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Article
1. FIRST PAGE
Language. Articles must be written in good English.

Title of paper: in small letters except for proper names (small letter for subtitle unless after question mark)

Author names and affiliations: with full address Example Political culture and economic decline Arye L. Hillmana,b, Heinrich W. Ursprungc,d* a Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel b CEPR, London, U.K. c Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, Box D-138, 78457 Konstanz, Germany d CESifo, Munich, Germany.
For a supplementary affiliation for CEPR, CESifo, NBER, etc, the full street address is not required.
The * is a footnote with the contact information of the corresponding author (telephone, fax, email).

Abstract: around 100 words. A concise abstract should briefly state the purpose of the research and the main results. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.

Classification codes and keywords: (e.g.) D72; H30; H56. Provide at least one standard JEL code ( http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/elclasjn.html)

Keywords: up to 5 additional keywords

2. ORDER OF CONTENTS
• Text
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix or appendices
• References: see reference style below

3. HEADINGS, ETCETERA
• Section headings: bold, numbered and with small letters except for proper names (e.g.) 1. Introduction 2. The model etc
• Subsections: italics (e.g.) 2.1 The equilibrium
• Proposition: Continue same line (italics) (Same for Lemma or Remark)
• Proof: Continue same line, regular type

Diagrams and tables
• Number and label diagrams and tables. Include an explanatory caption below a figure and above a table. The origin of a figure should be labeled 0 (zero) (if not zero, then whatever value the origin is).• Symbols and equations: Italics

Illustrations. Graphics files can be uploaded via ees.elsevier.com/ejpe A guide on electronic artwork is available on http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions

Footnotes. The use of footnotes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively throughout the text with superscript Arabic numerals.

References. References to publications should be as follows: 'Smith (1992) reported that...' or 'This problem has been studied previously (e.g., Smith et al., 1969)'.
The author should make sure that there is a strict one-to-one correspondence between the names and years in the text and those on the list. The list of references should appear at the end of the main text (after any appendices, but before tables and legends for figures). It should be double spaced and listed in alphabetical order by author's name.

References should appear as follows:

For monographs
Hawawini, G., Swary, I., 1990. Mergers and Acquisitions in the U.S. Banking Industry: Evidence from the Capital Markets. North-Holland, Amsterdam.

For contributions to collective works
Brunner, K., Meltzer, A.H., 1990. Money supply, in: Friedman, B.M., Hahn, F.H. (Eds.), Handbook of Monetary Economics, Vol. 1. North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 357--396.

For periodicals
Griffiths, W., Judge, G., 1992. Testing and estimating location vectors when the error covariance matrix is unknown. Journal of Econometrics 54, 121--138.

Note that journal titles should not be abbreviated.

Citing and listing of Web references. As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further information, if known (Author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.

Submission checklist

• One Author designated as corresponding Author:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
• All necessary files have been uploaded
• JEL code(s) and keywords
• All figure captions
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
• Manuscript has been "spellchecked"
• References are in the correct format for this journal
• All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)

Author Proofs and reprints
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