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December 2012, Volume 19, Issue 18
- 1927-1932 Determinants of homestead claims and the expansion of Western settlement
by Randy McFerrin & Stephen Norman & Douglas Wills - 1933-1937 Linear and nonlinear financial time series: evidence in a sample of pension funds in Spain and the United Kingdom
by Mercedes Alda & Luis Ferruz - 1939-1942 Study design's influence on empirical findings in economic education
by Marianne Johnson & Denise Robson & Sarinda Taengnoi
November 2012, Volume 19, Issue 16
- 1543-1548 PPP in Central and Eastern European economies: further evidence from panel unit root tests
by Alenka Kavkler & Darja Boršič & Jani Bekő
October 2012, Volume 19, Issue 15
- 1425-1429 How do banking crises impact on income inequality?
by Luca Agnello & Ricardo M. Sousa - 1431-1436 An alternative method to estimate income variance in cross-sectional data
by Hiroki Uematsu & Ashok Kumar Mishra & Rebekah Rachel Powell - 1437-1440 Movies and holidays: the empirical relationship between movies and tourism
by Heather Mitchell & Mark Fergusson Stewart - 1441-1447 Can L-moments beat central moments in modelling risk? An empirical analysis
by Xiao Qin - 1449-1453 The Taylor rule and house price uncertainty
by Bruce Morley & Qijia Wei - 1455-1458 Workplace self-selection into Investors in People
by Bruce A. Rayton & Konstantinos Georgiadis - 1459-1463 The Gramm--Leach--Bliley Act: optimal interest margin effects of commercial bank expansion into insurance underwriting
by Jyh-Horng Lin & Jeng-Yan Tsai & Paichou Huang - 1465-1469 Early warning indicator for financial crashes using the log periodic power law
by Jeong-Ryeol Kurz-Kim - 1471-1475 Skill mismatches and wages among European university graduates
by Elena Bárcena-Mart�n & Santiago Budr�a & Ana I. Moro-Egido - 1477-1481 Estimating the extent of cross-border lottery shopping: evidence from South Carolina
by Linda S. Ghent & Alan P. Grant - 1483-1486 Panel cointegration analysis of co-movement between interest rate swap and treasury markets
by Yuki Toyoshima & Shigeyuki Hamori - 1487-1491 Does the effectiveness of tax incentives on the decision to give charitable donations vary across donation sectors in Canada?
by Belayet Hossain & Laura Lamb - 1493-1498 A Gourmet's delight: CAViaR and the Australian stock market
by D. E. Allen & A. K. Singh & R. Powell - 1499-1503 US residential electricity consumption: the effect of states' pursuit of energy efficiency policies
by Richard J. Cebula - 1505-1509 Output sensitivity of monetary policy and macroeconomic performance
by Michael Berlemann & Kai Hielscher - 1511-1514 A simple way to capture currency abroad
by Nikolaus Bartzsch & Gerhard Rösl & Franz Seitz - 1515-1519 Multinational presence and the export participation of local firms in Ghana
by Hasan Faruq - 1521-1524 Foreign direct investment, labour unionization and income inequality of Korea
by Jai S. Mah - 1525-1530 Estimates of the long-run growth rate of Singapore with a CES production function
by Sriram Shankar & B. Bhaskara Rao - 1531-1536 Real interest rate parity in East Asian countries based on China with nonlinear threshold unit-root test
by Chi-Wei Su & Pei-Long Shen & Hsu-Ling Chang & Lin Liu
September 2012, Volume 19, Issue 14
- 1319-1330 Sectoral leadership in international competitiveness: the Portuguese case
by Elsa Cristina Vaz - 1331-1334 A factorial decomposition of inflation in Peru: an alternative measure of core inflation
by Alberto Humala & Gabriel Rodr�guez - 1335-1338 Is there a better measure of self-assessed disability?
