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23244: Agency Conflicts and Corporate Payout Policies: A Global Study

Söhnke Bartram, Philip Brown, Janice C.Y. How and Peter Verhoeven

23243: Adjustment of the Auxiliary Variable(s) for Estimation of a Finite Population Mean

Ayesha Nazuk, Nadir Sadia and Shabbir Javid

23240: The performance of four possible rules for selecting the Prime Minister after the Dutch Parliamentary elections of June 2010

Thomas Colignatus

23239: Group Lending Scheme operating through Primary Agricultural Credit Society: A Critical Assessment

Amit Kundu and Mitra Suranjana

23237: Principal Constituents Decomposition of Economic Development—A Domestic Level Analysis of Sub-Saharan African Countries

Binbin Deng

23235: Forecasting The Pricing Kernel of IBNR Claims Development In Property-Casualty Insurance

Godfrey Cadogan

23230: Do international remittances cause Dutch disease?

Edsel Beja

23228: Deslocalización empresarial e inversión directa internacional (Offshoring and international investment)

María de las Viñas Gallardo Ramiro

23225: Twitter Adoption in Congress: Who Tweets First?

Feng Chi and Nathan Yang

23224: Regression Anatomy, Revealed

Valerio Filoso

23223: Who does the chores? Estimation of a household production function in Peru

Luis García

23222: Does land abundance explain African institutions?

James Fenske

23221: Macroeconomic Production Functions for Eastern Europe

Oldrich Kyn and Ludmila Kyn

23218: Optimal Auditing in a Dynamic Model of Tax Compliance

B Ravikumar and Yuzhe Zhang

23217: Holding together regionalism and the interaction of functional bureaucracies

Alexander Libman and Evgeny Vinokurov

23216: Borrowing Constraint as an Optimal Contract

Borys Grochulski and Yuzhe Zhang

23214: Unemployment Insurance with Hidden Savings

Matthew Mitchell and Yuzhe Zhang

23210: La información segmentada y el sistema de información de gestión para la toma de decisiones de inversión internacional: El caso de Indiex, S. A (Segment reporting and management information for international investment decision making: Inditex, S.A)

María de las Viñas Gallardo Ramiro

23207: 人口结构转变过程中生育率与经济增长的关系 (Fertility and Economic Growth in the Process of Demographic Transition)

Binbin Deng

23206: Schooling and Wage Revisited: Does Higher IQ Really Give You Higher Income?

Binbin Deng

23205: Domestic borrowing without the rate of interest: gharar and the origins of sukuk

Murat Cizakca

23203: Estimating ordered categorical variables using panel data: a generalized ordered probit model with an autofit procedure

Christian Pfarr, Andreas Schmid and Udo Schneider

23200: The Impact of E-banking on Customer Satisfaction in Nigeria

Ahmad Dogarawa

23198: Challenges of Bank Consolidation to the Central Bank of Nigeria: A Descriptive Analysis

Ahmad Dogarawa

23195: The Economics of Currency Redenomination: An Appraisal of CBN Redenomination Proposal

Ahmad Dogarawa

23194: Marriage and Divorce in Islam

Ahmad Dogarawa

23192: Islamic Social Welfare and the Role of Zakah in the Family System

Ahmad Dogarawa

23191: Poverty Alleviation through Zakah and Waqf Institutions: A Case for the Muslim Ummah in Ghana

Ahmad Dogarawa

23190: Technological advantage and market loss: Siemens and the X-ray machine business in Japan (1900–1960)

Pierre-Yves Donzé

23184: The Political Economy of Globalization – Revisiting Stephen Hymer 50 Years On

John Dunning and Christos Pitelis

23183: Globalización, ciclos económicos y crisis global, 2007-2010 (Globalization, business cycles and global crisis, 2007-2010)

Antonio Ruiz-Porras

23182: Market concentration measures and investment decisions in Mexican manufacturing firms

Celina Lopez-Mateo and Antonio Ruiz-Porras

23180: Edith Penrose’s ‘The Theory of the Growth of the Firm’ Fifty Years Later

Christos Pitelis

23179: Privatización, competencia por depósitos y desempeño bancarios (Privatization, competition for deposits and performance in banking)

