“...This note re-examines the energy/nonenergy price link. Using annual data from the period 1960 to 2008, it finds that the pass-through of energy price changes...”

“...A demand function of residential water consumption is developed from a 1997 to 2006 panel of 200 Wisconsin water utilities. A double-log functional form is...”

“...The long-range dependence (or long memory) in stock market returns has many implications for modern financial economics. The existent empirical studies on...”

“...This research note examined the performance of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) using two calibration methods. The first method, Cross Validation (CV),...”

“...I show that when the ratio of asset wealth to human wealth, wy, falls, investors become more exposed to idiosyncratic shocks and demand a higher government...”

“...The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) contains detailed US household balance sheet information and is frequently used to study outcomes in household finance...”

“...This article investigates the missing link in the literature - whether informal institutions, or what is known as culture, can affect the level of financial...”

“...This study applies the Threshold Autoregressive (TAR) model proposed by Caner and Hansen ( 2001 ) to test the validity of long-run Purchasing Power Parity...”

“...The increase in the prevalence of overweight children (ages 6-13 years) in the United States over the past two decades is likely to result in adverse public...”

“...Interaction effects capture the impact of one explanatory variable x 1 on the marginal effect of another explanatory variable x 2 . To explore interaction...”