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November 2014, Volume 21, Issue 17
- 1226-1229 The elephant in the room: why some states are refusing to expand Medicaid
by Russell S. Sobel - 1230-1233 Does Aid for Trade from the North promote South-South trade?
by Philipp H�hne & Birgit Meyer & Peter Nunnenkamp - 1234-1237 Market institutions bring tolerance, especially where there is social trust
by Niclas Berggren & Therese Nilsson - 1238-1242 Correlation evidence in the dynamics of agricultural commodity prices
by Raphaël Homayoun Boroumand & Stephane Goutte & Simon Porcher & Thomas Porcher - 1243-1251 Histogram-valued data on value at risk measures: a symbolic approach for risk attribution
by Carole Toque & Virginie Terraza
November 2014, Volume 21, Issue 16
- 1105-1110 The euro crisis and Swedish GDP growth - a study of spillovers
by P�r Österholm & P�r Stockhammar - 1111-1115 Revisiting Aschauer via ICM estimation
by Hosin Song - 1116-1121 Is pairs trading profitable on China AH-share markets?
by Mao Liang Li & Chin Man Chui & Chang Qing Li - 1122-1127 Turning counterfeiting into advantage: the case of a durable good monopolist
by Chien-Wei Wu & Hsien-Hung Chiu - 1128-1133 Does religious piety inspire corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Evidence from historical religious identification
by Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard-Kitsabunnarat & Pornsit Jiraporn & Shenghui Tong - 1134-1138 Product market competition and unemployment: a county-level analysis
by Guifeng Shi & Li Zhang - 1139-1143 The spatial dynamics of growth and convergence in Korean regional incomes
by Paul Evans & Ji Uk Kim - 1144-1147 The US finance wage premium before and after the financial crisis: a decomposition exercise
by Stella Capuano & Tat-kei Lai & Hans-J�rg Schmerer - 1148-1151 The implications of high-frequency trading on market efficiency and price discovery
by Viktor Manahov & Robert Hudson - 1152-1155 Unemployment and participation rates? Revisiting the US data
by David Kleykamp & Jer-Yuh Wan - 1156-1160 Evidence for the seasonality of European equity fund performance
by Carlos F. Alves - 1161-1164 'Fifty is the new thirty': ageing well and start-up activities
by T. Kautonen & M. Minniti - 1165-1168 Is home-field advantage driven by the fans? Evidence from across the ocean
by Anne Anders & Kurt William Rotthoff - 1169-1173 CO 2 Emissions and tourism in developed and less developed countries
by Carmelo J. Le�n & Jorge E. Arana & Anastasia Hern�ndez Alem�n - 1174-1178 Long-term consequences of birth in an 'unlucky' year: evidence from Japanese women born in 1966
by Satoshi Shimizutani & Hiroyuki Yamada
October 2014, Volume 21, Issue 15
- 1031-1035 Assessing the impact of China net imports on the world cotton price
by Fousseini Traor� - 1036-1044 Economic growth and financial liberalization in the EU accession countries
by Durmus Özdemir - 1045-1049 What do abnormal investor trading patterns around corporate mergers indicate? Further evidence from the Korean M&A market
by Chune Young Chung - 1050-1053 The determinants of margins in French retail gasoline markets
by Simon Porcher & Thomas Porcher - 1054-1056 Event studies correcting for nonnormality using the wild bootstrap
by Andros Gregoriou - 1057-1059 Estimating the time-varying NAIRU and the Phillips curve slope simultaneously: a note
by Hiroshi Yamada - 1060-1064 Intra and offshore trade in the euro zone and trade imbalances
by Jong-Hee Kim & Joocheol Kim - 1065-1069 Did financial crisis alter the level of competition in the EMU banks?
by Michael L. Polemis - 1070-1074 Clusters of economic freedom
by Toby Huskinson & Robert Lawson - 1075-1078 Do acquirers' stock prices fully react to the acquisition announcement of listed versus unlisted target firms? Out-of-sample evidence from Spain
by Miguel A. Latorre & Bego�a Herrero & Jos� E. Farin�s - 1079-1082 Predicting R&D investment with ex ante productivity
by Ziemowit Bednarek - 1083-1089 Does unemployment increase crime? Evidence from Italian provinces
by Nino Speziale - 1090-1093 Is the 'buying winners and selling losers' trading strategy profitable in the New Economy?