by Umut Oguzoglu - 1339-1348 Measuring the persistence in trade patterns: the case for Turkey
by Guzin Erlat & Haluk Erlat - 1349-1352 Lawyers and legal disputes. Evidence from Italy
by Elena D'Agostino & Emiliano Sironi & Giuseppe Sobbrio - 1353-1358 Alcohol consumption by individuals in the United States: a sample selection approach
by Yan Yuan & Steven T. Yen - 1359-1364 The market reaction to changes in the Brazilian official interest rate
by Anna Buchholz & Cesar Cupertino & Roberto Meurer & Andre Portela Santos & Newton Da Costa - 1365-1371 Inequality factor decomposition under uniform additions property with applications to Cameroonian rural data
by C. Chameni Nembua - 1373-1380 Estimation of the effects of price and billing frequency on household water demand using a panel of Wisconsin municipalities
by Steven Andrew Fenrick & Lullit Getachew - 1381-1384 A method to overcome the numerical difficulties in PIN estimation
by Jinfeng Ma & Shancun Liu - 1385-1389 On the relationship between concentration and competition: evidence from the Chilean private pension system
by Jean P. Sepúlveda - 1391-1399 A comparison of equilibrium under alternative monetary policy rules
by Ali K. Malik - 1401-1404 Inter-board pay differentials for directors with multiple appointments
by Kathleen Farrell & Philip L. Hersch - 1405-1409 Would liberalization lead to epidemic cocaine consumption?
by Norman V. Loayza & Naotaka Sugawara - 1411-1415 Inflation in weekend box office estimates
by Neil Malhotra & Edmund Helmer - 1417-1420 Weak instruments in estimating business cycle effects on banks' interest income
by Moritz Hahn & Edward J. O'Brien - 1421-1424 Cost-effective hiring in US high schools: estimating optimal teacher quantity and quality decisions
by Gregory A. Gilpin & Anton Bekkerman
September 2012, Volume 19, Issue 13
- 1213-1221 Analysis of cyclical behaviour of investment expenditures for the Turkish economy
by Evren Erdoğan Coşar - 1223-1226 Momentum profitability: the pre-CRSP evidence
by Xiuqing Ji - 1227-1230 An application of the Ricardian trade model with trade costs
by Andrew J. Cassey - 1231-1236 Impact of socio-economic factors and social affiliation on living standards: a quantile regression approach
by Renuka Mahadevan & Sandy Suardi - 1237-1242 The bank lending channel in Turkey: has it changed after the low-inflation regime?
by Abdurrahman Nazif Çatik & Mehmet Karaçuka - 1243-1248 Patients' perceptions and treatment effectiveness: a reassessment using generalized maximum entropy
by Sean M. Murphy & Dan L. Friesner & Robert Rosenman - 1249-1256 European stock market comovement dynamics during some major financial market turmoils in the period 1997 to 2010 -- a comparative DCC-GARCH and wavelet correlation analysis
by Silvo Dajcman & Mejra Festic & Alenka Kavkler - 1257-1263 Are central bank projections rational?
by Jan-Christoph Rülke - 1265-1269 Testing dependence using copulas: the case of dual employment
by Jeremy Michael D'Antoni & Ashok Kumar Mishra - 1271-1274 The structure of social networks and labour market success
by Adalbert Mayer - 1275-1278 A financial sophistication proxy for the Survey of Consumer Finances
by Sandra J. Huston & Michael S. Finke & Hyrum Smith - 1279-1283 Decomposing temporal changes in covariate contributions to wage inequality
by Lawrence Dacuycuy & Connie Dacuycuy - 1285-1291 Deforestation, economic growth and corruption: a nonparametric analysis on the case of Amazon forest
by Cassandro Maria Mendes & Sabino Porto Junior - 1293-1297 The male--female pay gap across the managerial workforce in the United Kingdom: a semi-parametric decomposition approach
by Sergio Scicchitano - 1299-1304 Statistical evidence on the mean reversion of real interest rates: SPSM using the Panel KSS test with a Fourier function
by Chih-Kai Chang & Tsangyao Chang - 1305-1309 A monetary approach to the exchange market pressure index under capital control
by Jie Li - 1311-1317 On a class of bi-polarization variance-based measurement: evidence from Cameroonian data
by C. Chameni Nembua
August 2012, Volume 19, Issue 12
- 1107-1110 Macroeconomic conditions and technical trading profitability in foreign exchange markets
by Ann L. Owen & Brent Palmer - 1111-1116 Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity with flexible Fourier function in G-7 countries
by Tsangyao Chang & Chi-Wei Su & Chia-Hao Lee - 1117-1121 Further examples of the impact of skewness on the expected utility of a risk-averse agent
by D. A. Peel - 1123-1127 Can the PPP stand on the BRICS? The ADL test for threshold cointegration
by Tsangyao Chang & Chia-Hao Lee & Ken Hung - 1129-1133 Reporting heterogeneity in health: an extended latent class approach
by Valentino Dardanoni & Paolo Li Donni - 1135-1138 The economics of terrorism against two targets
by Kjell Hausken - 1139-1142 Gamblers hate inequality: evidence from China
by Roland Cheo - 1143-1148 Comparing business R&D across countries over time: a decomposition exercise using data for the EU 27
by Andreas Reinstaller & Fabian Unterlass - 1149-1152 Do derivatives affect the use of external financing?
