfect foresight

Luciano Fanti and Luca Gori

23696: Measuring the effect of virtual mergers on banks’ efficiency levels:A non parametric analysis

George Halkos and Nickolaos Tzeremes

23694: Complex equilibrium dynamics in a simple OLG model of neoclassical growth with endogenous retirement age and public pensions

Luciano Fanti and Luca Gori

23692: Natural Resource Endowments, Subsistence Agriculture, and Poverty in the Chhotanagpur Plateau

Pabitra Banik, Christopher Edmonds, Nobuhiko Fuwa, Suan Pheng Kam, Lorena Villano and D.K. Bagchi

23691: Exploring Environmental Services Incentive Policies for the Philippine Rice Sector: The Case of Intra-Species Agro Biodiversity Conservation

Nobuhiko Fuwa and Asa Sajise

23690: Pathways from Poverty toward Middle Class: Determinants of Socio-economic Class Mobility in the Rural Philippines

Nobuhiko Fuwa

23689: Intrahousehold Analysis Using Household Consumption Data: Would the Potential Benefit of Collecting Individual-Level Consumption Data Justify Its Cost?

Nobuhiko Fuwa

23688: Subsidy to Promote Girls' Secondary Education: The Female Stipend Program in Bangladesh

Shahidur Khandker, Mark Pitt and Nobuhiko Fuwa

23681: The (Im)Possibility of Reverse Share Tenancy

Marc Bellemare

23680: Fair value on commons-based intellectual property assets: Lessons of an estimation over Linux kernel

Jesús García-García and María Isabel Alonso de Magdaleno

23678: Equity Criteria as Instrument to Ensure Sustainability of Pareto or Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency: A Correlation Hidden by Sources of Confounding as Key for Sorting Out the Global Economic Crisis

Piero Benazzo

23673: The Dynamic Effects of Changes to Japanese Immigration Policy

Kerk L. Phillips

23671: What about monetary transmission in Albania? Is the exchange rate pass-through (still) the main channel?

Marga Peeters

23670: Hunger Incidence in the Philippines: Facts, Determinants and Challenges

Dennis Mapa, Fatima C. Han and Kristine Claire O. Estrada

23666: Latvijas energosektora sistēmdinamikas prognozēšanas modeļa izstrāde (System dynamic model development for the Latvian energy sector)

Valerijs Skribans

23665: Effects of education on economic growth:Evidence from Guatemala

Josef Loening, B. Rao and Rup Singh

23664: Comparing levels of job satisfaction in the countries of Western and Eastern Europe

Vani Borooah

23661: Food Insecurity in India: Natural or Manmade?

Vijay Kumbhar

23657: Public spending on education: Its impact on students skipping classes and completing school

Eiji Yamamura

23655: A cost-based empirical model of the aggregate price determination for the Turkish economy: a multivariate cointegration approach

Fatma Zeren and Levent Korap

23653: Altrusim. Education Subsidy and Growth

Mauricio Armellini and Parantap Basu

23652: Real Effective Corporate Tax Rates in Canada and the United States. After Tax Reform

Patrick Grady

23651: The role of central banks and competition policies in the rescue and recapitalisation of financial institutions during (and in the aftermath of) the Financial Crisis

Marianne Ojo

23650: Incomplete Contracts: Foundations and Applications

Di Pei

23649: GMM Estimation with Noncausal Instruments

Markku Lanne and Pentti Saikkonen

23648: Optimal Forecasting of Noncausal Autoregressive Time Series

Markku Lanne, Jani Luoto and Pentti Saikkonen

23647: The Porter Hypothesis and Hyperbolic Discounting

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

23646: Bayesian Model Selection and Forecasting in Noncausal Autoregressive Models

Markku Lanne, Arto Luoma and Jani Luoto

23643: The transfer space

Thomas Friedrich

23642: Marketing Capability, Strategy and Business Performance in Emerging Markets of Pakistan

Sarwat Afzal

23641: The Determinants of Music Piracy in a Sample of College Students

Marc Bellemare and Andrew M. Holmberg

23640: Insecure Land Rights and Share Tenancy in Madagascar

Marc Bellemare

23639: The Productivity Impacts of de Jure and de Facto Land Rights

Marc Bellemare

23638: As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming

Marc Bellemare

23637: From Regional to Intercontinental Trade: the Successive European Trade Empires from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century in Asia

Sami Bensassi

23629: Investment and Savings Cycles and Tests for Capital Market Integration

Arusha Cooray and Bruce Felmingham

23626: The Efficiency of Emerging Stock Markets: Empirical Evidence from the South Asian Region

Arusha Cooray and Guneratne Wickremasinghe

23616: Testing the Validity of the Neoclassical Migration Model: Overall and Age-Group Specific Estimation Results for German Spatial Planning Regions

Timo Mitze and Janina Reinkowski

23615: An explanation of the occupational and educational structure of employment by means of multinomial logit

Marga Peeters

23613: Evaluating alternative methods for testing asset pricing models with historical data

Gonzalo Rubio and Martin Lozano

23612: A quantitative approach to the effects of social policy measures. An application to Portugal, using Social Accounting Matrices

Susana Santos

23611: Does history matter for the relationship between R&D, Innovation and Productivity?

Elena Huergo and Lourdes Moreno

23610: Measuring the impact of international R&D cooperation: the case of Spanish firms participating in the EU Framework Programme

A Barajas, Elena Huergo and Lourdes Moreno

23609: The Relationship Between the Effects of a Wife’s Education on her Husband’s Earnings and her Labor Participation: Japan in the period 2000 -2003

Eiji Yamamura

23608: FDI, local Financial Markets, employment and poverty alleviation

Ashraf Mahmoud

23607: Democratic Reforms, Foreign Aid and Production Inefficiency

Dimitris Christopoulos, Gregorios Siourounis and Irene Vlachaki