by Aditya R. Khanal & Ashok K. Mishra - 1094-1098 Does foreign aid really attract foreign investors? New evidence from panel cointegration
by Julian Donaubauer - 1099-1103 On the interaction between government spending and economic performance in Sweden: an asymmetric approach
by Abdulnasser Hatemi-J
September 2014, Volume 21, Issue 14
- 951-954 Agricultural rent-seeking in developing countries: an empirical investigation
by Anna Hvid - 955-959 The impact of austerity policies in the Eurozone: fiscal multipliers and 'adjustment fatigue'
by Javier Bilbao-Ubillos & Ana-Isabel Fern�ndez-Sainz - 960-964 Are two heads better than one head in managing the family business?
by Loren W. Tauer - 965-968 Sentimental herding in Borsa Istanbul: informed versus uninformed
by M. Nihat Solakoglu & Nazmi Demir - 969-972 Smooth transitions, asymmetric adjustment and unit roots
by Juan Carlos Cuestas & Javier Ord��ez - 973-978 ARCH and structural breaks in United States inflation
by Bill Russell - 979-983 Capitalism and (versus?) democracy: stock markets and democratization in transition
by Christopher A. Hartwell - 984-991 Policy interest-rate expectations in Sweden: a forecast evaluation
by Meredith Beechey & P�r Österholm - 992-996 Measuring the surplus of superficiality: the case of dented bumper repair
by Arthur J. Caplan - 997-1000 The effects of greenfield investment and M&As on domestic investment in developing countries
by Ayesha Ashraf & Dierk Herzer - 1001-1005 Nonlinear impact of rain on foodgrain production in India
by Subrata Kumar Mitra - 1006-1009 Threshold adjustment in the current account: sustainability for danger zone economies?
by Kurmas Akdoğan - 1010-1016 Geographical dimension and environmental Kuznets curve: the case of some less investigated air pollutants
by E. Sica & S. Sušnik - 1017-1024 The typical spectral shape of an economic variable: a visual guide
by Carlos A. Medel - 1025-1029 Financial liberalization, low world interest rates and global imbalances: a note with a simple two-country model
by Roberto Duncan
September 2014, Volume 21, Issue 13
- 875-877 The breakdown of the money multiplier at the zero lower bound
by Jan Willem van den End - 878-881 Can LCCs' economic efficiency create negative externalities for air transport? An analysis of passenger waiting time
by Jos� I. Castillo-Manzano & Lourdes Lopez-Valpuesta - 882-886 Dealing with an error correction model when trade balances are trend-stationary
by Manuel Cantavella-Jord� - 887-892 Gold markets around the world - who spills over what, to whom, when?
by Brian M. Lucey & Charles Larkin & Fergal O'Connor - 893-897 Stages of diversification in Latin America
by Don P. Clark & W. Charles Sawyer - 898-901 Direction of trade and wage inequality
by Sherif Khalifa - 902-905 The effect of firearm restrictions on gun-related homicides across US states
by Steven P. Lanza - 906-913 Product market competition, corporate governance, and cost of capital
by Charles W. Hodges & Bingxuan Lin & Chen-Miao Lin - 914-917 Macroeconomic policy in recessions and unemployment hysteresis
by Simon Sturn - 918-923 Factors leading to inflation targeting - the impact of adoption
by Anna Samarina & Jan-Egbert Sturm - 924-927 Collective happiness: labour union membership and life satisfaction
by Crawford Charman & Ann L. Owen - 928-933 The WTO puzzle, multilateral resistance terms and multicollinearity
by Juyoung Cheong & Do Won Kwak & Kam Ki Tang - 934-937 Who teaches economics courses better?: using student-professor matched data for the principle of economics course
by Jaeseong Lee & Joonmo Cho - 938-944 Spillovers of macroeconomic uncertainty among major economies
by Libo Yin & Liyan Han - 945-950 Adolescent obesity, educational attainment and adult earnings
by John M. Amis & Andrew Hussey & Albert A. Okunade
August 2014, Volume 21, Issue 12
- 801-805 Dynamic hedging in stock index futures via copula multiplicative error model
by Wen-chin Chen & Kai-ping Liu & Yung-lieh Yang & Yi-hao Lai - 806-811 Marriage, education and assortative mating in Latin America
by Ina Ganguli & Ricardo Hausmann & Martina Viarengo - 812-816 Who misreports welfare receipt in surveys?