by Peter J. DaDalt & Bing-Xuan Lin & Chen-Miao Lin - 1153-1156 A note on the determinants of substance abuse spending
by Craig A. Gallet - 1157-1160 What drives regional differences in the stock market wealth effect in China?
by Wenfeng Wu & Chongfeng Wu & Oliver M. Rui - 1161-1164 Who cancels in electronic markets?
by Ryan Garvey & Fei Wu - 1165-1169 How free do people feel to express their opinions? A study in urban China
by Wenkai Sun & Xianghong Wang & Yean Zhou - 1171-1174 Tort reform and caesarean deliveries
by Alfredo G. Esposto - 1175-1178 Religion and education: recent evidence from the United States
by Michael A. Kortt & Brian Dollery & Simon Pervan - 1179-1182 On the choice of the unit period in time series models
by Peter Fuleky - 1183-1187 Smuggling illegal goods across the US--Mexico border: a political-economy perspective
by Andreas Buehn & Stefan Eichler - 1189-1192 The effects of privatization on the capital structure of Brazilian firms
by Cinthia Barbosa & Cristiano M. Costa & Bruno Funchal - 1193-1202 The Bank of Korea's nonlinear monetary policy rule
by Jahyun Koo & Ivan Paya & David A. Peel - 1203-1206 Competition law and profits: a dynamic panel data analysis for Dutch manufacturing firms
by Fatih Cemil Ozbugday & Erik Brouwer - 1207-1211 The change in the CD rate--target federal funds rate linkage during the financial crisis
by Bob J. Barnes
July 2012, Volume 19, Issue 11
- 1007-1015 The price of efficiency: examining the effects of payroll efficiency on Major League Baseball attendance
by Colin Santos Regan - 1017-1022 Optimal dynamics of technology and price in a duopoly market
by Bowon Kim & Fouad El Ouardighi & Sangsun Park - 1023-1028 Estimation of a fractionally cointegrated demand system: evidence from the Japanese expenditure data
by Manami Ogura - 1029-1034 And action: TV sentiment and the US consumer
by Matthias W. Uhl - 1035-1038 The era of the 24-hour society?: assessing changes in work timing using a Japanese time use survey
by Sachiko Kuroda & Isamu Yamamoto - 1039-1043 Unemployment and labour force participation in Japan
by Makoto Kakinaka & Hiroaki Miyamoto - 1045-1049 University patenting and knowledge spillover in Japan: panel-data analysis with citation data
by Kozo Otsuka - 1051-1055 Searching for the picture: forecasting UK cinema admissions using Google Trends data
by Chris Hand & Guy Judge - 1057-1059 Gender and confidence: are women underconfident?
by Niklas Jakobsson - 1061-1064 Size properties of Lagrange Multiplier cointegration tests in the presence of structural breaks
by Pui Sun Tam - 1065-1070 Threshold effects in the relationships between USD and gold futures by panel smooth transition approach
by Wo-Chiang Lee & Hui-Na Lin - 1071-1074 Fiscal adjustment in Greece under the financial rescue programme: the distributional effects on Greek households
by Naotaka Sugawara - 1075-1079 The Boulogne fish market: the social structure and the role of loyalty
by Pasquale Cirillo & Gabriele Tedeschi & Mauro Gallegati - 1081-1084 Testing rationality of foreign exchange forecasts under flexible loss: survey evidence from Brazil
by Hamid Baghestani & Cassia Marchon - 1085-1088 Wealth-to-income ratio, government bond yields and financial stress in the Euro Area
by Ricardo M. Sousa - 1089-1093 Why do speculative bubbles gather steam? Some international evidence
by Renatas Kizys & Christian Pierdzioch - 1095-1099 Grade surprise and the decision to stay on into post-compulsory education
by Don J. Webber - 1101-1105 A comment on survival of the hippest: life at the top of the hot 100
by Seo Bin Hong
July 2012, Volume 19, Issue 10
- 901-904 Happiness and parental altruism in the United States
by Pinar Derin-Güre - 905-908 The weak-form efficiency of Asian stock markets: new evidence from generalized spectral martingale test
by Kian-Ping Lim & Weiwei Luo - 909-913 Does it pay to work in the public sector in Turkey?
