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December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 1 / 37 Contents December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 1 / 37 Contents a)- Foreign Journals/Magazines The American Economic Review Print + Online 3 The Developing Economies Print + Online 5 The Econometrics Journal Print + Online 6 The Economic Journal Print + Online 7 HR Magazine Print + Online 8 IMF Economic Review Print Only 9 Indian Defence Review Print + Online 10 Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics Print Only 11 International Business Review Online 12 International Journal of Disclosure and Governance Print Only 14 Journal of Applied Psychology Print Only 15 Journal of Banking and Finance Online 16 Journal of Comparative Economics Online 17 The Journal of Economic Perspectives Print + Online 19 Journal of Monetary Economics Online 20 Journal of Payment Strategy and Systems Print + Online 21 The Journal of Political Economy Print + Online 22 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series-C Online 23 The Quarterly Journal of Economics Print Only 25 The Review of Income and Wealth Print + Online 26 RMA Journal: The Journal of Enterprise Risk Management Print Only 27 TD: Talent Development Print + Online 28 The World Bank Economic Review Print + Online 29 World Development Online 31 b)- Local Journals/Magazines Economic OutLook Print Only 32 Energy Update Print Only 33 I&M: Investment & Marketing Print Only 34 The Lahore Journal of Economics Print + Online 35 Management Accountant Print Only 36 Strategic Studies Print + Online 37 December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 2 / 37 The American Economic Review Volume: 107, Issue: 11 (November 2017) Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms 3257-3287 Shengwu Li 'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market 3288-3319 Investments Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara and Amanda Pallais Decentralized Exchange 3320-3362 Semyon Malamud and Marzena Rostek Discriminatory Information Disclosure 3363-3385 Hao Li and Xianwen Shi The Consumption Effects of the 2007–2008 Financial Crisis: 3386-3414 Evidence from Households in Denmark Thais Lærkholm Jensen and Niels Johannesen Housing Wealth and Consumption: Evidence from Geographically- 3415-3446 Linked Microdata Aditya Aladangady Gross Worker Flows over the Business Cycle 3447-3476 Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Richard Rogerson and Ayşegül Şahin The Distributional Consequences of Large Devaluations 3477-3509 Javier Cravino and Andrei A. Levchenko Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? 3510-3549 Evidence from Federal Procurement Jeffrey B. Liebman and Neale Mahoney Interest Rate Pass-Through: Mortgage Rates, Household 3550-3588 Consumption, and Voluntary Deleveraging Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Benjamin J. Keys, Tomasz Piskorski, Rodney Ramcharan, Amit Seru and Vincent Yao December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 3 / 37 Gresham's Law of Model Averaging 3589-3616 In-Koo Cho and Kenneth Kasa Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism 3617-3633 Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm, Lise Vesterlund and Huan Xie Back to Contents December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 4 / 37 The Developing Economies Volume: 55, Issue: 4 (December 2017) Sectoral Estimates of Informality: A New Method and Application 261–289 for the Turkish Economy Ceyhun Elgin and Muhammed Burak Sezgin Innovation and Firm-Level Productivity: Evidence from Bangladesh 290–314 Abdul Waheed Back to Contents December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 5 / 37 The Econometrics Journal Volume: 20, Issue: 3 (October 2017) Multiple fixed effects in binary response panel data models S1–S13 Karyne B. Charbonneau My friend far, far away: a random field approach to exponential S14–S46 random graph models Vincent Boucher and Ismael Mourifié Identification of peer effects through social networks using variance S47–S60 restrictions Christiern D. Rose Sparse estimation of huge networks with a block-wise structure S61–S85 Francesco Moscone, Elisa Tosetti and Veronica Vinciotti Estimation of social-influence-dependent peer pressure in a large S86–S102 network game Zhongjian Lin and Haiqing Xu Peer effects in bedtime decisions among adolescents: a social S103–S125 network model with sampled data Xiaodong Liu, Eleonora Patacchini and Edoardo Rainone Trading networks S126–S149 Lada Adamic, Celso Brunetti, Jeffrey H. Harris and Andrei Kirilenko Back to Contents December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 6 / 37 The Economic Journal Volume: 127, Issue: 606 (November 2017) Contracting on Ambiguous Prospects 2241–2262 Massimiliano Amarante, Mario Ghossoub and Edmund Phelps Contraception and the Demographic Transition 2263–2301 Joydeep Bhattacharya and Shankha Chakraborty Information Acquisition and Exchange in Social Networks 2302–2331 Sanjeev Goyal, Stephanie Rosenkranz, Utz Weitzel and Vincent Buskens Can Survey Participation Alter Household Saving Behaviour? 