by Kerstin Bruckmeier & Gerrit M�ller & Regina T. Riphahn - 817-822 Does the yield spread retain its forecasting ability during the 2007 recession? A comparative analysis
by Anastasios Evgenidis & Costas Siriopoulos - 823-827 A bias in measuring consumer responses towards food safety issues due to imperfect substitution between foods
by Hyun Joung Jin - 828-831 Different measures in testing absolute purchasing power parity
by Zhibai Zhang & Xinyue Zou - 832-835 Risk amplification effect of asset securitization among financial institutions: evidence from CDO products in the USA
by Zhuwei Li & Hui An & Xiaoting Yin & Lin Chi - 836-841 Understanding the Irish price-rent ratio: an unobserved component approach
by Jangryoul Kim & Gieyoung Lim - 842-845 The impact of policy responses on stock liquidity
by Thomas Busch & Thorsten Lehnert - 846-851 Did Fukushima matter? Empirical evidence of the demand for climate protection in Germany
by Carlo Gallier & Andreas L�schel & Bodo Sturm - 852-856 Measuring economic freedom: a comparison of two major sources
by Rati Ram - 857-861 Being nice with the experimenter?
by Caterina Giannetti & Raimondello Orsini - 862-865 Women's labour force participation and pay inequality: evidence from panel cointegration
by Adem Y. Elveren - 866-869 Does the Grameen Bank exert market power over borrowers?
by Subir Bairagi & Azzeddine Azzam - 870-873 Exchange-rate regimes and economic growth: an empirical evaluation
by Sim�n Sosvilla-Rivero & Mar�a del Carmen Ramos-Herrera
July 2014, Volume 21, Issue 11
- 717-722 Momentum in Irish stocks: evidence from the credit crisis
by Cormac O'Keeffe & Liam A. Gallagher - 723-726 Poisson analysis of suicide in Japan using municipal data
by Saki Sugano & Yusuke Matsuki - 727-732 Nonexclusionary input prices
by Soheil R. Nadimi & Dennis L. Weisman - 733-737 R&D, export and productivity: testing the Bustos model on Danish data
by Mogens Dilling-Hansen & Valdemar Smith - 738-741 Imports of intermediate inputs and country size
by Mohammad Amin & Asif Islam - 742-746 Japan's deflation: the role of wage costs
by Satoshi Urasawa - 747-750 Empirical estimation of market power in Greece
by Michael L. Polemis - 751-754 Visiting an old battleground in empirical industrial organization: SCP versus NEIO
by Sanjib Bhuyan - 755-759 Employment and education effects on HIV/AIDS prevalence rate and economic growth: empirical investigation in ECOWAS
by Komivi Afawubo & Samuel Mathey - 760-762 Why do economists publish less?
by Tolga Yuret - 763-766 Taxation and democracy: an instrumental variable approach
by Nurullah Gur - 767-770 Economic development and the impact of the EU--US Transatlantic Open Skies Air Transport Agreement
by Kenneth Button & Rui Neiva & Junyang Yuan - 771-775 Eating in: employment and home production during the Great Recession
by Kathryn Birkeland - 776-781 Effects of fiscal policy on private consumption: evidence from structural-balance fiscal rule deviations
by Juan A. Correa & Christian Ferrada & Pablo Guti�rrez & Francisco Parro - 782-785 Too big to merge? Evidence from the US banking sector
by Michael L. Polemis & John M. Paleologos - 786-788 Convergence in sovereign debt ratios across heavily indebted EU countries: evidence from club convergence
by Nicholas Apergis & Arusha Cooray - 789-794 Modelling tail dependence between energy market and stock markets in the BRIC countries
by Zhiyuan Pan - 795-800 Comparing the aggregation bias in the input--output model and the social accounting matrix model
by Maria Llop & Antonio Manresa
July 2014, Volume 21, Issue 10
- 657-664 Does it matter why power outages occur? An example of information-induced gender-heterogeneous preference on the intensive and extensive margins of choice
by Jacob Ladenburg & Kirsten Lund Jensen & Christa Lassen - 665-670 Dynamics of social tolerance in the economic interaction model with three groups
by Yingying Shi & Daiyan Peng - 671-674 Adjustment dynamics of countries' specialization patterns in the European Union
by Astrid Krenz - 675-678 The wealth, health and well-being of Ireland's older people before and during the economic crisis