by Alisher Akhmedjonov & Berna Izgi - 915-919 The impact of education on household income and expenditure inequality
by Nuno Alves - 921-928 How frequently do consumer prices change in transition countries?
by Jacek Wallusch - 929-933 How does yield curve predict GDP growth? A macro-finance approach revisited
by Junko Koeda - 935-938 The underdog should always fire the first salvo against Brazil
by Liam John Anthony Lenten - 939-942 Regional deposits and demographic changes
by Jun Nagayasu - 943-946 Religion and the rate of return to human capital: evidence from Australia
by Michael A. Kortt & Brian Dollery - 947-951 A note on bank bailout: equity quality and direct equity injections
by Jyh-Horng Lin & Chuen-Ping Chang & Wei-Ming Hung - 953-957 Time-varying long-range dependence in stock market returns and financial market disruptions -- a case of eight European countries
by Silvo Dajcman - 959-963 Partisan privatizations: assessing the ideological bias
by Filippo Belloc & Antonio Nicita - 965-968 Scale economies and trade
by Don P. Clark - 969-973 Monetary policy and oil price expectations
by Dirk Bleich & Ralf Fendel & Jan-Christoph Rülke - 975-979 Purchasing power parity nonlinear threshold unit root test for East-Asian countries
by Tsangyao Chang & Chi-Wei Su & Chia-Hao Lee - 981-985 Assessing the predictive power of labour-market indicators of inflation
by Farrokh Nourzad - 987-992 Interpreting the outcomes of two-part models
by Manuel Frondel & Colin James Vance - 993-999 The possibility of mineral deposit exploitation control with Bellman's optimality principle use -- a Polkowice--Sieroszowice copper mine case study
by Mariusz Krzak & Paweł Panajew - 1001-1005 A study on the urban competitiveness of two-straits
by Chun-Chu Liu & Li-Min Chuang & Chien-Min Huang
June 2012, Volume 19, Issue 9
- 801-806 Examining the role of risk aversion in calculating the welfare cost of consumption fluctuations
by Chun-Yu Ho & Wai-Yip Alex Ho & Dan Li - 807-812 Measuring productivity in the biotechnology industry using the global Malmquist index
by Chun-Hsien Wang & Jun-Yen Lee & Yi-Hua Chang - 813-821 Aggregation bias in stochastic frontier models employing region-level data: an empirical analysis with Korean manufacturing data
by Hyungna Oh - 823-827 Modelling a stochastic profit system using gauge function
by Yongseung Han - 829-834 Marriage, fertility and the selection of women into high-skill industries
by James T. Bang & Bharati Basu - 835-838 Whither human capital? The woeful tale of transition to tertiary education in India
by Manisha Chakrabarty & Sumon Kumar Bhaumik - 839-842 Purchasing power parity with nonlinear threshold unit root test
by Tsangyao Chang & Chi-Wei Su & Yu-Shao Liu - 843-848 Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity in China
by Tsangyao Chang - 849-855 Are young SMEs' survival determinants different? Empirical evidence using panel data
by Paulo Maças Nunes & Z�lia Serrasqueiro - 857-862 Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity in Latin American countries: the ADL test for threshold cointegration
by Guochen Pan & Tsangyao Chang & D.P. Tang & Chia-Hao Lee - 863-868 Private consumption and sector price behaviour in the Spanish economy: a business cycle approach
by Jos� Mar�a Mart�n-Moreno & Rafaela P�rez & Jesús Ru�z - 869-872 A simple decomposition of the variance of output growth across countries
by Christopher Phillip Reicher - 873-876 A capital mistake? The neglected effect of immigration on average wages
by Declan Trott - 877-881 Revisiting purchasing power parity for 18 African countries: sequential panel selection method
by Guochen Pan & Tsangyao Chang & Chia-Hao Lee & Wen-Chi Liu - 883-886 Experience, social pressure and performance: the case of soccer officials
by Peter Michael Dawson - 887-890 The effect of quasi-hyperbolic discounting on rural land conversion timing
by Matthew Jude Salois - 891-896 On maintaining the power of the Kapetanios--Snell--Shin (KSS) test under uncertain initial conditions
