Journal of economics & business
VOL. 51 , NO. 2, 1999


Contents

Announcement (Special Issue): "Deregulation:
Theory and Practice" 77

Credit Risk Modeling and Internal Capital
Allocation Processes: Implications for a
Models-Based Regulatory Bank Capital Standard 79
David Jones and John Mingo

On the Relevance of Distinctions Between
Anticipated, Unanticipated Expansionary, and
Unanticipated Contractionary Monetary Policy 109
Joonsuk Chu and Ronald A. Ratti

Stochastic Trends and Cointegration in the
Market for Equities 133
Lucy F. Ackert and M. D. Racine

Measuring Input Substitution in Thrifts:
Morishima, Allen-Uzawa, and
Cross-Price Elasticities 145
Kevin J. Stiroh

The Optimal Face Value of a Discount Coupon 159
Uri Ben-Zion, Aharon Hibshoosh and Uriel Spiegel

Duration and Convexity of Zero-Coupon
Convertible Bonds 175
Sudipto Sarkar

Forthcoming papers 193

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JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS


VOL. 51, NO. 3, MAY/JUNE 1999


Announcement (Special Issue): "Deregulation:
Theory and Practice" 195


The Welfare Effects of Mergers in the Hospital
Industry 197
Paul S. Calem, Avi Dor, and John A. Rizzo


Nonmonetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in the
Great Depression 215
Ali Anari and James Kolari


Quality, User Cost, Forward-Looking Behavior,
and the Demand for Cars in the UK 237
Jonathan Murray and Nicholas Sarantis


Retrieving the Vanishing Liquidity Effect—A
Threshold Vector Autoregressive Model 259
Chung-Hua Shen and Thomas Chi-Nan Chiang


Modeling Market Shares of the Leading Personal
Automobile Insurance Companies 279
Jason Hecht


Forthcoming Papers 297

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JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
VOL. 51 , NO. 4 , 1999


Contents

Announcement: Reduced Submission Fee 299

Announcement: Call for Papers: Special Issue:
"Deregulation: Theory and Practice" 301


Properly Estimating the Liquidity Effect: Why
Accounting for Stationarity and Outliers is
Important 303
Hany S. Guirguis


Econometric Tests of Firm Decision Making
Under Dual Sources of Uncertainty 315
Sudhakar Satyanarayan


Tax Rate Changes and the Long-Run Equilibrium
Relationship Between Taxable and Tax-Exempt
Interest Rates 327
William T. Chittenden and Scott E. Hein


Identifying Failing Companies: A Reevaluation of
the Logit, Probit and DA Approaches 347
Clive Lennox


Monetary Rules and Stock Market Value 365
Glenn W. Boyle and Leslie Young


Forthcoming Papers 373



List of reviews 374

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JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
VOL. 51 , NO. 6 , 1999


Contents

"Economic Determinants of the Correlation
Structure Across International Equity Markets" 443
Kevin Bracker and Paul D. Koch


"Efficiency and Ownership: Evidence from
Japanese Credit Cooperatives" 473
Hirofumi Fukuyama, Ramon Guerra, and William L. Weber


"Money Demand in an Open-Economy Shopping-
Time Model: An Out-of-Sample-Prediction
Application to Canada" 489
C. James Hueng


"Financial Deregulation and Integration: An
Australian Perspective" 505
Vanitha Ragunathan


Forthcoming Papers 515


Author Index 517


Title Index 519


Volume Contents 521