Antonio Ruiz-Porras

23177: Modelos estocásticos para el precio spot y del futuro de commodities con alta volatilidad y reversión a la media (Stochastic models for the spot and future prices of commodities with high volatility and mean reversion)

Victor Manuel García de la Vega and Antonio Ruiz-Porras

23176: ATM Direct Charging Reform: the Effect of Independent Deployers on Welfare

Jocelyn Donze and Isabelle Dubec

23175: Microenvironment-specific Effects in the Application Credit Scoring Model

Alesia S. Khudnitskaya

23173: Δυναμική του χρέους, ‘δίδυμα ελλείμματα’ και διεθνής ανταγωνιστικότητα της ελληνικής οικονομίας (Debt dynamics, ‘twin deficits’ and international competitiveness of the Greek economy)

Theodore Mariolis and Κostas Papoulis

23168: Active Labour Market Policies in Denmark: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Program Effects

Guillaume Blache

23167: The Flexibility-Security Nexus in Transitional Labour Markets: An empirical analysis

Guillaume Blache

23166: Can Financial Openness Help Avoid Currency Crises?

Gus Garita and Chen Zhou

23164: Households’ Willingness to Pay for Undergrounding Electricity and Telecommunications Wires

Ben McNair, Jeffrey Bennett and David A. Hensher

23163: A comparison of responses to single and repeated discrete choice questions

Ben McNair, Jeffrey Bennett and David A. Hensher

23162: An Examination of Ethical Dilemmas in the Nigerian Banking Sector

Dogarawa Ahmad Bello

23161: The Role of Cooperative Societies in Economic Development

Dogarawa Ahmad Bello

23160: Control variates for variance reduction in indirect inference: interest rate models in continuous time

Giorgio Calzolari, Francesca Di Iorio and Gabriele Fiorentini

23158: Transfert de technologie dans une ville carrée à deux dimensions avec cout de transport quadratique

Fehmi Bouguezzi

23157: On contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments

Patrick W. Schmitz

23154: El éxito de Inditex y la sombra de Hennes and Mauritz. Diferencias en la dirección estratégica (Inditex succes, Hennes and Maurtiz's shade and their strategic management)

María de las Viñas Gallardo Ramiro

23153: Simulation Based Estimation of Discrete Sequential Move Games of Perfect Information

Yafeng Wang and Brett Graham

23150: Estimation and inference in unstable nonlinear least squares models

Otilia Boldea and Alastair R. Hall

23149: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Multivariate Normal Mixture Model

Otilia Boldea and Jan Magnus

23143: Household Demand for Solid Waste Disposal Options in Malaysia

Chuen-Khee Pek and Jamal Othman

23139: Combating Poverty Through Self Reliance: The Islamic Approach

Dogarawa Ahmad Bello

23137: The Climatic Origins of the Neolithic Revolution: Theory and Evidence

Quamrul Ashraf and Stelios Michalopoulos

23136: Trade and Geography in the Economic Origins of Islam: Theory and Evidence

Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo

23132: Drivers of change or cut-throat competitors? Challenging Cultures of Innovation of Chinese and Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa

Dirk Kohnert

23129: Choice of exchange rate regimes for African countries: Fixed or Flexible Exchange rate regimes?

Kisu Simwaka

23126: Solid Waste Disposal: A Choice Experiment Experience in Malaysia

Chuen-Khee Pek and Jamal Othman

23125: A Contingent Valuation Estimation of Hill Recreational and Services Values in Malaysia

Chuen-Khee Pek, Chee-Hoong Tee and Phuay-Ying Ng

23124: Which “Greenness” is Valued? Evidence from Green Condominiums in Tokyo

Jiro Yoshida and Ayako Sugiura

23123: La conjoncture économique dans la région Asie-Pacifique après la crise des subprime (The economic tendency in the Asia-Pacific area after the subprime crisis)

Gael Lagadec and Catherine Ris

23120: Institutions in African history and development: A review essay

James Fenske

23119: Trade Policy and Export Performance in Morocco

Peter Walkenhorst and Mariem Malouche

23118: Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators

Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer

23117: Rewarding my Self. The role of Self Esteem and Self Determination in Motivation Crowding Theory

Bruna Bruno

23115: Social identity, group composition and public good provision: an experimental study

Surajeet Chakravarty and Miguel Fonseca

23111: Official intervention in Foreign Exchange Market in Malawi: A comparison of GARCH and Equilibrium Exchange Rate approaches