by Jen-Je Su & Duc-Tho Nguyen - 897-900 A simple in-sample test of futures market efficiency based on rolling regressions
by Jason Stevens
May 2012, Volume 19, Issue 8
- 699-703 Stochastic optimal hedge ratio: theory and evidence
by Abdulnasser Hatemi-J & Youssef El-Khatib - 705-710 A panel data approach to the demand for money in Bulgaria and Romania
by Melina Dritsaki & Chaido Dritsaki - 711-715 Internet and the ‘Long Tail versus superstar effect’ debate: evidence from the French book market
by St�phanie Peltier & François Moreau - 717-720 ‘The best defence…’ or optimal offence/defence spending ratios in the NFL
by M. Kevin McGee & Lee Van Scyoc & Nancy J. Burnett - 721-724 Differential impact of microfinance delivery mechanism on vulnerability
by Ranjula Bali Swain - 725-728 A simple model of two-country bargaining for financial integration
by Xinhua Gu & Baomin Dong - 729-733 Dirty versus ecological technology in an endogenous growth model
by Mónica Meireles & Isabel Soares & Oscar Afonso - 735-738 Financial integration and international transmission of business cycles: evidence from dynamic correlations
by Georgiana Nicoleta Rosoi - 739-743 Are hedge fund clones attractive financial products for investors?
by Fredj Jawadi & Sabrina Khanniche - 745-748 Choosing to give more: experimental evidence on restricted gifts and charitable behaviour
by Sara E. Helms & Brian L. Scott & Jeremy P. Thornton - 749-753 The clustering of FDI in India: the importance of peer effects
by Peter Nunnenkamp & Megha Mukim - 755-758 Mutual fund performance: banking versus independent managers
by Juan Carlos Matallin-Saez & Amparo Soler-Dominguez & Emili Tortosa-Ausina - 759-762 Nature and nurture: the relation between number of siblings and earnings
by Elina Lampi & Katarina Nordblom - 763-768 Pandora's groove: analysing the effect of the U-groove ban on PGA Tour golfers' performances and strategies
by Todd A. McFall & Julianne Treme - 769-773 Have firms with better corporate governance fared better during the recent financial crisis in Russia?
by Farrukh Suvankulov & Fatma Ogucu - 775-778 Competition law, networks and innovation
by Fatih Cemil Ozbugday & Erik Brouwer - 779-783 Estimating impact of infrastructure on productivity and efficiency of Indian manufacturing
by Arup Mitra & Chandan Sharma & Marie-Ange V�ganzonès-Varoudakis - 785-788 Wheat market integration between Hungary and Germany
by Lajos Zoltán Bakucs & Bernhard Brümmer & Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel & Imre Fertő - 789-793 Health-impaired employees' job satisfaction: new evidence from Athens, Greece
by Nick Drydakis - 795-799 Trade restriction indices and US trade policy
by William R. Hauk
May 2012, Volume 19, Issue 7
- 603-608 The effects of countercyclical capital buffers on bank lending
by Mathias Drehmann & Leonardo Gambacorta - 609-613 Are firms on the right page with Chapter 11? An analysis of firm choices that contribute to post-bankruptcy survival
by Vicki L. Bogan & Chad M. Sandler - 615-618 The relatives are fine: use of qualitative firm data in economic analysis
by Richard Fabling & Arthur Grimes & Philip Stevens - 619-622 Wealth-to-income ratio and stock returns: evidence from the Euro Area
by Ricardo M. Sousa - 623-627 A note on selling distressed loans with bank bailouts: modelling of bank interest margins with default probabilities
by Jyh-Horng Lin & Jyh-Jiuan Lin & Ching-Hui Chang - 629-633 Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity in transition countries: the ADL test for threshold cointegration
by Yang-Cheng Ralph Lu & Tsangyao Chang & Chia-Hao Lee - 635-639 The dynamics of Italian public debt: alternative paths for fiscal consolidation
by Paolo Casadio & Antonio Paradiso & B. Bhaskara Rao - 641-644 Australian migration policy change: selecting winners and making losers
by Weiping Kostenko - 645-648 The effect of social trust on achievement test performance of students in Japan
by Eiji Yamamura - 649-652 How do housing wealth effects vary with age?