by A. Barrett & V. O'Sullivan - 679-682 Compensation discrimination in the NFL: an analysis of career earnings
by Johnny Ducking & Peter A. Groothuis & James Richard Hill - 683-686 The US Dow and the US dollar
by Samih Antoine Azar - 687-691 Is the Internet an effective mechanism for reducing corruption experience? Evidence from a cross-section of countries
by Jamie Bologna - 692-696 An efficiency analysis of European banks considering hierarchical technologies
by A. Kontolaimou - 697-701 Testing for causality between credit and real business cycles in the frequency domain: an illustration
by Jos� E. G�mez-Gonz�lez & Jair N. Ojeda-Joya & H�ctor Manuel Z�rate & Fernando Tenjo-Galarza - 702-705 Gender differences in deception behaviour -- the role of the counterpart
by Tim Lohse & Salmai Qari - 706-710 Devaluation expectations based on cross-listed stocks: evidence for financial crises in Argentina then and now
by Stefan Eichler - 711-716 Macroeconomic uncertainty: does it matter for commodity prices?
by Libo Yin & Liyan Han
June 2014, Volume 21, Issue 9
- 587-592 A search for evidence of skill mismatch in the aftermath of the great recession
by J. L. Hotchkiss & M. M. Pitts & F. Rios-Avila - 593-596 Balance-constrained growth rates: generalizing Thirlwall's law
by Oscar Bajo-Rubio - 597-601 Better sexy than flexy? A lab experiment assessing the impact of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions
by S. Baert & L. Decuypere - 602-604 A test of competition in Chinese banking
by Botao Qin & Sherrill Shaffer - 605-608 Can analyst coverage reduce the incidence of fraud? Evidence from China
by May Hu & Jingjing Yang - 609-612 Time preference assumptions in normative analyses of household financial decisions
by Sherman D. Hanna & KyoungTae Kim - 613-616 The impact of risk preference on health insurance and health expenditures in the United States
by Simon Condliffe & Gregory T. Fiorentino - 617-621 Low-energy development in China
by Pengfei Sheng & Jun Yang - 622-625 Risk diversification through multiple group membership in microfinance
by Ratul Lahkar & Viswanath Pingali - 626-630 Insurance activities and banking credit causal nexus: evidence from China
by Guan-Chun Liu & Chien-Chiang Lee - 631-635 Measuring financial contagion using general social interaction model with trade network structure
by Bingqing Li & Han Wang & Xinrong Xiao - 636-642 A general decomposition formula with interaction effects
by Martin Biewen - 643-645 Raising food prices and welfare change: a simple calibration
by Xiaohua Yu - 646-650 Volatility contagion across commodity, equity, foreign exchange and Treasury bond markets
by Raquel L�pez - 651-656 Estimation of affine term structure models under the Milstein approximation
by Hail Park
May 2014, Volume 21, Issue 8
- 513-516 How university and industry knowledge interact to determine local entrepreneurship
by Massimiliano Guerini & Cristina Rossi-Lamastra - 517-521 A macroeconomic investigation of funding liquidity and monetary policy shocks in the United States
by Ching-Wai (Jeremy) Chiu - 522-527 Market efficiency of commodity futures in India
by Takeshi Inoue & Shigeyuki Hamori - 528-532 Marriage, divorce and economic activity in the US: 1960--2008
by Hamid Baghestani & Michael Malcolm - 533-535 Note on the interpretation of the convergence speed in the dynamic panel model
by Masahiko Shibamoto & Yoshiro Tsutsui - 536-540 Unemployment hysteresis in the Eurozone area: evidences from nonlinear heterogeneous panel unit root test
by Suleyman Bolat & Aviral Kumar Tiwari & Ahmet Utku Erdayi - 541-544 Can the government incentivize the purchase of private long-term care insurance? Evidence from the Partnership for Long-Term Care
by Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley - 545-549 In the quest for economic significance: assessing variable importance through mean value decomposition
by H. E. T. Holgersson & T. Norman & S. Tavassoli - 550-555 Can political and business connections alleviate financial constraints?
