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Oil prices and the fi scal policy response in oil-exporting countries 605Amany A. El Anshasy and Michael D. Bradley
Infl ation Targeting: A three-decade perspective 621Salem Abo-Zaid and Didem Tuzemen
Effects of educational mismatch on private returns to education: An analysis of the Spanish case (1995–2006) 646
Inés P. Murillo, Marta Rahona-López and Maria del Mar Salinas-Jiménez
The effects of uncertainty about countries’ compliance with the Stability and Growth Pact 660
Montserrat Ferré
Trading market access for technology? Tax incentives, foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers in China 675
Ziliang Deng, Rod Falvey and Adam Blake
The entry price threshold in EU agriculture: Deterrent or barrier? 691Fabio Gaetano Santeramo and Antonio Cioffi
What determines the long run growth rate in Kenya? 705Saten Kumar and Gail Pacheco
Current account adjustments in OECD countries revisited: The role of the fi scal stance 719
Nancy Theofi lakou and Yannis Stournaras
Boom–bust cycles and procyclical fi scal policy in a small open economy 735Alessandro Maravalle and Peter Claeys
Who extracts minerals more effi ciently—Public or private fi rms? A study of Indian mining industry 755
Amarendra Das
Naming and shaming in a ‘fair’ way. On disentangling the infl uence of policy in observed outcomes 767
Sofi e J. Cabus and Kristof De Witte
Assessing effects of alternative food subsidy reform in Iran 788Ayatollah Karami, Abdoulkarim Esmaeili and Bahadin Najafi
doi: 10.1016/S0161-8938(12)00090-7
Volume 34 , Number 5 , September/October 2012