by Elwin Tobing - 653-656 Occupational mobility and the change in the occupational structure in Britain and Germany, 1993--2008
by Thomas Rhein & Parvati Trübswetter - 657-660 Inducing risk preferences in economics experiments
by Ian M. Dobbs & Anthony D. Miller - 661-664 The optimal call policy for convertible bonds: Is there a market memory effect?
by Chris Veld & Yuriy Zabolotnyuk - 665-669 Endogenous discount rate and elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption
by Giuseppe Di Vita - 671-676 Beyond reasonable doubt: multiple tail risk measures applied to European industries
by David Edmund Allen & Robert John Powell & Abhay Kumar Singh - 677-681 A simple approach to balancing government budgets over the business cycle
by Erick Michael Elder & Gary A. Wagner - 683-687 A monthly consumption indicator for Germany based on Internet search query data
by Simeon Vosen & Torsten Schmidt - 689-693 Labour productivity and compensation of employees in Europe
by Daniel Fuentes-Castro - 695-698 How significant is the role of reallocation to long-term growth?
by Shu-Shiuan Lu
April 2012, Volume 19, Issue 6
- 505-510 Physical attractiveness, employment and earnings
by Christian Pfeifer - 511-515 Generalized safety first and the planting of crops
by M. Ryan Haley - 517-520 Union wages, strikes and profits
by Stephen Blumenfeld & Andres G. Victorio - 521-531 CHF strength and Swiss export performance -- evidence and outlook from a disaggregate analysis
by Raphael Auer & Philip Saur� - 533-535 Inequality and the new human development index
by Ricardo Mart�nez - 537-540 Further evidence from ex-dividend days
by Rakesh Bali & Jack C. Francis - 541-549 The effectiveness of the order-splitting strategy: an analysis of unique data
by Doojin Ryu - 551-555 Foreign ownership, sales to multinationals and firm efficiency: the case of Brazil, Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa and Vietnam
by Tidiane Kinda - 557-568 Forecasts and implications of the current housing crisis: switching regimes in a threshold framework
by MeiChi Huang - 569-573 Nonlinear adjustment to purchasing power parity: the ADL test for threshold cointegration
by Siyue Liu & Tsangyao Chang & Chia-Hao Lee & Pei-I Chou - 575-578 Purchasing power parity with nonlinear and asymmetric smooth adjustment
by Tsangyao Chang & Chi-Wei Su & Yu-Shao Liu - 579-583 A Bayesian spatial probit estimation of Free Trade Agreement contagion
by Dany Jaimovich - 585-590 Is culture a determinant of financial development?
by Nabamita Dutta & Deepraj Mukherjee - 591-597 Exploiting trends in the foreign exchange markets
by Adrián Fernández-P�rez & Fernando Fernández-Rodr�guez & Simón Sosvilla-Rivero - 599-602 Portuguese football league efficiency and players' wages
by António S. Ribeiro & Francisco Lima
March 2012, Volume 19, Issue 5
- 407-412 Log-normal approximation of the equity premium in the production model
by Burkhard Heer & Alfred Maußner - 413-416 Time-varying expected returns: evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom
by Ricardo M. Sousa - 417-423 Income convergence within ASEAN, ASEAN+3: a panel unit root approach
by Mu Shun Wang - 425-429 New evidence on the convergence of international income from a group of 29 countries
by Mauro Costantini & Amit Sen - 431-434 Fractional cointegration in US term spreads
by Guglielmo Maria Caporale & Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana - 435-438 Government bond yields and foreign ownership of debt
by Menno Broos & Jakob de Haan - 439-444 A noncompensatory choice experiment analysis of Japanese consumers' purchase preferences for beef
by Hideo Aizaki & Manabu Sawada & Kazuo Sato & Toshiko Kikkawa - 445-451 Effective schools do exist: low-income children's academic performance in Chile
by Francisco Henr�quez & Bernardo Lara & Alejandra Mizala & Andrea Repetto - 453-457 The determinants of mobile subscriber retention in Sweden
by Pratompong Srinuan & Erik Bohlin & Gary Madden - 459-465 Modelling waiting times in the Italian National Health Service
by Monica Auteri & Antonello Maruotti