2332–2357 Thomas F. Crossley, Jochem de Bresser, Liam Delaney and Joachim Winter False Diagnoses: Pitfalls of Testing For Asymmetric Information In 2358–2377 Insurance Markets David de Meza and David C. Webb Health and Hunger: Disease, Energy Needs, and the Indian Calorie 2378–2409 Consumption Puzzle Josephine Duh and Dean Spears Domestic Creditor Rights and External Private Debt 2410–2440 Haichao Fan and Xiang Gao Guarding the Guardians 2441–2477 Bernardo Guimaraes and Kevin D. Sheedy Taxing Externalities Under Financing Constraints 2478–2503 Florian Hoffmann, Roman Inderst and Ulf Moslener Organised Crime, Insider Information and Optimal Leniency 2504–2524 Salvatore Piccolo and Giovanni Immordino Back to Contents December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 7 / 37 HR Magazine Volume: 62, Issue: 9 (November 2017) From Solo HR Professional to CHRO 20-24 Kate Rockwood Choose your Own Career Adventure 28-33 Erin Binney Winning with Workflex 34-39 Kathy Gurchiek Health Care’s Staffing Crisis 40-45 Roy Maurer Let’s Chat: Is Group Chat the New E-mail? 46-51 Tam Harbert Is ‘On-Call’ Scheduling on the Way Out? 52-57 June D. Bell Back to Contents December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 8 / 37 IMF Economic Review Volume: 65, Issue: 3 (August 2017) How Important Are Trade Prices for Trade Flows? 471-497 Logan T. Lewis Is Optimal Capital Control Policy Countercyclical in Open 498-527 Economy Models with Collateral Constraints? Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Martín Uribe Exchange Rate Adjustment in Financial Crises 528-562 Michael B. Devereux, Changhua Yu Are Capital Inflows Expansionary or Contractionary? Theory, 563-585 Policy Implications, and Some Evidence Olivier Blanchard, Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, Marcos Chamon Fixed on Flexible: Rethinking Exchange Rate Regimes after the 586-632 Great Recession Giancarlo Corsetti, Keith Kuester, Gernot J. Müller Trade Integration and the Trade Balance in China 633-674 George Alessandria, Horag Choi, Dan Lu Back to Contents December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 9 / 37 Indian Defence Review Volume: 32, Issue: 3 (September 2017) China's ' Contentious' Path to War? 38-43 Anant Mishra Balancing Politics and Power : Prognosis of China's Military Build- 44-50 Up Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee Embrace the Future of Kashmir 51-54 Lt Gen Subrata Saha Indo - Israel Relations: Make With India 86-91 Tamir Eshel Strategic Partnership with Private Players - An Overview 92-96 Danvir Singh Pax Britannica Whittled Down to an Island Kingdom ( Intrigues that 97-101 Built An Empire: Intrigued By Wheels Of History) Lt Gen PG Kamath North Korea - A Delinquent State? 102-107 Gp Capt TP Srivastava Pakistan for Balochistan, Not Balochis 113-116 RSN Singh Back to Contents December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 10 / 37 Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics Volume: 72, Issue: 3 (July-September 2017) Dynamics of Input Use Efficiency in Selected Crops Cultivation in 215-229 India: A Temporal and Spatial Analysis A. Narayanamoorthy, R. Suresh and P. Alli How Inclusive and Effective are Farm Machinery Rental Services in 230-250 India? Case Studies from Punjab Sukhpal Singh Costs and Benefits of Collective Action: An Economic Inquiry into 251-261 Canal Water Institutions in Kerala A. R. Durga, K. Chandran, and D. Suresh Kunar Role of Private Investments in Groundwater Irrigation and 262-271 Emerging Changes in Seasonal Cultivation in West Bengal since 1990s: An Application of Game Theory Prosenjit Mukherjee Back to Contents December 2017 Current Contents Bulletin 11 / 37 International Business Review Volume: 26, Issue: 6 (December 2017) Catch me if I fall: Cross-national differences in willingness to 1023-1033 take financial risks as a function of social and state ‘cushioning’ Claudia R. Schneider, Dennis D. Fehrenbacher, Elke U. Weber Export prices, selection into exporting and market size: Evidence 1034-1050 from China and India Sushanta Mallick, Helena Marques Internationalization stages of traditional SMEs: Increasing, 1051-1063 decreasing and re-increasing commitment to foreign markets Noémie Dominguez, Ulrike Mayrhofer Varieties of CSR: Institutions and Socially Responsible 1064-1074 Behaviour Mehmet Demirbag, Geoffrey Wood, Dilshod Makhmadshoev, Olga Rymkevich Learning Sustainability? Absorptive capacities as drivers of 1075-1087 sustainability in MNCs’ purchasing Rilana Riikkinen, Katri Kauppi, Asta Salmi MNE performance during a crisis: An evolutionary perspective on 1088-1099 the role of dynamic managerial capabilities and industry context Stav Fainshmidt, Anil Nair, Mark R. Mallon Impact of board gender diversity on dividend payments: Evidence 1100-1113 from some emerging economies Abubakr Saeed, Muhammad Sameer How personal and organizational drivers impact on SME 1114-1123 international performance: The mediating role of organizational
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