Kisu Simwaka and Leslie Mkandawire

23109: Microfoundations of Inflation Persistence in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve

Marcelle Chauvet and Kim Insu

23108: Dynamic Contracting with Persistent Shocks

Yuzhe Zhang

23107: Stochastic optimal growth with a non-compact state space

Yuzhe Zhang

23103: Relative and Absolute Preference for Quality

Constantine Angyridis and Debapriya Sen

23099: The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents

Roland G. Fryer, Steven Levitt, Lisa Kahn and Jörg Spenkuch

23097: Competitive Industrial Performance Index and It’s Drivers: Case of Turkey and Selected Countries

Nese Kumral, Çağaçan Değer and Burcu Türkcan

23096: Co-movement between Commodity Market and Equity Market: Does Commodity Market Change?

Nobuyoshi Yamori

23095: Islam and Christianity: symbiosis of civilizations

Murat Cizakca

23094: Clusters and Loops of the German Phillips Curve

Georg Quaas and Mathias Klein

23090: Multi-Factor Bottom-Up Model for Pricing Credit Derivatives

L. K. Tsui

23089: Two Perspectives on Multiskilling and Product Market Volatility

Jed DeVaro and Martin Farnham

23088: A neo-Ricardian critique of the traditional static theory of trade, customs unions and common markets

Theodore Mariolis

23086: Local employment policies in the context of the economic crisis:Influences of the European Community structural instruments

Lucica Matei and Ani Matei

23085: Reducing the administrative expenditures as source for increasing the efficiency of local governance under conditions of the financial crisis

Ani Matei and Lucica Matei

23084: La décision d'innovation: cas des entreprises Tunisiennes de services (Explaining the decisions to innovate: the case of Tunisian service firms)

Hanen Sdiri and Mohamed Ayadi

23083: Regional efficiency of knowledge economy in the new EU countries: The Romanian and Bulgarian case

Monica Roman

23082: Discounting Revisited. Valuations under Funding Costs, Counterparty Risk and Collateralization

Christian Fries

23078: The role of the Plan

Oldrich Kyn

23074: Condensed version of the OECD foreign trade by commodities tapes

Carlo Bianchi and Giorgio Calzolari

23073: Stochastic simulation: a package for Monte Carlo experiments on econometric models

Carlo Bianchi, Giorgio Calzolari and Paolo Corsi

23070: Cobb-Douglas生产函数和效用函数下的均衡分析 (An Equilibrium Analysis under Cobb-Douglas Production and Utility Functions)

Wu Li

23069: Companion for “Statistics for Business and Economics” by Paul Newbold, William L. Carlson and Betty Thorne

Kairat Mynbaev

23067: An Empirical Study of Dividend Payout and Future Earnings in Singapore

King Fuei Lee

23066: Retail Minority Shareholders and Corporate Reputation as Determinant of Dividend Policy in Australia

King Fuei Lee

23065: Possible approaches to benchmarking voluntary health insurance funds in Bulgaria

Petko Salchev, Nikolai Hristov and Lydia Georgieva

23063: User defined functions and operators

Carlo Bianchi, Giorgio Calzolari and Paolo Corsi

23062: Utilizing a program loaded into the user program area to load another module in the same user program area

Carlo Bianchi, Giorgio Calzolari and Paolo Corsi

23061: Interactive management of time series

Carlo Bianchi, Giorgio Calzolari and Paoli Corsi

23057: The spatial diffusion of social conformity: the case of voting participation

Stephen Coleman

23053: Does the institution of State Business Relations matter for Firm Performance? – A study of Indian Manufacturing

Vinish Kathuria, Rajesh Raj and Kunal Sen

23049: Capitalization and Privatization in Bolivia: An Aproximation to an Evaluation

Gover Barja Daza and Miguel Urquiola

23048: Se Puede Mejorar el Sistema de Ingreso a las Universidades Chilenas? El uso del ranking en la Universidad Catolica de Chile, Universidad de Chile y Universidad de Santiago de Chile (Can the Chilean university entrance systems be improved? The use of High School ranking in the University of Chile, The Catholic University of Chile and The Santiago University)

Francisco Meneses, Alvaro Parra and Zenteno, Luis/L