by Ju-Fang Yen & Yan-Shing Chen & Chih-Yung Lin & Chih-Hong Tsai - 556-559 The share is down 8% after the profit warning, is it time to buy?
by J. Spohr - 560-563 Spousal employment and intra-household bargaining power
by Francisca M. Antman - 564-568 Powerful CEOs and capital structure decisions: evidence from the CEO pay slice (CPS)
by Pandej Chintrakarn & Pornsit Jiraporn & Manohar Singh - 569-572 Are per capita CO 2 emissions increasing among OECD countries? A test of trends and breaks
by Satoshi Yamazaki & Jing Tian & Firmin Doko Tchatoka - 573-581 The factors affecting the risk attitude in entrepreneurship: evidence from Latin America
by Jean P. Sepúlveda & Claudio A. Bonilla - 582-585 Joint evaluation of the directional accuracy of federal budget forecasts
by Yoichi Tsuchiya
May 2014, Volume 21, Issue 7
- 447-452 Monetary conditions and metal prices
by John Baffes & Cristina Savescu - 453-458 Inflation targeting on unemployment rates: a quantile treatment effect approach
by Ho-Chuan Huang & Chih-Chuan Yeh - 459-462 Children's public health insurance and scholastic success
by Christina Robinson & Nicole M. Coomer - 463-465 Consumer preference changes in the logit demand model
by Steven Schmeiser - 466-469 Test of the bank lending channel: the case of US consumer loans
by Yu Hsing - 470-476 European ADRs: what a difference a decade makes
by Mark Schaub - 477-480 Does the level of the yield curve predict inflation?
by H�seyin Kaya - 481-486 An endogenous Goodwin--Keynes business cycle model: evidence for Germany (1991--2007)
by Konstantinos N. Konstantakis & Panayotis G. Michaelides & Theodore Mariolis - 487-489 A longitudinal analysis of the union wage premium for US workers
by P. E. Gabriel & S. Schmitz - 490-493 Muscle drain versus brain gain in association football: technology transfer through player emigration and manager immigration
by G. J. Allan & J. Moffat - 494-496 Demand forecasting errors and the ownership of infrastructure
by Kenneth Button & Zhenhua Chen - 497-500 The varying interest elasticity and the cost of inflation in India
by Sudhanshu Kumar - 501-504 The participation of Mexico in global supply chains: the challenge of adding Mexican value
by Juan S. Blyde - 505-508 Dividend changes and information about future profitability: an application of difference GMM
by Tai-Yuan Chen & Lie-Jane Kao - 509-512 Inferring export orientation from corporate websites
by Desamparados Blazquez & Josep Domenech
April 2014, Volume 21, Issue 6
- 377-382 Population health status and economic growth in Chinese provinces: some policy implications
by Vasudeva N. R. Murthy & Albert A. Okunade - 383-386 Sharing out the costs of a public--private partnership
by Kenneth Button & Nobuhiko Daito - 387-390 Local long-term institutions, growth and cash holdings
by Kiyoung Chang & Eun Kang & Ying Li - 391-396 Does European Monetary Union make inflation dynamics more uniform?
by Stefano Maria Iacus & Giuseppe Porro - 397-401 Identify regimes in post-war US GDP growth
by Yu Jiang & Xianming Fang - 402-406 Competition or privatization: which is more effective in China's banking sector reform?
by Weixing Cai & Hang Li & Cheng Zeng - 407-412 Financial and economic downturns in OECD countries
by Markus Haavio & Caterina Mendicino & Maria Teresa Punzi - 413-416 Brand-size complementarity in the choice of retail stores
by Hyoung-Goo Kang & Hailey Hayeon Joo & Janghee Cho - 417-420 The price momentum and discounting effects on stock prices after earnings announcements: an empirical analysis
by Brian Truong & Dang T. Tran - 421-424 Location and adoption of ICT innovations in the agri-food industry
by Josep Domenech & Victor Martinez-Gomez & Francisco Mas-Verdú - 425-428 Opposition to capital market opening
by Philipp Engler & Alexander Wulff - 429-432 Duration and optimal number of shifts in the labour market
by U. Spiegel & L.D. Gonen & M. Weber - 433-437 What is behind class attendance in college economics courses?
