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

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Volume 34 , Number 5 , September/October 2012