by Qihui Chen & Tade O. Okediji - 438-441 Diversification and bank profitability: a nonlinear approach
by Leonardo Gambacorta & Michela Scatigna & Jing Yang - 442-445 Exports and profitability: a note from quantile regression approach
by Huong Vu & Mark Holmes & Steven Lim & Tuyen Tran
March 2014, Volume 21, Issue 5
- 297-303 Is there a transatlantic divide in undergraduate macroeconomics teaching?
by Manfred G�rtner & Bj�rn Griesbach & Florian Jung - 304-307 An empirical examination of the determinants of the shadow economy
by Eduardo Acosta-Gonz�lez & Fernando Fern�ndez-Rodr�guez & Sim�n Sosvilla-Rivero - 308-311 Measuring happiness: context matters
by Georgios Kavetsos & Marika Dimitriadou & Paul Dolan - 312-316 The effects of a back-loaded compensation policy on the recruiting of older workers
by Israel Luski & Miki Malul - 317-324 Firm location and the method of payment in mergers and acquisitions
by Dimitrios Koutmos & Wei Song & Si Zhou - 325-328 Innovation rankings: good, bad or revealing?
by Yuezhou Cai & Aoife Hanley - 329-334 Geographic and sector externalities from highly qualified human capital: the importance of the business service sector
by Joilson Dias & Florian Schumacher & Edinaldo Tebaldi - 335-339 Does informal risk capital relax the financial constraints of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures?
by Massimo G. Colombo & Annalisa Croce & Massimiliano Guerini - 340-343 Reconsidering the effect of work intensity on study time
by Stephen DeLoach & Stephanie Franz & Jennifer Platania - 344-349 Human resource management practices and longitudinal workplace performance
by B. P. Cozzarin & S. A. Jeffrey - 350-355 The injured victim's health care spending: is there an effect of the origin of accident?
by Laurent Carnis & Hamza Achit - 356-359 Are consumer sentiments useful in Japan? An application of a new market-timing test
by Y. Tsuchiya - 360-365 Cost minimizing sequential punishment policies for repeat offenders
by Evgenia Motchenkova - 366-371 Law matters?: a Bayesian analysis of the cross-country relationship between anti-self-dealing rules and stock market outcomes
by Wenming Xu - 372-376 ELW pricing kernel and empirical risk aversion
by Jun Sik Kim & Hyeyoen Kim & Doojin Ryu
March 2014, Volume 21, Issue 4
- 229-234 Stock market development and economic growth in Ghana: an ARDL-bounds testing approach
by Erasmus L. Owusu & Nicholas M. Odhiambo - 235-241 Are crude oil markets globalized or regionalized? Evidence from WTI and Brent
by Huei-Chu Liao & Shu-Chuan Lin & Ho-Chuan Huang - 242-247 Nonfinancial defined contribution pension schemes: is a survivor dividend necessary to make the system balanced?
by Boado-Penas & Carlos Vidal-Meli� - 248-251 Was the Euro good for Greece?
by Ethan Hamilton & Eric Olson - 252-256 Multi-scale tracking dynamics and optimal index replication
by Q. Li & L. Bao & Q. L. Zhang - 257-260 Does growth affect volatility? An empirical study on developing countries
by Masahiro Kodama - 261-264 Too non-traditional to fail? Determinants of systemic risk for BRICs banks
by X. Qin & X. Zhu - 265-267 An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates
by Mark Gius - 268-271 Accurately measuring gold mutual fund performance
by David Moreno & Rosa Rodr�guez & Chieh Wang - 272-275 The impact of unionization and other factors on undocumented immigrant settlement patterns in the US
by Richard J Cebula & Maggie Foley & Robert Boylan - 276-279 Hedging price risk when no direct hedge vehicle exists: the case of silicon
by Bahram Adrangi & Arjun Chatrath & Rohan A. Christie-David & Mariia Guk & Gaurav Malik - 280-283 Racial differences in the effects of hypertension and obesity on health expenditures by diabetes patients in the US
by Simon Condliffe & Charles R. Link - 284-288 A two-step approach to examine the dynamics of market convergence
by Alexander Karmann & Alexander Ludwig